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10 Mar Eagle Slough, Vand. Co. & BGFWA, Warrick Co. [Charles Crawford ] 10 Mar Striebel Pond March 10 [Erik Troske ] 10 Mar Muscatatuck FOY Tree Swallows [Amy Kearns ] 10 Mar woodcocks in Allen Co. [] 10 Mar Beehunter, Goose Pond ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 10 Mar Franke Park- March 10 PM ["Rodger P. Rang" ] 10 Mar Re: Lamb Lake Eagle [Patricia Reynolds ] 10 Mar SW Allen- March 10 AM ["Rodger P. Rang" ] 10 Mar Lamb Lake Eagle [Tom ] 10 Mar Hummers on the move..... [Timily Hill ] 10 Mar Brewer's Blackbird Liberty, IN ["T. K. Tolford" ] 10 Mar Brewer's Blackbird ["T. K. Tolford" ] 10 Mar Wasson Road in Warrick County [Y Harris ] 10 Mar Harlan's Hawk [Brian Taylor ] 10 Mar LAGRANGE CO. WOODCOCKS [Sam Plew ] 9 Mar Re: woodcocks at Ecolab [Sue and Ted Ulrich ] 9 Mar FW: eBird Report - Home - Floyds Knobs, IN , 3/9/10 [Ed Peter ] 9 Mar SW Allen County- March 9 AM ["Rodger P. Rang" ] 9 Mar Woodcocks in Carroll County [Rick Read ] 9 Mar Paynetown, Stillwater ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 9 Mar Grant Co. Grackles [Ron & Judy Green ] 9 Mar Re: woodcocks at Ecolab ["Dunning, John B" ] 9 Mar Great-horned Owlets - Week 5 update [Steve Gifford ] 9 Mar Starke County Great Horned Owl Nest [Bob Huguenard ] 9 Mar Muscatatuck NWR [Gary Dorman ] 8 Mar Grant Co. American Woodcock [Ron & Judy Green ] 8 Mar IU XC course tonight: the woodcock show ["B.G. Sloan" ] 8 Mar Cass County Migrants [Andrea Neumann ] 8 Mar Paynetown, Stillwater ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 8 Mar NOT Common Nighthawks in Goshen [wilmajeanharder ] 8 Mar Eagles at Williamsburg Apt. [Russell Allison ] 8 Mar Common Nighthawks in Goshen [wilmajeanharder ] 8 Mar Re: Golden Eagle In Warrick County [Steve Gifford ] 8 Mar Wabashiki West Terre Haute [Adam Betuel ] 8 Mar Elkhart waterfowl 3/8/10 [John Cassady ] 8 Mar Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Fort wayne [REBECCA BROWN ] 8 Mar Golden Eagle In Warrick County [Tim Griffith ] 8 Mar American Woodcock, Tippecanoe County ["Dunning, John B" ] 8 Mar 3-8-10...Turkey Vulture [Timily Hill ] 8 Mar SW Allen Co [Terri Gorney ] 8 Mar Goose Pond -- 3/6 - 3/7 [Jim Hengeveld ] 8 Mar NW IN, 3/6/10, addenum [Ed Hopkins ] 8 Mar NW IN, 3/6/10 [Ed Hopkins ] 8 Mar Surround-sound woodcocks ["Terri B. Greene" ] 8 Mar American Woodcock [Lindsay and Scott Namestnik ] 8 Mar Dolan wetland - 3/7 [Jim Hengeveld ] 8 Mar Lk. Lemon- weekend [Jim Hengeveld ] 8 Mar Goose Pond -- 3/6 - 3/7 [Jim Hengeveld ] 8 Mar Open farmfields near Fox Island [Natalie Haley ] 8 Mar Re: Ducks on Goshen Dam Pond [John Harley ] 7 Mar Ducks on Goshen Dam Pond [John Harley ] 7 Mar NW Indiana March 6th and 7th Sites [Erik Troske ] 7 Mar Steuben County Sandhills return! [Holly Meyers ] 7 Mar spring grackles [terry ballenger ] 7 Mar Geist Reservoir ["Mark C. Rhodes" ] 7 Mar Sandhill cranes and Canada geese in same "V" [Fred Wooley ] 8 Mar Hummingbird Migration Map [Timily Hill ] 8 Mar 3-6-10 Potato Creek SP...Red-shouldered Hawks [Timily Hill ] 7 Mar Jefferson Co. Sightings [Sara Brink ] 7 Mar Lake Freeman-eagles and ducks [Rick Read ] 7 Mar Wells Co. - 03-07 [Gloria Pike ] 7 Mar Major crane movement Saturday [Sue and Ted Ulrich ] 7 Mar TREE SWALLOW@Muscatatuck NWR; Hardy Lake [Tom and Colleen Becker ] 7 Mar Great Blues, Grant Co. [Lynnanne ] 7 Mar Williamsburg Apt. and Celery Bog [Russell Allison ] 7 Mar Varied Thrush,Beverly Shores [Jennie Girton & Brendan Grube ] 7 Mar yellow-rump [Becky Lomax ] 7 Mar Goose Pond Marsh Madness March 6 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 7 Mar Woodcocks at Spinn Prairie-White County [Rick Read ] 7 Mar Kankakee FWA & Jasper-Pulaski FWA [Bob Zaremba ] 7 Mar Varied Thrush 7 Mar [Alison Világ ] 7 Mar Goose Pond & Beehunter 3/6/10 [Amy Kearns ] 7 Mar Fairfax, Stillwater ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 7 Mar late post from the Celery Bog [Russell Allison ] 7 Mar Re: Need woodpecker ID help, McCormick's Creek State Park [Don Gorney ] 7 Mar sounds of spring - no sighting [Gary Dorman ] Subject: Eagle Slough, Vand. Co. & BGFWA, Warrick Co. From: Charles Crawford <cr4d AT INSIGHTBB.COM> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:53:12 -0600 Location: Eagle Slough Observation date: 3/10/10 Number of species: 26 Canada Goose 5 Wood Duck 8 Mallard 2 Great Blue Heron 1 Mourning Dove 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Tufted Titmouse 5 Brown Creeper 1 Carolina Wren 2 Eastern Bluebird 3 American Robin 35 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling X Eastern Towhee 2 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 3 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 15 Red-winged Blackbird X Rusty Blackbird 19 Common Grackle X American Goldfinch 3 Location: Blue Grass FWA Observation date: 3/10/10 Notes: Also covered Wasson Road area. Number of species: 17 Canada Goose 4 Wood Duck 9 Turkey Vulture 7 Northern Harrier 3 Red-tailed Hawk 5 American Kestrel 1 American Coot 23 Killdeer 3 Wilson's Snipe 3 Great Horned Owl 1 On nest next to Wasson Road Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2 American Crow X Tufted Titmouse X American Robin X Northern Mockingbird 1 Red-winged Blackbird X Eastern Meadowlark 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Charlie Henderson KY ********************************************************** 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: Striebel Pond March 10 From: Erik Troske <etbirdbrain AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:25:32 -0500 Went to Striebel Pond in Michigan City this afternoon and had quite a nice waterfowl viewing. My favorite ducks, Canvasbacks, were present and I had 2 other FOY species as well. Red-winged Blackbirds are back in droves now. Bufflehead 8 Lesser Scaup 10 Canvasback 7 FOY Redhead 40 Ring-necked Duck 65 Mallard 4 Northern Shoveler 8 FOY American Coot 5 Killdeer 3 Canada Goose 35 Mute Swan 2 Pied-billed Grebe 1 FOY Beautiful day! I welcome spring's return with open arms! Erik Troske Michigan City ********************************************************** 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: Muscatatuck FOY Tree Swallows From: Amy Kearns <greenpertplus AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:34:53 -0500 I was able to do some birding at a few different spots on this beautiful day. Highlights were a singing BROWN CREEPER and FOY TREE SWALLOWS. Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge ~1 pm Auto Tour w/ John Castrale and Christian Freitag Canada Goose 45 Gadwall 2 American Wigeon 4 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 40 Redhead 14 - Richart Lake Ring-necked Duck 281- Richart Lake Ruddy Duck 1- Richart Lake Pied-billed Grebe 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 - pair behind visitor's center, acting agitated, perhaps they are considering nesting in the old Cooper's Hawk nest? Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 2 Mourning Dove 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 3 TREE SWALLOW 6 - FOY over Richart Lake, John spotted them Carolina Chickadee 6 Tufted Titmouse 15 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 BROWN CREEPER 2 - one singing on the paved trail that runs behind the visitor center. Was really wonderful - the first I've heard singing in years! Carolina Wren 2 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 6 European Starling 15 Cedar Waxwing 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 4 Eastern Towhee 2 American Tree Sparrow 2 Fox Sparrow 1 - feeders Song Sparrow 5 White-throated Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 3 Dark-eyed Junco 10 Northern Cardinal 10 Red-winged Blackbird 15 House Finch 10 American Goldfinch 20 Orange county, w/ Noah and our big hairy dogs: Orleans Reservoir 4:30 PM 2 Canada Goose 11 Killdeer Pioneer Mothers Memorial Forest (Paoli) 5:00 PM 3 Wild Turkey 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Killdeer 2 Mourning Dove 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 5 American Crow 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Eastern Bluebird 3 American Robin 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Dark-eyed Junco Amy Kearns Mitchell ********************************************************** 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: woodcocks in Allen Co. From: zzedpowers AT AOL.COM Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:11:16 -0500 Inspired by others' accounts of courting woodcocks, Ed and I went at sunset to our never-fail spot along Zubrick Rd. south of the GM plant in SW Allen Co. Sure enough, we heard the peenting right away! And earlier today we saw our first turkey vulture, plus we heard spring peepers and chorus frogs across from the National ServAll landfill on Smith Road in SW Fort Wayne. Yea! Spring is here! Cynthia Powers from Allen 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: Beehunter, Goose Pond From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:05:38 -0500 This morning John Eakin, Bob Dodd and I visited Beehunter and Goose Pond. Weather much better than expected - clearing, temperatures in the mid-sixties, and a brisk SW wind. Lots of birds in the air and on the water. The highlights: Beehunter 2: Canada Goose - 75 Gr. White-fr. Goose - 55 Am. Wigeon - 1 Mallard - 700 No. Pintail - 25 Ring-necked Duck - 13 Ring-billed Gull - 25 Killdeer - 6 Sandhill Crane - 1100 Field at corner of 200S and 1000W: Wood Duck - 4 Am. Wigeon - 6 Mallard - 75 No. Pintail - 6 No. Shoveler- 4 Canvasback - 25 Redhead - 270 Ring-necked Duck - 350 Lesser Scaup - 40 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Beehunter 4/5: Canada Goose - 40 Mallard - 75 No. Shoveler - 15 Green-winged Teal - 25 Killdeer - 6 Sandhill Crane - 750 No. Harrier - 5 (1 male, 1 fem, 3 imm) Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult, 1 Basic I) Am. Tree Sparrow - 36 E. Meadowlark - 6 Goose Pond 9/10: Tundra Swan - 2 Canada Goose - 35 Gadwall - 65 Am. Wigeon - 75 Mallard - 45 No. Shoveler - 2 No. Pintail - 15 Green-winged Teal - 6 Canvasback - 35 Redhead - 45 Ring-necked Duck - 95 Lesser Scaup - 6 Bufflehead - 3 Am. Coot - 125 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Sandhill Crane - 250 Ring-billed Gull - 35 Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) No. Harrier - 2 (1 imm, 1 fem) Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Rough-legged Hawk - 4 (2 light, 2 dark) Horned Lark - 6 Am. Tree Sparrow - 35 Savannah Sparrow - 1 E. Meadowlark - 16 Brief stop at Double Ditches: Bald Eagle - 2 (adult) Rough-legged Hawk - 2 (dark) No. Harrier - 3 (imm) Horned Lark - 1 Savannah Sparrow - 2 From 1200 - overlooking Main Pool: Rough-legged Hawk - 2 (1 dark, 1 light) Canada Goose - hundreds Mallard - hundreds No. Shoveler - 30 Redhead - 45 Ring-necked Duck - 95 Brown-headed Cowbird - 25 Jessup's Field - S of BH2 on 900W Sandhill Crane - 3500 100S near 67: Great Blue Heron - 1 Note - we also observed three different Whooping Cranes in Greene County - locations were transmitted to Brad 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: Franke Park- March 10 PM From: "Rodger P. Rang" <rrang AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:05:35 -0500 As of 3PM this afternoon, the lake at Franke Park in Fort Wayne was about 80% ice-free. Migrant waterfowl amongst the feral multitudes included Redhead (1m,1f), Bufflehead (12m), and American Coot (1). Rodger Rang 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: Re: Lamb Lake Eagle From: Patricia Reynolds <eagleowl4180 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:48:38 -0800 Tom and Ann - Thanks for this wonderful, helpful message.  