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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.

May 4, 2003

50 species were seen and/or heard.  The most interesting were; 3 Pied-billed
Grebes, 30+ Anhingas, 2 Least Bitterns, 8 Great Blue Herons, 75 Great
Egrets, 20 Snowy Egrets, 25 Cattle Egrets, 60 Little Blue Herons, 6
Tri-colored Herons, 8 Green Herons, 6 Black-crowned Night Herons, 75 Wood
Ducks, many of these birds have babies, 1 female Hooded Merganser, 1 Osprey,
3 Red-shouldered Hawks, 200 Common Moorhens many babies, 5 Solitary
Sandpipers, 6 Spotted Sandpipers, 20+ Least Terns, 6 Yellow-billed Cuckoos,
4 Great-crested Flycatchers, 4 Eastern kingbirds, 1 Northern Parula Warbler,
3 Prothonotary Warblers, 2 Common Yellowthroats, 1 Blue Grosbeak, 2 Painted
Buntings, and 1 Savannah Sparrow.

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