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Avocets and Black Necked Stilts
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Avocets and Black Necked Stilts
- From: Markbsimps@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:45:50 EDT
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Sam Moore and I birded Wayne County today, and while the Cliffs of the Neuse
State Park and Cherry Hospital grounds were a big disappointment, we had
better luck at the Goldsboro Sewage Lagoons. On the East side of the road
(the opposite side from the office and plant), the water level is low,
exposing one of the dikes separating the lagoon into three parts. It is like
a long sandbar. It was loaded with Great Egrets and Snowy Egrets, but more
interesting, there were two or more American Avocets and two Black Necked
Stilts. There were also several small sandpipers which we could not ID
because of the distance. And beyond them, on some mud flats, were a large
number of what we thought might be dowitchers, but we could not be sure.
This was about 2:00 P.M. I think Eric Dean and Gene Howe are going to check
it out tomorrow morning (Saturday), so there will probably be a later posting
from them.
Mark Simpson
Goldsboro, N. C.
markbsimps@aol.com