Saturday, September 3, 2011

Space Coast Audubon Fieldtrip to Viera Wetlands


Today we saw the usual mottled, blue winged teal and black bellied whistling ducks.  One of the ducks spotted in cell # 4 was obviously different from the other ducks so after getting out the scope and examining it closer,  Roy Book was able to ID it as a Fulvous Whistling Duck.
Here are some of the other birds seen today:
  • Pied billed grebes
  • Anhinga
  • Black Terns
  • Wilson’s Phalarope
  • Black Necked Stilts
  • Greater Yellow Legs
  • Short billed dowitcher
  • Western SP
  • Least SP
  • Solitary SP
  • Stilt SP
  • Pectoral SP
  • Killdeer
  • Semipalmated Plovers
  • Kingfishers
  • Bald Eagle
  • Cara Cara
  • Osprey
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Barn Swallows
  • Common Ground Dove
  • Sandhill cranes
  • Wood storks
  • Ibis – white,  glossy
  • Herons - GB, LB, Grn, tri-colored
  • Juvenile black crowned night heron
  • Snowy, cattle & Great Egret
  • Common moorhen
  • Coots
  • Red Bellied Woodpecker
  • Shrike
  • Mockingbirds
  • Fish Crow
  • Boat tailed grackles
  • Red winged blackbirds
  • Otter crossing road with a fish in its mouth

Vicky Hamilton
SCAS Field Trip Coordinator

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