Posted by Paul Bithorn on April 30, 2002 at 10:35:42:
On Saturday, April 27, 2002, Bruce Purdy and I, the Life is good.........team, spent a whirlwind day birding for the Tropical Audubon Society’s Birdathon 2002. After a dose of Cuban coffee, croquetas, and pasteles de guayaba and carne we shoved off at 5:30 a.m. with our first stop being Lucky Hammock. We then birded Everglades National Park in this order; Paurotis Pond, Nine-mile Pond, Snake Bight Trail, Flamingo, Eco Pond, Research Road and Anhinga Trail.
After leaving the park we hit Flynn’s, Homestead Airport, S.W. 216 St. & the Fla. Turnpike, the area in and around Baptist Hospital, the Royal Palm Tennis Club/Mrs. Firshcots, the area around the Miller Rd. Parrot Roost, the mitigation pond at the S.W. Regional Library in Pembroke Pines, the Nursing Home in Miami Springs, where we had 9 species of psitaccids, Bruce’s front yard for Eastern Screech Owl and finally Crandon Park Marina for Black-crowned Night-Heron, finishing up at 9:00 p.m.
Here is the list of all species seen by the “Life is good...........” team during the Birdathon:
Pied-billed Grebe
White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron(plus Great White and Wurdeman’s Herons)
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis (plus Scarlet X White hybrid)
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Greater Flamingo (1 @ Snake Bight)
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Muscovy
Osprey
Swallow-tailed Kite
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Northern Bobwhite (heard @ Lucky Hammock)
Clapper Rail (Paurotis Pond)
Purple Swamphen (S.W. Regional Library-Pembroke Pines)
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Wilson’s Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt (Paurotis Pond)
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Whimbrel (Flamingo)
Ruddy Turnstone
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Gull-billed Tern (50)
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Least Tern
Rock Dove
White-crowned Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Monk Parakeet
Yellow-Chevroned Parakeet
Green Parakeet
Mitred Parakeet
White-eyed Parakeet
Red-fronted Parakeet
Green-Cheeked Parakeet
Orange-winged Parrot
Red-crowned Parrot
Eastern Screech Owl (Homestead Airport)
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Black-Whiskered Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
Cave Swallow
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Myna
Hill Myna
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Pine Warbler (100)
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
“Cape Sable” Seaside Sparrow (heard 1.1 miles west of Mahogany Hammock on main road)
Northern Cardinal
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel (male singing at Lucky Hammock)
Bobolink (Lucky Hammock)
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Spot-breasted Oriole
House Sparrow (121)
Life is good...........especially when birding for conservation. Hope to see more of you participate
next year. Great fun for a worthy cause.