Neotropical Cormorant Viera Wetlands
No I don't have a photo of one ....
I know there are several folks that post on here that live close to the Viera Wetlands and get there often. I thought this might be of interest to them. I subscribe to a Florida birding listserve email system and read this post today. I don't know the gentleman that offered the info, but here it is.
"Took a quick ride to Viera. It was closed to vehicles when I
arrived as a grader was working the dike roads. So I walked up to
look out over cell one and observed an interesting pair of birds
chasing each other over the southwestern corner of the cell. Got
them in the bins to recognize the substantial size difference and
joked to myself "imagine a neotropic?". Lo and behold they began
to fly towards me, and I was able to see the white edges to the
throat, this bird also exhibits the white tuft on the side of the
head and very clear size differnce from the double crested flying
with it.
It broke of from the Double-crested, and headed towards the cick
ponds. After a couple drives around it was not relocated and I
went back to the wetlands area to watch a large flock of Tree
Swallows working the wax myrtles. After a short time I went back
to the ponds and found the Neotropic perched at the pump station
between the two click ponds. It then joined a small group of
Double-crested in the norht pond. Good luck if you go!
See you out there!
Tom Dunkerton "
I know there are several folks that post on here that live close to the Viera Wetlands and get there often. I thought this might be of interest to them. I subscribe to a Florida birding listserve email system and read this post today. I don't know the gentleman that offered the info, but here it is.
"Took a quick ride to Viera. It was closed to vehicles when I
arrived as a grader was working the dike roads. So I walked up to
look out over cell one and observed an interesting pair of birds
chasing each other over the southwestern corner of the cell. Got
them in the bins to recognize the substantial size difference and
joked to myself "imagine a neotropic?". Lo and behold they began
to fly towards me, and I was able to see the white edges to the
throat, this bird also exhibits the white tuft on the side of the
head and very clear size differnce from the double crested flying
with it.
It broke of from the Double-crested, and headed towards the cick
ponds. After a couple drives around it was not relocated and I
went back to the wetlands area to watch a large flock of Tree
Swallows working the wax myrtles. After a short time I went back
to the ponds and found the Neotropic perched at the pump station
between the two click ponds. It then joined a small group of
Double-crested in the norht pond. Good luck if you go!
See you out there!
Tom Dunkerton "
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Bob
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I hope to be heaidng down there tomorrow if the weather and my knee hold up.
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Harry, it's still over at the "Click Ponds" pump station, at least it was this morning about 9AM. I appairently missed the bird by about 5 minutes this morning. Maybe I can spot it tomarrow.........
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