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Carolina RBA June 16 Update



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