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Posted by Christi Carmichael on 11:35:09 08/13/06
Hi Everyone - I thought some of you may be interested in the following list of birds sighted in the last 2 mornings from the Marina Store to the Walk-n Campground in Flamingo in Everglades National Park. Most are common species but migration is beginning. Many of the Egrets were sighted at Eco Pond. Although the pond is still closed the birds can be seen from the roadside. Most of the shorebirds were sighted along the park road in recent rain pools (mostly dried up now). Things are greening up down here,looking much more like the tropics again, and still very much alive.
Bird Sightings:
-20+ White Ibis
-3 Lesser Yellowlegs
-1 Great Yellowlegs
-4 Spotted Sandpipers
-Hundreds of Barn Swallows
-50+ Cattle Egrets
-10+ Little Blue Heron
-8 Gray Kingbirds
-Numerous Mockingbirds
-4 Red-bellied Woodpeckers
-2 Cardinals
-2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
-1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
-5 Red Shouldered Hawks
-Hundreds of Snowy Egrets
-50+ Great Egrets
-1 Reddish Egret
-10+ Black-necked Stilts (adults & young)
-2 Common Ground-Doves
-Double-crested Cormorants, Laughing Gulls & Brown Pelicans
-2 Spotted Sandpipers
-2 Green Herons
-7 Tri-colored Herons
-1 Imm. Black-crowned Night Heron
-2 Common Moorhens
-4 Shiny Cowbirds
-8 Brown-headed Cowbirds
-10+ Starlings
-10+ Turkey Vultures
-8 Black Vultures
-1 Bald Eagle
-12 Purple Martins
-1 Semipalmated Sandpiper
-1 Solitary Sandpiper
-1 Eastern Kingbird
-1 Pileated Woodpecker
-8 White-crowned Pigeons
-1 Gull-billed Tern
-2 Least Terns
-3 Roseate Spoonbills (in flight)
-1 Yellow Warbler
-30 Willets
-1 Mourning Dove
-several Osprey
Other Wildlife:
-1 Box Turtle
-Many Queen BF's (not nearly as abundant as several weeks ago)
-several Tropical Buckeye BF's
-Many Dragonflies
*Mosquitoes were present but not severe
**Deerflies were present and annoying!
Christi Carmichael
ENP Park Ranger at the Flamingo Visitor Center
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