Oct 29 - Nov 26 Florida

176 species observed, plus 2 subspecies.
4 participants.

Locations:

  • 1 = 10/29 TX-LO border rest area on I-10
  • 2 = 10/29 Fairview Riverside State Park, LO
  • 3 = 10/30-31 Grayton Beach State Rec. Area, Destin, FL
  • 4 = 11/1 Apalachicola Bay, FL
  • 5 = 11/1-2 St. Joseph Peninsula SP & St. Vincent NWR
  • 6 = 11/3 Wakulla Springs
  • 7 = 11/3 Ochlockonee River SP
  • 8 = 11/4 St.Marks NWR
  • 9 = 11/4 Wakulla Beach
  • 10 = 11/4 Mashes Sands County Park
  • 11 = 11/4 Alligator Point
  • 12 = 11/5-7 Ft. De Soto Park
  • 13 = 11/6 St. Petersburg
  • 14 = 11/6 Shell Island
  • 15 = 11/8 Ding Darling NWR
  • 16 = 11/9 Corkscrew Wildlife Sanctuary
  • 17 = 11/9 Immokalee area
  • 18 = 11/8-10 Koreshan SHS
  • 19 = 11/10 Everglades NP at Everglades City
  • 20 = 11/11 Collier-Seminole SP
  • 21 = 11/11 Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve
  • 22 = 11/11 Big Cypress National Preserve
  • 23 = 11/11-12 John Pennekamp Coral Reef SP
  • 24 = 11/12 Florida Upper and Middle Keys
  • 25 = 11/13 South Florida cane fields
  • 26 = 11/14 Loxahatchee NWR
  • 27 = 11/14 Spanish River Park in Boca Raton
  • 28 = 11/15 Wellington
  • 28 = 11/14-18 Lion Country Safari / KOA near Wellington
  • 29 = 11/17 Jonathan Dickinson SP
  • 30 = 11/17 Hobe Sound NWR
  • 31 = 11/17 Jupiter Island
  • 32 = 11/18 Solid Waste Authority in West Palm Beach. Birded Solid Waste Auth. from sunrise (6:39) until 7:05, standing at one spot and counting the birds leaving the facility. In that 25 minutes I saw 27 species including: 4635 White Ibis, 600 Cattle Egrets, 46 Tri-colored Herons, 38 Great Egrets, 32 Glossy Ibis, 27 Little Blue Herons, 12 Snowy Egrets, 125 Black Vultures, 40 Turkey Vultures, 4 Snail Kites. Birded until 8:30, ending with 42 species in less than 2 hours, including 725 Eur. Starling, 260 Boat-tailed Grackles, 63 Fish Crow, 55 Red-winged Blackbirds, 46 Common Grackles. Also photographed a Limpkin.
  • 33 = 11/19 Titusville
  • 34 = 11/20 Merritt Island NWR [72 species by 10 AM]
  • 35 = 11/20 Canaveral NS
  • 36 = 11/20 Orlando
  • 37 = 11/21-23 Disney World
  • 38 = 11/24 Chipley, AL (in route)
  • 39 = 11/25 & 10/30 Mobile, AL (in route)
  • 40 = 11/25 Gulf State Park, AL
  • 41 = 11/26 Sam Houston Jones SP at Lake Charles, LO
  • 42 = 11/26 Winnie, TX (in route)
  • Mammals: Manatee (3), Opposum, Armadillo, Gray Squirrel (112), Fox Squirrel, White Squirrel (hybrid) (3), White-tailed Deer (22), Racoon (24), Cottontail (5), Nutria (2), Cotton Rat, River Otter (2), Bottle-nosed Dolphin.
    Reptiles: American Alligator (59), Florida Red-bellied Turtle, Florida Cooter (10), Southern Black Racer, Florida Scrub Lizard, Brown Anole.
    Amphibians: Florida Cricket Frog
    Mollusks: Saw-toothed Pen Shell, Florida Fighting Conch, Channeled Whelk?, Lighting Whelk, Lettered Olive, Atlantic Auger, Atlantic Bay Scallop, Florida Spiny Jewel Box, Giant Atlantic Cockle, Sunray Venus
    Echinoderms: Variegated Urchin, Sand Dollar, Florida Sea Cucumber
    Fish: Bluefish, Silver Mullet, Spanish Mackerel
    Butterflies: Mangrove Skipper, Zebra Longwing, Least Skipperling, White Peacock, Monarch
    Anthropods: Horseshoe Crab, Sand or Mud Fiddler (1000's), Big-eyed Beach Flea
    Other: unidentified shark, Red Sponge, anemone,

    No.

