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An interesting Saturday
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: An interesting Saturday
- From: "Robert C. Perkins" <rperkins@infi.net>
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:27:05 -0500
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I set out early this morning to look for sparrows in Cumberland
County east of the Cape Fear River. I started at Rhodes Pond,
continued to Old Bluff Church, and then spent some time on River Road
below Wade. I did turn up seven species of sparrows, so I was
successful in that effort. I also saw a kestrel with a vole, a
hermit thrush, and several red-tailed hawks. I heard several times
what I thought was a red-shouldered hawk, but I was never close
enough to it for a positive identification. As I drove down the lane
to Old Bluff Church, several non-descript brown jobs flew from one
field to the other and then settled down. I stopped to check and
found one, possibly two, horned larks. The second one never gave me
a really good look. The same field had robins, killdeer, and
meadowlarks. I checked the field later in the day, finding only
robins and blackbirds.
The fun continued here at home during the afternoon. A first
year sharp-shinned sat on the fence at the back of my yard for about
ten minutes. It then swooped around the bushes, apparently trying to
flush a bird, and finally left for other hunting grounds.
Bob
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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
910-630-7037 rperkins@methodist.edu