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Posted by Bryant Roberts on 21:47:37 07/20/09
A paddle around the north part of Snake Bight turned up two adult Greater Flamingoes this Sunday (7/19) east of the Snake Bight Road Boardwalk. They were visible from the water at the mouth of the creek that runs under the boardwalk but the view would have been obscured from the boardwalk. Here is a rough tally of the transient species seen at Snake Bight that afternoon.
American White Pelican 3
Greater Flamingo 2
Black-necked Stilt 60
American Avocet 10
Black-bellied Plover 20
Semipalmated Plover 10
Wilson s Plover 30
Short-billed Dowitcher 300
Marbled Godwit - 200
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Spotted Sandpiper 5
Willet 1,000
Ruddy Turnstone 5
Semipalmated Sandpiper 70
Western Sandpiper 100
Least Sandpiper 6
Royal Tern 10
Forster s Tern 5
Least Tern 100
The only evidence of landbird migration were a couple of Purple Martins and several Barn Swallows flying southwards across Garden Cove at Key Largo on Saturday (7/18), a Black-and-white Warbler at Long Pine Key on Saturday (2/28) and a Northern Parula at Gumbo Limbo Trail on Monday (7/20).
A surprising sighting was about thirty American White Pelicans flying north over the mainland side of Card Sound Road late this Monday (7/20) afternoon.
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