by Jeff Lamothe Trip Reports

Three Lakes WMA and Joe Overstreet Landing Trip Report – April 7, 2018

Tom led our group of 16 birders to a sunrise start at Three Lakes WMA on a mild Saturday morning.  We arrived a little later than planned which diminished our changes to see the Red Cockaded Woodpecker but we did see 53 species including a Blue-headed Vireo and a Bobwhite.

After leaving 3 Lakes, we drove to Joe Overstreet Landing for great looks at Snail Kites, Redheaded Woodpeckers and Cara Caras. We picked up 29 species at this location.

Pictures by Chris H.

Three Lakes WMA

  • 1
    Wood Duck
  • 12
    Mottled Duck
  • 1
    Northern Bobwhite
  • 1
    Wild Turkey
  • 51
    Double-crested Cormorant
  • 1
    Anhinga
  • 2
    Great Blue Heron
  • 1
    Great Egret (American)
  • 1
    Little Blue Heron
  • 100
    Cattle Egret
  • 1
    Green Heron
  • 1
    White Ibis
  • 3
    Glossy Ibis
  • 1
    Black Vulture
  • 18
    Turkey Vulture
  • 2
    Osprey
  • 2
    Swallow-tailed Kite
  • 3
    Bald Eagle
  • 3
    Red-shouldered Hawk
  • 2
    Purple Gallinule
  • 6
    Common Gallinule
  • 3
    Limpkin
  • 1
    Sandhill Crane
  • 3
    Common Ground-Dove
  • 4
    Mourning Dove
  • 2
    Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • 1
    Downy Woodpecker
  • 1
    Pileated Woodpecker
  • 8
    Great Crested Flycatcher
  • 4
    White-eyed Vireo
  • 2
    Blue-headed Vireo
  • 2
    Blue Jay
  • 1
    American Crow
  • 5
    Tree Swallow
  • 2
    Tufted Titmouse
  • 1
    House Wren
  • 5
    Carolina Wren
  • 3
    Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  • 2
    Eastern Bluebird
  • 1
    Gray Catbird
  • 2
    Northern Mockingbird
  • 1
    Black-and-white Warbler
  • 1
    Common Yellowthroat
  • 5
    Northern Parula
  • 2
    Palm Warbler (Western)
  • 10
    Pine Warbler
  • 2
    Bachman’s Sparrow
  • 1
    Eastern Towhee
  • 8
    Northern Cardinal
  • 7
    Eastern Meadowlark
  • 12
    Red-winged Blackbird
  • 3
    Boat-tailed Grackle
  • 2
    Robins
  • 53 species

Joe Overstreet Landing

  • 1
    Mottled Duck
  • 4
    Double-crested Cormorant
  • 2
    Anhinga
  • 2
    Great Blue Heron
  • 3
    Great Egret (American)
  • 1
    Snowy Egret
  • 1
    Tricolored Heron
  • 30
    Cattle Egret
  • 10
    White Ibis
  • 3
    Glossy Ibis
  • 8
    Black Vulture
  • 7
    Turkey Vulture
  • 2
    Osprey
  • 1
    Snail Kite
  • 3
    Bald Eagle
  • 2
    Common Gallinule
  • 3
    Limpkin
  • 1
    Killdeer
  • 5
    Eurasian Collared-Dove
  • 3
    Mourning Dove
  • 2
    Red-headed Woodpecker
  • 1
    Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • 3
    Crested Caracara
  • 1
    Loggerhead Shrike
  • 4
    Northern Mockingbird
  • 2
    Savannah Sparrow
  • 2
    Eastern Meadowlark
  • 5
    Red-winged Blackbird
  • 4
    Boat-tailed Grackle
  • 29 species

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