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Singing Blue-headed Vireo and some shorebirds
- To: "Carolinabirds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Singing Blue-headed Vireo and some shorebirds
- From: "Mike Turner" <teebird1@sc.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:43:51 -0500
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Had my first singing Blue-headed Vireo of the year today, Monday 3/10,
while birding along the elevated boardwalk at Congaree Swamp NM. Also heard
3 or 4 Yellow-throated Warblers, and saw a couple of Winter Wrens, Hermit
Thrushes and Ruby-crowned Kinglets. This is my favorite time of year, seems
like everyday brings something new. The water level along the boardwalk had
dropped at least a foot since my visit yesterday. Yesterday I also saw a
Mud Turtle and a Spotted Turtle, the first Spotted Turtle I have ever seen.
At the flooded fields along Beckahm Swamp Rd. this morning were a bunch of
Killdeer, scores of American Pipits, a half dozen Savannah Sparrows, 3 Wood
Ducks, 3 Hooded Mergs, 10 Lesser Yellowlegs, 5 Greater Yellowlegs, 30
Pectoral Sandpipers and 48 Ring-billed Gulls. A rather bizarre spectacle
was as many as 25 large carp rooting around the open fields, trapped by the
receding flood waters. The vultures and gulls will have a field day
(literally) picking at the carcasses of these carp when the water runs out
of there in the next couple of days.
Mike Turner
Columbia, SC