Date: 4/16/25 10:13 am From: David McLean (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Long-billed Curlew on Bulls Island PLUS World Curlew Day, Mon 21 Apr 2025
Wed 16 Apr 2025
All,
Yesterday on our ongoing Bulls Island (Cape Romain NWR, Charleston Co, SC) waterfowl/shorebird survey we (including Craig Watson and Pam Ford) tallied the Long-billed Curlew (LBCU) that has been hanging out in Jack's Creek for several weeks now. The Coastal Expeditions crew of Nick Johnson and Annie Owen, along with a couple of their ferry passengers, clued us into the precise location of the LBCU. Specifically the bird was seen from the Observation Deck, Sheepshead Ridge Road, overlooking Jack's Creek. The tide was out/down thus exposing extensive mudflats in the tidal saltwater part of Jack's Creek. From the Observation Deck, the LBCU was as far back and around to the right just at the edge of the obscuring trees and well out into the middle of the mudflats.
Also of interest to many will be the annual occurrence of World Curlew Day next Monday 21 Apr 2025. See:
