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Posted by Jim King, Miami-Dade Parks on 17:36:12 09/18/06
The northeast parks were pretty active with a good variety of migrants on Saturday along with a growing number of exotics invading our urban areas. For the first time I had Hill Mynas and Common Mynas in Greynolds Park. Other highlights include a beautiful male Kentucky warbler and a spectacular male Blackburnian warbler in the oak hammock south of the main picnic area. Two other Blackburnians were observed in Arch Creek Park. A Chat and an early House wren were in Arch Creek Park. I was delighted to observe an adult Red-tailed Hawk attempt to catch a fairly large Green iquana from a snag in the Greynolds rookery, but he could not hang on to the big lizard - however there is hope. Fruiting Strangler figs were the big migrant attractors for warblers, vireos, orioles, and kingbirds.
Tally list: September 16, 2006
Pied-billed Grebe
Bown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White ibis
Muscovy Duck
Osprey
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 (2adults, 1mm - Arch Creek)
Red-tailed Hawk - Greynolds Rooery
Common Moorhen
Killdeer
E, Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-dove - 1
Blue-crowned Parakeet
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
Monk Parakeet
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Screeh Owl - tree cavity
Chuck-wills-widow
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
Tufted Titmouse (Enchanted Forest)
House Wren - Arch Creek
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Northern Mockingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Starling
Common Myna
Hill Myna - 2
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Back-thr. Blue Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler - 3
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prarie Warbler
Black & White Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler - 1 (male - Oak Hammock - Greynolds)
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 - Arch Creek
Summer Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak - 1 - Greynolds Park
Savannah Sparrow
Bobolink - numerous flocks flying over head in the am
Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
Orchard Oriole - 1
Baltimore Oriole - 3
House Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole - 3
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