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Posted by Frank on 15:08:33 04/22/09
In the two hours birding in early afternoon at Pinetree Park on Miami Beach, there was alot of activity. Of the warblers, highlights were a great male black throated green, n. waterthrush, a large group of palms (still?), very large numbers of Black Throated Blue and Redstart, some female blackpolls with the males, 2 black and whites on the same branch, and one-worm eating warbler. Other pinetree birds included a nice swainson's thrush, a baltimore oriole (also one was singing and got chased away by a mockingbird in my yard this morning) at least 2 different yellow-billed cuckoos, and a large number of blue-crowned conures (nothing new, but neat to watch them eating strangler fig fruits in a tree completely full of migrants). I saw Cape may in various places all over South Beach, in fact everwhere I was, there was a lot of migrants in evidence. Also an observation- the migrants definitely have a preference for strangler figs- every one in the park was packed, while the other trees were much less popular.
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