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Posted by Vince Lucas on 12:41:51 03/02/08
A rather impromptu tour at STA-5 in Hendry County, south of Clewiston, was attended by 15 participants on Saturday, March 2, 2008. With water levels very high due to pumping water into STA-5 and seeing that we had such a small group, we decided to explore a few of the other cells/impoundments in the Stormwater Treatment Area. The water levels in these areas were much lower than the main cell (northeast) that we usually frequent during our tours. In them, we found considerably more shorebirds and waders as well as some passerines normally not encountered in the main cell. No American (Greater) Flamingo was seen. Here's our day list:
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 1 (wounded bird)
American Wigeon
Mallard 2
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback 1
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
Great White Heron 1
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk 4
Crested Caracara 2
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon 2
Purple Swamphen 2
Purple Gallinule 2
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Limpkin 2
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin 2
Long-billed Dowitcher >1000
Caspian Tern 2
Black Skimmer 15
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Barn Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher
Western Kingbird 10-12 (highest number ever seen at STA-5)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 2
White-eyed Vireo
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Mockingbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Prairie Warbler 1
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Savannah Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
After leaving STA-5, a number of us stopped at a few locales along CR835 to see a few very long-tailed Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, Snail Kite (across from Ocean Boy Shrimp Farm) and Western Kingbirds at the Deer Fence Canal site. Try as we might, we couldn't turn any of them into a Cassin's Kingbird. On the way back to Naples, Joe Bozzo and I saw a nice American Bittern along a ditch on CR846 as well as two Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and three Western Kingbirds on CR858 on the Collier/Hendry County line.
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