After a hard days work I decided to relax by going birding and
it was rewarding. I saw 10+ species of
bird and visited five (5) different locations. At one of the location, a
shooting pond, shorebirds were caged up from the just concluded hunting season, one of the tricks hunters use to lure bird into firing range. How sad
these poor birds look. In the cages were Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus), Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) and Lesser
Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) that I was able to identify. Here
is list of the bird I saw and some photos
Bird
|
Latin Name
|
Number
|
Great Blue Heron
|
Ardea herodias
|
1
|
Little Blue Heron
|
Egretta caerulea
|
4
|
Green Heron
|
Butorides virescens
|
5
|
Great Egret
|
Ardea alba
|
2
|
Cattle Egret
|
Bubulcus ibis
|
20+
|
Snowy Egrets
|
Egretta thula
|
1
|
Common Moorhen
|
Gallinula
chloropus
|
10
|
Wilson’s Snipe
|
Gallinago delicata
|
4
|
Spotted Sandpipers
|
Tringa erythropus
|
3
|
Semipalmated Plover
|
Charadrius semipalmatus
|
3
|
Belted Kingfisher
|
Megaceryle alcyon
|
1
|
Gray Kingbirds
|
Tyrannus dominicensis
|
3
|
Black-Faced Grassquit
|
Tiaris bicolor
|
2
|
Carib Grackle
|
Quiscalus lugubris
|
10
|
Green-throated Carib Eulampis holosericeus
|
Eulampis holosericeus
|
1
|
Sora
|
Porzana carolina
|
1
|
Yellow Warbler
|
Setophaga petechia
|
1
|
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| Blue Heron in Flight |
 |
| Black-Faced Grassquit |
 |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
 |
| Green Heron and Snipe |
 |
| Cattlesand a Snowy Egret |
 |
Common Moorhen Caged Birds at ahooting swamp
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