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high country migrants!
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: high country migrants!
- From: "jason bulluck" <jasonbulluck@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:53:00 +0000
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hey now twitchers,
I know I unsubscribed but while I'm still in the high country for a few days
with a couple of minutes here and there I shall report as usual.
Just spent three days in Linville Gorge backpacking and picked up Pine
Warblers. Thats my first Parulid for the year. Winter wrens, ruby-crowned
kinglets, eastern phoebes abundant as well. Interestingly, the cavity
nesters reigned. Pileateds, downies, hairies, carolina chickadees, titmice,
bluebirds, white-breasted nuthatches, carolina wrens. I wish I had enough
personal pre-fire birding experience in the gorge to make some calls on
this, but I shall save that for my friend Jason Riddle who is conducting his
thesis here at A.S.U. on that very matter.
Ultimately I would suggest everyone pay this place a visit. It is truly
remarkable to see how beautiful a huge natural disturbance can be. Too bad
we humans supress such disturbances for various "reasons". Too bad so many
early-successional species are in such decline in the east, probably partly
due to our suppression of large natural disturbances. I cant wait to see
what happens as succession occurs in the gorge. Everyone have a happy
migration.
Jason Bulluck
Masters Candidate
Department of Biology
Appalachian State University