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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 Botany Bay Plantation WMA

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

March 9

3Mourning Dove
2American Oystercatcher
3Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
10Semipalmated Plover
5Wilson's Plover
2Spotted Sandpiper
3Willet
5Ruddy Turnstone
2Red Knot
2Sanderling
100Dunlin
2Least Sandpiper
15Laughing Gull
5Ring-billed Gull
2American Herring Gull
5Forster's Tern
5Double-crested Cormorant
5Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
10Brown Pelican
10Black Vulture
10Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
2Belted Kingfisher
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Pileated Woodpecker
5Blue Jay
XCarolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
XCarolina Wren
10Eastern Bluebird
5Savannah Sparrow
XSong Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
XRed-winged Blackbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird
3Palm Warbler
1Pine Warbler
XYellow-rumped Warbler
2Yellow-throated Warbler
20Northern Cardinal

March 8

2Mottled Duck
6Piping Plover
1Wood Stork
1Snowy Egret
1Downy Woodpecker
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
XHouse Finch
1Boat-tailed Grackle
9Wild Turkey
1Clapper Rail
2Common Gallinule
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Royal Tern
2Tricolored Heron
6Western Cattle-Egret
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
2Red-tailed Hawk
4Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
2American Kestrel
3Eastern Phoebe
1White-eyed Vireo
5American Crow
2Northern House Wren
1Gray Catbird
2Brown Thrasher
2Northern Mockingbird
1Hermit Thrush
42Cedar Waxwing
4Chipping Sparrow
1Field Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Northern Parula
2Hooded Merganser
1Red-shouldered Hawk
50Tree Swallow
5Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1American Robin
5White-throated Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat

March 7

5Black Scoter
6Bufflehead
72Red-breasted Merganser
2Red-throated Loon
1Merlin
1Blue-headed Vireo
5Fish Crow
1Baltimore Oriole
2Orange-crowned Warbler