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Re: Early Lincoln's Sparrows



On 9/8/03 5:40 PM, "Russ Tyndall" <fitzbew@redshanksoftware.com> wrote:

> On 9/5/03 9:49 PM, "Dwayne Martin" <redxbill@conninc.com> wrote:
> 
>> We had one at Glenn Hilton Park in Hickory last year on September 7.  I knew
>> it was early, but I didn't realize that it was a state early record.  It was
>> seen well by 20 folks on the walk.
>> 
>> Dwayne
>> *************************
>> Dwayne Martin
>> Foothills Bird Club
>> Taylorsville, NC
>> redxbill@conninc.com
>> http://www.geocities.com/foothillsbirdclub/
>> 
> 
> As a follow-up to this report, I'd like to add that our own Keith Camburn
> observed a Lincoln's Sparrow on Clingman's Dome Road (Great Smoky Mountains
> NP, NC) on the SAME day (9/7/2002) Dwayne saw his at Glenn Hilton.
> 
> You two guys will have to get together and check sighting time of day to see
> who really "owns" the earliest known fall report for NC!  :-)

Sorry, in my excitement about the odd "dual" sighting of Lincoln's Sparrow
on 9/7/2002, I forgot all about Rick Knight's 9/1/2003 banding at Carver's
Gap.  Which is really what got this thread going anyway.

Many pardons Mr. Rick!

-- 
Russ Tyndall
Wake Forest, NC
www.redshanksoftware.com