Hi all, 
   
Took my usual Sunday morning ride to Green Key and saw the following birds:

 Brown Pelicans
  D.C.Cormorants
 Red-breasted Mergansers
 3 Common Loons
 3 Horned Grebes
 24+ NORTHERN GANNETS ( feeding quite a ways out, no mistaking them, several were adults with their white bodies and black wing tips)
 1 Reddish Egret
 5 Royal Terns
 100+ Black Skimmers (on the beach)
 Laughing Gulls (lots, many growing black hoods)
 Ring-billed Gulls
 1 Sanderling 
 1 Ruddy Turnstones
 Ground Doves
 Redwings
 
A drive east on SR 54 yielded the wintering SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER at it's usual haunt in the fields on the south side of the road (about 1 1/2 miles east of Little Road between the Longleaf development and Trinity Towers Storage). I took pictures with my Bushnell Imageview camera-bino unit but the bird was quite a ways off, and I'm finding the quality of the camera's images leave a lot to be desired, so I didn't post it. Looks like I've still got to buy a telephoto for my Nikon!

Good birding, 
Ray Smart
New Port Richey, Fl
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