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Western Kingbird
Photos: Shari Zirlin |
Sunday morning we headed south on the peninsula. Before visiting the larger birding spots, Scott took the group down a place called Indiantown, or at least to a crossroads near there, in the hopes of finding what he called "an East Coast regular rarity."
Western Kingbird is not a year bird for us (we had a couple in May in NM) but it is still a cool bird, with it lemon yellow breast. Both vans drove around the area, picking up a few interesting birds along the way until Scott called us to say that he had located the bird, sitting on a wire. It was a quiet Sunday morning--I don't know if the residents of the house saw 13 birders creeping slowly down the road or what they thought we might be looking at. I was just glad they didn't come out on their porch with a shotgun or mean dogs.
12 species
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 5
Mourning Dove 25
Northern Flicker 2
American Kestrel 1
Western Kingbird 1
Blue Jay 1 Heard
American Crow 5
Carolina Wren 2 Heard
Eastern Bluebird 5
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 10
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