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Posted by Angel & Mariel on 11:11:28 04/07/08
Hi everyone,
Mariel and I braved the soggy morning and birded Barnes for
about an hour and a half before heading to work. It was cool and breezy once we reached the park giving us a chance to bird comfortably. A Screech-owl called out as we entered the trail, called several times but we were unable to locate the Owl.
We definitely had migration stall over Miami today, he saw between 90-100 warblers in different areas of the park this morning. By far the most abundant species was the Prairie Warbler with numbers like 40-50 that we saw. A variety of birds were also seen including our FOTS Ovenbirds that unfortunately were being stalked by a cat!!! Arrrggghhhh!! I ran into the shrubs clapping and eventually scaring off the cat. When Mariel spotted the cat it was about ten feet from the Ovenbirds. To close for comfort.
We checked the railroads in search of Blue Grosbeaks with no luck, but as we were about to give up a Bunting flew in front of us and landed in the reeds then a group of bunting took of and landed where the first one did. We started to look and found both Painted and Indigo Bunting. Good sign we hope!
The entire park minus the lake area had good amounts of Warblers in the trees. The majority of the birds were seen at the entrance gate to the nature center and the trail itself. The Grosbeak railroads was pretty good too. Homeless hammock was productive as well, the Helmeted Guineafowl was calling back to me as I pished what a crazy sounding bird.
Here is a list of birds seen @ Barnes this morning.
Go bird everyone things are starting to get good. There has to be a rarity out there we just need to look hard enough. Good luck to anyone birding today.
Prairie Warbler ~50
Ovenbird 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler ~10
Worm-eating Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 3
Palm Warbler 12
Am. Redstart 8
N. Parula 7
Magnolia Warbler 1
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Indigo Bunting 4-5
Painted Bunting 6
Merlin
A. Kestrel
Cooper's Hawk
Monk Parakeet
Great-crested Flycatcher
Catbird
N. Cardinal
Blue Jay
N. Mockingbird
Fish Crow
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
White Ibis
E. Starling
Mourning Dove
E. Collared Dove
Helmeted Guineafowl
Might have forgotten a few...
Nature is Awesome (especially when migration begins)
Angel & Mariel
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