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Fort Fisher



Hi,
    Shantanu Phukan and I birded the Spit at Fort Fisher yesterday
(3/16/2000), walking approx 1.5 miles South from the headquarters bldg.
(approx.).  It was not a particularly birdy day, but we had a couple of
nice finds:  SEASIDE SPARROW, NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW, MARSH WREN,
and a very prolonged look at an AMERICAN BITTERN we flushed from quite
close, allowing us to inspect it fairly leisurely as it flew off.  We
also saw numerous WHITE IBIS and a single female NORTHERN HARRIER
amongst the more usual suspects.  There were also a few LAUGHING GULLS
already in full breeding plumage to get us in the Spring mood.

A survey of Greenview Lake failed to turn up the previously reported
Eurasian Wigeon - but we did not search particularly exhaustively by any
stretch.

On a related note, my father reports both PIPING and WILSON'S PLOVERS
from Huntington Beach last weekend.  We did not see many shorebirds at
all at Fort Fisher, no Plovers whatsoever.

Happy Birding!

-Sandy

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Sandy Cash
Durham, NC (recently moved)
scash@mindspring.com