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- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- From: Bob Perkins <rperkins@infionline.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:17:31 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
My fishing partner and I spent from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the
Shallotte River today. The fishing wasn't much, but the weather was
beautiful and the birding was interesting. We had a number of looks
at a hen red-breasted merganser that was hanging around. We also saw
a black-bellied plover in breeding plumage, several ruddy turnstones
in breeding plumage, a willet, a lesser yellowlegs also in breeding
plumage, and several spotted sandpipers still in winter plumage. We
also saw all of the "normal" herons--great blue, little blue,
tricolor, green--and the usual egrets--great and snowy. Birds
overhead included osprey, turkey vulture, barn swallows, and chimney
swifts. We heard clapper rails several times but never spotted one.
Bob
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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Historian and General Outdoorsman
Fayetteville, NC 28311
rperkins@infionline.net