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Birding the Southeast Coast Section



Ashley Sutton and I enjoyed Fort Fisher, Sunset Beach
and the New River Inlet over Thanksgiving break.
Highlights included Virginia and King Rails, Purple
Sandpipers, and Piping Plover. 113 species were seen
Friday thru Monday during some great warm weather.

Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Wood Duck
Mallard
American Black Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Black Scoter  
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck  
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Kestrel
Clapper Rail
King Rail   -U.S.S. North Carolina
Virginia    -U.S.S. North Carolina
Sora        -U.S.S. North Carolina
Common Moorhen
Coot
Black-Bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
PIPING PLOVER -North Topsail Beach
Killdeer
Oystercatcher
G. Yellowlegs
L. Yellowlegs
Willet
Marbled godwit
Ruddy turnstone
Sanderling
W. sandpiper
L. sandpiper
Purple sandpiper -Ft. Fisher
Dunlin
Short-billed dowitcher
Snipe
Woodcock
Laughing gull
Ring-billed gull
Herring gull
Great black-backed gull
Royal tern
Common tern
Forster's tern
Black skimmer
Rock dove
Mourning dove
Barred owl
Kingfisher
Red-bellied woodpecker
Y. B. sapsucker
Downy 
RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER -Green Swamp 
Flicker
Pileated 
T. swallow
Blue jay
Crow
C. chickadee
Titmouse
Brown-headed nuthatch
C. Wren
H. Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned kinglet
Ruby-crowned kinglet
B. G. gnatcatcher
Bluebird
Hermit thrush
Robin
Catbird
Mockingbird
Waxwing
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE
Starling
Yellow-rumped warbler
Pine warbler
Palm warbler
Cardinal
Towhee
Chipping sparrow
Savannah sparrow
Saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow
Nelson's sharp-tailed sparrow
Seaside sparrow
Song sparrow
Swamp sparrow 
White-throated sparrow
Junco
Red-winged blackbird
Meadowlark
Boat-tailed grackle
C. grackle
House finch 
Goldfinch
House sparrow


Cheers,

Scott Barnes
Carrboro, North Carolina

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Scott Barnes
104 B Sue Ann Court
Carrboro NC
27510