One and a half boats (didn't fill the 2nd boat) enjoyed a great ride on the Dora Canal with our first spring arrival of the Prothonotary Warbler and it's beautiful song, many nesting Osprey's, Cormorants, Herons and Egrets. How about that Barred Owl. Lovely!!!!!!

Birds Seen Today:

Wood Duck, Pied-Billed Grebe, Double-Crested Cormorant, Anhinga, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Little Blue Heron, Tricolored Heron, Green Heron, Black-Crowned Night-Heron, White Ibis, Wood Stork, Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Osprey, Common Moorhen, American Coot, Limpkin, Bonapart's Gull, Ring-Billed Gull, Forster's Tern, Rock Pigeon, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Mourning Dove, Barred Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Red-Bellied Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, Blue Jay, American Crow, Fish Crow, Tree Swallow, N. Mockingbird, Cedar Waxwing, Yellow-Rumped Warbler, Prothonotary Warbler, N. Cardinal, Red-Winged Blackbird, Common Grackle And Boat-Tailed Grackle


Birds Heard Today:
White-Eyed Vireo, Red-Eyed Vireo, Carolina Wren And N. Parula.

Next up:

Thursday, April 5, 6:15 AM, meet at Belk's parking lot and depart at 6:30 AM. This is a full day trip with a run through Goethe State Forest on the return home to look for the Brown-headed Nuthatch and the Red-cockaded Woodpecker. We will have lunch in Cedar Key. There are options for boat rides out to the island in the afternoon if so desired (up to the individual to arrange). It's Spring let's hope to catch some new arrivals as they migrate across the gulf. See you Thursday.