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R-C Woodpeckers at Carolina Sandhills

A visiting friend of mine from Florida and I traipes to the Carolina
Sandhills NWR (near McBee, SC) this past Monday, August 6.  Among the almost
forty species we observed over a six-hour observing day was a noisy flock of
eight or nine Red-cockaded Woodpeckers foraging in the woods behind the
observing tower at Martins Lake.  Heard first, we then easily observed them
for about a 45-minute period around 11:00 a.m.  The other sightings beyond
the usual suspects included a single Common Nighthawk in flight over Oxpen
Lake, an immature "bruiser" (very large) Red-tailed Hawk (prolly a female),
lots o' Red-headed WPs, and a heard-only N. Bobwhite, a scared-up-flushed
Woodcock, and King Rails heard in two different locations:  one at Mays
Lake, and one at some other water feature the name of which escapes me.

If you go, prepare yourself to fend off chiggers <scratch-scratch <G>>

7;^)
Tomm "naughty boy" Lorenzin
Mooresville (Lake Norman), NC
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