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Fw: probable Trumpeter Swans at Bear Island, SC



Heidi Hoerman pointed out to me that I had a typo in the number of
Double-crested Cormorants seen yesterday. This should be 100, not 1.

Robin Carter
Columbia, SC
rcarter@sc.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Carter" <rcarter@sc.rr.com>
To: "CarolinaBirds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Cc: "Heidi Hoerman" <hoerman@sc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: probable Trumpeter Swans at Bear Island, SC


> Yesterday, 2 Feb 2002 Caroline Eastman, Heidi Hoerman, and myself spent a
> wonderful day birding at Bear Island Wildlife Management Area, Colleton
> County, SC. While there we ran into Donna Bailey and Sharon Jones, among
> others, also spending the day at Bear Island.
>
> Back in Columbia last night I got a telephone call from Donna Bailey.
Donna
> said that late in the day she and Sharon were studying a large
unidentified
> gull which may have been some sort of hybrid (Glaucous x Great
Black-backed
> ??). I have nothing to report about this gull since we did not see it. But
> Donna also said that Sharon was going over the pictures she had taken of
the
> gull and noticed that one of the swans in the background appeared to be a
> Trumpeter Swan. Donna agrees with this assessment.
>
> This morning I have just finished downloading the digiscoping pictures
that
> we took of the swans in Marys House Pond, right at the entrance to the
WMA.
> We had a few fair pictures of the swans. Most were definitely Tundra
Swans,
> but two -- one adult and one juvenile, seem to be Trumpeters. I hesitate
to
> say too much, but I have the pictures. I am certainly no expert in swan
> identification.
>
> We had a great day in the field. Here is our list for Bear Island WMA and
> other places along the Bennetts Point Road, including Social Hall Creek
and
> Bennetts Point village. The numbers of Pied-billed Grebes, White Ibis,
> herons, egrets, Eastern Towhees and Fish Crows were staggering! These
> numbers are conservative estimates, not actual counts.
>
> Pied-billed Grebe -- 200
> American White Pelican -- 5
> Double-crested Cormorant -- 1
> Anhinga -- 1
> Great Blue Heron -- 8
> Great Egret -- 200
> Snowy Egret -- 350
> Little Blue Heron -- 300
> Tricolored Heron -- 200
> Black-crowned Night-Heron -- 4
> White Ibis -- 3000
> Wood Stork -- 10
> Trumpeter Swan -- 2
> Tundra Swan -- 150
> Snow Goose -- 80
> Canada Goose -- 20
> Green-winged Teal -- 500
> American Black Duck -- 4
> Mottled Duck -- 10
> Mallard -- 5
> Northern Shoveler -- 50
> Lesser Scaup -- 50
> Bufflehead -- 10
> Hooded Merganser -- 6
> Black Vulture -- 25
> Turkey Vulture -- 50
> Osprey -- 1
> Bald Eagle -- 4
> Northern Harrier -- 15
> Red-tailed Hawk -- 4
> American Kestrel -- 6
> Common Moorhen -- 10
> American Coot -- 300
> Black-bellied Plover -- 4
> Killdeer -- 30
> American Avocet -- 12
> Greater Yellowlegs -- 100
> Lesser Yellowlegs -- 100
> Dunlin -- 1
> Short-billed Dowitcher -- 4
> Long-billed Dowitcher -- 10
> Common Snipe -- 1
> Bonaparte's Gull -- 3
> Ring-billed Gull -- 20
> Caspian Tern -- 20
> Forster's Tern -- 20
> Mourning Dove -- 20
> Eurasian Collared-Dove -- 2
> Belted Kingfisher -- 12
> Red-bellied Woodpecker -- 3
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker -- 1
> Downy Woodpecker -- 1
> Northern Flicker -- 10
> Eastern Phobe -- 4
> Tree Swallow -- 50
> Blue Jay  -- 20
> American Crow -- 10
> Fish Crow -- 5000
> Carolina Chickadee -- 30
> Tufted Titmouse -- 15
> Carolina Wren -- 5
> House Wren -- 1
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet -- 20
> Eastern Bluebird -- 15
> Hermit Thrush -- 1
> American Robin -- 5
> Northern Mockingbird -- 6
> Brown Thrasher -- 2
> Loggerhead Shrike -- 1
> Yellow-rumped Warbler -- 500
> Pine Warbler -- 2
> Common Yellowthroat -- 3
> Northern Cardinal -- 30
> Eastern Towhee -- 40
> Chipping Sparrow -- 30
> Song Sparrow -- 2
> White-throated Sparrow -- 10
> Red-winged Blackbird -- 5000
> Eastern Meadowlark -- 20
> Boat-tailed Grackle -- 1
> Common Grackle -- 2000
> Brown-headed Cowbird -- 1
> American Goldfinch -- 3
>
> Robin Carter
> Columbia, SC
> rcarter@sc.rr.com
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