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25 May Gnatcatcher vs. Owl, Plus Merganser at Cochran Shoals, Cobb County [ldtp ] 25 May Report for AAS Walk at Cochran Shoals, Cobb County [ldtp ] 25 May AAS Birdwalk: Cancellation Price Park /Cobb cl [Angelia Jenkins ] 25 May Test post, please disregard [Steve Ehly ] 24 May Male Wilson's Warbler Chamblee / 5/23 p.m. [Steve Ehly ] 24 May eastern Okefenokee Swamp uplands trip by Okefenokee Bird Club [SHEILA WILLIS ] 24 May Jekyll Is. trip by Okefenokee Bird Club [SHEILA WILLIS ] 24 May Test. Just delete [Steve Holzman ] 23 May West Nile Virus study [Marianna Wilson ] 24 May Red-cockaded Woodpecker [Russ Wigh ] 24 May Reddish Egret, Wilson's Plovers, Saint Simons Island ["Robert D. Sattelmeyer" ] 24 May Black Bellied whistling ducks, Coffee county [Annette Bittaker ] 23 May Re: found banded bird [Charlie ] 23 May Re: Dougherty County Indian Lake (Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany GA) ["Donald G. Freeman" ] 23 May banded pigeon update [Angelia Jenkins ] 23 May Bartow County yesterday evening [bob zaremba ] 23 May Dougherty County Indian Lake (Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany GA) ["Donald G. Freeman" ] 22 May Mourning Warbler in Meriwether County, 22 May 2013 [Pierre Howard ] 22 May Re: found banded bird [J snarey ] 22 May Re: found banded bird [Angelia Jenkins ] 22 May found banded bird [Angelia Jenkins ] 22 May Dickcissels, Barrow County, note about directions/GPS, 5/22/13 [Carol Lambert or Jeff Sewell ] 22 May Dickcissels, Barrow County, May 22, 2013 [Carol Lambert or Jeff Sewell ] 22 May Ring-necked Duck Echols County [Charlie ] 22 May turkey nest [carolelud ] 21 May Horned Grebe - Carter's Lake - late [Joshua Spence ] 21 May Blue-winged Warblers - Murray County [Joshua Spence ] 20 May Wood Ducks, Green Herons [C VANDERSCHAAF ] 21 May WOOD DUCKS - FLOYD COUNTY [Ann Stewart ] 20 May Wash. Co. Ground Doves [mocking bird ] 20 May Connecticut Warbler, Scarlet Tanager nests, Henderson Park, DeKalb County, May 20, 2013 [Carol Lambert or Jeff Sewell ] 20 May Robins AFB Birding on May 18, 2013 [ ] 18 May Cliff Swallows on the move [Malcolm Hodges ] 20 May Re: Bobolink falls victim in Gordon county ["Eugenia R. Thompson" ] 20 May Bobolink falls victim in Gordon county [Derrick Ingle ] 19 May Bank Swallows and mergansers, Clarke Co. 5/19 [Richard Hall ] 19 May Re: 2nd Mystery Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush in Forsyth Park, Savannah [Charlie ] 19 May AAS Panola Field Trip Canceled due to weather [Phil Delestrez ] 19 May Rose-breasted Grosbeaks [Bill Schmid ] 18 May Re: 2nd Mystery Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush in Forsyth Park, Savannah [Maureen Leong-Kee ] 19 May WOOD DUCKS - FLOYD COUNTY [Ann Stewart ] 18 May Common Terns, Lake Lanier ["James F. Flynn Jr." ] 18 May Trip Report: Jr. Birders at Lake Claire Community Land Trust [Ken Boff ] 18 May My Official Winter's End & Spring/Summer Beginning [Bill Schmid ] 18 May 2nd Mystery Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush in Forsyth Park, Savannah [Maureen Leong-Kee ] 18 May South River Float Trip Rockdale/Dekalb Counties [Phil Delestrez ] 18 May Re: [-L] Sedge Wren - late [Charlie ] 17 May FOTY chimney swifts - Bartow co [Pam Potter ] 18 May Henderson Park AAS Bird Walk---Connecticut Warblers! [Ben Thesing ] 18 May Clarke Co. LAUGHING GULLS, Common Loon and Horned Grebe 5/18 [Richard Hall ] 17 May Atlanta Audubon Society Shorebird Workshop [Steve Holzman ] 17 May Kennesaw & Bartow Loop [Renee Carleton ] 17 May Brawley Mountain trail and Golden Eagle [Giff Beaton ] 17 May Sedge Wren - late [Joshua Spence ] 17 May GA Year Bird #300 [Trey Mccuen ] 17 May FW: [GABO-L] [Derrick Ingle ] 17 May Redheads at Dockery Lake, Fannin County [Charlie ] 17 May No Subject [Derrick Ingle ] 17 May Cliff Swallow Nesting Behavior [Joshua Spence ] 17 May Lesser Scaup - Murray County [Joshua Spence ] 16 May Re: Baltimore Oriole on Jekyll [Laura Smith ] 16 May Greater Scaup (possible) Bartow [Renee Carleton ] 16 May Great Blue Heron Rookery Cherokee County [Saralynn DeMarcus ] 16 May Re: Mourning Warbler at Kennesaw Mt. 5/15/2013 PHOTO [Justin Neal ] 16 May Baltimore Oriole on Jekyll [Lydia Thompson ] 16 May Bartow County Greater Scaup Cattle Egret 16 May 2013 ["Rebecca E. Byrd" ] 16 May Flicker Nest Rescue in DeKalb County [Marian Gordin ] 16 May Help with Mystery Bird (or Animal) Call in Clayton County [ldtp ] 16 May Mourning Warbler at Kennesaw- Not found, Thursday AM [Pierre Howard ] 16 May flock of shorebirds - Cherokee Co. [Vicki DeLoach ] 15 May AWBB The Babe-breasted Warblers bird the Coast [Lydia Thompson ] 15 May Bird ID help! ["Donald G. Freeman" ] 15 May Mourning Warbler? [Renee Carleton ] 15 May Re: Mourning Warbler at Kennesaw Mt. 5/15/2013 PHOTO [Angelia Jenkins ] 15 May Mourning Warbler at Kennesaw Mt. 5/15/2013 PHOTO [Ben Thesing ] 15 May Bird Rescue-Rockdale and Fulton Counties [Steve Slayton ] Subject: Gnatcatcher vs. Owl, Plus Merganser at Cochran Shoals, Cobb County From: ldtp <ldtp AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 09:23:26 -0700 I spent several additional hours at Cochran Shoals (on the Chattahoochee River in Cobb County) after the AAS birdwalk on May 23. The highlight was a Barred Owl perched fairly low in a tree in the boardwalk wetlands. I spent about a half-hour watching him before he hooted a couple of times and flew off into deeper cover. Most of the time he was snoozing, but he also groomed around his talons once and did a kind of mantling maneuver that showed off his wings. He was attacked periodically by an extremely fast and fearless Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. No doubt it was a parent bird (or both parents alternating), since Gnatcatchers regularly nest in the area. The five or six attacks were really impressive, probably each under a minute but all including two or three actual body-smacks into the owl, as well as some general dive-bombing for good measure. No energy went to vocalizing. Fortunately the owl remained serenely indifferent --- I did NOT want to see him have a sudden snack. A guy showed me what he thought might be a loon in the wetlands just a little north of the beaver dam. It turned out to be a female Hooded Merganser. He said he's watched her there several times recently. I glimpsed a turtle and had good views of minnows and small fish, a Rat Snake, a Queen Snake, two Midland Watersnakes, six Five-lined Skinks, a Red Admiral Butterfly, six Baltimores, and assorted dragonflies I'm still working on identifying. Heard a couple of Green Frogs. Liz Hornsby Chamblee/Brookhaven area, DeKalb County (north metro Atlanta) You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Report for AAS Walk at Cochran Shoals, Cobb County From: ldtp <ldtp AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 08:40:10 -0700 Seven birders gathered at Cochran Shoals on the Chattahoochee River in Cobb County for an Atlanta Audubon Society birdwalk on May 23. We had 31 species, plus 1 unknown. Highlights included hearing and seeing a Yellow-Throated Vireo on the main trail; watching from the boardwalk as a Yellow-crowned Night Heron struggled to swallow an enormous crawfish and a mother Mallard and her ducklings went for a swim; and seeing a Green Heron fly over the marsh trail. We also had closer than average views of Rough-winged Swallows at the west end of the marsh trail. One Ruby-throated Hummingbird and one Red-headed Woodpecker. The river was very high, even covering the "Elephant Rocks," so there was no sign of sandpipers or muskrats. No wading Great Blue Herons, but several flew by. Cochran Shoals May 23, 2013 7:30 - 10:00 AM Mostly sunny Temperatures above average River extremely high and fast 31 species, plus 1 unknown. Canada Goose 10 Mallard 12 Great Blue Heron 5 Green Heron 1 Yellow-crowned Night Heron 1 hawk sp. 1 (possibly a Broad-wing) Mourning Dove 1 Chimney Swift 15 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 4 Northern Flicker 1 White-eyed Vireo 2 (heard only) Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 3 (heard only) Blue Jay 2 American Crow 7 Fish Crow 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 10 Carolina Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 7 Brown-headed Nuthatch 1 (heard only) Carolina Wren 7 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5 Cedar Waxwings 8 Common Yellowthroat 1 (heard only) Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 1 (heard only) Northern Cardinal 10 Indigo Bunting 3 Red-winged Blackbird 4 American Goldfinch 3. Liz Hornsby Chamblee/Brookhaven area, DeKalb County (north metro Atlanta) You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: AAS Birdwalk: Cancellation Price Park /Cobb cl From: Angelia Jenkins <angeliabeth AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 09:49:17 -0400 The Sunday 8 am birdwalk AT Price park tomorrow 5/26 in Kennesaw has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Thanks, Angie Jenkins Kennesaw, Ga You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Test post, please disregard From: Steve Ehly <steveehly AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 05:46:19 -0700 Please disregard this post.  It is a test. Thanks, Steve Ehly You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Male Wilson's Warbler Chamblee / 5/23 p.m. From: Steve Ehly <steveehly AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:56 -0700 What a treat last evening as Joan and I sat out on the deck after dinner. Around 7:00 p.m. a bright yellow flash in the birdbath caught my eye. It was less than 30' away and I raised up the binocs to take a closer look. Warbler bill, bright yellow all underneath with light olive on the back, plain dark tail and wings, yellow face and distinct dark (blackish) cap on the head. A male Wilson's Warbler! While surprising to see (a first in our backyard), he made several trips to the nearby Hibiscus and back to the birdbath. Got several good looks, and then he moved on. Beautiful sight!   Steve Ehly & Joan Ana-Leo Chamblee, GA 30341 You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: eastern Okefenokee Swamp uplands trip by Okefenokee Bird Club From: SHEILA WILLIS <swillis AT MEDIASTREAMUS.NET> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:19:45 -0400 Hey folks, Hope you are fine. Here's another short report on the Okefenokee Bird Club's trip to the eastern Okefenokee Swamp (Charlton Co.). Participants were myself (Ware Co.), Carol Wyatt (Amelia Is., FL), & for part of the morning, Cindy McIntyre (Charlton Co.). The trip was taken on 5/18 under partly cloudy skies and rising humidity as the noon hour approached. The special birding activity started from the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge's Visitor Center and went as a car caravan w/ stops to the Pay Station on the entrance road and along the Swamp Island Drive. Veteran world birder Carol Wyatt had gotten the ball rolling earlier with her coming across both a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER and a PILEATED WOODPECKER as she drove down the entrance road to the Visitor Center. Another RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen flying to the pines around the center as the group waited to start their morning's search. Carol also recorded a NORTHERN PARULA here. The Pay Station's RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER colony was the first stop but none of these birds cooperated there. Also, the EASTERN SCREECH-OWL that is currently using the RCWO tree that has its cavity facing the road & lies just to the east of the main colony area did not turn up either. But, 2 NORTHERN BOBWHITEs were heard calling and a pair of RED-HEADED WOODPECKERs were active in the area. This species proved to be the most common woodpecker type that day. Cindy called attention to the notes of the EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE and the flyover of several GREAT EGRETs. The sounds of CAROLINA WREN, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER, PINE WARBLER, & EASTERN KINGBIRD were the morning chorus. Entering the Swamp Island Drive, the birders made a stop near the Canal Digger's Trailhead where a beautiful RED RAT SNAKE was resting on the paved road. An EASTERN TOWHEE called its "tee" notes. The first real stop after that was at the Borrow Pit RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER colony. Because the 2011 wildfires burned away much vegetation to the west of that spot, it was now possible to spot a WOOD STORK perched in a tree in the far distance, indicating how near the actual swamp was there. NORTHERN BOBWHITE, EASTERN KINGBIRD, COMMON NIGHTHAWK were heard. The mother AMERICAN ALLIGATOR in the pit swam near while 3 young from last year's brood sunned on the opposite banks or hid in the water. The short Upland Discovery Trail next to the pit was walked in hopes of seeing the EASTERN SCREECH-OWL known to be using an older RCWO cavity at the bend of the trail south, but it was apparently nap time for the little owl. Three more NORTHERN BOBWHITEs called as did a BROWN THRASHER among others. On the return trip later in the day, a BACHMAN'S SPARROW was heard there too. A little farther down the road it appeared that 2 possible BACHMAN'S SPARROWs quickly dropped into the Saw Palmetto when the cars approached. An EASTERN KINGBIRD perched high on a burned, dead tree and 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERs were heard. Around the bend, a male BLUE GROSBEAK was seen & heard singing in opposition to another hidden across the road. With the fires & tree removal along the drive, this species is being found more on the refuge in this area. At this spot, 2 BACHMAN'S SPARROWs called as well. Cindy had to leave the group after that to check on a nesting SOFTSHELL TURTLE near the Chesser Island Homestead but when she drove back by, she mentioned that she had seen a BARRED OWL being mobbed by smaller birds just e. of that island. She also added RED-TAILED HAWK to the list. Soon the group came onto the one-way loop that goes around Chesser Island. There, a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK called near the homestead, a female WILD TURKEY scooted up a grassy mound past the closed Chesser Island Boardwalk Parking Lot, more BACHMAN'S SPARROWs sang, a PILEATED WOODPECKER flew by close to another RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, a BLUE GROSBEAK called, and a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT gave its "witchity-witchity-witchity" phrase in one spot but another gave a different version elsewhere. Note, the Chesser