CarolinaBirds for Tuesday, August 29, 2006

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Subject: Ridge Junction 8/29/06--14 Warbler Species!
From: Dwayne Martin <redxbill(AT)charter.net>
Date: 29 Aug 2006 12:33pm

Monroe Pannell and I went up to Ridge Junction overlook(milepost 355.5 Blue
Ridge Parkway) this morning.  We got 38 species in 3 hours and 14 warbler
species!  Here is our list:

Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
American Crow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Gray Catbird
Cedar Waxwing
Tennessee Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler - not common at Ridge Junction
Bay-breasted Warbler - one adult 2-3 weeks early
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 15-20 most I've seen this early
Baltimore Oriole
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch

Not bad for late August.

Dwayne
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Dwayne Martin
Hickory, NC
redxbill(AT)charter.net

Catwaba County Park Ranger
Riverbend Park - Conover, NC
jdmartin(AT)catawbacountync.gov
http://www.catawbacountync.gov/depts/parks/


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Subject: Gray Kingbird and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in Richland Co.,
          SC
From: "Robin Carter" <rcarter(AT)sc.rr.com>
Date: 29 Aug 2006 2:10pm

Short version:
Gray Kingbird along White House Road. From I-77 exit at Bluff Road (SC 48)
and go east (away from the city) for 0.6 miles. Here turn right onto White
House Road (signs for stawberry farm here). Go 1.3 miles to where a beaver
pond swamp meets a soybean field. First found by Kathleen O'Grady and Andrea
Ceselski on Sunday.

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher at Congaree National Park near the cane thicket on
the west side of the old clubhouse clearing (intersection of Sims Trail and
Weston Lake Trail).

Long version:
Yesteday morning Kathleen O'Grady called me to let me know that she and
Andrea Ceselski had studied a possible Gray Kingbird with Eastern Kingbirds
along White House Road on Sunday. The location is just where Mike Turner
found a Gray Kingbird in September, 2004. I drove out to the spot and spend
two hours watching up to 15 Eastern Kingbirds, but had no Gray Kingbird.

Today I got up early and went to Congaree National Park with my recording
gear. I thought I heard a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher calling along the River
Trail about two weeks ago, but I did not have my recording gear at that
time. This morning I did not hear a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher calling, but I
did see one well at the old clubhouse clearing, This was just where the
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher was back in March. In fact it might have been the
same bird -- the one today looked very much like the one I got to know so
well last March. Alas, it did not call, so I did not get a confirming sound
recording.

Coming back to Columbia I stopped by White House Road and immediately
located the Gray Kingbird. It was with three or four Eastern Kingbirds,
sallying for insects over the soybean field and returning to a perch about
200 yards from the road, in dead trees on the edge of the beaver pond swamp.
Very cool. This is my first Gray Kingbird in Richland County since I missed
the 2004 bird.

I wonder how many migrant flocks of Eastern Kingbirds in the Coastal Plain
of South Carolina have a Gray Kingbird mixed in? We might be overlooking
this species a lot.

Robin Carter
Columbia, SC USA
mailto:rcarter(AT)sc.rr.com