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HBSP, SC on 9 Dec 2000
- To: "Carolina Birds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: HBSP, SC on 9 Dec 2000
- From: "Robin Carter" <rcarter@sc.rr.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:05:44 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hi C-Birders,
Yesterday (Saturday, 9 Dec 2000) a group of us from the Columbia Audubon
Society birded at Huntington Beach State Park, Georgetown County, SC. It
was a cold, windy, overcast day with rain threatening, and we did not find
many birds. Certainly we did not find any of the rarities which have popped
up at HBSP in early December in recent years. The number and diversity of
ducks was especially poor, compared to past years. Hopefully something will
come in before the Christmas Bird Count.
Here is our day list (HBSP only):
Red-throated Loon -- 9
Common Loon -- 6
Pied-billed Grebe -- 5
Horned Grebe -- 1
Northern Gannet -- 100
Brown Pelican -- 200
Double-crested Cormorant -- 150
Great Cormorant -- 3
Great Blue Heron -- 12
Great Egret -- 4
Snowy Egret -- 3
Little Blue Heron -- 1
Tricolored Heron -- 4
White Ibis -- 25
Wood Stork -- 1
Turkey Vulture -- 1
Gadwall -- 3
Black Scoter -- 30
Bufflehead -- 10
Hooded Merganser -- 50
Northern Harrier -- 1
Red-shouldered Hawk -- 1
American Coot -- 75
Black-bellied Plover -- 10
Semipalmated Plover -- 15
Piping Plover -- 3
Greater Yellowlegs -- 2
Lesser Yellowlegs -- 1
Willet -- 10
Ruddy Turnstone -- 50
Red Knot -- 1
Sanderling -- 15
Western Sandpiper -- 5
Least Sandpiper -- 1
Purple Sandpiper -- 70 (probably the best count of this species that I have
ever had at HBSP)
Dunlin -- 50
Short-billed Dowitcher -- 2
Laughing Gull -- 3
Ring-billed Gull -- 200
Herring Gull -- 50
Great Black-backed Gull -- 10
Royal Tern -- 2
Forster's Tern -- 3
Belted Kingfisher -- 2
Northern Flicker -- 1
Eastern Phoebe -- 1
Tree Swallow -- 7
Carolina Wren -- 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler -- 20
Song Sparrow -- 2
White-throated Sparrow -- 1
Red-winged Blackbird -- 50
Boat-tailed Grackle -- 50
Robin Carter
Columbia, SC
rcarter@sc.rr.com