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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 Fish Haul Beach Park

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

March 16

2Mourning Dove
9Black-bellied Plover
50Semipalmated Plover
1Piping Plover
2Wilson's Plover
2Marbled Godwit
15Willet
3Ruddy Turnstone
14Sanderling
100Dunlin
5Western Sandpiper
20Laughing Gull
22Ring-billed Gull
100Black Skimmer
40Forster's Tern
12Royal Tern
25Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
4Great Blue Heron
25Brown Pelican
3Black Vulture
1Turkey Vulture
1Northern Harrier
2Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
4White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
12American Crow
3Fish Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
5Tufted Titmouse
100Tree Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Northern House Wren
4Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
2Brown Thrasher
3Northern Mockingbird
3Eastern Bluebird
2House Finch
1Eastern Towhee
6Palm Warbler
10Northern Cardinal

March 15

5Least Sandpiper
2American Herring Gull
2Osprey
2Killdeer
3Short-billed Dowitcher
3Long-billed Dowitcher
1Wilson's Snipe
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Red Knot
2Bonaparte's Gull
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
6Cedar Waxwing
5White-throated Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Rusty Blackbird
1Common Grackle
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Painted Bunting

March 14

4Lesser Black-backed Gull
3White Ibis
1Chipping Sparrow
4Savannah Sparrow
5Clapper Rail
3Song Sparrow
1Lincoln's Sparrow
3Hooded Merganser
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Northern Parula

March 12

4Red-breasted Merganser
1Common Loon
1Cooper's Hawk
2Northern Flicker

March 11

1Yellow-throated Warbler
1American Oystercatcher
1Boat-tailed Grackle

March 10

1Marsh Wren
4European Starling
2American Robin
3American Goldfinch
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat
3Pine Warbler