Island Boardwalk, which was destroyed in the 2011 wildfires, is being rebuilt & is expected to open again in Aug. of this year. Back on the two-way section, the birders took a pause at the junction with the Chesser Island Road which leads east from the island. This eastern end of the long ditch was a hot spot of sorts as a family of BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCHes and a PINE WARBLER fed in the trees. Yet another RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen in motion but, as usual for that morning, the persistently-singing BACHMAN'S SPARROW just would not come into view. The last stop of the period was at an open view of the old burned areas where TURKEY VULTUREs, a BLACK VULTURE, & WOOD STORKs were seen flying westward and Carol got a brief glimpse of a MISSISSIPPI KITE passing through. One TURKEY VULTURE, however, showed its grace when it slowly circled around and around low over the tree tops in a tight spiral as the bird gradually went higher. The icing on the cake was a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE that passed by and disappeared from view on its way to parts unknown. Other treasures were found along the drive in the form of beautiful native orchids such Grass Pink Orchid, Rose Pogonia, & Spreading Pogonia. Pictures were taken of Dwarf Butterwort, Orange Candyroot, Skullcap, Daisy Fleabane, blooming Gallberry, & others. Additionally, several types of Bladderwort & Hooded Pitcher Plant shared space with Yellow Colic Root, Hatpins, Pickerelweed, Water Lily, Bull Nettle, White-topped Aster, Blue Hearts, Evening Primrose, & White Bay. The entrance road contributed Gopher Bush & White Arum. On the ride through the Charlton County Countryside along Prospect Rd, Sardis Rd, Spanish Creek Rd, & Old Dixie Hwy enroute home, I was shocked to come upon a female RING-NECKED PHEASANT squatting in the sand of Prospect Rd s. of private Claude Rd. I backed up to get a picture, but it quickly ran down the road & went into the woods. A local farmer is raising this species for hunting a few miles from this spot and so this is either an escape from that group or another farmer is doing the same here. I was delighted to see a male NORTHERN BOBWHITE run across the road some miles north and a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK fly from its low perch over a damp clear-cut. Some of the flowers I found outside the refuge included Sandhill Milkweed, Green-eyes, Lizard's Tail, lots of patches of bright yellow Calliopsis, Moss Verbena, White-topped Sedge, Red Rattlebox, Elderberry, and a white Morning Glory to name just a few. The club's total for the morning ONWR excursion was 33 species & the list included the following: NORTHERN BOBWHITE: 8 WILD TURKEY: 1 WOOD STORK: 3 GREAT EGRET: 4 BLACK VULTURE: 1 TURKEY VULTURE: 5 SWALLOW-TAILED KITE: 1 MISSISSIPPI KITE: 1 RED-SHOULDERED HAWK: 2 RED-TAILED HAWK: 1 BARRED OWL: 1 COMMON NIGHTHAWK: 1 RED-HEADED WOODPECKER: 10 RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER: 3 PILEATED WOODPECKER: 2 EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE: 1 GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER: 6 EASTERN KINGBIRD: 3 AMERICAN CROW: 1 TUFTED TITMOUSE: 2 BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCH: 3 CAROLINA WREN: 3 BLUE-GREY GNATCATCHER: 1 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD: 4 BROWN THRASHER: 1 COMMON YELLOWTHROAT: 3 NORTHERN PARULA: 1 PINE WARBLER: 3 EASTERN TOWHEE: 3 BACHMAN'S SPARROW: 8 w/ poss. 3 more seen as hid NORTHERN CARDINAL: 2 BLUE GROSBEAK: 5 COMMON GRACKLE: 1 Take care. Sincerely, Sheila Willis Native American-Naturalist Talks & Tours Waycross, Ware Co., GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Jekyll Is. trip by Okefenokee Bird Club From: SHEILA WILLIS <swillis AT MEDIASTREAMUS.NET> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:19:24 -0400 Hey folks, Hope you are fine. Here is a short account of the Okefenokee Bird Club's recent trip to Jekyll Island (Glynn Co.). Participants were myself (Ware Co.) & Carol Wyatt (Amelia Is., FL). On 5/11 Jekyll Island in Glynn Co. was the site of a morning visit where several scenes of courtship & the feeding of young were seen besides the usual routine flights & feeding episodes. Tides were high as were temperatures. Additionally, the island was overflowing with visitors at every conceivable spot due to assorted local events. The best bird at the Welcome Center on the Jekyll Island Causeway was a WHIMBREL that was preening on the very small area of exposed mud. Around it were a few peeps that included about 20 WESTERN SANDPIPERs. Joining them were a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER in breeding plumage and a WILLET that soon flew off. The shrubs around the Wildlife Tower attracted female COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and AMERICAN REDSTART. The Campground Sanctuary was, as always, a pleasant stop and the most active. A young NORTHERN CARDINAL was fed by its mother while 2 males fought. A male & female RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD fueled themselves at separate feeders & a third would periodically chase them off, whizzing close over the heads of the birders. Two female BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDs calmly fed while a male did his display. The drip pipe near the swing & the water fountain attracted a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER & a NORTHERN PARULA. A male AMERICAN REDSTART flitted in the surrounding vegetation as it hunted bugs. More color was added by the presence of a female SUMMER TANAGER, female PAINTED BUNTING, & male HOUSE FINCH. A male DOWNY WOODPECKER pecked away in plain sight but a GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER was only heard. Others there were BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE, COMMON GRACKLE, MOURNING DOVE, TUFTED TITMOUSE, & CAROLINA CHICKADEE. Several Picnic Areas were visited around the island with the BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE being the most common bird at those spots. Bird Island could be seen from Clam Creek P.A. with about 20 BROWN PELICANs and a few FORESTER'S & LEAST TERNs resting or flying there while DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTs parked themselves on channel markers. At the St. Andrews P.A. a few of the warbler species seen earlier turned up again and a BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN surfaced offshore. At Tidelands Nature Center area, the feeders were empty so the only highlight from the vicinity turned out to be a OSPREY sitting on its platform nest. A pretty, blooming Coral Bean flower was found too. Only the western end of the Amphitheater Pond was visited. Humidity at that time was exceedingly high plus the place was almost empty and sadly, quiet. However, 24 WOOD STORKs were crowded into one tree and in another 3 lovely pink ROSEATE SPOONBILLs preened. A stop along the wooded trail allowed a chance to watch a CAROLINA CHICKADEE family move around & the young do the wing-quiver while elsewhere a male COMMON YELLOWTHROAT hurried away. The total number of species found by the club from the Causeway & Island was 34 and the list is as follows: WOOD STORK: 24 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT: 4 BROWN PELICAN: 24 GREAT EGRET: 2 ROSEATE SPOONBILL: 3 TURKEY VULTURE: 6 OSPREY: 1 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER: 1 WILLET: 1 WHIMBREL: 1 WESTERN SANDPIPER: ~20 LAUGHING GULL: LEAST TERN: 2 FORSTER'S TERN: 3 MOURNING DOVE: 4 RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD: 3 RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER: 1 DOWNY WOODPECKER: 1 GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER: 2 FISH CROW: 1 CAROLINA CHICKADEE: 4 TUFTED TITMOUSE: 1 CAROLINA WREN: 1 COMMON YELLOWTHROAT: 2 AMERICAN REDSTART: 2 NORTHERN PARULA: 3 YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER: 2 SUMMER TANAGER: 1 NORTHERN CARDINAL: 4 PAINTED BUNTING: 1 COMMON GRACKLE: 2 BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE: 28 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD: 3 HOUSE FINCH: 1 Take care. Sincerely, Sheila Willis Native American-Naturalist Talks & Tours Waycross, Ware Co., GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Test. Just delete From: Steve Holzman <steve_holzman AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:18:41 -0400 Steve Holzman North High Shoals, GA (sent via phone) You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: West Nile Virus study From: Marianna Wilson <ruddyducks1 AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 23:30:43 -0400 Spring Brings Flowers and the Dreaded Mosquito: West Nile Virus Hotlines are Open to Receive Dead Bird Reports As the West Nile Virus season blooms, in addition to calling your state hotline (Georgia does not have one), consider also reporting your sick/dead bird sightings to the Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER), www.wher.org. Yea, we recognize it is an extra step for you, but your observation is that important. By entering your report into WHER, it will reach a wider audience. In almost near real-time, (yup, it is that fast), it becomes available to anyone who is interested or needs this information (e.g. wildlife disease specialists, wildlife rehabilitators, public health officials, domestic animal veterinarians, wildlife state agencies, and concerned citizens). We are all about sharing the information to help increase awareness and gain a better understanding of wildlife health events. Contribute to a healthy ecosystem that is inhabited by healthy, happy people and animals! Create your WHER account today! Rosmarie Kelly, PhD MPH Public Health Entomologist Vector-Borne & Zoonotic Diseases Team Acute Disease Epidemiology Section Georgia Department of Public Health 2 Peachtree St, NW Suite 14-204 Atlanta, GA 30303 http://health.state.ga.us/epi/zvbd/index.asp http://www.GAmosquito.org Join the new Georgia Mosquito Control Association (GMCA) group on Facebook or follow us on Twitter at GAmosquito! Phone: 404-657-2912 Fax: 770-344-3029 or 404-656-4278 Cell: 404-408-1207 rmkelly AT dhr.state.ga.us rpk8 AT cdc.gov submitted by Marianna Wilson, DeKalb Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Red-cockaded Woodpecker From: Russ Wigh <rdwigh AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 10:09:47 -0400 I spent a couple of very interesting hours following Larry Carlile at Ft. Stewart yesterday going after a photograph of Red-cockaded Woodpecker. Larry was banding a newly hatched chick. Getting a good shot of these guys 20 ft up is more difficult than I had imagined. You have to keep a distance and the bird has to cooperate by staying at the nest hole. I put together a short story of the trip. http://www.flickr.com/photos/52406759 AT N06/sets/72157633643221238/ Russ Wigh Skidaway Island, Chatham County, GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Reddish Egret, Wilson's Plovers, Saint Simons Island From: "Robert D. Sattelmeyer" <rsattelm AT GSU.EDU> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 13:47:28 +0000 There is a Reddish Egret frequenting Bloody Marsh on St Simons, typically in an open patch of salt pan with standing water near the intersection of Ocean Rd and 9th St. on East Beach. Appears to be a first year dark morph. Has been observed for a couple weeks now at this location. Also, this morning while doing one of my ISS shore bird surveys on East Beach, I counted 7 Wilson's Plovers between the Coast Guard Station and Gould's Inlet, despite the presence of many people and dogs. That's a very high count for this area, especially given the nearly constant disturbance. Bob Sattelmeyer St Simons/Atlanta You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Black Bellied whistling ducks, Coffee county From: Annette Bittaker <bittaker AT WINDSTREAM.NET> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 06:47:19 -0400 Three black bellied whistling ducks were in the grass and on one of the neighborhood ponds Yesterday. They were basically unafraid and neighborhood noises did not cause them to fly as cars passed and dogs went out for morning runs. Have also had Bob White quail in the yard several times this week. Those, regular sightings of summer tanagers, and a wood duck on the box again make being home nice after a while in Europe. Annette Bittaker, Douglas, Coffee county You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: found banded bird From: Charlie <cmmbirds AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:05:45 -0700 http://www.homingpigeon.com/BandList.html ________________________________ From: J snarey To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [GABO-L] found banded bird The bird is wearing a racing pigeon band, so it is probably a homing pigeon (i.e., selectively breed rock pigeon). The letters "AU" stand for the American racing pigeon Union. The date indicates that it was born and banded in 2012. It may have been injured while on a training flight or a race. It is possible to contact the AU via the internet and trace the bird to its home loft. But perhaps the best thing your father could do for the bird is to place it in a safe space (e.g., inside of a garage or on a screened porch) and give it grain (e.g., dried peas, popcorn, maple peas, millet, etc.) and fresh water. The bird is likely to eventually recover over the course of a couple of weeks and then be able to return to his or her home loft under his own power. > Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:17 -0400 > From: angeliabeth AT GMAIL.COM > Subject: [GABO-L] found banded bird > To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > > Hello GABO, > > Trying to reach BANDERS. > > > > My dad just called me from Knoxville, TN. He has a bird w/ a band in his > driveway, been there for 24 hrs and he says it seems stunned or something. > Sounds like a Eurasian Collared Dove to me, from the description he gave me. > He gave it water and it has been walking around outside the house. > > > > He says the ban is about a quarter inch in size and is whitish/ clear and on > the right ankle. > > The bird is just hanging out at his back door steps and he did not have any > problem picking it up. > > The band code is AU2012 CHT 136 > > He says the band is held together with a bluish looking attachment. > > > > He brought the bird inside and called me, so if any of the banders in GA > know this bird or would pass on advice for me to pass along, I will be happy > to do that! > > > > Thanks so much! > Angie Jenkins > > Kennesaw, GA > > You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. > Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: > http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. > > Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu > > To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to > http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html > > To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Dougherty County Indian Lake (Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany GA) From: "Donald G. Freeman" <d73freeman AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:04:35 -0400 That isn't the biggest stand of pines I have ever seen. I would say 25 feet maybe. About those Hairy pics. That email got away from me before I was able to type, "I am not a Hairy Woodpecker expert." I've never gotten a good look at confirmed birds before. I'll just say this, these woodpeckers were acting "weird." I watched them chasing each other around and around. I've never seen Downy's do that but, hey, I never saw a Green Heron stretching his neck up a tree either. Once I started examining the pictures I started thinking that red patch on the nape was too large and not quite right for what I expected out of a Downy. I don't have any great bill pictures but in the ones where I get a bit of profile it does look substantial. All that being said, it's a common bird but nobody reports them. There are only three reports on ebird from Dougherty County. It's like one a year. So does that make them rare or nobody wants to take the time to try and verify one? On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Derrick Ingle wrote: > Happens to the best , like I said though, great pics. The hairy pic is > cool, and I don’t know that ive ever seen a green heron in a tree like that > . how hight up was it?