    Species

    Locations

    16

    Common Loon

    3, 5, 8, 40

    335

    Pied-billed Grebe

     

    1

    Horned Grebe

    26

    3

    Northern Gannet

    3, 5

    167

    American White Pelican

    12, 34, 39,42

    753

    Brown Pelican

     

    1,995

    Double-crested Cormorant

     

    178

    Anhinga

     

    9

    Magnificent Frigatebird

    12, 14, 23, 24

    98

    Great Blue Heron

     

    2

    Great White Heron (subspecies)

    24

    1

    Wurdemann's Heron (subspecies)

    24

    371

    Great Egret

     

    271

    Snowy Egret

     

    230

    Little Blue Heron

     

    110

    Tricolored Heron

     

    23

    Reddish Egret

     

    868

    Cattle Egret

     

    13

    Green Heron

     

    5

    Black-crowned Night-Heron

    19

    13

    Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

    6, 12, 15, 19, 24

    6,845

    White Ibis

     

    149

    Glossy Ibis

    17, 26, 28, 32, 34

    62

    White-faced Ibis

    2, 42

    42

    Roseate Spoonbill

    12, 15, 17, 24, 34

    188

    Wood Stork

     

    8,129

    Snow Goose

    5, 8, 9, 42

    14

    Muscovy Duck

    18

    6

    Green-winged Teal

    8

    72

    Mottled Duck

    12, 26, 32, 34, 37

    133

    Mallard

     

    34

    Northern Pintail

    34

    281

    Blue-winged Teal

     

    34

    Northern Shoveler

    1, 8, 34

    38

    Gadwall

    8, 34

    172

    American Wigeon

    6, 8, 26, 34

    2

    Canvasback

    8

    10

    Redhead

    8, 12

    31

    Ring-necked Duck

    8, 36

    29

    Lesser Scaup

    6, 8, 12, 34

    6

    White-winged Scoter

    3

    30

    Hooded Merganser

    34, 36

    1

    Red-breasted Merganser

    34

    3

    Ruddy Duck

    3

    184

    Black Vulture

     

    938

    Turkey Vulture

     

    68

    Osprey

     

    5

    Snail Kite

    17, 32

    4

    Bald Eagle

    15, 19, 34

    14

    Northern Harrier

     

    9

    Sharp-shinned Hawk

     

    43

    Red-shouldered Hawk

     

    252

    Broad-winged Hawk

    18, 30, Sarasota

    8

    Red-tailed Hawk

    5, 17, 29, 34

    1

    Crested Caracara

    17

    65

    American Kestrel

     

    3

    Peregrine Falcon

    12, 19

    4

    Northern Bobwhite

    17

    2

    Clapper Rail

    8

    1

    King Rail

    23

    204

    Common Moorhen

     

    27,770

    American Coot

     

    1

    Caribbean Coot

    24

    8

    Limpkin

    6, 26, 32, 37

    44

    Sandhill Crane

    17

    57

    Black-bellied Plover

     

    5

    Snowy Plover

    5, 14

    17

    Wilson's Plover

    12, 14

    63

    Semipalmated Plover

    5, 12, 14

    7

    Piping Plover

    14

    55

    Killdeer

     

    56

    American Oystercatcher

    11, 12, 14

    5

    American Avocet

    34

    26

    Greater Yellowlegs

    9, 14, 15, 32, 34

    3

    Lesser Yellowlegs

    17, 39

    1

    Solitary Sandpiper

    28

    330

    Willet

     

    7

    Spotted Sandpiper

     

    1

    Whimbrel

    14

    101

    Ruddy Turnstone

     

    11

    Red Knot

    5, 14

    248

    Sanderling

     

