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Volume 51

Fall in Charleston, SC
September 30 -October 2

By Marcia Watkins

Autumn in the Low Country. Saltwater marshes, harbor
breezes, and migrating birds make this a great place to end the
summer and welcome the fall. Charleston’s charms appeal to
all of us. The non-birding spouse will especially enjoy historic
downtown Charleston with its shops along King Street and in
the Market, outstanding restaurants, and carriage tours along
the Battery. Other attractions include the SC Aquarium, a boat
trip to Fort Sumter, and nearby plantations and gardens. And
Just in time to welcome the CBC, North America’s longest
cable stay span bridge will open this summer.

Our hotel meeting center is at the foot of the bridge over the
Cooper River on the Mt. Pleasant side. The Holiday Inn
Patriot’s Point is on Highway 17 (250 Johnnie Dodds Blvd.,
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464). When making reservations, ask for
the group block, CBC. The rate of $89 per room (breakfast not
included) will be available until August 29. You may reserve
rooms online (www.himtpleasant.com) by using the group
code or by calling the toll-free number 800-290-4004, ext.

1 10, or the hotel at 843-884-6000.

Field trip destinations include the ocean, barrier islands,
saltwater marshes, beaches, some urbanized areas, several
waterfront locales, and a plantation. Weather permitting, we
plan to make an offshore trip Saturday on the “Thunderstar”

Gulf Stream fishing boat. At a cost of $35 for an all-day
excursion 45-50 miles offshore, we are bound to see some
great pelagic birds; Black-capped Petrel, Pomarine Jaeger,
Red-necked Phalarope, and Cory’s and Audubon’s
Shearwaters. Nathan Dias will lead this trip. Other boat trips
planned are a half-day trip to Deveaux Bank from Rockville
for terns and shorebirds. A ferry boat ride to Bull’s Island is
also planned for at least one day at $30 a head with Coastal
Expeditions.

A good half-day trip within close drive of Mt. Pleasant will be
a circuit of Patriot’s Point, Pitt Street Causeway, and Fort
Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island. American Oystercatchers can
always be found at low tide in the mud flats at Pitt Street,
along with herons, egrets. Brown Pelicans, gulls and terns. On
the other side of Charleston along the Ashley River, we will
visit Magnolia Plantation and Audubon Swamp Garden. This
500-acre area has many habitats and offers some of the best
birding opportunities in the state. A trip to Folly Beach and
the ACE Basin (Donnelley and Bear Island WMA) is also
being planned.

Nathan Dias, Executive Director of the Cape Romain Bird
Observatory, will be our speaker on Friday night. He will give
a talk on the history of ornithology in South Carolina. We
have reserved a banquet and meeting space for Saturday night
at the Holiday Inn. More to come on the dinner and speaker.
Plan for your trip to Charleston now. Perhaps you can come
early and enjoy a long fall vacation in the Low Country and
the “Holy City.’’ 1 can already taste the she-crab soup!

Updating CBC Directory

If your address, phone number, or email has changed in the
past five years, please help us update our CBC Directory by
sending in updates or corrections to: Dana Harris, 5009
Crown Point Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409. You can also go
to the CBC website to send updates. Our goal is to have a
new directory by the end of the summer, but we need to
hear from you!

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CBC Memory

By Evelyn Dabbs

Into the early 1970s the Carolina Bird Club
meetings held to the tradition of ending the weekend
activities with a social hour, followed by a semi-
fomial dinner with everyone dressed in their Sunday
best. Many of the ladies wore evening gowns. As
the number of members increased, it became more
difficult to find a dining room large enough for all
to be seated together and thus ended this era.

Instead, people made their own choices as to where
to dine and a much more casual mode of dress
rapidly became the custom.

Before joining CBC, I had never experienced the
delight of being with a group of people; all sharing
the same avid interest in birds. Annie Paver, a birder
from Eastover, SC and a CBC member had spoken
to our garden club about birds and the Carolina Bird
Club. My membership application was in the mail
the following day! 1 soon discovered how much fun
it was to be birding with others and have the special
bonus of everyone being very friendly and helpful.

The Carolina Bird Club remains a very special
organization for all interested Carolinians and has
enriched the lives of ever so many individuals.

