Posted by John Boyd on November 11, 2019 at 20:05:08
Birding was slow at the beginning, as we birded the Coe Visitor's Center and surrounding area, then visited Anhinga Trail and the Gumbo Limbo Trail, and Research Road including the missile base and the trail at Gate 2. We had lunch at Long Pine Key. One of the group found a flock of birds near one of the bathrooms, and suddenly our birding luck changed. After spending some time with that flock, we headed on to Mahogany Hammock, where we found 4 BT Green Warblers (there had also been one at Coe). Paurotis Pond didn't have much, but West Lake was decent, and we found a few more birds at Mrazek Pond. The tide was in, so we couldn't see much from Flamingo, but a couple of Manatees were in the marina area. There were about a half dozen more in front of old visitor's center that gave us great looks! We added some shorebirds by the amphitheater, and Roseate Spoonbill, White Pelican, and Spotted Sandpiper at Eco Pond. My last bird of the day was a Bald Eagle on the way home. The list includes a few birds I saw along the 209 Ave-388 St-212 Ave loop (e.g., Peafowl). Blue-winged Teal Indian Peafowl Mourning Dove White-crowned Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Rock Pigeon Common Ground-Dove Purple Gallinule Wood Stork Anhinga Double-crested Cormorant White Ibis Roseate Spoonbill American White Pelican Brown Pelican Black-crowned Night-Heron Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Snowy Egret Green Heron American (Great) Egret Great Blue Heron Black-bellied Plover Ruddy Turnstone Least Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper (Western) Willet Greater Yellowlegs Short-billed Dowitcher Laughing Gull Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Northern Harrier Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Short-tailed Hawk (1 light morph) Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker American Kestrel Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe White-eyed Vireo Loggerhead Shrike Blue Jay Fish Crow American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow (1) Barn Swallow Brown-headed Nuthatch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Northern House-Wren (heard) Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling Savannah Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Red-winged Blackbird (heard) Brown-headed Cowbird Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Northern Waterthrush (heard) Black-and-white Warbler Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Myrtle Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Northern Cardinal