bigobirdingfestival
Big "O" Birding Festival
Birders and Photographers Welcome!
Next Driving trip with Hendry-Glades Audubon December 27. 8th Annual STA5-Clewiston Christmas Bird Count Jan. 3
Reservations required for driving trips. (10-17 miles drive) The Jan. 17 and March 14 have reached capacity.
Walking/Bicycle access during daylight hours year round only on Friday, Saturday, and Monday. (no reservation required) Over 30 species were tallied at the parking lot on December 13. (parking lot-17 miles walk/bicycle) For reservation for driving trip or copy of the 2015 Big "O" Birding Festival schedule:
Margaret England
LaBelle
http://www.hendrygladesaudubon.org for schedule for 2015.
Combined list for Deer Fence Road and STA5 reported.
Stormwater Treatment Area 5, Hendry, US-FL Dec 13, 2014 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
17.0 mile(s)
83 species (+1 other taxa)
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 2
American Wigeon
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Redhead 1
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Stork
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American White Pelican
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron X
Great Blue Heron (White form) 1 same area past 2 months confirmed by 10 birders
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
Snail Kite
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk
King Rail
Sora
Purple Swamphen
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Limpkin
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Skimmer
Common Ground-Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird 2 Confirmed
Cassin's Kingbird 1 Confirmed calling and observed briefly at same location as previous years
Western Kingbird
Gray Kingbird 1 observed by group at same location as previous years on west side levee.
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
American Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Gray Catbird
Common Yellowthroat
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Painted Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Next Driving trip with Hendry-Glades Audubon December 27. 8th Annual STA5-Clewiston Christmas Bird Count Jan. 3
Reservations required for driving trips. (10-17 miles drive) The Jan. 17 and March 14 have reached capacity.
Walking/Bicycle access during daylight hours year round only on Friday, Saturday, and Monday. (no reservation required) Over 30 species were tallied at the parking lot on December 13. (parking lot-17 miles walk/bicycle) For reservation for driving trip or copy of the 2015 Big "O" Birding Festival schedule:
Margaret England
LaBelle
http://www.hendrygladesaudubon.org for schedule for 2015.
Combined list for Deer Fence Road and STA5 reported.
Stormwater Treatment Area 5, Hendry, US-FL Dec 13, 2014 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
17.0 mile(s)
83 species (+1 other taxa)
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 2
American Wigeon
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Redhead 1
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Stork
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American White Pelican
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron X
Great Blue Heron (White form) 1 same area past 2 months confirmed by 10 birders
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
Snail Kite
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk
King Rail
Sora
Purple Swamphen
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Limpkin
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Skimmer
Common Ground-Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird 2 Confirmed
Cassin's Kingbird 1 Confirmed calling and observed briefly at same location as previous years
Western Kingbird
Gray Kingbird 1 observed by group at same location as previous years on west side levee.
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
American Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Gray Catbird
Common Yellowthroat
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Painted Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird