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Posted by Rick Schofield on 13:49:01 01/01/13
Thanks to a great team -- Pat & Lori Hayes, Jan & Dave Conley, Kristen Murtaugh, Sue Young, and myself -- the Barrier Island team on the West Palm Beach Christmas Bird Count circle chocked up a total of 55 species with 2274 individual birds. We divided into two groups -- one with the northern portion of the island from just south of Palm Beach down to the Boynton Inlet and the other with the southern portion of the island from Delray Beach up to the Boynton Inlet.
The day started cold and windy, which kept the count down from what it might otherwise have been.
Highlights for the northern group were: 9 American Oystercatchers at Ibis Isle, a Peregrine Falcon at the Lake Worth Pier, and 5 Black Scoters at the Oceanside Farmers Market in Lake Worth (directly across the Lake Worth Bridge from where they've been hanging out since early November).
The southern group's highlights were: hundreds of Laughing and Ring-billed Gulls, hundreds of Sanderlings, over a hundred Nandy Parakeets, a smattering of Great and Lesser Black-backed Gulls, lots of Osprey, a couple of Common Loons, and a pair of adult Bald Eagles performing a courtship display directly above us at the Ocean Ridge Natural Area.
Rick
Barrier Island, Delray Beach north to South Palm Beach, Palm Beach, US-FL
Dec 30, 2012 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
25.0 mile(s)
Comments: West Palm Beach Christmas Bird Count -- Barrier Island team
54 species (+1 other taxa)
Muscovy Duck (Domestic type) 2
Mottled Duck 13
Black Scoter 5 (photos)
Common Loon 2
Wood Stork 1
Northern Gannet 2
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Brown Pelican 152
Great Blue Heron 6
Great Egret 3
Little Blue Heron 4
Cattle Egret 4
Green Heron 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1
White Ibis 83
Black Vulture 13
Turkey Vulture 294
Osprey 26
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 2 (adult)
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Common Gallinule 5
American Oystercatcher 9
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Ruddy Turnstone 77
Sanderling 257
Laughing Gull 348
Ring-billed Gull 201
Herring Gull 22
Lesser Black-backed Gull 4
Great Black-backed Gull 36
Royal Tern 22
Black Skimmer 25
Rock Pigeon 234
Eurasian Collared-Dove 4
Mourning Dove 26
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
American Kestrel 5
Peregrine Falcon 1
Nanday Parakeet 107
Monk Parakeet 64
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 5
European Starling 63
Palm Warbler 17
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 4
Yellow-throated Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 34
Common Grackle 37
Boat-tailed Grackle 26
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S12425331
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