Clyde Wilson, Donna Jones and myself went to Dick Cross WMA in Mecklenburg Co
to see if we could relocate the Least Bittern found there on Thursday by Adam
D'Onofrio, Paul Glass and Clyde Wilson.
After a very long walk and through some wet grassy fields and treading through
some standing water we made it to where they heard the Bittern on Thursday. It
wasn't long before we heard it as well but without any success it seeing it in
the thick brush.
We walk up the trail a little further to see if we could find it but soon
turned around and went back to the original spot. Upon returning we had one
calling from the left of us and a few minutes later one from our right and a
few minutes the one from our left call. So we firmly believe that we had two of
them.
We also had a late male Green-Winged Teal.
Dick Cross WMA
Apr 29, 2017
6:45 AM
Traveling
1.50 miles
120 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: With Clyde Wilson and Donna Jones v
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1 Wood Duck
3 Mallard
1 Green-winged Teal -- Small duck, a male with rusty red head with green on the
side of face. We all got good looks through scope
1 Northern Bobwhite
2 Least Bittern -- We went to the spot that Adam D'Onofrio, Paul Glass and
Clyde Wilson heard one calling several times on 04-27-2017. We heard two
calling one from our left and then one from our right.
4 Great Blue Heron (Blue form)
1 Green Heron
2 Black Vulture
1 Turkey Vulture
3 Bald Eagle
2 Killdeer
1 Solitary Sandpiper
2 Mourning Dove
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
2 Pileated Woodpecker
2 Eastern Phoebe
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
4 White-eyed Vireo
3 Red-eyed Vireo
2 Blue Jay
2 American Crow
2 Carolina Chickadee
2 Tufted Titmouse
1 Carolina Wren
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Prothonotary Warbler
2 Common Yellowthroat
1 Hooded Warbler
1 Pine Warbler
1 Prairie Warbler
1 Yellow-breasted Chat
2 Eastern Towhee
3 Northern Cardinal
6 Indigo Bunting
5 Red-winged Blackbird
2 Orchard Oriole
Number of Taxa: 38
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