GBBC - Day 4

Monday was the last day of the Great Backyard Bird Count.  Even though Monday was also a holiday (Presidents' Day), we came to the swamp to count birds!  We tweeted the action from Beidler Forest, which included several close passes by an otter, a beautiful pair of Hooded Mergansers swimming behind the beaver dam, and several Wood Ducks moving stealthily through the cattails under the power lines.

29448, Harleyville, Dorchester County, SC Observation Date : FEB 20, 2012 Start Time: 1:30 PM Total Birding Time: 3 hours 30 minutes Party Size: 1
Skill: good
Weather: excellent
Habitat(s):
    deciduous woods
    coniferous woods
    scrub
    grassland
    agricultural
    rural
    freshwater
Number of Species: 31
All Reported: yes
Checklist:
    Canada Goose - 2
    Wood Duck - 4
    Hooded Merganser - 2
    Black Vulture - 1
    Turkey Vulture - 3
    Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
    Mourning Dove - 5
    Barred Owl - 4
    Belted Kingfisher - 1
    Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
    Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
    Downy Woodpecker - 2
    Northern Flicker - 2
    Pileated Woodpecker - 4
    Eastern Phoebe - 1
    American Crow - 7
    Fish Crow - 20
    Carolina Chickadee - 1
    Tufted Titmouse - 2
    White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
    Carolina Wren - 2
    Winter Wren - 1
    Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
    Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
    American Robin - 2
    Northern Mockingbird - 1
    Pine Warbler - 1
    Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
    Chipping Sparrow - 4
    Northern Cardinal - 4
    American Goldfinch - 2
Comments----------------------------------------
Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest http://beidlerforest.org; clear, 50Fs

We updated the map to include the routes we walked and the area we were able to view during our count.  You can view the GIS map here.  In the menu at the left, the center icon "Show Contents of Map" allows one to check on or off the various layers of data.  Zoom out to see the sites (Summerville area) from the first day of the count.

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