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20 Nov Newton Co: Lesser Yellowlegs + Dunlin [Jed Hertz ]
20 Nov Eagle Marsh, Ft Wayne []
20 Nov Re: sandhill cranes at Eagle Creek [falarn ]
20 Nov Lakefront 20Nov09 Red-necked Grebe ["Kenneth J. Brock" ]
20 Nov GOLDEN EAGLE ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
20 Nov Re: Potato Creek Historical Presentation by Tim Cordell. [Timily Hill ]
20 Nov Mulvey Pond, 11/20/09 [Ning Wu ]
19 Nov Zionsville Canvasback [Bob Royalty ]
19 Nov Tundra swan? [Rob Cassidy ]
19 Nov Celery Bog 11/19/09 ["Michael L. P. Retter" ]
19 Nov American Tree Sparrow, Ross's Goose ["Dunning, John B" ]
19 Nov Hardy Lake and Muscatuck NWR [Tom and Colleen Becker ]
19 Nov Fox Island, Allen County []
19 Nov Re: Ken Brock quoted in Chicago Trib article on Dunes State Park [Timily Hill ]
19 Nov Mulvey Pond, ROGO, 11/19/09 [Ed Hopkins ]
19 Nov Birds and building strikes [Don Gorney ]
19 Nov Re: Ken Brock quoted in Chicago Trib article on Dunes State Park [Chuck Tuttle ]
19 Nov Eagle Creek Park - 11/19/09 [Steve Pancol ]
19 Nov Brookville Lake, 19 Nov [Bill Buskirk ]
19 Nov Re: Ken Brock quoted in Chicago Trib article on Dunes State Park ["Brittain, Ross Alan" ]
18 Nov Mute Swans in Indy [Don Gorney ]
18 Nov FW: eBird Report - Falls of the Ohio (IN) , 11/18/09 [Ed Peter ]
18 Nov Re: Ken Brock quoted in Chicago Trib article on Dunes State Park [Bill Poindexter ]
18 Nov Brookville Lake, 18 Nov [Bill Buskirk ]
18 Nov Tundra Swans [Landon Neumann ]
18 Nov Heritage Lake [Clint Maddox ]
18 Nov No.Goshawk, Krider's Red-tail, No. Shrike ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
18 Nov Potato Creek Historical Presentation by Tim Cordell. [Timily Hill ]
18 Nov Ken Brock quoted in Chicago Trib article on Dunes State Park ["B.G. Sloan" ]
18 Nov Tundra Swans at Fiddler's Pond, Goshen [Dan Stoltzfus ]
18 Nov Eagle Creek Park - 11/18/09 [Steve Pancol ]
18 Nov Marian College Ecolab , 11/18/09 [G L Chastain ]
17 Nov Eagle Marsh Question [Landon Neumann ]
17 Nov FW: eBird Report - Home - Floyds Knobs, IN , 11/17/09 [Ed Peter ]
17 Nov RFI, no sighting [Gary Bowman ]
17 Nov Lake Monroe in the rain ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
17 Nov Eagle Creek Park - 11/17/09 [Steve Pancol ]
17 Nov Eagle Creek - 11/16/09 [Steve Pancol ]
16 Nov J/P, Kankakee Sunday [Bob Huguenard ]
17 Nov Re: Sunday, noon-ish, Eagle Marsh [Ray Troyer ]
16 Nov LaPorte Lake: Nov 16 2009 [Brad Bumgardner ]
16 Nov Sunday, noon-ish, Eagle Marsh [Beverly Richardson ]
16 Nov eagle Marsh Sunday [Rob Cassidy ]
16 Nov L. Lemon - SURF SCOTERS ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
16 Nov SEOWs at Hawthorn Mine Nov 15 [Lee Sterrenburg ]
16 Nov Monroe BLACK SCOTER bonanza [Mike Clarke ]
16 Nov short-eared owls, chinook mine [Peter Scott ]
16 Nov SAS trip to NW Indiana - a paucity of passerines ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
16 Nov Lake Monroe ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
16 Nov IU XC Course, 11/14-11/16 ["B.G. Sloan" ]
16 Nov Beverly Shores 14 Nov - Red-n. Grebe, N. Shrike, ad. male Surf Scoter [Jeff McCoy ]
15 Nov Eagle Marsh, Ft. Wayne []
15 Nov FW: eBird Report - Home - Floyds Knobs, IN , 11/15/09 [Ed Peter ]
15 Nov Summit Lake Loon Comments [Steve Pancol ]
15 Nov Lakefront 11/15 Red-necked Grebe [John Kendall ]
15 Nov Eagle Creek Park - Sunday November 15, 2009 [John Ulmer ]
15 Nov Howell Wetlands 11/15/09 [Tim Griffith ]
15 Nov OT cleaning cement bird baths []
15 Nov OT cleaning cement bird baths [Vicky Foltz ]
15 Nov TODAY HELP SAVE THE BIRDS AT NEWPORT CHEMICAL DEPOT PRAIRIE [Phillip Cox ]
15 Nov SEOW's ["Wilkins, Vern W" ]
15 Nov RBA - Summit Lake - Pacific Loon [Steve Pancol ]
14 Nov Central NW IN, BLSC, 11/14/09 [Ed Hopkins ]
14 Nov Re: 11/14 photos-Ancient Murrelet & BAEA [Lee Sterrenburg ]
14 Nov 11/14 photos-Ancient Murrelet & BAEA [John Kendall ]
14 Nov Deam Lake, Starve Hollow and Ewing Bottoms [Tom and Colleen Becker ]
14 Nov Summit Lake State Park - 11/14/09 [Steve Pancol ]
14 Nov France Park 11/14/09 Eastern Meadowlark, Lincoln's Sparrow, Brown Creeper,Red Winged Blackbird, Pied Billed Grebe [Landon Neumann ]
14 Nov Celery Bog [Russell Allison ]
14 Nov N.W.Indiana 11/14 - Swans, Nuthatches [Michael Topp ]
14 Nov Lincoln's Sparrow, downtown Indy [Larry Peavler ]
14 Nov Lakefront 14Nov09 Red-necked Grebe ["Kenneth J. Brock" ]
14 Nov Fox Island Park, Allen Co. []
14 Nov St. Joseph, Michigan - Ancient Murrelet [Randy Pals ]
14 Nov 11/14 Fox Sparrow...Indiana/Michigan state line [Timily Hill ]
14 Nov Summit Lake State Park - Surf Scoters [Steve Pancol ]

Subject: Newton Co: Lesser Yellowlegs + Dunlin
From: Jed Hertz <jhh_60910 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:31 -0800

Hi all, а Friday 20-Nov-09: TNC Kankakee Sands, Enos, Newton Co, IN + Kankakee Co, IL: а I drove around Newton Co this morning and found 26 species including a Northern Shrike, Dunlin, Rough-legged Hawk, and аBronson's Lesser Yellowlegs.а I also refound the Dunlin in Kankakee Co. on the way home. а BTW: I haven'tаsighted the Northern Rough-winged Swallow at Kankakee Metro-Sewerаfor the last two days. а Here's my lists for the morning: **** IN, TNC Kankakee Sands, Enos, Newton Co 26 0730-1030H (1/2 W + 10 D)_Sun_34-48_WNW 5. а а и и 1 Mallard и а и и 1 Green-winged Teal и Female а и и 2 Ring-necked Pheasant и а а и и 2 Great Blue Heron и а а и и 3 Northern Harrier и 2 imm + Female а и и 3 Red-tailed Hawk и imm + 2 ad а и и 1 Rough-legged Hawk и Light Morph а и и 46 Sandhill Crane и а а и и 3 Killdeer и а а и и 1 Lesser Yellowlegs и Basic; photo а и и 1 Dunlin и Basic; photo а и и 24 Wilson's Snipe и photo а и и 1 Northern Shrike и Perched at top of tree to my SE looking into sun. а и и 1 Blue Jay и а а и и 8 American Crow и а а и и 28 Horned Lark и а а и и 1 Eastern Bluebird и а а и и 32 European Starling и а а и и 7 American Pipit и а а и и 36 American Tree Sparrow и а а и и 9 Savannah Sparrow и а а и и 2 Song Sparrow и а а и и 320 Lapland Longspur и Most in one flock. а и и 1 Northern Cardinal и а а и и 300 Red-winged Blackbird и а а и и 7 American Goldfinch и а а **** IL,аKankakee Co 13 1055-1135H (2.2 D)_Sun_49-51_WNW 5. а а и и 10 Cackling Goose и At least а и и 300 Canada Goose иа а и и 32 Mallard и а а и и 8 Northern Shoveler и а а и и 1 Red-tailed Hawk и а а и и 1 American Kestrel и а а и и 72 Killdeer и а а и и 1 Dunlin и photo а и и 2 Wilson's Snipe и а а и и 3 American Crow и а а и и 2 Horned Lark и а а и и 11 European Starling и а а и и 3 Lapland Longspur иаа Jed Hertz Kankakee, Kankakee Co, IL (60 mi South of Chicago) Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhertz/ Give "ebird" a try: http://ebird.org/content/ebird ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Eagle Marsh, Ft Wayne
From: zzedpowers AT AOL.COM
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:44:11 -0500

I birded at both ends of Eagle Marsh this afternoon. I walked parts of Trails 1 & 2 at the west end, finding much the same stuff that has been seen recently, but with FOS Northern Pintail and American Tree Sparrow. At the east end, I walked Trail 3, hoping there would be lots of sparrows; I still think they might be there, but most were neither visible or audible. There were a few Am Tree Sparrows and Song Sparrows. Incidently, a recently-published trail map for Eagle Marsh is available at Little River Wetlands Project's web site, www.lrwp.org. Canada Goose 10 Mute Swan 3 Gadwall 15 Mallard 125 Northern Pintail 2 Pied-billed Grebe 5 Great Blue Heron 4 Red-tailed Hawk 5 American Coot 230 Killdeer 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Blue Jay 1 European Starling 150 American Tree Sparrow 13 Song Sparrow 9 American Goldfinch 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Ed Powers Allen County = ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Re: sandhill cranes at Eagle Creek
From: falarn <falarn AT INDY.NET>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:19 -0500

I was hearing multiple multiple calls this afternoon, but couldn't see any from the far west side of the park Big Sue in Hendricks Co. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Day" To: Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 3:44 PM Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] sandhill cranes at Eagle Creek > Today (Fri) at 3:45, Greg Page just called to say there are 2 sandhill > cranes at Eagle Creek, I think somewhere near the Coffer Dam. He hears > more possibly at the north end loop, is going to see. > Liz D. > Indianapolis > > ********************************************************** > Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives > search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html > To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. > To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: > listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu > With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME > LASTNAME > where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. > To contact the listowner, send an email to > in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu > ********************************************************** > ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Lakefront 20Nov09 Red-necked Grebe
From: "Kenneth J. Brock" <kj.brock AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:24:38 -0600

