Re: more post-breeding dispersal

["Steve" <scompton@sc.rr.com>]

Dear Donna and all,

Mississippi Kites, two pairs, breed here in the Irongate subdivision in
Summerville,SC (Lower Coastal Plain,SC) and are quite common all over
Summerville. I wonder if there is a better place to see them in the
Carolinas in a
populated area. They have been quite vocal lately, making the high-pitched,
descending whistle. They have not dispersed, apparently. Recent yard bird
sightings include our local breeding Red-headed Woodpeckers and overflying
Wood Storks and Little Blue Herons. Today I watched a Red-bellied Woodpecker
probe the ground, evidently eating ants.

Steve Compton
Summerville,SC
Dorchester County
mailto:scompton@sc.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Donna Slyce Bailey <dsbailey@conterra.com>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 9:35 PM
Subject: more post-breeding dispersal


>
> Around noon, while visiting my parents in Lexington county, I heard a
> strangely familiar high-pitched wolf whistle overhead.  Up high in a sky
so
> bright with haze and sun that it dazzled my eyes, I could see two
> Mississippi Kites and a Red-tailed Hawk.  The birds were describing lazy
> slow spirals in the hot wind that sometimes proceeds thunderheads.  In the
> mudhole of what remains of the acre pond that I grew up with was an
> immature Little Blue Heron, successfully catching small frogs, and a Green
> Heron.  While there is nothing particularly unusual about a Mississippi
> Kite or a Little Blue Heron in Lexington county, they aren't usual yard
> birds for Mom and Dad.  Following on the sighting of a Mississippi Kite as
> I got out of my car at work yesterday morning, and as others have pointed
> out, it is apparent that post-breeding dispersal has begun.
>
>
> Donna Slyce Bailey
> Winnsboro, SC
>
> e-mail: dsbailey@conterra.com
>
> URL:  http://www.conterra.com/dsbailey
> Where are the Birds?  Migration across South Carolina
>