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Posted by Larry Manfredi on 07:17:35 11/11/10
On Monday November 8th. of this week I went by Cutler Wetlands here in south Miami-Dade county. As I was driving along the edge of the wetlands, I saw a Black-billed Cuckoo flying along side the car. It then flew across the road in front of me and went into a tree next to some houses. There was a county maintenance truck parked here so I went to park next to the wetlands. As I was getting out of my car the truck left so I went over to the tree where I saw the cuckoo fly into, in hopes of getting a photo. I was not able to relocate the bird for a photo, those darn sneaky cuckoos!
Cutler Wetlands and just about all of south Miami-Dade county, had thousands of Cave Swallows of the Mexican race. These are larger and paler than the West Indies race birds. There were many of them at Cutler Wetlands along with Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow. Near the Homestead Airport there were thousands of Tree Swallows mixed in with Barn and Cave Swallows. On Sunday there were many, many swallows as well.
A little east of s.w. 217 ave. on s.w. 312 ave. near a nursery with Banana plants, was a Lark Sparrow on the wire. Just down from this was a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and as Western Kingbird.
A photo of the Bank Swallow: http://www.southfloridabirding.com/images/tasphotos/DSC_7967bank_swallow.jpg
A photo of a couple of Cave Swallows in flight: http://www.southfloridabirding.com/images/tasphotos/DSC_7969cave_swallow_mexican.jpg
Larry Manfredi
Homestead, FL
E-mail: birderlm@bellsouth.net
http://www.southfloridabirdng.com
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