From Carolina To Farallonia

It sunk in that I was really back here during my first hike up to the lighthouse.  The weather isn't great, so there aren't really any migrants here, but the breeders are mostly still hanging around.  That's always fun.  Hecka fish being carried around to various burrows and hungry mouths.

I realize I haven't TPADed in the last few days.  Tonight will be a 6PAD.  This is a pretty rare event.  I wil start with Carolinas and finish here.  On South East Farallon Island (SEFI).  My one true home.

Forgot to tell y'all I seen gators down there.

Halloween Pennants, Caw Caw.

Apparently this is my only Mississippi Kite photo.

Now we are on the Farallones.  PIGU eating a Gunnel.

Least Sandpiper, one of the few migrants I saw today.

Elephant Seal cow and Brown-headed Cowbird, pondering each other.

Hecka Gray Photos Of Birds

I am back home.  Lots to do.  I leave for The Island on Saturday.  Ima go hang with sister now.  Yesterday was 100% airplanes and trains.  So no new photos.  Here are the last that you'll likely get from the Carolinas.

Black Vulture, Bear Island WMA. 

Juv. Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Huntington.

Tricolored Heron, Huntington.

Eastern Kingbird, Sod Farms.

Farewell Carolinas, A 4PAD

I had not the resources for TPADing last night.  I am currently broadcasting from a North Carolina McDonald's and eating food that will kill me.  Yesterday was my last Southcarolina day, and I tried to make the most of it.  The supposed best birding location on the East Coast (Huntington Beach State Park) was pretty much... meh.  No shorebirds to speak of.  So I meandered up to the Orangeburg Sod Farms, which were sick.  A few lifers here and there, but mostly it was just a ton of Pectoral Sandpipers.  Like hella of them.  I did not bird today, but am considering an evening Red-headed Woodpecker search, since I have missed them during this entire trip.  I head home tomorrow.  Until then, I bid you adieu.  

Prairie Warbler, Huntington.

Laughing Gull, Huntington.

Also at Huntington.  This is the only snake I've seen on this entire trip.  What is it?

Semipalmated Sandpiper, Orangeburg Sod Farms.

Hella Chronic Birding

I got about 5 lifers yesterday.  It was so exhausting that I couldn't blog about it.  Now, while I should be out birding, I'm catching up on my TPAD.  I birded the Caw Caw Interpretive Center, Bear Island Wildlife Management Area, and Donneley WMA.  The birding here is ridick.  The amount of habitat is astounding.  There's so much water everywhere.  Plus, it rains hella and thunders hella and lightnings hella every single day at about 5 PM.  Lifers include: Mississippi Kite, Swallow-tailed Kite, Eastern Wood-pewee, Acadian Flycatcher, Great-crested Flycatcher.

Anhinga, Caw Caw.

Wood Stork, Caw Caw.