Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!stat!sun13!sandee From: sandee@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Trip to Everglades and Florida Keys: Part 1 Message-ID: <63@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 6 Jun 90 12:41:01 GMT References: <126613@midas.encore.com> <1990May30.155921.27316@cbnewsk.att.com> Reply-To: sandee@sun13.UUCP (Daan Sandee) Organization: Department of Meteorology, Florida State University Lines: 18 In article <1990May30.155921.27316@cbnewsk.att.com> king@cbnewsk.att.com (joyce.l.king) writes: > >On Mother's Day I saw a number of wood storks West of Brooksville, >Florida, at the Boy Scout Preserve. Brooksville is 40 miles north >of Tampa. I was surprised to see them so far north but I guess they >have to go where they can find food and water. ... >-- > Joyce Andrews King Wood Storks regularly breed as far North as Tallahassee. There are several colonies with dozens of pairs. However, they breed in inaccessible places and I don't know that anybody ever took a census (except by airplane). In winter, we may see them hanging around anywhere ; and post-breeding, there are somtimes flocks of juveniles - I once had 22 feeding next to the road. Daan Sandee sandee@scri1.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 (904) 644-7045