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Magnolia Plantation birdwalk
- To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Magnolia Plantation birdwalk
- From: "Earthlink" <nugentpc@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:21:53 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
The following are highlights of the 3 hour Sunday morning birdwalk at
Magnolia Plantation at 3550 Ashley River Road ( highway 61 ) northwest of
Charleston, SC led By Perry Nugent at 8:30 am. A fee is charged.
June 1, 2003
45 species were seen and/or heard on nice day. The small birds were quiet
and hard to find. The most interesting were; 12 Pied-billed Grebes with
babies, 50 Anhingas with many fledged babies, all of the following herons
have nests and babies; 5 Least Bitterns, 2 Great Blue Herons, 40 Great
Egrets, 20 Snowy Egrets, 20 Cattle Egrets, 100 Little Blue Herons ( at least
one second year calico is on a nest incubating eggs ), 10 Tri-colored
Herons, 3 Green Herons, 12 Black-crowned Night Herons, 2 Wood Storks, 100
Wood Ducks many babies, 70 Common Moorhens with babies, 1 Black-necked
Stilt, 40 Least terns, 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, 3 Eastern Kingbirds, 2
Painted Buntings, 2 Orchard Orioles, and 5 House Finches.
Perry E. Nugent
Charleston, SC
nugentpc@earthlink.net