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The Club meets each winter, spring, and fall at different locations in the Carolinas. Meeting sites are selected to give participants an opportunity to see many different kinds of birds. Guided field trips and informative programs are combined for an exciting weekend of meeting with people who share an enthusiasm and concern for birds.

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Recent reports from Pitt Street Causeway

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

May 15

6Red-breasted Merganser
2Chimney Swift
2American Oystercatcher
5Semipalmated Plover
1Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
2Ruddy Turnstone
8Laughing Gull
1Black Skimmer
2Least Tern
4Forster's Tern
5Brown Pelican
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
2Tree Swallow
2Purple Martin
6Marsh Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
8Red-winged Blackbird
4Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle
2Mourning Dove
1Whimbrel
16Dunlin
3Common Tern
7Royal Tern
1Wood Stork
1Great Egret
1Carolina Wren
2Brown Thrasher
1House Finch
1Eastern Meadowlark
2Northern Cardinal
2Black-bellied Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
3Spotted Sandpiper
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Gull-billed Tern
1Green Heron
1Nelson's Sparrow

May 14

1Clapper Rail
1Wilson's Plover
1Ring-billed Gull
5Double-crested Cormorant
1Black-crowned Night Heron
4Fish Crow
2Barn Swallow
1Eastern Bluebird

May 13

1Caspian Tern
1Sandwich Tern
1Common Loon
1Orchard Oriole
2Black-necked Stilt
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron

May 12

20Killdeer
10Sanderling
5Least Sandpiper
1Turkey Vulture
1Cooper's Hawk
2American Crow
2Painted Bunting

May 11

1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue Jay
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Downy Woodpecker
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Bald Eagle
1Seaside Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat