Buck Lake
Monthly bird counts

St. Johns River Water Management District
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BIRDS 10/09/99 11/06/99 12/11/99 01/15/00 02/12/00 03/11/00 04/09/00 05/14/00 06/10/00 07/15/00 08/12/00 09/16/00
Pied-billed Grebe   1 1 5 6 4         1 7
American White Pelican     14 8 482 41 301   25 52    
Double-crested Cormorant 7   3 1 8   5 2 3   1  
Anhinga 1 4 10 9 11 1 2 7 7 5 5 3
American Bittern       1 1              
Great Blue Heron 3 3 12 4 7 13 3 9 10 9 5 7
Great Egret 5 11 15 7 7 27 35 26 71 14 20 14
Snowy Egret   5 4   1 3 19 46 21 3 31 5
Little Blue Heron 1 8 7 5   15 25 8 6 7 11 5
Tricolored Heron 2 2 7   2 6 12 20 12 4 5 3
Cattle Egret 3   17   33 1 48 14 13 47 3 37
Green Heron 3 5 2 1     1 7 12      
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron                 1      
White Ibis   7 262 30 12 22 126 12 22 41 98 51
Glossy Ibis     6 2 3 1 31 2 2      
ibis sp.                     2  
Roseate Spoonbill                 3   1  
Wood Stork 3   1   16 15 20 22 29 1 15  
Black Vulture 56 42 46 44 46 28 39 40 44 27 21 17
Turkey Vulture 43 106 123 72 80 90 37 49 61 35 52 12
Wood Duck     7 6       7 3 10 3 2
Mottled Duck     8   2 4   6   4 1 22
Blue-winged Teal             5         12
Northern Pintail     1                  
Ring-necked Duck           1            
Hooded Merganser   1   3   1            
duck sp.             3         8
Osprey 8 1 1   5 7 6 8 9 3 2 14
Swallow-tailed Kite               1 2      
Bald Eagle 10 10 7 7 17 8 7 9 4 2 2 6
Northern Harrier 1 1 2 3 3 2 1         2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 1         1       1  
Cooper's Hawk     3           1 1 1  
Red-shouldered Hawk 12 9 25 9 25 12 10 17 18 6 10 11
Red-tailed Hawk 3 2 12 5 9 5 5 3 3 6 5 3
hawk sp.               1        
BIRDS 10/09/99 11/06/99 12/11/99 01/15/00 02/12/00 03/11/00 04/09/00 05/14/00 06/10/00 07/15/00 08/12/00 09/16/00
American Kestrel 9 11 15 5 14 8 3         1
Merlin 2 5 1 1     1 1        
Peregrine Falcon 7                      
Wild Turkey   2 13 1   1 1 1 5 10    
Northern Bobwhite 6 1 4 10 2 6 13 33 21 5 18 2
King Rail 1   5 2 3     2 1      
Virginia Rail   1                    
Common Moorhen   1 2 8 3 5   15 16 19 9 1
American Coot       24 34 37 2 20 11 9 11 2
Limpkin 1     2 1 1 1 3 6 5 7  
Sandhill Crane   9 8 5   1 4 5 2 1 2 5
Semipalmated Plover               14        
Killdeer   1 22 125 5 4 1 13 2 3 7 5
Black-necked Stilt             7 7 18 4 16  
Greater Yellowlegs     1 2     3   9   1 1
Lesser Yellowlegs     17     2 6 2   2    
Solitary Sandpiper             1 1        
Semipalmated Sandpiper               70        
Western Sandpiper     3         4        
Least Sandpiper     27         200        
White-rumped Sandpiper               4        
Pectoral Sandpiper               3     4  
Dunlin     11                  
Stilt Sandpiper             61          
Calidris sp.             17 50        
Short-billed Dowitcher               1        
Long-billed Dowitcher     3       230          
Common Snipe   2 31 17 2              
American Woodcock         1              
sandpiper sp.                       3
Laughing Gull     407   1258 497 5          
Ring-billed Gull     338 1 1767 200 20          
Herring Gull         8              
Caspian Tern   1   2     1     1    
Forster's Tern         1 1            
Rock Dove           2            
BIRDS 10/09/99 11/06/99 12/11/99 01/15/00 02/12/00 03/11/00 04/09/00 05/14/00 06/10/00 07/15/00 08/12/00 09/16/00
Eurasian Collared-Dove                       3
Mourning Dove 9 6 52 20 36 27 32 54 33 40 73 24
Common Ground-Dove 14 5 2 2 2 7 6 20 8 25 27 8
Yellow-billed Cuckoo                     1  
Eastern Screech-Owl   1 2 1 2           1  
Great Horned Owl               1        
Barred Owl                       2
Common Nighthawk               2 3 3   1
Chimney Swift 3           11 1 5 5 15 12
Ruby-throated Hummingbird                   1   1
Belted Kingfisher 12 14 14 6 10 3 2       1 6
