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14 May duck molt question--correction ["Jacob Socolar" ] 14 May duck molt question ["Jacob Socolar" ] 13 May Falls Lake birds ["birdranger" ] 13 May Falls Lake Wildathon Results ["birdranger" ] 13 May Swallow-tailed kite at Howell Woods ["James Sasser" ] 13 May yard birds [] 13 May Interesting recent (shore)bird observations [Cape Romain Bird Observatory ] 13 May Ten Birders seek Warblers at Jackson Park ["John Lindfors Sr." ] 13 May Charleston.Co_storm.birds_magn.warb ["Cherrie Sneed" ] 13 May Mid-pines Dickcissel & Friend ["John Ennis" ] 13 May Re: CBIRDS archive is not working Re: first visit to Lynches Woods ["Will Cook" ] 13 May smart Red-tail [Rob G. ] 13 May Re: a beautiful sight and newest yardbird [Charles Boyce ] 13 May a beautiful site and newest yardbird [Charles Boyce ] 13 May Re: CBIRDS archive is not working Re: first visit to Lynches Woods ["Will Cook" ] 13 May CBIRDS archive is not working Re: first visit to Lynches Woods [Nate Dias ] 13 May RE: first visit to Lynches Woods ["Robin Carter" ] 13 May image-fighting Summer Tanager [] 13 May gray kingbird ["Ali Iyoob" ] 13 May Re: first visit to Lynches Woods ["Bill Hilton Jr." ] 12 May Dickcissal --- Need one in upstate, SC ["Bob Maxwell" ] 12 May first visit to Lynches Woods [] 12 May Warblers in Asheville [Alex Netherton ] 12 May Re: Blackpoll at church; N.Waterthrush last week. [Ric Carter ] 12 May Raleigh Dickcissals ["Shultz, Steven" ] 12 May Recall: Raleigh Dickcissals ["Shultz, Steven" ] 12 May Raleigh Dickcissals ["Shultz, Steven" ] 12 May 2008 Catawba Co. Spring Count Results ["Lori Owenby" ] 12 May RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) ["Jason Giovannone" ] 12 May Blackpoll at church; N.Waterthrush last week. ["Alan Meijer" ] 12 May ...and a Gray-cheeked Thrush in Durham [] 12 May Hooded Oriole at the Salad Bar ["Mike Tove" ] 12 May RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) [] 11 May Orangeburg,SC Sodfarm Sunday,5/11 [] 11 May Caspian Tern @ Beaver Lake [Aaron Steed ] 11 May Mid Pines Road - Raleigh ["Richard Carter" ] 11 May shorebirds at Bucksport Sod Farm 5-11 ["Jack" ] 11 May Re: Probable Gray-cheeked Thrush in Zebulon, NC [Harry Wilson ] 11 May Probable Gray-cheeked Thrush in Zebulon, NC ["harrywilson" ] 11 May Moore County Scissortail [Scott Hartley ] 11 May White House Rd., Richland Co., SC 5/11/08 ["Dennis Forsythe" ] 11 May Free program in Chapel Hill: Birds of Thailand [] 11 May Sound Recording Workshop [Kent Fiala ] 10 May Chuck Will's Widow Aberdeen NC [] 10 May Cape Fear River Kites ["Ricky Davis" ] 10 May Cox Ferry Lake Recreation Area ["Jack" ] 10 May St-flycatcher ["Blayne Olsen" ] 10 May Olive-sided Flycatcher - Max Patch [Ray Sharpton ] 10 May RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) ["Robin Carter" ] 10 May RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) - Male and Female [Parkin Hunter ] 10 May A couple interesting warblers [John and Rhonda Grego ] 10 May RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) [Donna Slyce ] Subject: duck molt question--correction From: "Jacob Socolar" <jsocolar AT mail.com> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 01:34:58 -0500 Sorry guys, the second paragraph of my last note should, of course, have read: Sibley illustrates JUVENILE plumages for most of the dabblers, but lists them as (Aug-Oct or Aug-Nov), implying that the ducks molt in fall into a winter plumage. If this is true, then you would call the bright breeding plumages basic? My apologies Jacob Socolar Chapel Hill, NC -- See Exclusive Video: 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards http://www.hollywoodlife.net/younghollywoodawards2008/ Subject: duck molt question From: "Jacob Socolar" <jsocolar AT mail.com> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 01:32:26 -0500 Hey Carolinabirders, I have a question for you, especially any duck hunters/banders out there. In the ducks, is 'breeding plumage' basic plumage? Or is it still 'alternate' even though it's in winter. Or in other words, how many molts do juvenile duck undergo before they reach breeding plumage? Do they molt strait into breeding plumage out of the juvenile plumage? If not, are first-winter ducks identifiable? Sibley illustrates nonbreeding plumages for most of the dabblers, but lists them as (Aug-Oct or Aug-Nov), implying that the ducks molt in fall into a winter plumage. If this is true, then you would call the bright breeding plumages basic? Do juveniles learn to fly, then immediately go into flightless eclipse, or do they skip the full fall molt, then undergo a prebasic molt in their first spring, then a first full molt into nonbreeding plumage in the first spring? For some divers, including eiders and scoters, Sibley illustrates a first-winter plumage, implying that the first prebasic molt is actually the first molt into breeding plumage in the second fall. And while I'm at it, what's the deal with the green-headed feral mallards that we see in the summer? Shouldn't the birds be in their drab nonbreeding plumage then? I'm a bit confused here. Feel free to reply off-list if you want, though I think that most of us could benefit a lot from seeing/hearing more about molt. Thanks Jacob Socolar Chapel Hill, NC -- See Exclusive Video: 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards http://www.hollywoodlife.net/younghollywoodawards2008/ Subject: Falls Lake birds From: "birdranger" <cbockhahn4 AT earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 22:38:12 -0400 More falls lake birds north of Raleigh, NC. 5/11 Common Nighthawk at dusk over Highway 50 bridge. 5/12 Bank Swallow swooped right over my head at the courtesy boat dock at Highway 50 along with 30+ Cliffs and 20+ barns. On 5/13 this group was hawking over the Beaverdam Lake spillway nearby. 5/12 More Anhinga, seven in a flock over Beaverdam Lake. I didn't know they flock!?! Time to search for their nest sites! 5/11-12 Red-breasted Mergansers around the boat ramp. Not much at Sandling Beach other than an abundance of homo sapiens. The gulls are few and skittish, the Kingbirds don't seem to mind though. Brian Bockhahn Falls Lake State Park Ranger Falls & Kerr Lake CBC Compiler cbockhahn4 AT earthlink.net Subject: Falls Lake Wildathon Results From: "birdranger" <cbockhahn4 AT earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 22:25:00 -0400 What a day!!! Anhinga, Semipalmated Plover, Western Sandpiper, Yellow-crowned Night Heron and a new park record for a mammal: PINE VOLE! Not 2late 2don8 visit: www.bwwells.org/wildathon 2008 Falls Lake Wildathon report The weather forecast showed storms on my scheduled date and my rain date, so I had to re-group and do my EIGHT ever WILDATHON earlier on May 7, 2008. It meant starting after a long work day at a water fest event (where I volunteered to sit in their dunking booth!) making for a long 42 hours awake, ugh. The weather was nice though with a high of 84 and low of 64 with sunny skies with increasing winds. The several straight days of warm dry weather would push out most migrant birds, but the amphibians, insects and mammals were loving it! While packing and just before the official start time I heard and then saw a flying squirrel around my bird feeders (I read somewhere they like suet) so around 1030 p.m. I made it the official start. I started on my home turf of Sandling Beach and quickly added a few amphibians including a FIRST record for Spotted Salamander by finding their larvae in a pond near the entrance station. Next stop was my ever improving wildlife trail where I immediately had a possum, a calling Great Horned Owl and some more calling frogs. Along the trail I started flipping cover boards and found a Black Racer and some Eastern Narrowmouth Toads but not much else. The orange eye shine of a cottontail rabbit assured me I would not miss this mammal this year! While enjoying the bark of a gray fox I noticed the gold eye shine of a set of eyes in a tree. As I got closer I could barely make out the face of a baby raccoon about twenty feet up a pine tree on a bed of needles, very cool. I checked a few other spots adding Screech Owl, and a listen at the swim beach produced some gulls and a Greater Yellowlegs. Next I moved on to Highway 50 Boat ramp. Another flying squirrel was scurrying about the upper parking lot as I went down to the spillway to search for my Wildathon nemesis Red-banded Water Snake. It was 2 a.m., fog was building on the lake as I walked the slippery rip-rap in the dark looking for snakes.cool. No banded but did find a northern and saw a few fish, a distant Great Blue Heron croaked adding to the experience. Next was a spot light drive of Beaverdam adding plenty of White-tailed Deer, another fox and a beaver down by the lake. As a time saver I wanted to try to find Meadow Vole at my reliable spot near the swim beach. More diurnal than nocturnal I was happy to see the green eye shine of this critter as it saw me and then bolted through its brush trail. The fisherman finally left the Highway 50 bridge so stopped their briefly to add Rock Pigeon with my night vision scope, the only ones I would see all day! Next stop was the cover boards at the north end of Beaverdam Lake adding my second every Smooth Earth Snake and some skinks. A short walk down to the rip rap there added some more water snakes and an amazing sight of two turtles fighting over half of a Hickory Shad. The smaller one gave up right away and swam off but was my first Wildathon record of an EASTERN MUD TURTLE! The larger Yellowbelly Slider picked away as I watched with my head lamp. Some grackles from a large nest colony began chirping and flying overhead in the dark. Leaving the water I came across a LONGNOSE GAR in the middle of the road covered in dirt and not moving. It had several bloody spots on it and it looked like something had drug it out of the water but gave up and left it. I did the obligatory poke it with a stick and saw that it was still alive. I carried it down to the water and revived it. A few more roadside stops produced more of all three owl species, night calling mockingbirds, chats, both whip-poor-will and chuck-wills-widow and the oddest a Yellow-billed Cuckoo! At 4 a.m. I had already found 16 bird species and a handful of the other groups. I waited long for dusk at my woodcock spot adding several other birds and my third ever Common Nighthawk flew overhead for a great sighting. Right after dusk I always visit Sandling swim beach and am never disappointed. Two Wildathon firsts were present with one WESTERN SANDPIPER and three SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS! I had only seen these before in the droughts during fall migration. On cue an eagle flew by, and then an Osprey and the birds racked up. Driving through I quickly added a turkey and my Wildathon first BLACKPOLL WARBLER and then moved on to Woodpecker Ridge. Even with pre-treating my clothes, tucking and spraying I was still covered in ticks. Birds were not too numerous but I filled my checklist out as I explored the area quickly. Found a golden mouse nest in a bluebird box but nobody was home. I made a few stops en route to the north end of the lake and through Butner added the city birds before embarking into the marshy depths of Brickhouse Road Waterfowl Impoundments. It warmed quickly and insect numbers soared. A RED BANDED HAIRSTREAK was a Wildathon first and a butterfly I'd been waiting to add. Dragonflies were present but not in good numbers, I wonder if the droughts affected their breeding? Covered in sweat, bug spray and sun block I pedaled out of the swamp and saw a flock of birds in formation flying overhead. There were fifteen of them, half of them forming a loose "V" but they didn't look like geese. As they got closer they circled on the thermals and it was evident that they were ANHINGA! They've been showing up more regularly in spring around the piedmont and even bred at Jordan Lake so they are not uncommon, but they were another Wildathon first and an unprecedented number! A few minutes later was another first, a calling YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON, also a bird suspected of nesting here. I pedaled around Flat River next sorting through butterflies and odonates and watching for herps. Turtles and Black Racers were everywhere but nothing new. Eating energy bars and drinking coke to stay awake I worked my way down the west side of the lake returning to Sandling Beach. Nothing new at the beach but at my wildlife trail I added the ever present Southern Ringneck snake and a Black Rat Snake that has made a permanent home in a bluebird box. Finally found some lizards and a few more odonates around the water treatment ponds. The wind picked up, the insects had a tough time and of course the birds were quieting down. The action slowed and so did I. Nearly falling asleep on the drive to Camp Kanata I stopped off to listen for meadowlarks. Immediately they were calling and happy with another addition to the checklist I think I dozed off. Start the truck back up and add some caffeine as the sun was getting low. Lick Creek had a lone song sparrow, the only one of the day. Rollingview at dusk finally perked up me and the action. There were too many jet skis at the boat beach so I walked out to the tip of the peninsula to hope for my last additions to the bird checklist. My attention was diverted to the ground where a small mammal was sitting at the base of a hollow stump. With my binoculars I could see it had the head and body of a vole. I slowly moved around for a better look and it moved into the stump offering me a view of its short nub of a tail. I had to look at the field guide later to confirm that it was indeed a PINE VOLE! A Wildathon first and a new park record, one I'd been expecting too. Back to the birds, in the fading light I finally caught a glimpse of the last 100 or so gulls that had not migrated away. Amidst the Ring-billed I was able to find one Herring Gull, and then out on a buoy was a lone Bonaparte's! Rollingview never disappoints because a Red-breasted Merganser also flew by in the last bit of day light! I flipped some cover boards and then stopped at the water treatment pond for an explosive chorus of frog calls. Newly arrived this spring was a breeding population of Green Treefrogs, which saves me a drive back up to the north end of the lake for this critter. A family of Canada Geese watched me closely as I walked the pond edges with my head lamp. I drove back and ended right at 10:30 p.m., a full 24 hours finding six new Wildathon records birds, one each reptile, amphibian and butterfly, and one mammal new to my Wildathon and the park list! Misses were Red-tailed Hawk, Ground Skink and any bat other than Red. Tired, wind burned, sun burned, tick covered, chigger bitten and worn out but man was it FUN!!! 2 miles of running, 15 miles biking, 12 miles hiking and only 141 miles driving. MAMMALS (11 tie for high#) Whitetail Deer Grey Fox Raccoon Virginia Opossum American Beaver Eastern Cottontail Grey Squirrel Southern Flying Squirrel Meadow Vole Pine Vole Eastern Red Bat REPTILES (12 third highest) Eastern Fence Lizard Five-lined Skink Southeastern Five-lined Skink Southern Ringneck Snake Black Rat Snake Black Racer Northern Water Snake Smooth Earth Snake Painted Turtle Yellowbelly Slider Eastern Box Turtle Eastern Mud Turtle AMPHIBIANS (14 new high#) American Toad Fowler's Toad Upland Chorus Frog Spring Peeper Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad Northern Cricket Frog Bullfrog Green Frog Pickeral Frog Southern Leopard Frog Gray Treefrog Green Treefrog Marbled Salamander Spotted Salamander BUTTERFLIES (22 - avg 19) Pipevine Swallowtail Zebra Swallowtail Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Spicebush Swallowtail Cabbage White Cloudless Sulphur Sleepy Orange Pearl Crescent American Lady Red Admiral Common Buckeye Red-Spotted Purple Viceroy Eastern Comma Question Mark Red-banded Hairstreak Spring Azure Eastern Tailed-Blue Gemmed Satyr Carolina Satyr Zabulon Skipper Silver-Spotted Skipper ODONATES (21 - avg 16) Common Green Darner Regal Darner Swamp Darner Comet Darner Uhler's Sundragon Selys Sundragon Eastern Pondhawk Painted Skimmer Spangled Skimmer Common Whitetail Blue Corporal Blue Dasher Carolina Saddlebags Black Saddlebag Lancet Clubtail Ashy Clubtail Orange Bluet Familiar/Stream Bluet Eastern Forktail Fragile Forktail Blue-fronted Dancer FIREFLIES (2 sp) Photinus consimilus P. brimleyi BIRDS (104 - above avg 102.6) ANHINGA CORMORANT, Double-crested HERON, Great Blue HERON, Green NIGHT-HERON, Yellow-crowned VULTURE, Black Turkey GOOSE, Canada DUCK, Wood MALLARD DUCK, American Black MERGANSER, Red-breasted OSPREY EAGLE, Bald Red-shouldered Broad-winged TURKEY, Wild PLOVER, Semipalmated KILLDEER SANDPIPER, Solitary Spotted Greater Western GULL, Ring-billed Herring Bonaparte's PIGEON, Rock DOVE, Mourning CUCKOO, Yellow-billed OWL, Eastern Screech- Great Horned Barred NIGHTHAWK, Common WHIP-POOR-WILL CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW SWIFT, Chimney HUMMINGBIRD, Ruby-throated WOODPECKER, Red-headed Red-bellied Downy Hairy "Yellow-shafted" FLICKER Pileated WOOD-PEWEE, Eastern FLYCATCHER, Acadian PHOEBE, Eastern FLYCATCHER, Great Crested KINGBIRD, Eastern VIREO, White-eyed Blue-headed Yellow-throated Red-eyed JAY, Blue CROW, American Fish MARTIN, Purple SWALLOW, Tree Cliff Barn CHICKADEE, Carolina TITMOUSE, Tufted Brown-headed WREN, Carolina GNATCATCHER, Blue-gray BLUEBIRD, Eastern Wood ROBIN, American CATBIRD, Gray MOCKINGBIRD, Northern THRASHER, Brown STARLING, European WAXWING, Cedar N. Parula Yellow Black-throated Blue WARBLER, Yellow-throated Pine Prairie Blackpoll Black-and-white American REDSTART Prothonotary OVENBIRD Common YELLOWTHROAT Hooded Yellow-breasted CHAT TANAGER, Summer Scarlet TOWHEE, Eastern SPARROW, Chipping Field Song Swamp CARDINAL, Northern Blue BUNTING, Indigo BLACKBIRD, Red-winged MEADOWLARK, Eastern GRACKLE, Common COWBIRD, Brown-headed ORIOLE, Orchard FINCH, House GOLDFINCH, American SPARROW, House FISH (6) Common Carp Sunfish/Bream Large-mouthed Bass Hickory Shad Crappie Longnose Gar MOTHS Black Wooly Bear Brown Wooly Bear Waved Sphinx Eastern Tent Caterpillar Luna Moth Brian Bockhahn Falls Lake State Park Ranger Falls & Kerr Lake CBC Compiler cbockhahn4 AT earthlink.net Subject: Swallow-tailed kite at Howell Woods From: "James Sasser" <sasserbird AT yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:31:09 -0400 A swallow-tailed kite was seen today at Howell Woods in the open fields near the Learning Center. The Mississippi kites are also back as well, just not great numbers yet. Swainson's warblers are still singing, in a couple of weeks their singing will really slow up. James Sasser Four Oaks, Johnston County, NC Subject: yard birds From: <brooksba1 AT verizon.net> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 17:10:58 -0500 (CDT) have been blessed over the past 1-2 weeks with 1-3 Neons aka indigo buntings. they come every evening. this morning i had what i am 99% sure was a louisiana waterthrush. it flew away pretty quick. i was surprised as i haven't heard one in a while. have 2 chats, summer tanager, white-eyed vireo all calling on the morning dog walks. the chats can sure sound crazy. also had a female summer tanager in the yard this afternoon. all birds in NE Orange co. barb brooks brooksba1 AT verizon.net Subject: Interesting recent (shore)bird observations From: Cape Romain Bird Observatory <crbo AT dmzs.