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neighborhood Snipe
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: neighborhood Snipe
- From: "Rob G" <thrush@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 20:48:29 +0000
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
surprised today to find a lone Common Snipe foraging on lawn behind
Colonial Arms Apts (just south of Airport Rd., corner of Hillsborough and
Bolinwood Sts.Chapel Hill). Seemed very out-of-place in the well-mowed apt
lawn although it does border Bolin Creek. Got within 20 ft. of him (trying
to see if he was injured) before I backed away. At
one point he abruptly hunched down in grass, I thought due to my approach
but then a shadow swooped across grass that turned out to be a low-flying
Red-shouldered Hawk!
Also, along Bolin Creek Greenway in last week, flocks of Cedar Waxwings, a
Pileated, and approximately 22.4 jazillion Robins enjoying Indian summer as
much as the rest of us.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Rob Gluck
Chapel Hill
thrush@hotmail.com
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