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Posted by Alex Harper on 16:19:25 12/14/11
The Marbled Godwit, as reported earlier today, was easily found at the westernmost parking area of Hobie Beach. It was associating with the six Willets, Ruddy Turnstones, and an out-of-place Greater Yellowlegs.
At Crandon Park, the female Redhead was seen associating with a Blue-winged Teal and Ring-necked Duck. They are in the easternmost pond. At least twenty-eight Egyptian Geese were gallivanting, fighting, and courting around the parking lot and grassy areas outside of the "zoo". Their numbers here have really taken off in recent years. Iguana numbers are still fairly low, which greatly dipped after the January 2010 freeze.
The beach contained hundreds of shorebirds, mostly made up of Sanderlings and Semipalmated Plovers. Black-bellied, Piping, and Wilson's Plovers, Least Sandpipers, Dunlin, and Short-billed Dowitchers were also present. Caspian Terns and many Lesser Black-backed Gulls were also on the beach. Offshore, Northern Gannets were moving south.
Alex
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