[bcbirdclub] Re: OBX Birding
- From: "Roger Mayhorn" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Jerry Thornhill \(ls\)" <mjt@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "bcbirds" <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:01:22 -0500
Great shot Jerry. Glad to see that you are upholding the integrity of both the
Russell County and Buchanan County Bird Clubs by examining each individual bird
in the flock. Of course the rest of us will be scanning the photo you posted to
make sure you didn't let a duck of another species slip past you :)
Roger Mayhorn
Compton Mt
----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Thornhill
To: bcbirds
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:41 PM
Subject: [bcbirdclub] OBX Birding
Jane & I are at the Outer Banks where we'll celebrate Thanksgiving with our
daughter, granddaughter, and son-in-law. We came down early to do a little
birding. Unfortunately Pea Island and points south are closed off because of
damage from Sandy. It's still been a good week with some good birds especially
as you might suspect, waterfowl. Yesterday we went to Matamuskeet NWR where we
saw several duck species but no pintails. As Don Carrier will testify, last
February, they were plentiful there. This morning, we went to Alligator River
NWR. We were studying some sparrows on one side of the road when I turned to
the other side and was greeted by this sight.
This is only a small part of what we saw. The field they are over is
approximately a half mile long and this cloud stretched basically from end to
end, and as you can tell, a little higher than this picture shows. As near as
we could tell, they were all Northern Pintails. Of course, we examined every
bird individually to be as sure as possible, but some may have move as we
systemically worked our way from end to end. It was an amazing sight.
Jerry
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