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Posted by John Boyd on 11:43:58 05/13/07
Nancy Freedman and I did our NAMC in the keys from Card Sound to Big Pine. We found 71 species (including 12 warblers) totalling 1835 individuals (281 warblers).
Stopping to try to ID the large numbers of warblers slowed us down. Most that were seen flying across the road remained unidentified. We dipped on Mangrove Cuckoo, finding only Yellow-billed at Key Largo Hammocks SP. It was nice to see a male Sanderling in breeding plumage at Sea Oats Beach (Lower Matecumbe). All of the other peeps were at least partially in breeding plumage, as were some (but not all) Dowitchers and Black-bellied Plovers. A late Kingfisher (female) at Lake Edna on Grassy Key was a surprise, as were the Grebe and Coot at Blue Hole (Big Pine) and a singing Carolina Wren near Carysfort Circle (Key Largo). The Burrowing Owls (including youngsters) were all at the Sombrero Country Club (Marathon). We did not see any at Key Colony Beach golf course and did not try Sombrero Beach. The Antillean Nighthawks at the Marathon airport were already calling at the west end of the airport when we arrived at 7:05pm. A jet took off right over us, but it didn't seem to bother the nighthawks.
1 Pied-billed Grebe (Blue Hole, Big Pine Key)
123 Brown Pelican
423 Double-crested Cormorant
36 Magnificent Frigatebird
1 Great Blue Heron
11 Great White Heron
10 Great Egret
19 Snowy Egret
4 Little Blue Heron
3 Tricolored Heron
2 Reddish Egret
30 Cattle Egret
10 Green Heron (breeding at Blue Hole, Big Pine Key)
36 White Ibis
3 Roseate Spoonbill
10 Turkey Vulture
13 Osprey
2 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Common Moorhen (Blue Hole, Big Pine Key)
1 American Coot (Blue Hole, Big Pine Key)
10 Black-bellied Plover
1 Wilson's Plover
6 Semipalmated Plover
9 Black-necked Stilt
2 Spotted Sandpiper
2 Willet
14 Ruddy Turnstone
2 Sanderling
15 Semipalmated Sandpiper
1 Western Sandpiper
5 Least Sandpiper
75 Short-billed Dowitcher
104 Laughing Gull
52 Least Tern
3 Royal Tern
16 Rock Pigeon
22 White-crowned Pigeon
116 Eurasian Collared-Dove
34 Mourning Dove
11 Common Ground-Dove
3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
6 Burrowing Owl
1 Common Nighthawk
6 Antillean Nighthawk
1 Belted Kingfisher
17 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Great Crested Flycatcher
24 Gray Kingbird
9 White-eyed Vireo
7 Black-whiskered Vireo
1 Barn Swallow
1 Carolina Wren
7 Northern Mockingbird
19 European Starling
11 Common Myna
2 Northern Parula
2 Yellow Warbler
2 Cape May Warbler
25 Black-throated Blue Warbler
8 Prairie Warbler
8 Palm Warbler
96 Blackpoll Warbler
3 Black-and-white Warbler
57 American Redstart
6 Ovenbird
18 Northern Waterthrush
54 Common Yellowthroat
47 Northern Cardinal
11 Bobolink
70 Red-winged Blackbird
72 Common Grackle
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