CarolinaBirds for Saturday, April 29, 2006

Messages are displayed in the order they were received.  Subject  From  Time   Re: Waxwings/B. Owls?    Michael Logue    3:03pm   Wife unfairly denied Raptor Center trip :) You can help!     4:15pm   Mississippi Kites - Lexington County SC   Parkin Hunter   4:36pm   Ruff, White-rumped Sandpipers during CRBO's shorebird ID workshop   Cape Romain Bird Obs   8:48pm

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Subject: Re: Waxwings/B. Owls? 
From: Michael Logue <mlogue(AT)madison.main.nc.us>
Date: 29 Apr 2006 3:03pm

Rob Gluck, when you say B. Owl, do you mean Barn Owl or Barred Owl?

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Subject: Wife unfairly denied Raptor Center trip :)  You can help!
From: <amadave(AT)charter.net>
Date: 29 Apr 2006 4:15pm

Hi Carolina Birders!

My poor wife, who does not regularly accompany me on birding
trips but does love birds of prey, is being denied a trip to the Carolina
Raptor Center that she has long wanted by her "list crazy" husband.

As I've noted in previous postings here, I'm a disabled birder and 
do most of my birding from my car or a motorized scooter.  
Therefore, I still have not seen a number of birds that most 
good birders would have seen in childhood.   I just got my 
lifer Great Horned Owl in Kansas three weeks ago, for example.

I've told my wife for years that I'll gladly take her to the Raptor 
Center as soon as I see the really common raptors and owls
in the wild.  I now have only one to go.   SO...Carolina Birders
you may be able to free my wife from this injustice!

Does anybody know of any reliable Screech Owls anywhere
in the central two-thirds of North Carolina?   LOL

In the name of justice and fairness, we thank you,

Dave Hardin (on behalf of Amanda, though she doesn't know it)
Newton, NC
Carolina Birders, you may be able to


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Subject: Mississippi Kites - Lexington County SC
From: "Parkin Hunter" <parkin(AT)parkinhunter.com>
Date: 29 Apr 2006 4:36pm

April 29, 2006:

Saw four Mississippi Kites flying over the sludge farm fields (12:30 pm)  
at the intersection of Old Wire Road and Old State Road near Cayce,  
Lexington County, SC. A Black Vulture was also flying over the fields.

On the drive up Old State Road from Cayce, there were three Eastern  
Kingbirds in the fenced field at the entrance to the Cayce Sewage Plant  
and saw 6 Indigo Buntings on Old State between the boat landing and I-26.

Parkin Hunter
Columbia, SC


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Subject: Ruff, White-rumped Sandpipers during CRBO's shorebird ID
         workshop
From: "Cape Romain Bird Observatory" <crbo(AT)dmzs.com>
Date: 29 Apr 2006 8:48pm

Today's CRBO Shorebird Identification Workshop turned up a lot of shorebirds,
including some rarities.  The Santee Coastal Reserve in northern Charleston
County provided a perfect (but windy) setting for learning about shorebirds
and managed wetlands.  
I would like to thank today's leaders - Chris Snook, Dennis Forsythe, Craig
Richards and Willy Hutcheson.  Especially Dennis and Willy -- Dennis for
making the sacrifice of leaving early and Willy for then spotting the Reeve
and the White-rumped Sandpipers.  * If you go birding with Mr. Hutcheson,
bring your A-game or he will scoop you on all the rarities.

I took a couple of passable images of the Reeve - I will post them to the CRBO
website before long.

Shorebirds: (18 species)

Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Dunlin
Pectoral Sandpiper
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER (2)
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
RUFF (Reeve)
STILT SANDPIPER (60+)
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher

After the workshop and a seafood lunch in McClellanville, several of us went
to the Honey Hill area in the Francis Marion National Forest.  In about an
hour we saw several good birds.  Highlights:

Wild Turkey (and her brood)
Northern Bobwhite
Red-headed Woodpecker
Acadian Flycatcher
Ovenbird
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
N. Parula
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler

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Nathan Dias
Executive Director
Cape Romain Bird Observatory
http://www.crbo.net/
crbo(AT)dmzs.com
P.O. Box 362
McClellanville, SC 29458