**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Donald G. Freeman [mailto:d73freeman AT gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:34 PM > *To:* Derrick Ingle > *Subject:* Re: [GABO-L] Dougherty County Indian Lake (Marine Corps > Logistics Base Albany GA)**** > > ** ** > > Another guy just commented on Flickr! I'm flummoxed. I have never seen > a Green Heron extend his neck like that. It almost looks like his height > has tripled. In other, worse, photos I took he really has his crest > extended that make look like Cassowary or something. Its very radical. I > have never seen them do anything other than sit there compressed. After > checking Google images I see images with both the neck extended and the > crest raised. Certainly not in my guide books. So, I'm a victim here :d. > **** > > ** ** > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Derrick Ingle > wrote:**** > > Is that a tri colored or a green heron...? Looks like a green. > Great pics though.**** > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Georgia Birders Online [mailto:GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of > Donald G. Freeman > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:17 PM > To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: [GABO-L] Dougherty County Indian Lake (Marine Corps Logistics Base > Albany GA) > > Hi all, > > I had two unusual sightings this morning at the boardwalk on the lake. The > first was a Tricolored Heron.**** > > Tri-colored Heron **** > > > > The second sighting was two, possibly three Hairy Woodpeckers.**** > > Hairy Woodpeckers > > You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. > Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: > http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. > > Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu > > To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to > http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html > > To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU*** > * > > ** ** > You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: banded pigeon update From: Angelia Jenkins <angeliabeth AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:28:01 -0400 Thanks everyone your help with the banded pigeon. We found the owner in Chattanooga, TN. The birds were released in Ohio and were trying to fly around a storm. This one came down to rest probably and has been enjoying food and shelter with my dad. Just out of curiosity, I asked the species of the bird and he called it a "little blue bars". I am not a fan of racing pigeons, but I am glad at least that this female blue bars did not fall prey to a cat while it was taking a break from its journey. The stories that birds could tell us if only they could. Thanks, Angie Jenkins Kennesaw, GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Bartow County yesterday evening From: bob zaremba <bobzarem AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:30:50 -0400 I made a run up to Bartow County to see what might be around the sod farms and the Taff Road ponds. Pretty quiet night overall. I did find one Scissor-tailed Flycatcher at Sam Smith park. The bird was on the far side of the sod and was catching insects from the ground. I also flushed a pair of Northern Bobwhite while hearing one more in the area. I went by Brandon Farm and Taff roads next. No Dickcissel but lots of the expected birds, Grasshopper Sparrows, Blue Grosbeaks, Orchard Orioles, Indigo Buntings, Eastern Meadowlarks and Eastern Kingbird. The scaup was still on the small pond near along Brandon Farm and there were a few Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers along with a Blue-winged Teal. Nothing of note from the other sod farm areas. I ended the night by driving down Hardin Bridge road. No Least Bitterns in the marsh but I did hear a very distant Dickcissel further past the marsh and there were numerous meadowlarks, buntings, orchard orioles, grasshopper and field sparrows and Blue Grosbeaks. It turned out to be a really nice night. Bob Zaremba Marietta, GA 30064 You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Dougherty County Indian Lake (Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany GA) From: "Donald G. Freeman" <d73freeman AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:17:12 -0400 Hi all, I had two unusual sightings this morning at the boardwalk on the lake. The first was a Tricolored Heron. Tri-colored Heron The second sighting was two, possibly three Hairy Woodpeckers. Hairy Woodpeckers You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Mourning Warbler in Meriwether County, 22 May 2013 From: Pierre Howard <h_pierre AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:30:53 -0400 To GABO: I had a wonderful surprise today when I stopped at about 4 pm in western Meriwether County along Stovall Road near the Troup County line to "take a break." I heard the exuberant song of a Mourning Warbler about 30 yards in front of me, coming from a hidden perch in a dense wood line. It was singing the song phonetically described by David Sibley as "Churree, chrruee, chrruee, turi, turi." To my ear, it sounds like "Tree, tree, tree, chorry, chorry," but at any rate, I heard the song about 40 times before the bird flew across the road. As it flew, I could see the egg-yolk yellow breast and greenish back, as well as the gray head. I was at such an angle that I couldn't see the black bib as it flew. The bird lit briefly in a small tree across the road from me, and I tried to snap a photo with my macro lens, but I got nothing. The bird then flew straight to dense cover on the other side of the road and went silent. The bird was on private property, but the part I was on belongs to the State of Georgia (right-of-way)! I doubt that it's chaseable, but it was a cool bird. Pierre Howard Atlanta, Fulton County You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: found banded bird From: J snarey <jsnarey AT LIVE.COM> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 20:16:17 -0400 The bird is wearing a racing pigeon band, so it is probably a homing pigeon (i.e., selectively breed rock pigeon). The letters "AU" stand for the American racing pigeon Union. The date indicates that it was born and banded in 2012. It may have been injured while on a training flight or a race. It is possible to contact the AU via the internet and trace the bird to its home loft. But perhaps the best thing your father could do for the bird is to place it in a safe space (e.g., inside of a garage or on a screened porch) and give it grain (e.g., dried peas, popcorn, maple peas, millet, etc.) and fresh water. The bird is likely to eventually recover over the course of a couple of weeks and then be able to return to his or her home loft under his own power. > Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:17 -0400 > From: angeliabeth AT GMAIL.COM > Subject: [GABO-L] found banded bird > To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > > Hello GABO, > > Trying to reach BANDERS. > > > > My dad just called me from Knoxville, TN. He has a bird w/ a band in his > driveway, been there for 24 hrs and he says it seems stunned or something. > Sounds like a Eurasian Collared Dove to me, from the description he gave me. > He gave it water and it has been walking around outside the house. > > > > He says the ban is about a quarter inch in size and is whitish/ clear and on > the right ankle. > > The bird is just hanging out at his back door steps and he did not have any > problem picking it up. > > The band code is AU2012 CHT 136 > > He says the band is held together with a bluish looking attachment. > > > > He brought the bird inside and called me, so if any of the banders in GA > know this bird or would pass on advice for me to pass along, I will be happy > to do that! > > > > Thanks so much! > Angie Jenkins > > Kennesaw, GA > > You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. > Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: > http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. > > Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu > > To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to > http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html > > To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: found banded bird From: Angelia Jenkins <angeliabeth AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 20:36:30 -0400 Thanks everyone! I knew someone on this list serve would have helpful advice even though technically the bird in TN. I also wanted to make sure to get the bird assistance from a rehabber up there if so needed. I will pass along the info. I asked him if the wings looked a little off kilter or any visible damage and he said it looked fine but that there was bad weather recently so maybe it was just caught up in all of that. Maybe this will give him a little excitement for the week. He told me that the bird had the black collar around the back of the neck but the head color did sound like a rock pigeon, black eyes, light gray body with black wing tips, pink legs. Thanks again, Angie Jenkins Kennesaw, GA From: J snarey [mailto:jsnarey AT live.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:16 PM To: Angelia Jenkins; GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: RE(2): [GABO-L] found banded bird The bird is wearing a racing pigeon band, so it is probably a homing pigeon (i.e., selectively breed rock pigeon). The letters "AU" stand for the American racing pigeon Union. The date indicates that it was born and banded in 2012. It may have been injured while on a training flight or a race. It is possible to contact the AU via the internet and trace the bird to its home loft. But perhaps the best thing your father could do for the bird is to place it in a safe space (e.g., inside of a garage or on a screened porch) and give it grain (e.g., dried peas, popcorn, maple peas, millet, etc.) and fresh water. The bird is likely to eventually recover over the course of a couple of weeks and then be able to return to his or her home loft under his own power. > Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:17 -0400 > From: angeliabeth AT GMAIL.COM > Subject: [GABO-L] found banded bird > To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > > Hello GABO, > > Trying to reach BANDERS. > > > > My dad just called me from Knoxville, TN. He has a bird w/ a band in his > driveway, been there for 24 hrs and he says it seems stunned or something. > Sounds like a Eurasian Collared Dove to me, from the description he gave me. > He gave it water and it has been walking around outside the house. > > > > He says the ban is about a quarter inch in size and is whitish/ clear and on > the right ankle. > > The bird is just hanging out at his back door steps and he did not have any > problem picking it up. > > The band code is AU2012 CHT 136 > > He says the band is held together with a bluish looking attachment. > > > > He brought the bird inside and called me, so if any of the banders in GA > know this bird or would pass on advice for me to pass along, I will be happy > to do that! > > > > Thanks so much! > Angie Jenkins > > Kennesaw, GA > > You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. > Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: > http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. > > Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu > > To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to > http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html > > To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: found banded bird From: Angelia Jenkins <angeliabeth AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:17 -0400 Hello GABO, Trying to reach BANDERS. My dad just called me from Knoxville, TN. He has a bird w/ a band in his driveway, been there for 24 hrs and he says it seems stunned or something. Sounds like a Eurasian Collared Dove to me, from the description he gave me. He gave it water and it has been walking around outside the house. He says the ban is about a quarter inch in size and is whitish/ clear and on the right ankle. The bird is just hanging out at his back door steps and he did not have any problem picking it up. The band code is AU2012 CHT 136 He says the band is held together with a bluish looking attachment. He brought the bird inside and called me, so if any of the banders in GA know this bird or would pass on advice for me to pass along, I will be happy to do that! Thanks so much! Angie Jenkins Kennesaw, GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Dickcissels, Barrow County, note about directions/GPS, 5/22/13 From: Carol Lambert or Jeff Sewell <lambertsewell AT ATT.NET> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:34:35 -0700 For  those of you that get eBird Alerts, I have noticed that if you click on the map on the eBird message the green arrow showing where the location is, is about two miles south southwest of the true location.  