. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. John By Carla B. Burgess When the eye of Hurricane Diana passed over the southern coast of North Carolina in September 1984, most people tried to put as much distance as possible between the coast and them. But John Fussell followed in the footsteps of some bird-watching friends who had gone to Lake Waccamaw to capture a rare glimpse of pelagic birds. These birds, which normally spend their lives on the open sea, were blown to the lakeshore by the storm winds. Jaegers, black-capped petrels and Wilson's sto
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. John By Carla B. Burgess When the eye of Hurricane Diana passed over the southern coast of North Carolina in September 1984, most people tried to put as much distance as possible between the coast and them. But John Fussell followed in the footsteps of some bird-watching friends who had gone to Lake Waccamaw to capture a rare glimpse of pelagic birds. These birds, which normally spend their lives on the open sea, were blown to the lakeshore by the storm winds. Jaegers, black-capped petrels and Wilson's storm petrels touched down on this inland "; Fussell arrived in time to see south polar skuas and greater shearwaters before the storm â and the birds â moved on. As the New Year's Eve northeaster of 1987 battered the state's southeastern shores, Fussell and a companion were slogging around in the marshes of Carteret County's North River in hopes of sighting the secretive yellow rail. "It was raining and my glasses were covered with I couldn't see anything," he says. A self-employed consulting biologist and avid coastal birdwatcher, Fussell says that being good at identifying birds is less â â â â "Ornithology, more than any other science, is furthered by ; John fussell interesting to him than forecasting when a variable such as weather might make for an unusual sighting. "I like to predict when something rare might show up," says Fussell, during a recent outing to one of his favorite birding spots, the Rachel Carson component of the National Estuarine Research Reserve in Beaufort. A native and resident of Morehead City, Fussell wrote and published a field guide to Carteret County's birds and sites in 1985. He also co-authored a brochure, Birds of the Outer Banks, which lists the nearly 400 species of birds that have been sighted within Cape Hatteras National Seashore and its surrounding waters. He's workin
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