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Baltimore Oriole at Bent Creek; Kentucky Warbler at NC Arboretum
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- Subject: Baltimore Oriole at Bent Creek; Kentucky Warbler at NC Arboretum
- From: "Jlindfors" <Jlindfors@msn.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 09:34:12 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Friday, May 31st, I checked out the Sandy Bottom Picnic Area on the French
Broad River one mile s. of the Blue Ridge Parkway and rte. 191 in Ashville,
NC.
I managed to get good looks at a Yellow-throated Warbler.
Today at first light (Sunday 6/2), I drove up to the picnic area across
the road from the NC Arboretum to check out a report that I received on
Friday that a Baltimore Oriole had been nesting there. A visitor to
Ashville who birds the BRP every year said that for the last two years he
had found a Baltimore Oriole there.
I am happy to say that even though we did not see it Friday, it was here
today. I got a glimpse of an orange and black bird and heard oriole like
notes. So after a judicious use of a BAOR tape, I got the male to respond.
Then I went to the lower parking area at the NC Arboretum next to the
hard times trail. There I heard what had to be a Kentucky Warbler or a
Carolina Wren. It proved to be a Kentucky Warbler.
John Lindfors