Long-time CREW Trust volunteer naturalist Dick Brewer is a treasure-trove of information and brilliant citizen scientist. This week’s critter count includes a chicken turtle, almost 30 red-bellied woodpeckers and a great photo of two crested caracaras. Interested in making your own critter count during your next hike? Print out Dick’s BIRD ROOKERY SWAMP Wildlife Checklist and take it with you!
Bird Rookery Swamp
Wednesday, December 19 ~~ 7:05 AM – 1:00 PM
temperature: 54.0-76.0º ~~ RH 85.5-60.5%
sky: sun early, clouds late ~~ wind: calm at start, then 8-12 mph
BIRDS
Wood Duck – 2
Double-crested Cormorant – 5
Anhinga – 28
Great Blue Heron – 11
Great Egret – 10
Snowy Egret – 3
Little Blue Heron – 7
Tri-colored Heron – 3
Cattle Egret – 1
Green Heron – 4
Black-crowned Night Heron – 11
White Ibis – 22
Roseate Spoonbill – 1
Wood Stork – 2
Black Vulture – 12
Turkey Vulture – 26
Osprey – 1
Red-shouldered Hawk – 14
Crested Caracara – 2
American Kestrel – 1
Common Gallinule – 1
Killdeer – 5
Mourning Dove – 2
Barred Owl – 2
Belted Kingfisher – 8
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 28
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker – 4
Downy Woodpecker – 1
Pileated Woodpecker – 8
Great-crested Flycatcher – 1
Eastern Phoebe – 7
Carolina Wren – 13
House Wren – 1
Blue Jay – 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 21
Northern Mockingbird – 2
Gray Catbird – 21
Common Yellowthroat – 1
Palm Warbler – 5
Pine Warbler – 1
Northern Cardinal – 4
Common Grackle – 77
BUTTERFLIES
White Peacock – 21
Phaon Crescent – 1
Barred Yellow – 16
Tropical Checker – 1
HERPS
Alligator – 11
Brown Anole – 1
Banded Water Snake – 1
Red-bellied Turtle – 5
Florida Chicken Turtle – 2
MAMMALS
River Otter – 2
Raccoon – 1