Snake Bight (11/11)

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: Sorry, I have no time to elaborate on what an amazing time it was canoeing around snake bight on Sunday...only one suggestion, get down there (grab a friend) and rent a canoe or (go solo) and rent a kayak and see for yourself the wonderful magic of Snake Bight via Florida Bay. There's really nothing like the sound of over 1000 shorebirds in a mixed flock streaming all around your canoe as if you were just a piece of driftwood lunking around the bay... : cheers : David : ps. the numbers of "abundant" birds are VERY underestimated, as I spent much more time photographing birds than I did "birdwatching". I'll post the pics as soon as I scan them. : : American White Pelican (1000+) : Brown Pelican : Double-crested Cormorant : Anhinga : Great Blue Heron (100+) : Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's race) : Great Blue Heron (Great White Heron morph) (20+) : Green Heron : Little Blue Heron : Cattle Egret : Reddish Egret (20+) (1 : 10 Red : White phase) : Snowy Egret (100+) : Tricolored Heron : Black-crowned Night Heron : Wood Stork : White Ibis : Scarlet Ibis (1; introduced) : Roseate Spoonbill : Greater Flamingo (~20) : Green-winged Teal : Blue-winged Teal (100+) : Northern Shoveler (2) : Turkey Vulture : Bald Eagle (2 adults; 1 juv.) : Osprey (10+) : Peregrine Falcon (1 stooping on shorebirds) : Black-necked Stilt (50+) : American Avocet (4) : Semipalmated Plover (50+) : Wilson's Plover (50+) : Killdeer : Black-bellied Plover (20) : Marbled Godwit (100+) : Lesser Yellowlegs : Spotted Sandpiper : Willet (1000+) : Ruddy Turnstone : Short-billed Dowitcher (1000+) : Red Knot (1000+) : Western Sandpiper (1000+) : Least Sandpiper (1000+) : Dunlin (1000+) : Great Black-backed Gull (2) : Lesser Black-backed Gull (6) : Herring Gull (2) : Laughing Gull (200+) : Gull-billed Tern (10) : Forster's Tern (20) : Royal Tern (100+) : Sandwich Tern (2) : Caspian Tern (10) : Black Skimmer (100) : Mourning Dove : Whip-poor-will (2 on main park road; one on my windshield...very sad) : Belted Kingfisher (10+) : Great-crested Flycatcher : Tree Swallow : Barn Swallow : Blue Jay : American Crow : Northern Mockingbird : Blue-gray Gnatcatcher : Palm Warbler : Boat-tailed Grackle

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