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Savannah River NWR
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Savannah River NWR
- From: Bob Perkins <rperkins@infionline.net>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:32:24 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
On my way home from Florida today (10/24) I stopped at Savannah
RiverNWR and spent a couple of hours on the loop drive. The ducks
were not in and I saw very few waders. In fact, the only ones I saw
at a reasonable viewing range was a flock of cattle egrets.
At the point where the road makes its first hard left turn, I
stopped to look for sparrows. I turned up a house wren, swamp
sparrows, savannah sparrows, and a first-winter white-crowned sparrow.
Much farther along, in an open stretch of marsh between two of
the copses of trees, I spent ten minutes observing a merlin that was
using a dead tree as a perch and catching (I think) dragonflies over
the marsh. I did not see it catch any birds but it did make a run at
one.
The only warblers that I saw were palms (plentiful) and common
yellowthroats (at least 3)
Bob
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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Historian and General Outdoorsman
Fayetteville, NC 28311
rperkins@infionline.net