Yesterday and last night the rain just poured down. We had scary lightning storms throughout the evening. The best part about these showers is the cool temperatures they bring. Living in South Florida in a house without A/C can get a little old after 3 or 4 days in the 90 degree range. But yesterday I went and picked up my new studio key and I am going to start packing up the car this evening. If all goes well, I will be totally moved in by Sunday.
Meanwhile at Green Cay, the summer is in full swing with baby birds Everywhere. We have baby Purple Gallinules, Common Moorhens, Mottled Ducks, Boat-tailed Grackles, Black-necked Stilts, Limpkins, and Anhingas. The Killdeer nests are empty (seen below) and the Black-bellied Whistling Ducks are all paired up flying around. I can't wait until those guys have their young. I'm not really into duck babies but there's something about those markings on the Whistling Ducks that get me.
A new breeding bird for Green Cay is the Fish Crow. For the last few weeks it's been guarding a nest somewhere on the Chickee Island. I went out there last week when it was frantically making a lot of noise. I'm not sure if something attacked the nest but there was a mess on the railing and it was extremely agitated. With the boardwalk maintenance I haven't had a chance to go back and check it out but it seems that something had gone awry. So that puts the Green Cay breeding species population up to 21. When I first started working here 1.5 years ago we only had 12 types of birds nesting. Green Cay just turned 3 years old so there's hope that even more birds will be finding it and making it their breeding grounds in the future.
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