Posted by steve siegel on October 21, 2003 at 20:00:48:
At 4 PM I searched the area described by Dave La Puma for over an hour, but saw or heard nothing that resembled any ani. I didn't actually approach the house because it isn't that run down, still has electricity and a TV antenna, and this is Miami-Dade County. I rode south on 232 Ave as far as some culverts silently, as only a bicycle can, and heard nothing.
The area has lots of raptors: sharpies, Cooper's, red-shouldereds, harriers, shrikes and is a lovely, quiet, haunting place, really neat.
If you go looking, 232 Ave is paved for the first mile or so, then there is an unpaved area just past an abandoned greenhouse. Keep going south and the pavement resumes, and the house is in this stretch.
This spot offers us something relatively unheard of in South Florida--a paved road with little or no traffic and lots of birds. Dave, let us know if they reflood the place for ducks and shorebirds, now that we can go in there by bike.