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Outer Banks Birds: Good Day!
- To: carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu, PiephoffT@aol.com
- Subject: Outer Banks Birds: Good Day!
- From: Shaawitya@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 19:07:20 EST
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Today, Saturday February 24, Jeff Lewis, Joan Kutulas, and I birded our way
from Whalebone Junction on our way to Cape Point. We stopped at the Rodanthe
Pier and found a female Harlequin Duck and what we thought was a Red-necked
Grebe, but the surf was very heavy, the wind brisk from the NNE, and the
temperature chilly; not very good for looking into the sea. We stopped at
the Avon Pier and did not find any unusual birds, NO Western Grebe.
At Cape Point, we managed to locate one Glaucous Gull, many Lesser
Black-backed Gulls, but NO Thayer's, Iceland, or California Gulls. We did
find one Greater Black-backed Gull with yellow legs, a strange looking gull.
There was an abundance of Red-throated Loons and Red-breasted Mergansers
close inshore and many Northern Gannets and Surf Scoters flying offshore.
Several Horned Grebes were found at the Cape Point Bight.
In Buxton, we found one male and one female Painted Bunting at a feeder.
Traveling back toward Nags Head at dusk, we stopped at Bodie Island and found
two Short-eared Owls in the marshes to the west on NC 12 approximately 3.3
miles south of Whalebone Junction.
Keith Watson
Kill Devil Hills, NC