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Spring Migration at Bill Baggs State Park, Miami-Dade, Florida (1 Viewer)

csanchez7

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Bill Baggs sits on the main migration flyway for many bird species that winter in the Caribbean in northern South America and the Caribbean, including Cape May, Black-throated Blue, Prairie, and Blackpoll Warbler. Westerly winds overnight results in many of those migrants stopping over in the park. Everything that was either fruiting or flowering was alive with warblers fattening up for the next leg of their journey. A couple hours worth of birding produced the following (migrant) sightings:

Black-necked Stilt (flyover)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo: 3
Gray Kingbird
Gray Catbird: 16
Ovenbird: 2
Worm-eating Warbler: 3
Northern Waterthrush: 2
Black-and-white Warbler: 7
Common Yellowthroat: 9
American Redstart: 9
Cape May Warbler: 23
Northern Parula: 4
Blackpoll Warbler: 27
Black-throated Blue Warbler: 7
Palm Warbler: 2
Prairie Warbler: 14
Scarlet Tanager
Indigo Bunting: 3
Painted Bunting: 4
 
With the exception of the Gray Kingbird that is the mixture we have been getting here for the last two weeks. We also have been getting some Black-throated Green Warblers which are rare Spring migrants around here. Thrushes started arriving a few days ago, today Wood Thrush, Swainson's Thrush and a Gray-cheeked Thrush were found by various birders around Gainesville.
 
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