Vacation Sightings

Well, we’re back from vacation in N. Topsail Beach, NC, and had a good time not only relaxing, but also getting out and seeing some of the natural sights. We didn’t venture out as much as either of us would have liked, but we did get a chance to see some new things while we were there. A short list of what we saw:


BIRDS

  • Willet
  • Brown Pelican
  • Sanderling
  • Black-bellied Plover (adult + juv)
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Dunlin
  • Great Black-Backed Gull (adults + var. juvs)
  • Lesser Black-Backed Gull (adults + var. juvs)
  • Herring Gull (adults + var. juvs)
  • Laughing Gull (adults + var. juvs)
  • Ring-billed Gull (adults + var. juvs)
  • Royal Tern (adult + juv)
  • Sandwich Tern (adult + juv)
  • Green Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Snowy Egret
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • European Starling
  • Boat-tailed Grackle (adult + juv) ‡
  • Song Sparrow
  • Carolina Wren

BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS

  • Palomedes Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Monarch
  • Viceroy
  • Phaon Crescent
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Salt-marsh Skipper
  • Cloudy Skipper §
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Southern Dogface (waiting verifiication) §
  • 2 un-ID’d skippers
  • Zebra Conchylodes (moth) §
  • Un-ID’d yellow-and-black moth

DRAGONFLIES

  • Four-spotted Pennant (M, F, imm) §
  • Seaside Dragonlet (M, F)
  • Carolina Saddlebags (M, F) §
  • Swamp Darner †
  • Eastern Pondhawk (M, F, imm M)
  • Wandering Glider

Other STUFF

  • Velvet Ant ‡
  • Fire Ants ‡
  • 5-lined Skink
  • Un-ID’d snake
  • Snapping Turtle
  • Loggerhead Turtle (hatchling)

key: † New species | ‡ Lifelist photo | § New species and photo


And here are a few pictures.

Royal Tern Adult and Juvenile Sanderling
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One Response to “Vacation Sightings

  • Great shots amigo, did you make up any of those names or are they all real birds? I mean Rusty Trombone…that can’t be…oh wait…Ruddy Turnstone, I just misread that.

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