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Posted by Brenda on 13:21:33 10/20/11
I've been lurking on the board for a bit and met Marc, Eliana, Nancy and several others yesterday slogging around Bill Baggs for awhile. I was encouraged to post some observations here! Nothing to add to yesterdays reports other than 4 falcons of at least 2 different species (size differences, smallest was not a kestrel), and a Magificent Frigatebird. I saw all of those through the driving rain while I was waiting out the worst of it under one of the shelters. I studied a bird by the restaurant for quite a bit, we finally decided that it was probably a female common yellowthroat although Im open to other suggestions. It looked a lot like the adult female in Sibley's (clean brown on back, no wingbars, yellow throat, yellow undertail coverts, buffy flanks, and whitish belly) but also seemed to have a hint of a dark hood that covered most of the back of the head. It was with a bunch of palm warblers on the ground near the restaurant at No Name Harbor and was noticeably bigger with a bigger bill. Behavior-wise, it hopped around a lot and then dove headfirst into the grass with its tail in the air. Sometimes, it disappeared completely into the grass. There was also a very miserable-looking white bird hunched up by the fence near Stiltsville and the shelters. Did anyone else see it? It stayed very hunched up, but was all white with a yellow bill and bright pink/red legs. No gray anywhere that I could see which made me think not a gull or at least not one I've seen around here.
AD Barnes this morning was fantastic! Much of what everyone saw yesterday was still there but probably not in the same numbers. In the trees in the median in front of the leisure center were:
Black and White Warbler
Yellow-Throated Warbler
Red-Eyed Vireo
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (2 or 3)
Tanager sp (at least 2 maybe 3)
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
Black Throated Blue Warbler
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Northern Mockingbird
Bay Breasted Warbler (Lifer)
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Catbird
Some type of thrush
At least 2 other vireo species. I don't know what they were but they weren't like the ones I knew were Red-Eyed.
That's what I KNOW was there. There was quite a bit I was not confident about and then all the field marks started running together in my head.... Still, I thought that was a pretty impressive variety for 3 trees!
Look forward to meeting more of you out and about!
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