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Posted by Brian Rapoza on 22:06:07 08/14/04
This afternoon I visited Tigertail Beach on Marco Island, which thankfully was spared the wrath of Charley. Birds seen were typical for Tigertail in mid-August:
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret (red and white forms)
White Ibis
Osprey
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover (4)
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover (1)
American Oystercatcher (4)
Greater Yellowlegs (1)
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper (4, one with spots!)
Whimbrel (1)
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin (1)
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern (1)
Least Tern
Black Tern (2)
Black Skimmer
Gray Kingbird
I witnessed the kingbird, which was perched on a bush near shore, fly off its perch to harass first one and then a second Marbled Godwit! I will attest to the fact that both godwits were simply minding their own business; both flew off upon being attacked.
Upon leaving Tigertail, a single Burrowing Owl was seen on Kendall Drive. Good numbers of Roseate Spoonbills and other waders were feeding on the flats off the Goodland Bay bridge on CR 92.
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