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Posted by Angel & Mariel on 13:15:03 08/27/12
As TS Isaac barreled towards Key West its outer wind field and rain bands could be felt throughout Miami. It was an interesting day to say the least. We had to work during the early morning hours but even in low light, birds were apparent. Waterthrush were feeding on the bike trail and redstarts were flittering in the trees above. Rainstorms during the early morning hours put down migrants as they headed south. Winds were too strong to band so birding was the agenda. As the day progressed the most notable birds of the day were the shear numbers of swallows! A bit over an hour was dedicated to counting swallows overhead and this is when most of the Eastern Kingbirds were counted. The use of new technology made such a count of swallows and kingbirds a lot easier than we expected. We have been using the BirdLog app. to enter our ebird sightings, the apps clicker style interface works very good for counting multiple species with ease. After counting swallows and Purple Martins from the No Name Harbor parking lot we birded the rest of the park. American Redstart and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher were the most notable passerines in the hammock and bike trail.
Here is a ebird report of what was seen throughout the park in Saturday: Angel & Mariel
2012-08-25 09:14
Bill Baggs Cape Florida SP
Traveling
4 miles
350 Minutes
Observers: 2
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: 2 Manatees off of P3. A new Green Sea Turtle nest was discovered, the Cape's 97th documented turtle nest of the nesting season.
1 shearwater sp.
5 Magnificent Frigatebird
42 Double-crested Cormorant
5 Brown Pelican
3 Tricolored Heron
55 Cattle Egret
2 Black-crowned Night-Heron
21 White Ibis
1 Glossy Ibis
1 Cooper's Hawk
Specie Comments: Big female bird chasing a MODO, she missed :(
16 peep sp.
Specie Comments: Flying overhead at P7
40 Laughing Gull
9 Royal Tern
3 Sandwich Tern
10 Mourning Dove
6 Common Ground-Dove
172 Eastern Kingbird
Specie Comments: 97% flyover the others were in and around the mangrove trail
13 Gray Kingbird
2 Blue Jay
579 Purple Martin
Specie Comments: Many of them calling as they flew over. Once skies cleared a bit they were flying 500+ alt.
6 Tree Swallow
Specie Comments: Confirmed by call as well as 6 that were low enough and were cooperative. Left the birds that were high up under swallow sp. overcast skies made it hard to ID many of the swallows
73 Bank Swallow
2317 Barn Swallow
261 Cliff Swallow
56 Cave Swallow
1379 swallow sp.
Specie Comments: Many birds were flying high altitudes This coupled with how fast the birds were moving and overcast skies made ID challenging.
72 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
3 Northern Mockingbird
69 Northern Parula
9 Yellow-throated Warbler (Yellow-lored)
33 Prairie Warbler
18 Black-and-white Warbler
184 American Redstart
Specie Comments: Both sexes almost represented evenly early in the day but by the end of the day female/juv birds dominated.
1 Prothonotary Warbler
16 Worm-eating Warbler
1 Swainson's Warbler
Specie Comments: Between net 13-14. Seen well
14 Ovenbird
Specie Comments: Could have found more but hammocks were really dark, many probably slipped by.
17 Northern Waterthrush
Specie Comments: One bird banded, near net 10 bike trail exit. We banded two NOWA yesterday. This may have been one of the two birds. :)
2 Louisiana Waterthrush
Specie Comments: Pond 2 & 3
1 Kentucky Warbler
Specie Comments: LH compound. Female bird, called frequently until we spooked it.
1 Hooded Warbler
Specie Comments: Female
21 Northern Cardinal
12 Common Grackle (Purple)
Nature is Awesome
Angel & Mariel
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