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Recent reports from Pinckney Retreat and Battery Creek West Basin, Beaufort, South Carolina, US (32.401, -80.724)

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

April 24

4Canada Goose
6Mourning Dove
10Semipalmated Plover
4Whimbrel
12Short-billed Dowitcher
6Spotted Sandpiper
6Laughing Gull
5Forster's Tern
1Wood Stork
3Double-crested Cormorant
2Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
4Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
2Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
6Black Vulture
6Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Bald Eagle
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-headed Woodpecker
4Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Downy Woodpecker
2Pileated Woodpecker
4Great Crested Flycatcher
2White-eyed Vireo
2Red-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
6American Crow
2Fish Crow
5Carolina Chickadee
8Tufted Titmouse
2Tree Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2White-breasted Nuthatch
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
4Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1House Wren
5Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
2Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
4House Finch
1Song Sparrow
1Red-winged Blackbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
4Northern Parula
3Pine Warbler
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
4Yellow-throated Warbler
14Northern Cardinal
1Blue Grosbeak
1Indigo Bunting
3Painted Bunting

April 23

1American Robin

April 22

1Chipping Sparrow

April 21

4Chimney Swift
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
5Black-bellied Plover
3Dunlin
2Least Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Cedar Waxwing

April 19

3American Oystercatcher
2Willet
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
4Barn Swallow
2White-throated Sparrow

April 18

1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1American Goldfinch
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Palm Warbler