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Posted by Balladares on 18:40:05 12/04/04
What a great birding day it was today. Davis Noble, from Boston and I went to A.D. Barnes Park and Crandon Park, since we could not go on the Audubon trip. We where looking for wilson plovers, but we could find any. Davis, did get a short tail hawk as a life bird today.
Birds seen at A.D. Barnes Park, Davis and I saw a total of 26 birds.
1.Belted Kingfisher (heard)
2.White Ibis
3.Gray Catbird
4.Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5.Palm Warbler
6.Common Moorhen
7.Mascovy Duck
8.N. Mockingbird
9.Osprey
10.Green Heron
11.Redstart
12.Common Yellowthroat
13.Common Grackle
14.RT Hummingbird
15.Pelican
16.Cardinal
17.Blue Jay
18.White-eye Vireo
19.White-wing Dove
20.Eastern Phobe
21.Laughing Gull
22.Black and White Warbler
23.Hermit Thrush
24.T-Vulture
Birds seen @ Crandon Park
Again the morning was beautiful and birding was great at Crandon. We were able to get 42 bird species in total.
1.Monk Parakeets
2.Eurasian Collared Dove
3.European Starling
4.Common Grackle
5.Black Vulture
6.Turkey Vulture
7.Osprey
8.Double-crested Cormorant
9.Brown Pelican
10.Great Egret
11.F-crow
12.BT-grackle
13.Laughing Gull
14.White Ibis
15.Red-bellied Woodpecker
16.N. Cardinal
17.N. Mockingbird
18.Anhinga
19.Mourning Dove
20.Royal Tern
21.Herring Gull
22.Lesser Black-backed Gull
23.Great Black-backed Gull
24.Western Sandpiper
25.Ruddy Turnstone
26.Dunlin (I saw only one)
27.Piping Plover
28.Caspian Tern
29.Reddish Egret (immature)
30.Short-tail Hawk (dark morph and life bird for Davis)
31.Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
32.A. Kestrel
33.Red-shoulder Hawk
34.Great Blue Heron
35.Gray Catbird
36.Common Merganser
37. Northern Harrier
38.Common Yellowthroat
39.Prairie Warbler
40.Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
41.Palm Warbler
In total we saw 54 bird species. It was a great day for us. Our day ended at 12:30pm, because Davis had to catch a plain at 3pm. We had a great.
Great Birding to and hope to see you around.
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