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Posted by Brian Rapoza on 21:47:37 04/06/07
Inspired by Toe and Trey's somewhat less than excellent adventure yesterday in Everglades National Park, I decided to spend a full day today birding in the park. Conditions at dawn were overcast with occasional drizzle; it continued that way until about 11:00 AM, when the skies over Flamingo suddenly cleared. It remained sunny and warm the rest of the day.
While migrants remained in short supply, there were still plenty of birds to see, 79 in all. I spent most of my time in Flamingo, hiking part of the Coastal Prairie Trail and all of the Bear Lake Trail, and also birded around the visitor center and Eco Pond. I also birded (but not in this order) Royal Palm Hammock, Research Road, Long Pine Key, Mahogany Hammock, Paurotis, Nine Mile, Mrazek and Coot Bay Ponds, West Lake, and a short portion of Snake Bight Trail. Here's my list for the day:
Blue-winged Teal (West Lake, Mrazek Pond)
American White Pelican (Mrazek Pond, Flamingo)
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill (Paurotis Pond)
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Kestrel
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Black-necked Stilt (Eco Pond)
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Caspean Tern
Royal Tern
Common Ground-Dove (several on Bear Lake and Snake Bight trails)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker (Long Pine Key)
Northern Flicker (Research Road)
Great Crested Flycatcher
Western Kingbird (entrance to Flamingo)
Eastern Kingbird (Mahogany Hammock)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher(entrance to Flamingo)
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo (several, Bear Lake Trail)
Red-eyed Vireo (Bear Lake Trail)
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow (fots, Coastal Prairie Trail)
Brown-headed Nuthatch (Long Pine Key)
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (several on Bear Lake Trail)
Eastern Bluebird (Long Pine Key)
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Northern Parula
Yellow-rumped Warbler (1, Anhinga Trail)
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird (Bear Lake Trail)
Northern Waterthrush (several, Bear Lake Trail)
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee (long Pine Key)
Savannah Sparrow (several, Coastal Prairie Trail)
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting (Bear Lake Trail)
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird (the Bronzed was among a flock of 30+ Brown-headed, in Flamingo)
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