This is the radar from 5:00pm last night to 11:30am this morning.
Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.
Off to the banding station, will write more later today. More birds were coming in all night. Lots of signatures moving down the east coast today, look out for migrants along the central east coast of FL. Miami radar shows lots of birds moving way high over the radar at 5:00 a.m. see no reason for them to land. St. Pete area may look decent but not sure how much put down. Have a great day birders and birdies!
Hope to see some reports from our readers, we will post our banding report later today.
Nature is Awesome,
Angel and Mariel
We banded some goodies at the Cape yesterday. Diversity was better than it has been for days now. We banded 70+ birds indicating an influx of migrants into the key. Falcons were out an about with Peregrine, Kestrel and Merlin seen over the park.
Best bird banded had to be a Yellow-breasted Chat for sure followed by a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. The rest of the birds made up of Caribbean species such as BTBW, AMRE, COYE, BWWA, NOPA, OVEN, PABU etc…
We also had some interesting observations such as a Common Snipe flyover, House Finch, and Tree Swallows returning south.
Hope the Cape was as good today!
A & M
By: natureisawesome on October 4, 2010 @ 4:31 pm
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Lorraine and I birded Ft. DeSoto from 10:00 AM-2:30 PM, covering North Beach, Arrowhead, The Mulberry Tree and the East Beach Turnaround. For the second time in a week, I got a life bird, today it was a Mourning Warbler, a female on the road side of the Mulberry Tree area, less than 20 feet from where I got my Life Connecticut 4 years ago. Where we saw the significant birds is listed.
1) American Kestrel On power lines near the sparrow field
2) Peregrine Falcon 1 adult 1 immature flying over North Beach Oak Grove
40+) Black-bellied Plover
20+) Wilson’s Plover North Beach Bird Sanctuary
120+) Semipalmated Plover
2) Piping Plover North Beach Bird Sanctuary
12) American Oystercatcher 11 at North Beach Lagoon, 1 banded
9) American Avocet North Beach Bird Sanctuary
1) Greater Yellowlegs North Beach Lagoon
60+) Willet
1) Long-billed Curlew North Beach Lagoon
30+) Marbled Godwit most at North Beach Lagoon
40+) Ruddy Turnstone
18) Red Knot North Beach Bird Sanctuary
35+) Sanderling
60) Semipalmated Sandpiper North Beach Bird Sanctuary
45) Western Sandpiper
75+) Least Sandpiper
2) Dunlin North Beach Bird Sanctuary
80+) Short-billed Dowitcher
2) Caspian Tern North Beach Lagoon
300) Royal Tern
1200+) Sandwich Tern
450+) Common Tern
60+) Forster’s Tern
300+) Black Skimmer
2) Belted Kingfisher North Beach Lagoon
1) Eastern Phoebe Arrowhead
2) White-eyed Vireo
1) Red-eyed Vireo
3) Tree Swallow North Beach Lagoon
1) Barn Swallow North Beach Bird Sanctuary
10) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2) Gray Catbird Tower Area
2) Yellow-throated Warbler North Beach Sabal Palms
4) Pine Warbler North Beach Australian Pines and 1 in Arrowhead
2) Prairie Warbler 1 at Mulberry Tree
57) Palm Warblers most on the ground at North Beach
1) Black-and-White Warbler North Beach Oak Grove
1) Mourning Warbler female Mulberry Tree
5) Common Yellowthroat 3 at Mulberry Tree
1) Hooded Warbler Mulberry Tree
1) Orchard Oriole Mulberry Tree
Don Margeson
By: Don Margeson on October 5, 2010 @ 4:13 pm
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