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Posted by Paul-the-other on 04:56:25 05/26/09
The RNP is not present at Eco-pond. A multitude of small peepers were there including one striking spotted sandpiper in beautiful plummage.
Eastern Kingbirds are cavorting at Purotis Pond and seem to have an affinity to the insects around the garbage cans. Crickets are out in numbers.
The "buzz" from the rookery is a pleasant sound and mullet are jumping, it appears, for the pure joy of jumping.
Since the motel/cabins are totally gone at Flamingo and the ground is scrapped we searched the remains for possible killdeer or tern nests and found none. The holes in the palm trees were active with woodpecker visits but no confirmed nests. A pileated woodpecker was present. The bugs are still very low but that should change in about 7 days. Deer flies/horse flies were in modest numbers but very tolerable even with no long sleeve shirts.
I just returned from a month in Yellowstone/environs and it is sad to leave so many vibrant colored birds in numbers of the hundreds (most in the yard of the apartment unit I rented) and come back to the what is the "doldrums" of Summertime South Florida.
For many pictures and full report see the link.
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