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Jordan-Falls Shorebirding
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Jordan-Falls Shorebirding
- From: RJDNC@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 19:56:03 EDT
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hi folks,
When I heard about the Hudsonian Godwit at Falls on Saturday, I decided to
make a swing of Jordan and Falls today for some shorebirding. I ended up with
21 species, it was a very rewarding day, although tiring and hot! Following
is a list of birds at two major areas -- at Jordan, I checked the New Hope
Creek area upstream from the NC 751 area, and at Falls, the I-85-Redwood
area. As you can see, there is quite a movement of shorebirds through our
area right now. Some of you Triangle(Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) folks need
to try to check these areas out regularly over the next couple of weeks! Good
Luck and be sure to let me know if you find other interesting birds there.
FIRST NUMBER IS JORDAN, SECOND NUMBER IS FALLS
Black-bellied Plover - 0,1
Semipalmated Plover - 34,17
Killdeer - couple of hundred over both sites
Greater Yellowlegs - 3,4
Lesser Yellowlegs - 25,18
Solitary Sandpiper - 7,3
Spotted Sandpiper - 6,4
UPLAND Sandpiper - 1,0 (quite rare on lake mudflats!)
HUDSONIAN GODWIT - 0,1 (very rare inland anywhere, anytime)
Ruddy Turnstone - 0,1
Sanderling - 1,1
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 23,8
Western Sandpiper - 4,0
Least Sandpiper - 80,40
White-rumped Sandpiper - 2,0
BAIRD'S Sandpiper - 1,0 (rare but not too unexpected here this time of year)
Pectoral Sandpiper - 140,70
Stilt Sandpiper - 4,1
BUFF-BREASTED Sandpiper - 1,1 (kinda neat to get one at each of the lakes)
Short-billed Dowitcher - 14,20
Common Snipe - 1,0
Also had 5 Caspian Terns and 1 Black Tern at Falls
Later, Ricky
Ricky Davis
608 Smallwood Drive
Rocky Mount, NC 27804
(252)443-0276
RJDNC@aol.com