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Posted by Rick Schofield on 11:45:52 03/31/11
Regular members of the birding group are peeling off and returning north just like the birds themselves. Soon the spring migration will come to an end and we'll await the return next fall. (These organized walks continue through April for anyone interested.)
Among the standard list of waders we had an unusually large number of Snowies, Greens, Tricoloreds, and American Bitterns (every time you turned around, there was a bittern!).
There were quite a few Purple Gallinules, but there was one in particular (subject of today's photo) that was taking a sun bath giving us spectacular views. And we had our First-Of-Season Black-necked Stilts fly over, squawking away.
And as for warblers, we had Palm, Prairie, Pine, Myrtle, and Common Yellowthroat. Hopefully the cold front coming south today will cause some migrants to stop for a while.
Rick
Location: Loxahatchee NWR--Marsh Trail
Observation date: 3/30/11
Notes: Weekly Wednesday morning birdwalk, Marsh Trail, Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, Florida. 18 birders. Fred Test leader.
Number of species: 50
Wood Duck
Mottled Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Stork
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Snail Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Kestrel
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
Limpkin
Black-necked Stilt
Mourning Dove
Nanday Parakeet
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Wren
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Savannah Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Painted Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
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