Use the coordinates I gave in the body of the message for the accurate location.   If anybody knows why this happened, please let me know.   Jeff Sewell GOS Rare Bird Alert 770-493-8862 Tucker, DeKalb Co., GA lambertsewell AT att.net You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Dickcissels, Barrow County, May 22, 2013 From: Carol Lambert or Jeff Sewell <lambertsewell AT ATT.NET> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:25:45 -0700 Two Dickcissels. See below. On one of the Google maps, Bethlehem Rd. is also called "South 2nd Street/Statham Road."   Jeff Sewell   GOS Rare Bird Alert 770-493-8862 Tucker, DeKalb Co., GA lambertsewell AT att.net Barrow County, Barrow, US-GA May 22, 2013 1:23 PM - 2:08 PM Protocol: Traveling 5.0 mile(s) Comments:      Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3 23 species Turkey Vulture  1 Red-tailed Hawk  1 Mourning Dove  2 Chimney Swift  3 Red-bellied Woodpecker  1 White-eyed Vireo  2 Blue Jay  1 American Crow  3 Barn Swallow  2 Tufted Titmouse  1 Carolina Wren  1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  2 Eastern Bluebird  1 American Robin  1 Northern Mockingbird  1 Common Yellowthroat  2 Pine Warbler  1 Eastern Towhee  1 Northern Cardinal  1 Blue Grosbeak  2 Indigo Bunting  4 Dickcissel  2     Two singing males. I first heard one, put the scope on him, then realized another was answering him further out in the field. The yellow breast and face set off by the black "V" on the upper chest was quite clear. This field is in the southeast corner of the intersection of Ga Highway 316 (US 29), also called University Parkway, and Bethlehem Road in eastern Barrow County. You can pull off of Bethlehem Road at North 33.95427 West -83.60709. Look to the east. A US Army Reserve Training Center is across Bethlehem Road from this position. Eastern Meadowlark  2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14208533 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Ring-necked Duck Echols County From: Charlie <cmmbirds AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:45:48 -0700 Hi folks, Today I conducted the "Tarver" Breeding Bird Survey Route, which starts on the GA/FL line and goes almost due north through Clinch and Echols Counties in Georgia. On stop 31, which is in Echols, just before entering Clinch, I saw a nice male Ring-necked Duck in a tiny pond by the west side of Raulerston Road. The location is on map 68 of your Delorme Gazateer, box C3, in between the booming metropoliti of Bamburg and Haylow (i.e. just south of SR 187). For those real techies, you can get GPS coordinates by driving there using a map, and checking your own GPS unit. lol. I love conducting BBS routes! I never know what I'll see - birds and otherwise. Today I had a Swallow-tailed Kite fly about 10' over my head! I also nearly soiled myself when a small covey of Northern Bobwhite exploded about 15 feet away from me after I'd been driven up, stopped the car, gotten out, checked weather and time and had been standing quietly for 2 minutes. I guess they just couldn't wait any longer. I bet one of them scratched a message in the dirt to the others: "Hey, watch what this guy does when we take off". I also heard lots of frogs (who doesn't love a Pig Frog at 6am?) and turtles. If you can bird well by ear, please, please please consider adopting a Breeding Bird Survey Route. This is one of the best bird monitoring efforts in North America, and will be even better if we can get more routes covered. Last year only about 2/3 of Georgia's routes got covered. More information can be found at: https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/index.cfm?CFID=11696738&CFTOKEN=15644888 Charlie Muise You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: turkey nest From: carolelud <carolelud AT AOL.COM> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 07:09:41 -0400 While bush-hogging an overgrown field yesterday, I startled a turkey from Sweet Gum scrub. An my next loop, I stopped, looked under the bush and found 8 eggs. As quietly as I could on a noisy tractor, I went away and left her the remainder of the field to raise her babies. Carole Ludwig, Oconee County, Watkinsville. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Horned Grebe - Carter's Lake - late From: Joshua Spence <spencejoshua AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 18:20:36 -0400 Derrick Ingle and I observed a beautiful HORNED GREBE in breeding plumage at the Carter's Lake reregulation pool, Saturday morning, May 18th. This is probably a new late date for the Ridge and Valley/Mountain region of GA. The Annotated Checklist has April 15th listed and a search on eBird turned up nothing for the month of May in north GA. This bird was observed from the HWY 136 bridge. Other highlights were a pair of YELLOW WARBLERS near the Powerhouse boatramp and a singing PROTHONOTARY WARBLER south of the Hwy 136 Bridge. Joshua Spence, Murray County You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Blue-winged Warblers - Murray County From: Joshua Spence <spencejoshua AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 17:45:50 -0400 I hiked about 2.6 miles through the Coosawattee WMA in Murray County this morning. I observed at least six singing BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS on territory. These were along a closed road that runs through a variety of early successional growth that is dominated by short pine. 50 species in all. Highlights: Northern Bobwhite Barred Owl Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 Brown-headed Nuthatch - 6 Wood Thrush -5 Cedar Waxwing Ovenbird Blue-winged Warbler - 6 Black-and-white Warbler - 7 Kentucky Warbler - 2 Prairie Warbler - ~20 Yellow-breasted Chat - 28 Orchard Oriole -2 Joshua Spence, Murray County You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Wood Ducks, Green Herons From: C VANDERSCHAAF <cvanderschaaf AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 19:01:00 -0700 A friend reports that the Green Herons have come back to the beaver pond on the Candler Park golf course. Does anyone know if the Wood Ducks are still at Clyde Shepard? Thanks, Carol Vanderschaaf Lake Claire Neighborhood Atlanta You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: WOOD DUCKS - FLOYD COUNTY From: Ann Stewart <annhstewart AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 01:04:42 +0000 I checked all my duck boxes this morning and this is what I found: Box #1 - Now has a total of 18 eggs. The female was scared off the box as we approached in the boat.  She is incubating and probably has been for the past few days.  According to the egg count of one egg a day per female - this means that I have two females laying in this box. Box #2 (favorite dock box) - This one also has 18 eggs but is not incubating yet and there are also 2 females laying in this box. Box #3 (oldest box on pond) - No eggs - for some reason they haven't nested in this box in years. Box #4 (newest dock box and one that just hatched last week) - Still has the 4 eggs that were laid by a second female when the other 10 eggs hatched off. When I cleaned out the old egg shells and down, etc I put these 4 eggs back in the box - uncovered. When I checked today something had covered them up but have not laid any more eggs in the box. Seems that they might possibly be laying in Box #2 now>     ??? Recently I told about a pair of Great Crested Flycatchers building in a box on my telephone pole with the gourds with Tree Swallows. The Flycatchers brought several snake skins and feathers to the nest while building but I noticd that a pair of Bluebirds kept harassing them. There was a big feud going on.  Looked out today and say one bluebird coming out of the box and one going in.  I would have thought that the Flycatchers would have chased them off by now!. As I walked past the box going to check my duck boxes I raised the lid and there all crouched down as if it was hiding was a BLUEBIRD! Looks like the Bluebirds won. Wonder what shes sitting on? Her eggs or maybe their or maybe both? I now have to watch my flycatchers and see where they are going to nest now. I kept hearing them calling today. I had a second pair of Tree Swallows today flying around the gourds and disturbing the current resident pair. Ann Stewart Rome,Ga. Floyd Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Wash. Co. Ground Doves From: mocking bird <mockingbird AT GARDENER.COM> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 16:07:39 -0400 Hello on this humid day... I walked out to the garden a few minutes ago and flushed two Common Ground Doves. They hang about in the wintertime but this is the first for this time of year. Extra nice surprise in the garden! A few days ago, I heard a Bobwhite calling. Lynn Schlup Oconee, Ga. Washington County You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Connecticut Warbler, Scarlet Tanager nests, Henderson Park, DeKalb County, May 20, 2013 From: Carol Lambert or Jeff Sewell <lambertsewell AT ATT.NET> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 12:28:19 -0700 Jeff Sewell GOS Rare Bird Alert 770-493-8862 Tucker, DeKalb Co., GA lambertsewell AT att.net From: Carol Lambert or Jeff Sewell Subject: Connecticut Warbler, Scarlet Tanager nests, Henderson Park, DeKalb County, May 20, 2013 To: gabo-L AT listserv.uga.edu Date: Monday, May 20, 2013, 2:15 PM Jeff Sewell GOS Rare Bird Alert 770-493-8862 Tucker, DeKalb Co., GA lambertsewell AT att.net : May 20, 2013 9:53 AM - 12:05 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments:      Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3 41 species Canada Goose  5 Mallard  3 Cooper's Hawk  1 Red-shouldered Hawk  4 Chimney Swift  5 Red-headed Woodpecker  1 Red-bellied Woodpecker  3 Downy Woodpecker  2 Hairy Woodpecker  2 Northern Flicker  1 Pileated Woodpecker  1 Eastern Wood-Pewee  2 Eastern Phoebe  2 Great Crested Flycatcher  2 Red-eyed Vireo  7 Blue Jay  3 American Crow  3 Fish Crow  1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2 Carolina Chickadee  12 Tufted Titmouse  14 White-breasted Nuthatch  3 Brown-headed Nuthatch  3 Carolina Wren  18 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1 Eastern Bluebird  1 American Robin  1 Gray Catbird  2 Brown Thrasher  1 Cedar Waxwing  5 Connecticut Warbler  1     Heard singing in the swampy area. A continuing bird. American Redstart  1 Pine Warbler  4 Eastern Towhee  5 Chipping Sparrow  4 Song Sparrow  1 Scarlet Tanager  1     A female on a nest in the swampy area. I heard the "chick-burr" call and later saw her go into the nests area. I saw a male here this past Friday but not today. Northern Cardinal  17 Blue Grosbeak  1     A first summer bird; not a common bird for the park. House Finch  2 American Goldfinch  4 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14183211 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Robins AFB Birding on May 18, 2013 From: "Sargent, Bob A Civ USAF AFMC 78 CEG/CEANR" <bob.sargent AT ROBINS.AF.MIL> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 11:28:11 -0400 Hi Birders, Twenty birders, many of whom are members of Ocmulgee Audubon Society, gathered at Robins Air Force Base Saturday morning. The occasional sprinkles and drizzle didn't deter us, as we found 70 species including a late Northern Harrier, Northern Waterthrush, and Yellow Warbler. Please see the complete list (thanks, Andre!) below. Bob Sargent Robins AFB Houston County Canada Goose 8 Mallard 8 Wild Turkey 2 Great Blue Heron 4 Little Blue Heron 1 Green Heron 2 Northern Harrier 1 Seen by several people Red-tailed Hawk 2 Killdeer 5 Rock Pigeon 6 Eurasian Collared-Dove 10 Mourning Dove 28 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Chimney Swift 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Red-headed Woodpecker 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 8 Downy Woodpecker 3 Pileated Woodpecker 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee 7 Acadian Flycatcher 4 Eastern Phoebe 4 Great Crested Flycatcher 19 Eastern Kingbird 5 Loggerhead Shrike 2 White-eyed Vireo 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 13 American Crow 6 Fish Crow 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 30 Purple Martin 4 Barn Swallow 5 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 12 Brown-headed Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 20 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5 Eastern Bluebird 8 American Robin 10 Gray Catbird 2 Northern Mockingbird 30 Brown Thrasher 4 European Starling 20 Cedar Waxwing 2 Northern Waterthrush 1 Heard and seen by several in the group. Black-and-white Warbler 1 Prothonotary Warbler 2 Swainson's Warbler 1 Kentucky Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 2 Hooded Warbler 1 Northern Parula 5 Yellow Warbler 1 Pine Warbler 5 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 4 Chipping Sparrow 2 Summer Tanager 11 Northern Cardinal 20 Blue Grosbeak 3 Indigo Bunting 5 Red-winged Blackbird 22 Eastern Meadowlark 4 Common Grackle 19 Brown-headed Cowbird 6 Orchard Oriole 4 House Finch 6 House Sparrow 2 You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Cliff Swallows on the move From: Malcolm Hodges <mhodges1957 AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 08:33:46 -0400 I noticed cliff swallows mixed with barn swallows under the I-16 exit 6 overpass south of Macon last week. This is the third time I've seen them nesting away from river bridges in Georgia. Mal Hodges Riverdale, Ga. