Trip Report, Dec. 3, 2011, Wetlands, Vero Beach

DEC. 3, 2011, SLAS FIELD TRIP REPORT
WEST REGIONAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY WETLANDS, VERO BEACH

Fifteen birders attended this St. Lucie Audubon Society field trip, led by Dan Walma. We were lucky to have breezy and mildly cool weather as we explored the wetlands for about 2 ½ hours. A total of 47 species was seen.

-- Submitted by Dorothy Schultz

47 species seen:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Mottled Duck Blue-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Pied-billed Grebe Wood Stork Double-crested Cormorant Anhinga American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron	Cattle Egret Green Heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle 1 immature, 1 mature Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Crested Caracara Common Gallinule American Coot Sandhill Crane Eurasian Collared-Dove	Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Loggerhead Shrike Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Tree Swallow Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Palm Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird

DEC. 3, 2011, SLAS FIELD TRIP REPORT WEST REGIONAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY WETLANDS, VERO BEACH

47 species seen:

DEC. 3, 2011, SLAS FIELD TRIP REPORT
WEST REGIONAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY WETLANDS, VERO BEACH