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Posted by Rick Schofield on 13:13:28 01/19/11
We set our season high with 24 birders today. It started out cloudy & foggy with terrible light, turned sunny and beautiful, the clouds came back and turned threatening (but never rained), and ended up sunny again.
As for birds, early on we thought there would be more people than birds but, in the end, we had a potpourri of 55 different species including two unusual ones for Loxahatchee: Black Skimmer and Eurasian Collared-Dove. Though we did not have the "mystery" bird (who is, by the way, still hanging around), some people got to view Painted Buntings and an Orange-Crowned Warbler in a bush as well as hear (but not see) a Virginia Rail in the reeds. And today must have been a scheduled convention of Wood Storks as many were circling overhead most of the morning.
Today's photo is of a Common Yellowthroat who was most cooperative in perching in plain view for a quite reasonable time.
Rick
Location: Loxahatchee NWR--Marsh Trail
Observation date: 1/19/11
Notes: Weekly Wednesday morning birdwalk, Marsh Trail, Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, Florida. 24 birders. Fred Test, leader.
Number of species: 55
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Pied-billed Grebe
Anhinga
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Snail Kite
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Merlin
Virginia Rail
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Limpkin
Killdeer
Black Skimmer
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Painted Bunting
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
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