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Posted by Alex Harper on 14:34:04 04/20/06
I arrived at Barnes just before 9:00 today after successfully passing my driver's test. I knew that my year Gray Kingbird perched in the test course was a good omen...
Anyway, Barnes was what I expected it to be. Not much there at all, perhaps forty individual warbler species. Here is my list:
White-crowned Pigeon
Yellow-billed Cuckoo- several
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Parula
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird- one!!! All the skulkers were gone
Indigo Bunting
As I was thinking about leaving at 10:30 or so, a North Carolina birder pulled up and arrived in Florida today to scout for his tour group arriving tomorrow. He was going to scout out the Cutler Ridge area rather quickly then head up to Miami Shores. That worked out nicely. We went down to look for the Smooth-billed Ani reported recently in Cutler Ridge, but it was mid day and hot. We did, however, hear a Northern Mockingbird immitating the ani call.
A quick run down to Cutler Wetlands produced a Killdeer, Black-necked Stilts, and a Lesser Yellowlegs. So after seeing the Cave Swallows off the Florida Turnpike and SW 216, we were on our way north again. Two medium sized terns over the lake south of Miami Internation airport were probably Forster's; to big for Least.
Once in Miami Shores, it was a piece of cake finding the White-winged Parakeets on the intersection of NW 1 Avenue and 94 street. A Spot-breasted Oriole flew over a couple minutes later.
A cruise around Miami Shores produced almost nothing, just a Broad-winged Hawk and a couple of the same warlers. We did, however, find the Burrowing Owl just west of the Barry University soccer fields.
I arrived home happy to find my brother had early release from school; I left my keys in my dad's car. Then my new forty inch snake hook arrived on a UPS truck. So not a bad day so far...
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