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Marbled Godwit at Jordan Lake



This morning (8/28), fifteen people made the long trek to the Morgan Creek 
mudflats at Jordan Lake (Chatham Co., NC).  (Numbers are crude estimates, 
not careful counts.)

Semipalmated Plover - 6
Killdeer - many
Greater Yellowlegs - 2
Lesser Yellowlegs - 10
Spotted Sandpiper - 5
MARBLED GODWIT - 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 50
Western Sandpiper - 5
Least Sandpiper - 75
Pectoral Sandpiper - 20
Short-billed Dowitcher - 3

Baltimore Oriole - 1

There are only a handful of Marbled Godwit records at Jordan.  Except for 
the 6 with Hurricane Fran, the last one was seen in 1988.

It's not the easiest spot to get to: Park near the gate at the end of Old 
Hope Valley Farm Road.  Continue walking past the gate 1 mile to the next 
gate.  A few hundred yards past that gate, the road forks -- follow the 
right fork, which is an old RR grade.  Follow the RR grade trail until you 
see a trail going off to the right.  Follow that until you can see the 
lake through the woods.  Walk to the water and follow the shoreline to the 
right until you get to the mudflats.  It's a hike!


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Charles W. "Will" Cook                w 919-660-7409
cwcook@acpub.duke.edu                 h 919-967-5446
Duke University Botany Dept., Durham, North Carolina
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook