A warm morning made for a shorter visit than normal. No sign of the recently fledged kestrels. The Puple martins are gathering along Cedar Hill road again, which seems to be a July phenomenon. Starlings are also flocking up in the same area.
Some Butter and Dragon flies below also. Doug Johnston
Sandy Mush Game Land--Cedar Hill Road #3, Buncombe, US-NC Jul 8, 2012 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Light breeze, temps 70's to 90, clear sky 29 species Wild Turkey 12 Turkey Vulture 4 Cooper's Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 21 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 4 Eastern Kingbird 2 Red-eyed Vireo 5 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 16 Purple Martin 16 Barn Swallow 2 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Eastern Bluebird 6 American Robin 2 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 76 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 4 Field Sparrow 8 Northern Cardinal 6 Indigo Bunting 11 Common Grackle 2 American Goldfinch 4 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
Butterflies Spicebush ST - 1 Cabbage white - 6 Clouded sulphur - 2 Orange sulphur - 4 white sulphur - 2 Cloudless sulphur - 2 ETB - 16 Great spangled fritillary - 1 Pearl crescent - 17 American lady - 3 Red admiral - 1 C buckeye - 1 Red spotted purple - 2 N pearlyeye - 2 Carolina satyr - 19 Little wood satyr - 1 C wood nymph - 3 Silver spotted skipper - 3 Least skipper - 3 Sachem - 5 Zabulon skipper - 1 Dragons river cruiser - 2 cruising, not landing Spot winged glider - 1 New for gamelands C whitetail - 3Ebony jewelwing - 3 Most of the damsels seen at the Turkey creek bridge at "dead dog" access
Powdered dancer - 6 Blue ringed dancer - 5 Dusky dancer - 2 Stream bluet - 7 teneral damsels - 100+ along the ridge trail
