Oh Yeah, look out birdies, Citrus County Audubon is hot on your tails! It was a glorious day. Mosquitoes and love bugs were present in multitudinous pockets. But were we wimps? Why no, no we were not! The brave and daring group of birders were there for our first fix of the year. It was a shot in the arm from a long dry spell.
We fought the mosquitoes with spray and forged ahead to "pish" the little buggers out into the open. And out they came. We logged 8 species of warbler, barn & tree swallows, White-Eyed Vireos were everywhere (lost count), Red-eyed Vireos, several House Wrens, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were plentiful, Veery's, Swainson Thrush, Gray Catbirds were in high numbers, Summer and Scarlet Tanager, to name a few. After a very successful count, we hopped over to Shrimp Landing for a much need energy lunch and recapping the 56 species we were able to identify.. The full list can be seen here at this eBird list.
We fought the mosquitoes with spray and forged ahead to "pish" the little buggers out into the open. And out they came. We logged 8 species of warbler, barn & tree swallows, White-Eyed Vireos were everywhere (lost count), Red-eyed Vireos, several House Wrens, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were plentiful, Veery's, Swainson Thrush, Gray Catbirds were in high numbers, Summer and Scarlet Tanager, to name a few. After a very successful count, we hopped over to Shrimp Landing for a much need energy lunch and recapping the 56 species we were able to identify.. The full list can be seen here at this eBird list.
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