It is so gratifying to have so many skilled observers on the lookout for information. best regards - Patti Reynolds, President Return to the Wild, Inc. PO Box 1153, Nashville IN 47448 812-988-8990 eagleowl4180 AT sbcglobal.net www.returntothewild.org --- On Wed, 3/10/10, Tom wrote: From: Tom Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Lamb Lake Eagle To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 2:26 PM As I reported we lost an adult Bald Eagle here at Lamb Lake recently to exposure to toxins (particularly lead, a neurotoxin).  Even with a valiant effort by Return to the Wild's rehabbers there was nothing to be done.  There is an ongoing investigation about the demise of this bird.  The people at Return to the Wild would like those on this list to be looking for erratic behavior in all local wildlife (border of Johnson and Brown Counties) but considering the subject of this list specifically to look for erratic behavior in the birds we are seeing.  The characteristics to look for are: lack of balance, fluffed up feathers when inappropriate, seeming to stay still for longer than normal periods. Tom at Lamb Lake in Johnson 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 ********************************************************** ********************************************************** 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: SW Allen- March 10 AM From: "Rodger P. Rang" <rrang AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:38:54 -0500 I detected a few species at Fox Island County Park (nature bldgs areas) that I missed yesterday, notably E. Towhee (1m), Swamp (2) and White-thr. (1) Sparrows, and Spring Peeper and N. Leopard Frog. No phoebe yet. At the wet area at Ellison/ RR crossing, I noted a small group of ducks including Gadwall (1m,1f), A. Wigeon (3m,2f) and GW Teal (3m). The ice continues to diminish at Eagle Marsh. The Engle Road end is nearly ice-free and held a few ducks, notably: A. Black (3m) and Ruddy (3m). At the opposite end of the property, the ice is perhaps half gone, and there were a fair number of birds- though most were out quite a distance. With just binoculars, I could only positively ID a fraction of the dozens present. Among them were: N. Shoveler- 10+ Canvasback- 2m Ring-necked Duck- 20+ Scaup sp.- 10+ Bufflehead- 8+ Hooded Merganser- 2 Ruddy Duck- 2 Rodger Rang 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: Lamb Lake Eagle From: Tom <annntom AT EMBARQMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:26:11 -0500 As I reported we lost an adult Bald Eagle here at Lamb Lake recently to exposure to toxins (particularly lead, a neurotoxin). Even with a valiant effort by Return to the Wild's rehabbers there was nothing to be done. There is an ongoing investigation about the demise of this bird. The people at Return to the Wild would like those on this list to be looking for erratic behavior in all local wildlife (border of Johnson and Brown Counties) but considering the subject of this list specifically to look for erratic behavior in the birds we are seeing. The characteristics to look for are: lack of balance, fluffed up feathers when inappropriate, seeming to stay still for longer than normal periods. Tom at Lamb Lake in Johnson 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: Hummers on the move..... From: Timily Hill <timily888 AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:43:17 +0000 Rubies now being reported as far north as Natchez Mississippi and Columbus Georgia....see map link below. http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html ~~~  Rock out with your binocs out!  ~~~ Tim & Emily Hill ("Timily") St. Joe County TIM & EMILY'S FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM..... http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim-hill/   2010 POTATO CREEK S.P. & NW INDIANA SIGHT RECORD MAP http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108837667620953435659.0004813db0e8d681a3dcc&ll=41.541919,-86.369158&spn=0.00469,0.011319&z=17 2009 POTATO CREEK S.P.  & NW INDIANA SIGHT RECORD MAP    (2 PAGES...CLICK ON PG. 2 AT COLUMN BOTTOM IF NEC): 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: Brewer's Blackbird Liberty, IN From: "T. K. Tolford" <bandertt AT TOLFORD.COM> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:18:33 -0500 Sorry everyone. First time I forgot to include my location. That's what I get for multi-tasking with a 2-year old at my side! :-) We are at the northernmost end of Brookville Lake near the Dunlapsville Rd. Causeway just south of Liberty, IN. Tim ********************************************************** 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: Brewer's Blackbird From: "T. K. Tolford" <bandertt AT TOLFORD.COM> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:02:53 -0500 Observed a Brewer's Blackbird a few moment's ago by sight (through binocs) and song in my back yard about 30 yards from the house. (10:00 a.m. Wed) First sighting since I moved here in 2004! Tim www.hbrcnet.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: Wasson Road in Warrick County From: Y Harris <jyharris1 AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:34:25 -0500 The juvenile Bald Eagle that was spotted Monday was present yesterday (Tuesday about 4:00) but was near 7 Hills Road. The Great Horned Owl was on the nest. 2 Merlin were spotted and several Northern Harriers. No Short- Eared Owls were seen, they have probably migrated back North. Yvonne Harris ********************************************************** 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: Harlan's Hawk From: Brian Taylor <brian.taylor AT PAR-RESEARCH.COM> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:26:29 +0000 The Harlan's Hawk is back at the off ramp from 164 to Boonville-New Harmony into Bluegrass. He typically sits on the fence along 164. Brian Taylor Evansville ********************************************************** 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: LAGRANGE CO. WOODCOCKS From: Sam Plew <splew AT LAKELAND.K12.IN.US> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:37:48 -0500 Good Morning, Last evening, 5 American Woodcocks were doing the courtship display at Pigeon River. They were directly across the drive from Curtis Creek Trout Rearing Station (Parking area A-4). Plenty Wood Ducks, Sandhill Cranes, Red-winged Blackbirds and Grackles were also flying about. Good Birding, Sam Plew This communication is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential, privileged, or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s), the dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachments. Receipt by anyone other than the named recipient(s) does not constitute a waiver of any applicable privilege. ********************************************************** 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: woodcocks at Ecolab From: Sue and Ted Ulrich <SueAndTedUlrich AT MSN.COM> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:11:02 -0500 Another way to get close to woodcock to to locate where one is peenting one night and use Barny's tactics to get as close as you can, making a mental note or marking the spot where the bird was. The next evening go up well before it flies in to start calling. Go close to where it was calling the night before and sit very still and wait. My husband and I used to get within 8-12 feet of the peenting bird by doing this. Susan Ulrich eastern Warren County ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dunning, John B" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] woodcocks at Ecolab Here is what I have been told on approaching woodcock successfully: Liz was absolutely right that they are shy and will move if you approach them while they are "peenting." Their display consists of three identifiable parts (based on the sounds). They "peent" while on the ground. Then you hear a short fluttering as they take off. Finally they make a wide circuit of their territory, calling enroute (a higher pitched call than the "peent"), ending with a fluttering return. You find a "peenting" male and wait for it to take off. When you hear the fluttering ascent, you can rush in and get close to where you heard the "peenting" from. Get to a close spot and then get low to the ground (good way to get pretty muddy at this time of year). You will hear the male return, and when it starts "peenting" again, you can get another fix on where it is and move again when it flies. My colleague here in the dept that recommends this technique has had males drop in 10 feet from him and "peent" away. We were not that lucky on Sunday, but got pretty close. Some males "peent" forever and don't take off - we would then just look for another male. Another strategy is to wander in the area listening for the flight calling, then figure out which male you heard when it lands and starts "peenting" again. Patience is the key. Barny Misner13 AT verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: Bird discussion list for Indiana [mailto:IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of Liz Day Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 4:27 AM To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] woodcocks at Ecolab 2 woodcocks displaying at Ecolab. (Indianapolis) They were shy and would relocate if approached when peenting. Beaver, earthworms (very loud rustling in the dry leaves), raccoon (eating worms although it no doubt has a healthy diet of garbage). No owls. Liz D. ********************************************************** 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? 