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Magnolia Plantation Birdwalk



The following are highlights of the 3 hour Sunday morning birdwalk at
Magnolia Plantation at 3550 Ashley River road ( highway 61 ) northwest of
Charleston, SC led by Perry Nugent at 8:30 am.

December 8, 2002

63 species were seen and/or heard.  The most interesting were; 4
black-crowned Night Herons, 4 Gadwall, 20 Ring-necked Ducks, 3 Northern
Harriers, 2 Sharp-shinned Hawks, 1 Cooper's Hawk, 2 Red-shouldered Hawks, 2
Red-tailed Hawks, 1 American Kestrel, 1 Virginia Rail, 4 Soras, 250 Common
Moorhens, 400 American Coots, 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, 1 Marsh Wren, 1
Nashville Warbler, 1 Dark-eyed Junko, 30 Rusty Blackbirds, and 1 female
Baltimore Oriole.  The Nashville Warbler was olive above with a gray head,
white eye ring, and yellow under parts except white lower belly near legs.
It was seen in a 40x scope feeding ( on insects? ) on floating mats of
dollar weed in the Audubon Swamp in the company of  hundreds of
Yellow-rumped Warblers.

Perry E. Nugent
Charleston, SC
nugentpc@earthlink.net