Today we’ve driven 350 miles north, from Fort Myers Beach to Kingsland in Georgia, via a couple of birding spots to break up the journey. Our first stop was Harn’s Marsh – a site given to us by a guy (actually the nature journalist son of a well known American ornithologist / author – George C West) who we met yesterday at Six Mile Cypress Slough. It was a four mile circular walk around a mixed wetland, with some excellent birding. First up was Snail Kite which landed on a telegraph pole just as we approached the site. We saw several more during our walk round. This was closely followed by Sandhill Crane – there were several breeding pairs dotted around the reserve. The third new bird (and another addition to my US list) was Grey-headed or Asian Swamphen, which has established a self-sustaining population in this part of Florida. A late afternoon stop in the Ocala National Forest produced the hoped for Florida Scrub-Jay with Carolina Chickadee as a bonus. Just before we crossed the State line we saw two Canada Geese – bringing our overall Florida bird list to 145 – including a number of recent colonisers. The best non-birding highlight of the day were three Otter, playing in the channel at the end of our walk round Harn’s Marsh.