A Rainy, Birdy CBC Weekend in

Blowing Rock

Rain, fog, cold, and wind
didn’t stop 153 CBC
birders from birding early
1^ morning to late afternoon
each day on many field
trips around the lovely
Blowing Rock and Blue
Ridge Parkway areas. The
group saw a total of 142 bird species. Some
highlights were 25 species of warblers, including
Cerulean, Bay-breasted, and Canada; American
Bittern at the Wagner Property and along the
Parkway; Sora; Ruffed Grouse; Blue-headed Vireo;
and Least and Willow Flycatchers.

Birding al the Wagner Property
Photo bv Joe Bearden

Thanks so much to Lori Martin for coordinating
the meeting and to the many field trip leaders. We

appreciate the Wagners giving us permission to bird
their wonderful property. Thanks to Dana Harris for
running a smooth registration.

Saturday night Lori, Simon Thompson, and Jo Ann
Martin led us in a birding trivia contest with
displays (the correct answer to a dollar bill wrapped
around a razor was a Razorbill!). Len Pardue won
the trivia contest and received the “King Birder

2005”
award.
There was
also a bird
fashion
show (see

photo by Dan Chambers above). Birders were
dressed as a Black-capped Petrel, Merlin, Rose-
breasted Grosbeak, Ivory-billed Woodpecker,
Mourning Dove, Cerulean Warbler, Carolina
Chickadee, Red Crossbill, and Purple Martins.
Curtis Smalling, mountain biologist with Audubon
NC, gave an excellent program Friday on ways
birders can help make a difference in conserving
bird habitat. Curtis is knowledgeable about birds in
the NC mountains, including which birds are seen
upslope or down slope in particular areas!
Remember to share your bird sightings with
Audubon, local land trusts, and wildlife agencies,
and to share your passion of birds with others!

Thank you Tullie!

After 1 3 years as CBC Headquarters Secretary,
Tullie Johnson announced her resignation in March.
An employee at the N.C Museum of Natural
Sciences in Raleigh, Tullie has taken on new
responsibilities with the Cary Parks and Recreation
Department, plus. President of the Friends of
Hemlock Bluffs (a great birding spot). Thank you,
Tullie, for your great work for CBC! !

The CBC Executive Committee voted to appoint
Dana Harris as our new Headquarters Secretary at
the Blowing Rock meeting. Many of you already
know Dana as our dynamic registration lady as you
arrive at meetings (taking over for the wonderful
Libba and John Watson a couple years ago!). Our
new headquarters address will be: Carolina Bird
Club, Inc., 5009 Crown Point Lane, Wilmington,
NC 28409.

Just Outside the Window

By Donna Slyce

Maybe, just maybe... Although no one can
remember exact dates now, I believe it was an over
warm spring day near the end of the school year in
1970 or 1971 when I arrived home to find my
mother quite excited to tell me something. Just
outside the dining room windows of our rural house,
in an area we called “the swamp” because of a
natural spring that bubbled up there that kept the
ground saturated and watered a line of large
sweetgum trees and assorted tupelos, she had seen a
bird the likes of which she had never seen before.

As she neared the end of her description, she said “I
think it was an Ivory-billed Woodpecker.” Even as a
ten year old, I knew that such a bird was way off the
Richter scale in terms of importance. Now my
mother was no trained ornithologist nor even a
birder in our currently accepted sense of the word.
She paid attention to the backyard birds when she
had a few spare moments between running a
household for a family of five that included an
infant and caring for her ailing parents. We had
seen Pileated occasionally in the yard and Mom
knew them fairly well.

Thirty five years have dimmed my memory of the
exact description she gave me but three key points
still stick in my mind. She described the bird as
“enormous”. She described in detail the two things
that had struck her most forcefully about this
bird — an all-black crested head and the voice. She
described the voice as “a tiny trumpet, like a toy,
like some of your little sister’s toys.” My middle
sister had a preference for toys with a noise factor
like horns and drums.

I listened carefully. And I got out both of the field
guides we had in the house, including Peterson’s
East. I remember the chill down my spine when I
read R. T. Peterson’s description of the voice of an
Ivory-bill - “like a toy trumpet.”

