Fort DeSoto, April 5-6

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: Here's what my girlfriend and I spotted at Fort DeSoto Park over the weekend: : Brown pelican : Double-crested cormorant : Great blue heron : Cattle egret : Great egret : Snowy egret : White ibis : Roseate spoonbill : Mottled duck : Osprey : Semipalmated plover : Killdeer : Black-bellied plover : Willet : Ruddy turnstone : Short-billed dowitcher : Sanderling : Least sandpiper : Dunlin : Ring-billed gull : Laughing gull : Forster’s tern : Least tern : Royal tern : Sandwich tern : Mourning dove : Black-hooded parakeet : Red-bellied woodpecker : Blue jay : Fish crow : Northern mockingbird : Gray catbird : European starling : White-eyed vireo : Northern parula : Yellow-throated warbler : Prairie warbler : Palm warbler : Kentucky warbler : House sparrow : Red-winged blackbird : Orchard oriole : Common grackle : Brown-headed cowbird : Northern cardinal : A modest 45 species but cut us a break, we were enjoying the park...I'm satisfied. I'd like to thank members of St. Pete Audubon Society, Kissimmee Audubon Society, and other birders for helping out a couple of greenhorns (me and gf) and pointing us in the right directions. : Raul "Puffy-eyed Bunting" Urgelles

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