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Triangle area walk/sightings
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Triangle area walk/sightings
- From: "Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:39:53 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
> Are there any walks in the Triangle area this weekend, anyone meeting
> at Glen Lennox or somewhere else?
There's a Chapel Hill Bird Club field trip this Saturday -- don't know what
destination is planned, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's Brickhouse Road
or some other sparrowy spot. (more info:
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/chbc/fieldtrips.html)
Here are a couple of belated sightings:
Had a fun trip to Brickhouse Road, near Falls Lake on 14 October. The
sparrows were back in force, including several White-crowned Sparrows, along
with Ruby- and Golden-crowned Kinglets, and a nice Brown Creeper (my first
of the season). Palm Warblers were all over the place. I bet there's a
Lincoln's Sparrow there now, just waiting to be discovered.
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/tbg/butner.html
I don't remember if anyone's already mentioned this, but on Saturday 26
October there were 3 Bonaparte's Gulls at Sandling Beach, Falls Lake (and
virtually nothing else -- all the loons were gone!). This is fairly early --
the only earlier reports I have in the database are 9/1/88 and 10/25/86.
On the way home that Saturday, I saw an interesting bird over I-40 in
Durham. At a distance I was thinking it must be a soaring Red-tailed Hawk,
but as I drove underneath it, I noticed it was all black, had a wedge-shaped
tail, and a thick bill. I expect it was a Common Raven, but since it was a
65-mph flyby glimpse without binoculars, I'm not sure about counting it
officially.
Good birding,
--
Charles W. "Will" Cook w 919-660-7423
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook cwcook@duke.edu
Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Box 90340, Durham, NC 27708