Hi Birders!
I was in Orlando last week (12-15) on business and my wife and daughter (10
months) joined me. We birded around Kissimmee a bit and then on the weekend
made a trip to Loxahatchee NWR (april 16), the Miami area (april 17) and the
Everglades (april 18). As usual we enjoyed the spectacular climate (at least in
april) and wonderful birds of Florida!
Some highlights (for details see http://www.ima.umn.edu/~zajic/birds.html,
which is rather terse now but will be updated in the next couple days; I'm slow
at these things).
Brinson Park was great. We spent a couple of hours there on april 13 and 14
and saw almost the same birds both days. This park is GREAT (so many of my
favorites)!!!
roseate spoonbill, wood storks, american pelicans, bald eagles, cara cara,
least terns, black skimmers, monk parakeets, great blue herons, snowy egret,
tri-colored heron, blue-winged teal, mallard mottled ducks, moorhens, cormorant,
ospreys, sandhill cranes, ring-billed gulls, pigeons, mourning doves, eurasion
collared-doves, black-necked stilt, killdeer, spotted sandpiper, lesser
yellowlegs, red-winged blackbirds, boat-tailed grackles, mockingbird, fish crow,
domestic muscovy ducks; swifts, caspian tern, starlings, white-winged doves,
laughing gulls, greater yellowlegs
and some other small 'peeps'
Loxahatchee NWR (about 3-4 leisurely hours):
fantastic close up looks at three different limpkins!, red-shouldered hawk,
osprey, snowy egret, great blue heron, great egret, tri-colored heron,
cormorant, black-crowned night heron, anhinga, cardinal, little blue heron, palm
warbler, loggerhead shrike, cedar waxwing, grey catbird, purple gallunile, coot,
moorhen, tree swallow, glossy ibis, white ibis, blue jay, pileated woodpecker,
red-bellied woodpecker, carolina wren, black-necked stilt, killdeer,
boat-tailed grackle, red-winged blackbird, mourning dove, black vulture, blue-winged
teal, mottled duck, pied-billed grebe
Tamiami Trail (old airboat place across from old hotel):
great looks at a few snail kites
Homestead:
about a hundred cave swallows at about 6:30 pm under the bridge
Everglades:
1 miles south of Mahogany Hammock, pink plastic banded cape sable sparrow,
after waiting one hour.
Eco Pond: a fiesty and seemingly happy white-eyed vireo on some bare
branches about 4 feet from us for a couple minutes allowing excellent views with no
binoculars!
The Zajic Family
Eagan, MN
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