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[Jack Peachey <ppaw@sccoast.net>]

Hi Carolinabirders,
	Today from 9 AM to 2 PM Gary Phillips and I birded at Huntington Beach
S.P., Murrells Inlet, Georgetown County, SC.  We identified 57 species in
birding the jetty pond, jetty, remnant road west of the jetty pond,
Kerrigan Trail and overlook of Mullet Pond and most of the carriage path.
Everyday seems to bring more migrant shorebirds and a few local movers
among the passerines. The weather was mild with comfortable temps in the
80's.  We were at the jetty pond at high tide and the really brisk
northerly winds pushed water up onto the sandflat and 200 yards south of
its normal boundaries into the vegetative area.  In late July, August and
September these conditions enable large numbers of shorebirds to feed in
the vegetative area. Curiously, this did not happen today.

Brown Pelican-6
Double-Crested Cormorant-4
Great Blue Heron-5
Great Egret-10
Snowy Egret-6
Little Blue Heron-3
Tricolored Heron-2
Green Heron-3
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron-1 immature in Sandpiper Pond north end
White Ibis-3
Glossy Ibis-2
Wood Stork-7
Osprey-2
Common Moorhen-1
Black-bellied Plover-5 non in alternate plumage
Wilson's Plover-2 juveniles
Semipalmated Plover-3 alternate plumage
Am. Oystercatcher-1
Black-necked Stilt-2
Greater Yellowlegs-1
Willet-15
Spotted Sandpiper-6 all in alternate plumage
Ruddy Turnstone-17 some in alternate plumage
Sanderling-3 in alternate plumage
Semipalmated Sandpiper-3 in alternate plumage
Least Sandpiper-1 in alternate plumage
Short-billed Dowitcher-125 all but one or two in alternate plumage
Laughing Gull-3
Ring-billed Gull-1 on the beach in Garden City
Gull sp-4
Caspian Tern-2
Royal Tern-10
Sandwich Tern-5
Common Tern-1 adult in basic plumage
Least Tern-10
Mourning Dove-2
Chimney Swift-5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird-2
Great Crested Flycatcher-1
Purple Martin-4
N. Rough-winged Swallow-1
Barn Swallow-20+
Blue Jay-2
Carolina Chickadee-2 heard only
Tufted Titmouse-2 heard only
Carolina Wren-2 heard only
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher-1 heard only
N. Mockingbird-3
Prairie Warbler-2 immatures
N. Cardinal-3
Indigo Bunting-2 heard only
Painted Bunting-2 heard only
E. Towhee-3 heard only
Red-winged Blackbird-3
Boat-tailed Grackle-5

Good birding, good company

Jack  
Jack Peachey
Conway, SC