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Subject: 27 White Pelicans - Stono River beside Legare Farms
From: Nate Dias <offshorebirder(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 5 Nov 2006 1:53am
27 White Pelicans were the highlight of the chilly
bird walk at Legare Farms this morning (November 4).
They were flying up the Stono River, from the Sol
Legare landing area up past the Dill refuge.
A Merlin put on a show chasing a Sharp-shinned Hawk
and we had Field+Vesper+White-crowned Sparrows and
plenty of Loggerhead Shrikes and American Kestrels.
Other highlights:
Anhingas
Wood Storks
Bald Eagle
Sedge Wren
American Pipit
Blue-headed Vireo
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nathan Dias - Charleston, SC
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Subject: White-winged Scoters at Hunting Island State Park, SC
From: "Robin Carter" <rcarter(AT)sc.rr.com>
Date: 5 Nov 2006 6:08am
I spent much of yesterday birding at Hunting Island State Park, Beaufort
County, SC. My best birds were a pair of White-winged Scoters that flew by
right off the beach a few hundred yards north of Fripp Inlet.
Robin Carter
Columbia, SC USA
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Subject: additions
From: "Harry Sell" <sellbirding(AT)ec.rr.com>
Date: 5 Nov 2006 7:15am
Hi All,
I could say it was a test to see how many looked at my photos and how
quickly it would be caught. But the truth is, I did mess up on the flock of
Teal.... They are Lesser Scaup I have changed the ID. I based my first ID on
my visual at the time photo taken. Looks like the photo sometimes reveal a
better ID... and sometimes it only serves to confuse me.
That one slipped by at least 70 of you according to my site visitors count.
So you see, you need to really look at my photos if just to keep me in line.
www.pbase.com/sellbirding
Harry D Sell
Boiling Spring Lakes, NC
Brunswick County
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Subject: Fort Fisher Yesterday
From: "John Ennis" <jennis(AT)ec.rr.com>
Date: 5 Nov 2006 7:21am
Need I say there were copious quantities of wind, cold air, and
Yellow-rumped Warblers? Seems like about half of the sparrows from Friday
had been replaced by YRW's...
First stop at CB City Lake...number of coots had tripled from Friday and a
small flock of FOW Ruddy Ducks had shown up...
Big surf...got to see 3 dolphin surf the top of a wave...and unfortunately,
did not get pictures of any surfers crashing into the rocks...dang!
The number of sparrows was still good around the aquarium and I tried but
failed to relocate the Grasshopper Sparrow...in its place was a beautiful
1st year male Baltimore
Oriole...http://thebusinessbirder.com/Oriole110406.pdf
Left over from Friday...it was a good day to be a Grasshopper Sparrow and
get you picture taken but a bad day to be a grasshopper...here is my picture
titled "Mr. T versus the Grasshopper"...guess who won?
http://thebusinessbirder.com/MrT110306.pdf
Harry Sell and I were both shooting the thrush and watched the bird throw
the grasshopper up several times and let it hit the pavement...kids today
need to be told to not play with their food....
John Ennis
Leland, NC
910-371-9729
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Subject: Franklin's Gull still at Ebenezer
From: "Kent Fiala" <fiala(AT)ipass.net>
Date: 5 Nov 2006 10:40am
I guess everyone but me has already chased a Franklin's Gull in NC, as not many
birders are here this morning. The Franklin's found yesterday is still present,
just below the playground at Ebenezer Point, Jordan Lake. As noted yesterday it
is quite lethargic and approachable.
--
Kent Fiala
at Ebenezer Point
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Subject: Re: Franklin's Gull at Jordan Lake 11/4/2006
From: jspippen(AT)duke.edu
Date: 5 Nov 2006 11:15am
Birders,
Yesterday afternoon (11/4/2006), Bill & Lisa Schlesinger and I went to
Ebenezer Pt. to look for the Franklin's Gull. Unfortunately for us, a
group of kayakers was training at the swim beach and no Franklin's Gull
was in sight. We did see about 25 Common Loons scattered around in the
water and a couple of hundred Bonaparte's Gulls way out over the water.
