Nothing exciting to report but I did have to go to the US this weekend with work. A meeting had been arranged for all day on Saturday in North Carolina. So we flew there , for some reason via Chicago, arriving late Friday night. Spent all day Saturday in a meeting room in the hotel, followed by a steak the size of a house and starting the journey back Sunday lunch time, arriving in the UK Monday morning.
The City centre of North Carolina is a purpose-built City surrounded by a motorway ring-road. There appears to be no living accommodation within this, other than hotels - and no trees ! So I had about two hours on Sunday morning I decided to go and see if I could find any birds. I had to walk to outside the City ring-road and into the 'burbs. to find a small park. The bird count was low, but at least I found a couple. An Eastern wood-Pewee and a small group of Tit-like birds gave up at least 1 Carolina Chickadee. A large size high-flying Woodpecker remained un-id'd so an American Crow, Common Grackle, House Sparrow were about the sum of the rest, so not much around. An American Kestrel was at the airport and a stocky Hawk flew through again un id'd. Can't really call this disappointing as I expected nothing, but always a bit frustrating to travel so far and not get the opportunity to look for a little more.
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