Posted by Brian Rapoza on October 14, 2018 at 00:19:25
Nine birders joined me for today's birding trip to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Collier County and Ft. Myers Beach in Lee County. Following are the birds tallied en-route (CR 833, CR 846): Mottled Duck Wild Turkey Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Common Gallinule Limpkin Sandhill Crane Killdeer Wood Stork Anhinga Great Blue Heron Great Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Black Vulture Osprey Red-shouldered Hawk Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Crested Caracara American Kestrel Loggerhead Shrike Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Wren Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Northern Cardinal Birds tallied at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary: Common Ground-Dove Mourning Dove Limpkin Anhinga Black Vulture Osprey Red-shouldered Hawk Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee Empidonax sp. (no visible eye ring, so likely Traill's) Great Crested Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay Tufted Titmouse Brown-headed Nuthatch Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Waterthrush Black-and-white Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler (heard only) American Redstart Northern Parula Bay-breasted Warbler (at least six) Chestnut-sided Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prairie Warbler Northern Cardinal At Ft. Myers Beach, we visited Carlos Pointe. Birds seen here: American Oystercatcher Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Wilson's Plover Semipalmated Plover Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Willet Laughing Gull Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Brown Pelican Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Osprey Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird On our way back to I-75 from Ft. Myers Beach, we saw several Chimney Swift flying overhead.