The 2014 Carolina Bird Club spring meeting was held in Hendersonville, NC this year. The meeting went quite well, we had good weather, and good birds.
On Friday, May 2, we birded the parkway north of Asheville including Mt Mitchell. We had some good birds including Swainson's and Cerulean Warblers, a heard only Blackpoll and Kentucky Warbler, Scarlet Tanager, Blue-headed Vireo, among other common breeding birds. No lifers but, all in all, a good day with a decent amount of yearbirds.
On Saturday we birded with Simon Thompson around Henderson County and ended up with 91 species, but no lifers. Highlights included lingering waterbirds such as a Red-breasted Merganser, Horned Grebe, a pair of Red-necked Grebes, shorebirds such as Spotted, Solitary, and Least Sandpipers, Eurasian Collared-Doves (6), a good bird for the western half of the state, all swallows but Bank, a late pair of American Pipits, Northern Waterthrush, a good number of Cape May and Blackpoll Warblers, 18 Palm Warblers, White-crowned Sparrows, and 9 Bobolink.
On Sunday, the official meeting was over, but a goodly number of birders stuck around another day or two and birded. We were no exception. We birded Beaver Lake and picked up a Magnolia Warbler and lifer Nashville Warbler (thanks to Simon Thompson). On the way home, we stopped at Reynolda in Winston-Salem to see a continuing Olive-sided Flycatcher (lifer).
It was a great meeting!
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