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Posted by John Kellam on 11:36:33 04/05/10
An out of state birder named Bruce Mack asked me to post the following message from his trip to the Florida Keys on 03/29 - 03/31. John
"On 3/30, at about 9:25, I picked up the bird about 2/3 of the way down the path from the entrance to the pond overlook. Glimpses were brief and often difficult because of foliage, but over a 5-minute span, I got everything I needed. (I should mention that my wife Bunny, a non-birder, put me onto the bird.) Incomplete white eye-ring, yellow supralorals, olive above all the way from bill to tail, pale yellowish wash on breast, which was fundamentally a slightly darker gray than any of the myriad White-eyes, and, of course, dark iris. Birded in the park all the rest of the day, less maybe 45 minutes for lunch, with no further sighting until 4:45, when the bird appeared again, this time maybe 30 feet short of the pond. All features noted again, somewhat more easily as the bird this time was not so skulking and foraged more deliberately, almost like a Red-eye.
And here's another weird thing-- as we were driving back up the Keys on 3/31, a BLUE JAY (!) flew across in front of us on Windley Key, about 1/4 mile below the Windley Key Fossil Reef entrance.
All the best, Bruce Mack"
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