Today is Wednesday, April 27,
2016. After a morning 4 mile run on the beach along the Atlantic Ocean on
Hatteras Island, we headed back to Pea Island NWR for the second time in two
days. We were rewarded with many new "Trip Birds" (this means
that though we have seen these birds many times before, it is the first time
we've seen this species on this trip): Green Heron, Orchard Orioles, American
Black Ducks, Bald Eagle, Eastern Kingbird, Marbled Godwits, Gadwall Ducks,
American Coots, Ruddy Turnstone, Semipalmated Plovers, and a lone Bonaparte's
Gull). We then headed north into Virginia after a short stop at the Bodie
Island Lighthouse and are camped near the entrance to the Great Dismal Swamp
NWR that we will bird and explore tomorrow.
Croatan National Forest, NC
Brown Thrasher,
singer extraordinaire
Hunkered down Great
Blue
Tulip Tree (Yellow
Poplar)
Greater Yellowlegs
(compared to the similar-looking Lesser Yellowlegs, these birds have a subtle
upturning of the bill and in breeding plumage like this bird, they have
extensive dark bars on their flanks).
Fiddler Crabs are
common on mudflats and salt marshes. Mud Fiddlers (as compared with Sand
Fiddlers) have a turquoise patch between their eyes and the pincers are tipped
white. Females have pincers of equal size; males have one pincer that is
much larger than the other.
The BirdMobile at
our campsite
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