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Caw Caw birdwalk



The following are highlights of the 3 hour Wednesday morning birdwalk at
Charleston County's Caw Caw Park on US highway 17 south in Ravenel, SC led
by Perry Nugent at 8:30 am.  A small fee is charged.  For more information
click on www.ccprc.com.

April 23, 2003

64 species were seen and/or heard.  The most interesting were; 1 adult and 3
baby Pied-billed Grebes,  6 Wood Storks, 2 Swallow-tailed Kite, 2 baby Bald
Eagles still on nest, 30 Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Solitary Sandpipers, 2 Least
Sandpipers, 6 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 1 Belted
Kingfisher, 3 Pileated Woodpeckers, 3 Wood-pewees, 2 Acadian Flycatchers, 25
Great-crested Flycatchers, 1000 Tree Swallows, 1 Marsh Wren, 8 Blue-gray
Gnatcatchers ( nests ), 6 Northern Parula Warblers, 45 Yellow-rumped
Warblers, 3 Yellow-throated Warblers, 2 Pine warblers, 3 Prothonotary
Warblers, 15 Common Yellowthroats, 5 Summer Tanagers, 6 Blue-grosbeaks, 2
Indigo Buntings, 2 Painted Buntings, 4 Savannah Sparrows, and 6 Orchard
Orioles.

Perry E. Nugent
Charleston, SC
nugentpc@earthlink.net