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Carolina RBA June 16 Update
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Carolina RBA June 16 Update
- From: PiephoffT@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:59:17 EDT
- CC: BIRDEAST@listserv.arizona.edu, giffbeaton@mindspring.com
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
hotline: Carolina Rare Bird Alert
date: June 16, 2000
number: 704- 332-2473
to report: 704-332-2473 or 704-532-6336 or PiephoffT@aol.com
coverage: North and South Carolina
compiler: Taylor Piephoff for the Carolina Bird Club
Hello, this is a June 16 update of the Carolina Rare Bird Alert featuring
birding news from North and South Carolina sponsored by the Carolina Bird
Club. Highlights on this report include:
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHERS
DICKCISSELS
WHITE-WINGED DOVE
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS
The nesting pair of SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHERS south of Monroe, NC in Union
County continue to delight visiting birders. From US 74 in Monroe take Hwy
200 South (Skyway Drive). Stay on 200 for a few blocks until it turns right.
Stay straight here; you will be on Hwy. 207 (Hayne st). Stay on 207 through
Monroe and for a few miles south of town. When 207 turns right (Wolf Pond
Rd.) at a blinking light, take the right turn to stay on 207. Go about 3.5
miles to where large , high tension wires cross the road. Almost directly
under the wires turn left onto a long gravel road. There may be a sign on a
telephone pole saying "Flycatchers". Go past several houses and cross a creek
then immediately turn right onto another gravel drive. This will take you
back under the wires. proceed another couple hundred yards and park past a
small cemetery on the right. Look around the fields, wires. and fences for
the flycatchers.
DICKCISSELS can be seen in Cleveland and Gaston Counties in the western
piedmont of NC and in Brunswick County in southeastern NC. For directions to
the piedmont birds call Simon Thompson at 828-859- 0382 or contact Joanne
Martin at <jamloon@blueridge.net>. For directions to the Brunswick County
birds call me at 704-532- 6336.
At least one WHITE -WINGED DOVE continues to be seen and heard in Beaufort,
NC. Look around the intersection of Live Oak and AnnStreets in Beaufort.
EURASIAN COLLARED -DOVES have been seen at this location also.
BLACK -BILLED CUCKOOS may be summering in the Croatan NF in eastern NC. Three
different birds were heard June 1 around Great Lake in the Croatan.
Thanks this week to John Fussell, Simon Thompson, Jeff Blalock, and Anne
Olsen for their calls and reports.
Taylor Piephoff
Charlotte, NC
PiephoffT@aol.com