Today (20 November 09) Jeff McCoy and I birded the lakefront. We found little movement on the lake; however, excellent Red-breasted Merganser and Horned Grebe counts were logged. We also recorded a Red- necked Grebe and two Gray Catbirds. HIGHLIGHTS MILLER BEACH Greater Scaup (4) Lesser Scaup (2) White-winged Scoter (1) Red-breasted Merganser (2240- in a giant offshore raft- this is the stateТs 7th largest daily count) Red-throated Loon (2- 1 juv & 1 not aged) Common Loon (70) Horned Grebe (206- put up by passing boats) RED-NECKED GREBE (1- with flying Horned Grebes) Great Black-backed Gull (1 first-cycle) Horned Lark (1) Snow Bunting (6) LONG LAKE Gadwall (2) Ring-necked Duck (5) Com. Goldeneye (2 females) Bufflehead (14) Hooded Merganser (1 male) OGDEN DUNES Red-throated Loon (1 ad) Horned Grebe (40) Red-breasted Nuthatch (2) Gray Catbird (1- though several December reports exist this is the lakefrontТs latest November record) BEVERLY SHORES (Lakefront) White-winged Scoter (2) Red-breasted Merganser (60) Common Loon (20) Horned Grebe (41) Beverly shores (on Beverly Drive) E. Screech-Owl (1 called at mid-day) Gray Catbird (1- though several December records exist this is the lakefrontТs latest November record) MICHIGAN CITY HARBOR Common Loon (3) Horned Grebe (43) BonaparteТs Gull (21) Ken Brock Chesterton, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: GOLDEN EAGLE
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:45:21 -0500

I tried to bird Monroe this morning, but dense fog made it impossible. Accordingly I headed back down at about 12:30 - still patches of fog but good visibility on the lake and surrounding hillsides. the highlights: Canada Goose - 36 Lesser Scaup - 6 Hooded Merganser - 2 Common Loon - 29 Am. Coot - 6 (being dive-bombed by two adult Bald Eagles) Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adults, 1 juv) Cooper's Hawk - 1 (imm) Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 GOLDEN EAGLE - 1 (probably second-year - all dark blackish-brown, golden nape, faint white line at base of primaries on both upper wing and under wing - tail with pale brown base and very dark terminal band. Head projection much less than the juv Bald Eagle with which it was circling. Both birds seen circling over Middle Fork Refuge - light excellent with no heat distortion - seen at 1:05) Turkey Vulture - 45 BLACK VULTURE - 8 Ring-billed Gull - 5 Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Great Blue Heron - 2 Belted Kingfisher - 2 Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (imm) No. Flicker - 4 E. Bluebird - 8 Am. Robin - 6 White-thr. Sparrow - 4 Fox Sparrow - 1 Dark-eyed Junco - 35 Don Whitehead Bloomington whitehea AT indiana.edu ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Re: Potato Creek Historical Presentation by Tim Cordell.
From: Timily Hill <timily888 AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:09:20 +0000

Tim has┬аinformed me that he will be presenting this program again on Saturday, December 26th at 2pm. See details below.... Tim Hill ~~~ ┬аRock out with your binocs out! ┬а~~~ Tim & Emily Hill St. Joe County POTATO CREEK S.P. ┬а& NW INDIANA 2009 SIGHT RECORD MAP (NOW 2┬аPAGES! BE SURE TO CLICK ON PG. 2 AT COLUMN BOTTOM): http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108847996890583469508.00046d922fa334e8ca031&t=h&ll=41.55577,-86.354384&spn=0.018755,0.045276&z=15 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timily Hill" To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:48:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Potato Creek Historical Presentation by Tim Cordell. This past Saturday, 11/14, Emily and I attended a presentation by Tim Cordell...Interpretive Naturalist at Potato Creek State Park. Of all the hundreds of times we have hiked, birded and poked around in the deepest recesses of that park, there was still so much we didn't know about its history and development. Tim gave an excellent┬аhour-long photo presentation that was particularly fascinating to us since we are there so often. Tim has been there for 30+ years if I remember correctly, and is a wealth of knowledge on how it came to be. He displayed dozens of historical photos of how the 6 square miles looked long before it became a state park...as well as topographical maps describing its glacier-carved geology. There is simply too much information to relay here, but I urge folks to attend Tim's presentation next time it comes up. Very interesting stuff.... Tim Hill ~~~ ┬аRock out with your binocs out! ┬а~~~ Tim & Emily Hill St. Joe County POTATO CREEK S.P. ┬а& NW INDIANA 2009 SIGHT RECORD MAP (NOW 2┬аPAGES! BE SURE TO CLICK ON PG. 2 AT COLUMN BOTTOM): http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108847996890583469508.00046d922fa334e8ca031&t=h&ll=41.55577,-86.354384&spn=0.018755,0.045276&z=15 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Mulvey Pond, 11/20/09
From: Ning Wu <tippbird AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:18:21 -0500

Hi, everyone. Russ from West Lafayette kindly told me about this listserv. This is my first report here. Went to Mulvey pond at 7:30 this morning. Visibility was not great due to the fog. It wasn't until around 8 that the sun got high enough for me to ID the Snow Goose and Ross's Geese reported yesterday. When I was leaving around 8:30, they took flight and flew north. Here is the summary: Mulvey Pond, 11/19/09 Tippecanoe CR500N & US231 Ross' Goose, 6 Snow Goose, 1 Canada Goose, ~50 Mallard, ~20 Wood Duck, 2 American Coot, ~40 Pied-billed Grebe, 2 Blue Jan, 2 American Crow, 1 Regards, Ning ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Zionsville Canvasback
From: Bob Royalty <royaltyr AT WABASH.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:06:43 -0500

I had an FOY male Canvasback on the 96th St. Lake this afternoon. There are lots of Coots and Mallards, of course, plus a nice number of Green-winged Teal, Northern Shovelers, and a couple of Gadwall. Bob R. ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Tundra swan?
From: Rob Cassidy <rcassidy66 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:04:04 -0500

While birding briefly on my lunch hour in Urbana, In. I heard honking overhead and caught a super straight line of white geese heading southeast. All white body and wings except black feet and black bill and head. tundra? Rob Cassidy ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Celery Bog 11/19/09
From: "Michael L. P. Retter" <mlretter AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:57:15 -0800

Matt and I unsuccessfully chased Ed Hopkins's Ross's Geese at Mulvey Pond this evening, so we checked Celery Bog. Location: Celery Bog Observation date: 11/19/09 Number of species: 19 Canada Goose 60 Mute Swan 3 Gadwall 8 American Black Duck 1 American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 1 Mallard 40 Northern Shoveler 3 Redhead 1 Ring-necked Duck 1 Lesser Scaup 2 Bufflehead 3 Hooded Merganser 2 Ruddy Duck 5 Pied-billed Grebe 5 Great Blue Heron 4 Cooper's Hawk 1 American Coot 400 Downy Woodpecker 2 American Robin 2 White-throated Sparrow 1 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Michael L. P. Retter --------------------------------- W. Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., IN mlretter AT yahoo.com home: 765.838.3152 cell: 309.824.7317 http://xenospiza.com/ Tour Leader, Tropical Birding http://www.tropicalbirding.com/ ----------------------------------- ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: American Tree Sparrow, Ross's Goose
From: "Dunning, John B" <jdunning AT PURDUE.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:32:56 -0500

A quick trip to Pine Creek in Benton County yielded no waterfowl. But I did get my first-of-the-season AMERICAN TREE SPARROW. The ROSS'S GEESE reported earlier by Ed Hopkins at Mulvey Pond were feeding in the agricultural field just to the north of Mulvey Pond, in an area of disked corn stubble. Barny Misner13 AT verizon.net ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Hardy Lake and Muscatuck NWR
From: Tom and Colleen Becker <Cbirding AT AOL.COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:03:12 -0500

Location: Hardy Lake Observation date: 11/19/09 Number of species: 16 White-winged Scoter 2 Ruddy Duck 7 Common Loon 13 Bald Eagle 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 8 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 2 Eastern Bluebird 3 European Starling 1 Savannah Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 5 Location: Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge Observation date: 11/19/09 Notes: Sandhill Cranes were heard only, no idea as to numbers. Number of species: 34 Canada Goose 175 Gadwall 18 American Black Duck 7 Mallard 250 Green-winged Teal 15 Ring-necked Duck 14 Hooded Merganser 1 Wild Turkey 10 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Great Blue Heron 5 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 American Kestrel 1 American Coot 5 Sandhill Crane X Wilson's Snipe 12 Mourning Dove 9 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 10 Carolina Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 4 White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 3 Carolina Wren 2 Eastern Bluebird 7 American Robin 8 Northern Mockingbird 2 White-throated Sparrow 3 Dark-eyed Junco 8 Northern Cardinal 7 Purple Finch 3 House Finch 7 American Goldfinch 12 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Fox Island, Allen County
From: zzedpowers AT AOL.COM
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0500

I tagged along on a trail guide training hike at Fox Island this morning. A lot of atention was directed at mosses and fungi, so birding got short shrift. Birds were mostly the expected, but we did have a flyover immature BALD EAGLE. Bald Eagle 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 1 Carolina Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 6 Carolina Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Northern Cardinal 2 American Goldfinch 3 House Sparrow 1 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Ed Powers Allen County ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Re: Ken Brock quoted in Chicago Trib article on Dunes State Park
From: Timily Hill <timily888 AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:56:55 +0000

It's important that folks arm themselves with the facts...facts that are offered by top national meteorologists like Joe Bastardi...meteorologists who have no agendas and┬аnothing to gain like so many other entities such as The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). I attached a link below with a 6-minute video from AccuWeather's Joe Bastardi that clearly explains what is transpiring currently with Global Warming. He begins by addressing September's wildfires in California...but his presentation is really about Global W arming in general once he initially speaks about California. It's very interesting and is well worth the 6-minute investment to view it and learn. ACCUWEATHER VIDEO┬а ------------> http://www.accuweather.com/video-on-demand.asp?video=37129475001 Tim Hill ~~~ ┬аRock out with your binocs out! ┬а~~~ Tim & Emily Hill St. Joe County POTATO CREEK S.P. ┬а& NW INDIANA 2009 SIGHT RECORD MAP (NOW 2┬аPAGES! BE SURE TO CLICK ON PG. 2 AT COLUMN BOTTOM): http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108847996890583469508.00046d922fa334e8ca031&t=h&ll=41.55577,-86.354384&spn=0.018755,0.045276&z=15 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Mulvey Pond, ROGO, 11/19/09
From: Ed Hopkins <birder4in AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:56:46 -0500

Mulvey Pond, 11/19/09 Tippecanoe CR500N & US231 N of Montmorenci Highlight: Ross' Geese and Snow Goose; all were white-plumaged adults Ross' Goose,6 Snow Goose,1 Canada Goose,405 Mallard,98 Wood Duck,3 Ring-necked Duck,2 Pied-billed Grebe,4 American Coot,19 Sandhill Crane,2 Blue Jay,1 Red-bellied Woodpecker,1 ==== Ed Hopkins W Lafayette, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Birds and building strikes
From: Don Gorney <dongorney AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:28:19 -0800

