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GVL NC WWTP Birds #4



Wednesday 2 May 2001,
Greenville Waste Water Treatment Plant,
Old Pactolus Road, Pitt County, North Carolina.
1910-2010 hrs, clear and breezy, 83 -71 deg. F.
“OH” = seen flying over field of view.  “HO” = heard only.

Canada Goose - 2 OH
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (hunting over fields)
Great Blue Heron - 4 (2 roosted in large snag SE of cattle gate bridge)
SANDHILL CRANE - 1 (flew in 1940 hrs - 5 minutes early - from SW,
calling, landed by yellow flower patch in pasture SE of cattle gate bridge)
Killdeer - 1 OH
Ring-billed Gull - 1 (over river)
Mourning Dove - 10 (fields)
Screech Owl - 1 HO (by river)
Barred Owl - 1 HO (by river - boaters were imitating owls, but badly)
Eastern Kingbird - 1 (fence by cattle gate bridge)
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 HO (woods)
Barn Swallow - 10 (fields)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 (fields)
American Crow - 1 OH
Fish Crow - 2 OH (heard)
Carolina Wren - 1 HO (in brush)
Brown Thrasher - 1 (calling high in tree)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 HO (woods)
Eastern Meadowlark - 2 (field by canal)
Red-winged Blackbird - 10 (fields by canal)
Northern Cardinal - 2 HO (woods by river)
Blue Grosbeak - 2 (male, female, woods by river)

Non-birds:
Beaver (feeding on aquatic plants by cattle gate bridge)
White-tail Deer - 5 (fields near woods)

J. K. Williams, “The Inner Coastal Plain Naturalist,” Greenville NC

The Inner Coastal Plain, west of the Tidewater and east of the Piedmont
Plateau and Sandhills, is a land of “‘Carolina Bays’... blackwater rivers...
swamp forests of Bald cypress, and Tupelo and Swamp gums... Cross-
vine... Star-nosed mole, Marsh rabbit, and Rice rat... Greater Siren, Two-
toed Amphiuma...  many bird species nest here, or migrate through... the
freshwater aquatic vegetation is rich... Tape grass, Bladderwort,
Pondweed, Arrow-leaved spatterdock, Duckweed.... floodplain forests...
barbed with Greenbrier, and thickened with Poison ivy and Virginia
creeper... unique fishes and aquatic invertebrates... the endemic Neuse
River Waterdog of the Neuse and Tar rivers... Sweet pepperbush...
Sphagnum... Black bear and Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake...
Longleaf and Pond pines... famous... seasonal wildflower displays....”,
and “rumors of Panthers....” - from Cooper, Robinson, and Funderburg,
Endangered and Threatened Plants and Animals of North Carolina.
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