early trip sightings


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Posted by Scott Atkinson on 08:44:30 06/09/05

Tropical Audoboners:

It's early in the trip but a quick stop at Miami Springs/Fairhaven Nursing Center day before yesterday on arrival the 7th produced the following:

Monk Parakeet 21+
Mitred Parakeet 15
Green Parakeet 1
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet 7
parakeet, sp. 5
Yellow-crowned Parrot 1 (on territory at a residence to south of center)

No Dusky-headed Parakeet, sigh. Also spotted an odd smallish dove here (at the nursing center grounds) but the view wasn't a great one.

No great rarities in the Orlando area over the last day and a half but I did find the Budgerigars in Hernando Beach yesterday (9), at the end of Gulf Drive Circle as advertised in Pranty. A drive along the Little Creek Rec Area access of Withcoochie Nat'l Forest on the way back to Orlando was productive, a profusion of impressive nature and plenty of birds, including a strange-voiced male yellowthroat (1.1 miles in, right at spot where road splits off to right) that gave a song much more Oporornis in quality, a steady song, without the rhythmic roll or sweetness of regular songs heard in the area. Otherwise the expected species were present (including 5 warbler sp, 3 vireos).

After reading Pranty's Aug 2004 article-update on exotics, I did find it interesting to see a blackish-headed (Sacred?) Ibis in Orlando also, one of the birds photographed in the article. Going to find the Three Lakes WMA tomorrow or this morn.

Scott Atkinson



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