A few news items about building strikes: A recent article in the Chicago Tribune addresses building strikes in Chicago.а The article can be viewed at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/family/chi-1115-birdmigratenov15,0,6325117.story?page=1 Lights Out Indy was featured during a news story on WTHR, Channel 13, Indianapolis on November 18.а The story centered around one of the more problematic buildings:а The State House.а The story and video can be viewed at: http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=11532917 We are just starting to aggregate the Lights Out Indy data for the year so I don't have specific totals and species listings.а However, we had more than 500 downed (stunned/injured/dead) birds for 2009 with just a little effort in searching.а The 500+ birds represents just a small fraction of the birds that are actually being affected by building strikes.а It is a much larger problem than I could have imagined.а There were probably 60 or more species involved and they include Yellow Rail, American Kestrel, Summer Tanager, and Mourning Warbler.а Once we have the data assembled we will start sifting through it to provide more specific information about the species and number of birds affected.а Since migration has wound down we are not actively looking for birds.а We will likely begin searching again in late March.а We could use volunteers if you have some time available and are able to be in downtown Indianapolis during morning hours. One odd thing I learned is that bats are also affected by building strikes.а We rescued a handful of bats this fall that had collided with buildings.а Big Brown and Silver-haired were the species I could ID.а Bat rescue probably is not for everyone and I must admit some apprehension when a bat is picked up (while wearing gloves) and it starts showing off its teeth and fussing.а Don Gorney Amos W. Butler Audubon Society, President Lights Out Indy, Program Coordinator Indianapolis, IN dongorney AT yahoo.com amosbutleraudubon.org lightsoutindy.org ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Re: Ken Brock quoted in Chicago Trib article on Dunes State Park
From: Chuck Tuttle <catuttle AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:51:10 -0500

At the risk of taking this too far off topic, I'd like to add an observation to Dr. Brittian's comments. In his message he stated "Interestingly there is little evidence of climate warming here in Indiana..." I'm am not a scientist, just a printer who watches birds and observes. And I don't have hard numbers to support this observation. For the past 30 or so years, I've been a fairly regular participant here in Tippecanoe County in the Big Day count, always held on the second Saturday in May. Recognizing that there is some variation in the actual timing due to the calendar, I can say that when I first started, you could count on the need to bundle up most of the time because it would be chilly and you could count on the majority of trees not having anything more that the first signs of leaves. For the past several years, most of the time you could count on working up a good sweat during the count and having a really hard time finding birds because the leaves were full out, and have been for a week or two. That's quite a change in just 30 year's time. No speculation on the cause, just an observation. As for birds at lunch today at the feeder, it's been the usual Titmice, Chickadees, Juncos, House Sparrows, Blue Jay, WB Nuthatch, and for a little spice, a Carolina Wren. Chuck Tuttle West Lafayette, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Eagle Creek Park - 11/19/09
From: Steve Pancol <s.pancol AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:05 -0500

Eagle Creek Park - Marion County - 11/19/09 - Thursday Most of the birds from Mondays weather event have moved on. The Loons that stayed behind have scattered around the lake to fish. A small group are still rafted up at Dandy Trail Pull Off. Coffer Dam: 11 Double-crested Cormorants 2 Black Ducks 5 Mallards 2 Green-winged Teal 2 Buffleheads 1 Bald Eagle - adult at west channel Marina: 1 Common Loon 10 Ruddy Ducks Rick's Cafe - 38th Street Dam: 1 Common Loon Dandy Trail Boat Launch - Pull Off: 14 Common Loons 1 Double-crested Cormorant 56th Street Overlook: Drive west over the 56th Street Bridge and turn right (north) on the other side. 6 Common Loons 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - great photo op. for someone. Two days in a row I have encountered this adult bird as I pulled into this overlook area. It sits on the telephone/ electric cable just as you pull in here. It showed no fear as I drove underneath it. It is hunting songbirds feeding on honeysuckle berries here. This is the closest I have been to a Red-shouldered Hawk. -- Steve Pancol Anderson,Indiana Madison County Website:http://stevepancol.com New photos on Bird Alerts page ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Brookville Lake, 19 Nov
From: Bill Buskirk <billb AT EARLHAM.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:11:38 -0500

I returned to Brookville Lake this morning to see what changes had occurred overnight in the waterbird numbers. It appears that the Horned Grebes and many of the ducks I had last night moved on before I got there shortly after light this morning. I failed to report gull numbers last night, today's count was similar to last evenings. This morning's highlights: Wood Duck 1 Mallard 21 Green-winged Teal 1 (8 last evening) Ring-necked Duck 0 Bufflehead 14 (0 last evening) Hooded Merganser 81 (lots of display behavior!) Red-breasted Merganser 0 (15 last evening) Ruddy Duck 0 (28 last evening) Common Loon 4 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Horned Grebe 0 (41 last evening) Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 11 (numbers decreasing now) Killdeer 20 (mud flats are beginning to appear at Treaty Line, the Army Corps seems to have started draw down late this year). Bald Eagle 2 Red-tailed Hawk 11 (at least two sets of two sitting next to each other -- residents?) Bonaparte's Gull 420 (mostly in the northern areas of the lake) Ring-billed Gull 6 (unusually low numbers of RBGU over last couple of weeks) American Tree Sparrow 11 (my FOS) Bill Buskirk Richmond, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Re: Ken Brock quoted in Chicago Trib article on Dunes State Park
From: "Brittain, Ross Alan" <rabritta AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:10:02 -0500

Hi Bill and all, Wow, that's a big issue to open up on the forum, yet it is an important one for bird conservation. The federal government now mandates the states to plan for climate change in their Wildlife Action Plans, something that the IDNR is now in the process of doing. First let me say that I am not a climatologist, I am an ecologist, so I will not claim expertise in the climate models used to predict what has happened and what will happen by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (The IPCC is the source of most of the climate information discussed below.) The easy answer to your direct question is that no, humans did not cause the global warming that melted the glaciers ~12,000 years ago. There are natural processes that drive these iceage/global warming cycles and they are still in operation today. Solar activity, which has its own cycle, can warm the earth and volcanic activity can cool the earth. Decomposition of organic matter stored in soils and at the ocean floor can release large amounts of methane and carbon dioxide that can warm the earth (the Permian-Triassic extinction event was believed to have been caused by a bubble of methane released from the ocean ~251 million years ago). These cycles have all been part of the natural process, and humans have added to the natural processes by releasing carbon that had been stored in rocks (oil and coal) back out into the atmosphere (heat forcing) and releasing sulphur dioxide which has a cooling force effect (also causes horrible respiratory illnesses, though). However, some things are different now that give great cause for concern from a conservation standpoint... As climates warmed in the past, decompostion increased releasing more greenhouse gases from soils, but vast forests (and ocean plankton) sprouted up to absorb the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, eventually reaching a tipping point and the climate started to cool back down. Some people compare this process to the earth breathing in and out on a geologic timescale. One major difference between past climate change events and this one is that we (humans) are not letting the forests grow that would otherwise absorb the carbon releases. Both carbon dioxide and methane concentrations are continuing to rise past levels known from the last ~400,000 years worth of climate cycles. Basically we are conducting a global biologic experiment with no idea of the eventual outcome. The precautionary principle warns us to be careful, but some people/governments do not prescribe to the precautionary principle, which along with the proportion of change caused by man leads to the heated debates we have today about climate change. (FYI the IPCC believes that humans are responsible for ~50% of the climate change occuring today based on their models, the other 50% is from natural processes of course, mainly the solar cycle). During past warming/cooling cycles the earth's biomes were fairly contiguous and able to shift with the changing climate, but now these same biomes are fragmented such that key species of plants and animals that make these biomes function in ways that humans find beneficial (food, medicine, nutrient storage, etc.) are no longer able to move with the changing climate. Species will become stranded in inhospitable areas and wink out of existence (e.g. polar bears with no ice packs left to follow). Interestingly there is little evidence of climate warming here in Indiana and the rest of the eastern US. There are several issues involved with this... 1) climate is over a decadal timescale such that a single weather event or season does not define it, 2) global climate is defined by just that, global averages, such that one region does not define it, 3) midwestern coal burning pumps large amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, which has a cooling effect and is the likely reason why this part of the world hasn't warmed, 4) climate is more than just temperature it is also precipitation... how many 100+ year flood events have we had in the last decade?, 5) temperature variability is also an important part of climate and this area has seen a reduction in the severity of winter cold spells even though the average winter temperature hasn't changed much... without deep cold events species that otherwise are killed in winter end up surviving (this could be good or bad depending on the species) and the timing of biological events is changed. Several flowers, insects and birds are appearing earlier in the spring because of the lack of deep cold spells. An avian conservation concern here is the lack of the synchronized emergence of insect prey with arrival of neotropical migrants such that the birds starve or are unable to raise young due to a lack of food at the proper time. There are many other issues that could be discussed, but I am going to leave it there. Hope I haven't stirred up a hornets nest, but then again, that can make for some interesting discussion... Happy Birding, Dr. Ross Brittain Indiana Director of Bird Conservation National Audubon Society Quoting Bill Poindexter : > I know that man has caused a lot of damage to nature. One thing I > always wondered is, did global warming caused by man melt the > glaciers that came as far south as the Ohio River way back when? > Meteorologists say that this global warming is just a phase that the > earth is going through. I just wondered. > > > B.G. Sloan wrote: >> Today's Chicago Tribune has an article about the imperiled >> ecosystem of Indiana Dunes State Park. It includes a couple of >> quotes from Ken Brock: >> >> http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/green/chi-indiana-dunes-south-18-nov18,0,4642992.story >> Bernie Sloan >> >> >> ********************************************************** >> Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? 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Subject: Mute Swans in Indy
From: Don Gorney <dongorney AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:50:57 -0800

I checked the Precedent Office Park pond (south of 96th Street and east of Keystone in Indianapolis) on the afternoon of November 18.а Two Mute Swans were the only birds present.а I had an additional two Mute Swans at the gravel pit lake about a mile east of the Precedent Office Park.а About 10 Ring-necked Ducks were at the Keystone at the Crossing Pond on the south side of I-465.а Coots were the only other species present.а Don Gorney Amos W. Butler Audubon Society, President Lights Out Indy, Program Coordinator Indianapolis, IN dongorney AT yahoo.com amosbutleraudubon.org lightsoutindy.org ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: FW: eBird Report - Falls of the Ohio (IN) , 11/18/09
From: Ed Peter <e.peter AT INSIGHTBB.COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:46:59 -0500

A very chilly overcast morning at the Falls. Dam gates partially open but a portion of the fossil beds were still exposed. Heavy activity with the cormorants and gulls. At times they were sitting on the river in mixed flocks. A one time, there were no cormorants sitting on the dam wall which is very unusual. I also saw a flock of 20+ ducks sitting on the river near the entrance to the locks but was unable to get a positive identification. I think they may have been Ring-necked ducks. Location: Falls of the Ohio (IN) Observation date: 11/18/09 Number of species: 22 Note: Falls of the Ohio is an Indiana State park on the Indiana - Kentucky border. Some birds were seen in Indiana, some birds were seen in Kentucky and some birds were seen in both states. Canada Goose 5 Mallard 6 Double-crested Cormorant 75 Great Blue Heron 18 Cooper's Hawk 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Ring-billed Gull 50 Herring Gull 4 Rock Pigeon 4 Mourning Dove 9 Downy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 2 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 American Robin 6 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 4 Dark-eyed Junco 2 Northern Cardinal 4 House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Ed Peter Floyds Knobs ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Re: Ken Brock quoted in Chicago Trib article on Dunes State Park
From: Bill Poindexter <bpoindex AT SEIDATA.COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:29:06 -0500

