This past Saturday, May 10, my wife and I were heading to North Carolina on
I-95, and we saw a female Anhinga soaring above a small wetland beside the
highway. The location was mile-marker 35.4 just north of Exit 33 (SR 602)
between
Petersburg and Emporia. The wetland is on the west side of the road, but we
noticed on the return trip that there is an interstate rest stop quite close
to the location on the east side. [For those of you who are BBQ afficianados,
you may know the location as just a few miles north of Stony Creek home of
some first-rate East Carolina style pork barbeque at the little "custard stand"
on US 301 about half a mile north of the Stony Creek (US 40) exit.] Perhaps
Anhingas are common in Southside now, but this is the first one we've seen from
I-95 as far south as the US 64 exit at Rocky Mount NC, a trip that we have
made several times a year for the past 30 years.
Dave Davis
Arlington
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