Posted by Elizabeth Golden on May 02, 2019 at 12:15:09
On Sunday, April 28, twenty birders met at the No Name Harbor parking lot at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park for the TAS bird walk. The weather was warm and clear with a slight breeze, and the group was able to tally 29 species as we walked south down the nature trail and back up the paved bike path. Fruiting strangler fig trees offered the best looks at the 8 warbler species that we saw that morning. Along the trail, we also had an unexpected encounter with a Florida box turtle, a shy species that is rarely observed at the park. The species recorded during the 2.5 hour walk were: Mourning dove Yellow-billed cuckoo Royal tern Magnificent frigatebird Anhinga Double-crested cormorant White ibis Cooper's hawk Red-bellied woodpecker Merlin White-eyed parakeet Gray kingbird Black-whiskered vireo Blue jay Fish crow Barn swallow Gray catbird Northern mockingbird Common grackle Black-and-white warbler Common yellowthroat American redstart Cape May warbler Northern parula Blackpoll warbler Black-throated blue warbler Prairie warbler Northern cardinal Painted bunting