I know that man has caused a lot of damage to nature. One thing I always wondered is, did global warming caused by man melt the glaciers that came as far south as the Ohio River way back when? Meteorologists say that this global warming is just a phase that the earth is going through. I just wondered. B.G. Sloan wrote: > > Today's Chicago Tribune has an article about the imperiled ecosystem of Indiana Dunes State Park. It includes a couple of quotes from Ken Brock: > > http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/green/chi-indiana-dunes-south-18-nov18,0,4642992.story > > Bernie Sloan > > > > > ********************************************************** > Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives > search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html > To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. > To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu > With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME > where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. > To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu > ********************************************************** > > . > > ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Brookville Lake, 18 Nov
From: Bill Buskirk <billb AT EARLHAM.EDU>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:14:08 -0500

A quick visit to Brookville Lake this evening netted the following highlights, all either off Dunlapsville Causeway or off Sagamore Resort (Union County all): American Black Duck 1 Mallard 13 Green-winged Teal 8 Ring-necked Duck 7 Hooded Merganser 82 Red-breasted Merganser 15 Ruddy Duck 28 Common Loon 2 Horned Grebe 41 (a high count here in fall) For the past week I've had 2 Fox Sparrows and up to 5 Purple Finches visiting my home feeders in southern Wayne County. Bill Buskirk Richmond, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Tundra Swans
From: Landon Neumann <coryneumann AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:53:04 -0500

Today I had 10 Tundra Swans fly over my yard, and I had 6 Dark Eyed Juncos at my feeders. Landon Neumann Logansport Logansport Cass County ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Heritage Lake
From: Clint Maddox <clint.maddox AT AIRHOP.COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:27:31 -0500

Hello Birders, While driving to the northeast corner of Putnam Co. today, I couldn't pass up a look at Heritage Lake. I'm glad I stopped to have a look. Horned Grebe-3 Pied-billed Grebe-2 Canvasback-21 Ruddy Duck-45 Coot-60+ Common Loon-36 GB Heron-1 Mallard-3 L. Scaup-3 Bufflehead-14 Canada Goose-27 Red-tailed Hawk-1 Clint Maddox, W. Putnam Co. ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: No.Goshawk, Krider's Red-tail, No. Shrike
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:55:09 -0500

This morning Don Allen and I birded the Hawthorn Mine, areas to the SE of the mine, and spots in transit. A very good day, but once again, lacking in sparrows. The highlights; Route 67 S of Switz City and Jessup's Pond: Canada Goose - 145 GR. WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE - 11 Mallard - 25 Ring-necked Duck - 25 No. Harrier - 2 (imm) Cooper's Hawk - 2 (imm) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Co. Grackle - 25,000 enormous flock along 67 near CR100S Beehunter 4/5 and field just E of 1000W: No. Harrier - 4 (1 male, 3 imm) NORTHERN GOSHAWK - 1 (imm - flew right in front of us from BH5S, across 100 chasing a male harrier - flew over field on 1000W and then headed W. Chunky tubular shape, pale superciliary, pale bar on upperwing coverts, heavily streaked breast, banded tail - stiff wing beats). Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Horned Lark - 8 LAPLAND LONGSPUR - 7 (flew from field just W of 1000w) Red-winged Blackbird - 2500 Co. Grackle - 5000 Brown-headed Cowbird - 100 Rusty Blackbird - 250 BREWER'S BLACKBIRD - 10 (all blackbirds in fields along 1000W - some on road - in excellent light) Area SE of Hawthorn Mine - mostly Knox County Canada Goose - 250 No. Harrier - 3 (1 male, 1 female, 1 imm) Cooper's Hawk - 1 (imm) Red-tailed Hawk - 5 Rough-legged Hawk - 3 (1 dark imm, 1 light imm, 1 light adult fem) Am. Kestrel - 2 No. Bobwhite - heard No. Flicker - 6 E. Bluebird - 4 Horned Lark - 19 Red-winged Blackbird - 150 E. Meadowlark - 24 Hawthorn Mine: Ring-necked Duck - 12 Greater Scaup - 3 (all females) Pied-billed Grebe - 1 No. Harrier - 19 (5 males, 3 females, 11 imm) Cooper's Hawk - 1 (imm) Red-tailed Hawk - 8 KRIDER'S RED-TAILED HAWK - 1 (juv - perched in tree along 700S just S of 1000 - extreme south end of mine - wonderful views - very pale, head almost all white, dark eye-line, belly pale, no breast band, back and wings relatively pale grayish-brown and mottled with white. In flight tail almost all white with narrow dark bands near tip) Rough-legged Hawk - 9 (3 dark phase, 6 light [4 imm]) Am. Kestrel - 3 NORTHERN SHRIKE - 1 (along 825S just W of haul road - was perched on N side of 825, flew to S, landed on tree near shore of lake, then flew further S) Horned Lark - 6 No. Flicker - 11 E. Meadowlark - 21 Don Whitehead Bloomington whitehea AT indiana.edu Co. Grackle - 500 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Potato Creek Historical Presentation by Tim Cordell.
From: Timily Hill <timily888 AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:48:30 +0000

This past Saturday, 11/14, Emily and I attended a presentation by Tim Cordell...Interpretive Naturalist at Potato Creek State Park. Of all the hundreds of times we have hiked, birded and poked around in the deepest recesses of that park, there was still so much we didn't know about its history and development. Tim gave an excellent┬аhour-long photo presentation that was particularly fascinating to us since we are there so often. Tim has been there for 30+ years if I remember correctly, and is a wealth of knowledge on how it came to be. He displayed dozens of historical photos of how the 6 square miles looked long before it became a state park...as well as topographical maps describing its glacier-carved geology. There is simply too much information to relay here, but I urge folks to attend Tim's presentation next time it comes up. Very interesting stuff.... Tim Hill ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Ken Brock quoted in Chicago Trib article on Dunes State Park
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:30:04 -0800

а Today's Chicago Tribune has an article about the imperiled ecosystem of Indiana Dunes State Park. It includes a couple of quotes from Ken Brock: а http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/green/chi-indiana-dunes-south-18-nov18,0,4642992.story а Bernie Sloan а ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Tundra Swans at Fiddler's Pond, Goshen
From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:08:11 EST

Yesterday, Nov. 17, I picked up Leon Yoder and his son to see the Tundra Swans I found at Fiddler's Pond near my home in Goshen. Our report: Location: Home area Observation date: 11/17/09 Notes: Dull, rainy day until a break in the rain about 2:30 PM. I picked up Perry Yoder when I first saw the Tundra Swans so he could see them too. When the sky brightened up I took a few photos to check ID and the black bills, slope from top of head to end of bill and the slightly curved line where the white feathers meet the bill confirmed the ID. Number of species: 18 Canada Goose 320 TUNDRA SWAN 19 (Could not be found this AM) Mallard 24 Canvasback 1 Ring-necked Duck 11 Lesser Scaup 5 Surf Scoter 4 Bufflehead 1 Ruddy Duck 55 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 American Coot 48 Ring-billed Gull 60 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 4 Dark-eyed Junco 4 Northern Cardinal 2 American Goldfinch 7 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Dan Stoltzfus Elkhart county ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Eagle Creek Park - 11/18/09
From: Steve Pancol <s.pancol AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:04:40 -0500

Eagle Creek Park - 11/18/09 - 12.30 P.M. - Wednesday Coffer Dam: 2 Horned Grebes 3 Double-crested Cormorants 5 Great Blue Herons 5 Mallards 1 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Mockingbird 2 Killdeer 109 Ring-billed Gulls 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Pileated Woodpecker Marina: 1 COMMON TERN - WOW !! This bird was sitting on a buoy 100 yards south of the porch of the Marina Ski Lodge. Long red legs, a faint dark carpal bar. Blackish primaries and worn. 62 Common Loons 6 Horned Grebes 1 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Hooded Merganser - male 2 Ruddy Ducks 1 Ring-billed Gull Dandy Trail Boat Launch-Pull Off 60 Common Loons 12 Horned Grebes 4 Ring-necked Ducks 18 Red-breasted Mergansers Ricks Cafe - 38th Street Dam 1 Common Loon 1 Pied-billed Grebe A total of 123 Common Loons. -- Steve Pancol Anderson,Indiana Madison County Website:http://stevepancol.com New photos on Bird Alerts page ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Marian College Ecolab , 11/18/09
From: G L Chastain <glcbirds AT MSN.COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:18:59 -0500

Bird of the day at the Ecolab this morning was a Merlin having breakfast on top of a tall tree. Gordon Chastain Marion County > > Location: Marian College Ecolab > Observation date: 11/18/09 > Number of species: 24 > > Mallard 6 > Merlin 1 > Ring-billed Gull 1 > Mourning Dove 2 > Belted Kingfisher 2 > Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 > Downy Woodpecker 2 > Blue Jay 3 > American Crow 8 > Carolina Chickadee 4 > Tufted Titmouse 2 > White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 5 > Brown Creeper 1 > Carolina Wren 4 > Winter Wren 1 > Eastern Bluebird 1 > American Robin 3 > European Starling 16 > Song Sparrow 3 > White-throated Sparrow 3 > Northern Cardinal 6 > Red-winged Blackbird 5 > American Goldfinch 14 > House Sparrow X > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Eagle Marsh Question
From: Landon Neumann <coryneumann AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:47:39 -0500

I will be in Eagle Marsh this Saturday,and will be focusing on looking for ducks. Where are the best trails to do this? ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: FW: eBird Report - Home - Floyds Knobs, IN , 11/17/09
From: Ed Peter <e.peter AT INSIGHTBB.COM>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:44:30 -0500

Dreary rainy day turned out to be a super day for backyard birding. Watched a flock of crows harassing a Red-shouldered hawk. Could hear the hawk screaming and the crows cawing even though the windows were closed. At one point, the screaming hawk was perched about 100' from my windows. Location: Home - Floyds Knobs, IN Observation date: 11/17/09 Notes: Site Survey Project Number of species: 23 Canada Goose 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 8 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 6 American Crow 7 Carolina Chickadee 6 Tufted Titmouse 7 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 1 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 50 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 8 Northern Cardinal 8 Red-winged Blackbird 4 House Finch 8 American Goldfinch 12 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: RFI, no sighting
From: Gary Bowman <otus44 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:53:40 -0500

If anyone one knows if there is going to be a CBC conducted for Elkhart, Crane, or Hancock County, please let me know off board. Thanks. Gary Bowman ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Lake Monroe in the rain
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:33:11 -0500

