Celery Fields
The county's birding mecca: boardwalks over restored wetlands where 200-plus species turn up, plus a climbable hill — a genuine rarity in flat Florida — with the best free view around.
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Birding — a top eBird hotspot and a premier stop on the Great Florida Birding & Wildlife Trail, with marsh boardwalks and the Sarasota Audubon Nature Center on site.
That 55-foot hill isn't natural — it's built from the soil dug out to create the ponds and canals, which in pancake-flat coastal Sarasota makes it a legitimate sunset perch.
A 400-acre stormwater park that birders treat like a temple — boardwalks over the marsh, a big grassy hill to climb, and a genuinely long species list. Wide open, faintly industrial, and quietly spectacular at dawn.
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