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Butner Gamelands
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Butner Gamelands
- From: "Sandy Cash" <scash@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 15:13:01 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hi all,
Went up to the Butner Gamelands this morning for a spot of
birding. It was a very pleasant morning, starting off clear and chilly,
then warming up and remaining mostly sunny, albeit a bit
breezy/gusty at times. I walked part of the loop to the S. of
Brickhouse Road. Highlights included a pair (or the same bird
teleporting) of Rusty Blackbirds, a Common Yellowthroat, and a
very cooperative Sharp Shinned Hawk, which spent several minutes
fighting the wind to get across some fields, affording pretty good
looks. Also nice was a gorgeous female Northern Harrier out
hunting - lots of great looks at this beaut. My other pleasant find
was a couple of Fox Sparrows, one of which sat up for me about 5
feet away at eye level, albeit just briefly.
Notably missed were the White-crowned Sparrows, although I am
pretty sure they were in a mixed flock I clumsily flushed around the
maintenance buildings. Northern Flickers were *very* abundant,
seemed like one in every other tree. Other than Flickers,
woodpeckers were somewhat scarce - the only other ones I saw or
heard were one each of Red-bellied WP and Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker.
Best,
-Sandy
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Sandy Cash
Durham, NC
scash@mindspring.com