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Sunday at Ft. Macon
- To: Carolina birds <carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu>
- Subject: Sunday at Ft. Macon
- From: Clyde Sorenson <clyde_sorenson@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:06:16 -0500
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All,
I couldn't make the journey to see the Allen's on Saturday, so Sunday I
carried my family to Bogue Banks. At Ft. Macon two razorbills actively
fed in the vicinity of the jetties for more than two hours while I tried
(with limited success) to get a good picture of them and to (again, with
limited success) catch a false albacore (#@** boaters!). An even dozen
purple sandpipers repeatedly visited the jetty; I was successful in
getting a decent pic of one of them.
Other birds seen from there and from the Bogue Banks piers included
common and red-throated loons, another razorbill feeding off the SSS
pier, many bonaparts gulls, several flocks of black scoters, an early
barn swallow at the inlet, and, most remarkably, a single American
avocet flying about 75 yards off the beach near the jetties, headed west.
I also saw an injured juvenile loggerhead turtle off the end of the
Bogue Inlet pier at the west end of the island. It was missing its left
rear limb and a chunk of its shell, and had a thick mat of algae growing
on its carapace. it didn't look happy or healthy.
Take care,
Clyde Sorenson