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MOMO this week



Greetings from Morrow Mountain State Park, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina.

I observed 28 bird species in the park, from 3 PM Sunday 25 May, to 3 PM Sunday 1 June, 2003.
("HO" = heard only)

Front gate area, 3:20 PM, Sunday 25 May:
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
American Crow - 1 HO
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 HO
Northern Parula - 1 HO
Chipping Sparrow - 1 HO
American Goldfinch - 1 HO

Over Lake Tillery, 5:30 PM, Sunday 25 May, added:
Green Heron - 1

Hilltop between the bridges and the Y intersection, 9 AM, Monday 26 May, added:
Wild Turkey - 1

Front gate area, 5:30 AM, Saturday 31 May, added:
Whip-poor-will - 1 HO

Millertown Road area, 6:10 AM to 6:25 AM, Saturday 31 May, added:
Northern Bobwhite - 2 HO
Mourning Dove - 1 HO
Loggerhead Shrike - 1
Carolina Wren - 1 HO
Eastern Bluebird - 1 HO
Northern Mockingbird - 1 HO
Field Sparrow - 1 HO
Eastern Meadowlark - 5 HO

Front gate area, 6:30 AM to 6:35 AM, Saturday 31 May, added:
Acadian Flycatcher - 1 HO
Carolina Chickadee - 1 HO
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 HO

Maintenance shop, 6:50 AM, Saturday 31 May, added:
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 HO
Blue Jay - 1 HO

Near the mountaintop road / bridle trail intersection, 7:20 AM, Saturday 31 May:
Pileated Woodpecker - 1

Boatramp area, 6:15 AM - 6:20 AM, Sunday 1 June, added:
Great Blue Heron - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1

Near the Y intersection, 6:40 AM, Sunday 1 June, added:
Black-and-white Warbler - 1 HO

Maintenance shop, 7 AM, Sunday 1 June, added:
Eastern Phoebe - 1 HO

Top of Morrow Mountain, 7:15 AM, Sunday 1 June, added:
Eastern Wood Pewee - 1 HO

Joseph Williams, <wldfr2002@hotmail.com>, MS Biology, ASU. General Utility Worker / 9-month, Morrow Mountain State Park, Division of Parks and Recreation, NC DENR.

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