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:52:31 -0400 Recently, while performing a couple of weekly shorebird surveys for the ISS (International Shorebird Survey) program run by Manomet, I have made some interesting / noteworthy observations. While I have previously posted some sightings from Santee Coastal Reserve, other interesting observations from a private location have gone unmentioned. However, as the "neat" events keep occurring, I feel compelled to share a few with CAROLINABIRDS subscribers. The most surprising thing I have observed during shorebird surveys this spring occurred last Saturday. It was a Wilson's Plover feeding in a huge drained waterfowl impoundment! This impoundment is roughly 2.5 kilometers from the nearest sandy beach/shoreline adjacent to the ocean ('normal' Wilson's Plover habitat). Sadly, the bird disappeared behind a grassy 'island' before I got a digiscope photo and then the mixed Plover flock flushed from that area and I was unable to get photographic documentation. The same impoundment hosted other "salty" shorebirds such as Willet, Ruddy Turnstone and Black-bellied Plovers. I also saw something I have seen several times in the past - Ruddy Turnstones and Red Knots feeding in drained former ricefields more than 1-2 km. from the beach / oceanside. Last Saturday I also saw an Eared Grebe in breeding plumage in a large waterfowl impoundment that has not been drained. Photos of a Ruddy Turnstone and the Eared Grebe are here (after clicking each thumbnail, click the "+ All Sizes" button to see a larger image): http://www.flickr.com/photos/offshorebirder/ -- I apologize for the so-so image quality - unknown to me at the time, my digital camera was not set to 'superfine' resolution - it was 1 step down... On April 26, I had a Baird's Sandpiper and an American Golden-Plover in this same impoundment. As usual, last week the numbers of Semipalmated Sandpipers exploded. White-rumped Sandpiper numbers jumped as well - from 2 on 5/3 to 5 on 5/10. There was also a big increase in Semipalmated Plover and Western Sandpiper numbers last week. But I have found the numbers of Stilt Sandpipers to be very low in coastal SC so far this spring - perhaps they will increase here soon. There have also been flocks of White Pelicans (40-50 birds) and Wood Storks (200+ birds) working this location and nearby areas for the past few weeks. Other noteworthy birds have been Common Ground-Doves (many), King Rail, Seaside Sparrows (lots), Bobolinks and a Barn Owl. The drawback has been the mosquito swarms and rising numbers of Deer Flies. But to me, this is a small price to pay for the thrill of seeing thousands of shorebirds wheeling back and forth in flight. One sees this less and less these days, and in fewer and fewer locations. Nathan Dias --- Executive Director Cape Romain Bird Observatory http://www.crbo.net/ Subject: Ten Birders seek Warblers at Jackson Park From: "John Lindfors Sr." <jwl127 AT mchsi.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:10:06 -0400 Carolina Birders: Since I got two first of the year birds at Jackson Park today (a Magnolia Warbler and a Yellow Warbler) I wasn't to jealous of all the other nine birders who got some good birds: Ernie Hollingsworth got a Magnolia and a Blackpoll (?) and Ron Selvey and Greg Massey both got a Summer Tanager. A good day to be at Jackson Park, Hendersonville, NC today. Here's the list: Location: Jackson Park Observation date: 5/13/08 Notes: A sunny Tuesday 50-70 degrees for 4 hours and 5 minutes 1.8 miles. Birders seen: Tom Cameron(a local birder), and his very cute and quiet grandson sitting in a stroller wide-eyed looking at all the strange people as Tom watches redstarts Wayne Forsythe (the local birder who discovered and put Jackson Park on the map), Ernie Hollingsworth (a local birder), Tom Joyce (a regular birder who journeys on day trips to J.P. from Brevard) Greg Massey a regular supporter of Jackson Park who hails from Wilmington, NC, Ron Selvey is "Tonto" to "Lone Ranger" Forsythe who keeps Wayne able to defend his rare sightings by seeing (and often finding them for him!!!)Harry Sill(Wilmington, NC) who at age 67 (a "teenager" since he is one year younger than I am)carrys his Nikon camera with a 500mm lens and his monopod on his shoulder all around the park, he got a nice shot of an Eastern Phoebe with its juvenile in the same picture), Jim & Frances Ward of Greensboro, NC who come prepared with very light camp stools. Such a thing becomes more attractive to me as my back begins to ache after four hours at the park. Number of species: 29 Mallard 3 Turkey Vulture 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Eastern Phoebe 4 White-eyed Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo 4 Blue Jay 1 Carolina Chickadee 5 Carolina Wren 13 House Wren 1 American Robin 8 Gray Catbird 2 Brown Thrasher 2 European Starling 5 Northern Parula 1 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Magnolia Warbler 1 American Redstart 9 Common Yellowthroat 3 Eastern Towhee 8 Song Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 5 Indigo Bunting 5 Common Grackle 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) John Lindfors Hendersonville, NC Subject: Charleston.Co_storm.birds_magn.warb From: "Cherrie Sneed" <sneedwd AT earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:15:11 -0400 ...congrats to Charles on his Reddish Egret! ...and Mi. Kites! Migration has not completely ended on the coast. A MAGNOLIA WARBLER has come to visit my southern Charleston Co. yard since Sunday's tornadoes. It was a close call here in Meggett. ...lots of damage just across the river. Magnolia W. is a yard bird for me! There a many Painted Buntings, 4 or more Blue Grosbeaks, and Summer Tanagers (eating suet) adding spring color to the yard. Dan and Cherrie Sneed 5634 Church Flats Rd. Meggett, SC St. Paul's Parish Southern Charleston County sneedwd AT earthlink.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Boyce" To: "Charles Boyce" Cc: "CarolinaBirds" Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:47 PM Subject: Re: a beautiful sight and newest yardbird > oops, too much time on the internet. The title should read sight and not > site. > > Charles Boyce wrote: > >> I recently decided that my favorite raptor is the Mississippi Kite. >> Today I went to eat lunch on my deck, looked up and lo-and-behold, there >> were four of them soaring 100 feet overhead. Beautiful! On a side note, >> Sunday's storms brought a Reddish Egret to my backyard pond for yardbird >> number 85 (over only 3 years). >> > > -- > Charles Boyce > Mount Pleasant, SC > cubistdude.com > > Subject: Mid-pines Dickcissel & Friend From: "John Ennis" <johnxennis AT bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:38:51 -0400 Stopped by Mid-pines on my way to a belated Mother's Day dinner in Raleigh Monday night... Thanks to Richard Carter's directions and the help of Harry & Sandra from Alamance County, I found the Dickcissel close to the road, probably the one mentioned by others... I later went back on my own, after a picnic lunch at Yates Mill Pond, and found a second Dickcissel down the fence line where the fence bottoms out...they were having a singing duel... Some photos: http://thebusinessbirder.com/Dickcissel051208.pdf My other prizes included: Indigo Bunting (2) Blue Grosbeak (4) Red-headed Woodpecker Grasshopper Sparrow Chimney Swift (30+) Eastern Kingbird (30+) Snoopy's Chili Dogs (4) No Bobolinks...but given the mowing, high wind, and two road graders totally re-working the gravel road, I am very happy with what I saw... John Ennis Leland, NC 910-371-9729 Subject: Re: CBIRDS archive is not working Re: first visit to Lynches Woods From: "Will Cook" <cwcook AT duke.edu> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:11:21 -0400 In this case it would also help to also search for Lynch's Woods, since that appears to be the official name of the park. http://www.sctrails.net/trails/PHOTOS/PTlynchwd.JPG http://www.newberry-college.net/chorn/Lynch's/ http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/wiki/Lynch's_Woods_Park Lynches isn't necessarily incorrect, just a little old fashioned... the ending -es is how you would normally form the genitive in Middle English. We tend to use 's for the genitive nowadays, with the apostrophe indicating the missing e. The land was owned by a Rev. Elijah Lynch in the 1840's, so it's been a long time since they were his woods, but not quite long enough ago for the name of the park to be in Middle English. :) On 13 May 2008 at 10:34, Will Cook wrote: > The Carolinabirds archive search function does find all the "Lynches > Woods" messages if you do the following: > > - go to https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/arc/carolinabirds > > - click on the "Advanced Search" button > > - type in the desired search phrase > > - here's the key: under "Phrase matching:" select "All words in the > phrase" instead of "Exact phrase". For some reason "Exact phrase" > doesn't work properly for searching the message body. > > - select the desired archive dates using shift-click, ctrl-click, or > click-drag > > - click on the "Search" button > > Happy archive searching, > Will > > > On 13 May 2008 at 7:06, Nate Dias wrote: > > > I tried searching the Carolinabirds archive (at lists.duke.edu...) for > > the exact term Lynches Woods and only got a very small number of > > matches (5). > > > > Yet I can remember posting about the place multiple times and seeing > > other people's posts. > > > > For instance, if you do the search properly, it does NOT bring up > > entries like: > > > > https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/arc/carolinabirds/2003-04/msg00411.html > > > > -- I had to manually click on April 2003 to find the entry and scroll > > through the month's entries to bring up the post in question. > > > > This is not good - people who try to use the "searchable" > > Carolinabirds archives are not getting a complete picture and this > > defeats the purpose many of us have in posting detailed accounts. I > > want them to be available and searchable by people in the future, but > > the current archive/search interface Duke is not performing correctly. > > > > Any help Will can provide would be a good thing... > > > > Nathan Dias - Charleston, SC > > > > PS searching on the term Lynches brings up many more matches, but a > > lot of them are not from Lynches Woods. And other search terms are > > not so easily separable - like Santee for example. -- Charles W. "Will" Cook w 919-660-5144 http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook cwcook AT duke.edu Box 90338, Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Durham, NC 27708 Subject: smart Red-tail From: Rob G. <thrush AT hotmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:04:46 +0000 UNC campus has lots of Red-tailed Hawks these days even on the concrete jungle of south campus -- today near entrance to Lineberger Center I found one standing atop a tall silver light pole looking down at a cylindrical feeder on a pole in a small patch of green undergrowth. Seemed slightly odd to see a buteo instead of an accipiter hunting a feeder, and he was so conspicuous that no birds were even visiting the feeder, but still he stood and watched intently. Finally, he dropped to the ground below working his talons into the greenery, and suddenly I realized he probably wasn't hunting the feeder at all, but cleverly awaiting chipmunks or rodents that made their way to the seed that spilled out of the feeder. Bon appetit! Last week, BTW, had a lone Blue Grosbeak at my residential backyard feeder for first time. -- Rob Gluck.... Chapel Hill, NC.... _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch when you're away with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_052008 Subject: Re: a beautiful sight and newest yardbird From: Charles Boyce <charles.boyce AT cubistdude.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:47:46 -0400 oops, too much time on the internet. The title should read sight and not site. Charles Boyce wrote: > I recently decided that my favorite raptor is the Mississippi Kite. > Today I went to eat lunch on my deck, looked up and lo-and-behold, > there were four of them soaring 100 feet overhead. Beautiful! On a > side note, Sunday's storms brought a Reddish Egret to my backyard pond > for yardbird number 85 (over only 3 years). > -- Charles Boyce Mount Pleasant, SC cubistdude.com Subject: a beautiful site and newest yardbird From: Charles Boyce <charles.boyce AT cubistdude.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:44:04 -0400 I recently decided that my favorite raptor is the Mississippi Kite. Today I went to eat lunch on my deck, looked up and lo-and-behold, there were four of them soaring 100 feet overhead. Beautiful! On a side note, Sunday's storms brought a Reddish Egret to my backyard pond for yardbird number 85 (over only 3 years). -- Charles Boyce Mount Pleasant, SC cubistdude.com Subject: Re: CBIRDS archive is not working Re: first visit to Lynches Woods From: "Will Cook" <cwcook AT duke.edu> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:34:55 -0400 The Carolinabirds archive search function does find all the "Lynches Woods" messages if you do the following: - go to https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/arc/carolinabirds - click on the "Advanced Search" button - type in the desired search phrase - here's the key: under "Phrase matching:" select "All words in the phrase" instead of "Exact phrase". For some reason "Exact phrase" doesn't work properly for searching the message body. - select the desired archive dates using shift-click, ctrl-click, or click-drag - click on the "Search" button Happy archive searching, Will On 13 May 2008 at 7:06, Nate Dias wrote: > I tried searching the Carolinabirds archive (at lists.duke.edu...) for > the exact term Lynches Woods and only got a very small number of > matches (5). > > Yet I can remember posting about the place multiple times and seeing > other people's posts. > > For instance, if you do the search properly, it does NOT bring up > entries like: > > https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/arc/carolinabirds/2003-04/msg00411.html > > -- I had to manually click on April 2003 to find the entry and scroll > through the month's entries to bring up the post in question. > > This is not good - people who try to use the "searchable" > Carolinabirds archives are not getting a complete picture and this > defeats the purpose many of us have in posting detailed accounts. I > want them to be available and searchable by people in the future, but > the current archive/search interface Duke is not performing correctly. > > Any help Will can provide would be a good thing... > > Nathan Dias - Charleston, SC > > PS searching on the term Lynches brings up many more matches, but a > lot of them are not from Lynches Woods. And other search terms are > not so easily separable - like Santee for example. -- Charles W. "Will" Cook w 919-660-5144 http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook cwcook AT duke.edu Box 90338, Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Durham, NC 27708 Subject: CBIRDS archive is not working Re: first visit to Lynches Woods From: Nate Dias <offshorebirder AT yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:06:26 -0700 (PDT) I tried searching the Carolinabirds archive (at lists.duke.edu...) for the exact term Lynches Woods and only got a very small number of matches (5). Yet I can remember posting about the place multiple times and seeing other people's posts. For instance, if you do the search properly, it does NOT bring up entries like: https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/arc/carolinabirds/2003-04/msg00411.html -- I had to manually click on April 2003 to find the entry and scroll through the month's entries to bring up the post in question. This is not good - people who try to use the "searchable" Carolinabirds archives are not getting a complete picture and this defeats the purpose many of us have in posting detailed accounts. I want them to be available and searchable by people in the future, but the current archive/search interface Duke is not performing correctly. Any help Will can provide would be a good thing... Nathan Dias - Charleston, SC PS searching on the term Lynches brings up many more matches, but a lot of them are not from Lynches Woods. And other search terms are not so easily separable - like Santee for example. ----- Original Message ---- From: Bill Hilton Jr. To: CarolinaBirds Cc: AmaSpirit AT aol.com Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:52:15 AM Subject: Re: first visit to Lynches Woods PATRICIA . . . Thanks for posting this list, which adds two common but previously unreported species: Brown Thrasher and Red-shouldered Hawk. If anyone else has bird lists from Lynch's Woods, I would appreciate your forwarding them to me. I'm collaborating with the Newberry College biology department on a comprehensive flora and fauna inventory for the locale in the hopes of protecting it from future alteration or development. Lynch's Woods, by the way, is a terrific Piedmont birding site, with 20 warblers and 90 total species reported so far. Directions are at http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/wiki/Lynch's_Woods_Park Happy Birding! BILL >Judy Hurley and I visited Lynches Woods this AM. Unfortunately the birds >got a later start than we did. I definitely want to go back! >Due to having >limited time, we only checked out 1/2 the loop... on the way out, we saw >there are other habitats there to explore. Personally, any place where I can >pretend I'm in the mountains is a great place! > >Today's list: > >Hermit Thrush (this bird literally worked the road in front of us all the >way to the driver's side of the car!) >Wood Thrush (beautifully eerie stereo sound) >Brown Thrasher >Eastern Wood Pewee >Red-eyed Vireo >Eastern Towhee >Northern Cardinal >Downy Woodpecker >Red-Bellied Woodpecker >Pileated Woodpecker >American Crow >Pine Warbler >Kentucky Warbler (Judy had clear view) >Redstart >Northern Parula (heard only) >Summer Tanager >Tufted Titmouse >Blue-gray Gnatcatcher >Red-shouldered Hawk >Blue Jay >Carolina Wren > >Patricia Voelker >Lexington, SC -- BILL HILTON JR., Executive Director Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA hilton AT hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845 The mission of Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History is "to conserve plants, animals, habitats, and other natural components of the Piedmont Region of the eastern United States through observation, scientific study, and education for students of all ages. " Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net) at www.hiltonpond.org and www.rubythroat.org ("Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project"). "Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to watch the sunset." BHjr. Subject: RE: first visit to Lynches Woods From: "Robin Carter" <rcarter AT sc.rr.