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| Lesser Yellowlegs and Black Tern |
Friday August 17th
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| Least Sandpiper |
Returned yesterday to the Everglades Ag Fields. Again the most productive flooded area was at Browns Farm Road. Present here were several Black Terns, lots of Black-necked Stilts, Pectoral Sandpipers, American Avocets, Western, Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers, Plus Lesser Yellowlegs, Roseate Spoonbills, lots of Wood Storks and a FOS Belted Kingfisher.
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| Black-necked Stilt |
The nearby Six Bend Sod Farm was much more active than on my last visit. Lots of Pectoral Sandpipers and Killdeer, plus far to the back of the property were a pair of Upland Sandpipers. Couldn't of spotted them without a scoop.
Dipped on any whistling ducks or gull-billed terns, but get fifty-eight species for the day -
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| Wood Stork |
Mottled Duck, Wood Stork, Anhinga, Great Blue
Heron, Great Egret , Snowy egret, Little Blue Heron, Tricolored Heron, Cattle
Egret, Green Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron,
White Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Limpkin, Roseate Spoonbill, Black Vulture, Snail Kite,
Osprey, Red-shouldered Hawk, Crested Caracara, Common gallinule, Black-necked
Stilt, Sandhill Crane, American Avocet, Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, Upland
Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Western
Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Laughing Gull, Black Tern, Gray kingbird, Fish
Crow, Rock Pigeon, Common Ground-Dove, Mourning Dove, Eurasian collared Dove,
Great Horned Owl, Common Nighthawk, Belted Kingfisher, Northern Flicker,
Pileated Woodpecker, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Purple Martin, Bank Swallow,
Barn Swallow, Northern Mockingbird, Common Myna, Eastern Meadowlark, Red-winged
Blackbird, Boat-tailed Grackle, Common
Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird and House Sparrow
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| Black-necked Stilt |
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| Juvy Black-necked Stilt |
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| Bank Swallow |
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| Barn Swallow |
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| Counted twenty-two Black Terns resting here |
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| Black Tern |
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| Distant look at a pair of American Avocets |
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| Black-necked Stilt |
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| Semipalmated Sandpiper |
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| Semipalmated Sandpiper |
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| Common Nighthawk seen at the Ag Fields |
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| Gray Kingbird found in Belle Glade |
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A poor photo of a Common Myna
seen at shopping center in Belle Glade.
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| Pectoral Sandpiper |
A rewarding trip, Tom. Certainly from this perspective. Sounds like a record number of Black Terns.
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