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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.

October 20

5Black-bellied Plover
1Semipalmated Plover
20Marbled Godwit
3Short-billed Dowitcher
2Willet
20Ruddy Turnstone
3Sanderling
10Least Sandpiper
10Laughing Gull
25Black Skimmer
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Tricolored Heron
2Great Egret
30Brown Pelican
1Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
5American Crow
1Fish Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
5Tufted Titmouse
2Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
1Palm Warbler
5Northern Cardinal

October 19

1Clapper Rail
8American Oystercatcher
3Piping Plover
1Wilson's Plover
10Western Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Caspian Tern
10Forster's Tern
4Royal Tern
5White Ibis
1Snowy Egret
1Osprey
1Northern Flicker
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Whimbrel
1Spotted Sandpiper
4Dunlin
2American Herring Gull
1Great Blue Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Eastern Phoebe
11Tree Swallow
17Barn Swallow
7European Starling
3Common Yellowthroat

October 18

2Killdeer
1Sandwich Tern
1Little Blue Heron
4Red Knot
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Bald Eagle
1Red-tailed Hawk

October 17

5Great Black-backed Gull
8Double-crested Cormorant
1Black Vulture

October 16

4Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Chipping Sparrow

October 15

1Pine Warbler
1Turkey Vulture