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Bobolink falls victim in Gordon county From: "Eugenia R. Thompson" <eroberthom AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 10:19:32 -0400 This is so interesting. Many years ago I found an Eastern Meadowlark impaled on a barb on a barbed-wire (bob-wire, for you Southerners) fence. I've always wondered if a shrike had done it; there was a shrike living in the area at the time. Despite looking in some likely places, I did not see any Bobolinks this spring. I did, however, think I saw a dead one in a road. When I turned around and slowed down for better investigation, I discovered.......a banana peeling -- most of it was black, part was still yellow, and it had a white sticker on it. Kind of like the garbage bag caracara I remember reading about somewhere. Eugenia Thompson Athens GA (Clarke Co.) -----Original Message----- From: Georgia Birders Online [mailto:GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Derrick Ingle Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 7:23 AM To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: [GABO-L] Bobolink falls victim in Gordon county Good morning to all. Friday the 17th, I went down to Pine Chapel Rd and Moss rd to do some birding. I had some good birds which I will list. But I had an amazing happening. While I was watching a small flock of about 50 Bobolinks, I noticed a bird struggling across the field and across the rd to the fence on Moss rd. When I got my specs on it, it was a Loggerhead Shrike, and he had found a meal in a female Bobolink. It carried her to the fence were it fed for about 5 minutes and then it carried here away, I'm guessing and hoping to a nest. One of the most fascinating things I have ever witnessed. The bobolink is the equal in size and weight, and despite the struggle it would not drop the large meal. Other birds that day are listed below. Double Crested Cormarant 1 Red Breasted Merganser 3 Orchard Oriole 2 Blue Gray Gnatcatcher 4 Barn Swallows 7 Cliff Swallows 10 Northern Rough Winged Swallows 15 Cattle Egret 1 Great Blue Heron 12 Dicksissel 8 Grasshopper Sparrow 2 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Marsh Wren 1 American Coot 2 Red Winged Black Bird 15 Eastern Meadowlark 10 Yellow Throated warbler 2 Indigo Bunting 5 Blue Grosbeak 2 Eastern Blue birds 2 Field Sparrow 7 Canada Geese 5 Mocking Bird 6 N.Cardinal 4 Bobolinks 50 Loggerhead Shrike 1 Mourning Dove 6 Common Grackle 5 Northern Bobwhite 1 This is a combination of Pine Chapel and Moss rd. Derrick Ingle Whitfield county, Ga You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Bobolink falls victim in Gordon county From: Derrick Ingle <aquafab AT TURFMILL.COM> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 07:23:14 -0400 Good morning to all. Friday the 17th, I went down to Pine Chapel Rd and Moss rd to do some birding. I had some good birds which I will list. But I had an amazing happening. While I was watching a small flock of about 50 Bobolinks, I noticed a bird struggling across the field and across the rd to the fence on Moss rd. When I got my specs on it, it was a Loggerhead Shrike, and he had found a meal in a female Bobolink. It carried her to the fence were it fed for about 5 minutes and then it carried here away, I'm guessing and hoping to a nest. One of the most fascinating things I have ever witnessed. The bobolink is the equal in size and weight, and despite the struggle it would not drop the large meal. Other birds that day are listed below. Double Crested Cormarant 1 Red Breasted Merganser 3 Orchard Oriole 2 Blue Gray Gnatcatcher 4 Barn Swallows 7 Cliff Swallows 10 Northern Rough Winged Swallows 15 Cattle Egret 1 Great Blue Heron 12 Dicksissel 8 Grasshopper Sparrow 2 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Marsh Wren 1 American Coot 2 Red Winged Black Bird 15 Eastern Meadowlark 10 Yellow Throated warbler 2 Indigo Bunting 5 Blue Grosbeak 2 Eastern Blue birds 2 Field Sparrow 7 Canada Geese 5 Mocking Bird 6 N.Cardinal 4 Bobolinks 50 Loggerhead Shrike 1 Mourning Dove 6 Common Grackle 5 Northern Bobwhite 1 This is a combination of Pine Chapel and Moss rd. Derrick Ingle Whitfield county, Ga You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Bank Swallows and mergansers, Clarke Co. 5/19 From: Richard Hall <rjhall AT UGA.EDU> Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 11:17:30 -0400 I went out in the rain looking for shorebirds, but got nothing better than 2 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS at Lake Chapman. However, a female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER was on the water there off the beach, and a BANK SWALLOW was feeding low over the entrance gate, calling frequently. The biggest surprise was finding a mixed swallow flock feeding over fields along Spring Valley Road. Of an estimated 150 birds, most were BARN, but there was at least one CLIFF and I counted 17 BANK SWALLOWS in one pass (and there may have been more). Lake Herrick held a female HOODED MERGANSER. Richard Hall Athens GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: 2nd Mystery Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush in Forsyth Park, Savannah From: Charlie <cmmbirds AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 07:01:33 -0700 Hi Maureen, Don't be too frustrated by your inability to positively ID this bird, if it's not vocalizing. When we capture them, we can only tell the species about 50% of the time with any certainty. And that is after many measurements! In fact, there is even a special code for a bird that is known to be one of these two, but can't be identified any further. So I'd be skeptical of anyone who identifies a quiet Gray-cheeked/Bicknell's in the field. Charlie Muise Georgia IBA Coordinator ________________________________ From: Maureen Leong-Kee To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 12:16 AM Subject: Re: [GABO-L] 2nd Mystery Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush in Forsyth Park, Savannah I just wanted to add that neither bird ever vocalized. We attempted to get the first thrush to respond a few times to both GCTH and BITH calls played from our iPhone app at different times of day, but it did not respond back. We also tried this a couple of times with the second thrush Friday afternoon, but still no vocal response from the bird. So again, we won't be claiming with certainty either thrush species until we have more evidence one way or the other, but we wanted to at least throw it out there to see if anyone has any thoughts. It's a bit frustrating to get great looks but still be unsure, but such is birding sometimes! Maureen Leong-Kee Savannah, GA Chatham Co. ----- Original Message ----- From: Maureen Leong-Kee To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Cc: Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:59 PM Subject: [GABO-L] 2nd Mystery Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush in Forsyth Park, Savannah Hello GABO'ers, As you may recall, in a previous GABO post, I mentioned that birders Ben Clark and his friend Daniel had found a second thrush that could be a Gray-Cheeked or Bicknell's Thrush at Forsyth Park in Savannah on Wednesday, 05/15. We were able to relocate this bird yesterday, Friday 5/17, around 12:30pm and confirm that it is a different individual from the first mystery thrush that we had found and that I had first posted about on 05/08. The first one had a growth by the base of its bill and looked different overall. The first bird had more mottled gray cheeks. The second individual has a more extensive amount of yellow on the lower mandible and has more of a rufous wash on the tips of its primaries and on the back of its tail. And per an email with photos I received from Peter Range who banded a Bicknell's on Wassaw, these were some characteristics that he pointed out for how his bird differed from our first mystery thrush in Forsyth. From looking at these two birds, we're leaning towards the idea that the first is a Gray-Cheeked Thrush and the second is a Bicknell's Thrush. For photos of the first Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush we saw, you can go to our blog post: http://hipsterbirders.blogspot.com/2013/05/thrushed-with-excitement-in-forsyth-park.html For photos of this second individual Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush, please view the four photos I posted on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mleongkee/8752311892/in/photostream We would love to get any feedback from you all out there that care to share. I'm sorry that the photos I took don't clearly convey the more rufous tone of the second thrush, but he did seem overall more brownish overall. Thanks! Maureen Leong-Kee Savannah, GA Chatham Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: AAS Panola Field Trip Canceled due to weather From: Phil Delestrez <Phil.Delestrez AT DNR.STATE.GA.US> Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 07:06:00 -0400 Due to the weather this morning, the Panola Field Trip will be canceled due to threat of severe weather. I have asked the Park Ranger who lives on site to meet anyone who may show up. Thanks, Phil Delestrez Resource Manager Hard Labor Creek State Park, Panola Mountain State Park 706-557-3001 You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Rose-breasted Grosbeaks From: Bill Schmid <mountainbirder AT ETCMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 06:33:43 -0400 Typo in earlier email. Should have written Rose-breasted, not Red-breasted. A senior moment. Bill Schmid Walnut Mountain Ellijay, GA __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 8349 (20130519) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: 2nd Mystery Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush in Forsyth Park, Savannah From: Maureen Leong-Kee <mleongkee AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 21:16:12 -0700 I just wanted to add that neither bird ever vocalized. We attempted to get the first thrush to respond a few times to both GCTH and BITH calls played from our iPhone app at different times of day, but it did not respond back. We also tried this a couple of times with the second thrush Friday afternoon, but still no vocal response from the bird. So again, we won't be claiming with certainty either thrush species until we have more evidence one way or the other, but we wanted to at least throw it out there to see if anyone has any thoughts. It's a bit frustrating to get great looks but still be unsure, but such is birding sometimes! Maureen Leong-Kee Savannah, GA Chatham Co. ----- Original Message ----- From: Maureen Leong-Kee To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Cc: Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:59 PM Subject: [GABO-L] 2nd Mystery Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush in Forsyth Park, Savannah Hello GABO'ers, As you may recall, in a previous GABO post, I mentioned that birders Ben Clark and his friend Daniel had found a second thrush that could be a Gray-Cheeked or Bicknell's Thrush at Forsyth Park in Savannah on Wednesday, 05/15. We were able to relocate this bird yesterday, Friday 5/17, around 12:30pm and confirm that it is a different individual from the first mystery thrush that we had found and that I had first posted about on 05/08. The first one had a growth by the base of its bill and looked different overall. The first bird had more mottled gray cheeks. The second individual has a more extensive amount of yellow on the lower mandible and has more of a rufous wash on the tips of its primaries and on the back of its tail. And per an email with photos I received from Peter Range who banded a Bicknell's on Wassaw, these were some characteristics that he pointed out for how his bird differed from our first mystery thrush in Forsyth. From looking at these two birds, we're leaning towards the idea that the first is a Gray-Cheeked Thrush and the second is a Bicknell's Thrush. For photos of the first Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush we saw, you can go to our blog post: http://hipsterbirders.blogspot.com/2013/05/thrushed-with-excitement-in-forsyth-park.html For photos of this second individual Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush, please view the four photos I posted on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mleongkee/8752311892/in/photostream We would love to get any feedback from you all out there that care to share. I'm sorry that the photos I took don't clearly convey the more rufous tone of the second thrush, but he did seem overall more brownish overall. Thanks! Maureen Leong-Kee Savannah, GA Chatham Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: WOOD DUCKS - FLOYD COUNTY From: Ann Stewart <annhstewart AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 03:33:14 +0000 This is the latest on my confusing WOOD DUCKS.  I have been waiting for Box #4 (on the dock) to hatch. It was a few days late according to my calculations. Also there originally were 10 eggs being incubated but the past week another female has been laying in the box and has added 4 more eggs!  Needless to say this is causing a problem- with me - but not necessarily with the ducks! This female that wa s incubating is very skiddish and gets off the nes t quite often - this might be one reason for the delay in hatching and also contributes to the fact that it gives another female time to get in her box. Well finally Friday morning while I was away birding - the box hatched. I got my husband to check it for me late Friday afternoon when he went down to the pond to feed the fish. He reported to me that all the eggs were gone except 4 and that those 4 eggs were nicely covered with down and it looked like a normal nest! Strange!! I checked today and found that the 4 eggs were still covered and that the empty eggshells from the 10 hatched babies were still in the box among the 4 eggs and all were covered. I removed the 4 eggs, cleaned out the nest of the old shells,down, etc and replaced the eggs.  I will wait and see if the female that laid this 4 eggs comes back to the nest and continues laying.     BUT..........Box #2 also on the other corner of the dock and the favorite box - has eggs also. When I checked it today there are 14 eggs in it. There is a possiblity that the female that was laying in Box #4 might have switched to Box #2 NOW!!!! (am i confusing you) (bet you wonder why the two boxes on the dock are numbered 2 & 4 and not 2 and 3?). Well I will wait til tomorrow and if no more eggs are laid in Box 4 with the 4 eggs in it - then I will take these 4 eggs and place in Box 2 with the 14 eggs so that they will all start being incubation at the same time and will hatch together.   While all this is going on in these two boxes there also remains eggs in Box #1. Last check of this box there were 9 eggs on Wednesday of this week.   WHEW!!!!Glad that is over! So far for 2013 I have had 3 nest with a total of 54 hatches out of a total of 69 eggs laid! I still have possibly 3 more nest to hatch which will exceed 2012.  