10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

One of the more exciting birds this summer in this little corner of North Carolina is undoubtedly the King Rail s that have been regularly reported in a still-water back-arm of Jordan Lake in Chatham County, just south of where I live. The two species I’ve heard but never seen.

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Jordan North Carolina Broker Woodpeckers 167

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

Sure, you can find it across much of the eastern United States, even as far north as southern Canada but I ask you, are you really seeing a Prothonotary Warbler if you’re not watching it pick through a flooded forest in the south? But it certainly appeared that this tree stump just off the trail on a far arm of Jordan Lake would do.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first, the much caricatured hard-nosed lister who stops at nothing to get just one more bird, and the second, the deep-patch birder who just wants to hang around the common species. Take, for instance, the Lesser Black-backed Gull I happened upon on the recent Jordan Lake Christmas Bird Count. State tick! Not worth consideration?

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McDonalds South Carolina North Carolina Jordan 166

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In October our resident Pines are supplemented by birds from farther north resulting in actual factual flocks of Pine Warblers congregating in pine stands and parks anywhere in the Piedmont of North Carolina and undoubtedly across the entire region. But that’s not a luxury all birders in the east have.

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