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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 , 3/9/10 From: Ed Peter <e.peter AT INSIGHTBB.COM> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:34:04 -0500 Lot of birds soaring high today. The sandhills were high but some of the hawks and vultures were soaring above them. At one point two of the Red-shouldered hawks perched in the same tree in my back yard. Location: Home - Floyds Knobs, IN Observation date: 3/9/10 Number of species: 28 Canada Goose 2 Black Vulture 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Sandhill Crane 30 Mourning Dove 14 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 6 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 1 American Robin 6 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 4 Song Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 6 Northern Cardinal 12 Red-winged Blackbird 3 Common Grackle 8 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 8 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Location: Loop Island Wetlands Observation date: 3/9/10 Number of species: 17 Canada Goose 4 Wood Duck 4 Mallard 6 Blue-winged Teal 1 Northern Shoveler 11 Canvasback 8 Killdeer 2 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 4 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 2 American Robin 3 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 6 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 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: SW Allen County- March 9 AM From: "Rodger P. Rang" <rrang AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:44:46 -0500 The ice is rapidly disappearing at Eagle Marsh, with a few areas mostly ice-free and others open around the edges. Along Engle Road, I noted my first Turkey Vulture (1) and at least four Great Blue Herons on nests at the heronry on the far side of the Serv-All ponds. I didn't note any waterfowl other than Canadas and mallards. The wet field on Ellison Road by the railroad crossing had lots of mallards and one each of A. Wigeon (f) and GW Teal (m), but the same low area farther south at Homestead Road had very little water at all and only a few mallards in a puddle. Highlights at Fox Island nature buildings were my first White-crowned Sparrow and lots of song- mostly from permanent residents, but with a few Amer. Tree Sparrows and juncos thrown in. I also heard my first Chorus Frog. At all sites and overhead, I heard the constant drip of early migration- Killdeer, Horned Larks, robins, red-wings and grackles, all still in low numbers. Still no Rusty BBs, though. Rodger Rang 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: Woodcocks in Carroll County From: Rick Read <richardaread AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:37:42 -0500 I visited a DNR property in Carroll County at dusk on 3/8 and found plenty of woodcocks. It is the Hufford Wildlife Habitat and Henricks Memorial Upland Bird Habitat areas. Located SW of US-421 and CR-600, and accessed off of CR-600. I was concentrating on suitability for an outing more than an accurate count of birds. But I saw/heard about 14 American Woodcock in the entire DNR property area. Rick Read Monticello ********************************************************** 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: Paynetown, Stillwater From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:44:07 -0500 This morning I visited both Paynetown on Lake Monroe and Stillwater Marsh - partly cloudy conditions - still, no fog, 39. Lots of activity. the highlights; Paynetown: Canada Goose - 42 Wood Duck - 2 Am. Wigeon - 4 Mallard - 11 No. Shoveler - 2 No. Pintail - 1 Canvasback - 10 Redhead - 36 Ring-necked Duck - 34 Lesser Scaup - 81 Bufflehead - 16 Co. Goldeneye - 23 Hooded Merganser - 2 Horned Grebe - 13 (all in basic plumage) Double-cr. Cormorant - 1 (FOS) Ring-billed Gull - 16 Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Killdeer - 6 Am. Robin - 14 Red-winged Blackbird - 4 Co. Grackle - 25 Stillwater - numbers of Redheads and Ring-necks still increasing - an amazing show! Canada Goose - 36 Wood Duck - 11 Gadwall - 22 Am. Wigeon - 64 Am. Black Duck - 20 Mallard - 85 No. Shoveler - 8 No. Pintail - 120 Green-winged Teal - 14 Canvasback - 24 Redhead - 830 Ring-necked Duck - 1150 Lesser Scaup - 42 Bufflehead - 14 Co. Goldeneye - 10 Ring-billed Gull - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Turkey Vulture - 4 E. Phoebe - 1 (FOS - at bridge on Kent Rd) Red-winged Blackbird - 26 Rusty Blackbird - 1 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: Grant Co. Grackles From: Ron & Judy Green <rjgreen123 AT EIWIFI.COM> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:00:44 -0500 FOY Grackle this morning. Judy Green Grant 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: Re: woodcocks at Ecolab From: "Dunning, John B" <jdunning AT PURDUE.EDU> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:14:19 -0500 Here is what I have been told on approaching woodcock successfully: Liz was absolutely right that they are shy and will move if you approach them while they are "peenting." Their display consists of three identifiable parts (based on the sounds). They "peent" while on the ground. Then you hear a short fluttering as they take off. Finally they make a wide circuit of their territory, calling enroute (a higher pitched call than the "peent"), ending with a fluttering return. You find a "peenting" male and wait for it to take off. When you hear the fluttering ascent, you can rush in and get close to where you heard the "peenting" from. Get to a close spot and then get low to the ground (good way to get pretty muddy at this time of year). You will hear the male return, and when it starts "peenting" again, you can get another fix on where it is and move again when it flies. My colleague here in the dept that recommends this technique has had males drop in 10 feet from him and "peent" away. We were not that lucky on Sunday, but got pretty close. Some males "peent" forever and don't take off - we would then just look for another male. Another strategy is to wander in the area listening for the flight calling, then figure out which male you heard when it lands and starts "peenting" again. Patience is the key. Barny Misner13 AT verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: Bird discussion list for Indiana [mailto:IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of Liz Day Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 4:27 AM To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] woodcocks at Ecolab 2 woodcocks displaying at Ecolab. (Indianapolis) They were shy and would relocate if approached when peenting. Beaver, earthworms (very loud rustling in the dry leaves), raccoon (eating worms although it no doubt has a healthy diet of garbage). No owls. Liz D. ********************************************************** 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. 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To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu ********************************************************** Subject: Great-horned Owlets - Week 5 update From: Steve Gifford <4giffords AT INSIGHTBB.COM> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:14:10 -0500 What a difference a week makes! For those of you following the progress of the Great-horned Owlets in Evansville, I spent most of the day yesterday watching the nest. They were rather inactive in the morning but became more animated as the sun came out in the afternoon. I got some great looks at both the owlets and the mom under great light. Both of the owlets are much bigger now and have lost a lot of their downy feathers. They also are developing distinctly different personalities (the lighter one is rather Spunky and picks on the darker one a lot which is a little more laid back). Another three or four weeks and they should start to test their wings. I have both video and pictures posted for those that want to check them out. www.flickr.com/photos/steve_gifford/ Enjoy! Steve ********************************************************** 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: Starke County Great Horned Owl Nest From: Bob Huguenard <roberthuguenard AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:36:45 -0500 Hi, In the stand of trees across the road from the Kankakee FWA Headquarters building, on the east end, there is a Great Horned Owl sitting on an old Red Tail Hawk Nest. Toto Rd. waterfowl numbers increasing with a large number of GWFG (150 - 200) and Northern Pintails (150 - 200). South of CR 525 S in Laporte County, there are ~5000 Sandhill Cranes accumulating. 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: Muscatatuck NWR From: Gary Dorman <cowboybirder AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 03:29:08 -0800 Yesterday afternoon I was able to bird the refuge before a meeting it was a great day to be out. I talked with Dave Crouch and he reported duck numbers were down from the weekend and I also talked to Dan Kaiser who said 8 Whooping cranes had been back in the closed area but he was unable to relocate them with the radio reciever. Location: Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge Observation date: 3/8/10 Notes: I also saw 2 deer,1 river otter and spring peepers and chorus frogs were singing Number of species: 34 Cackling Goose 1 Canada Goose 173 Tundra Swan 2 Gadwall 8 American Wigeon 30 American Black Duck 6 Mallard 86 Northern Pintail 1 Redhead 3 Ring-necked Duck 147 Bufflehead 1 Wild Turkey 3 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Horned Grebe 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 3 American Woodcock 1 Mourning Dove 4 Barred Owl 1 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 American Crow 2 Carolina Chickadee 4 Carolina Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 37 European Starling 30 Eastern Towhee 2 American Tree Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 7 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Northern Cardinal 13 Red-winged Blackbird 225 Rusty Blackbird 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Gary Dorman II New Albany, Floyd Co.,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: Grant Co. American Woodcock From: Ron & Judy Green <rjgreen123 AT EIWIFI.