Tuesday’s Critter Count from Bird Rookery Swamp

 

Check out yesterday’s count from the almost 13 miles of trail at Bird Rookery Swamp!

photo by Dick Brewer

BIRDS

Wood Stork – 42

Anhinga – 25

Great Blue Heron – 8

Great Egret – 53

Snowy Egret – 11

Cattle Egret – 2

Little Blue Heron – 2

Tri-Colored Heron – 1

Black-crowned Night Heron – 22

Yellow-crowned Night Heron – 1

White Ibis – 5

Black Vulture – 68

Turkey Vulture – 28

Swallow-tailed Kite – 7

Red-shouldered Hawk – 39

Mourning Dove – 4

Common Ground Dove – 1

Yellow-billed Cuckoo – 3

Barred Owl – 3

Chimney Swift – 2

Red-bellied Woodpecker – 46

Pileated Woodpecker – 11

Great-crested Flycatcher – 18

Carolina Wren – 48

White-eyed Vireo – 21

Blue Jay – 1

Fish Crow – 2

Tufted Titmouse – 14

Gray Catbird – 16

Northern Mockingbird – 2

Common Yellowthroat – 1

Black-and-white Warbler – 1

Northern Parula – 3

Northern Cardinal – 23

Common Grackle – 2

 

BUTTERFLIES

Palamedes Swallowtail – 54

Tiger Swallowtail – 11

Zebra Longwing – 4

White Peacock – 29

Viceroy – 4

Gulf Fritillary – 1

Common Buckeye – 2

Red Admiral – 1

Phaon Crescent – 8

Great Southern White – 3

Cassius Blue – 1

Brazilian Skipper – 1

Palatka Skipper – 2

DRAGONFLIES

Eastern Pondhawk – 8

Great Blue Skimmer – 1

Blue Dasher – 3

Band-winged Dragonlet – 6

Halloween Pennant – 4

photo by Dick Brewer

REPTILES/AMPHIBIANS

Alligator – 246

Brown Anole – 1

Red-bellied Turtle – 4

Banded Water Snake – 1

Green Treefrog – 1

photo by Dick Brewer

MAMMALS

Raccoon – 5

White-tailed Deer – 1

Gray Squirrel – 1

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