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Posted by steve siegel on 18:36:45 08/23/14
I spent the day searching out shorebirds in the agricultural area, and hate to say it, but the highlight of the day was getting caught in a brief, cooling shower. I covered the area from US 27 to STA1w and Brown's Farm Road (all the way to the road at the abandoned concrete building with blown out windows) to Osceola farms. In all that area I only found 2 wet fields, and one of these will be dry in a couple more days. It boasted a pair of Marbled Godwits. The field at the yellow gate (locked) on Gladeview road is fully flooded, but is so overgrown with weeds that there really is no open water. At that location were one Solitary Sandpiper, one Pectoral (albeit a very nice one), a couple of Least's, a couple of Semipalmated Plovers, and a dozen Black-necked Stilts. Not exactly overwhelming. Osceola farms did have 5 Upland Sandpipers along its driveable sod fields. To get there you have to take Rt 80 to CR 700, and go 7 miles nw. on 700, as Hatton Highway is closed. What ever happened to the days of Phalaropes, Golden Plovers, Curlew Sandpipers and Ruffs in Palm Beach County?
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