In 2012 I only had 4 nests total and a total of 54 hatches out of 84 laid. Looks like its going to be a good year. Sorry for all the statics and numbers - don't mean to bore you! Ann Stewart Rome,Ga. Floyd Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Common Terns, Lake Lanier From: "James F. Flynn Jr." <jim.flynn AT MINDSPRING.COM> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 23:24:39 -0400 Hi, folks, I stopped by Vann's Tavern Park (northeast Forsyth Co.) this morning to scan the upper portion of Lake Lanier for a late Common Loon, as well as a stray Laughing Gull (which, I come to find out, Richard Hall had diverted to Clarke Co.). While there, a small flock of 16 terns descended upon the lake, most (the ones I was able to study) of them in or near an alternate-type plumage. I initially identified them as Common Terns but since the species is quite hard to find inland during the spring I wanted to be sure. A handful of the flock, about six, stuck around for at least 30 minutes for me to study, foraging widely off of the park. I returned later in the evening and at least three were still present. There have been a few Forster's Terns hanging through the month so far, including an immature bird still sporting the black ear/eye patch and white nape & crown. Today, two were observed off of Old Federal Park (Hall Co.) during the morning, and two were perched on shoal markers during the evening off of Vann's Tavern Park. Also observed today: Red-breasted Merganser: 1 female Common Loon: 6 (3 adults in full alternate, 3 imms) Double-crested Cormorant: 1 Osprey: 3 Ring-billed Gull: 3 imms Bonaparte's Gull: 2 imms Take care, Jim Flynn Forsyth Co., GA http://gos.org/ http://atlantaaudubon.org/ *************************** You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Trip Report: Jr. Birders at Lake Claire Community Land Trust From: Ken Boff <ken.boff AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 20:32:43 -0400 No amazing life list here, but a great trip nevertheless. This afternoon three beginning birders aged 6 to 9 met at the Lake Claire Community Land Trust in Atlanta for a bird walk. We covered the basics of using the binoculars, birding etiquette, listening, spotting, and bird identification. We counted fifteen species, not counting Lou the Emu, who has been a resident of the Land Trust for the last ten plus years. Special thanks to Atlanta Audubon Society, who provided the children with REAL binoculars for the trip! Lake Claire Community Land Trust, DeKalb, US-GA May 18, 2013 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Comments: Beginning bird walk for children at Lake Claire Community Land Trust 15 species Mallard 2 Mourning Dove 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 2 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 10 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 4 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 6 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Ken Boff You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: My Official Winter's End & Spring/Summer Beginning From: Bill Schmid <mountainbirder AT ETCMAIL.COM> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 21:22:01 -0400 To all: October 28, 2012 was my FOTS sighting of Pine Siskins this "year" at my feeders in Ellijay, GA. It lasted until yesterday, May 17, 2013 when I observed 4 of them picking at the Nyjer. Today, there were none. Apparently GONE! Had a high count of 84 on Feb. 24th. Hope they have a great summer, since I do not know when they will return next. The Red-breasted Grosbeaks arrived at my feeders on April 17, 2013. They grew into unbelievable numbers through the weeks to where I counted a total of 28 at one time feeding and flying about. They stayed for weeks. Alas, yesterday there were just 2, 1 male and 1 female, immature birds. Today, also there were none. I assume GONE! I have never observed such a quantity of RBGR at my home in one location. My two Red-breasted Nuthatches left about 1.5 weeks ago along with the Purple Finches, 2 weeks ago. My surprise of the year so far was the flock of Red Crossbills that visited my feeders sporadically in March & April. It was also great to observed the Evening Grosbeaks at the Tickner's farm in Epworth. It has been a great beginning to this year for birding. Bill Schmid Walnut Mountain Ellijay, GA Gilmer County __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 8348 (20130518) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: 2nd Mystery Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush in Forsyth Park, Savannah From: Maureen Leong-Kee <mleongkee AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 17:59:46 -0700 Hello GABO'ers, As you may recall, in a previous GABO post, I mentioned that birders Ben Clark and his friend Daniel had found a second thrush that could be a Gray-Cheeked or Bicknell's Thrush at Forsyth Park in Savannah on Wednesday, 05/15. We were able to relocate this bird yesterday, Friday 5/17, around 12:30pm and confirm that it is a different individual from the first mystery thrush that we had found and that I had first posted about on 05/08. The first one had a growth by the base of its bill and looked different overall. The first bird had more mottled gray cheeks. The second individual has a more extensive amount of yellow on the lower mandible and has more of a rufous wash on the tips of its primaries and on the back of its tail. And per an email with photos I received from Peter Range who banded a Bicknell's on Wassaw, these were some characteristics that he pointed out for how his bird differed from our first mystery thrush in Forsyth. From looking at these two birds, we're leaning towards the idea that the first is a Gray-Cheeked Thrush and the second is a Bicknell's Thrush. For photos of the first Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush we saw, you can go to our blog post: http://hipsterbirders.blogspot.com/2013/05/thrushed-with-excitement-in-forsyth-park.html For photos of this second individual Gray-Cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush, please view the four photos I posted on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mleongkee/8752311892/in/photostream We would love to get any feedback from you all out there that care to share. I'm sorry that the photos I took don't clearly convey the more rufous tone of the second thrush, but he did seem overall more brownish overall. Thanks! Maureen Leong-Kee Savannah, GA Chatham Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: South River Float Trip Rockdale/Dekalb Counties From: Phil Delestrez <Phil.Delestrez AT DNR.STATE.GA.US> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 17:42:18 -0400 Panola Mountain SP, Rockdale, US-GA May 18, 2013 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 6.0 mile(s) Comments: On Saturday May 18th, I joined a float trip down on the South River with the South River Watershed Alliance. This group seeks to advocate this river, and I traveled along as a guest naturalist. The day was really mild in the low 70's, and overcast most of the trip. We started out at Panola Shoals off of GA HWY 155, and contiunued to Klondike/Flat Bridge Rd neat Panola Mountain State Park. Despite focusing on paddling, still had a good amount of birds we tallied up. 41 species Canada Goose 3 Wood Duck 1 Mallard 1 Great Blue Heron 3 Black Vulture 4 Turkey Vulture 2 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Mourning Dove 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Chimney Swift 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 4 Acadian Flycatcher 15 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 White-eyed Vireo 6 Red-eyed Vireo 8 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 7 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6 Barn Swallow 9 Carolina Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 8 Carolina Wren 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 20 Louisiana Waterthrush 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 Hooded Warbler 1 Northern Parula 10 Yellow-throated Warbler 2 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Eastern Towhee 8 Chipping Sparrow 6 Summer Tanager 1 Scarlet Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 6 Indigo Bunting 5 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 American Goldfinch 6 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14160383 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebir Phil Delestrez Resource Manager Hard Labor Creek State Park, Panola Mountain State Park 706-557-3001 You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: [-L] Sedge Wren - late From: Charlie <cmmbirds AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 11:14:13 -0700 We had at least 4 Sedge Wrens at Panola Mountain State Park last Saturday. I thought they were late, too. Charlie Muise ________________________________ From: Joshua Spence To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 9:11 AM Subject: [GABO-L] Sedge Wren - late Monday was a nice day of birding. I started at the Poecat Creek wetland looking for marsh birds and was able to find one VIRGINIA RAIL. This bird sounded off between 30-50 times while I was there. I observed 60 species while here. A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was singing and nesting RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were busy. A few migrants are still moving through. Here I had 2 CAPE MAY WARBLERS, one BLACKPOLL WARBLER and two ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS. This was a rough hike, which at one point I sunk to my knees in muck. Didn't think I was going to make out, but I used my go-go gadget walking stick. Birding can be scary! Later in the day, I swung by Fite Bend Rd. and enjoyed wonderful looks at a mixed male/female flock of BOBOLINKS. I estimate between 100-150 individuals. Also, I had a new yard bird later that evening. A SEDGE WREN was calling from a section of my yard that I allow to freely grow. It favors a hayfield, and has not been mowed in 3-4 years. I pished and the little wren popped up to look around. This is probably a late date for the mountain/ridge & valley section of GA. Nice! I ended the day running a short nocturnal route along Cagle and McEntire Rds. Much of this goes through WMA property. This half-hour drive produced one AMERICAN WOODCOCK, 2 CHUCK- WILLS-WIDOW, four EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILLS & a screaming BARN OWL. Fun day! Joshua Spence, Murray County You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: FOTY chimney swifts - Bartow co From: Pam Potter <ppotter AT MINDSPRING.COM> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 20:57:52 -0400 Late this afternoon 5 chimney swifts showed up. Wonder where they roost/nest. The tree swallows are nesting and there were 2 more this afternoon. Maybe they'll stay and nest too. The barn swallows did not build a nest on the porch again. I figure they went back to their traditional place, a barn. On the property NE of me was a big hay barn, open on one side and next to a large cow pond. It was destroyed by the tornado April 2011 and was not replaced till late last year. The barneys still come by for a visit by flying and swirling under the front porch like they did a bit ago. Also, around 3pm there were about 20 swallows & possibly purple martins but I didn't have my bins to tell for sure. Have a good weekend! Pam Potter White Barow Co You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Henderson Park AAS Bird Walk---Connecticut Warblers! From: Ben Thesing <crash.thesing AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 12:39:53 -0400 Hi all, I lead the AAS bird walk to Henderson Park this morning. A nice group of 10 birders showed up and we had a great time looking for birds. While warblers were not present in huge numbers or diversity highlights were a female BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER and four female AMERICAN REDSTARTS. Even though they only gave fleeting glimpses, two male CONNECTICUT WARBLERS were seen in both the private and public swampy areas. I had one female before the walk started as well. SWAINSON'S THRUSHES, SCARLET TANAGERS, and a late female ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK were all present. The complete ebird checklist is below. Henderson Park, DeKalb, US-GA May 18, 2013 8:00 AM - 11:45 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: lead the AAS bird walk 39 species Canada Goose 10 Mallard 8 Green Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Mourning Dove 1 Chimney Swift 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Downy Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Phoebe 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4 Carolina Chickadee 7 Tufted Titmouse 10 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Brown-headed Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 11 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4 Swainson's Thrush 2 Gray Catbird 1 Cedar Waxwing X heard a decent flock at the beginning of the walk Connecticut Warbler 3 before the walk, I had one female connecticut in the swampy area, it had a gray hood, eyering, and yellow-olive back and underparts. during the walk, at least two males were singing very loudy and were giving fleeting glimpses of the dark gray hood, eyering, and olive- yellow backside and underparts. American Redstart 4 Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 One female seen on the edge of the swampy area. It was a drab grayish bird with the characteristic white "pocket square" on the wing. Pine Warbler 4 1 seen, 3 heard Eastern Towhee 3 Chipping Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 1 Scarlet Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal 10 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 one female seen near the Scarlet Tanagers. American Goldfinch 4 Good birding! Ben Thesing Tucker, GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Clarke Co. LAUGHING GULLS, Common Loon and Horned Grebe 5/18 From: Richard Hall <dr.richard.hall AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 11:16:39 -0400 This morning at Lake Chapman I had 2 LAUGHING GULLS fly through. They didn't stop unfortunately. Also at Lake Chapman was one COMMON LOON, and Lake Herrick held a HORNED GREBE that has attained much of its breeding plumage. Richard Hall Athens GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Atlanta Audubon Society Shorebird Workshop From: Steve Holzman <steve_holzman AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 20:30:31 -0400 > Steve, > > I can not post the email below. Would you please post it for me? > > Thanks, Lisa > > > > > Last weekend 13 people participated in the Atlanta Audubon Society Shorebird Workshop. This workshop included a class session at the Blue Heron on shorebird identification taught by Georgann Schmalz and class sessions on the coast on shorebird conservation and banding taught by Tim Keyes. There was also a special presentation by Fletcher Smith, research biologist for the Center for Conservation Biology on whimbrel banding and