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Posted by Vince Lucas on 19:03:40 01/19/07
You'd think that living about 10 miles from the famed Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary here in Naples that I'd bird there all of the time. Truth is, I don't like the crowds of people that can be on the boardwalk in winter so I tend to go there in the "off season." Besides which, I can usually find the vast majority of the birds I see there somewhere else in Collier County. Today, I went to Corkscrew in search of adding a few species to my Collier County Big Year list. I spent about three hours there just as the fog was dissipating. My target birds were Ovenbird, which from past experience I knew would be by the feeders where the Painted Buntings usually show themselves, and Barred owl. If I were really lucky, I'd find a Purple Gallinule or possibly a Wood Duck or two. To make a long story short, I did find the Ovenbird, right where I'd seen it in the past, but I dipped on the Wood Duck, the Barred Owl and the Purple Gallinule, although I'd heard that one of the latter species was seen by someone else. However, I managed to find an Orange-crowned Warbler to add to my Collier County Big Year list so I was happy with that. My Collier County Big Year total as of today, 01/19/2007, now stands at 135.
Here's a list of the birds I saw today at Corkscrew:
Pied-billed Grebe (not usually present at Corkscrew Sanctuary)
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Little Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (active nesting going on)
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Common Moorhen
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker (including one tailless individual eating Dahoon Holly berries near the boardwalk)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Painted Bunting ( 2 males)
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch
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