Saturday, December 5, 2009

Saturday

 

The sun came back out.  The wind and rain went away.  Fifty degrees.  A birding day.

 

Drove south to Loyola Beach and Riviera Beach on Baffin Bay, then worked our way back north.  Found a spot for Green Jays.  Got a Franklin’s gull.  Found a least grebe and a marsh wren at the birding center.  Found an unrecognizable carcass on the road, but it still had a flight feather on it so we brought it home and looked it up.  Barn Owl!  A short-eared owl flew across the road in front of us and almost became another unrecognizable carcass.  73 birds:

 

1

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

riveria area

2

Greater White-fronted Goose

riveria area

3

Snow Goose

riveria area

4

American Wigeon

riveria area

5

Mottled Duck

riveria area

6

Blue-winged Teal

birding center

7

Northern Shoveler

riveria area

8

Northern Pintail

riveria area

9

Green-winged Teal

birding center

10

Redhead

riveria area

11

Ring-necked Duck

gulf waters

12

Bufflehead

mustang island

13

Ruddy Duck

gulf waters

14

Least Grebe

birding center

15

Pied-billed Grebe

gulf waters

16

American White Pelican

mustang island

17

Brown Pelican

mustang island

18

Double-crested Cormorant

mustang island

19

Great Blue Heron

gulf waters

20

Great Egret

mustang island

21

Snowy Egret

riveria area

22

Little Blue Heron

riveria area

23

Tricolored Heron

riveria area

24

Reddish Egret

charlie's pasture

25

Black-crowned Night-Heron

birding center

26

White Ibis

mustang island

27

Roseate Spoonbill

mustang island

28

Black Vulture

riveria area

29

Turkey Vulture

mustang island

30

Osprey

mustang island

31

Northern Harrier

mustang island

32

Harris's Hawk

riveria area

33

White-tailed Hawk

birding center

34

Red-tailed Hawk

riveria area

35

Crested Caracara

riveria area

36

American Kestrel

mustang island

37

Merlin

birding center

38

Common Moorhen

birding center

39

American Coot

gulf waters

40

Sandhill Crane

riveria area

41

Black-bellied Plover

mustang island

42

Killdeer

mustang island

43

American Oystercatcher

mustang island

44

Black-necked Stilt

mustang island

45

Spotted Sandpiper

charlie's pasture

46

Greater Yellowlegs

mustang island

47

Willet

mustang island

48

Lesser Yellowlegs

charlie's pasture

49

Long-billed Curlew

mustang island

50

Ruddy Turnstone

mustang island

51

Sanderling

mustang island

52

Least Sandpiper

riveria area

53

Laughing Gull

mustang island

54

Franklin's Gull

riveria area

55

Ring-billed Gull

mustang island

56

Forster's Tern

mustang island

57

Rock Pigeon

mustang island

58

Eurasian Collared-Dove

ballfields

59

Mourning Dove

gulf waters

60

Barn Owl

mustang island.  road kill

61

Short-eared Owl

charlie's pasture

62

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

riveria area

63

Loggerhead Shrike

mustang island

64

Green Jay

riveria area

65

Horned Lark

charlie's pasture

66

Marsh Wren

birding center

67

Northern Mockingbird

riveria area

68

European Starling

mustang island

69

Common Yellowthroat

birding center

70

Lark Sparrow

riveria area

71

Savannah Sparrow

riveria area

72

Eastern Meadowlark

mustang island

73

Great-tailed Grackle

gulf waters

 

 

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