The 1st winter Harris's Sparrow in Canastota, NY continues as has been reported on the RBAs and on E-Bird today. Danny Messina and I made the trip up this morning arriving at 10:18am and the target bird, a "lifer" for him, mades it appearance from 10:45am -11:10am. Thanks to Ruth Kuryla, the homeowner, for making the id. and posting so that others could enjoy this neat transient.Subject: Exact location with map of Vermilion Flycatcher Orlando Wetlands (Orange County)
Date: Sun Nov 4 2012 18:03 pm
From: robert.wildlife AT yahoo.com |
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For those of you not familiar with the most common location of the Vermilion Flycatcher at Orlando Easterly Wetlands (a.k.a. Orlando Wetlands Park), here is a map of the trails:
http://orlandowetlands.org/trailmap.php?submenuheader=2
You can see there is a "Birding Route" with red dashes. Do not go toward cells 10 and 9, but go along the trail on the west side of cells 18, 16 to 17 to where the trail intersects with the Northeast corner of cell 13 (Wading Bird Marsh) and the Northwest corner of cell # 17.
Go right at the intersection a short distance, maybe 50 yards. You will see Cypress trees to your right. The Vermilion Flycatcher was foraging on the nearest Cypress tree and then further back and went back and forth. This is the exact spot where I saw (and many others saw) the bird active last year. It is likely that others have seen this bird at other locations in the park.
Before you get to this intersection, the trees on your right should be scanned also.
Regarding "Birding Route".... what a misnomer! The entire area of Orlando Wetlands can be excellent for birding--all of it is a "birding route". Besides a fabulous marsh, there are hammock trails and there is also a section on the other side of Wheeler Road that is sizeable and can be good also, plus it borders Seminole Ranch. The Birding Route does take you through some excellent wetlands that held high numbers of water birds today.
Bob Stalnaker
Longwood, FL
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Ken McDermott
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