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Fw: Howell Woods Bird Sighting




Everyone,

Thought you would be interested in this from Johnston County, NC:

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 10:16 PM
Subject: Howell Woods Bird Sighting


> Just a quick note on an unusual bird sighting- a yellow-breasted chat.  I
was
> doing some winter species inventorying (fancy for bird watching for work)
> when I hit the mother load of bird activity, right near the Learning
Center
> adjacent to front fields (total 32 species in about a half hour or
> so-included a sharp-shinned hawk, Baltimore oriole and two banded birds),
> when I saw a bright yellow breasted bird. At first I thought it was a
common
> yellowthroat but the size bothered me so I poked around a little more and
> waited and sure enough it popped up within ten feet of me.  Once I got a
look
> at the bill I knew it was not a yellowthroat, but a chat.  A white-eyed
vireo
> in January and a yellow-breasted chat in February? I thought these guys
knew
> how to get to the tropics? Oh well, I enjoyed the tease of the upcoming
> spring migration.
>
> Happy birding,
> Jamie Sasser

Susan Campbell
Whispering Pines, NC