I told Mom we needed to let someone know about
this and I was elected to write the letter. In my best
handwriting, I wrote out what my mother had
described for me and we sent it off. I can’t say
whether we sent our letter to a state agency or to a
federal agency, but I do remember my

disappointment at receiving, some months later, a
form letter in reply.

Later, the fight to save Congaree Swamp from the
chainsaws broke out and Alex Sanders made his
famous claims about hearing an Ivory-bill in the
old-growth part of the swamp that the chainsaws
were most eager to take down. I for one believed
him. The swamp wasn’t that many miles from us as
the Ivory-bill flies.

I can’t say now whether my mother saw an Ivory-
bill or not. I can say that like others who have
wanted to believe all these years, I would
occasionally recall Mom’s big bird with the black
head and feel a sparkle of hope. Maybe it was an
Ivory-bill. I don’t know. What I do know is that
magic happens when and where you least expect it,
perhaps just outside your dining room windows on a
sunny spring day.

Ivory-billed Woodpecker Found!!

By now you’ve heard about
the exciting rediscovery of the
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
in the Big Woods region of
Arkansas! After the discovery,
the Big Woods Conservation
Partnership

(www.ivorybill.org) was
formed by The Nature
Conservancy, Cornell Lab of
Ornithology, and others to
help restore the bottomland
hardwood and swamp system in the area. Y ou can
make a donation for bird conservation to the Lab by
calling 1 -800-843-BIRD (with a nice choice of
woodpecker gifts), or to help protect more
bottomland forests in the Big Woods region (the
goal is to restore an additional 200,000 acres) call
The Nature Conservancy at 1-800-628-6860. John
Fitzpatrick, Director of Cornell Lab of Ornithology
stated, “Since the first sighting, this has consumed
us. We have dedicated our time and our dreams to
protecting and conserving this area. These woods
are my church. There is no bird like this in the
world.”

Editor ’s note: With the rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker,
John Ennis, who wrote the Woodpeckermania 2004 article in the
April 2005 CBC Newsletter has asked me to retract his article.

Owls in the Frozen North —

CBC Trip to Minnesota By Simon Thompson

I don’t know how the timing worked, but it
certainly did this time. The birding Gods were
smiling down on the intrepid CBC birders as they
winged their way north from the balmy Carolinas to
the promise of snow, ice, and freezing conditions in
the far north. We had heard stories of Great Gray
Owls “dripping” from the trees and Northern Hawk-
Owls atop every telephone pole. We were ready and
primed for any “owl extravaganza” awaiting us.

Mike Hendrickson was our intrepid guide for the
whole trip and I must admit that having a local
guide with an ear on the local bird line was very
important. Without the local knowledge we would
have missed many birds, including one of the most
wanted birds of the trip — Boreal Owl. This
endearing owl was watched at length on the side of
a fairly busy road. With scopes fixed on it, we could
enjoy every field mark and even every feather —
what a sight that was.

It was quite a sight watching the Carolina group
birding in the snow, as no-one was recognizable
without a closer examination. Layer upon layer of
clothing all but obscured the
obvious field marks of those
Carolina birders, so we had
to learn to recognize hats,
eyes, or bright jackets! We
all complained about the
cold, but not when we were
watching the owls, and boy,
there were plenty of owls to
go around. Great Grays were
a common sight perched on
roadside poles, signs, and
exposed limbs. Their soft
plumage and white “bow-
ties” made them unmistakable at almost any range.
Northern Hawk-Owls were super distinctive atop
telephone poles and bare trees, and who could
forget the magnificent Snowy Owls at the airport
and the security building? Even though we were
almost moved on by the local constabulary!

Northern Hawk Owl
Photo by Rob Bierregaard

Birding highlights were many and came on a daily
basis. Who could forget the hundreds of Bohemian

Waxwings perched atop some spruce trees in
suburban Duluth? How about a feeder thronged
with more Common Redpolls than many folks had
seen in a lifetime and the flock even contained a
redpoll frostier than most - a Hoary Redpoll; Pine
Siskins, Black-capped Chickadees, and two Red-
breasted Nuthatch added to the feeding frenzy as we
stood there enjoying the show. Striking pink male
Pine Grosbeaks were seen on a daily basis, and
even a feeder covered up with Evening Grosbeaks
was worth far more than just a cursory glance for
several Carolinas birders. Everyone was getting
“lifers” all around.

