Oh yeah,
I also heard a Worm-eating warbler, saw several low-flying flocks of
Eastern kingbirds, one Bank swallow amongst the trickle of Barn
swallows, an adult Bald eagle investigating the flood waters around the
shop, and three male turkeys skulking in the pasture.
On Sep 7, 2004, at 8:28 PM, David Simpson wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> We are picking up the pieces at St. Sebastian River Preserve State
> Park. The brunt of the storm seemed to pass to our north and south.
> The biggest problem was that we lost half the shingles on our learning
> center. We spent all of today drying in the tar paper on the east
> side
> of the building. The west side of the building lost only two
> shingles.
> My trailer narrowly avoided getting crushed when the big Live Oak
> split in half. The shed in our north shop is completely covered in
> the
> remains of a large Laurel oak.
>
> And the birds have been everywhere. The front of the southeast side
> of
> the preserve (1.8 miles east of 95 Exit 156) is being developed into a
> stick and ball park. I bypassed the lines waiting for ice and water
> and headed back to the shop. On the way I paused to look at the
> shorebirds in the flooded softball fields. There were both
> yellowlegs,
> Killdeer, Short-billed dowitcher (first for the preserve) Solitary
> sandpipers, Western and Least sandpipers. Inside the shop compound,
> one of the resident families of sandhills stared at me as I gathered
> materials and surveyed the flow of water. A Great egret flew off with
> a siren (looks like a freshwater eel, the siren, not the egret.)
> Three
> waterthrushes called from the overflowing creek and flooded pine
> woods.
> While working the roof, I saw/heard Black-and-white, Yellow,
> Prairie,
> Pine, Yellow-throated warblers and a redstart.
>
> Not bad for shoveling shingles and nailing tar paper all day.
>
>
> David Simpson
> Birding with David Simpson
> PO Box 195
> Fellsmere, FL
> 321-720-5516
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