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14 May Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis [Larry Peavler ] 14 May SW Allen Chorus- May 14 AM [Rodger Rang ] 14 May Mackey [Brian Taylor ] 14 May Howell Wetlands 5/13 [Tim Griffith ] 14 May A Stunning Bird! [Canyon Wren ] 13 May Indiana PBS series [Samuel Orr ] 13 May MNWR [David Crouch ] 13 May IU cross country course, 5/13 - 52 species, three new BIGBY birds ["B.G. Sloan" ] 13 May Lakefront 13May08 Wilson's Phalarope ["Kenneth J. Brock" ] 13 May Interesting sparrow day ["B.G. Sloan" ] 13 May Pine Siskin [Kyle Bixler ] 13 May Red Breasted Nuthatch Southwestway Park ["Ryan J. Sanderson" ] 13 May Laughing Gulls ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 13 May Steuben County May Day Count [Holly Meyers ] 13 May Monroe Co. Yard Birds 5/12 [Scott Evans ] 13 May Muscatatuck NWR rails [Gary Dorman ] 13 May Kingsbury, Pierce Rd. 10 May - Snowy Egret, W. Phalarope, Brewer's Blackbird [Jeff McCoy ] 13 May Lakefront Migrants 5/12 [John Kendall ] 12 May Central Newton Co, 5/10/08 ["Hopkins, Edward M" ] 12 May ignore extra post [Liz Day ] 12 May cardinal nest predated [Liz Day ] 12 May rusty cranes [Liz Day ] 12 May Re: Hovering HOSPs [Liz Day ] 12 May Willets Bluegrass in Warrick county [Brian Taylor ] 12 May Phalaropes,LaGrange Co. [Dan Stoltzfus ] 12 May Eagle Marsh Black Tern- May 12 PM [Rodger Rang ] 12 May Hovering HOSPs ["B.G. Sloan" ] 12 May Dowitcher ? [Ray Troyer ] 12 May Monroe sites ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 12 May Yard Birds [Vicky Foltz ] 12 May Lake Cumberland Junco [Terry Ballenger ] 12 May Marbled Godwits at Goose Pond FWA [Lee Sterrenburg ] 12 May Montgomery Co, 700 S 100 E [marty jones ] 12 May Eagle Creek Park, Sunday May 11, 2008 [John Ulmer ] 11 May Big May count [Tom ] 12 May Cosc. Co. Surf Scoter [Steve and Connie Doud ] 12 May Eastern Wood PeeWee, Elkhart Co [Wilma J Harder ] 11 May Update to Earlier Post [Canyon Wren ] 11 May Monroe County weekend birds [Cathy ] 11 May Re: LBDO, UPSA pics [Liz Day ] 11 May Greene Co. May Day count highlights [Mike Clarke ] 11 May Spring Count (Lake Co.) - Glaucous Gull, Clay-colored Sp., Moorhens [Michael Topp ] 11 May May Count - St. Joe County (Potato Creek) [JOHN CASSADY ] 11 May Greene Co. MDC - 5/10 [Jim Hengeveld ] 11 May Gibson Co. Pacific Loon - No? [Gary Bowman ] 11 May More Allen Co. May Day count [] 11 May Allen County May Day Count- May 10 [Rodger Rang ] 11 May Lk. Lemon - siskins, Surf Scoter [Jim Hengeveld ] 11 May Riddle Point 5/10 [Robert Kissel ] 11 May Re: Question about Wild Turkey in Indianapolis ["B.G. Sloan" ] 11 May Fort Harrison SP May 11 - Rain! [Don Gorney ] 11 May BIG MAY COUNT & NEW STATE RECORD [Canyon Wren ] Subject: Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis From: Larry Peavler <lpeavler AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 15:09:34 -0400 A storm before dawn put down a lot of birds at the marina. Most birds were within 100 yards. We walked along the road from 8:15 until 11:10 AM. E. Wood-Pewee 12+ Least Flycatcher 4 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Warbling 4 Red-eyed 8 Swainson's Thrush 3 Warblers Tennessee 7 5 M Nashville 1 N. Parula 2 M Yellow 11 9 M Chestnut-sided 4 M Magnolia 2 F Cape May 9 6 M Black-throated Blue 1 F Yellow-rumped 45+ 10 M Black-throated Green 3 1 M Blackburnian 8 M Yellow-throated 1 M Palm 9 Bay-breasted 8 6 M Blackpoll 25+ 20 M Black-and-white 2 H A. Redstart 7 5 M C. Yellowthroat 6 M Wilson's 2 M Canada 3 M Two in view at once Scarlet Tanager 7 6 M Orchard Oriole 1 F Baltimore Oriole 8 M Larry Peavler Indianapolis, 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 Subject: SW Allen Chorus- May 14 AM From: Rodger Rang <rrang AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:24:56 -0400 Given a full day at Crane Creek yesterday and today's gloomy forecast, I elected not to rise early today for birding. Still, while returning home from brunch, I detoured through a heavily wooded subdivision around 11:00 to give a listen in the light rain. There wasn't much singing at first, but at the cul-de-sac things got rather lively, so I exited my vehicle and enjoyed a rather nice chorus. This magical May moment included: Eastern Wood-Pewee- 2, my FOS for NE Ind. Acadian Flycatcher- 1 Yellow-throated Vireo- 2 Blue-headed Vireo- 1 Red-eyed Vireo- 3 Swainson's Thrush- 1 Wood Thrush- 1 Warblers- Tennessee- 1 Chestnut-sided- 2 Magnolia- 1 Black-throated Green- 2 Blackburnian- 1 Bay-breasted- 2, my FOS for NE Ind. Blackpoll- 1, my FOS Cerulean- 1 American Redstart- 2 Scarlet Tanager- 2 Noticeably absent in this small but diverse flock were Ruby-crowneds, Nashvilles, and Yellow-rumpeds. And May marches on! 