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Posted by Rick Schofield on 15:59:08 01/20/13
Eight Audubon of the Everglades members joined numerous other Audubon groups and Paddy Cunningham's Everglades Birding Festival group at STA-5 this past Saturday. The day started out gloomy with intermittent rain showers but once we began driving the dikes it cleared up and the sky actually showed a little blue at one time. (I gather it wasn't quite so nice other places.)
Each group went off on its own and will, I'm sure, have slightly different reports and counts but this what our three car caravan saw.
Highlights include thousands (millions?) of American Coots (imagine that!); over a hundred Fulvous Whistling-Ducks (spread all over the place in small groups) and Black-necked Stilts (in several large groups); a dozen and a half Common Ground Doves; at least a dozen Northern Harriers (including a Gray Ghost); several American Kestrels, Snail Kites, Crested Caracaras and Peregrine Falcons; and one each Cassin's and Gray Kingbird. We later picked up several Western Kingbirds and at least one Scissor-tailed Flycatcher on Deer Fence Canal Road.
Deer Fence Canal Road is the new entrance to STA-5 and is a great location for wayward Kingbirds and Flycatchers so leave extra time to check out the area (including portions of CR-835 both north and south of the intersection).
It was a great group of people on a great day of birding.
Rick
Stormwater Treatment Area 5, Hendry, US-FL
Jan 19, 2013 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
15.75 mile(s)
Comments: Hendry-Glades Audubon / Audubon Society of the Everglades field trip. 8 ASE birders. Rick Schofield, group leader (there were other groups). Includes sightings on Deer Fence Canal Road.
67 species
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 5
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 100 (over a hundred -- but spread out all over the place)
American Wigeon 8
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck 2
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Stork
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American White Pelican
American Bittern 1
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Snail Kite 2
Northern Harrier 12 (more than I've seen in one place in a long time)
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Sora 1
Purple Swamphen
Purple Gallinule
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Limpkin
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt 100 (over a hundred in large groups)
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper 1 (hanging out with Greater Yellowlegs)
Caspian Tern
Common Ground-Dove 18
Belted Kingfisher
Crested Caracara 2
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 3
Cassin's Kingbird 1
Western Kingbird 1
Gray Kingbird 1
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 1 (we saw 1 but there were 12 reported in the same area shortly beforehand)
Loggerhead Shrike
American Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Palm Warbler
Swamp Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
American Goldfinch 6
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