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hotline: Carolina Rare Bird Alert
date: September 28, 2007
number: 704-332-2473
to report: 704-332-2473 or 704-545-2314 or PiephoffT@aol.com
coverage: North and South Carolina
compiler: Taylor Piephoff for the Carolina Bird Club
Hello, this is a September 28 update of the Carolina Rare Bird Alert
featuring birding news from North and South Carolina sponsored by the
Carolina Bird Club. Hightlights on this report include:
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
RED CROSSBILL
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES
WOOD STORKS (inland NC)
Up to 32 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS and 8 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were
present at the Atlantic Turf Co. west of Creswell, NC on September 24.
Obtain permission to enter from the front office.
Patriot's Point in Mount Pleasant, SC is a great place to look for all
kinds of migrants. On September 23 a LARK SPARROW and 3 CLAY-COLORED
SPARROWS were present.
Birders in Hendersonville, NC should check the blackbird flocks along
Hooper Lane. A YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was with starlings and cowbirds
on September 14.
Low water levels at most inland reservoirs in North Carolina have
provided great inland shorebirding this month. At the New Hope Creek
arm of Jordan Lake on September 16, seventen species of shorebirds were
found including RED PHALAROPE, AMERICAN GOLDE-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED
SANDPIPER, and WILSON'S PHALAROPE. Three WOOD STORKS have also been
present there for a few weeks.
Buckhorn Reservoir in Wilson County, NC has also been productive.
BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, MARBLED GODWIT, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, and nine
other shorebird species were present on September 17.
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES have staged their strongest fall flight in
years throughout the Carolinas. Individuals are showing up at feeders
throughout the coastal plain, piedmont, and foothills.
Birders shouild also be on the lookout for RED CROSSBILLS away from
their usual mountain locations. A juvenile female spent a few days
south of Greenville, SC in August.
Thanks to Jeff Lewis, Jon Fussell, Susan Boyd, Cathy Miller, Jeff
Catlin, Donald Rote, and Wayne Forsythe, for their calls and reports.
Taylor Piephoff
Charlotte, NC
Piephofft@aol.com
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