What a beautiful day to go birdwatching and at an equally beautiful location. We had 22 birders that saw 55 species with a Sora, Gray-headed Swamphen, Black-necked Stilts, and 2 Short-tailed Hawks (Dark and Light Morphs) as highlights.
Our list:
- Blue-winged Teal
- Mottled Duck
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Sora
- Common gallinule
- American Coot
- Purple Gallinule
- Gray-headed Swamphen
- Limpkin
- Sandhill Crane
- Black-necked Stilt
- Ring-billed Gull
- Caspian Tern
- Wood Stork
- Anhinga
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Little Blue Heron
- Tricolored Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Green Heron
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- White Ibis
- Glossy Ibis
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Black Vulture
- Turkey Vulture
- Osprey
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Northern Harrier
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Short-tailed hawk
- Belted Kingfisher
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Eastern Phoebe
- Fish Crow
- Purple Martin
- Tree Swallow
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Carolina Wren
- Gray Catbird
- Northern Mockingbird
- Savannah Sparrow
- Swamp Sparrow
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Common Yellowthroat
- Northern Parula
- Palm Warbler
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Northern Cardinal
