Tuesday, June 30, 2015

June Challenge

Tuesday, June 30th

June is the absolute slowest time of the year for birding in South Florida. A couple of years ago The June Challenge was created to stimulate interest in getting out to bird during the doldrums, by for offering a friendly contest to see which county could amass the most sightings. I'm not officially participating, but I'm still trying to find at least a hundred species within Lee County.


1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck


2 Fulvous Whistling-Duck


3 Muscovy Duck




4 Wood Duck




5 Eurasian Wigeon




6 Mottled Duck












Mallard x Mottled Duck cross. 





7 Northern Bobwhite


8 Double-crested Cormorant


9 Anhinga




10 American White Pelican




11 Brown Pelican




12 Least Bittern


13 Great Blue Heron




14 Great Egret



15 Snowy Egret


16 Little Blue Heron



17 Tricolored Heron


18 Reddish Egret



19 Cattle Egret


20 Green Heron


21 Black-crowned Night-Heron


22 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron



23 White Ibis



24 Glossy Ibis


25 Roseate Spoonbill


26 Black Vulture


27 Turkey Vulture


28 Osprey



29 Swallow-tailed Kite



30 Snail Kite


31 Bald Eagle



32 Red-shouldered Hawk



33 Red-tailed Hawk


34 Common Gallinule



35 American Coot




36 Limpkin




37 Sandhill Crane



38 Black-necked Stilt



39 American Oystercatcher


40 Black-bellied Plover



41 Wilson's Plover


42 Semipalmated Plover



43 Killdeer


44 Willet



45 Marbled Godwit



46 Ruddy Turnstone



47 Sanderling


48 Semipalmated Sandpiper



49 Short-billed Dowitcher



50 Laughing Gull


51 Ring-billed Gull



52 Least Tern


53 Royal Tern


54 Sandwich Tern


55 Black Skimmer



56 Rock Pigeon


57 Eurasian Collared-Dove



58 Common Ground-Dove


59 White-winged Dove


60 Mourning Dove


61 Burrowing Owl
A Juvenile Burrowing Owl



62 Barred Owl



63 Common Nighthawk


64 Chimney Swift


65 Red-headed Woodpecker



66 Red-bellied Woodpecker


67 Downy Woodpecker


68 Northern Flicker



69 Pileated Woodpecker


70 Monk Parakeet



71 Nanday Parakeet


72 Great Crested Flycatcher




73 Gray Kingbird



74 Loggerhead Shrike



75 White-eyed Vireo


76 Blue Jay


77 Florida Scrub-Jay



78 Fish Crow



79 Northern Rough-winged Swallow


80 Tufted Titmouse



81 Carolina Wren


82 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher


83 Eastern Bluebird



84 Brown Thrasher


85 Northern Mockingbird



86 European Starling



87 Northern Parula


88 Pine Warbler


89 Prairie Warbler



90 Northern Cardinal



91 Red-winged Blackbird



92 Eastern Meadowlark



93 Common Grackle


94 Boat-tailed Grackle



95 House Sparrow


96 Cooper's Hawk

97 Purple Gallinule


Well I didn't find one hundred species. Came close though. Some species missed that I expected to find included Crested Caracara, Wild Turkey, Wood Stork and Eastern Towhee.