I made brief stops at both Paynetown and Cutright on Lake Monroe this morning. Viewing conditions miserable - brisk NE wind and rain. Visibility limited. Not many highlights: Paynetown: Canada Goose - 26 Common Loon - 15 Horned Grebe - 1 Bald Eagle - 2 (adults) Cooper's Hawk - 1 (imm) Great Blue Heron - 2 Turkey Vulture - 1 American Robin - 6 White-thr. Sparrow - 2 Dark-eyed Junco - 16 Don Allen - 1 Cutright: Canada Goose - 12 Common Loon - 3 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Fox Sparrow - 1 Dark-eyed Junco - 8 Don Allen - 1 (counting Blue Jays) Don Whitehead Bloomington whitehea AT indiana.edu ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Eagle Creek Park - 11/17/09
From: Steve Pancol <s.pancol AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:57:58 -0500

Eagle Creek Park - Marion County - 11/17/09 When I saw it was raining this morning I got excited. What birds would the rain put down. So I headed down to work early so I could stop in Eagle Creek for an hour or so. On the way down I said to myself, as long as I don't see another loon this week I'll be alright. Oh well. Coffer Dam: 2 Bonaparte's Gulls X Ring-billed Gulls 1500+ Coots 2 Pied-billed Grebes Marina: 73 COMMON LOONS 3 Buffleheads Ricks Cafe: Dam by 38th Street 1 COMMON LOON 1 Double-crested Cormorant Dandy Trail Boat Launch - Pull Off 68 COMMON LOONS A total of 142 Common Loons. No unusual Loons among them that could be detected in the pouring rain, thank God. I've been through enough this week. -- Steve Pancol Anderson,Indiana Madison County Website:http://stevepancol.com New photos on Bird Alerts page ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Eagle Creek - 11/16/09
From: Steve Pancol <s.pancol AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:10:20 -0500

Eagle Creek Park - 11/16/09 - Marion County Monday 1 Bald Eagle - Adult - Coffer Dam 8 Ruddy Ducks - Marina 1 Common Loon - Rick's Cafe - Dam by 38th Street -- Steve Pancol Anderson,Indiana Madison County Website:http://stevepancol.com New photos on Bird Alerts page ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: J/P, Kankakee Sunday
From: Bob Huguenard <roberthuguenard AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:07:21 -0500

Hi, I went for a early AM visit to Jasper/Pulaski on Sunday morning. There were thousands of Sandhills, including 5 banded ones I reported to Saving Cranes. On the previous Thursday, I had 4 different banded cranes, including the same bird that is used to show the variety of bands used. It was # 201 banded in Ontario this spring. I also had # 202 and on Sunday #207, among others. On the way back I cruised Toto Rd. DNR has reconfigured the marsh on Toto Rd., building a jetty around the main marsh and widening the ditch that runs the perimeter. It was raining pretty steady, so I didn't get out of the car, but I did note 23 Snow Geese (5 Blue), 7 GWFG, thousands of Canadas. Visibility was poor, but I did manage to see a few Ring Neck, N. Pintail, and a lot of Mallards. I continued towards home driving north on SR 39 and had 51 Tundra Swans and 7 Bonaparte's Gulls in a flooded corn field a couple of miles south of US 30 on the east side of the road. (by the Grand Kankakee Hunting Club sign.) Bob North Liberty ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Re: Sunday, noon-ish, Eagle Marsh
From: Ray Troyer <raytroyer AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:44:37 +0000

I stopped at this very location on Sat. 6:00 pm on my way back from Indy.┬а I did scope them and they were Mute Swans. Ray Troyer Goshen, Elkhart Co ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly Richardson" To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:49:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Sunday, noon-ish, Eagle Marsh I neglected to report this yesterday, Sunday, 11/15. ┬аWhile overlooking Eagle Marsh from the the drive behind Verizon (I stopped approximately at the "company vehicles" sign), I spotted three swans swimming among what I guessed were several dozen American Coots, mid-marsh. ┬аI was too far away to get good enough looks to tell if they were anything other than Mutes. ┬аThey were dipping a lot in and out of the grasses; I have no scope and would have needed that because of the distance. ┬аOnly flashes of white were visible to the naked eye from my location. Beverly Richardson Fort Wayne ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? ┬аTry the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: ┬аlistserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu ********************************************************** ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: LaPorte Lake: Nov 16 2009
From: Brad Bumgardner <bumgbj01 AT HOTMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:24:58 -0600

Greetings, While running some errands today, I took a quick tour of the LaPorte lakes (Pine, Stone, Clear) in search of waterfowl. A few were around, but not as many as I was hoping, including no loons or horned grebes present. HIGHLIGHTS: Snow Goose 8 (clear lake, 6 white, 2 blue) Canada Goose- 500+ Mallard- 10 Redhead- 27 Lesser Scaup- 6 Bufflehead- 50 Com Goldeneye- 2 (stone) Hooded Merganser- 13 Ruddy Duck- 36 Pied-billed Grebe- 70 (45 on clear lake) Am Coot- 3,000+ Brad Bumgardner Chesterton, IN http://nimbabirds.googlepages.com _________________________________________________________________ Bing brings you maps, menus, and reviews organized in one place. http://www.bing.com/search?q=restaurants&form=MFESRP&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MFESRP_Local_MapsMenu_Resturants_1x1 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Sunday, noon-ish, Eagle Marsh
From: Beverly Richardson <beverlybird1217 AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:49:59 -0500

I neglected to report this yesterday, Sunday, 11/15. While overlooking Eagle Marsh from the the drive behind Verizon (I stopped approximately at the "company vehicles" sign), I spotted three swans swimming among what I guessed were several dozen American Coots, mid-marsh. I was too far away to get good enough looks to tell if they were anything other than Mutes. They were dipping a lot in and out of the grasses; I have no scope and would have needed that because of the distance. Only flashes of white were visible to the naked eye from my location. Beverly Richardson Fort Wayne ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: eagle Marsh Sunday
From: Rob Cassidy <rcassidy66 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:24:12 -0500

I dropped by the marsh for about a half hour and caught at least 10 eastern Bluebird keeping company with the european starling. There were about 20 birds total, back and forth from the telephone pole to the gate at the driveway as if to take turns feeding. mallard about 25 eastern Bluebird 10 European starling 1000? am. coot 25 red-tailed hawk 2 song sparrow 8 white crowned sparrow 11 coopers hawk 1 american crow 4 Rob Cassidy ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: L. Lemon - SURF SCOTERS
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:08:39 -0500

This afternoon (3:00 - 3:45) Betsy and I birded Riddle Point and the end of Shuffle Creek Rd on Lake Lemon. A number of things of interest; Common Loon - 26 Pied-billed Grebe - 9 Horned Grebe - 8 Gadwall - 12 Am. Wigeon - 4 Mallard - 13 Redhead - 4 SURF SCOTER - 2 (fem/imm) Bufflehead - 6 Red-br. Merganser - 2 Ruddy Duck - 25 Ring-billed Gull - 18 Bonaparte's Gull - 12 Don Whitehead Bloomington whitehea AT indiana.edu ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: SEOWs at Hawthorn Mine Nov 15
From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:22:10 -0500

Yesterday evening (Sunday November 15 2009) Margaret Londergan and I observed 19 SHORT-EARED OWLS on a pretty brief trip around part of the property at Hawthorn Mine in Sullivan County. Tom Becker was there longer than we were, and I assume he and his party saw more SEOWs than we did. Tom may post later. The Short-eared Owls did lots of calling as they began their evening foraging. Margaret and I also had a nice long look at 1 GREAT HORNED OWL perched out well before dark at Hawthorn Mine. Later up at Bear Run East Pit on Sullivan County CR 250 S we saw 1 more GREAT HORNED OWL fly off from a power pole as it was getting dark. --Lee Sterrenburg & Margaret Londergan, Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Monroe BLACK SCOTER bonanza
From: Mike Clarke <redeyegravy AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:46:19 -0500

This morning, after birding Stillwater Marsh and Friendship Rd. (results below), I went to Paynetown where I found a total of 13 BLACK SCOTERS out in the main body of the lake. I initially viewed two about 350 yds. southwest of "Jaeger Point" in the campground area. Then found a raft of 11 about 1/4 mile due south of Jaeger Point. Eventually the larger raft (which also included 3 female Lesser Scaup) joined the two individuals. All were about 350 yds ssw of Jaeger Point when I left. All of the Black Scoters were female/immature, so with Don Whitehead's 1 male from earlier this morning, there were at least 14 on the lake. A good scoter count for Lake Monroe I should think. The other highlights of the morning were a Lincoln's Sparrow and a good Fox Sparrow count of 21 along Friendship Rd. Morning highlights: Stillwater Marsh Pied-billed Grebe 3 Canada Goose 38 Wood Duck 8 Gadwall 39 American Black Duck 48 Mallard 320 Blue-winged Teal 8 Ring-necked Duck 17 Bald Eagle 1 American Coot 22 Ring-billed Gull 6 Friendship Rd. Hairy Woodpecker 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 7 Eastern Towhee 2 American Tree Sparrow 7 Field Sparrow 2 Fox Sparrow 21 Song Sparrow 38 LINCOLN'S SPARROW 1 (getting late) Swamp Sparrow 11 White-throated Sparrow 9 Rusty Blackbird 9 Purple Finch 1 Paynetown Common Loon 23 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Canada Goose 46 Mallard 9 Lesser Scaup 3 BLACK SCOTER 13 (all fem/imm) Bufflehead 15 Ruddy Duck 14 Bald Eagle 1 Bonaparte's Gull 2 -Mike Clarke Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: short-eared owls, chinook mine
From: Peter Scott <Peter.Scott AT INDSTATE.EDU>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:57:03 -0500

Sat Nov 14, in the north part of Chinook (north side of Interstate 70), I saw 4 SEOW (1 in Vigo, 3 in Clay county). ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: SAS trip to NW Indiana - a paucity of passerines
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:02:59 -0500

This weekend 9 hardy souls ventured N to bird Willow Slough, Kankakee Sands, JP and, on Sunday, the lakefront. At John Kendall's suggestion, we made a venture to St. Josephs in MI on Sunday morning to try for the Ancient Murrelet (no luck). The most striking observation of the weekend was the virtual absence of passerines - one small flock at the entrance to Willough Slough feeding on honeysuckle fruits - no sparrows at KS, none at JP, only 2 Tree Sparrows on the lakefront. A nice front on Sunday on the lake with brisk N winds, many things moving but most far out on the lake. The highlights: Willow Slough: Canada Goose - 8 Gadwall - 18 Am. Black Duck - 8 Mallard - 65 No. Shoveler - 70 No. Pintail - 6 Redhead - 6 Lesser Scaup - 4 Ring-necked Duck - 12 Ruddy Duck - 50 Hooded Merganser - 1 American Coot - 5000 Pied-billed Grebe - 45 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Merlin - 1 Bald Eagle - 1 Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 Am. Robin - 8 Cedar Waxwing - 65 Swamp Sparrow - 2 White-thr. Sparrow - 8 Dark-eyed Junco - 20 Red-winged Blackbird - 20 Kankakee Sands: Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Am. Pipit - 3 Jasper Pulaski: Red-tailed Hawk - 6 Sandhill Crane - thousands St. Joseph waterfront: Red-thr. Loon - 1 Tundra Swan - 7 Miller Beach - brief items, since John Kendall has already reported from there: Common Loon - 45 - many gaining altitude and heading for Lake Monroe and lake Lemon Red-thr. Loon - 2 Horned Grebe - 6 Red-necked Grebe - 1 flyby Bufflehead - 3 Greater Scaup - 25 Scaup spp - many far offshore Gadwall - 6 Mallard - 16 Surf Scoter - 2 White-winged Scoter - 4 Black Scoter - 6 Red-br. Merganser - 50 West Beach: Common Loon - 40 Red-thr. Loon - 1 Horned Grebe - 6 Greater Scaup - 20 Scaup spp - 100's Surf Scoter - 2 Black Scoter - 2 Bufflehead - 6 Red-br. Merganser - 350 Bald Eagle - 3 (circling, very high up, far out over the lake) Beverly Shores: Common Loon - 12 Horned Grebe - 6 Red-breasted Merganser - 20 Along Route 421 - s of JP: Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light phase, adult male, perched on telephone pole) Don Whitehead Bloomington whitehea AT indiana.edu ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Lake Monroe
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:36:58 -0500