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:26:55 -0400 Patricia, A Hermit Thrush at Lynches Woods in mid May would be very, very late. Could the bird you saw have been a Gray-cheeked Thrush, a species that is migrating through SOuth Carolina right now? Robin Carter Columbia, SC USA mailto:rcarter AT sc.rr.com -----Original Message----- From: Bill Hilton Jr. [mailto:hilton AT hiltonpond.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:52 AM To: CarolinaBirds Cc: AmaSpirit AT aol.com Subject: Re: first visit to Lynches Woods PATRICIA . . . Thanks for posting this list, which adds two common but previously unreported species: Brown Thrasher and Red-shouldered Hawk. If anyone else has bird lists from Lynch's Woods, I would appreciate your forwarding them to me. I'm collaborating with the Newberry College biology department on a comprehensive flora and fauna inventory for the locale in the hopes of protecting it from future alteration or development. Lynch's Woods, by the way, is a terrific Piedmont birding site, with 20 warblers and 90 total species reported so far. Directions are at http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/wiki/Lynch's_Woods_Park Happy Birding! BILL >Judy Hurley and I visited Lynches Woods this AM. Unfortunately the birds >got a later start than we did. I definitely want to go back! >Due to having >limited time, we only checked out 1/2 the loop... on the way out, we saw >there are other habitats there to explore. Personally, any place where I can >pretend I'm in the mountains is a great place! > >Today's list: > >Hermit Thrush (this bird literally worked the road in front of us all the >way to the driver's side of the car!) >Wood Thrush (beautifully eerie stereo sound) >Brown Thrasher >Eastern Wood Pewee >Red-eyed Vireo >Eastern Towhee >Northern Cardinal >Downy Woodpecker >Red-Bellied Woodpecker >Pileated Woodpecker >American Crow >Pine Warbler >Kentucky Warbler (Judy had clear view) >Redstart >Northern Parula (heard only) >Summer Tanager >Tufted Titmouse >Blue-gray Gnatcatcher >Red-shouldered Hawk >Blue Jay >Carolina Wren > >Patricia Voelker >Lexington, SC -- BILL HILTON JR., Executive Director Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA hilton AT hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845 The mission of Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History is "to conserve plants, animals, habitats, and other natural components of the Piedmont Region of the eastern United States through observation, scientific study, and education for students of all ages. " Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net) at www.hiltonpond.org and www.rubythroat.org ("Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project"). "Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to watch the sunset." BHjr. Subject: image-fighting Summer Tanager From: ginger_travis AT bellsouth.net Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:24:40 +0000 I've had bluebirds, goldfinches, and cardinals bash themselves against my windows as they fought their own images. But never a Summer Tanager -- till now! I'll be taping paper to the windows shortly. Ginger Orange Co., NC Subject: gray kingbird From: "Ali Iyoob" <Aliiyoob AT nc.rr.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:16:14 -0700 I saw a gray bird with a forked tail at RDU airport last weekend. After putting all of the info into Whatbird.com, it said it was a gray kingbird. My field guide, however, said the gray kingbird's range was confined to costal Florida. Could this have been a gray kingbird? I f not, what might it have been. Thanks for any info! Subject: Re: first visit to Lynches Woods From: "Bill Hilton Jr." <hilton AT hiltonpond.org> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 08:52:15 -0400 PATRICIA . . . Thanks for posting this list, which adds two common but previously unreported species: Brown Thrasher and Red-shouldered Hawk. If anyone else has bird lists from Lynch's Woods, I would appreciate your forwarding them to me. I'm collaborating with the Newberry College biology department on a comprehensive flora and fauna inventory for the locale in the hopes of protecting it from future alteration or development. Lynch's Woods, by the way, is a terrific Piedmont birding site, with 20 warblers and 90 total species reported so far. Directions are at http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/wiki/Lynch's_Woods_Park Happy Birding! BILL >Judy Hurley and I visited Lynches Woods this AM. Unfortunately the birds >got a later start than we did. I definitely want to go back! >Due to having >limited time, we only checked out 1/2 the loop... on the way out, we saw >there are other habitats there to explore. Personally, any place where I can >pretend I'm in the mountains is a great place! > >Today's list: > >Hermit Thrush (this bird literally worked the road in front of us all the >way to the driver's side of the car!) >Wood Thrush (beautifully eerie stereo sound) >Brown Thrasher >Eastern Wood Pewee >Red-eyed Vireo >Eastern Towhee >Northern Cardinal >Downy Woodpecker >Red-Bellied Woodpecker >Pileated Woodpecker >American Crow >Pine Warbler >Kentucky Warbler (Judy had clear view) >Redstart >Northern Parula (heard only) >Summer Tanager >Tufted Titmouse >Blue-gray Gnatcatcher >Red-shouldered Hawk >Blue Jay >Carolina Wren > >Patricia Voelker >Lexington, SC -- BILL HILTON JR., Executive Director Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA hilton AT hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845 The mission of Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History is "to conserve plants, animals, habitats, and other natural components of the Piedmont Region of the eastern United States through observation, scientific study, and education for students of all ages. " Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net) at www.hiltonpond.org and www.rubythroat.org ("Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project"). "Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to watch the sunset." BHjr. Subject: Dickcissal --- Need one in upstate, SC From: "Bob Maxwell" <bobmax1 AT charter.net> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:52:30 -0400 Judy and I checked out Dobbins Cattle Farm in Anderson Co, SC Sat , as I have had Dickcissal there in the past, but not Sat. We did have a calling Willow Flycatcher, Blus Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, And at least two Yellow Breasted Chat. Please call or email me if you see a Dickcissal in the Upstate of SC, Thanks, Bob Maxwell---- bobmax1 AT charter.net 864-244-2382 Subject: first visit to Lynches Woods From: AmaSpirit AT aol.com Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:49:17 EDT Judy Hurley and I visited Lynches Woods this AM. Unfortunately the birds got a later start than we did. I definitely want to go back! Due to having limited time, we only checked out 1/2 the loop... on the way out, we saw there are other habitats there to explore. Personally, any place where I can pretend I'm in the mountains is a great place! Today's list: Hermit Thrush (this bird literally worked the road in front of us all the way to the driver's side of the car!) Wood Thrush (beautifully eerie stereo sound) Brown Thrasher Eastern Wood Pewee Red-eyed Vireo Eastern Towhee Northern Cardinal Downy Woodpecker Red-Bellied Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker American Crow Pine Warbler Kentucky Warbler (Judy had clear view) Redstart Northern Parula (heard only) Summer Tanager Tufted Titmouse Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Red-shouldered Hawk Blue Jay Carolina Wren Patricia Voelker Lexington, SC **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) Subject: Warblers in Asheville From: Alex Netherton <danetherton AT charter.net> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:33:09 -0400 Hi folks; I haven't been pursuing Warblers much this year. Can't afford to raise my blood pressure (grin!). However, Saturday I was walking over to my mom's house here in Oteen, and heard a squeaky little song in the Hemlocks above my head. I started pishing, and directly, there were Warblers everywhere. Most surprising were two Blackpoll W's. In a suburb. In Asheville. Go figure. Also were Cape May and Myrtle (I refuse to call them Yellow Rump). Also heard a snatch of the song of a Swainson's Thrush. Have also heard a Wood Thrush in a local patch of woods. -- Alex Netherton An Appalachian Field Biologist http://blueridgediscovery.com danetherton AT charter.net Asheville, NC Subject: Re: Blackpoll at church; N.Waterthrush last week. From: Ric Carter <ricc AT mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:38:27 -0400 Hey Alan-- We had a couple of Blackpolls working our place in Little Washington all weekend. Ric Carter Little Washington & Garner On May 12, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Alan Meijer wrote: > Hi all. > > Yesterday, as the pastor was just getting into the first of his 3 > points in his sermon, I just HAD to get up and use the facilities. > As I stepped out the back of the church and out the main doors, the > FIRST thing I heard was a Blackpoll Warbler, one of the birds I've > looked hard for this spring. Problem is, it was singing from the > thick set of cedar trees near the parsonage. I could NOT get it to > move into sight. sigh. I pished for awhile (the first time I've > actively birded during church) but no luck. After church was out, it > was pouring rain. > > Also, last week, I stopped near the Roanoke just south of Lewiston- > Woodville. As I stepped into the trees, where a creek runs under > the road, I heard a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH. After pishing for a bit, > I was able to fill the tress with various birds including > Prothonotarys, two B&Ws, and two Red-eyed Vireos. I was sure I'd > get a redstart but no luck. > > Also stopped at River Park North. Surprised at the number of Yellow- > rumps around still. Also had a number of B&Ws there. Saw a > cormorant gulp down a huge fish. > > -- > Alan Meijer > Pantego, NC Subject: Raleigh Dickcissals From: "Shultz, Steven" <Steven.Shultz AT Fmr.