An early morning adventure for a Spruce Grouse
was thwarted by a late breakfast and nasty
bathrooms, but we made up for this with four
Sharp-tailed Grouse feeding on tree buds along the
snowy roadside. Northern Shrikes were also seen
every day, although they were still enjoyed
whenever we saw them, and who could forget
holding peanuts in our hands and enjoying the Gray
Jays coming in for food?

Driving in the dry, powdery snow was easier than it
looked, although heading out across snowy roads
that blended in with the white fields was indeed a
little daunting. Thankfully Mike led the way and the
convoy of Carolina birders just followed him across
the wintry wastelands. Early mornings and early
nights were usually the order of the day and lunches
were taken on the run, but dinners were a little more
relaxed and some were even washed down with
some good local ale. For some folks it got even
better on the way back to Minneapolis. With a bit of
research and a lot of luck we added some Class A
birds before heading home. A flock of American
Tree Sparrows was flushed from along the roadside;
we found a partially hidden Northern Saw-whet
Owl in a suburban fir tree and best of all, we
watched a gray phase Gyrfalcon perched atop a
transmission pole on the outskirts of Hastings in
rural Dakota County.

Thanks to Stephen and John for being able drivers
and thanks to 22 keen Carolina birders for their
good spirit, sense of humor, and willingness to head
out into the snowy wastelands in search of birds.
Now roll of this together and you have what is
called without question a darn good birding trip!

CBC Life Members

We thought it was time to give special
recognition to our current list of Life
Members of the Carolina Bird Club!

Wilma Abrams-Clinton, SC
Henry Armistead-Philadelphia, PA
Charles H Babcoek, Jr.-Winston-Salem,
NC

Ruth Barbour-Morehead City, NC
Faith Bell-Tryon, NC
William P Blakeslee-Atlanta, GA
Susan Campbell-Whispering Pines, NC
Mrs. J.E. Cannon-Florenee, SC
Dr. J. H. Carter, Ill-Southem Pines, NC
Walker L Casey-Raleigh, NC
Hartsell Cash-Winston-Salem, NC
Sandy & Nidhi Cash-Durham, NC
M.L. Cates, Jr.-Spartanburg, SC
William Hugh Craft-Greensboro, NC
Mr/Mrs Charles Chapin-Hilton Head
Island, SC

Joseph B Cheshire, Jr.-Southern Pines,
NC

William & Florapear Cobey-Charlotte,
NC

Edward Cone-Princeton, NJ
Bob & Sara Cook-Salisbury, NC
Dwight Cooley-Decatur, AL
Sam Cooper- Wilmington, NC
Mrs. Barrett Crook-New London, NC
John Daughtry-Greenville, NC
Richard J Davis-Rocky Mount, NC
Kenneth H Dubke-Chattanooga, TN
David M Dumond-Wilmington, NC
Paul Dumont- Arlington, VA
Mrs. Paul A Dunbar-Spartanburg, SC
June Wesley Elliott-Murrells Inlet, SC
Charles & Nancy Elmore-Gastonia, NC
John Ennis-Leland, NC
Albert Fisher-Durham, NC
Daniel T Forster-Pensacola, FL
Judith Fortney-Durham, NC
Tommy Fulcher & Elizabeth Morey-
Kitty Hawk, NC

John Fussell, IIl-Morehead City, NC
Buddy & Ann Garrett-Jacksonville, NC
Charlotte Goedsche & Cynthia Janes-
Weaverville, NC

Betty Sue Grandy-Darlington, SC
Dr. Gilbert S Grant-Sneads Ferry, NC
Rosa Lee Hardin-Travelers Rest, SC
Fernanda Hastie-Charleston, SC
Eve Hillig-Jacksonville, FL
Bill & Susan Hilton-York, SC
Robert P Holmes, Ill-New Bern, NC
Dr. Murray G Honick & Dr. Renee R.
Lamm-Murrells Inlet, SC

