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DESTINATION - SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
Typical BIRD SIGHTINGS
Provided by SRQ Bird Alert
17 October - This Saturday morning on Edwards Island in Roberts Bay I had a
Philadelphia Vireo. Also there, Black and White, Tennessee, and Yellow-throated Warblers, E.
Wood Pewee, Indigo Buntings, and a nice pair of Am Redstarts. Tons of gnatcatchers, too.
This afternoon in North Lido Park with Rick Greenspun and Valeri Ponzo, we had a MANGROVE CUCKOO. This is a
super find for this area. We also had a nice mixed flock of migrants: Bay-breasted, Magnolia, Black-throated Green,
Tennessee, Pine, Black and White, and Palm Warblers, N. Parula, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks,
Scarlet and Summer Tanagers, Swainson’s Thrush, Indigo Buntings, catbirds, and a number of
calling E. Wood Pewees.
Jeanne Dubi, Sarasota
17 October - Bird Alerts Information - Just a reminder, when reporting bird
alerts provide as much information to assist others to see the bird(s) that you saw, to include time of day, location,
your E-mail address and/or telephone number if acceptable to you, and any other information that you believe will be
helpful to those who wish to see the bird(s) that you saw.
Peter Rice
The following is a list of rare and accidental birds (per "Birding Hot Spots in Sarasota and Manatee Counties") as a
reference as to sighting reports that may be of great interest to other bird watchers in the Sarasota and Manatee area.
Rare birds in Sarasota & Manatee Counties please report them if you see them:
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American Wigeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Surf Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Short-tailed Hawk
Merlin
Peregine Falcon
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule
American Golden Plover
Piping Plover
American Avocet
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baid's Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Ruff
American Woodcock
Wilson's Phalaropes
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Franklin's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Black-billed Cuckoo
Mangrove Cuckoo
Burrowing Owl
Whip-poor-will
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Vermilion Flycatcher |
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
Black-whiskered Vireo
Bank Swallow
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Wood Thrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Bachman's Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Shiny Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Added - White-winged Dove |
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Accidentals sightings in Sarasota &Manatee Counties please report them if you see
them:
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Pacific Loon
Eared Grebe
Cinnamon Teal
Yellow Rail
Heermann's Gull
Glaucous Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Elegant Tern
Bridled Tern
Sooty Tern
Brown Noddy
Dovekie
Smooth-billed Ani
Bell's Vireo
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Lapland Longspur
Rusty Blackbird
Added - Ross's Goose, Grooved-Bill Ani, Grooved-Bill Ani, Grooved-Bill AniMasked Duck, and
White-tailed Kite
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17 October - I visited Pinecraft Park this morning (between 9:00 - 10:30) and saw the
following birds: Four female and two immature male Red-breasted Grosbeaks, One Bay breasted warbler –
fall male, Four Pine Warblers, Three Black and White Warblers, One male American Redstart, Two
Magnolia Warblers, One Wood Thrush, One male Summer Tanager, One Catbird, Four Blue-Gray
Gnatcatchers, One Blue-winged Warbler, Two Ovenbirds, One Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Four Pine
Warblers, One Tufted Titmouse, Six Northern Cardinals, Four Carolina Wrens, Two Red-bellied
Woodpeckers, One Downy Woodpecker, Six Blue Jays, and One Hooded Warbler.
John L. Wilson, Bradenton
15 October - On my way home from work this evening, I was delighted to see that our
Siesta Towers Peregrine Falcon has returned. This will be the 10th season we've had a peregrine on the
Towers. She has always returned between the 10th and 15th of October and leaves for her breeding grounds between the
10th and 15th of April each year. I'd like to believe it's the same bird, but no way to know for sure. On the homefront
in northeast Sarasota, my resident Gr. Horned Owls have started their courtship calling in the early evenings and
early mornings from my pine trees.
Tina Mossbarger, Sarasota
13 October - Just Spent a couple of hot sweaty hours in Pinecraft Park today. It was
pretty slow for most of the time but I did have a couple of nice mixed flocks move through around 11 am that included:
Magnolia, Bay breasted, Hooded, Black and White, American Redstarts, and two Ovenbirds, White eyed and
Red eyed Vireos and my first Ruby crowned Kinglet this fall season. Still no thrushes. Good Birding...
Rick Greenspun
Please send your input about rare and/or interesting bird sightings to:
SRQbirdalerts@msn.com"
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