. Where to find birds and enjoy natural history in Florida. Birds. traffic in the fall of 1963 the entire three miles width of the river will be available to birders for a small toU. Those wishing to check only the east shore of the river can walk out along the edge of the causeway. SYKES CREEK, MERRITT ISLAND—From Cocoa cross the Indian River to the second traffic light on Merritt Island; take road going northeast (back of the Texaco station) 134 miles to bridge over Sykes Creek; continue for a quarter mile to a flowing well and dike on the right. This dike: encloses a marsh, ponds and mangro
. Where to find birds and enjoy natural history in Florida. Birds. traffic in the fall of 1963 the entire three miles width of the river will be available to birders for a small toU. Those wishing to check only the east shore of the river can walk out along the edge of the causeway. SYKES CREEK, MERRITT ISLAND—From Cocoa cross the Indian River to the second traffic light on Merritt Island; take road going northeast (back of the Texaco station) 134 miles to bridge over Sykes Creek; continue for a quarter mile to a flowing well and dike on the right. This dike: encloses a marsh, ponds and mangrove swamp and returns to the highway; the round trip is about 1J4 miles. Wading birds, such as herons, bitterns, rails and gallinules may be seen as well as Anhingas and Mottled Ducks. Continue along the road checking the ponds on both sides of the road. Where road forks take left one north along the Banana River to the Island end of the Canaveral Causeway, check- ing the birds on the river and along the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hundley, Margaret H. , ed. Maitland, Fla. , Florida Audubon Society
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