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Hyde Park Road migrants - Charleston County, SC



This afternoon Perry Nugent and I birded north and south of Hyde Park Road along the dike+canal that runs beside Drayton Swamp (just northwest of  Caw Caw swamp) near Ravenel, SC.  The raised dike runs between a willow & hardwood-lined blackwater canal on one side and a mature bottomland hardwood swamp/forest on the other.  In the summer the area is thick with ST and Miss. Kites and swamp warblers; in the spring and fall it is great for migrant passerines.  We saw 12 warbler species in 2.5 hours.

Here are the highlights:
White Ibis - 200+ (multiple flyover flocks)
Barred Owl - 3 (1 seen, 2 more heard)
UFO Empid - 1
Acadian Flycatcher - 2
Great-crested Flycatcher - 2
White-eyed Vireo - 15
Red-eyed Vireo - 250+ 
Loggerhead Shrike - 2
Thrush Sp. - 1
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER - 1 (male knockout)
N. Parula - 10
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Cape May Warbler - 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Black-throated  Green Warbler - 1
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1
Prairie Warbler - 5
Black-and-white Warbler - 5
Am. Redstart - 30+
Worm-eating Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Waterthrush Sp. (heard) - 1
Summer Tanager - 1
Baltimore Oriole - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Indigo Bunting - 1

Nathan Dias - Charleston, SC

PS The wooded edges along the canal are thick with grape-laden vines.  It should be hopping with Thrushes and Catbirds before long.