Birding While Boating

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We have been enjoying watching birds as we pass by. We’re trying to keep a list of what we see and thought you might be interested in it too.The list is in no particular order, not by species, nor day spotted, nor location (although when I can I will post the location.)





















 
Bald Eagle
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Common Egret
White Ibis
Wood Stork - Jax Beach
Brown Pelican
Ruddy Turnstone - Vilano Beach
Towhee - St Augustine 
Northern Mockingbird
Mississippi Kite
Eastern Bluebird - Jacksonville Beach
Osprey 
Snail Kite - Lake Okeechobee 
Caracara - Lake Okeechobee 
Mallard
Boat-tailed Grackle
Laughing Gull 
Canada Goose
Eastern Kingbird - Brunswick 
Bonaparte Gull
Tricolor Heron
Red-winged Blackbird
Turkey Vulture
Anhinga
Cormorant
Black-crowned Night-Heron - Harris Neck NWR
Gallinule - Harris Neck 
Blue Jay
Cattle Egret
Cardinal - Sunbury GA
Painted Bunting - Sunbury GA
Barn Swallow - Sunbury GA
Common Crow
Swamp Sparrow - Sunbury GA
Sanderling - Jekyll Isl.
Carolina Wren
Ring-billed Gull
Forster's Tern
Black Vulture
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Brown Thrasher
Robin
Broad-winged Hawk
White Pelican
Ruddy Turnstone
Rock Dove
English Sparrow
European Starling
Least Tern
American Oystercatcher 
Brown Pelicans at Vilano Beach 
Greater Black-backed Gull - Ablemarle Sound
Brown-headed Cowbird
Mourning Dove
Shallow bag Bay Marina, Roanoke Island

Yellow-crowned Night-heron - Tangier Island
Willet
Herring Gull - Tangier Island
Loon (sp?) off Sandy Hook NJ
Mute Swan - Jersey City

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