Posted by Alex Harper on January 19, 2003 at 23:00:38:
On the 18th, me and my stepmom went on a birding trip in Kendall, South Miami, Miami Springs and near Homestead. We started out with Bulbuls in Kendall, then Miltred, Blue-crowned, red-masked, peach-fronted, yellow-chevroned and dusky-headed parakeets in miami springs and south miami. Later, we looked for hill mynas, with luck x13 ( 13 mynas ). We moved aroung the suburbs of south miami and found a perched short-tailed Hawk. On the way to homestead, we saw West Indian Cave Swallows. We went looking for a rare black-headed gull from europe and up the coast, and found bonapartes gulls, as well as lesser black-backed gulls.
In neighboring ponds, we went looking for the black-headed gull, among hundreds of other gulls. We found, in the meantime, mexican cave swallows, merlins, harriers, ring-necked ducks, mottled ducks, hooded mergansers, red-breasted mergansers, bluewinged teal, least sandpipers, both yellowlegs, savannah sparrow, and a South American Spectacled Caiman (alligator cousin). With no luck with the black-headed gull, we left to black point and saw orange-crowned warblers and lesser scaup. On the way back to kedall, we went looking for amazon parrots. We found red-crowned parrots, lilac-crowned parrots, orange-winged parrots, white-fronted parrots and a yellow-headed parrot. I saw 25 new species altogether. It was way worth it.