After recovering from the SAS trip to N Indiana (brief report later), I ventured to both Paynetown and Cutright on Lake Monroe this morning - cloudy, light NW wind, 50 degrees. A few things of interest; Paynetown: Common Loon - 17 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Am. Coot - 45 Canada Goose - 88 Mallard - 3 Bufflehead - 4 BLACK SCOTER - 1 (male - put up from mid-lake by an eagle, flew right by the marina at Paynetown) Red-breasted Merganser - 2 Ruddy Duck - 14 Bald Eagle - 3 (adults - over mid-lake, continually stooping on coot) Turkey Vulture - 65 BLACK VULTURE - 26 (many of them on the ground fighting over the remants of a deer carcass) Cutright: Common Loon - 2 Canada Goose - 12 Turkey Vulture - 14 American Robin - 4 White-thr. Sparrow - 2 Fox Sparrow - 1 Dark-eyed Junco - 16 Don Whitehead Bloomington whitehea AT indiana.edu ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: IU XC Course, 11/14-11/16
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:13:59 -0800

Saturday's trip to the Indiana University cross country course yielded a personal site record for the species Homo Sapiens. :-) On Saturday IU hosted the 2009 NCAA Men's and Women's Great Lakes Cross Country Regional Championships. The men's race had 206 runners. The women's race featured 218 participants. A conservative estimate is that there were two spectators for every participant, which means a minimum count of at least 1,300 people over a two-hour period. Usually the IU XC course is pretty much deserted. Normally, seeing five people besides myself at one time constitutes a CROWD. Before the meet an older woman picked me out of the crowd, walked up to me and asked "Are you the birdwatcher?" Not "A birdwatcher", but "THE birdwatcher". Kinda threw me for a loop since I was standing in a crowd of several dozen people. I'm wondering if it's that obvious that I'm a birder.а :-) I've decided that cross country leads all collegiate sports in terms of spectator physical activity. As the runners wind their way around the XC course, the spectators constantly run or walk briskly to get to the next viewing point, cutting repeatedly through the unmowed areas of the XC course. These areas basically get zero foot traffic the rest of the year. To get an idea of how busy the XC course was on Saturday, see the photos at: http://tinyurl.com/busy-day Unsurprisingly, the birding was pretty much at an all-time low on Saturday. When the crowd quieted for the National Anthem, I heard Eastern Bluebirds, Carolina Wrens, Carolina Chickadees, and Pileated Woodpeckers singing along. During the races, several Eastern Meadowlarks were startled from their reveries by spectators as they dashed to-and-fro across the unmowed grasses. Saturday's main highlight was a higher than usual number of Turkey Vultures soaring just north of the XC course finish line. Maybe they were hoping that some stragglers in the race might get left behind?а :-) I made another visit to the XC course the next day (Sunday, 11/15) to assess the impact of the busiest day on the XC course since IU changed its mowing policies. The IU XC ecosystem held up pretty well under the strain, for the most part. The mowed running trails seemed to get the brunt of the damage...not unexpected with more than 400 runners pounding them multiple times. I was very pleasantly surprised by the absence of trash on the ground. I saw just one Pepsi can and one energy bar wrapper. The only negative thing I noticed was that IU had mowed about 2.5 acres of previously unmowed grassland for no discernible reason while preparing for the event. Birding on Sunday was kinda slow as well, but there were some highlights: * A couple of first-of-season American Tree Sparrows * Brown Creeper * Red-breasted Nuthatch * 150+ Cedar Waxwings * Rough-legged Hawk * Northern Harrier And there were a few highlights this morning, as well: * The most Juncos so far this season (35) * Approximately 200 Cedar Waxwings * And the crows were really cleaning house this morning. They were very vocal as they routed three Red-tailed Hawks, one Red-shouldered Hawk, one Barred Owl, one Great Horned Howl, and a low flying Turkey vulture. The crows were really full of it for some reason. Bernie Sloan Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Beverly Shores 14 Nov - Red-n. Grebe, N. Shrike, ad. male Surf Scoter
From: Jeff McCoy <jeffmccoy AT EMBARQMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:34:18 -0500

Saturday 14 November, 2009 I spent virtually the entire day at Beverly Shores, scanning the lake in the morning with Jamie Claus and birding inland areas along Beverly Dr. in the afternoon. South winds, sunny skies, and mild temps provided good viewing conditions on Lake Michigan but the large flocks of loons that stage here were much further out on the lake than on Thursday morning. I met Ken Brock's group in the afternoon and we checked Mich.City Harbor where I stayed until dusk but found little of note. SURF SCOTER 1 (ad. male fly-by) WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 17 (in two swimming flocks of 11 and 6) BLACK SCOTER 20 (on the lake in the traditional spot offshore of the elevated lot - there must be something sunk here that has accumulated mussels since we see a scoter flock in the same spot each year) Bufflehead 2 Common Goldeneye 1 Red-breasted Merganser 35 RED-THROATED LOON 1 (ad; expected many more given the good viewing conditions) Common Loon 80+ Horned Grebe 135+ RED-NECKED GREBE 1 (swimming far offshore at the east end; possibly the same bird Ken Brock's group had flying by Lakeview earlier in the morning) BALD EAGLE 1 (ad; with Ken Brock's group;it came in and landed on a nearby snag while we were watching the shrike; this is the first one I've seen perched in the Dunes area) Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Virginia Rail 2 (Kemil & Beverly) Great Black-backed Gull 1 (ad) Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 6 NORTHERN SHRIKE 1 (ad; seen briefly in a.m. at Beverly & Broadway and in p.m. at Beverly & St. Clair) Carolina Wren 1 Winter Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 6 Hermit Thrush 1 GRAY CATBIRD 2 (together in berry thicket north and east of Broadway & Beverly) American Tree Sparrow 10+ Fox Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 8 Swamp Sparrow 6 Dark-eyed Junco 15+ Rusty Blackbird 4 American Goldfinch 20+ Good birding, Jeff McCoy Columbia City, Indiana jeffmccoy AT embarqmail.com ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Eagle Marsh, Ft. Wayne
From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:33:56 EST

I made a late afternoon-evening visit to Eagle Marsh (ca. 4:45 to 5:45 p.m.) in search of Short-eared Owls. Didn't see any. Another hypothesis bites the dust. Among the birds I did see: Gadwall 24 Am. Black Duck x Mallard 4 Ring-necked Duck 17 Pied-billed Grebe 4 Am. Coot 230 (at least) Cooper's Hawk 2 European Starling 3000 minimum; flocks coming in and swirling around; obviously a big roost at Eagle Marsh and/or Fox Island Jim Haw ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: FW: eBird Report - Home - Floyds Knobs, IN , 11/15/09
From: Ed Peter <e.peter AT INSIGHTBB.COM>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:22:26 -0500

Gray cool overcast day here today. Today was the first time I have ever observed two Pileated Woodpeckers at the same time. They were both eating fruit from a Bradford Pear tree when I saw them. I also observed a Downy Woodpecker chase a Hairy Woodpecker away from my suet feeder. Location: Home - Floyds Knobs, IN Observation date: 11/15/09 Number of species: 20 Canada Goose 3 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 8 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 3 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 8 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 60 Dark-eyed Junco 6 Northern Cardinal 6 Red-winged Blackbird 2 House Finch 7 American Goldfinch 9 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Summit Lake Loon Comments
From: Steve Pancol <s.pancol AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:06:41 -0500

11/15/09 Summit Lake State Park - Loon Coments Kirk and Sara Roth showed up at Summit Lake to see the Loon I was tentatively calling a Pacific Loon. From the Beach we debate for about an hour and looked through several field guides. Common Loon was ruled out right away. Red-throated Loon could not be ruled out because the gray throat was troubling. We all came to the conclusion the bird had to be in transitional plumage. We decided we had to get closer to the bird. We walked all the way out on the dam, where boat traffic had driven the Loon closer to shore. When we got to the dam the bird was within 150 to 200 yards of the shore. This was the closest I have been able to get to the Loon. Kirk was able to see hints of red in the throat. I zoomed in with my Swarovski 80 HD and was able to detect white arcs starting to form both above and below the eye. They were very faint and Kirk was not able to see them in his scope, but was able to in mine. This rules out Pacific Loon. The bird is a RED-THROATED LOON. I would say the Red-throated Loon was still 1/2 to 2/3 in breeding plumage. That explains the "all black Loon look". Lucky for me, all but one of the birders that came out also needed Red-throated Loon for a lifer. What really threw me off was the bill. It was completely straight, not upturned, but the bird did angle the bill upward most of the time. My apologies to all and my official excuse for this miscue: I had a bad adulthood. -- Steve Pancol Anderson,Indiana Madison County Website:http://stevepancol.com New photos on Bird Alerts page ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Lakefront 11/15 Red-necked Grebe
From: John Kendall <jeffro595 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:52:35 -0500

Amar Ayyash and I birded Miller Beach from the Marquette Park Concession stand from 8 am to 12:45 pm. The first front in weeks brough 15-20 mph NNE winds and only a slight temperature drop. There was some movement of waterfowl and few gulls. Chicago Channel 5 weather reported that, as of last night, the avg. temperature for the first half of November was 48.8 degrees. The average for the entire month of October was also 48.8 degrees! We were joined mid-am by the Bloomington, Indiana SAS group and by Andy Sigler and Bruce Heimer late am. Mallard-90 Am. Black Duck-6 Green-winged Teal-1 Greater Scaup-12 Lesser Scaup-3 Scaup sp.-20 White-winged Scoter 2 Black Scoter 12 Bufflehead-7 Red-breasted Merganser 203 Red-throated Loon 2 adult + juv. Common Loon 65 est Horned Grebe (20) RED-NECKED GREBE 1 Bonaparte's Gull-6 Great Black-backed Gull-2 1 ad, 1 first winter Portage Lakefront Park-2pm nothing of note John Kendall Valparaiso ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Eagle Creek Park - Sunday November 15, 2009
From: John Ulmer <remlu AT TDS.NET>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:11:14 -0500

