Re: Texas in spring
Leslie Roslund (Lroslund@bluecrab.org)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:14:51 -0400
As an echo to the report of Bob Mumford, I returned to Maryland last
Saturday after a week in northwest Florida, near Pensacola, FL, with much
the same story. Very few birds around. I was there primarily for other
reasons than birding, yet did spend lots of time on trails of Big Lagoon
State Park - which was awash in Brown Thrashers, but little else. One pair
of Yellow-throated Warblers, a three-member family of Blue Grosbeaks,
White-eyed and Red-eyed Vireos, several Orchard Orioles, a few Baltimore
Orioles, Pine, Palm, and Prothonotary Warblers, and some Common
Yellowthroats, and that was about it for migrants. Very few of each specie
seen.
Some of their permanent residents were fun to see too. Several Red-headed
Woodpeckers were calling that park their home, and a lovely Sora was seen
by myself and my daughter several times. Another park visitor reported a
Purple Gallinule.
From six days of intermittent birding, the species count was only 72.
Les Roslund
Lroslund@bluecrab.org
Easton, MD