HBSP on 2-20

[Jack Peachey <ppaw@sccoast.net>]

Hi Carolinabirders,
	Paul Rogers and I went to Huntington Beach S.P. today.  We birded at the
causeway, the jetty pond and jetty and a short visit to the crabbers dock
and the beginning of the Sandpiper Pond trail. We had 40 species.  A nice
day weather wise with a flat ocean, but as usual for late February and
March there was a paucity of shorebirds.  Where did the Dunlin and
Dowitcher go?  

Common Loon-25
Pied-billed Grebe-6
Horned Grebe-1 way out 
Brown Pelican-4
Great Cormorant-2 on the channel marker at the end of the jetty, one
individual was showing the white flank patches of breeding plumage
Double-crested Cormorant-8
Great Blue Heron-3
Great Egret-5
Snowy Egret-1
White Ibis-3
Gadwall-32
Am. Wigeon-1`5
Bufflehead-4
Hooded Merganser-18
Red-breasted Merganser-6
Turkey Vulture-4
Bald Eagle-1 adult in the pines opposite the crabbers dack
American Coot-8
Piping Plover-1
Semipalmated Plover-1
Willet-8
Common Snipe-1
Ruddy Turnstone-2
Sanderling-2
Least Sandpiper-3 along the edge of the marsh in Mullet Pond as seen from
the first overlook
Purple Sandpiper-72 40 on the north jetty and 32 on the south jetty
Bonaparte's Gull-7
Ring-billed Gull-2
Herring Gull-7
Forster's Tern-1
Crow sp-1
Blue Jay-1
Carolina Wren-1
Am. Robin-70
N. Mockingbird-1
Cedar Waxwing-2
Blue-headed Vireo-1
Yellow-rumped Warbler-50
Red-winged Blackbird-20
Boat-tailed Grackle-6

Good birding, good company

Jack



Jack Peachey
Conway, SC