Ben T Davis Beach and Causeway

Ben T Davis is the little beach near the Tampa airport end but you can use this for all the shore along the Courtney Campbell Causeway. There's a small beach around the restaurant Whiskey Joe's - which is nice. Most importantly for birds there's a long very very narrow strip of beach and rocks the extends quite a long walk following the bridge from the beach. It's the Tampa side of the bridge and the south side of the road. There are strips like this all along that bridge but that's the part I'd call Ben T Davis beach and probably the largest best area to look at.

Birds can be anywhere, especially at low tide but we've seen them most often way down that skinny shore all packed together, many species. Can't say it's pleasant walking out there because it's right next to the highway.

The causeway portion - the south side you can only really access by walking/biking - and it's a long ways. The north side however has a one lane one way road for most of it and you can pull over to watch scaups, loons, etc in winter. There's not a ton of birds otherwise. People keep to themselves but there are some oddballs here - some just hang out and ... well I don't know what but you can see them. Others put towels covering their windows completely and I assume live here or pitch tents. That oddity aside: you might miss the turn offs here. It's mostly land crossing the bay here but there is a central span. Going from Tampa to Clearwater there is a pull off to go on the first single lane road before the span - there are usually fewer birds on this side of the span. Then on the other side keep an eye out for the next turn off. The first one you have to go under the bridge and come out on the Clearwater to Tampa side but the second one has an exit further up. If you want to see more of the same go to Phillipe park up the coast a bit and you might see a Brown Booby as well.