| << Back 8/21/02 Nature Notebook SMN Birds: ° Upland sandpiper, pectoral sandpiper, horned lark (Supersod sod farm, Orangeburg, SC, 8/17 reported from Carolina birds listserv) ° Roseate spoonbill (Silver Bluff Audubon Sanctuary, Aiken County, SC, contact Paul Koehler [PKOEHLER@audubon.org] for access, from Carolina birds listserv 8/17) ° Common nighthawks (Hendersonville, NC, Carolina birds listserv, 8/18) ° An uncommon sight for WNC, a mixed flock of migrating kites, 35 to 50 Mississippi and swallow-tailed kites (observed along US 74, just before Gateway flea market [westbound] near exit 74, Don Hendershot 8/17) ° Pied-billed grebe, double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, green heron, great egret, black-crowned night heron, mallard, wood duck, turkey vulture, black vulture, osprey, common bobwhite, semipalmated plover, killdeer, greater yellowlegs, lesser yellowlegs, ruddy turnstone, short-billed dowitcher, sanderling, semipalmated sandpiper, least sandpiper, white-rumped sandpiper, pectoral sandpiper, stilt sandpiper, ring-billed gull, Forster’s tern, black tern, belted kingfisher, pileated woodpecker, eastern kingbird, eastern phoebe, tree swallow, northern rough-winged swallow, barn swallow, cliff swallow, blue-gray gnatcatcher, yellow-throated vireo, warbling vireo, yellow warbler and American goldfinch (Rankin Bottoms WMA, Cocke County, TN, Bob Olthoff, Beth Brinson, Cathy King, Don Hendershot 8/18)
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