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HBSP on 4-5



Hi C'birders,
Today I spent about 5+ hours in the company of visiting birder Tom
Mulder from Michigan as we went to Huntington Beach S.P., Murrells
Inlet, Georgetown County, SC.  We id'd 50 birds while visiting the jetty
area, the causeway, Kerrigan Trail and the Attalaya half of the carriage
path.

N. Gannet-7 almost all immatures
Brown Pelican-25
Double-crested Cormorant-65
Great Blue Heron-1
Great Egret-3
Snowy Egret-12
Tricolored Heron-3
Green Heron-6
Red-breasted Merganser-30
Turkey Vulture-1
Osprey-2
Clapper Rail-3
Common Moorhen-1
Black-bellied Plover-12
Wilson's Plover-1
Piping Plover-3
Greater Yellowlegs-1
Willet-5
Spotted Sandpiper-3
Whimbrel-1
Ruddy Turnstone-20
Red Knot-2
Sanderling-27
Purple Sandpiper-1
Short-billed Dowitcher-55 almost all were breeding plumage Hendersoni
Laughing Gull-20
Ring-billed Gull-4
Royal Tern-5
Sandwich Tern-3
Common Tern-1
Forster's Tern-5
Least Tern-15
Mourning Dove-2
Chimney Swift-2
Red-bellied Woodpecker-1
Great Crested Flycatcher-1 heard only
Barn Swallow-10
Blue Jay-1
Fish Crow-1
Carolina Wren-3
N. Mockingbird-3
Brown Thrasher-2
White-eyed Vireo-1 heard only
N. Cardinal-4
Painted Bunting-2 males only
E. Towhee-3 heard only
Savannah Sparrow-2
Red-winged Blackbird-3
Boat-tailed Grackle-15
Orchard Oriole-1 male

Good birding, good company

Jack Peachey
Conway, SC