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Sightings this week
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Sightings this week
- From: rperkins@fayettevillenc.com (Robert C. Perkins)
- Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 12:29:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
The summer season is definitely wearing on. Thursday morning, while
covering my usual beat on the Methodist College campus, I ran across a
loggerhead shrike out on the golf course. My last sighting of a shrike in
that location was in March. Yesterday morning I observed 3 juvenile wood
ducks pigging out on aquatic weeds. I got good looks at them and they
matched the pictures in the National Geographic guide and the Patuxtent
website.
After seeing very few starlings for a while, I found 2 fairly large
flocks on campus yesterday. I also noted that the house finches have begun
to gather in flocks, so their nesting season is definitely over. I still
haven't relocated the robins and common grackles that were so plentiful
before the second week of July. I'll keep watching.
My suet feeder continues to be very popular, but the daytime heat
melts the suet. The birds don't seem to care; they gobble up the peanuts
that the melting fat exposes.
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