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HBSP 11-25-01
- To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: HBSP 11-25-01
- From: "Tim and Melanie Kalbach" <grebe@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:23:39 -0800
- Importance: Normal
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Sunday, 11-25, I birded Huntington Beach SP under overcast skies and
intermittent light showers. Oddly, no other birders were seen. One
excellent bird, however.
Common Loon moderate numbers, <30
Red-throated Loon 3+
Horned Grebe 1
Gannets, 50+, many close to shore
Bufflehead 20+
Lesser Scaup 15+
scaup sp. several large distant flocks
scoter species several large distant flocks
Hooded Merganser 2
Red-breasted Merganser 3
Parasitic Jaeger 1, dark individual observed twice for about 15 minutes on
both sides of the jetty, harassing Laughing and one Bonaparte's Gull.
Royal Tern 1
Sandwich Tern 2 sitting on beach
Forster's Tern 50+
Black Skimmer 40+ on sandbar toward back of inlet
Great Black-backed Gull 1 im on jetty
Ring-billed Gull small numbers
Herring Gull small numbers
Laughing Gull more than either previous species, <60
Bonaparte's Gull 1 being chased by Jaeger
Purple Sandpiper 3
Ruddy Turnstone 10
Dunlin 30+
Western Sandpiper 1
Red Knot 1 flyby
Sanderling only a few on beach
Willet 2
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 20+
Black-bellied Plover 2
Semipalmated Plover 8+
Piping Plover 2
Clapper Rail 1
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 10+
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 1-2
Also breifly visited the sparrow fields near Samworth WMA and was rewarded
by close up views of a Lincoln's Sparrow. (Sorry Gary)
Tim Kalbach
grebe@mindspring.com
Columbia,SC