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:29:08 -0400 Looks like John C. and the "migration team" trumped my sighting of a single singing Dickcissal on Mid-Pines Rd. by doubling the ante and noting 2 singing birds from that location later in the day Saturday. I figured I had to go "all in" and returned to the location Sunday morning (mainly because I still needed Bobolink for the year). Turns out the pretty little grassland birds attracted a fair number of birders, for this location anyway, and the combined prowess of all this birding power generated observations of 2 birds singing from their previously noted locations (one likes the guy wire on the last power pole at the 90 degree turn, the other stakes out a barbed wire fence post west of the 1st) and a third singing invisibly from the depths of the weedy wheat field to the south. As R. Carter mentioned this morning, numbers of Bobolinks were shuttling back and forth, but the wheat (where the birds seemed to be hanging) is tall enough that the bobs were only visible when in flight. Now I'm hoping someone can trump that and find a Wood Sandpiper or something. Sadly I figure that latter bird had to overfly the Carolinas to get to it's recently reported location in Delaware. Too bad it did not stop/was not found here first! Best, Steve Shultz Apex, NC Subject: Recall: Raleigh Dickcissals From: "Shultz, Steven" <Steven.Shultz AT Fmr.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:28:13 -0400 Shultz, Steven would like to recall the message, "Raleigh Dickcissals". Subject: Raleigh Dickcissals From: "Shultz, Steven" <Steven.Shultz AT Fmr.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:27:53 -0400 Looks like John C. and the "migration team" trumped my sighting of a single singing Dickcissal on Mid-Pines Rd. by doubling the ante and noting 2 singing birds from that location later in the day Saturday. I figured I had to go "all in" and returned to the location Sunday morning (mainly because I still needed Bobolink for the year). Turns out the pretty little grassland birds attracted a fair number of birders, for this location anyway, and the combined prowess of all this birding power generated observations of 2 birds singing from their previously noted locations (one likes the guy wire on the last power pole at the 90 degree turn, the other stakes out a barbed wire fence post west of the 1st) and a third singing invisibly from the depths of the weedy wheat field to the south. As R. Carter mentioned this morning, numbers of Bobolinks were shuttling back and forth, but the wheat (where the birds seemed to be hanging) is tall enough that the bobs were only visible when in flight. Now I'm hoping someone can trump that and find a Wood Sandpiper or something. Sadly I figure that latter bird had to overfly the Carolinas to get to it's recently reported location in Delaware. Too bad it did not stop/was not found here first! Best, Steve Shultz Apex, NC Subject: 2008 Catawba Co. Spring Count Results From: "Lori Owenby" <loriowenby AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:17:36 -0400 We just finished compiling the results from our 2008 Spring Count. WOW! We beat our previous high species number of 110. We had 118 species (23 warblers!!) represented with 3140 individuals sighted. Many thanks go to the 12 folks who helped to make this day such a success. We had a few winter holdovers: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1), Yellow-rumped Warbler (2), White-throated Sparrow (1), and Purple Finch (1). We also had some "near misses" with very dissapointing numbers: Wild Turkey (1), Northern Bobwhite (1), Green Heron (1), American Kestral (1), Rock Pigeon (1--don't know if this is bad or not!), Barred Owl (1), Whip-poor-will (1), Hairy Woodpecker (1), Loggerhead Shrike (1), and Fish Crow (1). The highlights were definitely the migrants. Some didn't have good numbers, but the variety was great: Osprey-9 (found 4 nests) Bald Eagle-3 (one parent, two chicks) Sharp-shinned Hawk-2 (Bakers Mtn) Cooper's Hawk-6 (nest at Bakers Mtn, 1 at Riverbend) Broad-winged Hawk-5 Spotted Sandpiper-12 Pectoral Sandpiper-6 (Riverbend) Eurasian Collared-Dove-2 (at their usual Conover spot) Yellow-billed Cuckoo-2 (feeding each other at Riverbend) Eastern Wood-Pewee-7 Acadian Flycatcher-2 Whited-eyed Vireo-4 Blue-headed Vireo-8 Red-eyed Vireo-92 (50 at Bakers Mtn) Purple Martin-42 Tree Swallow-8 N. Rough-winged Swallow-34 Cliff Swallow-126 (huge colony at I-40 bridge) Barn Swallow-28 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher-27 Northern Parula-9 Yellow Warbler-1 Chestnut-sided Warbler-1 Cape May Warbler-6 Black-throated Blue Warbler-11 (9 at Bakers Mtn) Black-throated Green Warbler-13 (12 at Bakers Mtn) Blackburnian Warbler-1 Yellow-throated Warbler-1 (Bunker Hill Covered Bridge) Pine Warbler-31 (not migrants!) Prairie Warbler-20 (6 at Shell Hollar) Blackpoll Warbler-12 Black-and-white Warbler-6 American Redstart-3 Prothonotary Warbler-1 (Lyle Creek) Worm-eating Warbler-4 (Bakers Mtn) Ovenbird-6 Louisiana Waterthrush-4 (pair nesting at Riverbend) Kentucky Warbler-1 (Bunker Hill Covered Bridge) Common Yellowthroat-28 Hooded Warbler-4 (Bakers Mtn) Canada Warbler-3 (Bakers Mtn) Yellow-breasted Chat-21 (10 at Shell Hollar) Summer Tanager-18 (7 at Bakers Mtn) Scarlet Tanager-21 (14 at Bakers Mtn) Grasshopper Sparrow-12 Rose-breasted Grosbeak-19 (16 at Bakers Mtn) Blue Grosbeak-10 Indigo Bunting-62 Orchard Oriole-8 Baltimore Oriole-4 Bakers Mountain Park continues to be the best spot in the county for variety and numbers of Spring migrants. Other hot spots included Shell Hollar Road, Lyle Creek, Bunker Hill Covered Bridge and Riverbend Park. -- ----- Lori Owenby Catawba County Parks Conover, NC Subject: RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) From: "Jason Giovannone" <giovannonej AT bellsouth.net> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:55:40 +0000 I just returned from the old house site on White House Road. When I arrived I heard the singing Dickcissel, but also had trouble seeing it. After about 10 mins though two birds popped out onto a higher branch, and I actually witnessed them copulate. Very Cool! Thanks for getting the word out. Good Birding! Jason Giovannone Columbia, SC -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Robin Carter" > > I just got back from a quick trip twice around the White House Road loop. I > heard the Dickcissel as soon as I drove up to the place nearest the old > house site. I looked for it for 15 minutes, but never got a glimpse of it as > it sang from about three differemt spots. I think only one Dickcissel is > present. > Subject: Blackpoll at church; N.Waterthrush last week. From: "Alan Meijer" <alan.meijer AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:54:08 -0400 Hi all. Yesterday, as the pastor was just getting into the first of his 3 points in his sermon, I just HAD to get up and use the facilities. As I stepped out the back of the church and out the main doors, the FIRST thing I heard was a Blackpoll Warbler, one of the birds I've looked hard for this spring. Problem is, it was singing from the thick set of cedar trees near the parsonage. I could NOT get it to move into sight. sigh. I pished for awhile (the first time I've actively birded during church) but no luck. After church was out, it was pouring rain. Also, last week, I stopped near the Roanoke just south of Lewiston-Woodville. As I stepped into the trees, where a creek runs under the road, I heard a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH. After pishing for a bit, I was able to fill the tress with various birds including Prothonotarys, two B&Ws, and two Red-eyed Vireos. I was sure I'd get a redstart but no luck. Also stopped at River Park North. Surprised at the number of Yellow-rumps around still. Also had a number of B&Ws there. Saw a cormorant gulp down a huge fish. -- Alan Meijer Pantego, NC Subject: ...and a Gray-cheeked Thrush in Durham From: david.f.smith AT gsk.com Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:23:32 -0400 Following up from Harry Wilson's report of a Gray-cheeked Thrush