Irmo,SC spring count

[Jerrold Griggs <griggs@math.sc.edu>]

Irmo,SC Spring Bird Count, April 29, 2001

I.    Saluda Shoals Park, Columbia Audubon Society walk

Tom Hankins, Roger Smith, Steve Dennis, Andrea Ceselski, Dan & Cindy Tufford,
et al.  7:00-9:30 am  bright, clear, cool ~60 degs. after a cold front
light breeze
additions by me 6:30-7:30pm denoted *

Lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers still around.
Evidently not a big migration day--perhaps too early for this year--but
still we found 63 species (and we missed some, such as Belted Kingfisher,
Pileated Woodpecker, and Brown Thrasher).  

Living up to prominent coverage in Friday's newspaper, a male Painted Bunting
posed and sang cooperatively from a power line overhead.
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Double-cr. Cormorant    *
Great Blue Heron	*
Canada Goose		
Wood Duck		
Spotted Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Turkey Vulture		
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk		
Mourning Dove		

Yellow-bil. Cuckoo	
Barred Owl		
Chimney Swift		*
Ruby-thr Hummingbd.	
Red-head. Woodpkr.	
Red-bel. Woodpkr.	
Acadian Flycatcher	
E. Phoebe		
Gr. Cr. Flycatcher	
E. Kingbird		

N. Rough-Winged Swallow	
Blue Jay		
American Crow		
Fish Crow		
Carolina Chickadee	
Tufted Titmouse		
Brown-h. Nuthatch	*
Carolina Wren		
Blue-Gr. Gnatcatcher	
E. Bluebird		

Wood Thrush		
Gray Catbird		
N. Mockingbird		
Cedar Waxwing		
White-eyed Vireo	
Yellow-thr. Vireo	
Red-eyed Vireo		
Yellow-rumped Warb.	
N. Parula		
Black-throated Blue Warb.	

Yellow-throated Warb.	
Pine Warbler		
Black&White Warbler	
American Redstart	
Ovenbird		
N. Waterthrush		
Com. Yellowthroat	
Yellow-br. Chat		
Scarlet Tanager		*
N. Cardinal		

Rose-br. Grosbeak	
Blue Grosbeak		
Indigo Bunting		
Painted Bunting
E. Towhee	
White-thr. Sparrow	
Swamp Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Common Grackle		
Brown-h. Cowbird	

Baltimore Oriole	
House Finch		
Am. Goldfinch		

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II.  Additional species found by the group at Gardendale Boat Ramp area,
10:00-11:30am

Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Brown Thrasher
Barn Swallow
Yellow-throated Vireo
Summer Tanager
Orchard Oriole

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Additional species found by me, 1:00-6:30pm, at home or driving around
the area (including St. Andrews Road and Lake Murray Dam, Pine Island):

Common Loon
Green Heron
Mallard
American Coot
Red-shouldered Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Rock Dove
Purple Martin
American Robin
Eurasian Starling
House Sparrow

TOTAL........................81 species for the day
(I got all but the Swamp Sparrow)

Species I couldn't find included Loggerhead Shrike.

Jerry Griggs    	j@sc.edu	407-2706
Columbia, SC