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 Subject: Mackey From: Brian Taylor <brian.taylor AT HAUBSTADT.COM> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:57:46 -0500 I went to Mackey yesterday in search of the Pacific Loon. I did not see the loon, but was amazed at the habitat. A full adult eagle flew right over my truck. I saw no less than 10 orchard orioles and 1 in 1st spring plumage. Blue grosbeaks were everywhere and sparrows were everywhere. I also got my FOY willow flycatcher. 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 Subject: Howell Wetlands 5/13 From: Tim Griffith <timgrif396 AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:41:32 -0400 Played hooky from the store for a couple of hours yesterday morning. Took a quick trip through Howell Wetlands on Evansville's west side. There was a high school science class there as well so bird activity was a little lacking. The following were observed or heard: Canada Goose Mallard Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Red-shouldered Hawk Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Red-bellied Woodpecker Eastern Wood Pewee Least Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tree Swallow N. Rough-winged Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush American Robin Blue Jay Gray Catbird European Starling Tennessee Warbler Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black and White Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole American Goldfinch House Sparrow 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 Subject: A Stunning Bird! From: Canyon Wren <canyonwren AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 07:03:10 -0500 Yesterday at about 7pm as I was getting into my car at my office to leave for the day, I heard a lot of bird activity. I decided to listen for a few minutes to see if I could hear anything interesting. I wasn't disappointed. My ears told me I had a warbler nearby. But, which one? I thought I knew, but I wanted confirmation to be certain. Besides who wouldn't want to see a male warbler in full breeding plumage? I grabbed my binos and listened again. Of course all the trees are nearly leafed out so finding a warbler at the top of a tree isn't all that easy now. In an effort to pin-point the tree, I walked about twenty-five yards and listened again. I was closing in. I now knew that it was in one of two trees. I moved in closer. I thought I saw movement. Yes! I did see movement. I positioned myself on the north side of the tree to improve my angle and waited for movement again. There it was. Binoculars up. And, just as I thought, there was a stunning male Blackburnian Warbler still singing his heart out! What a wonderful way to end a workday! As I got into my car, the Blackburnian was still singing while foraging up in the top of that tree! Good birding! Lynea Copyright 2008 by Lynea Hinchman, Michigan City, Indiana. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part by any means without written permission of the author is strictly prohibited. Lynea Hinchman Michigan City, Indiana Heart of the Indiana Dunes CanyonWrenatComcastdotnet "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived though its first material expression be destroyed. A vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again." William Beebe 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 Subject: Indiana PBS series From: Samuel Orr <sporr AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 20:22:40 -0400 Hi everyone, I'm a producer for WFYI in Indianapolis, and we're finishing up a 4 part series called "The Natural Heritage of Indiana", to air in the fall of 2008 on Indiana PBS stations. At the moment we're in need of bird material, specifically active nests. However, we have to be able to film the nest, so something at the top of a tree likely won't work. We are potentially interested in all nests, but of special priority are the following species; Pileated woodpecker Ovenbird (and other groundnesters) Nighthawk Hummingbird Marsh Wren Prothonotory Warbler Wood duck Any nest parasitized by cowbirds Any of the raptors This is by no means an exclusive list. If the nest is near the ground, or in a tree cavity, so that we can film it without going up into the tree, or using ladders/scaffolding, we'd like to hear about it, regardless of the species. A natural setting is preferred, but not absolutely necessary, especially for nighthawks and cowbirds. We do need to know, however, that