South Carolina next week

[Zoroark]

I woke up to the sound of a semi truck's horn at 3:50 AM and went onto the patio to enjoy a duet of Barred Owls this morning. While doing some errands in Bamberg, we saw some FOY Chimney Swifts.

[Zoroark]

I headed over to Phinizy Swamp and met up with @Charlie Spencer and several others from Augusta-Aiken Audubon for a bird walk. Nothing new for the year, but it was a productive morning with a good variety of birds, including six Painted Buntings. I'm now waiting at the airport to head home.

Trip stats:

• 129 species observed
  • 5 lifers
  • 48 firsts of the year
• 61 checklists submitted
• 9 counties in 2 states birded

[Zoroark]

Ah, I forgot to also mention the Broad-winged Hawk at Phinizy, which isn't terribly common, and was a lifer for @Charlie Spencer.

[Charlie Spencer]

Here's the shared checklist from today's walk.  At the moment it's 57 species for six birders.  I'm going to add the American Crow I heard in the lot on the way out.

@Zoroark, also on the way out, there were three Mallards in water across from the Phinizy entrance, in a deep temporary puddle inside the airport fence.  I wonder if the ducks we saw fly over were Mallards instead of Wood Ducks?

It was a pleasure meeting you, and I hope to see you again the next time you're back here!

Edited April 15 by Charlie Spencer

[IKLland]

2 minutes ago, Charlie Spencer said:

Here's the shared checklist from today's walk.  At the moment it's 57 species for six birders.  I'm going to add the American Crow I heard in the lot on the way out.

@Zoroark, also on the way out, there were three Mallards in water across from the Phinizy entrance, in a deep temporary puddle inside the airport fence.  I wonder if the ducks we saw fly over were Mallards instead of Wood Ducks?

It was a pleasure meeting you, and I hope to see you again the next time you're back here!

I don’t see a checklist. 

[Charlie Spencer]

https://ebird.org/checklist/S133874502

Cut me some slack.  I came home and added 22-species list from my back deck.  Anything over 15 there is darn good.

[Zoroark]

19 hours ago, Charlie Spencer said:

@Zoroark, also on the way out, there were three Mallards in water across from the Phinizy entrance, in a deep temporary puddle inside the airport fence.  I wonder if the ducks we saw fly over were Mallards instead of Wood Ducks?

Could be. That's the only species on the checklist that I didn't personally observe. I took it off mine and replaced it with "duck sp."

I also had a mockingbird greet me in the tree in my front yard with its loud song when I got home at 10:35 PDT last night.

Edited April 16 by Zoroark
There were plenty of individuals I didn't observe, but I did observe at least one of every species except the Wood Duck.

[Charlie Spencer]

FYI

 

[Zoroark]

Ah, I'll throw a Barn on my list as well. Nearly everything I saw and heard was Tree, with at least two NRWS. I noticed you replaced all 7 Tree with Barn on your list.

Edited April 16 by Zoroark

[Charlie Spencer]

1 hour ago, Zoroark said:

Ah, I'll throw a Barn on my list as well. Nearly everything I saw and heard was Tree, with at least two NRWS. I noticed you replaced all 7 Tree with Barn on your list.

I didn't definitively see a Tree, and I can't ID them by call.  I could ID the NRWS visually and had the photos of the Barns.