Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Birds So Far (Updated 010111)


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 
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


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!)








5 comments:

  1. Oh...so THAT'S where the turkey vultures go when they leave the Willamette Valley...! :)

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  2. had to look up tr-colored heron. Good luck with that one

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  3. How on earth do you know the names of so many birds? IMPRESSIVE!

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  4. we 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.

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  5. Karen, 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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