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:01:54 -0500 Heard my FOY American Woodcock at 10:45 pm tonight. Across the road from my house. Judy Green East Central Grant 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: IU XC course tonight: the woodcock show From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:44:33 -0800 I decided to try my luck again tonight on the IU cross country course, looking/listening for American Woodcocks. I wasn't disappointed. I left home at sunset, about 6:45PM, and walked over to the XC course. By the time I got there (around 7:00PM), the display flights were already underway. I didn't hear many "peent" calls, but there were lots of display flights...the most I've ever experienced on the XC course. One bird coming down from its display flight landed almost at my feet!! I had another close encounter even before I got to the XC course. I was walking down Range Road when I heard a very loud "peent", and then a display flight, not 20 yards away. This was in a relatively small patch of grass just to the east of IU's Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility. It's basically a construction zone, so the woodcock's display there really took me by surprise. The birds were still displaying when I left, but I had to leave the XC earlier than I wanted to because I could hear someone walking their dog in the dark on the XC course. Last thing I need to do is come between a protective dog and its owner in the pitch dark. One other note. While I was listening to woodcocks displaying, I could hear Killdeer migrating overhead. Interesting to hear two "shorebirds" vocalizing at the same time. :-) Bernie Sloan Bloomington My birding blog: http://bird-bs.blogspot.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/birdbs ********************************************************** 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: Cass County Migrants From: Andrea Neumann <andreaneumann15 AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:36:14 -0500 Even though I didn't get out today, I still had a lot of migrants flying around my yard. Turkey Vulture 70+ Killdeer 4+ Red Winged Blackbird 35+ Common Grackle 11+ 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: Paynetown, Stillwater From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:34:38 -0500 This morning I visited Paynetown on Lake Monroe and then Stillwater Marsh - very foggy on Monroe with very limited visibility. Fog had lifted at Stillwater. The highlights; Paynetown: Canada Goose - 34 Wood Duck - 1 Mallard - 19 Co. Goldeneye - 5 Hooded Merganser - 2 Ring-billed Gull - 145 (sitting on ice) Herring Gull - 11 Bonaparte's Gull - 1 (FOS) Killdeer - 4 No Flicker - 2 Am. Robin - 12 Red-winged Blackbird - 2 Co. Grackle - 51 Stillwater: Canada Goose - 45 Wood Duck - 16 Gadwall - 16 Am. Wigeon - 31 Am. Black Duck - 30 Mallard - 275 No Shoveler - 6 No. Pintail - 175 Green-winged Teal - 7 Canvasback - 32 Redhead - 560 Ring-necked Duck - 650 Lesser Scaup - 65 Bufflehead - 18 Co. Goldeneye - 20 Hooded Merganser - 3 Great Blue Heron - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 3 Killdeer - 2 Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult, 1 Basic I) Red-sh. Hawk - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Red-winged Blackbird - 25 Rusty Blackbird - 6 (FOS) Bob Dodd - 1 (still in winter plumage) Also - heard Spring Peepers and one Chorus Frog (FOS for both) 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: NOT Common Nighthawks in Goshen From: wilmajeanharder <wilmajeanharder AT JUNO.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:20:26 -0500 Oh good grief. I thought it was really early in the year as well. I was quite sure that I saw two of them with my binoculars, but it was dusk and whatever I did see was high in the sky. I've been wrong before when posting on this list so it's quite possible I'm wrong this time too. On another note, I've always wanted to hear woodcocks but have never known that I've heard them, so I guess that's a lesson learned. It sounded like quite a few. My apologies. I'm pretty sure that I heard a Barred Owl, too, unless that sounds like something else as well.... :) Wilma On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:04:07 -0800 (PST) "B.G. Sloan" writes: Wlima, You're sure you're not hearing woodcocks, right? When woodcocks "peent" they sound just like nighthawks. The reason I'm asking is that woodcocks are very active right now, and Brock's CD lists March 25 as the earliest spring record for nighthawks in northern Indiana. Bernie --- On Mon, 3/8/10, wilmajeanharder wrote: From: wilmajeanharder Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Common Nighthawks in Goshen To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:31 PM At least 2 Common Nighthawks are circling above the Reith Center area by Shanklin Park. I'm pretty sure I heard more than that but could only spot two. Also 1 male Red-winged Blackbird further down the millrace a couple of hours ago. And now at least 3 bats, the first I've seen. :) Wilma Harder Goshen Elkhart County "Life is good. Live it gently and with fire and always with hope." ---Charlie Murphy ********************************************************** 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 ********************************************************** "Life is good. Live it gently and with fire and always with hope." ---Charlie Murphy ********************************************************** 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: Eagles at Williamsburg Apt. From: Russell Allison <grounds11 AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:09:17 -0500 I spent a fun 2 hrs. at the Williamsburg Apt. watching 3 Bald Eagles do what they do. There is some open water on each end of the Apt. and the fishing was very good. Also taking advantage of the ample fish supply were a large group of Ring-billed Gulls and American Crows. Also seen in the area: Bald Eagles-3-Adults-see Flickr Ring billed Gulls-37 Herring Gull-2 Bufflehead-1 Great blue Heron-1 American Crow-10 Mallard-21 Common Grackle-7-FOY Dark eyed Junco-1 Carolina Wren-1 Belted Kingfisher-1 American Robin-4 Song Sparrow-2 Unidentified Duck-1-The only Duck I can find in my books that looks like it is a Eurasion Widgeon. I hope it stays long enough for someone else to see it. It is located on the North pond at the Williamsburg Apt. Good Birding Russ Allison, West Lafayette Please Visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russ_allison (Underscore between russ and allison) ********************************************************** 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: Common Nighthawks in Goshen From: wilmajeanharder <wilmajeanharder AT JUNO.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:31:49 -0500 At least 2 Common Nighthawks are circling above the Reith Center area by Shanklin Park. I'm pretty sure I heard more than that but could only spot two. Also 1 male Red-winged Blackbird further down the millrace a couple of hours ago. And now at least 3 bats, the first I've seen. :) Wilma Harder Goshen Elkhart County "Life is good. Live it gently and with fire and always with hope." ---Charlie Murphy ********************************************************** 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: Golden Eagle In Warrick County From: Steve Gifford <4giffords AT INSIGHTBB.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:07:04 -0500 Tim, thank you for sending this out. The pictures are not great due to the fog, but I posted what I had on Flickr. When I cropped and expanded the pictures at home, I saw four small white dots of feathers at the base of the neck which leads me to believe it may be a juvenille bald eagle. If so, I apologize for the false alarm. If anyone could provide some ID help I would appreciate it. Thanks, Steve www.flickr.com/photos/steve_gifford/ ********************************************************** 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: Wabashiki West Terre Haute From: Adam Betuel <ykcul88 AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:01:40 -0500 Swung by this evening (~6:00pm) and poked around for about a half an hour or so. Did all my observations from the dirt pull off on the south side of RT40 just before entering W Terre Haute: Canada Goose 20+ Mallard ~10 American Black Duck 4 American Wigeon ~10 Northern Shoveler ~15 Green-winged Teal ~25 Canvasback 1 Redhead 40+ Ring-necked Duck 50+ Lesser Scaup 1 Common Goldeneye ~20 Bufflehead ~5 Hooded Merganser ~10 Red Tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 25+ Sandhill Crane (Flyover of 39) Killdeer ~5 Mourning Dove ~10 Rock Pigeon 20+ American Crow 300+ American Robin ~20 European Starling 1,000 + Song Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird Thousands! Common Grackle Thousands!! Good Birding Adam Betuel Terre Haute 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: Elkhart waterfowl 3/8/10 From: John Cassady <jcassady AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:26:01 -0600 There was quite an assortment of waterfowl on the St. Joe River in front of our house this afternoon. The following birds were just east of the Johnson St. Bridge/Dam in Elkhart, Elkhart County: Pied-billed Grebe 3 Horned Grebe 1 Hooded Merganser 4 Red-breasted Merganser 2 Common Merganser 6 Ring-necked Duck 3 Ruddy Duck 4 Greater Scaup 2 Lesser Scaup 2 Redhead 11 Canvasback 4 Mute Swan 12 Mallard 10 John Cassady ********************************************************** 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: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Fort wayne From: REBECCA BROWN <bbrown8628 AT MSN.