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Swallows / Night Heron
- To: "carolinabirds@duke.edu" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Swallows / Night Heron
- From: Ann Robertson <arobertson@law.wfu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 07:47:13 -0400
- Organization: Wake Forest University School of Law
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
My husband Chester and I birded Miller Park in Winston-Salem on Saturday
morning, 3/31 and found a male Yellow-crowned Night Heron near Shelter
No. 2, in the same territory that a pair has nested for the last several
years. On Sunday morning we returned and witnessed him fishing in the
nearby stream, then flying from pine to pine displaying. Quite a show.
On Sunday afternoon we drove to Salem Lake, which was alive with
swallows. We are not competent with this species but I looked in the
venerable "Birds of the Carolinas" and this description fits what we
saw: "A large migrating flock of mixed species may number several
hundred birds . . . ." Everywhere we turned our binoculars we saw
swallows - we're fairly confident we saw Barn, Tree, Cliff &
Rough-winged. Again, quite a spectacle!
Ann Robertson
Winston-Salem, NC
arobertson@law.wfu.edu