The weather was the same today as it was yesterday - overcast, damp, and chilly. I had seen some good birds at these adjacent parks in 2016, and hoped for good results today.
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I started out on the marsh boardwalk at Mitchelville Park, and then hiked the wooded trails along the marsh.
Least Sandpipers
Least Sandpiper
Killdeer
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
A very buffy Yellow-rumped Warbler
House Wren
House Wren
White-eyed Vireo
I then drove the short distance to the Fish Haul parking lot. At this point, I didn't know that there was a board walk from near the parking lot to Barker Field Park, and then another boardwalk to the beach. So I headed directly to the Fish Haul beach.
Black-bellied Plover
Royal Tern
Snowy Egret
Marbled Godwits, Dunlins, Black-bellied Plover, and Ruddy Turnstone
Forster's Tern
Willet
Marbled Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Marbled Godwits and Willet(?) and (?)
Dunlins
Dunlin
Sanderling
Black Skimmers, Herring Gulls, Ring-billed Gulls, and Laughing Gulls
Black Skimmers
American Oystercatchers
Semipalmated Plover
Little Blue Heron
Juvenile Little Blue Heron
White-eyed Vireo
I returned to the Mitchelville Park boardwalk, and saw more shorebirds: Marbled Godwits, Dunlins, and Willets. The Willets looked stockier in shape than the ones I had seen on the beach.
Shorebirds
Shorebirds
Shorebirds
Shorebirds
New trip birds:
Mourning Dove
Sanderling
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Towhee
Pine Warbler
White-eyed Vireo
Least Sandpiper
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Willet
Forster's Tern
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Black Skimmer
Royal Tern
Semipalmated Plover
Dunlin
Laughing Gull
I returned to the nearby Coastal Discovery Museum, hoping to get better photos of the Orange-crowned Warbler. The sun was starting to come out. I didn't see this warbler species, but got a surprise - a Prairie Warbler - rare in South Carolina this time of year.
Prairie Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Prairie Warbler
New trip birds:
Prairie Warbler
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