A beautiful day for a boat ride and even though all but a hand full of birders scattered to the wind those who stayed on for the count logged 43 species. Normally we walk as a group, to bird the park after the boat ride, but not today. Where did everyone go?

Birds Seen Today:

Wild Turkey, Pied-Billed Grebe, Double-Crested Cormorant, Anhinga, American Bittern, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Little Blue Heron, Tricolored Heron, Yellow-Crowned Night Heron, White Ibis, Wood Stork, Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Osprey, Red-Shouldered Hawk, Red-Tailed Hawk, Purple Gallinule, Common Moorhen, American Coot, Limpkin, Sandhill Crane, Ring-Billed Gull, Royal Tern, Mourning Dove, Belted Kingfisher, Red-Bellied Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, E. Phoebe, Fish Crow, Tree Swallow, Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, American Robin, N. Mockingbird, N. Cardinal, Red-Winged Blackbird, Common Grackle And Boat-Tailed Grackle

Pictures can be found here

Birds heard today:

Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Wren and E. Towhee

NEXT UP:

Wood Duck Drive/Emeralda Marsh: Friday Feb. 22, 7:30 AM, meet at Belk's parking lot. Because this is a drive through and there are limited places to pull off the road we will fill all the cars in order to keep the number to a minimum.

Regular Club Meeting: Saturday February 23, 9 AM, Paradise Rec. Ctr.: Speaker is our very own Jim Dinsmore "Birding South Texas".