in Zebulon yesterday, I'm happy to report that we had one (our first) in our heavily wooded yard in eastern Orange County on Saturday. It spent several minutes at our birdbath, giving us time for excellent looks and a few pictures. David and Judy Smith Durham, NC Subject: Hooded Oriole at the Salad Bar From: "Mike Tove" <mtove AT deltaforce.net> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:13:31 -0400 Greetings, I just returned from a short business trip to Cabo San Lucas. Didn't get in any real birding but I did observe a male Hooded Oriole at the buffet bar at the resort. The bird was literally helping himself to the desserts (chocolate mousse cake seemed to be a favorite). He also sampled from the fruit bar (naturally). Apart from the fact that he was a rather pleasing departure from the bevy of resident House Sparrows, I was quite astonished at how bold he was. Mike Tove Cary, NC Subject: RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) From: <scompton1251 AT charter.net> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 7:59:58 -0400 Birders, Some years I find Painted Buntings singing on my Breeding Bird Survey Route in Clarendon County,SC (coastal plain), which terminates in Summerton. Steve Compton Greenville,SC ---- Robin Carter wrote: > Painted Buntings are certainly more common in Richland County than they were > 20 years ago. The White House Road loop is a better than average place to > find Painted Buntings in the Columbia area, but they are found thoughout the > Coastal Plain part of the county in appropriate habitat. They are also > fairly common across the Congaree River, along Old State Road in Cayse > (Lexington County). > > Painted Buntings may alrady nest in the Piedmont, at Saluda Shoals Park in > Lexington County. A singing bird or two is often found in that park in June, > but I do not know of any evidence of nesting yet. This is very near the > Coastal Plain, however. When someone finds a Painted Bunting nest along the > Broad River in Fairfield County then we will be able to say that Painted > Buntings are nesting in the South Carolina Piedmont. > > Robin Carter > Columbia, SC USA > mailto:rcarter AT sc.rr.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nate Dias [mailto:offshorebirder AT yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 1:55 PM > To: CarolinaBirds > Subject: Re: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) > > > Wow - 7 Painted Buntings on the outskirts of Columbia, SC. > > That is very good to hear - such a thing would have been astounding 20 years > ago... > > What's next - breeding in the Piedmont? > > Nathan Dias - Charleston, SC > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Robin Carter > To: CarolinaBirds > Sent: Friday, May 9, 2008 1:41:59 PM > Subject: RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) > > I just got back from a quick trip twice around the White House Road loop. I > heard the Dickcissel as soon as I drove up to the place nearest the old > house site. I looked for it for 15 minutes, but never got a glimpse of it as > it sang from about three differemt spots. I think only one Dickcissel is > present. > > I got nice looks at Mississippi Kites hunting over the fields. > > Here is my complete list: > ... > > 7 Painted Bunting > 1 Dickcissel > 25 Bobolink > > ... > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Subject: Orangeburg,SC Sodfarm Sunday,5/11 From: <scompton1251 AT charter.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 20:28:16 -0700 Birders, Stopped by the Supersod Farm in Orangeburg,SC today for about one hour: lots of standing water and a few birds: Horned Lark 5 Solitary Sandpiper 3 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Greater Yellowlegs 24 Pectoral Sandpiper 8 Least Sandpiper 4 Ground Dove 1 Barn Swallows numerous, the only swallow species seen. Steve Compton Greenville,SC Subject: Caspian Tern @ Beaver Lake From: Aaron Steed <amsteed AT unca.edu> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 23:18:09 -0400 Hello Folks, I birded Beaver Lake early this afternoon (5-11-08) - the usuals were all there - Redstarts, Yellow Warblers, a multitude of Catbirds - but it was a real treat to see a Caspian Tern standing in the shallows on the Merrimon side of the lake. Happy Birding, Aaron Steed Subject: Mid Pines Road - Raleigh From: "Richard Carter" <rico AT nc.rr.com> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:50:25 -0400 In between rain showers I ventured out to Mid Pines Road in Raleigh today (Sunday). I arrived about 6:00 PM and within just a few minutes was able to locate two, possibly three, Dickcissels. The Bobolinks were also still present. I estimate a flock of about 50 birds. I also found several Eastern Kingbirds, Northern Yellowthroats, and a Yellow Warbler. Richard Carter Cary, NC Subject: shorebirds at Bucksport Sod Farm 5-11 From: "Jack" <jp5810 AT sccoast.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:19:53 -0500 Hi C'birders, After the heavy thunderstorms stopped mid morning today, I decided there may have been some migrant shorebirds grounded at the Bucksport Sod Farm in Horry County, SC Birds found were: Location: Bucksport Sod Farm Observation date: 5/11/08 Notes: After the heavy morning rain, I decided to go to Bucksport to see if there were any shorebirds brought in and there were. Number of species: 3 Black-bellied Plover 30 Killdeer 1 Solitary Sandpiper 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Jack Peachey Conway, SC Subject: Re: Probable Gray-cheeked Thrush in Zebulon, NC From: Harry Wilson <harrywilson AT earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:33:20 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Karen, we would be delighted to have you here. We will alert the chickadees to put on a good show for you! -----Original Message----- >From: Karen Bearden >Sent: May 11, 2008 9:20 PM >To: harrywilson >Subject: Re: Probable Gray-cheeked Thrush in Zebulon, NC > >Howdy! > >Cool yard bird!!! One of these days we're going to bird your famous >yard!!! > >Happy birding! Peace, Karen > Subject: Probable Gray-cheeked Thrush in Zebulon, NC From: "harrywilson" <harrywilson AT earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:03:14 -0400 Around 8:15 pm today my wife called me to listen to an unfamiliar bird call. After listening for a while, I grabbed my binoculars and headed outside. I could tell that it was calling from a gardenia just outside the room we had been in. I moved a bit to get a view and the bird flushed, fluttering into the side of the house before settling back into the gardenia. This time I could get a fairly good look, and I could see that it was a thrush with a short tail. The spotting extended about halfway down its breast. The bird then flew into some azaleas, offering a very brief view of its head before disappearing into the foliage. I was unable to get it in focus before it vanished. I came back inside and accessed the Cornell site to listen to various thrush call notes. It was not a Veery (which we have had in migration) or a Swainson's, but the call notes of both the Bicknell's and Gray-cheeked seemed close. The more we listened, the more it seemed to have been a Gray-cheeked. This would be a first for our yard and number 104 overall. Birds of the Carolinas indicates that the migrating Gray-cheeked is most often seen during May in upland hardwood forests. Since a line of storms passed through our area this afternoon, we suspect that the winds may have carried the bird eastward and eventually to our yard. Harry Wilson Zebulon, North Carolina Subject: Moore County Scissortail From: Scott Hartley <picoides AT alltel.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 20:50:37 -0400 Hey - Observed one scissor tail flycatcher today at Hobby Field near Southern Pines. Didn't have a scope but think this bird is a female. This was about 7:30 pm. I'm sure others will be checking this week and updating us on the situation. Scott Hartley Aberdeen, NC Subject: White House Rd., Richland Co., SC 5/11/08 From: "Dennis Forsythe" <dennis.forsythe AT gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 19:44:55 -0400 Hi All, I spent about 1 hr mid-day today driving SW on White House Rd., Richland Co., SC. I had a Painted Bunting singing at the strawberry farm. I had Bobolinks and the singing Dickcissel at the buff-colored grain silos just when the road towards the interstate along with a flock of Barn Swallows which contained 1 Bank and 1 Cliff Swallow. Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis M. Forsythe PhD Charleston, SC 29412 843.795.3996-home 843.953.7264-fax 843.708.1605-cell dennis.forsythe AT gmail.com Subject: Free program in Chapel Hill: Birds of Thailand From: ginger_travis AT bellsouth.net Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:29:43 +0000 For those in the neighborhood . . . BIRDS OF THAILAND Carol Woods Bird Club Presented by residents Anne and Dick Wood who recently traveled to Thailand Spectacular Pictures of Their Recent trip Monday, May 12, 2008 AT 7:15 PM Carol Woods Assembly Hall (750 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, NC) Free. Everyone is welcome. Subject: Sound Recording Workshop From: Kent Fiala <fiala AT ipass.