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Yellowthroats in Charleston streets
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Yellowthroats in Charleston streets
- From: "Paul Champlin" <skua99@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 17:32:18 EDT
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hi folks, (please reply to capito@hotmail.com)
(Quick B-t Gray note: As I mentioned in an earlier post... Cape May and
Eastern MA have both had this species this season)
Saturday dusk found us on the observation platform at Magnolia Gardens. We
watched more than 25 Indigo Buntings take off from the grounds (in groups of
up to 6) and head south. I was chomping at the bit to do some birding but
this was a 'tourist' trip.
Sunday evening we visited the aquarium in downtown Charleston. It was quite
blustery and I figured that the conditions were perfect for a fallout... I
just didn't know exactly where. My better half and I exited the aquarium
building and began walking down the ramp when I noticed a few birds flitting
about in the patch of green (marsh grass and a little lawn/shrub) next to
the exit ramp. It's 40 X 15 feet and is surrounded by pavemnet and beach...
so I was quite surprised to see a female REDSTART hopping from grass to mud
to grass, searching for food. Sure enough, there were 5 YELLOWTHROATS there
too (one adult male and female each and 3 imm. males). Later in the evening
I found 2 imm. male Yellowthroats lying dead on King Street, downtown (poor
little guys).
It figured that we had spent the best birding day INSIDE (boo hiss). So I
made it a point to go to Folly Island this morning. The sun was already out,
but the 200 yards of Myrica brush near the south tip still had the
following:
20++ Common Yellowthroats (almost ALL were imm. males)
50++ Palm Warblers (1/6th of them were western; always moving & hard to
count)
3 Magnolia Warblers
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
1 Prarie Warbler
3 Redstarts
2 Red-eyed Vireo
4 House Wren
1 Ruby-cr. Kinglet
3 B-g Gnatcatchers
2 Catbirds
A migrant Coopers Hawk (a huge imm. bird. Probably a female) and 15 or so
Kestrels were headed south as well.
The shoreline at the tip provided my state Western Sandpipers in the same
bino view as Least and Semi sp.
So not too bad for a non-birding trip. I left for Charleston w/my state Song
Sparrow at my feeders and came home to a slightly chilled R-t Hummer (doing
lots of perching at the feeder)
Cheers
Paul Champlin
New Ellenton, SC
capito@hotmail.com
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