It's likely the Franklin's had moved out of identifiable range with the
other gulls over the far end of the lake.
Good birding,
Jeff
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 jspippen(AT)duke.edu wrote:
> Birders,
>
> Ricky Davis called me to report a Franklin's Gull that Doug Shadwick
> found and Ricky relocated at the swim beach at Ebenezer Point at Jordan
> Lake, NC this morning (Saturday Nov 4th). The bird was very approachable,
> so may be sick or injured (or just cold!).
>
> Good birding,
> Jeff
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Jeffrey S. Pippen
> Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
> Rm A-241 LSRC Bldg, Box 90328
> Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
> PH: (919) 660-7278
> http://www.duke.edu/~jspippen/nature.htm
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Jeffrey S. Pippen
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Rm A-241 LSRC Bldg, Box 90328
Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
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Subject: Re: Franklin's Gull still at Ebenezer
From: dkma(AT)mindspring.com
Date: 5 Nov 2006 2:58pm
Several of us studied the bird at midday today. It was still on the beach when I
left at 1:30. I suspect it's ill, as it spent a long period hunkered down
nearly motionless on the ground, leading us to think it was moribund, but did
eventually walk to the water and drink a bit.
Dan Kaplan
Durham
-----Original Message-----
>From: Kent Fiala <fiala(AT)ipass.net>
>Sent: Nov 5, 2006 10:13 AM
>To: carolinabirds(AT)duke.edu
>Subject: Franklin's Gull still at Ebenezer
>
>I guess everyone but me has already chased a Franklin's Gull in NC, as not many
birders are here this morning. The Franklin's found yesterday is still present,
just below the playground at Ebenezer Point, Jordan Lake. As noted yesterday it
is quite lethargic and approachable.
>
>--
>Kent Fiala
>at Ebenezer Point
>
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Subject: How's this for some autumnal color
From: "KC Foggin" <KCFoggin(AT)sc.rr.com>
Date: 5 Nov 2006 8:33pm
The White-throats are plentiful
http://upload.pbase.com/image/69772639
KC Foggin
Socastee
Myrtle Beach SC
www.birdforum.net
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Subject: Sandhills Natural History Society- November 4th Field Trip
From: "Michael McCloy" <prothonotarywarbler(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 5 Nov 2006 10:39pm
Yesterday (November 4th) the Sandhills Natural History Society had a birding
trip to Ft. Fisher, led by Scott Hartley. Participants were Scott Hartley,
Carol Bowman, Carol Peters, Cassie Willis, David and Nancy Kilpatrick, and
David and Michael McCloy. The wind kept most of the birds down, but we still
had a decent day, ending up with 65 species.
Our first stop was at Lake Park (I think that's the name of it) in Carolina
Beach, where we saw several Ruddy Ducks along with 25-30 American Coots and
an assortment of gulls. We then went on to the Fort Fisher jetty, where we
ran into John Ennis. Along the jetty we saw Marbled Godwits, American
Oystercatchers, Dunlin, Willet, and a Ruddy Turnstone.
The flocks of sparrows at the ferry station were still present, but were
mostly White-throats, and we didn't see the Clay-colored that was there the
previous day.
The marshes in the Fort Fisher recreation area didnt hold a lot of birds
either, but there were several Seasides and one or two Sharp-tailed Sparrows
present.
We walked the trails around the historic fort, where we saw a Merlin,
American Kestrel, and Marsh Wren, but nothing out of the ordinary.
