We recently renovated our Visitor Center and added a second floor to the building. At this time the first floor of the Visitor Center contains the newly enlarged Eagle's Nest Book and Gift Shop, along with a growing collection of wildlife exhibits, an authentic eagle's nest, and two TV monitors for watching live video from the Osprey Cam and Eagle Cam. Also added to the first floor are new restrooms, as well as a meeting room.

Outside the back of the building you will find the rapidly growing Butterfly and Beneficial Insect Garden, which will be expanded in the future. And if you look out the window at the rear of the building, you will see our Osprey Cam platform off in the distance.

The second floor contains a set of TV monitors for the Osprey Cam and Eagle Cam, as well as bird exhibits and a bird-watcher's observatory where visitors can use spotting scopes to view the Osprey Cam platform, the Blackwater River, and the marsh. This observatory is called the "Wild Birds Unlimited Pathways to Nature Observatory" and was made possible by a grant from the Pathways to Nature conservation fund, which is a partnership between Wild Birds Unlimited stores and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

The second floor also contains a Birding and Natural History Library where visitors can browse books about the local wildlife. Access to the second floor is via a staircase, as well as a small wheelchair-friendly elevator.

Visitor Center hours are Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day).