A very pleasant morning was spent with Vin Stanton, David Kirschke and later Tony Geiger at the "Dead Dog" section of the gamelands (aka SR 20 access). We walked up the hill behind the access and over to Turkey creek, then walked along the riverside meadows. These meadows have been recently mowed, which makes all the difference to an easy walk, so I recommend a visit to the area if you have some time. I expected to see some Wood duck on the creek, especially above the beaver dam, but we found four Blue winged teal instead, maybe escapees from Beaver Lake. We also spent a little time on Cedar hill and Martin Candler roads, where we saw the Meadow larks and Kestrel.
Butter and Dragonflies seen are also listed bellow Doug Johnston
Sandy Mush Game Land--SR 20 access, Buncombe, US-NC Apr 15, 2012 8:15 AM - 1:15 PM Protocol: Traveling 6.0 mile(s) Comments: Sun, temps 39 to 78 degrees, light south winds 46 species Mallard 1 Blue-winged Teal 4 Ruffed Grouse 1 Wild Turkey 8 Green Heron 1 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 8 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 American Kestrel 1 Mourning Dove 3 Chimney Swift 1 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 6 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 7 American Crow 5 Tree Swallow 1 Carolina Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 3 Carolina Wren 4 House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 7 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 12 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 5 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 12 Cedar Waxwing 44 Ovenbird 1 Northern Parula 3 Eastern Towhee 9 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 13 Savannah Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 7 Eastern Meadowlark 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 American Goldfinch 12 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
Butterflies Black ST - 3 tiger ST - 5 Spicebush ST - 3 dark ST - 4 Cabbage white - 4 Falcate OT - 3 Clouded sulphur - 6 Orange sulphur - 2 Cloudless sulphur - 1 Sleepy orange - 1 sulphur spp - 4 Harvester - 1 Red banded hairstreak - 3 ETB - 8 Pearl crescent - 15 anglewing - 1 Mourning cloak - 1 American lady - 6 Red admiral - 10 Gemmed satyr - 1 Carolina satyr - 3 satyr spp - 8 Monarch - 1 Silver spotted skipper - 2 Sleepy duskywing - 2 Juvenals duskywing - 4 duskywing spp - 8 Pecks skipper - 1 Sachem - 2 Skipper spp - 5 Dragonflies Springtime darner - 9 Ashy clubtail - 18 Appalachian snaketail - 2 Common whitetail - 6