The Sandhills Natural History Society is based in Southern Pines, North
Carolina and has a wide variety of field trips that focus on birds,
butterflies, wildflowers, and all other aspects of nature. For a list of
upcoming field trips or if you are interested in joining, please visit
http://www.sandhillsnature.org
Michael McCloy
Southern Pines, NC
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Subject: Re: Franklin's Gull still at Ebenezer
From: Will Cook <cwcook(AT)duke.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 2006 11:08pm
The Franklin's was still in the same spot late this afternoon (swim
beach, Ebenezer Point, Jordan Lake, Chatham Co., NC). I've just posted
some photos at http://www.carolinanature.com/birds/franklinsgull.html
I also noticed (thanks to the RSS feed on the CBC website) that Kent's
posted a fine photo by Ricky Davis:
http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/gallery/frgu_davis.html
--
Will Cook - Durham, NC
http://www.carolinanature.com
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Subject: Snowy Plover and other goodies at Huntington Beach State
Park, SC
From: "Robin Carter" <rcarter(AT)sc.rr.com>
Date: 5 Nov 2006 11:11pm
Today Caroline Eastman and I drove to Huntington Beach State Park to search
for the Snowy Plover that Jack Peachey and Bob Maxwell found yesterday. We
got started on our way from the North Beach parking lot to the jetty at
12:00 noon. We found the Snowy Plover at about 2:15 PM (just about low
tide). It was not actually along the beach next to the Least Tern enclosure,
but was on a sandy flat across a tidal creek from this beach. We got good
looks through the telescope.
The Least Tern enclosure was hopping with migrant sparrows. We had one
fly-over Lapland Longspur and two fly-over Snow Buntings. We got wonderful
looks at the Henslow's Sparrow that Bob Maxwell found yesterday. Also
present were good numbers of Field Sparrows and White-throated Sparrows --
definitely migrants here -- as well as the usual Savannah Sparrows and Song
Sparrows.
An immature Great Cormorant was on the channel marker beyond the end of the
south jetty, its usual place. There were about three Purple Sandpipers on
the jetties.
What a great day at Huntington Beach! Seldom (if ever) have I found so many
rarities there on a single day as I did today! Very cool birding.
We missed the Reddish Egret, which was seen early in the morning by RIch
Lilly.
Here is our day list, from e-Bird:
Observation Report
Location
Location name: Huntington Beach State Park
Date, Effort, & Habitat
Observation type: Casual Observation
Observation date: 11/5/06 Distance covered: 4.0 mile(s)
Start time: 12:00 PM Area covered: N/A
Duration: 5 hour(s) 30 minute(s) Elevation: 0.0 meter(s)
Secondary habitat: N/A
Number of people in party: 2
Comments: Huntington Beach State Park only
Species
Are you reporting all the species you identified? Yes
1 Green-winged Teal
8 Ring-necked Duck
5 Hooded Merganser
30 Common Loon
12 Pied-billed Grebe
250 Northern Gannet
120 Brown Pelican
250 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Cormorant
15 Great Blue Heron
4 Great Egret
1 Snowy Egret
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron
30 White Ibis
6 Wood Stork
2 Osprey
10 Clapper Rail
12 American Coot
8 Black-bellied Plover
1 Snowy Plover
10 Semipalmated Plover
4 Piping Plover
1 Lesser Yellowlegs
2 Willet
6 Red Knot
35 Sanderling
3 Purple Sandpiper
10 Dunlin
8 Short-billed Dowitcher
5 Laughing Gull
200 Ring-billed Gull
50 Herring Gull
4 Great Black-backed Gull
100 Royal Tern
20 Sandwich Tern
5 Forster's Tern
400 Black Skimmer
6 Mourning Dove
2 Great Horned Owl
25 Tree Swallow
3 Carolina Wren
1 Marsh Wren
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2 Gray Catbird
4 Northern Mockingbird
1 European Starling
15 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Eastern Towhee
6 Field Sparrow
20 Savannah Sparrow
1 Henslow's Sparrow
4 Song Sparrow
12 White-throated Sparrow
1 Lapland Longspur
2 Snow Bunting
200 Red-winged Blackbird
10 Boat-tailed Grackle
6 House Finch
Total species reported: 58
Robin Carter
Columbia, SC USA
mailto:rcarter(AT)sc.rr.com
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