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Posted by Bryant Roberts on 18:41:05 07/31/11
In Reply to: Palm Beach Sod Farms posted by steve siegel
This morning there were three Upland Sandpipers at their usual spot in what is left of the US 27 King Ranch sod fields beyond the Banana trees but on the way back this afternoon I could only pick one out of the heat shimmer. My best bird of the day was a Wilson s Phalarope in the first flooded field east of Duda Road on the south side of CR 880. There were two Barn Owls at the Miami Canal roost and an American Avocet in the last flooded field on Gladeview Road and nine more in a field off Brown s Farm Road. The best flooded fields were the three along Gladeview Road; two on the west side near the beginning and another at the gate at the end on the east side.
There were plenty of Stilt Sandpipers around and most of the usual shorebirds. Pectoral Sandpipers and Short-billed Dowitchers were present in most of the flooded fields but not in large numbers. I didn t see any Spotted or Solitary Sandpipers nor any Ruddy Turnstones and only a few Black-bellied Plovers.
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