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Field Trips - Chapel Hill Bird Club
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Field Trips - Chapel Hill Bird Club
- From: "Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:58:05 -0400
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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.
--
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