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 13:02:34 -0400 The CBC received this news release with the comment "We're trying to fill up a few remaining spots in our annual Sound Recording Workshop--if you have an opportunity to pass this information along, that would be wonderful!" Kent Fiala Chapel Hill Township, NC _____________________ Contact: Tammy Bishop, Macaulay Library (607) 254-2198 For immediate release macaulaylibrary AT cornell.edu May 8, 2008 *Workshop Fine-Tunes the Passion for Sound */Cornell Lab of Ornithology Course Taking Registrations Now / /Ithaca, NY /­From June 7 to 14, the annual Sound Recording Workshop offered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology returns to San Francisco State University''s Sierra Nevada Field Campus in the spectacular surroundings of the eastern foothills of California's northern Sierra Nevada mountains. Participants learn state-of-the-art techniques for capturing bird sounds, guided by experts. Learn to capture the sounds of wildlife through lecture, discussion, and daily field recording sessions participants learn how to effectively handle a portable field recording system to make scientifically accurate recordings of bird vocalizations. Participants learn how to conquer wind, how a roadbed can help overcome the sound of a rushing stream, and why placing a microphone on the ground is sometimes the best strategy. There is also an introduction to the science of sound analysis which converts sound waves into visual images called spectrograms. With signal analysis it's possible to visualize a bird song note by note. The Sound Recording Workshop fee of $895 covers tuition, class materials, ground transportation, food, and lodging. A $100 deposit is requested to reserve a space, which is limited to 20 students. *Registration and payment are due by May 31.* Learn more at: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/macaulaylibrary/Contribute/soundRecordingWorkshop.html or contact Tammy Bishop at (607) 254-2198 or macaulaylibrary AT cornell.edu . *# * /The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a membership institution dedicated to interpreting and conserving the earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. Visit the Lab's web site at http://www.birds.cornell.edu ./ Subject: Chuck Will's Widow Aberdeen NC From: <ann AT triad.rr.com> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 23:24:42 -0400 Hello All, Chester and I are staying at the Hampton Inn in Aberdeen, NC. About 9:30 p.m. we were in the parking lot and heard a Chuck Will's Widow calling from a little slice of habitat between here and Wal-Mart, of all places! Best, Ann Robertson (feebly trying web-mail) Subject: Cape Fear River Kites From: "Ricky Davis" <rdnc13 AT gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 21:34:47 -0400 Hi Folks I went to the Cape Fear River area in Bladen County, from Lock No 1 to the NC 11 bridge to see if the Swallow-tailed Kites had come back this spring. I was on the bridge scanning and J.D. Davis came up to me and said he had been seeing four since Tues May 6 - they even perched in his yard one day (the yard on the river bank on the east side of the road). And sure enough, not fifteen minutes later, four got up and circled with about seven Mississippi Kites! They seemed to disperse upstream toward the Lock No 1. Surely these birds are nesting somewhere near the river in this area, since they return every year now. Also of interest was finding a singing Warbling Vireo in the trees on the bluff at the Lock No 1. This bird was noted to be moving upstream along the bank several times until out of range. Very unexpected migrant for this Coastal Plain location. Lots of Anhingas flying around, seemingly over or near almost every swampy spot in the area. Also had one Wood Stork circling, working with the thermals. And on the way home this evening, stopped by the Richardson Bridge Kite location in Johnston County, but saw no kites of any kind! Later, Ricky -- Ricky Davis Rocky Mount, NC Subject: Cox Ferry Lake Recreation Area From: "Jack" <jp5810 AT sccoast.net> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 20:30:07 -0500 Hi C'birders, I met Bill Lanham at Cox Ferry Lake Recreation Area Conway, Horry County, SC on Saturday morning and we spent over two hours touing the several trails. Here are our results. Location: Cox Ferry Lake Rec Area Observation date: 5/10/08 Notes: Birded with Bill Lanham Number of species: 28 Turkey Vulture 3 Mourning Dove 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 4 Chimney Swift 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 1 Blue Jay 5 Fish Crow 2 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 3 Brown-headed Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 3 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher 2 Northern Parula 2 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Prothonotary Warbler 2 Summer Tanager 3 Northern Cardinal 5 Blue Grosbeak 2 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird Jack Peachey Conway, SC Subject: St-flycatcher From: "Blayne Olsen" <bolsen187 AT earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 21:04:33 -0400 I saw the female at noon today and the male at 5 yesterday. Both were on the phone wires on the east side of NC207 at the end of the driveway. Blayne Blayne & Anne Olsen bolsen187 AT earthlink.net Monroe, N Subject: Olive-sided Flycatcher - Max Patch From: Ray Sharpton <sanrayel AT hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:55:11 -0400 Today while in the Max Patch area, Sandy spotted and identified an Olive-sided Flycatcher. We were only a short distance on the gravel road and stopped at the pull-off for the Robert Newton Rogers Cemetery. Sandy saw the bird on the highest and most conspicuous perch around. We observed the Flycatcher for at least ten minutes and had excellent views of all of the major field identification marks and got to watch it's feeding behavior and characteristics. We had figured on seeing this bird on our trip to Ontario next month, but were glad to have an early surprise. The only thing we missed was that this bird was not vocal and failed to offer us one of his beers. We ran into a group of birders from Haywood County and it was good to see Bob Olthoff, Tom Joyce and all the others. I hope they had as much fun as Sandy and I did. Thanks to Ed Peachy for some good tips on other bird locations. Ray and Sandy Sharpton Fletcher, NC _________________________________________________________________ Get Free (PRODUCT) RED™ Emoticons, Winks and Display Pics. http://joinred.spaces.live.com?ocid=TXT_HMTG_prodredemoticons_052008 Subject: RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) From: "Robin Carter" <rcarter AT sc.rr.com> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:43:29 -0400 Painted Buntings occur from time to time in the SC Piedmont. I am wondering when we will find a nesting population in the Piedmont. It's good that eastern Painted Buntings are doing well someplace! Robin Carter Columbia, SC USA mailto:rcarter AT sc.rr.com -----Original Message----- From: Donna Slyce [mailto:pine.siskin AT hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 5:05 PM To: Robin Carter; Nate Dias; CarolinaBirds Subject: RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) Would Painted Buntings along the Wateree/Catawba River count as Painted Buntings in the Piedmont? We almost had those last year. Well, at least, the buntings stopped by for a few days - until the feeders were empty of white millet... Donna Slyce in the community of Longtown along the Wateree River north of Ridgeway, SC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Get Free (PRODUCT) RED™ Emoticons, Winks and Display Pics. Check it out! Subject: RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) - Male and Female From: Parkin Hunter <parkinhunter AT yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 15:33:00 -0700 (PDT) The Dickcissel on Whitehouse Rd was present this morning (Saturday about 10:00). I saw the singing male and also saw a female. There were also Bobolinks in the wheat fields and probably saw a dozen Indigo Buntings. Parkin Hunter Columbia ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Subject: A couple interesting warblers From: John and Rhonda Grego <jrgrego AT pop.mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 18:27:07 -0400 I had some encouraging signs this weekend of a warbler fall-out in my backyard--some of the usual visitors--Northern Parula, American Redstart, Black-and-white, Black-throated Blue, and a couple interesting species--Yellow Warbler and Blackpoll Warbler. The wind's been so strong the past couple days though, that it's been hard to pick anything else out. I've noticed over the years that the best time for spring migrants in my yard is the second week of May, which seems to be a little later than most other local spots. And I did have an Orchard Oriole too--common elsewhere, but really hard to find in my yard. John Grego Columbia, SC Subject: RE: Dickcissel near Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) From: Donna Slyce <pine.siskin AT hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 17:05:15 -0400 Would Painted Buntings along the Wateree/Catawba River count as Painted Buntings in the Piedmont? We almost had those last year. Well, at least, the buntings stopped by for a few days - until the feeders were empty of white millet... Donna Slyce in the community of Longtown along the Wateree River north of Ridgeway, SC _________________________________________________________________ Get Free (PRODUCT) RED™ Emoticons, Winks and Display Pics. http://joinred.spaces.live.com?ocid=TXT_HMTG_prodredemoticons_052008