In no particular order, in St. Augustine and/or Cedar Key:
Laughing gulls
Ring-billed gulls
Bonaparte's gulls
Herring gulls
Ruddy turnstones
Dunlin
Sanderlings
Semi-palmated plover
Semi-palmated plover
Brown pelicans
Kingfishers
Boat-tailed grackles
Yellow-crowned kinglets
Palm warblers
Yellow-rumped warblers
Scaup
Great blue herons
Great egrets
Little blue herons
Snowy egrets
Magnificent frigatebird !!!!!!!!!!
Turkey vultures
Double-crested cormorants
Brown-headed cowbirds
Phoebes
Willet
Red-bellied woodpeckers
Mockingbirds
Oystercatchers
White ibis
Kingfishers
Hooded mergansers
Red-tailed hawk
Red-shouldered hawk
Glossy ibis
Scrub jays
Spotted sandpiper
Ring-necked ducks
Red-breasted mergansers
Common loons - New Year's Eve surprise!
Black-bellied plover
Reddish egret - New Year's Day surprise!
Royal tern
Marsh wren
Willet
Red-bellied woodpeckers
Mockingbirds
Oystercatchers
White ibis
Kingfishers
Hooded mergansers
Red-tailed hawk
Red-shouldered hawk
Glossy ibis
Scrub jays
Spotted sandpiper
Ring-necked ducks
Red-breasted mergansers
Common loons - New Year's Eve surprise!
Black-bellied plover
Reddish egret - New Year's Day surprise!
Royal tern
Marsh wren
In pursuit of:
White pelicans ~ On Wednesday, a platoon of 20 or so flew overhead!
Osprey
Eagles - 12//31.10
Yellow-crowned night herons
Storks
Tri-colored herons - 1/1/11 (Stratoz!)
Oh...so THAT'S where the turkey vultures go when they leave the Willamette Valley...! :)
ReplyDeletehad to look up tr-colored heron. Good luck with that one
ReplyDeleteHow on earth do you know the names of so many birds? IMPRESSIVE!
ReplyDeletewe had Turkey Vultures in AZ - beautiful, graceful birds. I've seen many of these but never heard of the magnificient frigate...will have to google. Enjoy your birding.
ReplyDeleteKaren, I've been birding for decades. I really only know the barest basics. But maybe as long as I'm here I need to write a post about it.
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