Date:         Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:55:21 -0400
Reply-To:     Russ Wigh <rwigh@mindspring.com>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Russ Wigh <rwigh@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Blackbeard Island
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I participated in a USFWS shorebird survey this morning on Blackbeard Island.  The storm off the coast brought plenty of wind, if not birds.
The list of shorebirds is as follows:
Sanderling ~ 150
Red Knot ~ 90
Ruddy Turnstone - 12
Semipalmated Plover - 9
American Oystercatcher - 2
Willet - 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1

In addition to Brown Pelicans and Laughing Gulls, the following terns were there:
Royal - many
Common ~ 50 (juvenile)
Sandwich - 13
Black ~ 16 (juvenile)
Forster's - 2 (juvenile)
Caspian - 1 

The most unusual bird of the day had to be :
Bare-breasted Sun-bird, - 1 adult female.  (No need to chase this rarity, guys.  We saw it leave...

Russ Wigh
Skidaway Island, GA 

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