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Posted by Brian Rapoza on 14:38:38 04/28/12
Five birders joined me for today's TAS trip to Big Cypress National Preserve. Among the five were Paul Ippolito and Diana Fruguglietti, visiting birders from my home state of Massachusetts. I first met Paul and Diana during a Honduras tour last March; it was great birding with them again.
Areas we visited before the rains shut us down included Oasis Visitor Center, Kirby Storter Boardwalk and all of Loop Road. Though construction of culverts continues on Loop Road, the road is once again open from end to end. Though the road is currently paved only along a short stretch at the east end, the unpaved section is well graded; we ll see, though, how long it lasts. Though we failed to find any Prothonotary Warblers today, we saw a nice assortment of birds:
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
White Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Swallow-tailed Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk
Solitary Sandpiper
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
American Crow
Purple Martin
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Swainson s Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Pine Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
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