Mr/Mrs James P Ingram-Charleston, SC
First Colony Inn-Nags Head, NC
Dr E Wayne Irvin-Southern Pines, NC
Mrs. Frank J Jervey -Clemson, SC
Joe Jones-Berryville, VA
Mr/Mrs. Carl E Kleiber-Charleston, SC
Palmer E Krantz, Ill-Columbia, SC
Ruth Kuhlman-Mt. Pleasant, SC
Louise E Lacoss-Hilton Head Is, SC
Carolina H Lane-Decatur, GA
Mr/Mrs James B Lasley-Charlotte, NC
Joshua A Lee-Sylvania, GA
Robert Lewis-N. Tarrytown, NY
Sidney Maddock-Buxton, NC
Dwayne Martin-Taylorsville, NC
Lori Martin-Maiden, NC
John T McBride, Jr.-Shreveport, LA
D. Archibald McCallum-Eugene, OR
Jean M McCoy-Greensboro, NC
Mrs. J.H. Mcllwain. -Brevard, NC
Dr. Donald D McNeill, Jr.-Lenoir, NC
Dr. Charles W McRae-Marion, SC
Ellen C Merry-Augusta, GA
Patricia Metz-Townsend, GA
Medhat Mohamed-Raleigh, NC
Dr. John T Monroe, Jr.-Chapel Hill, NC
Susan Moore-Winston-Salem, NC
Terry Moore-Roswell, GA
Jonathan L Newton-Tarboro, NC
Dr./Mrs. Paul Nifong-Clemmons, NC
Nongame Wildlife Program Manager-
Raleigh, NC

Sarah M Nooe-Monroe, NC
Robert Odear-Nashville, TN
Dennis E Ose-Cary, NC
Esther & Len Pardue-Asheville, NC
Steve Patterson-Lancaster, SC
Richard H Peake, Jr.-Galveston, TX
Dr/Mrs Harold S Pettit-Charleston, SC
R.M. Pilch-Pearisburg, VA
Margery Plymire-Prospect, CT
James & Liz Pullman-Durham, NC
Susan & Lewis Pulsipher-Linden, NC
Mrs. William G Ragsdale, Jr-Jameston,
NC

Bill & Meg Rawls-Morehead City, NC
J.C. Raymond-Hampton, SC
Anne Worsham Richardson-Charleston,
SC

Chandler Robbins-Laurel, MD
William G Roe-Tucson, AZ
Russell E Rogers, Jr.-Sequim, WA
Dr. Helen Rogers-Laurinburg, NC
Janet S Sandburg-Hendersonville, NC
Margaret Sandburg-Asheville, NC
Harriet Sato-Raleigh, NC
Beula Scheffer-Ovid, MI
Mrs. Walton H Scott Jr.-Inman, SC

Mrs. Ben Settles-San Antonio, TX
Louise W Sharp-Eden, NC
Dr/Mrs. E.L. Shuler-Clemson, SC
Mr/Mrs Clyde Skisson-Columbia, SC
Ramona & Harry Snavely-Winston-
Salem, NC

Robert W itherington- W inston-Salem,
NC

Priscilla Sprunt-Cary, NC
Rodney & Susan Stalheim-Lenior, NC
Julia C Stevens-Greensboro, NC
Melissa Stone-Chester, SC
Mr/Mrs Lee Taylor-Wilmore, KY
Dr. Walter Thiede-Koeln, Germany
Mark Thompson-Raleigh, NC
Michael Tove-Cary, NC
George F Townes-Pickens, SC
Steven & Camilla Tracy-Gastonia, NC
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
Library-Woodstock, VT
Dr. George Wallace, Jr.-Martinsville,
VA

Philip Warren-Southampton, NJ
Elizabeth C Watson-Raleigh, NC
Jean B Wattley-Summerville, SC
Anne & George Wilcox-Charlotte, NC
Morris D Williams-Lawrenceburg, TN
Mrs. Julius Wilson-Tryon, NC
Robert P Wood-Camden, SC

