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13 May NAMC, Bear Is./Donnelly WMAs



Saturday at Bear Island, Colleton County, SC, although hot by mid-day, had
frequent breezes and good birding, with fewer insects than usual.  Few
migrants remained, besides sandpipers, swallows and Bobolinks.  Bachman's
Sparrow was a big miss at Donnelly on our quick run through there in early
afternoon.  A list (in order of appearance, more or less) follows:

crow sp. 19
Chimney Swift 9
N. Mockingbird 18
Mourning Dove 19
Purple Martin 13
E. Kingbird 25
Am. Crow 7
White-eyed Vireo 16
N. Parula 19
Pine Warbler 21
T. Titmouse 14
Com. Yellowthroat 18
E. Wood-Pewee 16
N. Cardinal 7
Prothonotary Warbler 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 21
E. Towhee 12
Hooded Warbler 11
Indigo Bunting 14
Carolina Wren 21
Blue Grosbeak 9
Yellow-breasted Chat 6
Great Crested Flycatcher 31
Turkey Vulture 15
Acadian Flycatcher 3
Wood Thrush 1
Kentucky Warbler 2
Com. Grackle 4
Red-eyed Vireo 12
C. Chickadee 6
Downy Woodpecker 3
Fish Crow 2
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Com. Moorhen 11
Summer Tanager 9
Wood Duck 3
Boat-tailed Grackle 24
Red-winged Blackbird 48
Orchard Oriole 16
Red-bellied Woodpecker 6
Bald Eagle 2 ad, 1 full-size nestling
Tree Swallow 104
Barn Swallow 2
Bank Swallow 1
Least Bittern 6 (3 seen)
Green Heron 12
Great Blue Heron 14
Little Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 16
Tricolored Heron 12
Wood Stork 59
Black-necked Stilt 9
Black Skimmer 1
Least Sandpiper 7
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Osprey 3
Cattle Egret 2
E. Bluebird 4
Yellow-throated Warbler 8
Black Vulture 12
Brown-headed Cowbird 8
White Ibis 14
Bobolink 5
Snowy Egret 160
Clapper Rail 4
Marsh Wren 16
Killdeer 2
Anhinga 17
Blue Jay 4
Mottled Duck 26 + lots of ducklings
Mallard 3
Seaside Sparrow 8
Eurasian Collared-Dove 4
Willet 4
Brown-headed Nuthatch 2
Ring-billed Gull 3
Eur. Starling 1
Painted Bunting 11
Forster's Tern 20
Laughing Gull 9
Brown Thrasher 3
Double-crested Cormorant 23
Loggerhead Shrike 2
Greater Yellowlegs 7
Short-billed Dowitcher 26
Semipalmated Sandpiper 12
Black-bellied Plover 6
Red-headed Woodpecker 3
Am. Coot 13
Black Rail 1 (heard repeatedly at very close range)
Caspian Tern 2
Glossy Ibis 8
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Dunlin 30+
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Bonaparte's Gull 1
N. Bobwhite 2
Semipalmated Plover 50
Ruby-thro. Hummingbird 1
Mississippi Kite 3
Red-tailed Hawk 1
N. Flicker 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Rock Dove 1

also, Yellow Ratsnake & Garter Snake

Tim Kalbach, with Gary Sowell & Nancy Lyman
Columbia, SC
grebe@mindspring.com

Ps. There are several accessible Painted Buntings at Granby Park here in
Columbia.