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ATFL report; Vesper in Saxapahaw
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: ATFL report; Vesper in Saxapahaw
- From: Joshua Stuart Rose <jsr6@duke.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:13:49 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hi Carolinabirders,
Filed an on-line report yesterday of the Ash-throated Flycatcher. If any
NC BRC members are out there, let me know if it didn't arrive, so I can
prepare a paper version... I'll scan and e-mail the photos as soon as I
finish that roll of film and get it developed.
My wife had to go to Saxapahaw this morning for (don't laugh) an
acupuncture treatment. I tagged along so we could have lunch with an old
friend of hers afterwards. I figured while she was in acupuncture, I
could go scout for Sunday's Chapel Hill CBC.
Side note: speaking of that CBC, is Les Todd out there anyplace?
Apparently I'm covering some of your former turf, I'm seeking pointers...
Send me an e-mail if you see this before Sunday.
Back to the story: I never got around to scouting. The acupuncturist's
house had a huge hay field behind it. She had a Brown Thrasher and
several White-throated Sparrows picking around her compost heap. I walked
out into the field, and was rewarded with numerous Eastern Meadowlarks,
one of whom sang; and one flock of a dozen or so American Pipits, plus 3
singles that flew overhead later. I also spotted three hawks: a Red-tail,
a Red-shoulder, and an unidentified accipiter that I think was a Cooper's
(it looked big).
I walked back toward the house along a creek with a narrow buffer of
shrubs and trees. In this buffer I flushed up a few birds, including
one that I'm fairly sure was a Vesper Sparrow. It didn't have the usual
conspicuous white eye-ring, and I couldn't make out the rufous shoulder
patches, but it did flash what looked like white outer tail feathers as
it twitched nervously on a low tree branch.
Good birding,
Josh
Joshua S. Rose
Duke University
Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)
jsr6@duke.edu
http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/