Each week volunteers Dick Brewer and Rick Mears walk the trail at Bird Rookery Swamp and complete a critter count. Below is this week’s list. This is a great example of citizen science and we hope you’ll hit the trails and see if you can match any of their findings!
Bird Rookery Swamp observations
Tuesday, February 21
6:50 am-2:05 pm
BIRDS
Wood Duck – 2
Mottled Duck – 2
Pied-billed Grebe – 2
Double-crested Cormorant – 16
Anhinga – 21
Great Blue Heron – 16
Great Egret – 48
Snowy Egret – 54
Cattle Egret – 2
Little Blue Heron – 13
Tri-Colored Heron – 14
Green Heron – 13
Black-crowned Night Heron – 23
White Ibis – 90
Roseate Spoonbill – 3
Wood Stork – 4
Black Vulture – 27
Turkey Vulture – 51
Red-shouldered Hawk – 16
Common Gallinule – 2
Limpkin – 1
Mourning Dove – 1
Common Ground Dove – 3
Barred Owl – 3
Belted Kingfisher – 12
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 24
Downy Woodpecker – 2
Pileated Woodpecker – 7
Eastern Phoebe – 4
Great-crested Flycatcher – 13
Carolina Wren – 29
Tufted Titmouse – 6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 13
Gray Catbird – 20
Northern Mockingbird – 1
White-eyed Vireo – 21
Common Yellowthroat – 2
Palm Warbler – 18
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 3
Northern Cardinal – 5
Common Grackle – 15
BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail – 3
Spicebush Swallowtail – 1
Zebra Longwing – 31
Julia – 6
White Peacock – 70
Gulf Fritillary – 4
Phaon Crescent – 10
Great Southern White – 2
Barred Yellow – 2
Cassius Blue – 1
Horace’s Duskywing – 1
Clouded Skipper – 8
Dorantes Longtail – 2
Three-spotted Skipper – 2
Tropical Checker – 2
Red-waisted Florella Moth – 5
unknown skipper – 1
DRAGONFLIES
Eastern Pondhawk – 11
REPTILES/AMPHIBIANS
Alligator – 142
Brown Anole – 5
Red-bellied Turtle – 5
Banded Water Snake – 2
MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel – 1
