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Sunset Beach, NC, 11/11/01
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Sunset Beach, NC, 11/11/01
- From: "Robert C. Perkins" <rperkins@infi.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:02:07 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Today my fishing partner and I traveled to Sunset Beach for some
fishing and birding. On the drive down to the coast, we saw two
red-tailed hawks in Cumberland County, another red-tailed hawk,
morning doves, and house sparrows in Bladen County, and a flock of
seven turkeys also in Bladen. In Columbus County we saw a northern
harrier, my first of the season.
While we were in or near Sunset Beach, we saw the following:
turkey vulture
northern harrier
osprey
accipiter sp.
kestrel
d-c cormorant (many)
anhinga (2)
pied-billed grebe (4)
ring-necked duck
laughing gulls (many)
ring-billed gulls (many)
Forster's tern
great blue heron (several)
tricolored heron (several)
great egret (many)
snowy egret (2)
wood stork (several)
white ibis (many)
black-bellied plover
semipalmated plover (dozen)
willet (several)
greater yellowlegs (several)
dunlin
western sandpiper (dozen)
kingfisher (several)
boat-tailed grackle (many)
red-winged blackbird (dozen)
starling (many)
yellow-rumped warbler (several)
We saw some ducks that we couldn't identify with 8X binoculars.
Bob
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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
910-630-7037 rperkins@methodist.edu