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Posted by Rick Schofield on 13:27:48 12/21/12
The day started out slow. We found little activity behind the Visitors' Center where we had so much last week. As the sun and temperature rose we had some warblers in the cypresses (Palm, Yellow-rumped, Pine) along with Blue-gray Gnatcatchers -- but in much smaller numbers than last week. It was too cool to check out the butterfly triangle area.
Between the Pavilion area and Cypress stand approaching the boat launch we added Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Black-and-White and Yellow-throated Warblers but not a whole lot more.
Because we heard the distant whinny of a Sora last week, we decided to check the area (NW corner of C8) where we had a single Sora a year or two ago. Unfortunately we came up short. But it put us near where the old blind once stood -- it burned to the ground a while ago. This location turned out to be the highlight of the morning thanks to Eagle-Eye John. Lots and lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers were joined by Pines, female Painted Bunting, and a small flock of American Goldfinch. We tried, unsuccessfully, to pick up more Painted Buntings on the way back to the Marsh Trail parking lot. We had to settle for a Red-shouldered Hawk munching on breakfast instead.
So a slow day turned into the most productive so far this season.
Until next Wednesday,
Rick
Loxahatchee NWR--Marsh Trail, Palm Beach, US-FL
Dec 19, 2012 7:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.25 mile(s)
Comments: Weekly Wednesday morning birdwalk, Marsh Trail, Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, Florida. 12 birders. Rick Schofield, leader.
54 species
Mottled Duck 2
Blue-winged Teal 6
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Stork 5
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier 1
Red-shouldered Hawk
Purple Gallinule
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Limpkin
Killdeer
Wilson's Snipe 4
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Pileated Woodpecker
Merlin 1
Monk Parakeet
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
Tree Swallow
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
Yellow-throated Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Painted Bunting (female)
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
American Goldfinch (small flock at old blind)
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