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Posted by Rick Schofield on 10:32:27 02/17/11
Thirty one knowledgeable birders and photographers joined the group this week for a day that started out quite cool but quickly turned quite beautiful.
We began with a pair of White-winged Doves in the parking lot (rare for this location) but the leaf blowers behind the Visitors Center scared away anything that might otherwise have been there so we skipped that location and moved on to the Butterfly Triangle where a mama gator and her babies are cordoned off (to protect both them and us). Robins were feasting on Elderberries (and were probably totally drunk later in the day) and a pair of Wood Ducks flew overhead.
Kinglets, Gnatcatchers, Vireos, and Warblers were present in pretty decent numbers in the Live Oaks near and across the road from the Pavilion (as they have been for a few weeks now).
We wandered back to the parking lot to get scopes and walk the Marsh Trail. At the second cross-levy we found the Limpkin family -- both parents and babies -- that had been sighted recently. (There are lots of Limpkins around now -- four were perched in the tree tops in this general area.)
On the way back to the parking lot we got our FOS male Indigo Bunting as well as an immature male Painted Bunting.
Rick
Location: Loxahatchee NWR--Marsh Trail
Observation date: 2/16/11
Notes: Weekly Wednesday morning birdwalk, Marsh Trail, Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, Florida. 31 birders. Fred Test, leader.
Number of species: 56
Wood Duck
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Snail Kite
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Limpkin
Killdeer
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
Tree Swallow
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Northern Parula
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Savannah Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
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