other conservation issues. > > This workshop also included a boat trip in the Altamaha Delta area that allowed us to explore the north end of Little St. Simons Island, Little Egg Island, and Wolf Island Bar. The group also birded the Butler Island WMA, Jekyll Island, and Harris Neck NWR. Coastal experts Gene Keferl and Lydia Thompson helped lead the birdwalks. > > A total of 92 species was seen. We were able to see all the expected shorebird species. > A special birding event was the hatching of a Wilson's Plover in front of the group on Jekyll's South Beach on Mother's Day. > > All participants enjoyed the magic of our Georgia Coast. > > Lisa Hurt > Atlanta You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Kennesaw & Bartow Loop From: Renee Carleton <rcarleton AT BERRY.EDU> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 17:42:05 -0400 Ann Stewart and I birded Kennesaw Mtn (my first time there!) and part of the BCL today. Kennesaw was quiet. No Mourning Warbler seen. The highlight was 3 summer tanagers (2 males, 1 female) and an unseen but heard Orchard Oriole. After lunch at Doug's Place in Emerson (great BTW), we headed to the Sam Smith Aquatic Center in hopes of seeing the Scissor-tailed flycatchers. They were a no show but we saw a nice male Blue Grosbeak (FOTY for me) and a lone Horned Lark (FOTY for both of us). After I dropped Ann off at her car, I headed back home via Hwy 113 and decided to see if the Greater Scaup was still on the Taff Pond Rd. Good thing I did because I saw a Loggerhead Shrike on Brandon Farm Road fly across and perch on the fence near the power sub-station (FOTY & first in a long time). On Taff Road, the Greater Scaup was there, swimming in the pond. Thanks to the photos Rebecca Byrd sent me, the mass I thought I saw on it's breast was probably a misaligned feather and not an abscess. Leave it to a vet to think the worst! So a nice GA Year trifecta for me today. Thanks, Ann! Congrats to Trey for hitting his 300th Ga Year List bird. I'm WAY behind at 137. Yes, Trey, I think 300 by May is darn good. Renee Carleton Taylorsville, Bartow Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Brawley Mountain trail and Golden Eagle From: Giff Beaton <giffbeaton AT MINDSPRING.COM> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 17:00:31 -0400 GABbers- While taking the twins on their first "hike" up Brawley Mountain (pushed in a large wheeled stroller) Allie and I were astonished to see soaring overhead with a Turkey Vulture a subadult Golden Eagle. In addition to being an unlikely location for this species, this is a really really late date for a migrant Golden Eagle in Georgia. However, Wheeler's Raptors of Eastern/Western North America states that young birds may migrate as late as mid May, so that makes a little more sense. The bird had the tail pattern almost of an adult, with a darker subterminal band but not pure white base of the tail, and did not have the juvenile white patches at the base of the primaries. Based on the darker underwings with only a few indistinct white feathers it was probably a subadult 3 or 4 years old. Very exciting to see up there, and the date raises the tantalizing possibility of a young bird looking for a place to nest someday... We did not make it as far as the trail turnoff and tower to see G0lden-winged Warblers, but we had just about all the other great breeding species and only one migrant, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Giff Beaton Marietta GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Sedge Wren - late From: Joshua Spence <spencejoshua AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 09:11:43 -0400 Monday was a nice day of birding. I started at the Poecat Creek wetland looking for marsh birds and was able to find one VIRGINIA RAIL. This bird sounded off between 30-50 times while I was there. I observed 60 species while here. A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was singing and nesting RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were busy. A few migrants are still moving through. Here I had 2 CAPE MAY WARBLERS, one BLACKPOLL WARBLER and two ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS. This was a rough hike, which at one point I sunk to my knees in muck. Didn't think I was going to make out, but I used my go-go gadget walking stick. Birding can be scary! Later in the day, I swung by Fite Bend Rd. and enjoyed wonderful looks at a mixed male/female flock of BOBOLINKS. I estimate between 100-150 individuals. Also, I had a new yard bird later that evening. A SEDGE WREN was calling from a section of my yard that I allow to freely grow. It favors a hayfield, and has not been mowed in 3-4 years. I pished and the little wren popped up to look around. This is probably a late date for the mountain/ridge & valley section of GA. Nice! I ended the day running a short nocturnal route along Cagle and McEntire Rds. Much of this goes through WMA property. This half-hour drive produced one AMERICAN WOODCOCK, 2 CHUCK- WILLS-WIDOW, four EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILLS & a screaming BARN OWL. Fun day! Joshua Spence, Murray County You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: GA Year Bird #300 From: Trey Mccuen <trey.mccuen AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 13:37:33 -0400 I obtained my 300th GA Year Bird yesterday. It was Dickcissel which I got on the Bartow County Loop. Actually there were 5 of them seen and heard on Hardin Bridge Road. # 299 was the Mourning Warblers at Kennesaw Mountain. I immediately dashed up there to get them after I saw the eBird report (Thanks Justin). I am very happy to have gotten 300 already as I have never gotten this many for GA in a single year before. I don't know if 300 is good to have by May or not. We'll see what the rest of year has in store! Trey McCuen Macon, GA gabigyear13.blogspot.com You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: FW: [GABO-L] From: Derrick Ingle <aquafab AT TURFMILL.COM> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 12:38:44 -0400 I apologize for being skimpy with details, I work at Controlled Products which is a Synthetic Turf company, we make football fields, baseball, you name it. I run the logo department. If any of you are Buffalo Bill fans your team is playing football on my Center field logo and my end zones, and a field my company made. But the Cuckoo is in the plant still, but I have a recent development. It flew over my head at about 40 ft, and the under tail markings were very faint. I'm wondering if it isn't a black billed cuckoo. Watching for a better look, it keeps circling. I'm without my bins so it's a tough look unless it sets still. Derrick ingle Whitfield co. Ga -----Original Message----- From: Liz [mailto:lizbirder AT centurylink.net] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 11:55 AM To: Derrick Ingle Subject: Re: [GABO-L] For those who don't know, what kind of plant is it? Liz Lathrop Oriental, NC -----Original Message----- From: Derrick Ingle Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 11:17 AM To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: [GABO-L] I'm at work today.. I literally just went on lunch, at 11: 00 am , I'm walking back to my desk, and I look up and there and behold a yellow billed cuckoo is flying inside the plant. All the dock doors are open, so it will find its way out, but that's the second time we have had an interesting bird in the plant. In the past we have had: Eastern Phoebe Northern Rough winged swallow Song sparrow Belted Kingfisher Mocking Birds House Finch And now, a Yellow-Billed Cuckoo. Makes you almost wish they would all come to you..almost. Derrick Ingle Whitfield co. GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Redheads at Dockery Lake, Fannin County From: Charlie <cmmbirds AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 09:14:29 -0700 Hi folks, A couple weeks or so ago Hal Massie found some Redheads on Dockery Lake, which is off SR 60 in Chattahoochee NF in Fannin County.  I happened to camp there Tuesday and Wednesday nights (May 14-15, 2013), and saw Redheads myself.  Hal had at least 2 males (according to pics he posted) but I only saw 2 females and a male. Charlie Muise Georgia IBA Coordinator You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: No Subject From: Derrick Ingle <aquafab AT TURFMILL.COM> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:17:23 -0400 I'm at work today.. I literally just went on lunch, at 11: 00 am , I'm walking back to my desk, and I look up and there and behold a yellow billed cuckoo is flying inside the plant. All the dock doors are open, so it will find its way out, but that's the second time we have had an interesting bird in the plant. In the past we have had: Eastern Phoebe Northern Rough winged swallow Song sparrow Belted Kingfisher Mocking Birds House Finch And now, a Yellow-Billed Cuckoo. Makes you almost wish they would all come to you..almost. Derrick Ingle Whitfield co. GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Cliff Swallow Nesting Behavior From: Joshua Spence <spencejoshua AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 08:40:23 -0400 Wednesday, I birded near Tilton, GA, mostly on the Murray County side of the Conasauga River. One interesting observation was of several CLIFF SWALLOWS constructing nests on the side of a building near the Tilton bridge. This is on the Whitfield County side. There has been a large colony on the bridge for years. The last time I checked it, I estimated 150 nests. I'm wondering if the recent flooding may have deterred many of the swallows from the bridge and caused them to move to this new site. I'm not sure if the river got high enough to destroy any of the nests, but this new development is the first time I have personally ever witnessed this. No Barn Swallows have been observed at this site the last several times I have checked it. In fact, when I see a large CLSW presence at suitable bridge sites, the Barnies are usually few to none. I checked a few wetlands and hiked along the river for a few miles. Highlights: Wood Duck - 12 Blue-winged Teal - 4 Solitary Sandpiper - 17, in flooded corn stubble field Northern Waterthrush Prothonotary Warbler - 2 Tennessee Warbler Kentucky Warbler - 3 Hooded Warbler American Redstart - 2 Yellow Warbler - 2 Blackpoll Warbler - 3 Prairie Warbler - 6 Joshua Spence, Murray Co You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Lesser Scaup - Murray County From: Joshua Spence <spencejoshua AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 08:08:56 -0400 Yesterday, Max Medley and I observed four LESSER SCAUP on a private reservoir in Murray Co. One drake and three hens. We also surveyed a few routes on the property and had some decent numbers of songbirds. A few migrants are still moving through. Highlights: Wood Duck - 22 Lesser Scaup - 4 Northern Bobwhite - 6 American Coot Spotted Sandpiper Chuck-will's-widow Red-headed Woodpecker - 13 American Kestrel - 2 Acadian Flycatcher - 2 Great-crested Flycatcher - 16 Cliff Swallow - 50 Carolina Wren - 66 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 46 Kentucky Warbler - 7 Common Yellowthroat - 16 American Redstart Northern Parula - 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler - 3 Pine Warbler - 27 Yellow-throated Warbler - 13 Prairie Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat - 16 Summer Tanager - 24 Scarlet Tanager - 6 Northern Cardinal - 60 Indigo Bunting - 80 Joshua Spence, Murray Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Baltimore Oriole on Jekyll From: Laura Smith <arcadiaco AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 21:11:31 -0400 Is this an unusual sighting for down there this time of year, Lydia? Up here on Lk. Champlain, our B.Orioles should have arrived by May 4 & no sign of them yet. Makes me wonder if there is hope yet! Still waiting on my RT Hummingbirds also due abt May 4th. Happy Birdin' Laura Smith Jekyll Is. & Lake Champlain, ADKs On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Lydia Thompson wrote: > Hi Folks, It was a quiet morning on Jekyll. The tide was low and birds > were scattered far and wide. But the Campground Bird Sanctuary (aka the > drip line) was humming with birds. The one bird that really surprised me > was a male Baltimore Oriole. It was sitting up in a tree in the shade. > Finally, it move to a vine in the light and wow what a bird! It was bright > orange with a black hood and back. > Lydia > > -- > Lydia C. Thompson > St. Simons & Jekyll Islands > coastal Glynn County > www.coastalgeorgiabirding-lydia.blogspot.com > > You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. > Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: > http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. > > Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu > > To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to > http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html > > To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > -- Laura Dikovsky Smith Arcadia Cottages On Willsboro Bay http://www.arcadiaco.com Arcadia Cottages is now on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Willsboro-NY/Arcadia-Cottages-On-Willsboro-Bay-Lake-Champlain-Adirondacks-NY/335184089528?ref=ts Are you signed up as an organ donor? Save a life, sign up today! You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Greater Scaup (possible) Bartow From: Renee Carleton <rcarleton AT BERRY.EDU> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 21:01:41 -0400 I ran over to Taff Road after reading Rebecca's post (at 7pm mind you) and immediately found the duck. It was sitting on south bank of the pond so I wonder if this was the same place as it was seen at 10:30. I watched a curious turtle swim right up and onto the bank to grab a mouthful of duck droppings. The Scaup barely moved. It did get up and shift over a couple of feet when the turtle came up again but this time closer. This is not typical behavior of a healthy wild duck, especially if it hadn't moved from that spot since this morning. It is possible that it had been swimming around and I just caught it resting again. As it was now facing me, I clearly saw a walnut-sized, smooth grayish mass just at the junction of the neck and breast. Possibly an abscess, difficult to say without getting my hands on it. There was one spotted sandpiper on the far shore and a couple of purple martins at that pond. On the Brandon Farm Road pond, I saw a flock of peeps and a pair of mallards. Renee Carleton Taylorsville, Bartow Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Great Blue Heron Rookery Cherokee County From: Saralynn DeMarcus <ldemarcus AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 20:05:44 -0400 Today we took photographs of the great blue heron rookery on Hwy. 108 in Cherokee County. There appear to be 11 nests, some with chicks visible. The rookery is located just outside the Waleska city limits on GA108 traveling toward GA20. