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Pre-Season Survey for Flight date: 09 November 2006
Kissimmee Chain of Lakes Lake Toho – north end of lake has grassy islands, emergent vegetation, submerged and floating leaved aquatic plants, several flocks of coot, teal, and ring-necked ducks observed --South end of lake little vegetation, marginal to no habitat – no waterfowl observed Lake Hatchineha – northeast side has emergent, submerged, and floating leaved aquatic plants, few grass islands – large flock of coots – remainder of lake marginal habitat Lake Kissimmee - north end fair amount of emergent and floating leaved aquatic plants – east side- floating leaved plants, some submerged plants – only coots observed along east side of lake Kissimmee River – little to no habitat, cattle pastures along river mostly dry, no waterfowl observed Kissimmee River PUA – lots of emergent and floating leaved aquatics, observed several small flocks of teal and several small flocks of mottled ducks
Lake Okeechobee Buckhead Ridge to Fisheating Creek – marsh is very dry, not many open ponds, most good habitat is along water line consists of emergent and floating leaved aquatics - large mixed flocks of coot, and teal North of Fisheating Creek – very dry, recently burned – if water level was high enough to flood this area, it would be very attractive to waterfowl Moonshine Bay to Coot Bay – mixed emergent and floating leaved aquatics, good interspersion lots of open water – thousands of coot, several mixed flocks of teal and mottled ducks (flock size range from 10 – 300 birds); ring-necked ducks (up to 2000) observed in Coot Bay area
STA 5 -- emergent and floating leaved aquatics, topped out submerged aquatics (most likely hydrilla); good interspersion with a fair amount of open water, 4000 teal, 300 ring-necked ducks, 200 mottled ducks, 5000 coot STA 3-4 -- several cells overgrown with woody vegetation of thick cattail; cell 2B has topped out hydrilla and cattail islands, very good interspersion of open-water and vegetation -- most birds observed in cell 2B - thousands of coot, several hundred ring-necked ducks, 1,500 teal
Upper St. John’s River Basin Blue Cypress Recreation Area (Garcia) – emergent and floating leaved aquatics, topped out submerged aquatics (most likely hydrilla); good interspersion with a fair amount of open water; 200 ring-necked ducks in hydrilla in northwest, 200 teal in lilly pads in northeast East marsh – extremely dry on east side, west side has islands of sawgrass and some floating leaved aquatic plants; no waterfowl observed Stick Marsh/Farm 13 – no vegetation; no waterfowl observed T.M. Goodwin – typical operations at area; several impoundments with good interspersion of emergent and floating leaved aquatics, reservoir water depth 3.5 to 4 feet with cattail islands, submerged and floating leaved aquatics; teal and mottled ducks; coots and ring-necked ducks in the reservoir Broadmoor - typical operations at area; several impoundments with good interspersion of emergent, floating leaved, and submerged (naiad) aquatics, reservoir water depth 3 to 3.5 feet with emergent vegetation and floating leaved aquatics; 2000 teal, 200 mottled ducks, 50 pintail Mary A Block – good interspersion of water with willow and grass islands; floating leaved and submerged (likely hydrilla or naiad); 200 teal, 300 coot Sartori Block – lots of open water, emergent, floating leaved, and topped out submerged (hydrilla or naiad) aquatics; thousands of coot, several thousand ring-necked ducks and teal; pintails and shovelers observed Lake Hell n Blazes - – lots of water lettuce at south end; grass along west shore, some floating leaved aquatics; 200 teal Lake Sawgrass – ringed with willow, habitat is marginal; no waterfowl observed Sarno Marsh – water low; mostly dry on east side of south Hayfield; interspersion of open water, sawgrass, floating leaved plants; no waterfowl observed Lake Washington – open water, little to no vegetation; no waterfowl observed Lake Winder -- open water, little to no vegetation; no waterfowl observed Moccasin Island – very dry along periphery, lots of open water toward middle of area, emergent, floating leaved plants (hydrilla or naiad) aquatics; 500 teal Marsh on east side of Saint John’s river and north of Moccasin Island looks very attractive with good interspersion of water and emergent vegetation – one of the few areas of the St Johns marsh that is actually wet; 600 teal observed Lake Poinsett – dry on south and west side of lake, ringed with sawgrass; no birds observed
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