Ls* fx-sr-j s rjt?- tB s s a 1 b [ TftSMG rjJSfURY WINTER MEETING ON OUTER ETOT.’b * ' The winter meeting of the Carolina Bird Club will be held on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, January 29-31, 1988. The meeting headquarters will be the Best Western Armada in Nags Head. Please use the form provided in the Newsletter to make your reservations by January 13. If the Newsletter is delayed by the Christmas mail rush, please call the Armada at 919-441-6315 (try even if after deadline). This meeting will be primarily a birding meeting, and Harry LeGrand is arranging field trips. Hnrrv has indicated that the field trips will cover three major areas: ponds on Bodie and Pea Islands, including Oregon Inlet; Cape Hatteras Point, Hatteras Inlet and Ocracoke Island; and Lake Mattamuskeet and surrounding fields. Maps and suggestions for birding on your own will be furnished. On Friday evening an identification workshop will be held by David Lee. He will have some museum specimens and slides to assist us in learning the identification of unusual gulls on the Outer Banks. On Saturday evening we will gather after dinner and review the day's field trips and compile a list. Sunday will be devoted to finding the fancy birds discovered on Saturday. If you like serious birding, this is the meeting for you. It will be devoted to birding in one of the best areas on the Atlantic coast at a season when very rare birds are a distinct possibility. Please use the form provided to register in advance. Registration at the meeting will begin at 3 PM, January 29 at the Armada. REPORT OF FALL MEETING Approximately 100 members attended the fall meeting of the Carolina Bird Club in Charleston, SC, October 16-18, 1987. The meeting was held at the Radisson Francis Marion Hotel in downtown Charleston with excellent weather prevailing. LIBBA WATSON was in charge of registration (as usual), and she was assisted by MARCIA PRYOR. The Charleston Natural History Society provided refreshments during registration on Friday afternoo. The paint- ings of several bird artists from South Carolina were exhibited in the registration area on Friday afternoon and again on Saturday evening. Artists represented were: STEVE DILLARD, DANNY O' DRISCOLL, ANNE W. RICHARDSON, SIDNEY GAUTHREAUX, BRUCE DRUCKE, and LARRY SEYMOUR. The exhibit received a very favorable response, and a similar exhibit will be planned for future meetings. PETE LAURIE from the South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department gave the Friday evening lecture on the fall migration of raptors along the South Carolina coast and also assisted in the hawk watch at Fort Johnson on Saturday. Pete's lecture was excellent and demonstrated that hawk watching is a lot more difficult than it might seem. He showed and told those who participated in the hawk watches on Sullivan's Island and at Fort Johnsor on Saturday exactly what to expect. WILL POST operated his banding station at Patriot's Point on Saturday morning so that everyone could see a netting operation in action and get close-up photographs of some of the migrants netted during the morning. Although the hawk migration was rather slow, the groups at Fort Johnson and Sullivan's Island saw Sharp- shinned Hawks(27) , Northern Harriers (11), Bald Eagles (2), American Kestrels (10), Cooper's Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Turkey Vultures (10), Osprey and Red-tailed Hawk. On Saturday afternoon attendees were invited to bird at Magnolia Gardens (thanks to the efforts of BETSY VERONEE), and BRUCE KRUCKE arranged a field trip to Middleton Place. After a wind and cheese reception the attendees enjoyed a very entertaining and informative presentation by Dr. KEITH BILDSTEIN of the Department of Biology at Winthrop College in (continued on page 3) -2- NORTH CAROLINA BREEDING BIRD ATLAS The North Carolina State Museum is now in its second year of statewide field work on its breeding bird atlas. To date only 59 three-square-mile blocks have been assigned. Block assignments are being done in two ways. (1) A series of blocks representing 10% of the state have been picked for coverage to represent a random sample of the state's breeding bird fauna. These blocks will all be assigned and later used for comparative studies illustrating change, stability, comparisons with survey results in other states, etc. (2) Other blocks are requested by volunteers through- out North Carolina. These can be near your home, vacation spots, or in out-of-the-way places you always wanted to visit. Between these two methods of block adoption we hope to cover at least 25% of the state. Additionally we will take any information on any nesting birds from any place in North Carolina: summer yard list, the Great- horned Owl nest you found last spring, even The South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department is interested in recruiting volunteers to conduct a breed- ing bird atlas (survey) in South Carolina starting spring, 1988. If interested the robin in your maple tree. Single records such as these will help fill in distributional gaps for many species and will make maps of breeding distribution more meaningful. Nest-record cards will be distributed to CBC members to aid in the solicitation of random records. It is hoped that every North Carolina CBC member will participate on some level. If this project is to be successful, it will require the cooperation of a large number of CBC members. CBC chapters are encouraged