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:44:31 -0500 I spent about an hour in Franke Park this afternoon thinking maybe the ice would be off the lake, but it is still mostly frozen and only local birds there. I did however find a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and a Turkey Vulture, so it seems migration is getting started. With highs in the 50's and 60's this week, maybe by the end of the week things will be looking up. Jerry Brown EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me ********************************************************** 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 In Warrick County From: Tim Griffith <timgrif396 AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:25:54 -0500 Steve Gifford just called to tell us there is an adult Golden Eagle along Wasson Road in northern Warrick County. The eagle has been sitting in the treeline along Pigeon Creek about 2oo yards north of the intersection of Boonville/NewHarmony Road and Wasson Road. It is on the left side of the road and about 200 yards south of the Great Horned Owl nest. He will post photos of the bird this evening. www.flickr.com/photos/steve_gifford 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: American Woodcock, Tippecanoe County From: "Dunning, John B" <jdunning AT PURDUE.EDU> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:16:32 -0500 Last night four hardy souls gathered in a steady rain to listen and look for American Woodcock at the Purdue Wildlife Area in western Tippecanoe County. The rain petered out by the time we got there at 7 PM, and we heard 10-12 displaying males in the restored grassland patches and other open areas on the property. We got very close to several, saw a few fly-overs, and had one probable female fly by (judging by the lack of noise made in flight. A nice walk around. We also heard a late (in the evening) flyover flock of SANDHILL CRANES at the Wildlife Area and saw one very fierce opossum. 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: 3-8-10...Turkey Vulture From: Timily Hill <timily888 AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:59:36 +0000 I live on the Indiana-Michigan state line and noticed my first TUVU a few minutes ago. Not a big whoop, but I love watching them soar....so graceful in their homeliness.  --Tim ~~~  Rock out with your binocs out!  ~~~ Tim & Emily Hill ("Timily") St. Joe County TIM & EMILY'S FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM..... http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim-hill/   2010 POTATO CREEK S.P. & NW INDIANA SIGHT RECORD MAP http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108837667620953435659.0004813db0e8d681a3dcc&ll=41.541919,-86.369158&spn=0.00469,0.011319&z=17 2009 POTATO CREEK S.P.  & NW INDIANA SIGHT RECORD MAP    (2 PAGES...CLICK ON PG. 2 AT COLUMN BOTTOM IF NEC): 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: SW Allen Co From: Terri Gorney <bandtgorney AT AOL.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:57:23 -0500 At 10:30, the Sandhill Cranes were still off Ellison Rd where Natalie reported them. At 11:15 they were flying and calling low over Fox Island. They were in a half V formation and heading NE. Fox Island 2 Pileated Woodpeckers were calling back and forth in the woods 1 male gold finch has just about changed color. Wonderful flash of yellow. Several Red-Wing blackbirds on the county roads. All were calling. Amber Rd/Homestead Rd 2 Horned Larks by Homestead Rd 1 Killdeer in the field off of Amber Rd 100+ starlings 1 Kestral Mallards and Canada Goose Terri Gorney 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: Goose Pond -- 3/6 - 3/7 From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:47:05 -0500 Forgot to mention: We had a male Brewer's Duck (Mallard X Gadwall) in GP 9 yesterday as well. It was hanging out with Gadwalls there. It was too far away to get any pics. ........Jim & Susan **************** James Hengeveld Dept. of Biology Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Ph.: 812-855-5353 ********************************************************** 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: NW IN, 3/6/10, addenum From: Ed Hopkins <birder4in AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:32:34 -0500 I missed one species at Kankakee FWA - Starke Co. side: Lapland Longspur,80 ==== 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: NW IN, 3/6/10 From: Ed Hopkins <birder4in AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:24:47 -0500 NW IN, 3/6/10 I started at Jasper-Pulaski FWA then onto Kankakee FWA, Kingsbury FWA and ended back in W Lafayette. Ponds must have frozen very deep this winter. Only a few had small openings. We need some wind with the warm temperatures. There was a strong migration of pintails. The local white-frontXCanada goose hybrid was in the N pond of Celery Bog Nature Center. Brookston, just N of White/Tippecanoe county line. Rough-legged Hawk,1, dark morph Celery Bog Nature Area, W Lafayette "Greenland" Grtr Wht-f Goose X Canada Goose hybrid,1 pink legs, no barring, no horizontal white line on flank. Product of an escaped "Greenland" Grtr Wht-f Goose and local Canada Goose over a decade ago. Canada Goose,617 Mallard,103 Ring-necked Duck,13 American Coot,1 Belted Kingfisher,1 Song Sparrow,1 JP FWA - Pulaski Co. side Canada Goose,232 Mallard,6 Great Blue Heron,1 Bald Eagle-Adult+SY,2 Red-tailed Hawk,2 American Kestrel,1 Sandhill Crane,5300,FOY Killdeer,3,FOY Ring-billed Gull,1 Mourning Dove,13 Red-headed Woodpecker,2 Red-bellied Woodpecker,3 Hairy Woodpecker,1 Northern Flicker,1 Pileated Woodpecker,1 Blue Jay,60 American Crow,29 Black-capped Chickadee,3 Tufted Titmouse,3 White-breasted Nuthatch,4 Eastern Bluebird,2 American Robin,1 European Starling,9 Song Sparrow,3 Dark-eyed Junco,11 Northern Cardinal,14 Red-winged Blackbird,150 Eastern Meadowlark,3 Rusty Blackbird,8,FOY Common Grackle,3 House Sparrow,1 Kankakee FWA -La Porte Co. side Greater White-fronted Goose,4 Canada Goose,1014 American Wigeon,2 American Black Duck,2 Mallard,22 Northern Pintail,76 Green-winged Teal,1 Kankakee FWA - Starke Co. side Greater White-fronted Goose,81 Canada Goose,2400 Mallard,108 Northern Shoveler,1 Northern Pintail,92 Green-winged Teal,1 Canvasback,1 Redhead,4 Turkey Vulture,3,FOY Bald Eagle-Adult on nest,1 Red-tailed Hawk,3 American Kestrel,2 Sandhill Crane,120 Killdeer,4 Ring-billed Gull,64 Downy Woodpecker,1 American Crow,134 Horned Lark,10 Black-capped Chickadee,2 European Starling,2500 American Tree Sparrow,2 Song Sparrow,4 Red-winged Blackbird,500 Rusty Blackbird,1 Common Grackle,14 Brown-headed Cowbird,120 Kingsbury FWA, Greater White-fronted Goose,5 Canada Goose,160 Mute Swan,2 Gadwall,1 American Wigeon,8 American Black Duck,2 Mallard,94 Northern Shoveler,3 Northern Pintail,57 Green-winged Teal,1 Ring-necked Duck,7 Bufflehead,1 Common Goldeneye,7 Common Merganser,19 Red-tailed Hawk,3 Sandhill Crane,2 Killdeer,1 Ring-billed Gull,44 Herring Gull,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: Surround-sound woodcocks From: "Terri B. Greene" <tgreene AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:53:11 -0500 Stepped outside this morning around 6:15 a.m. to be greeted by surround-sound woodcocks displaying and peenting . . . west and north of the house and in the field across the road (east). As I walked dog Shep down the road (south), I heard more woodcocks in the neighbors' fields. At LEAST 5 individual birds near my house and 2 at the far end of our walk at the neighbors'. American Woodcock 7 Terri Greene SW Monroe 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: American Woodcock From: Lindsay and Scott Namestnik <lsnamestnik AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:44:12 -0500 34 degrees and dark at 6:30 this morning in North Liberty, but I heard and then saw the silhouette of my first Timberdoodle of the year. Other recent arrivals have included Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Sandhill Crane, and Killdeer. Eastern Bluebird, Song Sparrow, and Cardinal are also singing regularly. It all happens so fast... Scott Namestnik 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: Dolan wetland - 3/7 From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:20:42 -0500 Late morning yesterday, we stopped at the relatively newly created wetland on the west side of Old 37 just north of Dolan. This is private land that we birded from the shoulder of Old 37. Present were: -100 Can. Geese -275 Mallards -6 Am. Black Ducks -2 Green-w. Teal -26 Redhead -1 Hooded Merganser -1 singing E. Phoebe. ........Jim & Susan ******************** James Hengeveld Dept. of Biology Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Ph.: 812-855-5353 ********************************************************** 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: Lk. Lemon- weekend From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:10:40 -0500 Lake Lemon is still mostly covered with ice. The incoming channel at the east end is open and there are a couple of other scattered open patches. Highlights from this weekend: -3 Tundra Swans -2 ad., 1 1st-yr. - came in to the east end at dusk on 3/5 and stayed until mid-day on 3/6 -2 Wood Ducks -6 Mallards -9 Canvasbacks - 3/7 -6 Redheads - 3/7 -12 Ring-necked Ducks - 3/5, 3/7 -10 L. Scaup - 3/7 -38 Com. Goldeneye - 3/6 -2 Bufflehead - 3/7 -2 Com. Mergansers - 3/5 -1 Hooded Merganser - 3/7 -9 Ruddy Ducks - 3/7 -21 T. Vultures - 3/5 - they were on the move all weekend -3 Bald Eagles - 3/6 - 2 local ads., 1 2nd basic -1 Red-sh. Hawk - 3/6 -4 Red-t. Hawks - 3/6 -450 Sandhill Cranes - 3/6 - counted in less than an hour near noon time; they were also moving all weekend -2 Killdeer -2 Am. Woodcock - 3/5 - one flew by our house on Friday evening and another on Saturday evening; a couple have been "peenting" down Southshore Drive since last weekend -95 Ring-b. Gulls - 3/7 -1 Herring Gull - 3/7 (ad.) -1 Gr. Horned Owl - 3/5 -E. Bluebird & Am. Robin - both singing and acting territorial -Red-winged Blackbird - 3-4 local territorial birds; small flocks passing over regularly -Com. Grackle - small flocks passing over regularly ........Jim & Susan ******************** Jim & Susan Hengeveld East Lake Lemon Observatory Southshore Drive Unionville, IN 47468 ********************************************************** 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: Goose Pond -- 3/6 - 3/7 From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:47:00 -0500 Susan & I were out at Beehunter 5 on Saturday from 7 - 9 am to help out with the Marsh Madness event there. We returned yesterday for a couple of hours to do some photography and to check out a few more of the Goose Pond units. Highlights for Sat. (6) and Sun. (7) included: -2 Mute Swans (7) - GP 9 -166 Gr. White-fr. Geese (7) - mostly flying north over Beehunter 4 / 5 -X Can. Goose -1 Snow Goose (7) - BH 4 -5 Wood Ducks (6) - BH 5 -X Mallards -10 Am. Black Ducks (7) - MPW -60 Gadwall (7) - GP 9 -70 Green-w. Teal (6) - BH 5 (lots more elsewhere) -40 Am. Wigeon (7) - GP 9 -X No. Pintail -30 No. Shovelers (6) - BH 5 -55 Canvasback (6) - adj. to BH 3 -X Redhead (hundreds next to BH3 and in MPW) -X Ring-n. Ducks (higher numbers than Redhead) -25 L. Scaup (6) - adj. to BH 3 -3 Hooded Mergansers (7) - BH 5 -4 No. Harriers (7) -2 Bald Eagles (ad.