Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:31:12 -0400
Reply-To: "James F. Flynn, Jr." <jflynn@AMERICA.NET>
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From: "James F. Flynn, Jr." <jflynn@AMERICA.NET>
Subject: American Golden-Plovers, Peach Co.
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Earl Horn and I birded southwest of Macon on Sunday, 10/14, and one of
the highlights was a pair of American Golden-Plovers on the Super Sod
farm located near the Peach-Crawford Co. line northwest of Fort Valley
off of US 341. The birds were with a couple of Killdeer, and they were
visible from US 341, a little less than a mile north west of the
intersection of GA 49 Connector and US 341. By the way, it appears that
GA 49 Connector is in the wrong place in the Georgia DeLorme Atlas (page
42, grid B-2). The Atlas shows that the road is on the Peach-Crawford
County line at one point, but the intersection of US 341 and GA 49C is
actually about a mile south of the county line. This error is fixed in
DeLorme's software (Street Atlas USA).
Earlier in the morning, we hit eastern Taylor County pretty hard around
Reynolds, and ended up with a pretty good mix of warblers (12 species),
but not very many other migrants and no sparrows.
Later in the morning, we made many stops in Crawford Co. as the front
was passing through, but struggled to find any migrants at all. We did
add Hooded Warbler to the mix, for 13 species of warbler total.
Here is a run down:
Taylor
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Great Egret 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Black Vulture 1 Eastern Bluebird 16
Turkey Vulture 2 Wood Thrush 1
Wood Duck 5 American Robin 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1 Gray Catbird 7
American Kestrel 3 Northern Mockingbird 19
Killdeer 2 Brown Thrasher 7
Common Snipe 1 European Starling 50
Rock Dove 20 Tennessee Warbler 3
Eurasian Collared-Dove 6 Northern Parula 1
Mourning Dove 40 Magnolia Warbler 2
Common Ground-Dove 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Eastern Screech-Owl 4 Yellow-throated Warbler 2
Barred Owl 2 Pine Warbler 9
Belted Kingfisher 1 Palm Warbler 11
Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Black-and-white Warbler 1
Downy Woodpecker 5 American Redstart 4
Northern Flicker 6 Northern Waterthrush 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Common Yellowthroat 4
Eastern Phoebe 8 Summer Tanager 2
Loggerhead Shrike 7 Scarlet Tanager 1
White-eyed Vireo 2 Eastern Towhee 9
Blue-headed Vireo 1 Northern Cardinal 13
Blue Jay 16 Red-winged Blackbird 3
American Crow 20 Eastern Meadowlark 3
Fish Crow 17 Common Grackle 1
Carolina Chickadee 19 Brown-headed Cowbird 8
Tufted Titmouse 17 House Finch 8
Brown-headed Nuthatch 3 House Sparrow 6
Carolina Wren 14
Crawford
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Black Vulture 5 Brown-headed Nuthatch 4
Turkey Vulture 6 Carolina Wren 10
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Kestrel 4 Eastern Bluebird 4
Mourning Dove 8 Gray Catbird 4
Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Northern Mockingbird 6
Barred Owl 2 Brown Thrasher 3
Chimney Swift 3 European Starling 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Magnolia Warbler 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Pine Warbler 3
Downy Woodpecker 3 American Redstart 1
Northern Flicker 3 Common Yellowthroat 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1 Hooded Warbler 3
Eastern Phoebe 7 Eastern Towhee 3
Loggerhead Shrike 3 Chipping Sparrow 2
White-eyed Vireo 1 Northern Cardinal 14
Blue Jay 9 Common Grackle 12
Carolina Chickadee 10 House Finch 12
Tufted Titmouse 13
Take care.
--
Jim Flynn
Cumming, GA
jflynn@america.net
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