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Birds at Cowans Ford & Mcguire Nuc. Sta.
- To: "BirdChat \(E-mail\)" <BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>, "Carolina Birds List \(E-mail\)" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Birds at Cowans Ford & Mcguire Nuc. Sta.
- From: "Tom Lorenzin" <skytom@dellnet.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 15:27:24 -0400
- Importance: Normal
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- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
A visit to Cowans Ford WR this morning yielded the following sightings and
hearings, in addition to the more usual suspect and innumerable varieties of
wildflowers, dragonflies, and butterflies:
Black Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Kingbird
Red-eyed Vireo
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Eastern Bluebird
Nashville Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Brown-headed Cowbird male/female pair
American Goldfinch
Earlier in the morning the west thermal pond of McGuire Nuclear station off
hwy 73 yielded the following:
Double-crested Cormorant, incl. 1 immature
Great Blue Heron
Osprey
Cooper's Hawk
Spotted Sandpiper
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Pine Warbler
Red-winged Blackbird
Orchard Oriole male/female pair
Both locations were all but devoid of duck-types (except for Mallard
families and Honkers)
7;^)
Tom "two legs at a time" Lorenzin
Davidson (Lake Norman), NC
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