Bonanza!

I accidentally blogged this to my main blog! Sorry for the cross post in this case.

Great morning at Pine Island today!

Expanded blog entry to come, but I didn’t want to lose the list from today. Winter residents FTW! (not in order seen)

1. Black Vulture
2. Boat-tailed Grackle
3. Palm Warbler
4. Song Sparrow
5. Savannah Sparrow
6. Yellow-rumped Warbler
7. Killdeer
8. Osprey
9. Downy Woodpecker
10. Great Blue Heron
11. Common Gallinule
12. Belted Kingfisher
13. Common Yellowthroat
14. Anhinga
15. Double-crested Cormorant
16. White Ibis
17. Great Egret
18. American Kestrel
19. Turkey Vulture
20. Eastern Phoebe
21. Northern Cardinal
22. Grey Catbird
23. Common Ground Dove
24. Red-bellied Woodpecker
25. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
26. American Coot
27. Pie-billed Grebe
28. Snowy Egret
29. Tri-colored Heron
30. Cattle Egret
31. Red-shouldered Hawk
32. Tree Swallow
33. Eastern Wood-pewee

In additon to these, I saw one scaup (it was too far away to know if it was a Lesser Scaup or a Greater Scaup) and an unidentified flycatcher. It seemed to have a yellowish throat and breast, but I couldn’t see any other field marks before it flew away.