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Posted by Susan Schneider on 11:54:47 09/18/06
I arrived at the Wheatear spot at about 7:30 this morning to find Steve Siegel there videotaping it. It continues in the same location, a very cooperative bird, an easy and attractive lifer. I'm glad it hung around till I could get down there! Any guesses as to how long it will stay?
Mosquitoes weren't a problem there, so next I attempted the Gumbo Limbo trail without repellant--big mistake! After four warbler species and a Red-eyed Vireo I got driven out. The best warbler species was a Northern Waterthrush.
Lucky Hammock and the Annex were nearly bug-less, but not bird-less. The highlight was an adult female/immature Blue-winged Warbler that dove across the road, allowed me a look, then disappeared into the underbrush. I was unable to relocate it. The location was about 20 yards in front of the "Bump Ahead" sign in the Annex, on the left side. Other highlights were female Painted Bunting, immature Baltimore Oriole, two Empids that did not vocalize, and a singing Eastern Wood-Pewee. With two Kestrels, two Red-shouldered Hawks, and a Cooper's Hawk all on patrol, I was surprised at the amount of songbird activity. I ended up with 8 species of warblers.
Until about 9:30 AM, flocks of Bobolinks were migrating overhead, their musical call notes raining down. The largest flock held about 50. I flushed an individual at the far side of Lucky Hammock.
Good birding, Susan
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