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headboat birding on May 16
- To: "carolinabirds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: headboat birding on May 16
- From: "Jack" <ppaw@sccoast.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 15:57:49 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hi C'birders,
Yesterday I took a ride on the headboat Capt. Bill III out of Murrells
Inlet, Georgetown, County. A few Gannets, one Double-crested Cormorant,
a Great Black-backed Gull about 5 miles out and a few Tree Swallows and
an immature barn swallow, a dark egret, and just before the boat headed
back more than 50 miles out a small songbird landed on the boat after
trying to frantically catch up and it was my 41 offshore bird in SC -
AN OVENBIRD, took a picture too. Unfortunately for the ovenbird we
headed west toward shore and a gust of wind took it off its perch which
was sheltered by the wheelhouse and took it out to sea where it was
flying due East. I don't think it will make it, but there was a
freighter nearby so who knows. A first hand account of the perils of
over ocean migration by songbirds.
Jack Peachey
Conway, SC