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Falls Lake field trip/Harbinger of Spring
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Falls Lake field trip/Harbinger of Spring
- From: "Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:27:41 -0500
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I'm leading a Chapel Hill Bird Club trip tomorrow (3/11) to the Knap of
Reeds Creek area near Falls Lake. We meet at 7:30 am at Glen Lennox
shopping center in Chapel Hill (see the CHBC web site
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/chbc/ for directions). Alternately, you could
meet us at 8:15 am at the destination -- on Old Oxford Hwy 1.8 miles north
of Brickhouse Road, across from the north end of the prison complex (just
south of Veazey Road). There's a gravel parking lot here with the usual
field marks of an Army Corps of Engineers waterfowl impoundment -- the sign
telling you about why there's a waterfowl impoundment, the gate, and the
gravel road beyond the gate. Meet at the parking lot. On the Christmas
Bird Count here I found a big flock of Rusty Blackbirds (about 350), lots of
Winter Wrens, White-crowned Sparrows, and other goodies.
Some harbingers of spring in the Chapel Hill suburbs:
1 - return of the grackles (early Feb)
2 - Fish Crows (late Feb)
3 - cowbirds (early March)
Will
On 9 Mar 00, at 13:59, Raven Rock State Park wrote:
> I think my subject line is a repeat from last year. I consider the
> Yellow-throated Warbler to be our bird "harbinger of Spring" at Raven Rock
> State Park. With that in mind, Spring arrived at the park this morning.
--
Charles W. "Will" Cook w 919-660-7423
cwcook@duke.edu h 919-967-5446
Duke University Botany Dept., Durham, North Carolina
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook