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Posted by Stephen Paez on 17:07:16 05/04/14
Today I birded Sweetwater Strand/Loop Rd and the Kirby Storter Boardwalk from 8 AM to 2 PM. Great weather and few bugs.
Sweetwater Strand/Loop Rd [S. Strand to Monroe Station]:
Peafowl male (surprised to see this beautiful exotic on Loop Rd)
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
White Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Turkey Vulture {one was eating a rattlesnake on Loop Rd)
Black Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
American Crow
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush (Sweetwater Strand)
N. Parula
Cape May Warbler (female at Sweetwater Strand)
N. Cardinal
Common Grackle
At Kirby Storter had:
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Swallow-tailed Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-bellied Wooodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Wooodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo (singing)
American Crow
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
N. Parula
Pine Warbler (singing)
Black-and-white Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler (male)
N. Cardinal
Common Grackle
Also saw a large red-headed Southeastern Five-lined Skink and a lifer Soldier Butterfly escape from a spider web it was caught in.
At the Big Cypress Visitor Center on Tamiami highlights were:
Purple Martin (several)
Bank Swallow (1 bird flying with several Barn Swallows)
Swallow-tailed Kite
Around the Miccosukee Village I saw Killdeer in the parking lot, a N. Flicker, a Great White Heron (maybe my first Miami-Dade one, I have to check my records) and I was surprised to see a black-headed Laughing Gull flying low over the canal. Also some typical city exotics such as Starling, Collared Dove and Common Myna.
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