Marilyn led 23 birders along Black Point Drive in the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge on a beautiful although somewhat windy day. Concerns about a low bird count due to the lack of water did prove to limit the number of ducks seen. However, we had a productive day and counted the 65 species listed below:
Mottled Duck
Blue-wing Teal
Northern Shoveler
Green-wing Teal
Red-breasted Merganser
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Stork
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Brown Pelican
White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Clapper Rail
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Killdeer
Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Rudy Turnstone
Sanderling
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson Snipe
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Greater Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Forester’s Tern
Royal Tern
Rock Pigeon
Collard Dove
Morning Dove
Ground Dove
Great Horned Owl
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Phoebe
Shrike
Scrub Jay
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Wren
Robin
Mockingbird
Yellow-rump Warbler
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Cardinal
Red-wing Blackbird
Boat-tail Grackle