    2

    Semipalmated Sandpiper

    14

    36

    Western Sandpiper

    12, 14

    40

    Least Sandpiper

    5, 8, 12, 15, 34

    35

    White-rumped Sandpiper

    8, 9

    501

    Dunlin

    5, 8, 12, 14, 34

    4

    Stilt Sandpiper

    39

    1,181

    Short-billed Dowitcher

    8, 12, 14, 24, 34

    4

    Common Snipe

    16, 17, 28

    949

    Laughing Gull

     

    1

    Bonaparte's Gull

    5

    110

    Ring-billed Gull

     

    71

    Herring Gull

     

    13

    Caspian Tern

    5, 14, 34

    157

    Royal Tern

     

    180

    Sandwich Tern

     

    2

    Common Tern

    31, 40

    204

    Forster's Tern

     

    270

    Black Skimmer

    12

    814

    Rock Dove

     

    2

    White-crowned Pigeon

    24

    418

    Eurasian Collared-Dove

     

    41

    White-winged Dove

    5, 28

    312

    Mourning Dove

     

    11

    Common Ground-Dove

    3, 5, 8, 12, 29

    60

    Monk Parakeet

    12, 13, 24

    1

    Great Horned Owl

    20

    4

    Barred Owl

    8, 16, 37

    5

    Common Nighthawk

    37

    130

    Belted Kingfisher

     

    4

    Red-headed Woodpecker

    2

    62

    Red-bellied Woodpecker

     

    8

    Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

     

    11

    Downy Woodpecker

     

    3

    Red-cockaded Woodpecker

    7

    5

    Northern Flicker

    2, 8, 28, 34

    31

    Pileated Woodpecker

     

    1

    Eastern Wood-Pewee

    8

    36

    Eastern Phoebe

     

    6

    Great Crested Flycatcher

    16, 21

    4

    Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

    3, 5, 12, 17

    20,829

    Tree Swallow

     

    2

    Northern Rough-winged Swallow

    28

    5

    Barn Swallow

    2, 8

    66

    Blue Jay

     

    8

    Florida Scrub-Jay

    34, 35

    49

    American Crow

     

    791

    Fish Crow

     

    36

    Carolina Chickadee

     

    12

    Tufted Titmouse

    2, 8, 16, 41

    16

    Brown-headed Nuthatch

    3, 5, 7, 8, 41

    1

    Brown Creeper

    2

    14

    Carolina Wren

     

    14

    House Wren

     

    6

    Marsh Wren

    8, 9, 34

    11

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet

     

    135

    Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

     

    16

    Eastern Bluebird

    2, 3, 41

    1

    Swainson's Thrush

    8

    83

    American Robin

    28, 29, 32, 34

    142

    Gray Catbird

     

    147

    Northern Mockingbird

     

    8

    Brown Thrasher

     

    32

    Loggerhead Shrike

     

    5,085

    European Starling

     

    2

    Hill Myna

    Homestead

    3

    White-eyed Vireo

    16, 21, 27

    10

    Blue-headed Vireo

     

    3

    Tennessee Warbler

    12

    1

    Nashville Warbler

    16

    4

    Northern Parula

    12, 21

    313

    Yellow-rumped Warbler

     

    4

    Black-throated Green Warbler

    2, 12

    4

    Yellow-throated Warbler

    12, 16, 27

    83

    Pine Warbler

     

    2

    Prairie Warbler

    12, 16

    153

    Palm Warbler

     

    3

    Black-and-white Warbler

    8, 12, 16

    36

    Common Yellowthroat

     

    1

    Summer Tanager

    2

    47

    Northern Cardinal

     

    2

    Indigo Bunting

    3, 12

    23

    Eastern Towhee

    3, 5, 7, 8, 40

    34

    Savannah Sparrow

     

    10

    Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow

    6

    1

    Seaside Sparrow

    6

    5

    Song Sparrow

    3

    1

    Lincoln's Sparrow

    8

    6

    Swamp Sparrow

    5, 8, 34

    3

    White-throated Sparrow

    8

    28,484

    Red-winged Blackbird

     

    19

    Eastern Meadowlark

    5, 15, 17

    592

    Boat-tailed Grackle

     

    464

    Common Grackle

     

    105

    Brown-headed Cowbird

    2, 8

    1

    American Goldfinch

    41

    47

    House Sparrow

    3, 13, 28, 37

    116,098