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Visit to Horton's Pond
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Visit to Horton's Pond
- From: "Robert C. Perkins" <rperkins@infi.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:38:11 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
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