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Re: Raleigh CBC



Randy Emmitt, Kent Fiala, Gordon Brown, Rachel Harden, and I covered the 
western half of Lake Wheeler on the Raleigh CBC.  Here's a description of 
the area: http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/tbg/wheelermarsh.html

It was not the most fun weather (cold, damp, and foggy) for slogging around 
in a marsh, but we had a few good birds, including a flock of 20 Redhead and 
2 Common Loons from the Penny Road causeway, 3 Loggerhead Shrikes (2 in the 
Blaney Bluffs neighborhood, 1 on Old Sorrell Rd.), and 2 imm. Baltimore 
Orioles traveling together off Old Sorrell Rd.  Sparrow numbers were way 
down from what they usually are in the Lake Wheeler marshes and we failed to 
get a Virginia Rail to respond to a tape.  Duck numbers and diversity at 
Lake Wheeler are still very low compared to what they were 4-5 years ago.  
We ended up with 54 species, a little lower than normal for this area.

Unfortunately I don't recall what other goodies were reported at the 
countdown.


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