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Posted by Angel & Mariel on 01:51:04 10/24/13
Birded Barnes from 11:40 - 3pm and saw a nice variety of warblers and other neotropical migrants. There was great diversity in the park as well as overhead. The raptor flight was great with many accipiters and falcons moving south ahead of the frontal boundary.
A cold front moved through South FL overnight with a second front still over North FL. In between this cold front sandwich we expect a good push of migrants overnight. The first front should clear the Keys by morning, north winds behind the front gives birds a tailwind that could carry them over and past us. One thing in our favor would be extensive cloud cover from Central FL to South FL. This cloud cover could encourage some birds to land and wait for a clear night to migrate over water. As night fell, most of the precipitation associated with the front moved off into the Atlantic. This precipitation could have stacked up birds over South FL and still could if thunderstorms fire up early in the day. Lets see what the day brings!
Here is a list of migrants seen today:
41 Black Vulture
37 Turkey Vulture
3 Osprey
3 Northern Harrier
2 Sharp-shinned Hawk
5 Cooper's Hawk
7 Accipiter sp.
7 Broad-winged Hawk
1 Short-tailed Hawk
9 American Kestrel
2 Merlin
3 Peregrine Falcon
1 White-crowned Pigeon
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
37 Chimney Swift
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1 Downy Woodpecker
2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
5 White-eyed Vireo
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
7 Red-eyed Vireo
63 Cliff Swallow
100 swallow sp. -- Many flying SW in a rush, sun too harsh to ID
17 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Gray-cheeked Thrush
2 Gray Catbird
1 Blue-winged Warbler -- Homeless Hammock
32 Tennessee Warbler
1 Nashville Warbler -- SW side of homeless hammock.
2 Northern Parula
2 Chestnut-sided Warbler -- Figs around the lake
4 Magnolia Warbler
5 Cape May Warbler
27 Black-throated Blue Warbler
2 Yellow-throated Warbler
3 Pine Warbler
5 Prairie Warbler
45 Palm Warbler
1 Bay-breasted Warbler -- LAC area
4 Black-and-white Warbler
11 American Redstart
4 Worm-eating Warbler
11 Ovenbird
1 Common Yellowthroat
2 Summer Tanager
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1 Indigo Bunting
4 Painted Bunting
1 Spot-breasted Oriole
2 Baltimore Oriole
Nature is Awesome
Angel & Mariel
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