Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

Last Saturday's joint TAS/Audubon Society of the Everglades field trip to STA-1E in western Palm Beach County was a fun day for all. In addition to nearly perfect weather, we saw plenty of waterfowl (yes, Dade birders, such birds are in Florida) and other specialties of this water conservation area, including great looks at perched raptors like Snail Kite, Red-tailed Hawk, and Peregrine Falcon.

Afterwards, a few of us traveled up the road a few miles, and located the 2 Smooth-billed Anis where they had been found earlier in the week.

Here is my trip list (some birds were seen by others not on this list, including a photographed Yellow Warbler):

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 63
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 2
Gadwall 1
American Wigeon 4
Mottled Duck 9
Blue-winged Teal 60
Northern Shoveler 22
Northern Pintail 20
Green-winged Teal 6
Ring-necked Duck 35
Ruddy Duck 1
Pied-billed Grebe 11
Wood Stork 2
Double-crested Cormorant 29
Anhinga 35
Least Bittern 1
Great Blue Heron 20
Great Egret 20
Snowy Egret 56
Little Blue Heron 4
Tricolored Heron 23
Cattle Egret 6
Green Heron 1
White Ibis 7
Glossy Ibis 36
Roseate Spoonbill 1
Black Vulture 8
Turkey Vulture 12
Osprey 4
Snail Kite 1
Northern Harrier 5
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Gray-headed Swamphen 25
Common Gallinule 300
American Coot (Red-shielded) 500
Limpkin 17
Killdeer 3
Long-billed Dowitcher 18
Wilson's Snipe 2
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Ring-billed Gull 6
Gull-billed Tern 1
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 1
Black Skimmer 1
Mourning Dove 3
Belted Kingfisher 8
American Kestrel 3
Peregrine Falcon 1
Monk Parakeet 8
Eastern Phoebe 1
Loggerhead Shrike 2
White-eyed Vireo 2
Fish Crow 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 30
Tree Swallow 50
Marsh Wren 1
Common Yellowthroat 10
Palm Warbler 8
Savannah Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 40
Eastern Meadowlark 2
Boat-tailed Grackle 50