Warm, but not too hot was the word for this morning, thanks to the recent cold front. A Wood duck on Sandy Mush creek, a covey of Bobwhite in a thicket close by and a family of growing Turkeys by the road shows that management at the Gamelands is a success! Some vireos still singing, but a lot of the birding was visual (just as well). See below for the e bird posting.
Butterflies and dragons are also below Doug Johnston Sandy Mush Gamelands Bear creek access, Buncombe, US-NC
Jul 29, 2012 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Protocol: Traveling 4.0 mile(s) Comments: Clear skies, temps from 60's to low 80's, NW breeze 32 species Wood Duck 1 Northern Bobwhite 7 Wild Turkey 9 Turkey Vulture 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 1American Kestrel 1 On wire over meadow by Piney Knob junction with Bear creekMourning Dove 5 Chimney Swift 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Northern Flicker 1 White-eyed Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 12 Barn Swallow 1 Carolina Chickadee 3 Carolina Wren 4 House Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 4 Gray Catbird 2 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 30 Hooded Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 5 Field Sparrow 4Grasshopper Sparrow 2 On fence by Piney knob junction with Bear creekSong Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 3 Indigo Bunting 8 Eastern Meadowlark 3 American Goldfinch 5 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
Butterflies Pipevine ST - 2 E tiger ST - 2 Spicebush ST - 1 Cabbage white - 1 Orange sulphur - 3 Cloudless sulphur - 1 Little Yellow - 36 Gray hairstreak - 2 ETB - 19 Summer azure - 1 Variegated fritillary - 2 Silvery checkerspot - 1 Pearl crescent - 16 Painted lady - 1 C buckeye - 3 Hackberry emperor - 1 N pearly eye - 1 Carolina satyr - 27 C wood nymph - 4 Silver spotted skipper - 6 Wild indigo duskywing - 9 duskywing spp - 4 Least skipper - 5 Peck's skipper - 1 Sachem - 2 Zabulon skipper - 2 Dun skipper - 1 Odes.A couple of River cruisers chose to land close by, which makes a change. Photos helped me to decide that both were Swift RC, with one being the Illinois subspp and one Georgia.
Common green darner - 1 Dragonhunter - 2 Swift river cruiser - 2 Eastern pondhawk - 5 Spangled skimmer - 1 Slaty skimmer - 5 Blue dasher - 6 Spot winged glider - 1 C whitetail - 10 Ruby meadowhawk - 9 Black saddlebags - 1 Ebony jewelwing - 1 Slender spreadwing - 1 spreadwing spp - 1 Variable dancer - 4 Powdered dancer - 2 Dusky dancer - 2 Stream bluet - 19 Fragile forktail - 2
