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Low Country birding



Dear Carolina Birders,

I had a wonderful day birding in the SC Low Country with Bruce Krucke. We 
spent the morning on a bird walk at Caw Caw Reserve, guided by Perry Nugent. 
After a short respite, Bruce and I drove around Bear Island, part of the ACE 
Basin wildlife refuge. I would like to share some of the highlights of our 
trip.

Caw Caw:
--a pair of Louisiana waterthrush zoomed by like sparring hummers
--a raccoon sleepily peeking at us from a hollow tree
--indigo and painted buntings galore
--several blue grosbeaks, a loggerhead shrike
--a blue-gray gnatcatcher nest
--a pair of juvenile yellow-crowned night herons
--lots of greater and lesser yellowlegs
--solitary, spotted, western, least, pectoral, and stilt sandpipers
--upwards of 50 bluebirds
--Mississippi and swallow-tailed kites

Bear Is.:
--egrets, herons, terns, ibis, and storks in astonishing numbers; controlled 
draining of adjacent wetlands killed many of the fish
--common moorhens and black-necked stilts
--red-headed, red-bellied, downy, and pileated woodpeckers
--several fox squirrels
--yellow-throated, pine, Kentucky, and hooded warblers
--summer tanagers and great-crested flycatchers
--close to 1000 rough-winged swallows along one stretch of wire

Leah

p.s. Perry and Bruce, please fill in any blanks that I forgot!

Leah Campbell
Blackstock, SC
leahcam@lycos.com
faeriemaiden@hotmail.com


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