On the VCHT Birdwalk on February, 19, 2011, there were eleven birders led by Rich and Peggy Puffer. The following species were seen in the following locations.
Malecon
1. Royal Tern
2. Great Blue Heron
3. House sparrow (does this Count?)
Dry Scrub la Llave
1. Gray Kingbird
2. Banana quit
3. Black- faced Grassquit
4. Zenaida Dove
5. Common ground dove
6. Adelaide’s Warbler
7. Antillean Grackle
8. Pearly-eyed Thrasher
9. Antillean-crested hummingbird
10. Caribbean Elaenia
11. Northern Mockingbird
12. White winged dove
13. Loggerhead Kingbird
14. Green throated Carib hummingbird
15. Nutmeg Manikins
Playa Grande
1. Greater Yellow Legs
2. Osprey
3. Little Blue Heron
4. Black necked Stilts
5. Tri-colored Heron
6. White cheeked pintails in flight
7. Spotted Sandpiper (near the bridge)
Sun Bay Field
1. American Kestrel
2. Red tailed Hawk (with mouse/lunch in talons)
Salt- Water Flats at Sun Bay
1. Great Egret
2. Puerto Rican Woodpecker
3. Yellow warbler (heard)
6. Stilt Sandpiper
7. Semi-palmated Sandpiper
8. Least Sandpiper
9 Semi-palmated Plover
10. Stilt Sandpiper
11. Ruddy turnstone
Total of 38 different species observed or heard:
(HIGHEST COUNT THIS SEASON)
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Other Species observed in the week of the bird walk, but not on that day included:
1. Puerto Rico Flycatcher
2. Pin tailed Whydahs
3. Prairie warbler
4. Smooth bill Anis
5. Mangrove Cuckoo
6. Puerto Rico Woodpecker
7. Brown Pelican
8. Indigo Bunting (mottled phase – he returns)
