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Posted by Rick Schofield on 13:51:36 02/09/11
The Refuge is preparing for Everglades Day this coming Saturday, February 12, 2011, sponsored by (among others) your friends at the Audubon Society of the Everglades. It is a free, all day, kid-friendly affair. For the entire schedule, see:
www.auduboneverglades.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Everglades2011_web.pdf
In doing so, they have pumped water into one of the containment areas that has attracted a bunch of ducks (mostly Blue-winged Teals), shore birds (Yellowlegs -- both Greater and Lesser, Least Sandpipers, and Wilson's Snipes), and the most Limpkins of the season. I should have posted a Limpkin photo as the bird-of-the-week shot but, instead, picked something else as you will see below. The Great Horned Owls are still present but we don't believe they have nested this season and, because it is so late in the season, probably won't this year.
This week's photo is of a Northern Cardinal. It is a gorgeous bird but poo-poo'ed by many because it is so common to most of us. The reason I picked it is because I wanted to include the enclosed link to photos (and text) of a Yellow Northern Cardinal that was recently posted -- I believe it was on BirdBrains (but the link is now gone) or it was, in fact, somewhere else -- I just wish I could give proper attribution to the original poster. In any case, this is not a joke. I hope those of you who did not see the other posting take the few moments to see an extraordinary bird!
Rick
Location: Loxahatchee NWR--Marsh Trail
Observation date: 2/9/11
Notes: Weekly Wednesday morning birdwalk, Marsh Trail, Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, Florida. 17 birders. Fred Test, leader.
Number of species: 55
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Stork
Anhinga
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Snail Kite
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Merlin
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Limpkin
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Savannah Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
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