Capital Birding (1 Viewer)

[Andy Wraithmell]

I live in Tallahassee and bird the capital at least 5 times a week. There are literally dozens of great birding sites in the city & Leon County area.

Today at Lake Lafayette Heritage Park:

10 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks
3 Blue-winged Teal
2 Wood Ducks
8 Forster's Terns
2 Laughing Gulls
2 Ring-billed Gulls
1 Orchard Oriole
1 Eastern Kingbird

Also had my first Mississippi Kite of the spring over my office building today as well and singing Summer Tanager & Yellow-throated Vireo in my yard.

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

Today at the Tram Rd Holding Ponds.

7 Semipalmated Sandpipers
20 Least Sandpipers
9 Mississippi Kite
3 Swallow-tailed Kite
3 Cattle Egret
1 Snowy Egret
36 Laughing Gull
18 Barn Swallow
3 Double-crested Cormorant



Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

2 Least Terns at Springhill Rd sewage plant today.

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

At Tram Rd holding ponds today.

1 Spotted Sandpiper
3 Semipalmated Sandpiper
12 Mississippi Kite
2 Swallow-tailed Kite
8 Cattle Egret
1 Orchard Oriole
14 Barn Swallow

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

On the big lake in Southwood this afternoon there was an adult Glossy Ibis feeding with a small flock of White Ibis.
Single Solitary Sandpipers were present on the small retention pond near the Southwood Community Center and the flooded hollow on Biltmore Avenue. 3 Least Sandpipers were present on the latter as well.
5 Northern Rough-winged Swallows were sitting out the thunderstorm on the barbed wire fence along Biltmore Ave.

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

12 Least Terns at Springhill Sewage Plant just east of Tallahassee airport. View holding ponds visible from Capital Circle.

Single Least Tern & 3 Northern Rough-winged Swallows at Lake Elberta 1/4 mile south of FSU football stadium on Lake Bradford Rd.

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

Yesterday at Lake Lafayette

27 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

pictures on my blog (see link below)

Today at Tram Rd Holding Ponds

1 White-rumped Sandpiper
1 Long-billed Dowitcher
38 Semipalmated Sandpiper
8 Least Sandpiper
2 Snowy Egret
1 Mississippi Kite

Pictures on my Facebook page (see link below)

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

Today at the holding ponds on Tram Rd

1 White-rumped Sandpiper
2 Spotted Sandpiper
21 Semipalmated Sandpiper
3 Least Sandpiper
3 Cattle Egret
1 Eastern Kingbird

pictures on my Facebook page

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

At Tram Road Holding Ponds today

1 Black-bellied Plover
2 Semipalmated Sandpiper
3 Least Sandpiper
24 Mississippi Kite

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

Mississippi Kites were putting on a show at Tram Rd Holding Ponds/Spray fields today. Season high count of 46 today, which should increase to 100+ by the end of June. 3 Swallow-tailed Kites and 2 Snowy Egrets were really the only other birds of note.

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

Lake Lafayette at lunchtime today

9 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks
1 Laughing Gull
1 White Ibis
3 Green Heron
1 Osprey
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 White-eyed Vireo

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

Wilson's Phalarope at Tram Rd Holding Ponds today.

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

American White Pelicans (13) at Lake Lafayette Heritage Trail Park today.

pictures on my Facebook page

 

[Andy Wraithmell]

Tropical Storm Debby, apart from buckets full of rain, brought us 2 Magnificent Frigatebirds, which on the whole was quite a bizarre experience...especially when one was being mobbed by an Eastern Kingbird! There are pictures on my Facebook page if you are interested.

 

[csanchez7]

Awesome sighting, Andy, for an inland county!

Carlos