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Conway Sewage Ponds & Hemingway Sewage Ponds
- To: carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu
- Subject: Conway Sewage Ponds & Hemingway Sewage Ponds
- From: Jack Peachey <ppaw@sccoast.net>
- Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 22:52:33 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hi Carolinabirders,
Today, I went to the Conway Sewage Ponds and the Hemingway Sewage Ponds.
Ok, I blew it. I saw two grebes at the Hemingway Ponds and I have to tell
you I couldn't figure them out. Neither were classic winter plumaged
Horned or Eared Grebe. See below. I have no excuse I was able to get good
light on both birds traveling together and I had a goood scope (thanks to
Barbara Maxwell)
First number Conway S.P. Second number Hemingway S.P.
1. Pied-billed Grebe-4-3
2. Grebe sp. 0-2
Both birds traveling together were obvious small grebes. Head shape with
slight peak to back of head which was otherwise shallowly rounded no
pronounced cliff like profile to the forehead. Reddish eye at level of, but
within, dark area of head. Dark area above eye reddish brown in one bird
brownish-grey in the other. Area below eye dirty white. Area of demarcation
diffuse. Chin and throat white. Neck narrow but not especially pencil like.
Dark bill small very short and rather thin with very straight edge to lower
mandible. Neck diffuse dirty grey. Back and flanks a diffuse grey and
white. One bird in some light showed a slight whitish patch back of the
auriculars.
Any help out there? Could these birds still be in juvenile plumage at this
date? I don't have a lot of experience with Eared Grebes having seen only
two Eared Grebes both approaching breeding plumage in late winter.
Great Blue Heron-1-0
Canada Goose-0-8
Mallard-0-7
Gadwall-0-2
Ring-necked Duck-1-17
Lesser Scaup-0-3
Hooded Merganser-0-12
Ruddy Duck-8-60
Turkey Vulture-0-2
N. Harrier-0-1 beautiful male over a field on my way to Hemingway.
Red-tailed Hawk-0-1
Am Coot-0-5
Killdeer-5-2
Greater Yellowlegs-0-1
Sandpiper sp-0-12 most seemed to big to be "peeps"
Least Sandpiper-15-0
Common Snipe-0-1
Red-bellied Woodpecker-1 heard only-0
Pileated Woodpecker-1-0
E. Phoebe-2-0
Tree Swallow-400-80
Am. Crow-0-1
Carolina Chickadee-3-0
Tufted Titmouse-2-0
Ruby-crowned Kinglet-9-4
N. Mockingbird-1-0
Yellow-rumped Warbler-17-7
Palm Warbler-9-0
Common Yellowthroat-1 male-0
Savannah Sparrow-0-1
Song Sparrow-1-1
Sparrow sp-0-4
Swamp Sparrow-1 heard only-0
Baltimore Oriole-1-0
Blackbird sp-2-0
" Don't forget sometimes you have to look up"
Jack Peachey
Conway,SC
ppaw@sccoast.net