----- Original Message ----- 
From: Robert Milburn<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
To: R. D. Wallace<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [BRDBRAIN] Florida Shorebird Big Day - 25 species


We did it the middle of August and there was a Buff seen earlier in the week. the Snipe was great. The burned and flooded sugarfields around Belle Glade were just loaded with birds, very hard to see with the burned stubble standing 4-6" in the water. Our eyes were really strained. Also alot of areas were closed to public traffic.



"R. D. Wallace" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Rocky - that is great, and I think the record! I agree that a Ft D to Belle 
  Glade route would get all of the species possible, and if you had luck for 
  things like Buff-breast, Upland and Phalarope, then 30 is certainly 
  possible. What time of year did you do it? May?

  Bob

  >From: Robert Milburn 
  >To: "R. D. Wallace" 
  >Subject: Re: [BRDBRAIN] Florida Shorebird Big Day - 25 species
  >Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:25:17 -0700 (PDT)
  >
  >Good Morning,
  >
  >Nice try, Tim Mann and I also did a Shore Bird bird day in 2002 and we had 
  >28 species.
  >
  >We started at Ft Desoto and ended at the Belle glade area. had everything 
  >you had except we had Snipe(Brandon), White-rumped Sand Piper(Ft Desoto) 
  >and Avocet(MacKay Bay). yes 30 is possible, because the day we did ours 
  >there was a Upland in a field we were vieving, but did not see.It had been 
  >there a day until dark. We just misssed it. Other birder saw it all day. We 
  >got there very late in the day. Next time will go there before the flooded 
  >fields. There was also a Phalarope and a Baird's Sandpiper in the Belle 
  >Glade flooded fields and a Phalarope at MacKay Bay we could not locate. We 
  >stayed completely on the west coast.
  >
  >So what is the state record?
  >
  >Rocky Milburn
  >Riverview, Fl
  >
  >"
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