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Posted by Bryant Roberts on 20:33:20 05/01/05
There were seven White-rumped Sandpipers with a flock of about twenty Semipalmated Sandpipers west of the Miami Canal in a flooded newly planted rice fields just south of the Barn Owl grove across the canal from the west end of CR 273. There were also four Fulvous Whistling Ducks in these fields along with about 110 Lesser Yellowlegs, 70 Black-necked Stilts, 6 Killdeer, and 5 Semipalmated Plovers. In the Barn Owl grove there were at least eight Barn Owls and probably closer to a dozen.
There were only a few shorebirds at the microwave tower on Highway 27 but I counted about 35 Black-bellied Plovers in the King Ranch sod fields which were dry.
The only other place where I found shorebirds in any numbers was along Browns Farm Road where in the first flooded field on the right I counted about seventy Stilt Sandpipers, a few Greater Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpipers, Semipalmated Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plovers, Killdeers, and Least Sandpipers along with a good many Lesser Yellowlegs and Black-necked Stilts. More of the same could be seen in some flooded newly planted rice fields about a mile down a dirt road just past the pumping station on the right about two and a half miles past the radio tower.
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