to adopt local state parks, entire counties, or portions of nearby National Forests. If you are interested, contact DAVE LEE, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, P.0. Box 27647, Raleigh, NC 27611 for a map and list of block avail- able in your area. The map shown below represents only the randomly picked blocks, but other portions of the state need coverage too. contact JOHN CELY, Nongame & Heritage Trust Section, South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department, P.0. Box 167, Columbia, SC 29202, telephone (803) 734-3916. states with bird atlas projects SOUTH CAROLINA BREEDING BIRD ATLAS -3- FALL MEETING REPORT CONTINUED... Rock Hill, SC. Keith's lecture was on some of the work that is being done in coastal South Carolina on the behavior and ecology of White Ibises. DENNIS FORSYTHE tallied the bird list for the field trips with a respectable total in excess of 100 species registered in spite of poor migration weather. On Sunday morning SID GAUTHREAUX led another hawk watch on Sullivan's Island near Fort Moultrie while others birded on their own. WHITE IBIS SIGHTINGS NEEDED Juvenile and adult white ibises have been marked with orange patagial tags with black alpha numerics in coastal South Carolina. Tags have been placed on either wing. Reports of marked birds, even if the alpha numeric cannot be read, will help us study movements and distribution of this polulation. In addition to geographic location and date(s), please include in your reports the age class of the bird, the habitat in which sighted, and how many ibises it was seen with. Please send information to Dr. Keith L. Bildstein, Department of Biology, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC 29733. NEW PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE Information on the following publications of interest to CBC members has been received: WILDLIFE MAP OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, $4.95 postpaid, American Nature Maps, PO Box 548, Glen Echo, MD 20812. DIRECTORY TO NORTH CAROLINA'S NATURAL AREAS, $5 postpaid, N.C. Natural Heritage Foundation, PO Box 11105, Raleigh, NC 27604. THE PIEDMONT NATURALIST by Bill Hilton, Jr., $9.95 postpaid, Hilton Pond Press, 1432 DeVinney Road, York, SC 29745 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- -+++++- BEST WESTERN ARMADA RESERVATION FORM Carolina Bird Club Winter Meeting, January 29-31, 1988 NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP Please reserve room(s) at $35.00 per night plus tax. My check for the first night's lodging is enclosed. I will arrive and depart . Mail with deposit to BEST WESTERN ARMADA, PO Box 307, Nags Head, NC27959 Tel. 919-441-6315 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ REGISTRATION FORM CBC Winter Meeting, January 29-31, 1988 NAME ( S ) ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP Enclosed is my check in the amount of $ for member registrations at $4 each and nonmember registrations at $5 each. Mail to CAROLINA BIRD CLUB, INC., PO Box 27647, Raleigh, NC 27611 Welcome New Members RUTH BROWN Columbia, SC HENRY & ELEANOR COLTON New Bern, NO SAM COOPER Wilmington, NC MRS. CAROLYN H. FULLER Lancaster, SC DR. JOSEPH GOLDSTON Florence, SC LORRAYNE A. GRAFF Greenville, NC MRS. GLADYS B. HAMILTON North Augusta, SC CLIFTON & ANN HARKEY Columbia, SC ALBERT JANEK, JR. Lugoff, SC RICK JOHNSON Lenoir, NC MRS. F. LOCKE MAYS Columbia, SC MRS. MARTIN MEETZE Lexington, SC NOMINATING COMMITTEE DON & JENNY PATTERSON Burnsville, NC PEGGY C. ROBINSON Clover, SC MATTHEW P. ROWE Boone, NC HARRIET SATO New York, NY STERLING & LINDA SOUTHERN Cary , NC NR/MTS B. G. WOCDHOM, JR. Tryon, NC CBC President, Sid Gauthreaux has announced the appointment of the following nominating committee: MRS. WILLIAM H. HOUGH (WNC), Chair- person, 22 Brooks Crossing, Pisgah Forest, NC 27587-9801; DR. HARRY LeGRAND, JR. (ENC); and GEORGE McCOY (SC). Please send your sugges- tions for nominees to Mrs. Hough. Officers to be elected at the spring meet- ing are: President (incumbent eligible); Vice-President (SC) (incumbent not eligible) Secretary (incumbent not eligible); Treasurei (incumbent not eligible); Members-at-Large SC (incumbent eligible), ENC (incumbent not eligible), WNC (incumbent eligible). **NEW RARE-BIRD- Heathy Walker, Chairperson of the CBC Rare-Bird-Alert Committee, has rescued the CBC Rare-Bird-Alert answering machine and housed it in its new permanet quarters at the Winghaven Foundation of Charlotte. The PUBLICITY Birding in the Tryon, NC area has been geting excellent publicity in the Tryon Daily Bulletin with regular columns by Simon Thompson. MARTHA FREDERICK shared a number of these articles as well as other information on activities of the TRYON BIRD CLUB. ALERT NUMBER** The new number is 704-332-BIRD (704-332-2473) David Wright continues to man the machine, and he is looking forward to receiving your reports of interesting sightings. CBC NEWSLETTER is published quarterly by Carolina Bird Club, Inc., the ornithological society of the Carolinas, with headquarters at Raleigh, N. C. CBC is a nonprofit corporation, founded in 1937, with membership open to anyone interested in birds, natural history and conservation. Members are encouraged to submit items of interest to CBC Newsletter, Clyde Smith, Editor. 2615 Wells Ave Raleigh, NC 27608. CAROLINA BIRO CLUB foe CB© Nonprofit Organization U. S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1654 Raleigh, NC 27611 P 0 BOX 27647, RALEIGH, NC 2761 1 ~ .