Welcome New Members

Mary Annkolb, -Barnwell, SC

Luis Campos-Asheville, NC

Tim Carstens-Sylva, NC

Jimmy Dodson-Rougemont, NC

Arthur & Linda Dudycha-Rutherfordton,

NC

H. Linn Finger-Lincolnton, NC

Loren Hintz-Chapel Hill, NC

Chris Huffstickler-Lake Wylie, SC

Walt Kent-Lenoir, NC

N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences

Library-Raleigh, NC

Susan Mackinnon-Durham, NC

Rick Mashbum-Winston-Salem, NC

Kathleen O’Grady-Irmo, SC

Ben & Carol Ringer-Hendersonville, NC

Audra Rourk-Moncks Comer, SC

Felicia Sanders-McClellanville, SC

Donald J. Schwab-Suffolk, VA

Jim Seaman-Raleigh, NC

Alice Steinke-Columbia, SC

Wild Birds Unlimited-Kitty Hawk, NC

Tom & Christine Warren- Durham, NC

Deceased

Eleanor Colton-New Bern, NC

A Birding Story

By Bob Holmes

If you are one of my birding assoeiates, you have heard me tell this story a dozen times, so might want to
skip over to the next article.

It is interesting that over the years so many experiences or events that were viewed with much
expectation or which seemed so important at the time tend to meld with life’s other lackluster memories.
The experience I shall relate is from the other side of that coin — a day that initially could be adequately
described as enjoyable has, over time, become my most outstanding birding memory.

When an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina, it was my pleasure and good fortune to
develop a friendship with a classmate and fellow birder, Tom Uzzell, from Charleston, SC. Tom was one
of the “rediscoverers” of the Bachman’s Warbler in 1948. 1 was delighted when he invited me to spend a
weekend with him and his family. It was the first weekend in May, 1951. We would go birding in the
rOn Swamp (just north of Charleston) that Saturday, where he would show me the warbler.

It was soon after sunrise on a bright spring day when we turned off Highway 17 onto a dirt road and then
a single lane woods road for perhaps a mile. We had been walking for no more than 10 minutes, after
pulling off and leaving the car, when Tom said, “There it is!”

“What?”

“That trill. It’s the Bachman’s Warbler.”

Parenthetically, let me say that the song I heard did not resemble that of the Northern Parula, as is stated
in some field guides. Rather, it was a short trill rendered in a pitch that was sweeter than that of a
Chipping Sparrow and with the notes wider spaced. How do I remember after 54 years? Because I still
have the description I jotted in the margin of my Peterson’s A Field Guide to Birds.

I had been told that even when located, the bird could be difficult to spot, so I knew our work was still
cut out for us. Not so. We stepped into a small clearing and within minutes were getting a terrific view of
a male Bachman’s Warbler. It was a small warbler actively feeding in a thick edge at about eye level.
Piece of cake! Tom pointed out that its chin was yellow, that the black bib did not extend all the way to
the base of the lower mandible as was depicted in some field guides. The whole quest had been so quick
and easy. So we checked it off and moved on to see some other good birds — White Ibises, Mississippi
Kites, and similar rarities. We caught and bagged a nice cottonmouth for the Charleston Museum’s
collection. At the time, seeing the warbler was just one part of a pleasant day of birding. For three years,
the species had been regularly found. Why not assume it was here to stay? I could return and see it
another spring if I wished.

Need I say that all of this now is but a bittersweet memory? More bitter than sweet! If I had been armed
with foresight, I would have spent the day assimilating, savoring the experience, listening
again and again to the song, searching for a female Bachman’s. No, I moved on in what was not to be
my last act of ignorance and poor judgment. Perhaps this little story is a metaphor relevant to some other
events in life.

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

Old Time is still a-flying;

And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying...”

Robert Herrick

CBC Bonus Trips

Cape May, NJ-September 22-26

By Steve Patterson

In his book, Birdfinder, Jerry Cooper says, “A fall
trip to Cape May is pure enjoyment.” Those who
have been there on Just the right day will agree.

This trip attempts to put a small group of birders in
the right place at the right time for three energetic
days of maximum migration species enjoyment.

We will leave Charlotte at 7:00 am on Thursday,
September 22, stopping in Raleigh (if needed) to
collect the rest of our group. We will systematically
bird the Cape May peninsula on two of the three
days available to us. The remaining day will include
a trip up the coast to the Brigantine division of the
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. With
favorable weather, we should find over 150 species.
The return trip will take place Monday, September
26.

Group size is limited to twelve participants. The
cost of the trip is $510.00 per person, to include
transportation (minibus) and lodging (double
occupancy). Once the trip roster is filled, further
details will be mailed to the participants. Please
contact Steve Patterson, trip leader, to register or for
more information about the trip before sending in
your registration fee. You may contact Steve at 803-
286-4998 or at SCBirder@aol.com.

