OUTER BANKS FIELD TRIP

1:00 P.M., FRIDAY (FEBRUARY 4) -- BEHIND WILSON HALL

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

*** NO GUARANTEES -- IN THE FIELD EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED! ***

Satellite photo of Pamlico Peninsula and Outer Banks

Closer satellite photo of Mattamuskeet and northern Outer Banks

Friday
1:00 Departure
4:00-6:30 Roper and Phelps Lake -- eagles, ducks, owls, sparrows
7:00 White's Motel, Mann's Harbor -- dinner in Manteo
Saturday
6:30 Everybody up!
7:00 Breakfast in rooms/motel store
7:30 Departure
8:00-11:00 Alligator River NWR -- ducks, swans, hawks ...
12:00 Picnic at Oregon Inlet/Pea Island NWR
12:30-5:30 Oregon Inlet/Pea Island NWR/ocean piers/Cape Hatteras
6:00 Cape Pines Motel, Buxton -- dinner nearby
Sunday
6:30 Everybody up!
7:00 Breakfast in rooms
7:30 Departure
8:00-10:00 Cape Point -- ducks, gulls, seabirds
10:50 (on line) Ferry to Ocracoke Island -- Brant, gulls
12:30 (on line) Lunch -- Ocracoke -- on line for ferry
1:00-3:30 Ferry from Ocracoke to Swanquarter -- scoters, loons
3:30-4:30 Mattamuskeet NWR
5:30 Belhaven -- Short-eared Owls maybe
8:00-8:30 Arrive in Chapel Hill