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Good News All Around
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Good News All Around
- From: mjwestphal <mjwestphal@unca.edu>
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 10:26:13 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
1. Best of all - the Blue Ridge Parkway is open again all the way through. I
drove from Craven Gap to the Bull Creek overlook (the Cerulean section).
There were lots of Ceruleans and lots of Blackburnians as well as Ovenbirds,
B&W Warblers, N Parula, BT Blues, etc. Also heard a couple of E. W. Peewees -
first for the year for me.
2. The Warbling Vireo is back, at last, at Beaver Lake in Asheville. It was
in the Sycamore Tree next to the first Bluebird box (which is now a Tree
Swallow box) on the trail along the lake. It was singing from there, then it
flew over to the peninsula that juts out from the sanctuary and I lost it.
3. The Henslow's Sparrow is still on Butler Farm Rd in Henderson County.
This may not be good news for him, though, as he is very likely to have that
hayfield mowed out from under him soon. Strangely, the Grasshopper Sparrows
may have abondoned that field for the same reason. Although I have seen some
there, I have yet to hear any singing there this year. I think the field was
mowed at a very bad time for them last year. Anyway, I found another field
along Schoolhouse Rd that seemed to have several G Sparrows in it. This, I
think, will be a better field for them as it hasn't been used (by people that
is) in recent years. By the way, there was a flock of about 20-25 Bobolink,
also the first for the year for me, in the Butler Farm field yesterday
morning. Didn't see them today, though.
Okay, so I was a little late for work this morning!
Marilyn
Marilyn Westphal
Environmental Quality Institute
University of North Carolina-Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
828/251-6823
mjwestphal@unca.edu