Key West--Fort Taylor & Botanical Gardens


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Posted by Wil Domke on 19:24:55 04/22/11

Jody and I birded Fort Zachary Taylor Historic SP for about 4 ½ hrs today. We didn't go into the pines or the beach. The Osprey and the two Great Crested Flycatchers were seen in the pine trees from the parking lot.

There may have been more than two Scissor-tailed Flycatchers. We saw two in two different locations. They may have been the same birds.

On the way back we stopped for 45 minutes at Key West Botanical Gardens. Both reports are below. The data was captured with some new software I'm trying out, and the report was generated by eBird. The time stamp is the time I ticked the first bird of that particular species.

We also stopped at the Government Center in Marathon where we ran into the TAS group working their way to Key West. Before the group showed up Jody and I spotted two Roseate Terns that made a brief appearance over the roof. There were also many Least Terns. The TAS group stayed a little longer, so they may have something else to report.

Location: Fort Zachary Taylor Historic SP
Observation date: 4/22/11
Notes: Data collected with Birdwatcher's Diary (tm) for iPhone
Number of species: 27

Magnificent Frigatebird 2 8:04 AM
Great Blue Heron 1 10:04 AM, White morph
Tricolored Heron 1 10:04 AM
Cattle Egret 1 10:05 AM
Osprey 1 11:13 AM
Common Moorhen 2 9:54 AM
Laughing Gull 2 8:55 AM
Least Tern 40 8:54 AM
Rock Pigeon 2 12:20 PM
Mourning Dove 4 8:24 AM
Great Crested Flycatcher 2 11:27 AM
Gray Kingbird 5 8:19 AM
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 2 8:18 AM
Red-eyed Vireo 1 10:57 AM
Gray Catbird 1 9:18 AM
Northern Mockingbird 1 9:26 AM
Cape May Warbler 1 10:52 AM
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2 10:41 AM
Yellow-throated Warbler 1 11:04 AM
Prairie Warbler 3 8:50 AM
Palm Warbler 1 11:02 AM
Blackpoll Warbler 3 9:09 AM
Black-and-white Warbler 1 11:00 AM
American Redstart 2 8:36 AM
Common Yellowthroat 1 8:42 AM
Northern Cardinal 1 8:46 AM
Red-winged Blackbird 2 8:40 AM

Location: Key West Botanical Gardens
Observation date: 4/22/11
Notes: Data collected with Birdwatcher's Diary (tm) for iPhone
Number of species: 8

Muscovy Duck 2 1:23 PM, Domestic
Turkey Vulture 1 1:17 PM
Osprey 1 1:42 PM
Mourning Dove 1 1:42 PM
Gray Kingbird 1 1:36 PM
Gray Catbird 1 1:29 PM
Northern Mockingbird 1 1:33 PM
Palm Warbler 4 1:21 PM



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