North Carolina: Honeymoon to the Outer Banks

May 15-24, 2010

Eastern Black Swallowtail

Day 1
Depart Ruthven. Night in Erie, PA.

Day 2
Travel from Erie, PA to Lost River, WV. Night at The Inn at Lost River

Day 3
Skyline Drive/Shenandoah National Park. Cross State border into Virginia. Night at the William Cox Inn, Standardsville, VA.

Spotted Turtle

Day 4
Charlottesville, Monticello (Thomas Jefferson's estate), cross State border into West Virginia, Roanoke Rapids, Roanoke Canal Trail.

Day 5
Kuralt Trail, Palmetto Peartree Preserve, Outer Banks.

Day 6
Alligator River NWR, Roanoke Island Marsh Game Land, Jockey's Ridge State Park. Night at Kill Devil Hills, Outer Banks.

Day 7
Bodie Island, Pea Island, Hatteras Island. Night at Frisco Woods Campground.

Box Turtle

Day 8
Offshore pelagic birding from Hatteras Island.

Day 9
Travel to New Stanton, PA.

Day 10
Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY. Home.

Prairie Warbler

American Oystercatchers

Bird List

1. Canada Goose
2. Wood Duck
3. Hooded Merganser
4. Northern Bobwhite
5. Black-capped Petrel
6. Cory's Shearwater
7. Audubon's Shearwater
8. Wilson's Storm-Petrel
9. Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
10. Northern Gannet
11. Double-crested Cormorant
12. Brown Pelican
13. Great Blue Heron
14. Great Egret
15. Snowy Egret
16. Little Blue Heron
17. Tricolored Heron
18. Green Heron
19. White Ibis
20. Black Vulture
21. Turkey Vulture
22. Osprey
23. Red-shouldered Hawk
24. Red-tailed Hawk
25. American Kestrel
26. Virginia Rail
27. Black-bellied Plover
28. Semipalmated Plover
29. Killdeer
30. American Oystercatcher
31. Greater Yellowlegs
32. Willet
33. Whimbrel
34. Sanderling
35. Semipalmated Sandpiper
36. Least Sandpiper
37. Dunlin
38. Short-billed Dowitcher
39. Wilson's Snipe
40. American Woodcock
41. Laughing Gull
42. Herring Gull
43. Great Black-backed Gull
44. Least Tern
45. Common Tern
46. Royal Tern
47. Sandwich Tern
48. Black Skimmer
49. Pomarine Jaeger
50. Parasitic Jaeger
51. Long-tailed Jaeger
52. Rock Pigeon
53. Mourning Dove
54. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
55. Barred Owl
56. Chuck-will's-widow
57. Chimney Swift
58. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
59. Belted Kingfisher
60. Red-bellied Woodpecker
61. Downy Woodpecker
62. Red-cockaded Woodpecker
63. Northern Flicker
64. Pileated Woodpecker
65. Eastern Wood-Pewee
66. Acadian Flycatcher
67. Eastern Phoebe
68. Great Crested Flycatcher
69. Eastern Kingbird
70. White-eyed Vireo
71. Yellow-throated Vireo
72. Red-eyed Vireo
73. Blue Jay
74. American Crow
75. Fish Crow
76. Purple Martin
77. Tree Swallow
78. Barn Swallow
79. Carolina Chickadee
80. Tufted Titmouse
81. Red-breasted Nuthatch
82. Brown-headed Nuthatch
83. Carolina Wren
84. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
85. Eastern Bluebird
86. Wood Thrush
87. American Robin
88. Gray Catbird
89. Northern Mockingbird
90. Brown Thrasher
91. European Starling
92. Louisiana Waterthrush
93. Prothonotary Warbler
94. Swainson's Warbler
95. Common Yellowthroat
96. Hooded Warbler
97. American Redstart
98. Northern Parula
99. Yellow Warbler
100. Chestnut-sided Warbler
101. Blackpoll Warbler
102. Black-throated Blue Warbler
103. Pine Warbler
104. Prairie Warbler
105. Eastern Towhee
106. Chipping Sparrow
107. Song Sparrow
108. Scarlet Tanager
109. Northern Cardinal
110. Blue Grosbeak
111. Indigo Bunting
112. Red-winged Blackbird
113. Eastern Meadowlark
114. Common Grackle
115. Boat-tailed Grackle
116. Brown-headed Cowbird
117. House Finch
118. American Goldfinch
119. House Sparrow