Day one of two days birding with Kent Hall from Wisconsin. Kent
was doing a budget Big Year, most of the birds that he had seen where by
driving. He hired me for the Florida area birds for two days. We
had planed for 3 days but because of good birding we only needed two days.
We birded the Everglades and the Miami, Homestead, Ft. Lauderdale area.
Kent ended his Big Year with 657 A.B.A. species which is pretty
impressive for driving to most of the areas. Here are the birds that
we saw the first day, these were seen in the Homestead, Miami and Ft. Lauderdale
area. These are in the order that we had seen them. Capitalized
bold birds were new for Kent or for his Big Year. Just capitalized
birds should be or might be on the A.B.A. list in the future.
| Common Grackle | SPOT-BREASTED ORIOLE |
| Boat-tailed Grackle | YELLOW-CHEVRONED PARAKEET |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Baltimore Oriole |
| European Starling | White Ibis |
| American Kestrel | Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Great Egret | Painted Bunting |
| Northern Harrier | Caspian Tern |
| Belted Kingfisher | SMOOTH-BILLED ANI |
| Anhinga | Red-tailed Hawk |
| Loggerhead Shrike | Black Vulture |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Ruddy Duck |
| Northern Mockingbird | American Coot |
| Great Blue Heron | Moorhen |
| Killdeer | SHORT-TAILED HAWK |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | Little Blue Heron |
| Northern Flicker | Tricolored Heron |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | SNAIL KITE |
| Eastern Phoebe | PURPLE GALLINUE |
| LIMPKIN | Osprey |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | PURPLE SWAMPHEN |
| Ring-billed Gull | Ring-necked Duck |
| Laughing Gull | MOTTLED DUCK |
| White-winged Dove | NORTHERN GANNET |
| Mourning Dove | BLACK-HOODED PARAKEET |
| MONK PARAKEET | WHITE-WINGED PARAKEET |
| Common Ground-Dove | HILL MYNA |
| Double-crested Cormorant | RED-MASKED PARAKEET |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | RED-CROWNED PARAKEET |
| Prairie Warbler | ORANGE-WINGED PARROT |
| RED-WHISKERED BULBUL | WHITE-FRONTED PARROT |
December 2, 1999
Day two with Kent Hall. Today we went down into Everglades National
Park to pick up some other species that Kent needed for his Big Day.
We did well and stopped late in the morning. This would give
Kent a good head start on going north for birds he needed in other states.
Below is what we saw for this half day.
| COMMON MYNA | Green-winged Teal |
| American Crow | American White Pelican |
| Catbird | GREATER FLAMINGO |
| Tree Swallow | Spotted Sandpiper |
| Louisiana Waterthrush, a good bird for winter. | Marbled Godwit |
| White-eyed Vireo | Northern Shoveler |
| NORTHERN PARULA | Roseate Spoonbill |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Bald Eagle |
| Great-crested Flycatcher | Cooper's Hawk |
| House Wren | GLOSSY IBIS |
| Northern Waterthrush | Prairie Warbler |
| Blue-winged Teal | Least Bittern |