Merritt Island NWR Field Trip – Jan 14, 2018

Jim and Jeff led 26 birders around Black Point Drive on a cold and windy (but sunny) day. After a couple hours driving and walking, we ended the event at the Visitors Center for a picnic.  Lots of fun with 64 bird species seen.

American Widgeon

Blue-wing Teal

Hooded Merganser

Ring-necked Duck

Lesser Scaup

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Pied-billed Grebe

Anhinga

White Pelican

Reddish Egret

Cattle Egret

Snowy egret

Tricolored Heron

Little Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

White Ibis

Glossy Ibis

Roseate Spoonbill

Cattle Egret

Avocet

Long-billed Dowitcher

Short-billed Dowitcher

Wood Stork

Turkey vulture

Black Vulture

Osprey

Bald Eagle

Northern Harrier

Kestrel

Gallinule

Coot

White Pelican

Black Skimmer

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Least Sandpiper

Sanderling

Dunlin

Semipalmated Plover

Herring Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Caspian Tern

Royal Tern

Forester’s Tern

Great Horned Owl

Belted Kingfisher

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

White-eyed Vireo

Tree Swallow

Boat-tail Grackle

Redwing Blackbird

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Palm Warbler

Catbird

Red-shouldered Hawk

Greater Black-backed Gull

Bonaparte’s Gull

Morning Dove

Ground Dove

Pheobe

Common Yellowthroat