Went down to Saint Marks NWR today. There is a dark(red)-phase Reddish Egret
in the Lighthouse Pool. Also got a really good long look at a Common
Yellowthroat along the primitive walking trail (only walked to just past the
"0.5 mile" sign).

List for 2/24, Saint Marks NWR
(bird name) indicates heard only:
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Pied-billed Grebe - not nearly as many as
 the last few weeks
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret - dark phase in Lighthouse Pool
Turkey Vulture
Cooper's Hawk - juvenile in Stony Bayou Field
(Red-shouldered Hawk)
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Willet - large flock in Lighthouse Pool
Ruddy Turnstone - several in winter plumage,
 maybe a hint of changing to breeding colors,
 on the pilings with the terns.
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern - at least three on the pilings
 along Levee Trail, two in breeding plumage
 and one with only a partial hood.
Small tern sp. - with the Royals
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
White-eyed Vireo - at entrance to primitive
 trails, also pair right alongside Plum
 Orchard Pond Trail
Barn Swallow - at least one over Stony Bayou
 Pool, several unidentified swallows also
Carolina Chickadee
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - everywhere
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula - singing everywhere
Yellow-rumped Warbler - one male in visitor
 center's parking lot
Yellow-throated Warbler
(Pine Warbler)
Common Yellowthroat
(Eastern Towhee)
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird - only one!
Boat-tailed Grackle - everywhere

Drove through Newport Park afterwards, only saw one each cardinal,
mockingbird and boat-tail.

-S.P.MacCumhail
Crawfordville,FL
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