T-minus 100 hours and counting....

This week is going to be hell at work. I'm already having problems concentrating on my work with my trip to Florida rapidly approaching. To illustrate the potential of this trip for me, here's a list of the potential life and ABA area birds that I could see next week (compiled from Bill Pranty's A Birder's Guide to Florida). I'll publish a follow-up post after I return, so we can compare this list with what I actually see.

Potential Life Birds:

1. Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
2. Fulvous Whistling Duck
3. Mottled Duck
4. Masked Duck
5. Cory's Shearwater
6. Audubon's Shearwater
7. Leach's Storm-petrel
8. Band-rumped Storm-petrel
9. White-tailed Tropicbird
10. Masked Booby
11. Brown Booby
12. Red-footed Booby
13. Least Bittern
14. Reddish Egret
15. White Ibis
16. Roseate Spoonbill
17. Greater Flamingo
18. Swallow-tailed Kite
19. White-tailed Kite
20. Snail Kite
21. Crested Caracara
22. Clapper Rail
23. Limpkin
24. Snowy Plover
25. Wilson's Plover
26. Upland Sandpiper
27. Gull-billed Tern
28. Elegant Tern
29. Roseate Tern
30. Bridled Tern
31. Brown Noddy
32. Black Noddy
33. Black Skimmer
34. White-crowned Pigeon
35. Eurasian Collared-Dove
36. KeyWest Quail-Dove
37. Budgerigar
38. Monk Parakeet
39. Green Parakeet
40. White-winged Parakeet
41. Red-crowned Parrot
42. Smooth-billed Ani
43. Burrowing Owl
44. Antillean Nighthawk
45. Red-cockaded Woodpecker
46. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
47. Florida Scrub-jay
48. Red-whiskered Bulbul
49. Bahama Mockingbird
50. Western Spindalis
51. Bachman's Sparrow
52. Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
53. Seaside Sparrow
54. Painted Bunting
55. Bronzed Cowbird
56. Spot-breasted Oriole

Potential ABA-area birds:

1. Magnificent Frigatebird
2. American Oystercatcher
3. Royal Tern
4. Sandwich Tern
5. White-winged Dove
6. Common Ground-dove
7. Mangrove Cuckoo
8. Gray Kingbird
9. Black-whiskered Vireo
10. Cave Swallow
11. Bananaquit
12. Shiny Cowbird