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Cedar Island etc.
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Cedar Island etc.
- From: MaryHuOT@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:40:16 EST
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Sorry for the late posting, but had pretty good luck at Cedar Island this
past weekend. Went for the Decoy Festival at Harker's Island and stayed at
Cedar Island at the motel beside the ferry terminal. Lots of birds on the
beach and in the pond beside the wildlife ramp--great black backed, herring,
ring-billed, laughing, and lesser black backed gulls, sanderlings, willets,
greater yellow legs, dowitcher, dunlin, semi-palmated sandpiper, black necked
stilt, royal tern, common and red throat loons, pied billed grebe, Wilson's
plover, kingfisher, saltmarsh sharptail sparrow. In the trees around the
motel, junco, palm warbler, pine warbler, yellow rumps, and orange crowned
warblers, white throat sparrows, cardinals. Best bird was on the road
between Cedar Island and whatever that next little town is. A beautiful
American bittern was standing at the edge of the marsh about three feet from
the paved road. He stood there for about five minutes for me and then
flapped across the road to the marsh on the other side. Life bird for me!!
Northern harrier was over the marsh as well. White winged scoter and black
scoter seen from ferry.
Mary Hu Bridges
Goldsboro, NC
MaryHuOT@aol.com