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My fishing partner and I spent from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Shallotte River today. The fishing wasn't much, but the weather was beautiful and the birding was interesting. We had a number of looks at a hen red-breasted merganser that was hanging around. We also saw a black-bellied plover in breeding plumage, several ruddy turnstones in breeding plumage, a willet, a lesser yellowlegs also in breeding plumage, and several spotted sandpipers still in winter plumage. We also saw all of the "normal" herons--great blue, little blue, tricolor, green--and the usual egrets--great and snowy. Birds overhead included osprey, turkey vulture, barn swallows, and chimney swifts. We heard clapper rails several times but never spotted one.

Bob
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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Historian and General Outdoorsman
Fayetteville, NC 28311
rperkins@infionline.net