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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 Huntington Beach SP--North Beach

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

September 17

7Sanderling
3Laughing Gull
3Royal Tern
1Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture

September 16

5Ruddy Turnstone
1Cooper's Hawk
2Spotted Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
3Forster's Tern
6Sandwich Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
2Snowy Egret
2Osprey
1Carolina Wren
5Northern Mockingbird
2Northern Cardinal
3Mourning Dove
15American Oystercatcher
16Black-bellied Plover
250Semipalmated Plover
5Short-billed Dowitcher
2Willet
6Least Sandpiper
1Pectoral Sandpiper
130Western Sandpiper
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
20Black Skimmer
7Caspian Tern
4Common Tern
1Tricolored Heron
8Great Egret
1Red-tailed Hawk
1American Kestrel
1Merlin
1Northern Yellow Warbler
2Pine Warbler
2Greater Yellowlegs
2Ring-billed Gull
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Summer Tanager

September 14

1Little Blue Heron