by Susan Babineau
Trip Name/Location: Outer Banks, NC
Date: March 9-11, 2018
Leader: John Holden
Total Attendance (including leaders): 15
Total # of Species Observed: 101
Thanks to John Holden for leading a wonderful weekend birding adventure to the Outer Banks. Fifteen birders were in attendance. This was a great turnout, considering it had been awhile since the club had tried a weekend trip. The weather was upper 40’s to low 50’s with sun and wind Friday, partly sunny and less breezy Saturday, and cloudy Sunday.
We chose to include birds identified by two or more MBC members on the trip. We counted both “heard” and “seen” birds, based on the ebird reports submitted by Guy and Susan Babineau.
Directing below is the total species list. To get a feel for the many locations we visited, what we saw and where, and accompanying photos taken by Guy,, scroll down further to the eBird checklists. (Many thanks to Guy and Susan for painstakingly reporting and documenting our trip!)
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Coot
blackbird sp.
American Avocet
American Oystercatcher
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
peep sp.
Short-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Greater Yellowlegs
gull sp.
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Forster’s Tern
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Northern Gannet
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
crow sp.
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Yellowthroat
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Checklists
2018-03-11 10:41 Bodie Island Lighthouse & Pond
2018-03-11 09:48 Oregon Inlet Fishing Center
2018-03-11 08:29 Pea Island NWR–Old Coast Guard Station
2018-03-11 08:00 Whalebone junction information station
2018-03-10 17:48 Oregon Inlet Fishing Center
2018-03-11 08:29 Pea Island NWR–Old Coast Guard Station
2018-03-10 17:02 Pea Island NWR–South Pond
2018-03-10 15:51 Pea Island NWR–North Pond Wildlife Trail
2018-03-10 14:46 Alligator River NWR–Sawyer Lake Rd.
2018-03-10 14:22 (35.706, -75.769)
2018-03-10 13:56 34518 U.S. 264, Engelhard, North Carolina, US
2018-03-10 12:32 Mattamuskeet NWR–Lake Landing
2018-03-10 09:26 Mattamuskeet NWR
2018-03-10 09:01 34910-34946 U.S. 264, Engelhard, North Carolina, US
2018-03-10 08:36 U.S. 264, Manns Harbor, North Carolina, US
2018-03-10 08:21 U.S. 264, Manns Harbor, North Carolina, US
2018-03-09 16:28 Bodie Island Lighthouse & Pond
2018-03-09 15:15 Nags Head–Jennette’s Pier
2018-03-09 12:03 Pea Island NWR–South Pond
2018-03-09 11:57 Pea Island NWR–Salt Flats
2018-03-09 08:14 Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve
2018-03-09 07:10 6701 South Virginia Dare Trail, Nags Head, North Carolina, US