- 7) -1 Red-shouldered Hawk (6) - BH 5 -4000 - 5000 Sandhill Cranes (6) - BH 5 -2 Killdeer (7) -1 Short-eared Owl (6) - BH 5 -3 Horned Larks (7) - one singing -X Am. Tree Sparrow -5 Savannah Sparrows (7) - BH 5 -10 Swamp Sparrows (6) - BH 2 - 3 -8 E. Meadowlarks (7) - singing -thousands Red-winged Blackbirds -thousands Com. Grackles -10 Brown-h. Cowbirds -35 Rusty Blackbirds (6) - along CR 100 ........Jim & Susan **************** James Hengeveld Dept. of Biology Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Ph.: 812-855-5353 ********************************************************** 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: Open farmfields near Fox Island From: Natalie Haley <nhaley AT ALLENCOUNTYPARKS.ORG> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:23:59 -0500 Stopped and put on the hazard lights for eight sandhill cranes spotted with 30 Canada geese, six mallards in farm field west of Ellison/Yohne Rd. this morning at 7:30AM in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Natalie G. Haley - Environmental Educator Allen County Parks and Recreation 7324 Yohne Rd. Fort Wayne, IN. 46809 Office: (260) 449-3246 Park Office: (260) 449-3180 ********************************************************** 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: Ducks on Goshen Dam Pond From: John Harley <ekjwh68 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:50:07 -0500 I forgot to include Carolina Wren and Dark-eyed Junco in the list. The Bristol Great Horned Owl can be seen if you take SR 15 north from US20 to CR10 and go east until CR10 ends in a T. The nest is in a tree line pretty much in line with CR 10 but quite a distance off the road to the east. It has been there and active for several years. You'll need a spotting scope to see much. The other owl is easier to see--in a wooded area on the north side of US 20 just east of CR43--in a Sycamore tree. John and Elaine Harley, ekjwh68 AT hotmail.com, Goshen, IN _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/ ********************************************************** 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: Ducks on Goshen Dam Pond From: John Harley <ekjwh68 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 23:42:35 -0500 There was a small but diverse group of ducks on the Goshen Dam Pond this afternoon--just north of Blosser's Island: Mallard Northern Pintail American Wigeon Northern Shoveler Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser We also saw Ring-necked Gulls, Mute Swans, Canada Geese, Hooded Mergansers, American Tree Sparrows, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Robins, Black-capped Chickadees, Goldfinches, White-breasted Nuthatches, Tufted titmice, Downy Woodpeckers, Hairy Woodpeckers, House Finches and Cardinals at other locations around the pond and adjacent woods and at our feeders. We saw nesting Great-horned owls at 2 locations (near Bristol and near Middlebury) and a Long-eared Owl (north-east Elkhart County). John and Elaine Harley, ekjwh68 AT hotmail.com, Goshen, IN _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/ ********************************************************** 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: NW Indiana March 6th and 7th Sites From: Erik Troske <etbirdbrain AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 22:18:29 -0500 Yesterday (March 6th) and today (March 7th), I made quick trips to a few sites in the area and had a few nice birds. Highlights: Tippecanoe River SP, Oxbow Trail (March 6) Eastern Bluebird 3 Barred Owl 1 (One of my favorite birds, and getting a great look at a perched bird during the middle of the day is a very special treat!) Red-headed Woodpecker 6 BALD EAGLE 1 (Flyover immature bird) Jasper-Pulaski Goose Pasture (March 6) Eastern Meadowlark American Kestrel 4 (On highway nearby) Sandhill Crane Cowles Bog (March 7) Nothing of note Beverly Shores Varied Thrush Site (March 7, about 3:00 for short 10 minute stop) VARIED THRUSH 1 (Awesome view. Unfortunately, I made a doofus mistake and forgot to put the battery in the camera) Pine Siskin 1 FOY Striebel Pond (March 7, much of south end is now ice-free) Redhead 15 Common Goldeneye 4 Common Merganser 3 Ring-necked Duck FOY Bufflehead 3 Hooded Merganser 5 FOY ********************************************************** 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: Steuben County Sandhills return! From: Holly Meyers <HMeyersKbirder AT AOL.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:54:31 EST Had 15 Sandhill Cranes fly over in V formation...sorry Fred, No Geese noted with these guys :) Holly Holly Meyers Steuben 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: spring grackles From: terry ballenger <t.ballenger AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:41:22 -0800 Although most non-birders think that robins and red-winged blackbirds are indicators of Spring, I am more convinced when I see common grackles back in my yard.  I had 3 or 4 foraging most all day at my ground feeders.  Bring on the grackles!   Terry Ballenger Noblesville Ham. 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: Geist Reservoir From: "Mark C. Rhodes" <arzelfowl AT MSN.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 20:31:15 -0500 Spent an hour early this morning scoping the ducks at the northeast end of Geist Reservoir near Indianapolis. A nice group including: Mallard (65) Green-winged Teal (9) Lesser Scaup (11) Ring-necked (3) Redhead (4) Canvasback (42) largest flock on the reservoir since 1974 Bufflehead (7) Common Goldeneye (15) Wood Duck (1) Mute Swan (5) Canada Geese (70) Cackling Geese (2) Ring-billed Gull (40) Am. Bald Eagle (1 - 2nd yr.) landed on the ice, where I left it. Great Blue Heron (2) Sandhill Cranes (32) (13) (19) flyover groups Ended with time at Ruster Park which yeilded both Great Horned and Barred Owls. Nothing of interest to report from the Mt. Comfort Airport. ********************************************************** 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: Sandhill cranes and Canada geese in same "V" From: Fred Wooley <fwooley AT DNR.IN.GOV> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 19:46:18 -0500 Lots of excitement certainly over returning sandhill cranes from everyone. Maybe some of you have seen or heard of this, but it's new to me. A naturalist friend was working in the Elkhart Bog a few days ago and heard the sound of approaching cranes. He looked up to find the "V" formation, but was surprised to see one leg of the "V" with 12 Canada geese and the other leg with 7 sandhill cranes! I've seen mixed species of birds flock together during migration, such as various blackbirds in one big flock or various waterfowl in big flocks, but two different species like this sharing the aerodynamics of one "V" formation?!! Have I just been missing 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: Hummingbird Migration Map From: Timily Hill <timily888 AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:27:45 +0000 Ruby Throats have now gotten as far as Georgia now according to Lanny Chambers annual RTHU Migration Map (below). Thayza comin' !! http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html ~~~  Rock out with your binocs out!  ~~~ Tim & Emily Hill ("Timily") St. Joe County TIM & EMILY'S FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM..... http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim-hill/   2010 POTATO CREEK S.P. & NW INDIANA SIGHT RECORD MAP http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108837667620953435659.0004813db0e8d681a3dcc&ll=41.541919,-86.369158&spn=0.00469,0.011319&z=17 2009 POTATO CREEK S.P.  & NW INDIANA SIGHT RECORD MAP    (2 PAGES...CLICK ON PG. 2 AT COLUMN BOTTOM IF NEC): 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: 3-6-10 Potato Creek SP...Red-shouldered Hawks From: Timily Hill <timily888 AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:24:00 +0000 Emily and I watched a pair of RSHAs Saturday for about 15 minutes that were displaying aerial courting maneuvers in the same area down creek where a pair courted, and likely nested, last Spring. Possibly the same returning pair. Always fun to watch. You can see the location where they may nest again by clicking on my 2010 map below. Another fun moment was watching the Michael Jordan of deer in the field across from Orchard Shores not far from the Nature Center. This prancing, bounding, high-flyin’ hombre was having a ball testing out its new legs with the snowpack finally disappearing. It must have been a good 10 feet off the ground and looked more like an African Springbok the way it flew. Michael Jordan would have been proud. Take a look at the series of 5 photos I put on my Flickr page (below). ~~~  Rock out with your binocs out!  ~~~ Tim & Emily Hill ("Timily") St. Joe County TIM & EMILY'S FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM..... http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim-hill/   2010 POTATO CREEK S.P. & NW INDIANA SIGHT RECORD MAP http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108837667620953435659.0004813db0e8d681a3dcc&ll=41.541919,-86.369158&spn=0.00469,0.011319&z=17 2009 POTATO CREEK S.P.  & NW INDIANA SIGHT RECORD MAP    (2 PAGES...CLICK ON PG. 2 AT COLUMN BOTTOM IF NEC): 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: Jefferson Co. Sightings From: Sara Brink <sarajazzgirl2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:09:20 -0500 Birding Today 3/7/10 on the Ohio River near Clifty Falls State Park...on a sunny day. Peregrine falcon Crows Turkey Vultures Songs Sparrows Chipping Sparrows Robins Approx. 100 Canada Geese Approx. 150 Mallards 11 Turkeys Red Tailed Hawk Great Blue Heron Cardinals White Breasted Nuthatch Eastern Meadowlarks Approx. 10-15 Wood Ducks ********************************************************** 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 Freeman-eagles and ducks From: Rick Read <richardaread AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:23:19 -0500 Yesterday I saw my first-of-season fishing boat and my first water-skier. The skier is nuts, especially with floating ice, but it gives him bragging rights. I figured I'd better go looking for ducks before the boat traffic scared everything off. I drove around Lake Freeman today looking for waterfowl. Public access is very limited, but with no leaves on trees we could find a few places to view the lake. Most of the lake is still covered in ice, but there are some open areas. All sightings are WHITE COUNTY, today, 3/7. As viewed from the west side: Common Merganser 7 (over the water) Bald Eagle 2 J (over farmland N of airport) Sandhill Crane 100s (several flights) Mute Swan 4 European Starling Red-winged Blackbird Between Ski Island and the western shore, open water had about 200 ducks: Ring-necked Duck Redhead Hooded Merganser 8 Lesser Scaup Mallard 15 Canada Goose Ring-billed Gull As viewed from the east side: Bald Eagle 10 (1A, 9J) most were in the trees on the spit of land beyond Gingrich Ct. Several hundred ducks in the lake around Gingrich Ct. Rain chased me away. Northern Pintail 4 American Wigeon 1 Green-winged Teal 15 Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup American Coot 2 Canada Goose Common Goldeneye Mallard 200 Canvasback Redhead Common Merganser Ring-billed Gull Rick Read Monticello ********************************************************** 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: Wells Co. - 03-07 From: Gloria Pike <gloriapike AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:10:25 -0500 Wabash river, Bluffton, IN: Sandhill crane - 24 American Robin - 1 Blue Jay - 2 Brown Creeper - 5 White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Mallard - 2 Canada Goose - 5 Northern Cardinal - 2 Eurasian Starling Red-tailed hawk - 1 Horned Lark Mourning Dove - 3 Carolina Wren - 1 That was the most Brown Creepers I've ever seen in one place! Also my second Carolina Wren ever. ~Gloria Pike, Bluffton, 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: Major crane movement Saturday From: Sue and Ted Ulrich <SueAndTedUlrich AT MSN.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:06:17 -0500 Spent 3-4 hours cutting honeysuckle yesterday at Weiler Leopold Nature Reserve, a local NICHES Land Trust property along the Wabash. Heard Sandhills nearly constantly during the whole time I was there. Stopped to watch several of the closer flocks--small groups, all headed north. Also had several singing bluebirds and numerous Canada Geese moving along the Wabash. One noisy flock had over 160 birds with a Bald Eagle flying in the background. Kept expecting to flush a woodcock but didn't. Susan Ulrich eastern Warren 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: TREE SWALLOW@Muscatatuck NWR; Hardy Lake From: Tom and Colleen Becker <Cbirding AT AOL.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:29:36 -0500 Pat and Jane Bell led a Beckham Bird Club field trip to MNWR and to Hardy Lake. The highlights were 3 TREE SWALLOWS at MNWR, 19 Bald Eagles (all in air at one time) and 21 Red-breasted Mergansers at Hardy. Location: Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge Observation date: 3/7/10 Notes: Tree Swallows (FOS). Number of species: 50 Canada Goose 68 Wood Duck 5 Gadwall 16 American Wigeon 15 American Black Duck 11 Mallard 26 Northern Pintail 5 Green-winged Teal 28 Redhead 39 Ring-necked Duck 65 Greater Scaup 1 Bufflehead 3 Common Goldeneye 2 Hooded Merganser 1 Ruddy Duck 1 Pied-billed Grebe 3 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 3 Bald Eagle 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Sandhill Crane 91 Killdeer 2 Mourning Dove 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 3 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 14 TREE SWALLOW 5 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 2 Eastern Bluebird 8 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 17 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Eastern Towhee 1 American Tree Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 7 White-throated Sparrow 3 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco 3 Northern Cardinal 16 Red-winged Blackbird 32 American Goldfinch 5 Location: Hardy Lake Observation date: 3/7/10 Number of species: 17 Canada Goose 75 American Wigeon 3 Mallard 4 Canvasback 10 Redhead 90 Ring-necked Duck 63 Greater Scaup 17 Bufflehead 23 Common Goldeneye 5 Red-breasted Merganser 21 Wild Turkey 2 Horned Grebe 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 19 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Killdeer 1 Ring-billed Gull 35 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: Great Blues, Grant Co. From: Lynnanne <leavesofthefall AT EMBARQMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:28:35 -0500 It appears the great blue herons are beginning to gather at the nesting site on the Grant/Wabash County line on highway 15. Lynnanne ~ Wabash 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: Williamsburg Apt. and Celery Bog From: Russell Allison <grounds11 AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:26:31 -0500 A short stop at the Williamsburg Apt. at 2:00pm found these: Bald Eagles-2-second winter birds. Both landed together and were there for the 45 minutes I watched. See Flickr Hooded Mergansers-4 -FOY Herring Gull-1-2nd winter bird-FOY Ring billed Gull-47 American Crow-21 Mallard-14 Great blue Heron-1 Belted Kingfisher-2 Canada Geese-12 North end of the Celery Bog, at the Walmart parking lot. Ring-necked Duck-12-FOY Great blue Heron-1 Red winged Blackbird-1 Mallard-40+ Canada Geese--many Gadwall-3--FOY Good Birding Russ Allison, West Lafayette Please Visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russ_allison (Underscore between russ and allison) ********************************************************** 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: Varied Thrush,Beverly Shores From: Jennie Girton & Brendan Grube <brennie8 AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:36:59 -0600 In-Bird The Varied Thrush was once again seen at the previously cited feeder in Beverly Shores,today.As far as i've heard,the bird didn't show until 1:00 p.m.,when Pete and Nila Grube,and Bob Huguenard saw it in the front yard feeder. Brendan Grube ********************************************************** 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: yellow-rump From: Becky Lomax <rebeccamlmx AT CS.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:08:42 -0500 We had our first of the year Yellow-rumped warbler at the suet feeder today. ********************************************************** 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: Goose Pond Marsh Madness March 6 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:42:03 -0500 Yesterday (March 6 2010) I did not record numbers for many birds while running around assisting with the auto tour and doing video interviews during the Marsh Madness Sandhill Crane Festival at Goose Pond FWA in Greene County. There were plenty of birds to be seen. The first Marsh Madness Festival was a grand success. Special thanks to all the birders who served as guides at stops on the auto tours or on the bus tours. We could not have asked for better weather. Conditions of the roads were much improved over the past two weeks (thanks especially to the statf at GPFWA). For me the major highlight was the great evening flight of Sandhill Cranes at Unit BH5 at Beehunter Marsh. GPFWA Property Manager Brad Feaster and I counted 11,200 SANDHILL CRANES retuning in the evening to Unit BH5N. They were nicely strung out lines and Vs, with the vast majority flying in from the south. We talked over the sizes of the arriving groups as they passed across CR 100 S, counting the groups by 100s or 50s. Our total is a conservative count. As Amy Kearns noted, the arriving Sandhills came for about an hour. Once the major concentration got underway there was a span of about 45 minutes straight when lines of arriving Sandhills were appearing view strung out on the southern horizon. A very impressive experience. The previous single party high count for Sandhill Cranes in the Goose Pond FWA database is 5500 on March 3 2009. This morning (March 7 2010) while working on Sandhill Cranes west of Beehunter Marsh on CR 1050 W Ron Ronk and I observed 1 WILSON'S SNIPE in a wet part of a soybean field. Also this morning 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were in GPFWA Unit GP10S, 1 dark morph and 1 light morph. --Lee Sterrenburg 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: Woodcocks at Spinn Prairie-White County From: Rick Read <richardaread AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 13:57:22 -0500 I had been looking for woodcocks close to home and finally found some at Spinn Prairie last night. Located 2 miles north of Reynolds in White County, Spinn Prairie is undergoing periodic maintenance to preserve the prairie. It was burned last fall and now many small diameter trees have been cut and left in place. Much of it is mushy with standing water, snow and ice. So the walking wasn't easy but it was productive. Sundown was 6:44pm and the peenting began at 6:52. I estimate a dozen or more birds peenting, displaying and flying close by. I had several nice views. Birds seen: American Woodcock Red-winged Blackbird E. Starling A. Robin Rick Read Monticello ********************************************************** 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: Kankakee FWA & Jasper-Pulaski FWA From: Bob Zaremba <bobzarem AT BELLSOUTH.NET> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:44:27 -0800 After seeing the highlights from Ken Brock's post yesterday, I decided to try my luck and visit the Kankakee FWA area and see what was still around.   