Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Birding Blitz




My birding goals have been to reach a minimum count of a hundred species per month, which takes some work in the summer here in southwest Florida. I did manage it. Few interesting sighing over the summer include finding three Black-Bellied Whistling Ducks with a dozen newly hatched ducklings on the ponds at Domestic Ave, which have had been seen there before or since (where did they go?), Black Terns and Red Knots at Bunche Beach, and a couple of Shiny Cowbirds.
But now with migrations kicking-in I chose I set a goal of a hundred in one week. I had day-long blitzes on September first in Lee County and the seventh in Dade County. I hit most of the best birding spots locally as well as Everglades National Park (Snail Kites and Yellow Warblers and tons of mosquitoes) and Lucky Hammock in the South Glades-Frog Pond Wildlife Management Area ( good hits here included Alders Flycatcher and White-Tailed Kites. Just missed Least Flycatcher and a Short-Eared Owl seen by others just after I left).
I managed to hit the hundred




Muscovy Duck
Mottled Duck
Pied-Billed Grebe
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant


Anhinga
Great Blue Heron


Great Egret


Snowy Egret


Little Blue Heron


Tricolored Heron

Reddish Egret


Cattle Egret

Green Heron


Yellow-crowned Night-Heron


White Ibis


Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Turkey Vulture


Black Vulture
Osprey

White-tailed Kite
Snail Kite


Cooper's Hawk


Red-shouldered Hawk

Crested Caracara
Common Moorhen


Limpkin
Black-bellied Plover

Wilson's Plover

Semipalmated Plover


Piping Plover
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher

Spotted Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs


Willet


Lesser Yellowlegs
Marbled Godwit


Ruddy Turnstone

Red Knot

Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper


Western Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper


Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull

Least Tern

Common Tern


Forster's Tern


Royal Tern

Sandwich Tern


Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon

Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove


Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Barred Owl


Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker
Alder Flycatcher


Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird


Gray Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow

Fish Crow


Purple Martin

Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Mockingbird

European Starling

Northern Parula

Yellow Warbler
Pine Warbler


Prairie Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler


American Redstart
Eastern Towhee
Northern Cardinal
Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark


Common Grackle


Boat-tailed Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird


House Sparrow
Common Myna

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