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Posted by Vince Lucas on 21:09:08 03/30/08
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51 folks, including Sally Stein, Director of Programs & a group of volunteers from Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary came out to STA-5 in Hendry County, south of Clewiston for this Saturday's STA-5 birding tour. There were still some of our winter ducks and passerines around but many birds had departed for places North and West. Highlights at STA-5 proper were Great White Heron (white morph of Great Blue Heron), both bitterns, 10 Black-bellied Plovers, Marsh Wren, 25 Caspian Terns, 2 Sandhill Cranes and 9 Western Kingbirds.
On the trip out to STA-5 from Naples, we stopped several times to show the Corkscrew folks birds like Crested Caracara, Limpkin and Snail Kite. The Sandhill Crane pair near the CR835/CR833 intersection that I reported on a few weeks ago that had lost it's nest/eggs to predation or flooding seems to have made a new nest in a more "suitable" location and the female was seen sitting on the nest.
On the trip back from STA-5, several out-of-towners followed Alan Murray and me to see and photograph Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and Western Kingbirds along CR835. They were not disappointed. We saw at least 8 STFLs and 3-4 WEKIs on CR835. Alan and I didn't stop at the Deer Fence Canal to see if the Cassin's Kingbird was still in residence but a few others did. I do not know if they found it.
Before making it back to Naples, we saw several Swallow-tailed Kites as well as 2 Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and 3 Western Kingbirds along CR858 -- the Hendry/Collier County line.
Here's the bird list for STA-5 for 03/29/2008:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 4
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 1 (wounded bird)
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican 30
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American Bittern 2
Least Bittern 2
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron (White morph) 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
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon 2
Purple Swamphen 8
Purple Gallinule 5
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Limpkin
Sandhill Crane 2
Black-bellied Plover 10
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Caspian Tern 25
Black Skimmer 50
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Western Kingbird 9
Loggerhead Shrike
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow 3
Marsh Wren
Northern Mockingbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Savannah Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Good birding!
Vince
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