Gulls and other at Cutler Wetland & Dump Marsh


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Posted by Trey Mitchell on 20:11:00 10/26/05

Today I went hunting the Black-headed and Franklin's Gulls at Cutler Wetlands
and surrounding areas. I went early myself to Cutler Wetland and found none. So
I headed to the construction sites to the north searching for the flocks of
gulls. The flocks were there but not the Black-headed Gull. I did see several
Franklin's and a Bonaparte's.


 I searched for about 45 min to and an hour.


I decided to stop by Toe's to see if he found out if we could get to
Tavernier Key to look for the Ash-throated Flycatcher but they still aren't
letting no-residents into the Keys.


We decided to go back and look for the gulls and Avocets that Toe saw the
other day. Rock Jetty joined us for a fun time looking though literally
thousands of gulls. When we arrived at Cutler Wetland there may have been
500-600 gulls, by the time we left there were at least 3,000 gulls.


We saw:


Mostly Laughing

5-10 Franklin's

Several Ring-billed Gulls

10-15 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

Caspian Tern

5 Avocets

Flock of Long-billed Dowitcher (heard the call)

and 1 Aberrant Laughing Gull (Had a bright orange bill, otherwise looked just
like a large laughing gull)



After an hour or so searching the huge flock, we headed to Dump Marsh looking
for water fowl and sparrows.


There we saw:


Red Shouldered Hawk

Red Tailed Hawk

Peregrine Falcon

Kestrel

Coots

Moore Hen

several Gadwall

2 Female Widgeon

Green-wing Teal

Northern Shoveler

Blue-winged Teal

Mottled Ducks

Pied Billed Grebe

Barn Swallows

Tree Swallows

Palm Warbler

Common Yellow Throat

Phoebe

Common Snipe - Life Bird for me!











Aberrant Laughing Gull was in a photo I took early this morning as well as in
the photos taken at Cutler Wetland.













Ring Billed Gulls





Avocets




Peregrine Falcon





Red Tailed Hawk








My Life Common Snipe




















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