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Posted by Toe on 15:48:27 10/28/06
Trey and I went into ENP and its surrounding hoping to find sparrows and other stuff. We started off at the end of Research Road before dawn and worked our way back. Not much down there, but we did have great looks at a Wilson's Snipe just south of where the road turns after the research center. In the pinelands we had Bluebirds and Nuthatches with a flock of Pine Warblers.
Trey was first to see he Bell's Vireo after we walked east on the dirt road from Lucky Hammock. The Bell's was just to the left after going through the gap leading to the next field east of Lucky (the sparrow spot). At the Annex we had killer looks at an adult Swainson's Hawk. We ended up at Cutler Wetlands, and are very happy to report that instead of the filthy, mucky, algae-riddled, pestilent pond of death it had been for months, the place was alive with shorebirds and ducks! Our only disappointment was that we didn't see a single sparrow. At least the first of the ducks have arrived. Below is the complete morning's list, with locations for some of the more interesting birds:
Pied-billed Grebe
Anhinga
Double-crested Cormorant
Tricolored Heron
Little Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Snowy Egret
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Great White Heron (usual spot at Taylor Slough)
Wood Stork
Glossy Ibis
White Ibis
Mottled Duck
Green-winged Teal (3 at SW pond at Dump Marsh)
American Wigeon (1, same as above)
Northern Pintail (female, main pond at Dump Marsh)
Northern Shoveler (2 at SW pond at Dump Marsh)
Blue-winged Teal (at both Dump Marsh ponds; 30 at Cutler)
Turkey Vulture (1 at Research Road, 300,000 at Dump Marsh)
Black Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk (ligh morth at the Annex)
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Swainson's Hawk (Annex)
American Kestrel
Merlin
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs (plenty, pond N of Cutler Wetlands & Cutler)
Lesser Yellowlegs (same)
Least Sandpiper (same)
Dowitcher Sp. (Dump, Cutler, pond to the north)
Stilt Sandpiper (4 at Culter Wetlands)
Laughing Gull
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
BELL'S VIREO (this one's for you Vince)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Brown-headed Nuthatch (pines across camping area, Research Rd)
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Gray Catbird
Mockingbird
European Starling (Dump Marsh, 10 for every vulture)
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler (in Pines!)
Palm Warbler (in Palms!, OK just kidding)
Common Yellowthroat
Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Grackle Sp.
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