Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

Nine birders joined me for today's birding trip to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Collier County and Ft. Myers Beach in Lee County. Following are the birds tallied en-route (CR 833, CR 846):
Mottled Duck
Wild Turkey
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Gallinule
Limpkin
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Wood Stork
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Wren
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Northern Cardinal

Birds tallied at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary:
Common Ground-Dove
Mourning Dove
Limpkin
Anhinga
Black Vulture
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Empidonax sp. (no visible eye ring, so likely Traill's)
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Tufted Titmouse
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler (heard only)
American Redstart
Northern Parula
Bay-breasted Warbler (at least six)
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Northern Cardinal

At Ft. Myers Beach, we visited Carlos Pointe. Birds seen here:
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Willet
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Brown Pelican
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Osprey
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird

On our way back to I-75 from Ft. Myers Beach, we saw several Chimney Swift flying overhead.