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Janet and I went to the Sandhills Turf Farm yesterday (monday) and except 
for one very elegant buff-breasted sandpiper, three other birders from 
Raleigh, there was nothing there besides killdeer (25), and a about 15 
horned lark.

Tom
Bahama, NC.
tkrakauer@mindspring.com



>From: "Charles R. Burk" <crburk@mindspring.com>
>To: "Carolina Birds" <carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu>
>Subject: Sandhills Turf Farm
>Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:23:29 -0400
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>Decided to check the turf farm at Candor one more time before leaving town
>for several weeks.  Thought perhaps the unsettled weather would cause a few
>birds to drop in.  I was wrong.  Even the Killdeers were not to be found.
>Strange.  Grassland sandpipers and plovers seem to be showing up in some
>numbers in a number of locations.  In 1998, the Sandhills Turf Farm got its
>share.  This year has been different.  The only shore birds that have shown
>up are varying numbers of Killdeer.
>
>Dick
>
>Charles R. (Dick) Burk
>Pinehurst, NC
>crburk@mindspring.com