Hi everyone, Let me first start out by saying that I have started a blog that I will try to keep up-to-date about birding that I thought some of you might be interested in. I will be posting some of the same posts to GABO, but many will be different. There will also be some of my pictures of birds on the website. The link is here: naturephotogallery.webs.com. Today I went to Fort Stewart and while we did not see a great number of birds, we did get to learn about and observe our main objective bird, the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker. We went through forests with five different types of trees (Live Oak, Loblolly, Slash, Spruce, and Longleaf Pines) as well as some ponds and the Canoochee River in Fort Stewart. Here is a list of species we saw: Eastern Bluebird Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker Carolina Chickadee Ruby-Crowned Kinglet *Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Pine Warbler Brown-Headed Nuthatch Red-Bellied Woodpecker Red-Winged Blackbird White-Breasted Nuthatch Northern Cardinal Carolina Wren Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Mourning Dove Hooded Merganser *Pied-Billed Grebe Wood Duck *Golden-Crowned Kinglet Killdeer Turkey Vulture Belted Kingfisher *Greater Yellowlegs Yellow-Rumped Warbler *Denotes a lifer This totals out to about 24 species. This trip was still a lot of fun as we learned a bunch of facts about botany, controlling forest fires, and we got to see some Gopher Tortoise burrows! Also, I have a goal of seeing at least one Northern Flicker and one Brown Creeper in my backyard every year. I have seen the Brown Creeper a few times this year, but I was starting to worry that my Flicker friends might not come this year. While it was not in my bakcyard, I did see that one Northern Flicker today, so I'm gonna count it!!! Marshall Weber Dunwoody, GA cardinalsandgoldfinches@gmail.com Student Birder

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