Ridge Junction Overlook-August 28

By Lori Martin

Join us for a morning you
won’t soon forget! We will
arrive at Ridge Junction
Overlook (milepost 355.8 on
the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mt.
Mitchell area) in time to view
the spectacular sunrise — and
watch in awe as a steady
stream of southbound
migrants make their way
through the gap. We once counted 1 16 Ruby-
throated Hummingbirds zoom through in a three
hour time frame! If you have trouble identifying fall
warblers, then this is a trip for you! The birds come
to us — so don’t forget your lawn chair and enjoy the
parade of Tennessee Warblers, Blue-gray
Gnatcatchers, and Baltimore Orioles. It can be
rather chilly here, even in late August, so bring
layers!

We’ll meet at 6:00 am at the Folk Arts Center
(milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway) in
Asheville, NC on Sunday, August 28. Cost is $10
per person. There are many choices for lodging in
the Asheville area. Please register with field trip
leaders Lori Martin (828-638-1 193 or
loriannkayaker@charter.net) or Dwayne Martin
(828-244-0539 or redxbill@charter.net) before
sending in your registration money.

Carolina Bird Club Registration Form

Name(s)

Address

City

State

Zip

Day Phone

Evening phone

Email

Registration for the Ridge Junction bonus trip costs $10/pp paid in advance.

Registration for the Cape May bonus trip costs $5 10/pp paid in advance.

Enclosed is my check for $ for member(s) to join the Ridge Junction, NC August 27 trip.

Enclosed is my check for $ for member(s) to join the Cape May, NJ September 22-26 trip.

Make check payable to Carolina Bird Club and send to: CBC, 5009 Crown Point Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409.

Carolina Bird Club, Inc,

11 West Jones Street
Raleigh, NC 27601-1029

Nonprofit Organization
U.S. Post Office
Raleigh, NC
Permit No. 1654

institution libraries

3 9088 01141 4513

Upcoming CBC Bonus Trips

August 28, Ridge Junction Overlook, NC
September 22-26, Cape May, NJ

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CBC Board Members

President, Stephen Harris, Wilmington,

NC 910-791-9034

srhQrris@mindspring.com

Vice-Presidents

John Cely, Columbia, SC

John Ennis, Leland, NC

Simon Thompson, Asheville, NC

Secretary

Kathleen O'Grady, Columbia, SC

Treasurer

Bruce Smithson, Wilmington, NC
NC Members -at -Large
Kim Horstman, New Bern
Gail Lankford, Asheville
Lori Martin, Maiden
Ed Toon, Wilmington
SC Members-at-Large
Bob Ellis, Columbia
Steve Patterson, Lancaster

Immediate Past President, Bob Wood, Camden, SC
Editor of The Chat, Kent Fiala, Hillsborough, NC
Website Editor, Kent Fiala, Hillsborough, NC
Editor of CBC Newsletter, Karen Bearden
1809 Lakepark Drive, Raleigh, NC 27612
919-844-9050, chickadeebirders@earthlink.net
Submission deadlines are due the 1st of January, March, May,
July, September, and November.

Headquarters Secretary, Dana Harris, Wilmington, NC
910-791-9034, srharris@mindspring.com

Rare Bird Alert: 704-332-BIRD
CBC Website: www.carolinabirdclub.org

The CBC Newsletter \s published bimonthly by Carolina Bird Club, Inc. Founded
in 1937 the membership is open to anyone interested in birds, natural history,
and conservation. Current dues are: Individual & non-profit, $20; Associate (in
household with individual), $5; Student, $15; Patron, $50 and up; Sustaining &
businesses, $25; Life, $400; Associate Life (in household with Life Member),
$100 (both Life memberships can be paid in four annual installments). Cost for
CBC bird checklists, including postage: 10@$1.75, 25@$5, 50@$9.50,
75@$12.75, and 100@$16. Submit application for membership, change of ad-
dress, and payment for checklists to: CBC Headquarters Secretary, 5009 Crown
Point Lane, V\/ilmington, NC 28409. Copyright © 2005.

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