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Falls Lake, Sunday Morning, Oct. 6
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Falls Lake, Sunday Morning, Oct. 6
- From: RJDNC@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 21:29:04 EDT
- Resent-date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:51:14 -0500
- Resent-from: "Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>
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Hi Folks,
Checked out Falls Lake this morning, I wanted to see the Golden-Plovers
Mike S. had on Saturday. Found them at Olive Grove Peninsula area with
Black-bellied for nice comparison. Not much else there except some
Pectorals. Did finally find some shorebirds at the creek which runs
parallel to I-85 on the east side up toward Will Suitt Rd. Here was a
very good flock of 51 Stilt Sandpipers, some of both Yellowlegs, more
Pectorals, some Leasts, a Western, and 7 Dunlin. Had a sub-adult
Peregrine Falcon harassing the birds throughout the morning. This was a
different bird from the two seen last weekend! About the only other
interesting thing was that there was a small flight of Flickers moving
from the northern end of the Olive Grove Peninsula out over the river to
the far shore. With them was one Dickcissel, a pretty good bird to get as
a fall migrant here. Also had three Caspians and one Forsters Tern over
the lake near Cheek Rd. Winter birds are definitely coming in now, had
both kinglets, Yellow-rumped Warblers, and both Song and Swamp Sparrows.
Anyway it was a very enjoyable, pleasant day of birding with the cooler
temps.
Later, Ricky
Ricky Davis
Rocky Mount, NC