I was not disappointed.  I arrived at the Toto Road location on the Starke County side around 7AM and the flooded field was teeming with ducks and geese.  I have GOT to bring up a scope and leave it in my office, these weekend trips with out it are driving me nuts!    I still had a very good time this morning and got some decent counts with only my bins.  It seems like some of the duck numbers increased from even yesterday with Ken, John and Susan visited. I also found a couple of Red-breasted Nuthatches along the river.    Here are my counts for Kankakee Greater White-fronted Goose - 45 (easily could have been more) Snow Goose  - 1 (blue immature still present) Canada Goose  - 2000+  (i'll go with Ken's number!) Wood Duck - 8 American Wigeon - 1 male American Black Duck - 4 Mallard - 125 Northern Shoveler - 8 Northern Pintail - 120 (conservative estimate, seemed like the most abundant duck sp,) Green-winged Teal - 6 Ring-necked Duck - 25 Lesser Scaup - 2 Bufflehead - 4 Hooded Merganser - 4 Bald Eagle - 1 adult on nest Northern Harrier - 1 American Kestrel  - 1 Sandhill Crane - 250 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 2 Horned lark - 3 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2   After leaving Kankakee FWA, I decided to check out Jasper-Pulaski FWA on my way back to Merrillville, and I am glad I did.   There were a coupe of thousand Sandhill Cranes viewable from the viewing tower today.  That is always cool to see!   Highlights: Canada Goose 52 Wood Duck 8 Norhtern Pintail 1 Gadwall 2 Mallard 100+ Great Blue Heron 1 American Kestrel 1 SANDHILL CRANE  2500+  (almost impossible to count all of them on the ground and in the air) Killdeer 1 American Robin 25 Horned Lark 1   Turned out to be a great morning to be out enjoying the sun and birds.     Bob Zaremba Marietta, GA       Jasper     ********************************************************** 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: Varied Thrush 7 Mar From: Alison Világ <owlers6 AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:36:30 -0500 Hello, Rhoda Johnson & I had great looks at the Beverly Shores VARIED THRUSH this morning from 8:45-9:14. Initially it was in the ditch, but eventually it moved to the feeder. Also present were Pine Siskins and a Gray Catbird. Good Birding, Alison Világ ********************************************************** 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: Goose Pond & Beehunter 3/6/10 From: Amy Kearns <greenpertplus AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:21:06 -0500 Yesterday was an amazing day at Goose Pond & Beehunter Marsh. The sun was shining, the weather was warm, there were thousands of birds and lots of people enjoying themselves, many of them first-time visitors to the area. Noah & I had a great time. From what we saw, Marsh Madness was a success. We were able to point out lots of birds to people, and that was great fun. Our main bird highlight for the day was the thousands of Sandhills coming in to BH5 as the sun was setting. It was just beautiful. I went to sleep last night with Sandhill bugles echoing in my head. We also had a pair of SHORT-EARED OWLS hunting over the marsh while we watched the cranes. The Hardy Lake raptor show was excellent; their beautiful male Barn Owl was definitely my favorite. Road conditions were fine. I would even call them great compared to how they were last week. The two wheel drive vehicles I saw were doing just fine. Location: Goose Pond AND Beehunter from 6:30AM-7:30PM Observation date: 3/6/10 Notes: Marsh Madness Number of species: 64 Greater White-fronted Goose 90 - flyovers at Beehunter, lots of birds far out in MPW Snow Goose 1 - white morph, BH3 flyover with Canadas Canada Goose 200 Mute Swan 2 - GP13 TUNDRA SWAN - 2 adults - MPW Wood Duck 15 Gadwall 20 American Wigeon 40 American Black Duck 20 Mallard 100 Northern Shoveler 20 Northern Pintail 300 Canvasback 40 - one drake at GP9, the rest in flooded field on 200S/1000W Redhead 80 - most in flooded corn field on 200S/1000W Ring-necked Duck 90 Lesser Scaup 20 - in flooded corn field on 200S/1000W Bufflehead 2 - GP9 Common Goldeneye 4 Hooded Merganser 8 -MPW Pied-billed Grebe 2 Great Blue Heron 3 Turkey Vulture 4 Bald Eagle 4 - 3 adults 1 imm Northern Harrier 8 Red-tailed Hawk 7 Rough-legged Hawk 1 - 1 light phase American Kestrel 3 American Coot 20 Sandhill Crane 8,000 - this is our very conservative estimate, we were way too lazy to count them all coming in to roost at BH5. For nearly an hour they poured into the marsh nonstop. It was impressive. Killdeer 15 Ring-billed Gull 500 Rock Pigeon 40 Mourning Dove 30 Great Horned Owl 3 - Beehunter, incl a duetting pair SHORT-EARED OWL 2 - BH5S RED-HEADED WOODPECKER - 1 adult 1050W Red-bellied Woodpecker 5 Downy Woodpecker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 EASTERN PHOEBE 1 - next to outbuilding on 1050W Blue Jay 2 American Crow 40 Horned Lark 10 Carolina Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 2 Eastern Bluebird 5 American Robin 4 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 1000 Eastern Towhee 2 American Tree Sparrow 50 Field Sparrow 1 - one heard singing at sunrise, my first singing this year Song Sparrow 15 White-crowned Sparrow 1 - singing Dark-eyed Junco 5 Northern Cardinal 15 Red-winged Blackbird 700,000 - conservative, mixed flocks stretched across the horizon and didn't stop for an hour Eastern Meadowlark 15 Common Grackle 500,000 - conservative, mixed flocks stretched across the horizon and didn't stop for an hour Brown-headed Cowbird 30 - a few males singing American Goldfinch 5 House Sparrow 20 Amy & Noah Kearns Mitchell ********************************************************** 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: Fairfax, Stillwater From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:50:18 -0500 This morning Betsy and I birded Fairfax and then Stillwater Marsh. Good viewing conditions. At Fairfax we were looking for the Great Black-backed Gull reported yesterday -no luck. The highlights: Fairfax: Canada Goose - 8 Mallard - 45 Canvasback - 6 Pied-billed Grebe - 5 Ring-billed Gull - 215 Herring Gull - 10 (4 adult, 6 first cycle - 2 of the first cycle birds were extremely dark with very pale heads - one darker than the other, but definitely a Herring and not a Great Black-back) Cedar Waxwing - 4 Am. Robin - 12 Co. Grackle - 8 Stillwater: Canada Goose - 36 Wood Duck - 12 Gadwall - 24 Am. Wigeon - 56 Am. Black Duck - 26 Mallard - 65 No. Pintail - 90 Green-winged Teal - 14 Canvasback - 38 Redhead - 650 (numbers still increasing - an amazing show!) Ring-necked Duck - 295 Lesser Scaup - 36 Bufflehead - 11 Co. Goldeneye - 25 Killdeer - 2 Ring-billed Gull - 3 Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) Red-winged Blackbird - 27 In town: Lots of Co. Grackles and Am. Robins. 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: late post from the Celery Bog From: Russell Allison <grounds11 AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:36:37 -0500 On Friday afternoon I had 3 FOY AT THE Celery Bog. Eastern Bluebird, Turkey Vulture, and Red winged Blackbird. On Saturday at The Celery Bog, Williamsburg Apt. and Prophetstown State Park I saw many waves of Sandhill Cranes flying North. At 2:00pm Sat. I saw a group of migrating Crows flying very high heading North. It sounded like Spring, it looked like Spring, maybe the snow is gone. Good Birding Russ Allison, West Lafayette Please Visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russ_allison (Underscore between russ and allison) ********************************************************** 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: Need woodpecker ID help, McCormick's Creek State Park From: Don Gorney <dongorney AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:34:21 -0800 The bird appears to be a melanistic, presumably female Hairy Woodpecker.  The bill size and the all-white outer tail feathers point to Hairy rather than Downy.  The dirty appearance is due to an overproduction of melanin for those feathers.  (It is not a Pacific race of Hairy as depicted in the big Sibley; it's just a melanistic Indiana Hairy.)  Over the years I have seen photos of melanistic birds from Indiana, including Northern Mockingbird and Downy Woodpecker.  It does happen but it is very uncommon. Don Gorney Amos W. Butler Audubon Society, President Lights Out Indy, Program Coordinator Indianapolis, IN dongorney AT yahoo.com amosbutleraudubon.org lightsoutindy.org --- On Sat, 3/6/10, Karen Wade wrote: From: Karen Wade Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Need woodpecker ID help, McCormick's Creek State Park To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 7:48 PM Mike and I enjoyed a lovely leisurely stroll today at McCormick's Creek State Park and saw this woodpecker that doesn't look exactly like anything we've seen before. For all intents and purposes we think it should be a downy, but the black and cinnamon brown markings on the head have us stumped. The size appeared to be larger than a downy, more like a hairy or sapsucker. Any help? 3 photos are posted here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/indianagardener/4411662439/in/photostream/ Thanks! Karen & Mike Wade Franklin, IN mkwade1 AT comcast.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 ********************************************************** ********************************************************** 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: sounds of spring - no sighting From: Gary Dorman <cowboybirder AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 03:12:40 -0800 Becky andI went to the church property yesterday evening to listen for woodcocks to no avail. We did however hear Chorus frogs. Gary Dorman II New Albany, Floyd Co.,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. 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