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Description: Large area around US 17.  Drive along Washington Loop Road. Be sure to stop at the reservoir (Three Rivers Road) and at Hathaway Park (south prong of Washington Loop). Wonderful creeks to canoe or kayak.

Vegetation Communities: Scrub, scrubby flatwoods, pine flatwoods, creek, reservoir, isolated wetlands

Location: In the vicinity of Washington Loop Road. 

Amenities:  Driving the area allows great birding, but watch your speed: cars on Washington Loop go fast!  Many of the roads off Washington Loop allow slower driving.  With the exception of Hathaway Park and the Reservoir it is all private property: respect that!

Hathaway Park (southern prong of Washington Loop Road) has short hiking trails, a boat ramp, a canoe/kayak launch dock, restrooms, picnic areas, and a bird blind. 

Birding by Kayak: Hathaway Park has a easily assessible launch area. Paddling south from the launch, there is good birding along the residential communities. Northward paddling has more natural areas for birding.

The reservoir has no amenities but there is good birding.

Animal Species:  You may not be able to see all these species

Birds that you may encounter year-round include:

Florida scrub-jay	Bald eagle	Little blue heron
Blue jay	Red shouldered hawk	Green heron
Rufous sided towhee	Wood stork	Black bellied whistling duck
White eyed vireo	Little blue heron	Osprey
Turkey vulture	Great egret	Bald eagle
Black vulture	Snowy egret	Double crested cormorant
Limpkin	Barred owl	Pileated woodpecker
Red tail hawk	Anhingha

Migrants that you may see

Blue birds	Pine warbler	Tree swallow
Swallow tailed kite	Yellow-rumped warbler	Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Palm warbler	American robin

Documented Mammals:

Raccoon	Bobcat
Opossum	Armadillo

Documented Herps:

Eastern indigo snake	Brown anole	Black racer
Gopher tortoise	Green anole	American alligator
Pennisula cooter	Pig frog