Posted by Brian Rapoza on November 20, 2016 at 01:43:39
Thirteen birders joined me for today's TAS tour to STA 5/6 in Hendry County. Thanks as always to Margaret England and Hendry-Glades Audubon Society for making these tours possible. We began the tour at the Miccosukee Service Plaza at I-75 and CR 833. Some of us went up to Clewiston for lunch after the tour. The following 85 species were tallied (locations indicated for birds not seen in STA 5/6): Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Fulvous Whistling-Duck Muscovy Duck (Miccosukee Service Plaza) Gadwall American Wigeon Mottled Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Wild Turkey (CR 833) Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Anhinga American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Wood Stork Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Crested Caracara (CR 833, CR 835) American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Sora Purple Gallinule Gray-headed Swamphen Common Gallinule American Coot Limpkin Sandhill Crane (Miccosukee Service Plaza) Black-necked Stilt Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Dunlin Least Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Gull-billed Tern Rock Pigeon (Clewiston) Eurasian Collared-Dove (CR 833) Common Ground-Dove Mourning Dove (CR 835) Belted Kingfisher Eastern Phoebe Tropical Kingbird (2 birds) Western Kingbird (CR 835: 2 birds) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (CR 835: 12 birds) Loggerhead Shrike White-eyed Vireo American Crow (CR 833) Fish Crow (Clewiston) Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow House Wren Marsh Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Northern Mockingbird (CR 835) European Starling (CR 835) Yellow-rumped Warbler Palm Warbler Common Yellowthroat Savannah Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird