Date:         Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:37:42 -0400
Reply-To:     Carol Lambert or Jeff Sewell <lambertsewell@MINDSPRING.COM>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Carol Lambert or Jeff Sewell <lambertsewell@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Suwanee Creek/George Pierce Park, Gwinnett Co. 6/28/03
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Jeff Sewell, Sterling Blanchard and I had a good walk through the Suwanee
Creek Greenway & George Pierce Park property in Gwinnett Co. this morning.
The Smith family from north Cobb Co. went part of the way on what was an
Atlanta Audubon sponsored walk. The rain actually stopped soon after we
started out and the birds started singing. We ended up with 50 species and a
couple of nice surprises. A BROAD-WINGED HAWK perched and whistling near the
Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd. underpass/overpass(?) was unexpected and remained
in the area. Two male SCARLET TANAGERS near the marsh & soccer fields were
good (one starting to molt). We had KENTUCKY and HOODED WARBLER along the
Greenway stretch. After lunch Jeff and I returned to the part of the trail
nearest the soccer fields and found a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER.

Along with the more common resident species, we had GREEN HERON,
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER, ACADIAN
FLYCATCHER, WHITE-EYED VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, TREE SWALLOW, N. ROUGH-WINGED
SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, SUMMER TANAGER, INDIGO
BUNTING. A species that we missed was Yellow-billed Cuckoo, which must be
there but not calling.

The best parts of this site are the small marsh at the Greenway start near
the parking lot on Martin Farm Rd. (off Satellite Blvd.) and the nature
trail & marsh of the Park, which can best be accessed through the soccer
complex (off Buford Hwy. just past Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd.). There's a
soccer parking lot on the left shortly before you reach the nature trail
entrance, but no parking on the street. I would suggest walking in from this
point as far as the powerline (Olive-sided Flycatcher site 2 years ago);
then maybe driving around to Satellite Blvd. and checking the smaller marsh.
Most of the Greenway walk that connects these two areas has dense privet on
both sides, cyclists, walkers, dogs, etc. and was not very productive,
although we would've missed the Broad-winged Hawk if we hadn't walked
through that area today.

Carol Lambert
DeKalb Co., GA
lambertsewell@mindspring.com

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