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Hey everyone, Chris Newton and I headed out again today. We first hit Viera early for the Cinnamon Teal. Then we went to the other two spots. The day's list was decent. All ducks were spotted at Viera: Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck (10) Mottled Duck (15) Blue-Winged Teal (1500, a conservative estimate. While we were there 300-400 took off and never came back) Cinnamon Teal (1, a state bird for both Chris and I. Chris finally spotted it after a couple of hours of careful searching. It was in Cell 3) Northern Shoveler (5) Northern Pintail (5) Green-Winged Teal (50 or so) Ring-Necked Duck (20) Lesser Scaup (2) Hooded Merganser (15) Ruddy Duck (8) Pied-Billed Grebe Double-Crested Cormorant Anhinga American Bittern (2, Viera) Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Geen Heron Black-Crowned Night-Heron (4, Viera) White Ibis Glossy Ibis Wood Stork Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-Shouldered Hawk Crested Caracara (3, Joe Overstreet) American Kestrel King Rail (heard only at Viera) Common Moorhen American Coot Limpkin (3, Viera) Sandhill Crane Whooping Crane (2, Joe Overstreet) Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Long-Billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Ring-Billed Gull Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Common Ground-Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-Bellied Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Loggerhead Shrike American Crow Fish Crow Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee (2, Three Lakes) Brown-Headed Nuthatch (Three Lakes) Carolina Wren House Wren Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird (Three Lakes, Joe Overstreet) American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling American Pipit (about 50 birds in a field with cows, Killdeer and a caracara on the left when you're headed towards the lake on Joe Overstreet) Yellow-Rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Eastern Towhee Savannah Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-Winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Boat-Tailed Grackle American Goldfinch Misses today included Snail Kite, Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, and Blue Jay (!). Viera Wetlands is located NW of Melbourne in Brevard County. Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area and Joe Overstreet Road are near each other, south of St. Cloud in Osceola County. Good birding! John Thomton Orlando, Orange Co. _________________________________________________________________ Put your friends on the big screen with Windows Vista® + Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/shop/specialoffers.mspx?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_CPC_MediaCtr_bigscreen_102007 ____________________________________________________________________________ FLORIDABIRDS-L Listserv mailing list information: Member photos I: http://bkpass.tripod.com/floridabirds.htm Member photos II: see connection on photos I For archives: http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/floridabirds-l.html Set nomail: [log in to unmask] Message: Set floridabirds-L nomail Listowner: [log in to unmask]