Date:         Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:54:56 -0400
Reply-To:     Ken Blankenship <kenhblankenship@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Ken Blankenship <kenhblankenship@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Sapelo 10/9; A. Golden Plover 10/10; etc.
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Thought I would add our sightings for the weekend, which for us was Sunday
(and Monday morning). Sapelo trip was a little slow, but nonetheless many
neat birds were seen – and great numbers of Peregrines! We saw and
photographed what was most likely an Acadian Flycatcher as well, which
would be a new coast late date by a week.

We birded Sapelo, then Altamaha (for 45 min.) on Sunday, and spent an hour
or so at Gould’s Inlet Sunday morning, followed by a quick stop at Marshes
of Glynn Park and a sod farm along Hwy 16 for a total of 97 species – not
bad! Note that these lists are what we saw or heard, and others may have
had more birds on the same trip…

St. Simon’s Island 10/10 [Gould’s Inlet]:
Black-crowned Night Heron 2 (marshes of Glynn park)
Yellow-crowned Night Heron 1 imm. (same park)
Roseate Spoonbill 2 (same park)
Wood Stork 8 (same park)
Black-bellied Plover 8
Dunlin 1
Reddish Egret 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Peregrine Falcon 5 (1 imm.)
Merlin 1
Osprey 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Western Sandpiper 10-12

Sod Farm, Emanuel Co. 10/10:
American Golden Plover 1
Horned Lark 1
Pectoral Sandpiper 20
Northern Bobwhite 1
Loggerhead Shrike 2

Sapelo Island Trip 10/9:
Wood Stork 1
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 1
American Kestrel 1
Peregrine Falcon 12 (!)
Plain Chachalaca 1-2  (responded to tape – awesome!)
Clapper Rail 1
American Oystercatcher 5
Marbled Godwit 1
Red Knot 1
Sanderling 20
Western Sandpiper 2
Caspian Tern 1-2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (on Hwy 99)
Red-headed Woodpecker 3-4
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Acadian Flycatcher 1
White-eyed Vireo (many)
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Swainson’s Thrush 1
Northern Parula 1
Yellow-throated Warbler 1
Pine Warbler (1 seen, several heard)
Prairie Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 1
American Redstart (many – all female type)
Common Yellowthroat 2
Summer Tanager 1 (heard)
Scarlet Tanager 1
Blue Grosbeak 1

Altamaha 10/9 (east side dikes and tower):
Northern Harrier 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Sora (2 heard, 1 seen)
Common Moorhen 1 (1 heard)
Wilson’s Snipe 1
Loggerhead Shrike 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Palm Warbler (tons!)
Savannah Sparrow (many)
Indigo Bunting 4
Painted Bunting 1
Bobolink 4

Other stuff:
Zebra Longwing butterfly on Sapelo
Viceroy butterfly – Emanuel County
Mink hunting for fish at Gould’s Inlet

Ken Blankenship
Marietta, GA (Cobb County)

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