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Subject: Piping and Wilson's Plovers + 15 shorebird sp. - Kiawah
Island, SC
From: Nate Dias <offshorebirder(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 6 Nov 2006 10:37am
With a regularly occurring Piping Plover count as an
excuse, Chris Snook, Greg Butcher, Linda Fuller,
Marilyn Blizard and I did some birding around the
eastern tip of Kiawah Island on Sunday morning (Nov.
5).
There were many shorebirds and terns roosting on the
beach in front of the Ocean Course clubhouse. There
were hundreds each of Short-billed Dowitchers, Dunlin,
Semipalmated Plovers and smaller numbers of Western
and Least Sandpipers. We had large numbers of Surf
Scoters and Black Scoters passing offshore.
Farther down the beach toward Stono Inlet, we had a
firm 18 Piping Plovers, with a probable 2 or 3
hunkered where we could not ID them without causing
too much disturbance.
We also had 10-12 Wilson's Plovers and 200+ Red Knots.
A lurking Peregrine Falcon made precise counts of the
2 focus species (PIPL + WIPL) difficult...
Partial bird list (highlights):
Anhinga
Wood Stork (5)
White Ibis (10s)
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter (100s)
Black Scoter (several 100s)
Brown Pelican (10s)
Osprey
N. Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
PEREGRINE FALCON
Black-bellied Plover (20+)
WILSON'S PLOVER (10+)
PIPING PLOVER (18+)
Semipalmated Plover (several 100s)
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Marbled Godwit
RED KNOT (200+)
Ruddy Turnstone (10s)
Sanderling (10s)
Western Sandpiper (10s)
Least Sandpiper (10s)
Dunlin (several 100s)
Short-billed Dowitcher (several 100s)
Sandwich Tern (6-8)
Forster's Tern (10s)
Caspian Tern (10s)
Royal Tern (10s)
Black Skimmer (5)
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE (4+)
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Gray Catbird
Palm Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Savannah Sparrow (10s)
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow (12-15)
Swamp Sparrow
Nathan Dias - Charleston, SC
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Subject: Seeking Rusty Blackbirds
From: Becky Browning <Becky.Browning(AT)ncmail.net>
Date: 6 Nov 2006 2:21pm
The NC Museum of Natural Sciences is looking for Rusty Blackbirds!
We are starting our second winter of work in conjunction with the
Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and the International Rusty
Blackbird Working Group. If you see Rustys could you please let me
know (particularly if you live in NC). We are hoping to trap some
and take blood and feather samples (non lethal). Numbers of Rusty
Blackbirds have dropped significantly over the past 30 years or so,
and the reason why is still unclear.
Please contact me using the following information. Thank you very
much!
Becky
Becky Browning
Bird Collection Manager
NC State Museum of Natural Sciences
11 W. Jones Street
Raleigh NC 27601
(919) 733-7450 x710
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Subject: Franklin's gull no longer at Ebenezer Pt
From: "Diana Davis" <deqdavis(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 6 Nov 2006 4:36pm
If anyone was thinking of zipping off to Jordan Lake this afternoon to
look for the Franklin's gull it is no longer there. Well, it is there but
it is deceased. For future reference Piedmont Wildlife Center, located in
Durham, NC is a great resource for injured wildlife. Their number is
919-572-9453 and they are open 7 days a week. If you aren't in the Triangle
area they might be able to refer you to another rehabber.
If you feel you'd be interfering with the cycle of life let me mention
that the majority of animals that arrive at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
are there because of human caused injury. Free roaming cats are far and
away the leading cause of injured wildlife but cars, window strikes and
fishing line also contribute.
Diana Davis
Durham, NC
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Subject: Wood Thrush in Cayse, Lexington Co., SC
From: "Robin Carter" <rcarter(AT)sc.rr.com>
Date: 6 Nov 2006 4:49pm
This afternoon I visited the Cayse Riverwalk, a greenway trail along the
Congaree River in Cayse, SC, immediately across the Congaree from Granby
Park in Columbia. I had read in a local paper that an additional mile of
trail along the river had just openned, so I went to check it out. As it
turned out final touches are still being done to the new section of trail
and it is not yet open.
As I was returning to the parking lot, walking along the existing part of
the Cayse Riverwalk, I encountered a nice mixed flock in a bit of second
growth floodplain forest. I was surprised to hear the chuckle of a Wood
Thrush coming from the undergrowth, along with the expected "check" note of
a Hermit Thrush. I think this is the first time that I have ever found a
Wood Thrush in South Carolina in November. There is one November record
(11/27/1987) for Congaree National Park.
Now just because I have heard a Wood Thrush in South Carolina in November,
all you South Carolina CBC compilers out there, be warned that I will expect
very complete details (meaning a photo or sound recording) of any Wood
Thrush that you try to claim on a Christmas Bird Count! That also goes for
any other of the "spotted" thrushes other than Hermit Thrush. Anything other
than Hermit Thrush on a South Carolina CBC would be extremely unlikely.
Robin Carter
Columbia, SC USA
mailto:rcarter(AT)sc.rr.com
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Subject: Lake Julian/Buncombe County
From: "Wayne K. Forsythe" <wforsythe(AT)mchsi.com>
Date: 6 Nov 2006 6:12pm
Folks,
I ran up to Lake Julian this afternoon about 2:30 PM hoping for some
migrant waterfowl. There was not a thing of interest on the lake. I then
began checking the tree line around the lake hoping for the Bald Eagle
reported by John Lindfors on Sat. afternoon. While looking out over the
right most end of the lake from the picnic area, I found an adult BALD EAGLE
sitting in a bare Sycamore tree above and behind the road that crosses the
dam. If you stand to the right of the picnic shelter and line yourself up
with the right most buoy marker, the bird was above and behind the marker on
the hillside! This is probably the same bird reported by John on Sat. I
got some digi-scope photos which are poor but diagnostic. This species is
seldom seen in the mountains of Western NC.
Wayne
Wayne K. Forsythe
Hendersonville, N. C.
828-697-6628
wforsythe AT mchsi dot com
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