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Field Trips - Chapel Hill Bird Club



We've just begun to set up the fall field trips for the Chael Hill Bird 
Club.  See also http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/chbc/fieldtrips.html

Saturday morning trips leave the Glen Lennox parking lot (on the north 
side of 54 just east of the intersection with 15-501 in Chapel Hill) at 
7:30 am sharp and return by noon. Reservations are not necessary. 
Beginners and visitors are welcome! Bring binoculars, boots (or old tennis 
shoes), a scope if you've got one, and be prepared for a long, hot hike. 
Contact Doug Shadwick (942-0479) for more details. Here's the tentative 
schedule:

21 Aug. - New Hope Creek mudflats. We should see lots of shorebirds and 
waders. Old Hope Valley Farm Road can be great for migrant passerines, 
too, but it's a little early in the fall season yet. Be prepared for a 
long hike! Leader: Will Cook. You can meet us at the end of OHVF Rd. at 8 
am if you wish.

Directions: from I-40, exit onto NC 54 west (Chapel Hill exit). Take a 
left at the second stoplight onto Farrington Rd. (there's a Hardee's at 
this intersection). Follow Farrington Rd. for about 2 miles and take a 
left onto Farrington Mill Rd. Follow Farrington Mill Rd. for about 2 miles 
and turn left onto Old Hope Valley Farm Rd., which is just before the 
Chatham County line. Follow OHVF Rd. to its end at a metal gate. To get to 
the New Hope Creek mudflats, continue on foot past the gate, turn left at 
the large powerline, and follow it to the water. There's an old railroad 
bed jutting out into the lake - walk to the end for best scoping.

28 Aug. - Morgan Creek mudflats. We should see lots of shorebirds and 
waders (unless a hurricane breaks the drought). On the other side of the 
Old Hope Valley Farm Road from the New Hope Creek mudflats. Be prepared 
for a long hike! Leader: Doug Shadwick. You can meet us at the end of OHVF 
Rd. at 8 am if you wish. See above for directions.

4 Sept. - Falls Lake shorebirds. Leader: Doug Shadwick 

11 Sept. - Destination TBA, but we'll probably go looking for more 
shorebirds if conditions are still good.

18 Sept. - No field trip because of the Chatham County Fall Bird Count. E-
mail me if you would like to participate.

25-26 Sept. - Field trip to the mountains for warblers and hawks. We'll 
visit the Mahogany Rock hawk watch and cruise the Blue Ridge Parkway for 
warblers. E-mail me if you would like to join us.

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Charles W. "Will" Cook                w 919-660-7409
cwcook@duke.edu                 h 919-967-5446
Duke University Botany Dept., Durham, North Carolina
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook