| << Back 11/6/02 Nature notebook SMN Birds: ° A small mixed group of ducks has been hanging around Lake Junaluska the past few days. Species include lesser scaup, ring-necked ducks, ruddy ducks, hooded mergansers and green-winged teal. Belted kingfishers are also present along with pied-billed grebe and double crested cormorant (various reports 10/31-11/3) ° Other sightings at Lake J include great blue heron (10/31); tree swallows (11/1); wood duck (11/2-3) and ring-billed gull (11/3) ° Dunlin at Hooper’s Lane in Henderson County (11/1-3, numbers are dwindling, reported on Carolina Birds listserv) ° Horned grebe (Lake Julian, Asheville, 11/3, reported on Carolina Birds listserv) ° Dunlin (800), great blue herons (200), great egret, greater yellowlegs, pectoral sandpipers, bald eagle and tree swallow (Douglas Lake, Cocke County, TN, reported from Tennessee Birds listserv) ° American kestrel (2), northern harrier (Mountain Test Farm, Waynesville, 11/3, Don Hendershot) ° White-throated sparrow, field sparrow, vesper sparrow, American goldfinch, eastern bluebird, red-winged blackbird, brown-headed cowbird, and eastern bluebird along with all the usual suspects ( spoil bank along Francis Farm Rd., Waynesville, 11/3, Don Hendershot) ° The Calliope hummingbird is still present at Sharon Funderburk’s home in Castalia, NC, contact her at 919.853.2716.
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