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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.

April 19

16Black-bellied Plover
220Semipalmated Plover
3Short-billed Dowitcher
2Willet
110Red Knot
55Sanderling
12Laughing Gull
5Ring-billed Gull
140Black Skimmer
2Forster's Tern
3Royal Tern
1Snowy Egret
1Black Vulture
1Osprey
1Bald Eagle
3American Crow
1Fish Crow
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Northern Cardinal
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

April 18

2Mourning Dove
2Clapper Rail
1Wilson's Plover
1Marbled Godwit
4Ruddy Turnstone
4Dunlin
10Least Sandpiper
5Common Tern
2Sandwich Tern
1Anhinga
1Tricolored Heron
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
4Great Crested Flycatcher
2White-eyed Vireo
1Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
6Tree Swallow
9Barn Swallow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1House Wren
1Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
2Eastern Bluebird
2House Finch
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Black-and-white Warbler
3Northern Parula
1Pine Warbler
5Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Indigo Bunting
3Painted Bunting
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Piping Plover
2Whimbrel
1Stilt Sandpiper
25Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Bonaparte's Gull
1Herring Gull
1Least Tern
2Wood Stork
1Double-crested Cormorant
2Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
1Red-eyed Vireo

April 16

2Little Blue Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Brown-headed Cowbird

April 15

2Western Sandpiper
11Brown Pelican

April 14

1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Green Heron
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Sedge Wren
2Savannah Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow

April 13

2Turkey Vulture
1Merlin