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It's Fall
- To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: It's Fall
- From: "Sandy Cash" <lcashjr@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:29:19 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Today at Lake Crabtree, Gordon Brown and I found our first AMERICAN COOT,
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS of the Fall (Gordon
actually found all three birds, to be fair). It's definitely feeling like
Fall.
Other good sightings included a group of four BROAD-WINGED HAWKS soaring
overhead - looked like 1 adult and 3 juveniles, a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, a
*lot* of ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS, SCARLET TANAGER, BLACK-THROATED BLUE
WARBLER, and a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER.
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS have been getting scarcer - they've all but
disappeared from my yard now, but I watched one do his best to royally tick
off a PALM WARBLER this morning, which made for some fine entertainment.
A *huge* flock of CHIMNEY SWIFTS moved in not long after we arrived and
swarmed over the lake - I would guess a thousand birds, ballpark, but I made
no systematic effort to count them. That was quite cool.
Good birding,
-Sandy
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Sandy Cash
Durham, NC
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