The excellent "A Birder's Guide to Florida" by Bill Pranty has the following
suggestions for the greater Orlando. Areas with an * are the best.

Downtown Orlando - *Mead Botanical Gardens - FL Audubon Center for Birds of
Prey

Northwest Orlando - *Wekiwa Springs State Park - *Zellwood - *Trimble Co. Park
- Rock Springs Run State Reserve

Southwest Orlando - Tibet-Butler Preserve

Northeast Orlando - Spring Hammock Preserve - *Orlando Wetlands Park

Southeast Orlando - Tosohatchee State Reserve - *Orange County Eastern Water
Reclamation Facility

Your best chance for manatees would probably be Manatee Springs or Homosassa
Springs on the Gulf Coast, north of Tampa.

Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA
hughbirder at aol.com