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Recap- Cedar Key field trip

4/29/2019

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Our first trip as leaders turned out to be a beautiful, partly sunny day with 20 enthusiastic birders ready for discovery. We chose to travel to three major sites where parking was available: museum, cemetery, and a nearby bottlebrush tree, but distributed maps of Cedar Key if people wanted to visit more sites on their own. Most of the birds were at the museum grounds including warblers (black-throated green, black-throated blue, Northern Parula, hooded, and Cape May), 3 species of doves, and nesting osprey. Mike spotted a pair of brown thrashers and Effie photographed a gray cheeked thrush, a first for many of us. Effie also got a shot of a dickcissel that often flocks with house sparrows, but is more common in the tall grass prairies of the midwest.
Our visit to the nearby 20 foot bottlebrush tree presented many hummers, indigo buntings, orchard orioles, the first dickcissel feeding on the ground, and a clapper rail in the reeds at the end of the road.
We wanted to thank Cedar Key Audubon members, Libby and Dale, who accompanied us on two pre walks and showed us some new places to observe including the spot to find a loon (at the end of the beach pier) and that great bottlebrush tree.
When I returned home, I called Elaine Roche to hear what she found at the shore locations and airport strip: lesser scaup, semipalmated plover, sanderling, white pelican, royal tern, black skimmer, and an immature bald eagle. While driving past Inglis, she spotted a swallowtail kite, stopped the car, and then saw a small group of Mississippi kites. What a great find. Thanks, Elaine, for your persistence.
Thanks also to our visitors from Atlanta, Vermont, and Texas and the CCAS members who helped them find those flitting warblers.
Altogether we saw approximately 62 species thanks to the 20 pairs of eyes that joined us. What a great first leader trip. Thanks to you all.  Fred and Carol Kirk

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Recap - Ft. DeSoto

4/12/2019

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Eileen and I supported the smallest CCAS Bird Trip on record-based on the
Wx forecast, I'm sure, no one appeared!  We were quite concerned too but,
would you believe, it was Blue Skies into the early afternoon and didn't start 
raining until 5:30!  

​Even though the migrants were thin, we managed to tally around 60 species.  
We had quite a neat late afternoon when we had a group of Hooded, Black
and White, and Prothonotary Warblers in a canal full of mangroves at the
Arrowhead Picnic Area.  We did see a Summer Tanager and Indigo Bunting
there also.  We then went to the East Beach trail and Eileen spotted the young
Great Horned Owl that had been reported there-the final ending to the day!  
For me the Highlight was seeing a nice group of A. Avocets dressed in full
breeding attire!  These Beauts  were way across the lagoon and holding the
camera in the heavy winds was a challenge!  Along with the Avocets, we 
had several Tern species-Black Skimmers, Royal, Least, Sandwich, along
with several Gull species in the protected area of the North Beach.  Two other
neat birds there were the Reddish Egret and several Marbled Godwits.  
As always, many peeps and shorebirds on the East Beach turnaround loop
that were sharing it with the Kite Boarders.  And it was neat seeing the Black-
hooded Parakeets, Swallow-tailed Kites, M. Frigatebirds,  Northern Gannets
and Great-crested Flycatchers flying around.  

 Jim & Eileen
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Sunset Boat Ride Crystal River Preserve

4/12/2019

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Twenty participants enjoyed a beautiful evening for the Sunset Boat Tour, leaving the dock at Crystal River Preserve State Park.    Park Volunteer and Citrus Audubon member Holly Alexander provided the group on the boat tour of the refuge with interesting history and facts while pointing out numerous Eagle and Osprey nest.   Some of the nest were occupied, while a few nearby trees held mature birds we enjoyed viewing and photographing.
A most wonderful evening with a stunning sunset was enjoyed by all. Kathy Lemmer
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Recap - Inglis Island Field Trip

4/6/2019

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​Sixteen birders had a very enjoyable and productive morning at Inglis Island

and managed to tally around 60 species!  The "Bird of the Day" honor had to
be split between a Summer Tanager and Prothonotary Warbler which were
very cooperative.

Starting off the trip in the large open area just inside the gate, a very active 
male American Kestrel provided great views as it flew from tree to tree and
several Yellow-throated Warblers were also flying back and forth between
trees, possibly feeding a youngster which was seen inside one of the trees. 
Another cooperative bird was an Anhinga drying out at the Dam and seemed
to enjoy showing off its "courting" turquoise eye make-up.

                        Another great CCAS Trip, Jim & Eileen ​
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