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At Bloody Bluff and Gardner Landing with their bottomland hardwoods
and gum-cypress communities you might observe a bald eagle or osprey
over the water, wood duck (and other water fowl), wading birds, red-shouldered
hawk, barred owl, swallow-tailed and Mississippi kites, hairy and pileated
woodpeckers, red-eyed vireo, Acadian flycatcher, northern parula and
Swainson's, prothonotary, yellow-throated, and hooded warblers. Along
Cash Creek and the tidal freshwater marsh one might observe rails, shorebirds,
wading birds, and raptors. In the surrounding mesic flatwoods one might
see or hear a brown-headed nuthatch, pine warbler, red-bellied woodpecker,
southeastern American kestrel or perhaps even a Bachman's sparrow. In
the open bogs and wet savannas you might see wintering species such
as sedge wrens or perhaps Henslow's sparrow. On the west side of the
river, south of Howard Creek, the dove fields and old agricultural fields
are a good place to observe swallow-tailed and Mississippi kites, and
other birds of prey such as red-shouldered, red-tailed, sharp-shinned,
Cooper's hawks and southeastern American kestrel. In this area biologists
have also observed blue grosbeak, indigo bunting, summer and scarlet
tanagers, orchard and northern orioles and many species of sparrrows
and swallows.
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