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Posted by Paul-the-other on 23:31:32 01/01/08
In Reply to: Nice shot Paul. posted by D Rapp
An ovenbird comes out like clockwork at the base of the feeder...just once...then retreats for the morning. Wood ducks are seen once in a while. Otherwise, indigo buntings in about four weeks, all blackbirds, bluejays..etc.
Best for one time, limited time...go to Wakodahatchee and Green Cay and treat them as a unit. Your one day sightings will be terrific especially if you know the names of all the Little Gray Birds (LBG). :<} You'll see more coots, moorhens, gallinules at the Unit than you will see the entire road length of Everglades PArk. (Not counting the Flats now). And the sounds of the ducks quacking, the sora's with their screaming meemees call, the hawks, cormorants, anhingas, and limpkins staning on the boardwalks and watching you pass by. Wood storks by the score, 7 roseate spoonbills, about 25 black bellied whistling ducks and as of last week more BW and GW teal than you could scope and count.
I don't use a scope but I would bet that out in the melee in the middle mixed up in all that bull rush are widgeons, scaup, and others. Recall that this was the place that the horned grebe appeared last year.
This cold front should send down a phalanx of newbies for enjoying. I expect ring necked, maybe a ruddy or two, and possibly some merganzers....just expect now. How often my expectations are shattered!
For your viewing pleasure: A Lunching Limpkin!
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