[FlaBirding] Fort DeSoto County Park - 2/9/2012 Pinellas County
Subject: [FlaBirding] Fort DeSoto County Park - 2/9/2012 Pinellas County
From: efalconh
Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2012, 6:41 PM
Good Evening,
Today I assisted Dave Goodwin and St. Pete Audubon Society with the shorebird class for a local school at the North Beach Shorebird Area. Dave and I did birding before and
after the class and the Ebird list covers all birds seen during the day thru out Fort DeSoto. Highlights was a Peregrine Falcon harassing the shorebirds, a Parasitic/Pomarine
Jaeger light morph bird the was flying offshore of North Beach , and 15 Gannets feeding offshore and in the channel between Egmont Key & Fort Desoto. We could not find
the Lark Sparrow, Purple Sandpiper, or the Rose-breasted Grosbeak that have been seen in the park the last couple weeks.
Erik Haney
Saint Petersburg
Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas, US-FL
Feb 9, 2012 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: Dave Goodwin,Judi Hopkins,Lee Synder,Charlie Miller & etc.
49 species (+1 other taxa)
Mottled Duck 2
Lesser Scaup 10
Red-breasted Merganser 25
Common Loon 7
Wood Stork 2
Northern Gannet 15
Double-crested Cormorant 50
American White Pelican 12
Brown Pelican 16
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 1
Little Blue Heron 2
Tricolored Heron 1
Reddish Egret 1
White Ibis 5
Turkey Vulture 6
Osprey 20
Bald Eagle 1
American Kestrel 7
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 10
Wilson's Plover 4
American Oystercatcher 2
Willet 7
Ruddy Turnstone 30
Sanderling 3
Dunlin 45
Short-billed Dowitcher 2
Laughing Gull 55
Ring-billed Gull 20
Herring Gull 2
Forster's Tern 15
Royal Tern 35
Black Skimmer 1
Pomarine/Parasitic Jaeger 1 light morph bird seen far out from North Beach
chasing a gull by Marianne Korosy in scope. Observed bird with Marianne and
could get enough field marks to decide between the two species.
Mourning Dove 28
Common Ground-Dove 2
Nanday Parakeet 25
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Eastern Phoebe 3
Fish Crow 50
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 40
Palm Warbler 25
Yellow-rumped Warbler 14
Red-winged Blackbird 26
Boat-tailed Grackle 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 7
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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