Things are beginning to heat up down here on the island. I started out my day a
male and female Painted Bunting. Followed that with a Purple Sandpiper (lifer),
a beautiful male Summer Tanager, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 4 Clapper Rails,and
ended it with a Black-crowned Night Heron. In all, I had 47 species all within
3 miles of our house.
The total species list were:
Painted Bunting
Brown Headed Cowbird
Mourning Dove
Eurasian Collared Dove
Purple Sandpiper
Brown Pelican
Royal Tern
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Sanderling
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Skimmer
Eastern Towhee
Carolina Wren
Northern Cardinal
Summer Tanager
Blue headed Vireo
Red eyed Vireo
Yellow billed Cuckoo
Yellow throated Warbler
Northern Parula
Clapper Rail
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Double Crested Cormorant
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Tufted Titmouse
Fish Crow
Boat tailed Grackle
White Ibis
Gray Catbird
Cattle Egret
House Finch
Black Crowned Night Heron
Red Shouldered Hawk
Red-winged Blackbird
Osprey
Spotted Sandpiper
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Roughed-winged Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Mockingbird
Canada Goose
