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April 12, 2004 RBA
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Hello, this is an April 12 update of the Carolina Rare Bird Alert featuring birding news from North and South Carolina sponsored by the Carolina Bird Club. Highlights on this report include:

YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS
MANX SHEARWATER
LEACH'S STORM PETREL
RED-NECKED GREBE
WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
GOLDEN EAGLE
SMITH'S LONGSPUR

A YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS was seen from shore, indeed over land briefly, at Cape Hatteras Point on 4-11. Specifically, the bird was between the Point and the old lighthouse location.

Good birds offshore of Charleston, SC on 4-10 included a MANX SHEARWATER, LEACH'S STORM PETREL, 350 RED-PHALAROPES, and 450 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES. Most of these birds were seen about 40 miles ESE of the Charleston jetties.

A RED-NECKED GREBE was present throught the Easter weekend in Shallotte Inlet between Ocean Isle Beach and Holden Beach, NC. Try the waterway just west of the inlet also for this bird. 2 LONG-TAILED DUCKS are still present with scoters at the east end of Ocean Isle Beach.

Scoters are moving north in numbers now. Four WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were at Pine Knoll Shores (NC) with northbound BLACK SCOTERS on 4-8.

An immature GOLDEN EAGLE was at the Ashe/Watauga County line (NC) on Meat Camp Rd. 0n 3-28 but has not been reported since that date.

An immature ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was in Washington County (NC) between Roper and the Tyson Farm on 4-3. This bird has not been reported since that original sighting.

An apparent one-day occurence of a SMITH'S LONGSPUR was at Hooper Lane (Henderson County, NC) on 3-26. The bird was not seen in the days following the initial sighting.

Thanks this week to Nathan Dias, John Fussell. Wayne Forsythe, Donald Rote, Jeffrey Scott for their calls and reports. Some of this information was gleaned from Carolinabirds.
 
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