CBC Bonus Field TripLake Mattamuskeet November 13-14The trip to Mattamuskeet Wildlife Refuge on Nov. 12th and 13th was a lot of fun for everyone despite the occasional sprinkles on Sat. and the howling winds all weekend. For the most part the land birds were pretty much hunkered down, but the ducks and swans were enjoying the weather. Our total species count for the weekend was 83, a bit less than last year. One glaring miss was SNOW GEESE. When we didn’t see any on our drive through the refuge with the refuge officer, Kate, she told us they were probably in the fields. But we never saw any in the fields either. Sunday afternoon David and Michael McCloy, Bobbie Cox and Carol Bowman stopped by Pungo Lake on their way home and added two species to the list including SNOW GEESE. The list of birds seen is as follows: |
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Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis Tundra Swan Snow Goose (Pungo Lake) Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Scaup species Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk (Pungo Lake) Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Northern Bobwhite Common Moorhen American Coot Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Common Snipe Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Royal Tern Forster's Tern |
Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Common Yellowthroat Northern Cardinal Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle American Goldfinch House Sparrow |