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Great Morning at Riverbend Park
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- Subject: Great Morning at Riverbend Park
- From: "Dwayne Martin" <redxbill@conninc.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:23:00 -0400
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About 18 folks enjoyed a great birdwalk at Riverbend Park (northern Catawba Co.) this morning. We had 51 species including 10 warbler species. After several of us consulting several field guides, I along with many others in the group, got a life bird!!! It was an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER!!! The bird was not in the best of light, but after elimanating the other flycatchers we are certain that it was an Olive-sided. I went back out to the spot where it was but I didn't relocate it. I will try again later this evening. we had 3 Bald Eagles!! We were watching 2 adluts sitting in a tree when an immature came in and sat on a dead limb right above them. It than proceed to follow us the rest of our walk. Everytime we looked up the eagle was above us. It was a great morning!! Here is the list for the morning:
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Canada Goose
Mallard
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher--New for the park and me!!
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Least Flycatcher
Empidonax sp.
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery-- New for the park
Brown Thrasher
Blue-winged Warbler--New for the park.
Tennessee Warbler
Northern Parula
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Canada Warbler
Warbler sp.--Lots of these! Little guys in bad light.
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Dwayne
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Dwayne Martin
Foothills Bird Club
Taylorsville,NC
redxbill@conninc.com