Overcast with temperature 53 to 60 degrees. The list included 54 species for the day -- Pied-billed Grebe Double Crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Canada Goose Mallard Lesser Scaup Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Coopers Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Peregrine Falcon American Coot Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs BonaparteТs Gull Ring-billed Gull Rock Dove Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Yellow-rumped Warbler American Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Purple Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Bird walks begin at the new Ornithology Center (old Nature Center) at 9am. All are welcome. -- John Ulmer ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Howell Wetlands 11/15/09
From: Tim Griffith <timgrif396 AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:06:06 -0500

Not much activity at Howell Wetlands this morning. Overcast and warm with temps in lower 60's. Species: Great Blue Heron 1 Canada Goose 78 Mallard 21 Muscovey 4 Killdeer 2 Mourning Dove 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 4 Carolina Chickadee 8 Tufted Titmouse 3 Carolina Wren 5 American Robin 32 European Starling 2 Yellow Rumped Warbler 5 Palm Warbler 2 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow1 White-throated Sparrow 11 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 5 Common Grackle 4 American Goldfinch 12 House Sparrow 2 White-tailed Deer 4 - 3 does and a nice 10 point buck! Tim Griffith Evansville, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: OT cleaning cement bird baths
From: vfoltz AT verizon.net
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:53:36 -0600 (CST)

Hello everyone, I have several cement bird baths that need cleaning and putting up for the winter (I have a heated one I use during the winter months). I am wondering what is safe to use to scrub these?┬а Two of the the three I purchased at art fairs and they have painted surfaces.┬а The other is the plain old fashioned kind. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Vicky Foltz Ft. Wayne IN *********************** To stop receiving messages from this list, send an e-mail message bluebird-L-request AT cornell.edu The body of the message is simply leave More info on leaving e-lists: http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/elist/lyris/leave-more.html
Subject: OT cleaning cement bird baths
From: Vicky Foltz <vfoltz AT VERIZON.NET>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:53:36 -0600

Hello everyone, I have several cement bird baths that need cleaning and putting up for the winter (I have a heated one I use during the winter months). I am wondering what is safe to use to scrub these?┬а Two of the the three I purchased at art fairs and they have painted surfaces.┬а The other is the plain old fashioned kind. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Vicky Foltz Ft. Wayne IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: TODAY HELP SAVE THE BIRDS AT NEWPORT CHEMICAL DEPOT PRAIRIE
From: Phillip Cox <philwcox AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:37:52 -0500

ALL IN-Birders, The Newport Chemical Depot Reuse Authority is still accepting comments for the Reuse of the 7,000 acre US Army Newport Chemical Depot in Vermillion County. There is a 336 acre tallgrass prairie (with approximately 40 species of forbs & grasses) that is according to the Division of Nature Preserves, "by far the largest contiguous black soil prairie in Indiana". Wild pheasants and bobcat (documented last Sunday), quail, Virginia rail, great egrets, grassland bird species, turkeys, waterfowl thrive in the mosaic of prairie and adjacent wetlands on the southwest corner of the Depot. The biodiversity here is incredible. Currently the DRAFT Reuse Plan makes no provisions for preserving the prairie, instead it leaves open the possibility of using it for "other agricultural production" (pg. 87 of the Draft Plan) or for "business and technology". There are already 3,375 acres designated for "business and technology" and 1,250 acres designated for "agricultural and forestry" in the DRAFT Reuse Plan. Currently there is already 3,000 acres of corn/soybeans on the Depot. Send your comments in to comments AT necdra.com right now while there is still time!!! Comments are currently being accepted until the Public Hearing. Don't think that someone else will comment for you. Comments can be short or long. The Public Hearing is at 6:30 on Thursday November 19 at the Clinton Municipal Building, 259 Vine St. Clinton, Indiana. Everyone is invited. If you have any questions you may contact me at philwcox AT gmail.com or 765/548-4007. Thanks, Phil Cox President Wabash Valley Audubon Society For a photo of the Newport Chemical Depot Prairie go to www.wabashvalleyaudubon.org ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: SEOW's
From: "Wilkins, Vern W" <vwilkins AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:52:56 -0500

Just some owl notes for the archives. The first evening I checked Hawthorn Mine for Short-Eared Owls this year was Wed, 11/11. I counted 34 at Hawthorn that evening, 4 at Goose Pond, and 2 at Beehunter Marsh. It was sunny and clear and the first one was seen at 5:15pm. I returned yesterday and numbers seemed lower but the owls were more spread out and were a bit harder to count. I counted 20 at Hawthorn, 2 at Goose Pond, and none at Beehunter. On both nights I only passed through Goose Pond and Beehunter, well after dark, so the numbers could be better than what I saw. Yesterday the first owl was seen at 4:30pm. Yesterday we were mainly just looking for the Short-Eared Owls, but we saw a few other birds at Hawthorn. Bufflehead (1) Canada Goose (X) Mallard (X) Rough Legged Hawk (8) many beautiful birds including at least three dark morph birds. Red-Tailed Hawk (8) Northern Harrier (12) American Kestrel (2) Eastern Meadowlark (X) including a nice mixed flock of Meadowlarks and Northern Flickers that flew up together and then sat and perched in separate trees near each other. Northern Flicker (12) Horned Lark (X) several large flocks and lots of small groups of 2-6 Other notes: Watching a few of the dark morph Rough-Legged Hawks yesterday, especially one I could only see perched and head-on from a long distance, I started wondering if/how it's possible to tell these guys from some other dark phase hawks, especially Red-Tailed. In flight or with a good look it doesn't seem too difficult, but I was almost sure at one point we were looking at a dark morph Red-Tailed Hawk. The bird was perched, facing us from far away, and didn't fly while we were watching it. The guides say the dark morph Red-Tailed is rare east of the Mississippi. Heading to Hawthorn yesterday I saw three small, all white gulls with black wing-tips, at Goose Pond. They were too far away to tell for sure but I think they were Bonaparte's Gulls. I've searched Hawthorn extensively and the Dugger Unit of Greene-Sullivan State Forest, in the last week for Northern Shrikes and haven't found any yet. http://vw.homelinux.net/g2/main.php/v/birds/owls/seow038.jpg.html My first attempt to get a fight photo...very tough in the dark with a slow lens! http://vw.homelinux.net/g2/main.php/v/birds/owls/seow093.jpg.html Vern & Stacy ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: RBA - Summit Lake - Pacific Loon
From: Steve Pancol <s.pancol AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:40:45 -0500

Summit Lake State Park - 11/15/09 - Henry County From the beach of Summit Lake I have tentatively identified a loon as a PACIFIC LOON. I have not seen a Pacific Loon in 20 years, so I will leave a description here: Details: 1. A rounded head. Not blocked off like a Common. There is a Common Loon in the area for comparison. 2. The bill is much smaller than the massive bill of a Common. 3. The neck is dark gray down to the upper breast. 4. The head is completely dark gray. Only a little white shows at the base of the bill. 5. The back of the head and nape is uniformly medium gray. 6. The back is black or dark, with no speckling of any kind. 7. The Common Loon and this bird do not go near each other. 8. In Sibleys, both the Common Loon and Red-throated have extensive white in the facial area and around the eye (like an eye ring). 9. This is a very dark loon which jumps out at you as such. I have no experience with Pacific Loon, so if you chase, chase at your own risk. -- Steve Pancol Anderson,Indiana Madison County Website:http://stevepancol.com New photos on Bird Alerts page ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Central NW IN, BLSC, 11/14/09
From: Ed Hopkins <birder4in AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:00:03 -0500

Highlight: female Black Scoter- Mulvey is more a marsh than a pond. This is my first scoter on the pond. Mulvey Pond Tippecanoe CR500N & US231 N of Montmorenci Canada Goose,320 Mallard,81 Black Scoter-female,1 Pied-billed Grebe,9 Great Blue Heron,2 American Coot,1 Blue Jay,1 Nursery Pond, Benton CR200N & E Countyline Mourning Dove,1 Lapland Longspur,80 Pine Creek Gamebird Hab. Area Benton CR200N E of CR850E Was full of pheasant hunters. American Kestrel,1 Killdeer,1 Belted Kingfisher,1 Home Carolina Chickadee,1 Red-breasted Nuthatch,1 Carolina Wren,1 American Robin,5 Northern Cardinal,2 House Finch,1 American Goldfinch,1 House Sparrow,5 ==== Ed Hopkins W Lafayette, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Re: 11/14 photos-Ancient Murrelet & BAEA
From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:57:52 -0500

Great Murrelet photos! --Lee On Nov 14, 2009, at 8:28 PM, John Kendall wrote: > Kathy and I birded with Ken Brock's group this morning and followed > them up > to St. Joseph, MI for the lifer & the Ancient Murrelet show-which was > fantastic! > We also ran into Ken's group again much later in the day at Beverly > Shores, > where there was a perched adult Bald Eagle-the only one that Ken > could recall > seeing at this location. > Photos are at: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/jckendall/ > ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: 11/14 photos-Ancient Murrelet & BAEA
From: John Kendall <jeffro595 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:28:22 -0500

Kathy and I birded with Ken Brock's group this morning and followed them up to St. Joseph, MI for the lifer & the Ancient Murrelet show-which was fantastic! We also ran into Ken's group again much later in the day at Beverly Shores, where there was a perched adult Bald Eagle-the only one that Ken could recall seeing at this location. Photos are at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jckendall/ Good Birding, John Kendall Valparaiso ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Deam Lake, Starve Hollow and Ewing Bottoms
From: Tom and Colleen Becker <Cbirding AT AOL.COM>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:39:58 -0500

Location: Deam Lake SRA Observation date: 11/14/09 Notes: All Red-breated Nuthatches were located in horse camping area where pine cones were plentiful. Waterfowl stills eludes us in Southern Indiana. Number of species: 43 Canada Goose 3 Mallard 1 Pied-billed Grebe 12 Turkey Vulture 8 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Killdeer 9 Mourning Dove 17 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue Jay 20 American Crow 18 Carolina Chickadee 11 Tufted Titmouse 8 Red-breasted Nuthatch 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 3 Eastern Bluebird 32 American Robin 8 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 14 Cedar Waxwing 1 Eastern Towhee 3 Chipping Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 5 Swamp Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 55 Northern Cardinal 5 Red-winged Blackbird 60 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 12 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Purple Finch 2 American Goldfinch 2 Location: Starve Hollow SRA Observation date: 11/14/09 Notes: Waterfowl still missing... Number of species: 19 Canada Goose 12 Pied-billed Grebe 25 Turkey Vulture 5 Bald Eagle 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Killdeer 5 Mourning Dove 6 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 8 American Crow 3 Carolina Chickadee 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Eastern Bluebird 3 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 15 Dark-eyed Junco 3 House Sparrow 2 Location: Ewing Bottoms Observation date: 11/14/09 Notes: Not even one Sandhill Crane seen or heard...!!! Number of species: 21 Wood Duck 11 Great Blue Heron 1 Northern Harrier 3 American Kestrel 2 Killdeer 65 Rock Pigeon 8 Mourning Dove 60 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 American Crow 5 Horned Lark 10 Carolina Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 6 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Carolina Wren 2 European Starling 8 Song Sparrow 3 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird 20 Eastern Meadowlark 5 American Goldfinch 5 House Sparrow 2 Tom and Colleen Becker Floyd County This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Summit Lake State Park - 11/14/09
From: Steve Pancol <s.pancol AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:32:52 -0500

