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Visit to Horton's Pond



     Today my fishing partner and I set out at mid-morning to fish 
Horton's Pond off Jordan Lake.  I had already done an hour's birding 
here on the north side of Fayetteville before we left.  My partner 
drove and we had his canoe.  When we got to Horton's Pond, the wind 
was so nasty that we left the canoe on the car.  We walked, fished, 
and birded up the west side of the pond, crossed via the beaver dam 
to the east side, and came back down.  While we only caught one fish, 
we saw lots of birds.
      On the west side of Horton's we found a small flock of field 
sparrows mixed in with song sparrows.  We saw lots of sparrows, but 
except for the fields, all that I could identify were songs.  I 
looked in all the grassy, wet areas that we came across looking for 
lbjs and we saw plenty.  However, we saw no wrens, even when I 
tromped through the grass trying to flush birds.
     We took a somewhat circuitous route home, making stops at the 
NCSU dairy farm and at Ten Ten pond.  The dairy pond had Canada 
geese, northern shovelers, bufflehead, and at least two scaup of 
which one was clearly a lesser and the other probably was.  There 
were ring-necked ducks and three hooded mergansers at Ten Ten.
      I had three new year birds for the day: wood duck, field 
sparrow, and red-headed woodpecker.
      Twice today I had a partial look at what must have been 
white-throated sparrows but never got clear enough views to be able 
to make the call.  Frustrating!

Bob
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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
910-630-7037     rperkins@methodist.edu