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Posted by Mark McShane on 21:54:39 05/21/12
Hi All,
Max Medley and I are coming down from Georgia to embark with Michael Brothers and many of Florida's finest seabirders on the May 27th pelagic birding trip with the Marine Science Center going out of New Smyrna Beach! I would like to encourage anyone who would consider such a trip to join in (it's possible that there still may be some open spots available) as it is a truly fantastic pelagic birding opportunity here in the southeastern US! See Michael's previous Birdbrain archived post from May 3rd concerning the trip for more information:
http://listserv.admin.usf.edu/listserv/wa.exe?A0=BRDBRAIN
Request For Information:
We are certainly far from perfectly fluent birding Florida, but we bird till we have to stop, have been working on our homework, and we'll be birding in Florida for 4 days in addition to the pelagic trip. We will be traversing central Florida, the Miami area, and the Florida Keys in search of during the trip, and chasing whatever we decide we have to (Max are you gonna take delivery on that helo in time, or do I still have to drive?).
Believing that it's possible to have not because we ask not, we would like to tap into the vast stores of May 2012 Florida birding knowledge and wisdom by asking in this forum if any and all have any advice and exact location information for as many forecasted rock solid dependable end of May 2012 sites as possible for these species (25-30 May):
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
American Flamingo (we have heard that they are gone from Florida Bay for the season)
Magnificent Frigatebird (roosts in the southeast Florida area)
White-tailed Kite
Snail Kite
Short-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
Roseate Tern (Marathon still at the end of May?)
Budgerigar (Hernando Beach still?)
Monk Parakeet (Tampa area?)
Nanday (Black-hooded) Parakeet (Tampa area?)
White-winged Parakeet
Mangrove Cuckoo
Smooth-billed Ani
Antillean Nighthawk
Florida Scrub-Jay
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Shiny Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird (I have heard rumors that there may be some year-round birds in Florida?)
PLEASE REPLY OFFLINE ANYTIME UP TO AND THROUGH MAY 30TH to:
eagleeyed AT bellsouth.net
-or-
mcshane1 AT bellsouth.net
They both will get to me at the same mailbox while on the road.
Thanks so much to the many caring and sharing birders out there who we know will respond! Thank you for your time and your consideration. We hope to meet you out in the field during our travels!
Good Birding All!
Mark
Mark McShane
Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia
www.neargareport.com (A gateway to Georgia birding information, home of some Phonescoping How-To and The McShane Angled-Eyepiece Birding Scope Cable-Tie Sight Guide, among other things! Warbler With Your Scope, Yes You Can... Yes, You Can!)
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