Red-headed Woodpecker 3 3 1   2 1 5   1 6 2 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 36 28 52 20 40 26 28 76 39 40 35 39
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker   2 5   1              
Downy Woodpecker 16 14 41 10 31 17 12 30 37 22 27 31
Hairy Woodpecker               1        
Northern Flicker 7 17 35 7 17 13 5 17 13 18 8 12
Pileated Woodpecker 5 9 16 2 17 18 8 10 3 6 11 22
Eastern Wood-Pewee                       1
Empidonax sp. 1                      
Eastern Phoebe   32 42 28 26 3            
Great Crested Flycatcher           1 36 70 31 9 9  
Eastern Kingbird             2     1 20 2
Loggerhead Shrike 6 7 6 3 9     3 2 7 16 10
White-eyed Vireo 26 11 13 4 14 17 16 55 36 18 8 32
Blue-headed Vireo   1     3 2            
Red-eyed Vireo             2 2 3   2 9
Blue Jay 35 20 21 11 23 17 3 26 16 12 20 40
Florida Scrub-Jay 7 5     4 2 3 4 4 3 2 4
American Crow   1 18     2   1        
Fish Crow 2 82 54 27 47 20 10 9 22 27 1164 106
crow sp. 11 5 8   14 4 11 21 21 6    
Purple Martin         1 1   1 13 12 9  
Tree Swallow 23 70 583 254 660 855 5     1    
Northern Rough-winged Swallow                       3
Bank Swallow                     1  
BIRDS 10/09/99 11/06/99 12/11/99 01/15/00 02/12/00 03/11/00 04/09/00 05/14/00 06/10/00 07/15/00 08/12/00 09/16/00
Barn Swallow               3 3   113 49
Carolina Chickadee 1   3   2   5 8 5 2 5 2
Tufted Titmouse 25 13 18 8 9 11 12 13 13 11 3 20
Brown-headed Nuthatch   5 4 3 10 3 3 10 9 12 27 20
Carolina Wren 66 32 55 29 55 52 54 111 79 75 79 77
House Wren 25 62 54 14 31 10 23 1        
Sedge Wren 4 21 4 5 8 7 3          
Marsh Wren 2 14 1 1 1   7          
Ruby-crowned Kinglet   22 35 22 10 16 2          
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 20 13 28 30 8 47 40 60 18 14 18 16
Eastern Bluebird     2       2 1 4 4 15  
Hermit Thrush     3     2            
American Robin   27 907 254 743 2            
Gray Catbird 44 50 80 18 44 24 16          
Northern Mockingbird 21 14 13 6 20 16 11 32 19 13 16 47
Brown Thrasher 1 5   2 5 4 2 12 7 11 4 12
European Starling 15 23 5 2 4 5 2 5 3     8
Cedar Waxwing       8 5              
Orange-crowned Warbler   2 1 2 1 1            
Northern Parula           27 13 19 13 5 5 5
Yellow Warbler                     3 1
Cape May Warbler               1        
Yellow-rumped Warbler   342 1225 341 613 80 2          
Blackburnian Warbler                       1
Yellow-throated Warbler 1 1   1       1       2
Pine Warbler 9 12 25 13 34 44 22 50 25 4 7 23
Prairie Warbler 6   1     1 10     2 14 9
Palm Warbler 11 29 18 8 33 26 42 1        
Black-and-white Warbler 1     1 3 1 3         1
American Redstart 1           2 8     5  
Ovenbird   1 1 1   2           4
Northern Waterthrush 1           1         1
Common Yellowthroat 88 77 116 26 94 39 27 60 66 31 2 28
Summer Tanager               4   2 3 1
Eastern Towhee 71 51 81 27 113 74 79 190 134 143 125 65
Bachman's Sparrow 5 2 3   2 16 6 45 27 28 12 2
BIRDS 10/09/99 11/06/99 12/11/99 01/15/00 02/12/00 03/11/00 04/09/00 05/14/00 06/10/00 07/15/00 08/12/00 09/16/00
Chipping Sparrow     8 1 10              
Savannah Sparrow       13 2              
Song Sparrow   1     1              
Swamp Sparrow 1 24 22 16 21 11 8          
Northern Cardinal 54 22 45 19 47 58 49 114 73 68 60 50
Blue Grosbeak 4                      
Indigo Bunting             5          
Painted Bunting   2                    
Bobolink                       55
Red-winged Blackbird 241 141 128 59 59 20 21 56 46 37 12 4
Eastern Meadowlark   1 1 12 5 6 2 8 8   1  
Brewer's Blackbird     1                  
Common Grackle 99 161 316 63 86 30 41 41 14 25 16 15
Boat-tailed Grackle 80 93 131 140 63 23 27 92 23 9 35 20
Brown-headed Cowbird   10 1 5   3 1 10 5      
American Goldfinch         12 4 5          

TOTAL BIRDS 1303 1859 5805 1972 6988 2773 1864 2125 1357 1094 2403 1173
TOTAL SPECIES 66 78 92 79 86 85 91 86 72 67 76 77
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Last Updated on 9/16/00
By Lorne Malo