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An interesting Saturday
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
 
- Subject: An interesting Saturday
 
- From: "Robert C. Perkins" <rperkins@infi.net>
 
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:27:05 -0500
 
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
 
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
 
    I set out early this morning to look for sparrows in Cumberland 
County east of the Cape Fear River.  I started at Rhodes Pond, 
continued to Old Bluff Church, and then spent some time on River Road 
below Wade.  I did turn up seven species of sparrows, so I was 
successful in that effort.  I also saw a kestrel with a vole, a 
hermit thrush, and several red-tailed hawks.  I heard several times 
what I thought was a red-shouldered hawk, but I was never close 
enough to it for a positive identification.  As I drove down the lane 
to Old Bluff Church, several non-descript brown jobs flew from one 
field to the other and then settled down.  I stopped to check and 
found one, possibly two, horned larks.  The second one never gave me 
a really good look.  The same field had robins, killdeer, and 
meadowlarks.  I checked the field later in the day, finding only 
robins and blackbirds.
    The fun continued here at home during the afternoon.  A first 
year sharp-shinned sat on the fence at the back of my yard for about 
ten minutes.  It then swooped around the bushes, apparently trying to 
flush a bird, and finally left for other hunting grounds.
Bob
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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
910-630-7037     rperkins@methodist.edu