Posted by Paul Bithorn on August 25, 2003 at 09:38:41:
Sorry for the late post. On Sunday, August 24, 2003, I dd a little fall migration birding by starting at A.D. Barnes at 7:30 a.m. Fall migrants included: Worm-eating, Black and White, Prairie and Yellow-throated Warblers, Ovenbird and American Redstart, Red-eyed Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers and Barn Swallow. Yellow-chevroned Parakeet,Hill Myna and Brown Thrasher, Great-crested Flycatcher and Spotted Skunks (polecats) were also seen.
As previously reported, I ran into Alex and his younger brother at Homestead Motorsports. Other birds seen, not reported by Alex, were (3) Limpkins, Common Nighthawks Black-crowned Heron (imm.) and Mottled Ducks. Alex's passion for birding is rubbing off on his brother.
The South Florida Water Management District has created a wonderful native tree planting on the south side of Lucky Hammock where the brush pile used to be.Several fruiting species should be a bird magnet. You can easily walk into the hmammock from this side. An Ovenbird was foraging on the ground as I entered. However, swallows were the big story as hundreds of Barn Swallows, Bank Swallows and Cliff Swallows. All three species perched on the wires for close study. Eastern Kingbirds were in abundance on the road leading to and past the Youth Camp and a White-crowned Pigeon was a bonus bird.
60 Species in a casual morning of birding.Life is good........knowing the Sod Farm Fieldtrip is loomin' on the horizon, next Saturday, August 30th. Meet at the US 27 entrance to the Holeyland/Rotenberger W.M.A. on the Broward/Palm Beach County line at 7:00 a.m. if you choose not to carpool from the Doc Thomas House.