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Re: Another spring arrival in the Triangle
- To: Joshua Stuart Rose <jsr6@duke.edu>, carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Re: Another spring arrival in the Triangle
- From: Kate Finlayson <katefin@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:06:00 -0700 (PDT)
- In-reply-to: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1010325174750.20140C-100000@bio1.acpub.duke.edu>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Had a Yellow-rumped in semi-breeding plumage visit my
suet today-gorgeous!!! also saw a bunch (a whole lot)
Of yellow-rumps in the road to Lake Wheeler Park.
There were also a few pine warblers as well. They were
eating something from the asphalt road(grit? bugs?)
Also seen on Lake Wheeler, barn swallows and purple
martins, and two male blue-winged teal.
The coots and ringed-bill gulls are still there.
Kate
--- Joshua Stuart Rose <jsr6@duke.edu> wrote:
> Hi Carolinabirders,
>
> We had a field trip today in honor of visiting
> speaker Richard Lewontin,
> a famous evolutionary biologist. Took him first to
> Occoneechee Mountain,
> then to West Point on the Eno, then to Penny's Bend.
> Had my eyes peeled
> for migrants, but saw few. In fact, the only 100%
> certain migrant we
> found was a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, which was
> foraging just below the
> rangers' house at Occoneechee. We also found a
> Blue-headed Vireo a little
> ways up the road from there; many folks have been
> referring to this as a
> migrant, but they actually winter here in small
> numbers, so it's harder
> to tell...
>
> Otherwise, things still look like winter. The only
> warblers were Pine at
> Occoneechee and Yellow-rumped at West Point; the
> butterbutts aren't even
> molting noticeably into breeding plumage yet. Did
> see another high-flying
> unidentified accipiter here that might have been
> migrating, and
> suspiciously large numbers of Eastern Phoebe. But
> also saw Yellow-bellied
> Sapsucker there, and Dark-eyed Juncos at
> Occoneechee, and White-throated
> Sparrows at Penny's Bend, and kinglets of both types
> all over the place.
> We didn't even see leps, which was disappointing
> after Randy Emmitt saw
> loads of them at Occoneechee on Saturday; our only
> one was an Anglewing
> of some kind at Penny's Bend. The main signs of
> spring were in the
> wildflowers, particularly the Dutchman's Breeches at
> Penny's Bend and the
> Trailing Arbutus and wild ginger (Hexastylus spp.)
> at Occoneechee.
>
> Good birding,
>
> Josh
>
>
> Joshua S. Rose
> Duke University
> Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)
>
> jsr6@acpub.duke.edu
> http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/
>
=====
Kate Finlayson
N. Chatham Co.,N.C.
katefin@yahoo.com
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