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Posted by Brian Rapoza on 14:52:36 05/05/12
Seventeen birders joined me for today's birding tour of North Key Largo. Stops included Card Sound Bridge, Crocodile Lake NWR, Carysfort Circle and Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park. Birding was slow, with only a few lingering migrants seen. We also failed to find two of our target species: Clapper Rail and Mangrove Cuckoo. Most unusual sighting was a male Bobolink, found deep in the coastal hammock along Dynamite Trail in Dagny Johnson SP. We ended our tour with lunch at the Buzzard's Roost in Key Largo.
Birds tallied included:
Double-crested Cormorant
Magnificent Frigatebird
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
White Ibis
Wood Stork
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Spotted Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Least Tern
White-crowned Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Eastern Screech-Owl (heard)
Common Nighthawk (heard)
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Gray Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Black-whiskered Vireo
American Crow
Carolina Wren
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula
"Cuban" Yellow Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
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