Day Three - North Florida Trip
One of my target birds on this trip was
to find a white-breasted nuthatch. This species rarely ventures any further south then the
Red Hills of Tallahassee. Its reported that there are many reliable venues in
and around the state capital.
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| Marsh observed along nature trail at Tall Timbers |
I had an interest in checking the Tall Timbers Research Station s private facility located just south of the Georgia border.
We found the staff to be friendly and helpful.
Spent a couple of hours searching the nature trail. We
managed to locate several brown-headed nuthatches along with a loud white-breast nuthatch. We also
added ruby-crowned kinglet, carolina & house wrens, eastern bluebirds, eastern towhee, chipping
sparrow, tufted titmice and pileated woodpecker.
Next stop
was a pond on Biltmore Avenue,in Tallahassee to seek a couple more targets. Geese.
The pond is
home to around a hundred canada geese and a lone snow goose. Other species present here
included ruddy ducks, shovelers and dunlins. We were informed by a lady walking
her dog that they were hopefully that the pair of whooping cranes that wintered here last winter would return any day.
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| Our state bird - the Northern Mockingbird |
As we still
had some sun light left, Bob wanted another try at getting some additional
photography at St Marks. Yesterday's precipitation slowed him down a bit. We had a couple of hours of day light and revisited some of the same stops as yesterday.
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| Canada Goose |
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| Snow Goose |
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| Geese in Tallahassee |
It's been fun reading your reports of the trip, Tom. I'm curious to know the tally of lifers seen which will likely surprise me when I see the pics. Looking forward to catching up with them.
ReplyDeleteBob, I only had the winter wren.
DeleteAnother trip is in order. We were very lucky with the weather as it was. Much rain afterward.
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