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Posted by Bryant Roberts on 17:13:19 01/28/07
In Reply to: TAS ENP field trip 1/27/07 posted by Robin Diaz and Susan Schneider
I was birding in the Flamingo area on Friday and Saturday (1/26 and 27). A north wind was blowing about 15 mph when I arrived at dawn Friday and soon picked up to about twenty keeping most of the songbirds down around Flamingo so I headed out to Bear Lake Trail, which is more sheltered. Here I found fifteen species of warblers; the most interesting were Prothonotary, Magnolia, and Worm-eating along with both Waterthrushes. About six White-crowned Pigeons flushed from the treetops over the trail.
The wind had calmed down by Saturday morning and the Nelson s Sharp-tailed Sparrow on the north side of Eco Pond popped up for me. The usual birds were also cooperative in the old Cotton Pickers Camp area, which is the large brushy area in the eastern section of the area enclosed by the Bayshore Loop Trail. At least three White-crowned Sparrows, six Clay-colored Sparrows, one male Dickcissel, one Grasshopper Sparrow, and Indigo and Painted Buntings were seen, mostly in the southwestern part of the area.
There was almost no flight of waders over Flamingo in the mornings and evenings but there was a large movement of Yellow-rumped Warblers on Saturday morning. Thousands passed over heading eastward near the shoreline on the path taken by southbound daytime migrants during the fall. Since my last visit three weeks ago, Northern Cardinals and Prairie Warblers have begun singing and the American Crows have started gathering nesting material. Mosquitoes are a little more of a nuisance than during my last visit but still pretty light.
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