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Posted by Graham Langley on 11:10:28 12/02/11
Hi everyone
Encouraged by your recent reports of macaws at Miami Shores I planned to go there last night but my flight in was late and I wouldn't have made it by dusk so I went at dawn instead. Bus 16 to 6th ave and 107. It seemed a good idea but there were two issues to bear in mind. Firstly the sun was in my face looking east from the bridgeand secondly the school children were arriving so I had to make sure the security guy and parents could see I was not up to anything harmful.
Sightings were great. Loads of exotics.
Yellow-chevroned parakeet 3
White-winged parakeet 27
Orange winged parrot 2
Blue-crowned conure 3
Green Conure 1
Chestnut-fronted Macaw 17
muscovy duck 8
Egyptian Goose 10 that's 3 pairsone of which has four goslings
Add Feral Rock dove
Collared Dove
Starling
House Sparrow
thats 12 exotics in two hours from 7.25am to 9.30am
If I can add from our experience in the UK you need to keep watch on Egyptian Geese. They get established surreptitiously and suddenly they are on every stretch of water. They will be ABA countable in a few years I predict.
Best wishes
Graham (Uk birder on one of my regularly 24 hour visits)
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