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National Audubon Society moved along the roads at 10 to 15 miles per hour, 
stopping where wildlife was abundant. A telescope on a tripod supplemented 
our binoculars. 
You should have seen us wading knee deep to see a Florida crane’s 
nest. It was like a muskrat heap, with only one egg (usually two). We 
saw three adult cranes. Poor burrowing owls had nesting holes full of 
water for the second time this year. 
Limpkins cried like spanked nigger babies (a Sprunt description). We 
finally saw three feeding beside the road. Ten caracaras paraded or fiew 
close to us at different times during the first day. Thousands of white ibises 
in flight met me outside the city of Okeechobee as if to welcome a Chicago 
ornithologist. Beautiful glossy ibises fed close to the highway. Snowy and 
American egrets were everywhere. Little blue, Louisiana, yellow-crowned, 
black-crowned, and Ward’s (great blue) herons were legion. 
On a highway north of town, in a cypress swamp (Cypress Run, Taylor 
Creek), we saw the red-cockaded woodpecker and the brown-headed nut- 
hatch for the first time. I glimpsed the pileated twice. The yellow-throated 
warbler of the south delighted us. It is not to be confused with the Florida 
yellew-throat with its “‘witchity” sone. The anhingas appeared at the last 
moment, much to our delight. 
Following is a list of species seen during my four months in Florida: 
Common loon, pied-billed grebe, white pelican, brown pelican, cormorant, 
water-turkey (anhinga), man-o’-war-bird, Ward’s heron, American and 
snowy egrets, Louisiana, little blue, green, black-crowned night and yellow- 
crowned night herons, American bittern, wood, glossy and white ibises, 
mallard, Florida duck, baldpate, blue-winged teal, shoveller, ring-neck and 
scaup ducks, American and red-breasted mergansers, turkey and black 
vultures, red-tailed hawk, bald eagle, marsh hawk, osprey, Audubon’s 
caracara, sparrow hawk, bob-white, Florida crane, liimpkin, king and clapper 
rails, Florida gallinule, coot, oyster catcher, piping, semipalmated, Wilson’s 
and black-bellied plovers, killdeer, ruddy turnstone, Wilson’s snipe, Hud- 
sonian curlew, spotted sandpiper, willet, greater and lesser yellow-legs, 
knot, dowitcher, pectoral, least and semipalmated sandpipers, sanderling, 
herring, ring-billed and laughing gulls, Forster’s, common, least, royal and 
Caspian terns, black skimmer, mourning and ground doves, screech owl, 
chuck-will’s-widow, nighthawk, chimney swift, ruby-throated hummingbird, 
belted kingfisher, flicker, pileated, red-bellied, red-headed, downy and red- 
cockaded woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsucker, eastern and gray kingbirds, 
crested flycatcher, phoebe, tree, rough-winged and barn swallows, purple 
martin, blue jay, crow, fish crow, chickadee, tufted titmouse, brown-headed 
nuthatch, house wren, Carolina wren, mockingbird, catbird, brown thrasher, 
robin, hermit thrush, bluebird, blue-gray gnatcatcher, ruby- and golden- 
crowned kinglets, cedar waxwing, loggerhead shrike, white-eyed, yellow- 
throated and blue-headed vireos, black and white, prothonotary, parula, 
yellow-throated, pine, prairie and palm warblers, English sparrow, meadow- 
lark, red-winged blackbird, boat-tailed and Florida grackles, cardinal, gold- 
finch, towhee, and Savannah and song sparrows. 
La Grange, Illinois 
