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Posted by Paul-the-other on 18:55:54 09/11/07
Of interest to some TAS members might be the fact that the limpkins have a small brood at Green Cay. All sightings to date have been very early morning and generally by the staff members that access before the public does. The two small chicks are sighted along the southern boardwalk right after the shade house. The picture below shows one of the adult limpkins that was mixed in with 6 little blues, three Great Egrets, 10 mottled ducks and 4 black bellied whistlers. Also present were 12 snowys, four tri-colored and three green backs. A red-shouldered hawk is in the Australian pines about 200 feet away.
This particular area was a gold mine for feeding; frogs galore and apple snails as big as I have ever seen them. All the birds in the feeding frenzy are with 25 feet of the boardwalk. Photographers take note, you wont need a big tube on this shoot.
And up at the north end of Green Cay there are two broods of black bellied whistling ducks that stay very much in the cover of the small cypress head. A cooper hawk sits in the tree tops awaiting a slip up by the ducklings. Observers report that a third clutch of baby ducks is not present. That is remarkable for this location and bodes well for the future nesting of this species at this site.
(Picture courtesy of Carol Zeglen/ published with permission)
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