High Country Audubon

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Overloaded circuits at Ocracoke

  A recent trip by the High Country Chapter of the Audubon Society led by Jesse Pose and  Bob Cherry turned in an impressive list of sightings at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Area and around the then closed Bonner Bridge.  Despite the road closure over Oregon Inlet at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the lights didn't black out from a short circuit. A murmation of starlings almost occluded the sky in center-city Ocracoke.  Perhaps if they…

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January 4, 2014
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Birding Bonner Bridge @ OBX

The almost annual trip to the Outer Banks by the High Country Audubon Society concluded this past week with the primary objective of sighting the aberrant Snowy Owl out of his range at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.   National Park Service personnel reported seeing the owl near ramp 45 through December 6.  Another sighting was confirmed almost three miles south of the previous location, the change most likely thought due to the dramatic change of…

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December 11, 2013