Summit Lake State Park - Henry County - 11/14/09 Still very slow. Warm weather and south winds. Not what we want in November. 2 Common Loon 10 Pied-billed Grebes 1 Double-crested Cormorant 6 Black Ducks 41 Mallards 3 Green-winged Teal 3 SURF SCOTERS - at the Nature Area 16 Buffleheads 3 Red-breasted Mergansers - females 1 Northern Harrier 1 Cooper's Hawk 8 Killdeer 1 Greater Yellowlegs - gone by afternoon 1 Dunlin - flyby at dusk 15 Bonaparte's Gulls 12 Ring-billed Gulls - in the morning. Around 4 P.M. I saw 40 to 50 in the air over the lake. 10 Mourning Doves - at dusk 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 3 American Crows 1 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tree Sparrows 2 Song Sparrows 4 Cardinals 16 Rusty Blackbirds - at dusk 1 American Goldfinch -- Steve Pancol Anderson,Indiana Madison County Website:http://stevepancol.com New photos on Bird Alerts page ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: France Park 11/14/09 Eastern Meadowlark, Lincoln's Sparrow, Brown Creeper,Red Winged Blackbird, Pied Billed Grebe
From: Landon Neumann <coryneumann AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:53:56 -0500

Today was a good day at France Park. I saw 38 species. The highlights were Lincoln's Sparrow, Brown Creeper, Red Winged Blackbird, Pied Billed Grebe, and Eastern Meadowlark. Also the Red Tailed Hawks were on the move today with 10 seen. This is a county record. 1. Canada Goose 118+ 2. Mallard 25+ 3. Pied Billed Grebe 4 4. Great Blue Heron 2 5. Red Tailed Hawk 10 (county record) 6. Rock Dove 10 7. Mourning Dove 9 8. Belted Kingfisher 1 9. Red Bellied Woodpecker 4 seen and ho 10. Downy Woodpecker 5 seen and ho 11. Hairy Woodpecker 3 ho 12. Pileated Woodpecker 3 2 seen and 1 ho 13. Northern Flicker 1 14. Blue Jays 5 16. American Crow 13 seen and ho 17. Horned Lark 2 18. Black Capped/ Carolina Chickadee 6 seen and ho 19. Tufted Titmouse 2 20. White Breasted Nuthatch 7 seen and ho 21. Brown Creeper 1 seen and ho 22. Carolina Wren 3 2 seen and 1 ho 23. Golden Crowned Kinglet 1 ho 24. Eastern Bluebird 8 seen and ho 25. American Robin 6 seen and ho 26. Starling 4 27. American Tree Sparrow 13 seen and ho 28. Lincoln's Sparrow 1 juv great view new county bird 29. Song Sparrow 5 seen and ho 30. White Throated Sparrow 6 seen and ho 31. Dark Eyed Junco 9 seen and ho 32. Northern Cardinal 10 seen and ho 33. Red Winged Blackbird 1 seen when I left for France Park 34. Eastern Meadowlark 1 35. House Finch 1 36. Purple Finch 1 37. American Goldfinch 5 38. House Sparrow 2 I also went up to Jasper Pusaski Fish and Wildlife Area with Bob and Sara Kirkwood. There were about 5,000 there. The only other birds we saw were 5 American Tree Sparrows. Landon Neumann Logansport Cass County ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Celery Bog
From: Russell Allison <grounds11 AT VERIZON.NET>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:04:32 -0500

Arrived at 9:30am left at 5:00pm. Sunshine, no wind, 70 degrees is it really the middle of Nov.? Birds seen; American Coot-300+ Bufflehead-1 Black Duck-2 Ring necked Duck-12 Ruddy Duck-3 Gadwall-16 Canada Goose-10 Pied billed Grebe-7 Mallard-35 Northern Pintail-1 Northern Shoveler-30 American Widgeon-2 Mute Swan-3 Great blue Heron-7 Red shouldered Hawk-1 Red tailed Hawk-1 American Crow-5 Northern Cardinal-2 American Goldfinch-12 Blue Jay-2 Song Sparrow-1 European Starling-25 Tufted Titmouse-5 Downey Woodpecker-3 Red bellied Woodpecker-3 Good birding Russ Allison, West Lafayette ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: N.W.Indiana 11/14 - Swans, Nuthatches
From: Michael Topp <mtopp7927 AT AOL.COM>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:52:57 -0500

11/14 I started the day at Miller Beach and met Joel Greenberg and his crew before they left for parts east. I then went west along the Lakefront. It was another nice day with temps reaching the mid 60's by noon time. Highlights: MILLER BEACH: (Lake St. & Marquette Park) 6-Common Loons 2-Red-throated Loons - in the water and close. 20-Horned Grebes 5-Mute Swans 6-R.B.Mergansers 1-Coopers Hawk 1-Great Black-backed Gull (Adult) 2-Red-bellied Woodpeckers 1-N.Flicker 5-Horned Larks 6-A.Crows 6-Blue Jays 3-Red-breasted Nuthatchs 2-White-breasted Nuthatches 1-A.Robin 4-Tree Sparrows 9-N.Juncos 50+ Snow Buntings FORSYTHE Park (Hammond) : 3-Pied-billed Grebes 27-Mute Swans 4-N.Shovelers 2-G.B.Herons 6-A.Crows 1-Belted Kingfisher HAMMOND BIRD SANCTUARY : 1-Red-tailed Hawk 1-Red-breasted Nuthatch 1-Yellow-rumped Warbler 1-Fox Sparrow 4-Tree Sparrows Also behind my house along the river today were 2 G.H.Owls calling at dawn and a Killdeer flying by this afternoon. Michael Topp Highland IN. Photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/mtopp101 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Lincoln's Sparrow, downtown Indy
From: Larry Peavler <lpeavler AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:24:13 -0500

We birded the State House this morning. Winter Wren 1-2 Field Sparrow 4 Song 8 Lincoln's 1-2 Swamp 12+ White-throated 1 N. Cardinal 2 Larry Peavler ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Lakefront 14Nov09 Red-necked Grebe
From: "Kenneth J. Brock" <kj.brock AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:15:32 -0600

Today (14 November 09) Susan Bagby, John Cassady, Randy Pals (until noon), and I birded the lakefront. Based on last ThursdayТs results we began at Beverly Shores. Bird numbers had declined from Thursday, but we spent several hours working the distant loon flock. John Cassady finally picked out a Red-necked Grebe. At about 9:00AM JohnТs phone rang; it was Phil Kelly calling from the Houston airport in Texas. Phil informed use of an Ancient Murrelet at the Tiscornia Pier in St Joseph, MI (isnТt technology marvelous). This small alcid was too good to miss, so we executed a lightening blitz and bagged this rare visitor from the Pacific. Great close range looks at the feeding bird. Watch for Kendall photos. HIGHLIGHTS BEVERLY SHORES (we were joined by Kathy and John Kendall) White-winged Scoter (4) Black Scoter (15- same flock seen Thursday) Red-breasted Merganser (42) Red-throated Loon (1 near shore adult) Common Loon (100 est) Horned Grebe (34) RED-NECKED GREBE (1) Snow Bunting (4) Run to St Joseph for Murrelet with the Kendalls OGDEN DUNES Hooded Merganser (1 male in water treatment pond) FURNESSVILLE (nothing of note) Beverly shores (on Beverly Dr.- met Jeff McCoy and the Kendalls) BALD EAGLE (1 ad perched in nearby tree) Kingfisher (1 male) Red-headed Woodpecker (4, including one juv) NORTHERN SHRIKE (1- just east of Broadway) Rusty Blackbird (2) MICHIGAN CITY HARBOR (with Jeff McCoy) Common Loon (3) Horned Grebe (2) Peregrine Falcon (1- local bird) Ken Brock Chesterton, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Fox Island Park, Allen Co.
From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:53:09 EST

Trying to stay away from any areas where hunting is permitted on the opening day of deer season, Fran Headings, Doug Rood, Sandy Schacht and I birded Fox Island County Park this morning. Fox Island usually isn't too lively in winter, and today was quieter than usual with only 25 species in the park. Green-winged Teal furnished a first November record for Fox Island. Especially noticeable was a dearth of sparrows and other "marginal" winter residents. Canada Goose 25 Wood Duck 2 Green-winged Teal 12 Great Blue Heron 2 Ring-billed Gull 1 Mourning Dove 20 Woodpecker: Red-bellied 5, Downy 17, Hairy 1 Blue Jay 9 Am. Crow 5 Carolina Chickadee 15 Tufted Titmouse 5 White-breasted Nuthatch 5 Brown Creeper 3 Carolina Wren 1 E. Buebird 2 Am. Robin 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Am. Tree Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 3 Dark-eyed Junco 2 N. Cardinal 18 House Finch 1 Am. Goldfinch 16 House Sparrow 2 Jim Haw ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: St. Joseph, Michigan - Ancient Murrelet
From: Randy Pals <rjpals AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:43:28 -0500

There is an Ancient Murrelet being seen off the pier on the north side of the St. Joe river in St. Joseph, MI. Ken Brock, John Cassady, Susan Bagby, and I saw it about 10:45 a.m. Central Standard time this morning. The north pier is accessable from Tiscornia Park. From Main Street (route 63) in St. Joe, go north until you go over the river, then exit right. From the exit ramp, turn left onto Whitwam Dr. Turn right in a couple hundred yards when it T's out, then go another 1/4 mile or so and make the first left onto Marina Dr. Follow Marina about 1/4 mile until it Ts out into Ridgeway, then turn left. Very shortly there is a right turn that takes you into the Park. ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: 11/14 Fox Sparrow...Indiana/Michigan state line
From: Timily Hill <timily888 AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:12:00 +0000

Off our back deck scratching through the spruce needles and fallen seeds when I looked out this morning. A good-lookin hombre.... Tim ┬а ~~~ ┬аRock out with your binocs out! ┬а~~~ Tim & Emily Hill St. Joe County POTATO CREEK S.P. ┬а& NW INDIANA 2009 SIGHT RECORD MAP (NOW 2┬аPAGES...YOU CAN┬аCLICK ON PG. 2 AT COLUMN BOTTOM): http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108847996890583469508.00046d922fa334e8ca031&t=h&ll=41.55577,-86.354384&spn=0.018755,0.045276&z=15 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************
Subject: Summit Lake State Park - Surf Scoters
From: Steve Pancol <s.pancol AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:33:44 -0500

Summit Lake State Park - 11/14/09 - Henry County Professor Kamal Islam from Ball State, Lois Rockhill, Bill Grummer and the Robert Cooper Audubon Society had 2 SURF SCOTERS pinned down at the Nature Area of Summit Lake. Take S.R. 36 to C.R. 500 and turn left (North). The Nature Area is at the intersection of C.R. 500 and C.R. 750. -- Steve Pancol Anderson,Indiana Madison County Website:http://stevepancol.com New photos on Bird Alerts page ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************

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