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Magnolia Plantation birdwalk



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