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Posted by Justin Miller on 11:33:24 02/18/14
Visited both over the weekend - Arthur Marshall on Sunday (aka Loxahatchee 'north' in Boynton Beach off 441) was decent birding - the levee trails around the compounds are mostly the 'usuals' with egrets, herons of various types, purple gallinules, and a very large number of blue-winged teals. One red-shouldered hawk and a northern harrier flew over, and warbler activity was mostly palm and yellow rumped. A few cardinals, and the call of an eastern meadowlark that wasn't spotted. Went to the cypress trail behind the nature center, and woodpecker activity was very high...red-bellied, downy, pileated all seen and heard, and at least 5 yellow-bellied sapsuckers. Warbler activity was pretty good as well - pine, prairie, palm, yellow-rumped, yellow-throated warblers, northern parulas, numerous grey catbirds. I have one as-yet unidentified warbler I need to get uploaded and put up for ID - it had a hard-to-distinguish pattern that looked somewhat like a pine combined with a prairie - could have been a juvie or odd pattern of one of those, or another type of warbler.
Green Cay still has abundant birds around the front entrance: palm, pine, prairie, yellow-rumped, and black-and-white warblers, blue headed vireo, northern parula, blue-grey gnatcatchers, grey catbirds, cardinals, and painted buntings all in very good numbers. Painted buntings are up in number - probably 5-6 at the front feeder, another 3-4 at the SE end of the boardwalk, and two by the chickee hut feeder. Yellow-throated warblers, black-and-white warblers in good numbers in the forest by the chickee hut. Lots of sora along the north stretch. Harrier still very actively hunting - one merlin and one red-shouldered hawk as well. Swallows all over the place - couldn't tell if all tree swallows or if some were rough-winged.
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