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Posted by Stephen Paez on 21:12:22 06/29/09
Just came back from a family trip to Marco Island. Turns out we were right on Tigertail Beach (supposedly a good birding beach) I had never been there before. Since I drove there on my own I decided to stop at Loop Road and Kirby Storter Boardwalk on my way there. I did Monroe Station - through Sweetwater Strand and back on Loop Rd. Had the following:
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Red-Eyed Vireo
Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Purple Martin
Cardinal
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
American Crow
Black Vulture- First time I ever heard them make a noise: "Woof"
(Lots of mosquitoes and a huge fly with glowing green eyes which startled me to death made me leave quickly).
Kirby Storter was quiet.
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
N. Parula (with young)
Also 3 white-tailed deer does
Highlights on Tamiami Trail on the way to Marco Isle:
Swallow-Tailed Kite
(Dark) Short-Tailed Hawk
Great "White" Heron
Marco Island itself had:
Burrowing Owls (four on Lamplighter Rd)
Gray Kingbird
Brown-Headed Cowbird
(saw few Collared Doves, plenty of Mourning D. and no Starlings!)
Tigertail Beach was good even though I missed the Oystercatchers, which were my target birds.
Brown Pelican
Magnificent Frigatebird
DC Cormorant
Great Egret
Reddish Egret
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
Mottled Duck
Osprey (some caught some pretty big fish)
Black-Bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Snowy Plover
Wilson's Plover (with chick)
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Short-Billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
Common Ground-Dove
American Crow
Fish Crow (1st place where I've seen both crows together, identified based on call)
Common Grackle
I was surprised at some of the shorebirds. Didn't expect them during summer and most were in non-breeding plumage.
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