Bird Rookery Swamp is closed for boardwalk construction, so today’s critter count from Dick Brewer comes to us from Caracara Prairie Preserve. Brewer noted it is very wet in some areas and that he was knee deep in one small marsh.
BIRDS
Black-bellied Whistling Duck – 5
Great Egret – 14
Little Blue Heron – 6
Tri-Colored Heron – 2
Snowy Egret – 14
Green Heron – 4
Cattle Egret – 13
Black-crowned Night Heron – 4
White Ibis – 10
Glossy Ibis – 1
Turkey Vulture – 1
Black Vulture – 13
Swallow-tailed Kite – 15
Red-shouldered Hawk – 7
Common Gallinule – 4
Mourning Dove – 7
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 5
Downy Woodpecker – 2
Pileated Woodpecker – 2
Carolina Wren – 2
White-eyed Vireo – 1
Northern Cardinal – 5
BUTTERFLIES
Palamedes Swallowtail – 1
Giant Swallowtail – 1
Zebra Longwing – 2
White Peacock – 1
Viceroy – 1
Delaware Skipper – 1
DRAGONFLIES
Eastern Pondhawk – 7
Needham’s Skimmer – 10
Carolina Saddlebags – 3
Band-winged Dragonlet – 1
Blue Dasher – 3
Rambur’s Forktail – 5
HERPS
Alligator – 1
Brown Anole – 9
Florida Box Turtle – 1
Pig Frog – 7
Green Treefrog – 3
Florida Cricket Frog – 5
MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel – 3
Raccoon – 1
What dedication! Are you posting your bird counts to ebird?
Hi Maran-
These counts are completed by one of our volunteers and submitted to FWC. We are unsure if the volunteer logs the counts anywhere else at this time.