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Mourning Warbler at Kennesaw Mt. 5/15/2013 PHOTO From: Justin Neal <jdnealer AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 16:36:09 -0400 I'm excited to see the birds were found again. I was afraid I might be sending people on 'fools errands' for ghost birds with the post. I wasn't sure how long they might stick around. I checked the area again for a few minutes after getting a drink at the visitor center without success. On the first pass, I heard the chip note of what I thought was a Common Yellowthroat and am glad I investigated. Justin You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Baltimore Oriole on Jekyll From: Lydia Thompson <birdjekyll AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:44:13 -0400 Hi Folks, It was a quiet morning on Jekyll. The tide was low and birds were scattered far and wide. But the Campground Bird Sanctuary (aka the drip line) was humming with birds. The one bird that really surprised me was a male Baltimore Oriole. It was sitting up in a tree in the shade. Finally, it move to a vine in the light and wow what a bird! It was bright orange with a black hood and back. Lydia -- Lydia C. Thompson St. Simons & Jekyll Islands coastal Glynn County www.coastalgeorgiabirding-lydia.blogspot.com You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Bartow County Greater Scaup Cattle Egret 16 May 2013 From: "Rebecca E. Byrd" <rebyrd2012 AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 15:04:20 -0400 As of 10:30 this morning, there was what looks like a GREATER SCAUP on the small pond on the east side of Taff Rd. -- the pond at coordinates 34.10007, -84.90791. I feel fairly somewhat mostly confident of its Greaterness at this juncture. Decent diagnostic photos/video are being uploaded now, so we'll see. The bird was only about 250 feet from the road or maybe a little closer, resting on the shore, looking like it was trying to catch a few winks but nervously winking the whole time with all the busy non-migrant activity around it. The B AT nk Sw AT llow we were trying to get for Trey there had already moved on, but we were treated instead to a CATTLE EGRET who was trying in vain to associate with cattle. The cows acted as though they'd never seen one before and were so intensely curious that they took turns pursuing it, trying to touch it with their muzzles to sniff it while snorting and huffing. The egret escaped to the scaup's pond across the road after trying unsuccessfully to forage at their feet. Rebecca Byrd Sandy Springs, GA Fulton You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Flicker Nest Rescue in DeKalb County From: Marian Gordin <mkgordin AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 16:40:07 +0000 My Northern Flickers were nesting in a dead-pine snag in my backyard again this year. A few minutes ago, the tree fell. That was exciting! I found 6 eggs in the cavity and am hoping to save the family. One egg was broken, but I have moved the other 5 along with as much sawdust as I could get out, to a nearby screech owl box that has several inches of old nesting material in it but no "renters." If anyone has advice, please send it along. The parents are quite confused at the moment and are swooping around looking for their home. I did leave some extra sawdust from the snag on top of the owl box. As I am watching, the male drummed on yet another empty box and has flown to the trunk of the tree with the box of orphans on it. I'll report further. —Marian, NE Atlanta, DeKalb County "The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it." —Chief Joseph (1840-1904) You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Help with Mystery Bird (or Animal) Call in Clayton County From: ldtp <ldtp AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 09:22:51 -0700 I made a quick stop at the Huie Ponds in Clayton County on Sunday afternoon. I heard what sounded like the "peent" of an American Woodcock, but each peent was held two or three times as long as a typical Woodcock call. There were two series of multiple peents. Did not sound like a Common Nighthawk. Atypical Woodcock call? A shorebird or wader? An amphibian? Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Liz Hornsby Chamblee/Brookhaven area, DeKalb County (north metro Atlanta) You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Mourning Warbler at Kennesaw- Not found, Thursday AM From: Pierre Howard <h_pierre AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 10:13:46 -0400 To GABO: Several birders looked for the Mourning Warblers that we seen last night until 8PM without success. The morning overcast put a pall on Kennesaw Mountain, and few birds were vocalizing. Here's hoping that the birds stayed around. Pierre Howard Atlanta, Fulton County You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: flock of shorebirds - Cherokee Co. From: Vicki DeLoach <VLDELOACH AT AOL.COM> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 07:58:38 -0400 Many thanks to Jim Flynn for ID'ing the shorebirds I saw yesterday at Biello Park. I was driving out and heard Killdeer as I passed what I assumed was a flock of killdeer in puddles in the gravel - I had already seen this species and they are common here. But I noticed some smaller shorebirds that definitely weren't killdeer, and even the killdeer weren't all killdeer: Semi-palmated plovers - 7 Semi-palmated sandpipers - 3 Least sandpipers - 4 Killdeer - 6 Another, larger flock landed just before a work truck made a U-turn right over the puddles. I could only ID the plovers and would have been lost without Jim's help. I also heard/saw YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS, COMMON YELLOWTHROATS, FIELD SPARROWS, and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER flew overhead. Gray treefrogs laughed from the cattail sloughs. Early summer odes like Spangled skimmers & Black saddlebags were flying. Vicki DeLoach Biello Park/Cherokee Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: AWBB The Babe-breasted Warblers bird the Coast From: Lydia Thompson <birdjekyll AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 22:55:30 -0400 Hi Foks, The Babe-breasted Warblers (Cheryl Kanes, Lydia Thompson, Lynda Wiggins, Nita Wynn and Becky Valentine) enjoyed a fine day of birding, April 28, in two coastal counties of McIntosh and Glynn for the 2013 All Women’s Birding Bust. We began the day at 6 AM with the chorus of Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay, Northern Mockingbird and, in the distance, a Great Horned Owl calling. Next we found a local pond where a Wood Duck floated serenely along the edge. On our way to a marshy area where the tide had pushed up a Seaside Sparrow we found a couple of American Robins. By then the sun had completely risen and we still had over 125 more birds to find before we ended our day. We birded marshes, ponds, swamps, pine forests, woodlands and beaches as the warm, rainless day unfolded. We birded some new locations and some tried and true. We had some unusual sightings: Our lone Little Blue Heron was perched on a snag in the middle of a scrub field. We spotted a Common Nighthawk in the middle of the day routed and chased by a couple of Red-winged Blackbirds. Found two lingering Lesser Scaup, a single Black Scoter and a Chipping Sparrow. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks were sitting on their nest boxes at Altamaha WMA. Usually uncommon Loggerhead Shrikes were popping up everywhere. We had some notable misses: Gray Kingbird, Swallow-tailed Kite, Waterthrushes, several species of expected Warblers, Mallard. On our big day everyone had a job: Cheryl was our driver, Lydia was our navigator, Lynda verified questionable bird calls and songs, Nita and Becky kept track of our sightings via checklist and Birdlog. We ate well (sandwiches, fruit, cheese, gourmet trail mix), arrived everywhere safely and never got a ticket! Along the way we were (jokingly?) suspected of being part of a movie production crew filming in the area and the owner of the restaurant we schlepped into for dinner at 8:30 PM told us he remembered us “from last year.” So we had fun and laughs too. After dinner we still had a few hours so we tried for the Eastern Screech Owl and Chuck-will’s-widow but we were unsuccessful. So we ended the day with 135 species of which three were unshared. Look below for the list. Lydia posting for The Babe-breasted Warblers Here’s our complete list: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Canada Goose Wood Duck Mottled Duck Blue-winged Teal Lesser Scaup Black Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Wood Stork Double-crested Cormorant Anhinga American White Pelican Brown Pelican Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Mississippi Kite Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Clapper Rail Sora Common Gallinule American Coot Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Solitary Sandpiper Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Whimbrel Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Least Tern Forster's Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Black Skimmer Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Common Ground-Dove Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike White-eyed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Brown-headed Nuthatch Marsh Wren Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird (Eastern) American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Prothonotary Warbler Common Yellowthroat Northern Parula Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prairie Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Summer Tanager Northern Cardinal Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow -- Lydia C. Thompson St. Simons & Jekyll Islands coastal Glynn County www.coastalgeorgiabirding-lydia.blogspot.com You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Bird ID help! From: "Donald G. Freeman" <d73freeman AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 22:17:35 -0400 Unknown Bird St. Georges Island Unknown Bird 2 St. Georges Island I think the second one may be a Tennessee Warbler but ....idk. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Mourning Warbler? From: Renee Carleton <rcarleton AT BERRY.EDU> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 20:53:20 -0400 Is anyone planning to go to Kennesaw Mtn tomorrow morning to try for the Mourning Warbler? I'd like to meet up with anyone going. Renee Carleton Bartow Co. You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Mourning Warbler at Kennesaw Mt. 5/15/2013 PHOTO From: Angelia Jenkins <angeliabeth AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 20:53:03 -0400 Just returned from Kennesaw Mtn. After Ben, Trey and Rebecca left... Patty and Bob Z. arrived and we stalked the bird for a while and finally around 8 oclock found it in the area behind the visitor center, between the small trail and the road. The bird was moving from pine tree to pine tree in the lower growth. Bob was able to get photos and we all were able to enjoy watching the beautiful male work its way around for a bit until we needed to leave since the park was closing. Thanks to everyone for posting and sharing the locations from earlier today so I could make it over there to see and hear for the first time! Angie Jenkins Kennesaw, Ga -----Original Message----- From: Georgia Birders Online [mailto:GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ben Thesing Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:22 PM To: GABO-L AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: [GABO-L] Mourning Warbler at Kennesaw Mt. 5/15/2013 PHOTO Hi all, As posted, I refound the MOURNING WARBLER at Kennesaw Mt. today with Rebecca Byrd and Trey Mccuen. Two males were seen chasing each other at close proximity and a female may be present as well. Below is a link to one of my better photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/93284924 AT N07/8743119372/in/photostream Good Birding! Ben Thesing Tucker, GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html. Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Mourning Warbler at Kennesaw Mt. 5/15/2013 PHOTO From: Ben Thesing <crash.thesing AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 20:22:02 -0400 Hi all, As posted, I refound the MOURNING WARBLER at Kennesaw Mt. today with Rebecca Byrd and Trey Mccuen. Two males were seen chasing each other at close proximity and a female may be present as well. Below is a link to one of my better photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/93284924 AT N07/8743119372/in/photostream Good Birding! Ben Thesing Tucker, GA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. Send regular postings to gabo-l AT listserv.uga.edu To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request AT LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Bird Rescue-Rockdale and Fulton Counties From: Steve Slayton <slaytons AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 16:48:10 -0700 This past Sunday was Mothers Day. But we spent our day a little different. My wife found Our mothere Bluebird lying dead in the culdesac, We were hopeing it wasn't ours. But after checking the box, we found neither Male or Female anywhere around. My wife, Louise and myself jsut couldn't let them precious little birds die in that box. Louise maade a few calls and found this place called Aware. The place we took the Bluebirds to was in Lithonia in Rockdale County. They have other places. We took the Bluebird Nestlings over in A shoebox and got there safely. They take in all kinds of wounded Birds. Our Bluebirds ended up in a house in Dunwoody. So, they have a lot of volunteers. Here's the address and phone number in case you evr need their services: Aware, 4158 Klondike Rd., Lithonia, Georgia. The phone Number is 678-418-1111. Hope this can be of help to someone. Good Birding and have A blessed day Steve Slayton Lawrenceville Gwinnett County USA You must be a subscriber to post to GABO-L. Instructions for subscribing (and the guidelines) are found here: http://www.gos.org/gabo.html.  Please read the guidelines before posting. 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