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Pelagic trip results and good Outer Banks birds



Birders,
    Just returned from a 5 day camping trip on the Outer Banks which included 
a Brian Patteson guided pelagic birding trip. For the 5 days a total of 99 
species were recorded, 18 new. 

On pelagic boat trip 7/28 out of Hatteras
Royal Tern-30
Cory's Shearwater-39
Greater Shearwater-3
Audubon's Shearwater-19
Wilson's Storm Petrel-263
Band Rumped Storm Petrel-4
Black Capped Petrel-42
Herald Petrel-1
Bridled Tern-12
Long Tailed Jaeger-1
**Bottlenose Dolphin-19
**Pilot Whale- 6

off boat..
Cape Hatteras salt pond
Least Sandpiper-2
Little Blue Heron- 1
Green Heron-1
Pectoral Sandpiper-1
Spotted Sandpiper-2
Least Tern-2

Hatteras beach
Willet-20
Sanderling-32
Ruddy Turnstone-2
Semipalmated Plover-2
Piping Plover-1
Gull billed Tern-2
Royal Tern-15
Black Skimmer-5
Whimbrel-3

Ocracoke 7/29
Meadowlark-3
Tree Swallow-1
BT grackle-30
Barn Swallow-200
Common Tern-4
Seaside Sparrow-6
Least Sandpiper-2
Semipalmated Sandpiper-4
Semipalmated Plover-12
Sandwich Tern-1
Forster's Tern-2
Glossy Ibis- 5
White Ibis-30
Black Duck-6
BC Night Heron-1
WC Night Heron-1
Tricolored Heron-2

Portsmouth Island 7/30-how is it legal to drive ATV's on this island
no Curlew Sandpiper though we tried
Whimbrel-10
Long Billed Curlew-1
Marbled Godwit-100
Willet-30
Greater Yellowlegs-25
Lesser Yellowlegs-5
Short billed Dowitcher-14
Red Knot-75
Least Sandpiper-30
Western Sandpiper-40
Semipalmated Sandpiper-50
Pectoral Sandpiper-10
Dunlin-1
Sanderling- 15
Black bellied Plover- 12
Wilson's Plover- 25
Piping Plover- 15
Semipalmated Plover-40
Black Tern-14
Royal Tern-10
Caspian Tern?-1
Least Tern-25
Gull Billed Tern-5
Common Tern- 30
Forster's Tern- 3
Sandwich Tern-1
GBB Gull-10
Herring Gull-40
Laughing Gull-100
Black Skimmer-55
Common Nighthawk-1
Little Blue Heron-5
Tricolored Heron-8
Great Egret-15
Cattle Egret-5
Snowy Egret-20
White Ibis-30
Glossy Ibis-6

Pea Island south dike 7/31
BN Stilt-3
American Avocet-12
Stilt Sandpiper-3
Semi., Least Sandpipers-50
Least Tern-5
Black Tern- 4
Forster's Tern- 1
**reports of Curlew Sandpiper on 7/29 and a juv. Black billed cuckoo 7/28

North dike
Red Knot-1
BN Stilt-1
Semi. Plover-2

Bodie Island Lighthouse Pond
Greater Yellowlegs-53 
Osprey-1
Northern Harrier-1
Marbled Godwit-4
Short billed dowitcher- 15
Red Knot- 5

Alan Kneidel
Charlotte, NC