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Sprague's Pipit and Tropical Kingbird still present11/3



Just got back from the 'Banks - quick update:

The Tropical Kingbird at the north end of South Pond at Pea Island was still
there this morning.  It was last seen this afternoon on one of the islands
in Newfield or South Pond.

The Sprague's Pipit was seen yesterday afternoon at the usual spot but was
relocated this afternoon 100 or so yards west of the spot, on sparsely
vegetated ground covered with Hydrocotyle (the low plant with round leaves).
The call is definitely pipit-like, but lower in pitch than Am. Pipit. We
also saw an American Pipit near the Sprague's old spot.

Also at the salt pond - an Eared Grebe and a Lesser Black-backed Gull.
at North Pond - a "probable" Cinnamon Teal and 2 Eurasian Wigeons.

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Charles W. "Will" Cook                  w 919-660-7423
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook            cwcook@duke.edu
Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Box 90340, Durham, NC 27708