Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

Today (10/11) I poked around Bill Baggs Cape Florida SP and came up with 16 warbler species, including Bay-breasted and Golden-winged. The Golden-winged is a female at the south end of the dirt Nature Trail. She hangs out with a small mixed flock and does her characteristic Golden-winged acrobatic feeding technique. The Bay-breasted seems to be an adult (non-breeding plumage) male in the Youth Camp area. Alex Wang discovered it yesterday and we watched it in the afternoon. Some of its buddies seem to have left but it's still there with a few Cape May and Black-throated Blue Warblers. You may remember Alex - on his last trip from Hawaii (December 2010), he found the Greater Ani in Crandon Gardens. He also found the Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher in Key West a few days ago. We're sorry he has to go back to Hawaii!

There was a big movement of Painted Buntings and today they outnumbered both Gray Catbirds and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers.