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serendipity



Hello y'all,
 After a fairly strenuous work week, I planned on just piddling around
home today. Made a trip down to the local c-store to pickup a cpl of
items this a.m. and decided to ride by the Conway sewage pond and take a
quick look. As I shut off the car engine, I was greeted by the scolding
of a pair of House Wrens. Then a Palm Warbler looked for the world like
it wanted to get in the car. A Peregrine cruised by. A C. Wren scarfed
one of the plethora of "baby" anoles that are scampering about the
sandbags. Geez...three and a half hours later...well, here's the list:
Pied-billed Grebe - 1
Anhinga - 1
Great Blue Heron - 4
Great Egret - 35
Snowy Egret - 4
Little Blue Heron - 1 imm.
Osprey - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Am. Kestrel - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Killdeer - 2
Forster's Tern - 1
Chimney Swift - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Wp - 3
N. Flicker - 6
Pileated Wp. - 1
E. Phoebe - 3
Empidonax sp. - 1
Tree Swallow - 7
Blue Jay - 5
Fish Crow - 2
C. Chickadee - 3
T. Titmouse - 3
C. Wren - 6
House Wren - 2
G-c Kinglet - 1
E. Bluebird - 2
N. Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1
Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
Black-throated Blue W. - 2 males
Yellow-rumped W. - 2
Yellow-throated W. - 1
Pine W. - 3
Palm W. - 7 
Am. Redstart - 12 (may have been 120! they were everywhere.)
Common Yellowthroat - 1 female/imm.?
Magnolia W. - 2
N. Cardinal - 4
Song Sparrow - 1 (several more heard)
Red-winged Blackbird - 100+
Common Grackle - 50+
House Finch - 1
 Also 2 White-tailed Deer from ~25 ft.! I s'pose the impending storm had
everyone "getting while the getting's good." Lucky me.

:)
GP
-- 
Gary Phillips
Conway, SC
axis1@sccoast.net

"An optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist
fears that it is true." (Robert Oppenheimer)