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Posted by Bryant Roberts on 19:03:05 07/25/11
I spent last weekend at Everglades National Park camping at Long Pine Key and kayaking Snake Bite on Saturday morning. Snake Bite as always was a spectacular show of waders and shorebirds but migrant numbers weren t very impressive and a couple of Pectoral Sandpipers were the only surprise. Along with the usual birds there were about a thousand Willets, three hundred Short-billed Dowitchers, twenty Marbled Godwits, eight Spotted Sandpipers, twelve Least Sandpipers, six Western Sandpipers, and two Semipalmated Sandpipers.
On Sunday morning there were three Louisiana Waterthrushes and a couple of Red-eyed Vireos at Royal Palm Hammock. Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were common in all the wooded areas and a Snail Kite was hunting south of the Gate 15 mound.
The mosquitoes were about as bad as I have ever seen at Royal Palm Hammock and Long Pine Key but they paled by comparison to the swarms I encountered at Flamingo, but I have seen them much worse there. The marina area wasn t too bad nor was Mahogany Hammock or Pay-hay-okee.
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