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Posted by Vincent Lucas on 17:58:13 01/28/12
An awesome day at STA-5 in Hendry County today! We found both the Cassin's Kingbird AND the Gray Kingbird, which shouldn't even be here in Florida at this time of the year! However, Ruth Woodall found the best bird of the day which was a male Cinnamon Teal! I found the first one at STA-5 in 2004, before it was "officially" opened and it took nearly 8 years to find another. Another great bird we saw was a Western Willet which was a first for STA-5 although we've seen a few Eastern Willets in the past. Add in Snail Kite, Purple Swamphen, Northern Pintail, Ruddy Duck, Fulvous & Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks, American Wigeon, Canvasback, Northern Shoveler, Blue-winged & Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, American White Pelican, Roseate Spoonbill, Long-billed Dowitcher, Dunlin, Barn Owl, Crested Caracara, Caspian Tern, Northern Rough-winged & Tree Swallows, Peregrine Falcon, etc. etc. and you can see why STA-5 is such a great birding hotspot! On the way home, several of us counted a total of 28 combined Scissor-tailed Flycatchers & Western Kingbirds along CR835 near the Deer Fence Canal which I dub my "Kingbird Highway". Finally, on the Collier/Hendry County line (CR858), Bernie Master and I saw a dark morph Short-tailed Hawk. Wow! What a great day of birding! I'll let Margaret England of Hendry-Glades Audubon give the complete list of birds seen today. Thanks Margaret for doing such a fine job organizing these tours at such a terrific birding hotspot!
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