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The Carolina Bird Club, Inc., is a non-profit educational and scientific association open to anyone interested in the study and conservation of wildlife, particularly birds.

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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Carolina Bird Club
Rare Bird Alert

September 28, 2007

To report a rare bird sighting in North or South Carolina, email Taylor Piephoff or call 704-332-2473 and leave a message.

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Hello, this is a September 28 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:

BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
RED CROSSBILL
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES
WOOD STORKS (inland NC)

Up to 32 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS and 8 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were present at the Atlantic Turf Co. west of Creswell, NC on September 24. Obtain permission to enter from the front office.

Patriot's Point in Mount Pleasant, SC is a great place to look for all kinds of migrants. On September 23 a LARK SPARROW and 3 CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were present.

Birders in Hendersonville, NC should check the blackbird flocks along Hooper Lane. A YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was with starlings and cowbirds on September 14.

Low water levels at most inland reservoirs in North Carolina have provided great inland shorebirding this month. At the New Hope Creek arm of Jordan Lake on September 16, seventeen species of shorebirds were found including RED PHALAROPE, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, and WILSON'S PHALAROPE. Three WOOD STORKS have also been present there for a few weeks. Buckhorn Reservoir in Wilson County, NC has also been productive. BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, MARBLED GODWIT, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, and nine other shorebird species were present on September 17.

RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES have staged their strongest fall flight in years throughout the Carolinas. Individuals are showing up at feeders throughout the coastal plain, piedmont, and foothills. Birders should also be on the lookout for RED CROSSBILLS away from their usual mountain locations. A juvenile female spent a few days south of Greenville, SC in August.

Thanks to Jeff Lewis, Jon Fussell, Susan Boyd, Cathy Miller, Jeff Catlin, Donald Rote, and Wayne Forsythe, for their calls and reports.

Taylor Piephoff
Charlotte, NC
PiephoffT@aol.com

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