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HBSP on 7-16
- To: carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu
- Subject: HBSP on 7-16
- From: Jack Peachey <ppaw@sccoast.net>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:21:35 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hi Carolinabirders,
This morning on a hot and humid day, I showed some visiting Ottawa birders
this fabulous park. We birded at the causeway, jetty ponds and long
boardwalk. It was interesting and 41 species were id'd.
Brown Pelican-6
Least Bittern-2
Great Blue Heron-1
Great Egret-6
Snowy Egret-11
Little Blue Heron-3 2 adults and 1 pied plumaged bird.
Tricolored Heron-2
Green Heron-3
Black-crowned Night-Heron-1 immature
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron-3 one adult two immatures
White Ibis-4
Wood Stork-1
Osprey-3
Rail sp.-1 heard and very briefly seen. Black back and small
"Kik,kik,kik,kik,kik" repeated about every 30-45 seconds. This bird was
heard from the marsh boardwalk. Very unlike the Clapper Rail in voice and
cadence
Could this be a black rail?
Black-bellied Plover-3
Wilson's Plover-7
American Oystercatcher-1
Black-necked Stilt-1
Yellowlegs sp-1 a flyby
Willet-3
Ruddy Turnstone-3
Sanderling-1
Western Sandpiper-2
Short-billed Dowitcher-30
peep sp.-2
Laughing Gull-4
Ring-billed Gull-2
Herring Gull-1
Gull-billed Tern-1
Royal Tern-40
Forster's Tern-1
Least Tern-20
Mourning Dove-2
Purple Martin-2
Barn Swallow-5
N. Mockingbird-1
Loggerhead Shrike-1
N. Cardinal-2
Painter Bunting-2
Seaside Sparrow-1
Red-winged Blackbird-2
Boat-tailed Grackle-8
Jack Peachey
Conway, SC