the nest is definitely active, and its specific location. Hopefully some of you know where such nests are, and can help us film them. You can contact me at - indiananests AT gmail.com Thanks in advance. Samuel Orr Producer "The Natural Heritage of Indiana" WFYI - Indianapolis Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: MNWR From: David Crouch <david AT PROGRADE.NET> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 20:00:45 -0400 Clearer in the morning with some clouds blowing in on a south wind starting early in the afternoon. A highlight was viewing a Tom Turkey doing a full tail fan display for two females on and off for ten minutes. His theatrics barely disturbed the foraging. The listed Red- tailed hawk was very dark, obscured belly band and a darker than typical red tail. Counts for selected species: Muscatatuck NWR Pied-billed Grebe Canada Goose Great Blue Heron 6 Green Heron 2 Killdeer 7 Turkey 3 Gray Catbird American Robin American Goldfinch Northern Cardinal Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle 1 adult, fishing above Richart Lake Red-tailed Hawk 1 western or dark morph E. Kingbird E. Phoebe E. Bluebird 4 Brown Thrasher 3 E. Wood Peewee Rt Hummingbird 1 high atop a Cherry tree Summer Tanager Red-eyed Vireo White-eyed Vireo Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Yellow Warbler Common Yellowthroat Pine Warbler Kentucky Warbler 1 my FOY Prairie Warbler 3 all seen American Redstart Prothonotary 2 one tending to a tree cavity nest Yellow-breasted Chat many Indigo Bunting numerous Blue Jay Tree Swallow Barn Swallow 8 White-crowned Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow Field sparrow Mourning Dove Pileated Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Brown-headed Cowbird E. Starling Common Grackle Red-winged Blackbird numerous American Crow Dave Crouch Seymour 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 Subject: IU cross country course, 5/13 - 52 species, three new BIGBY birds From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:26:52 -0700 Today was one of my busier trips to the IU XC course so far this year...52 species, with three new BIGBY birds (bringing my 2008 BIGBY total to 103 species). The highlight was watching an American Kestrel hover over the grass for a couple of minutes or so before pouncing on its prey. The Kestrel was maybe 25-30 feet up, and then dropped like a rock. After not seeing any Eastern Kingbirds so far this year, today they turned out in full force...maybe half a dozen. Also saw quite a few Purple Martins, another new BIGBY bird. The third new BIGBY bird was a Swainson's thrush. The list: Turkey Vulture - 4 American Kestrel - 1 Canada Goose - 2 (flyover) Great Blue Heron - 1 (flyover) Killdeer - several Eastern Meadowlark - 6-7 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 Carolina Chickadee - 8-10 Tufted Titmouse - 5-6 Carolina Wren - 2 House Wren - 5 Northern Cardinal - many Blue Jay - many Baltimore Oriole - 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 Scarlet Tanager - 1 Tree Swallow - several Northern Rough-winged Swallow - several Barn Swallow - 1 Purple Martin - 6-7 Acadian Flycatcher - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Eastern Kingbird - 6 Eastern Bluebird - 4-5 American Robin - 8 Wood Thrush - 1 Swainson's Thrush - 1 Gray Catbird - 3 Brown Thrasher - 2 White-eyed Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 2 White-crowned Sparrow - 6-8 White-throated Sparrow - 2-3 Chipping Sparrow - 6-7 Song Sparrow - 7 Field Sparrow - 3 Eastern Towhee - 5 American Goldfinch - 10 House Finch - 7 House Sparrow - 5 Mourning Dove - 8 Rock Dove - 10 (flyover) American Crow - 25-30 (foraging in grass) Red-winged Blackbird - 5 Common Grackle - 6 Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 European Starling - 15 Bernie Sloan Bloomington Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Lakefront 13May08 Wilson's Phalarope From: "Kenneth J. Brock" <kj.brock AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 17:40:16 -0500 Today (Tuesday 13 May 08) John Cassady, Joel Greenberg, and I birded the Indiana lakefront. A two-hour lakewatch at Dunes S.P. yielded a mediocre longshore flight. A tour of several Lake Co. traps provided some modest success. The dayıs most striking bird was a female Wilsonıs Phalarope in pristine alternate plumage at McCool Basin. HIGHLIGHTS DUNES S.P. Lakewatch (*observed by John in early morning along State Park Boundary Road) Caspian tern (6) Ruby-throated Hummingbird (9) Red-headed Woodpecker (4) Red-bellied Woodpecker (4) Eastern Kingbird (33) Blue Jay (140) Cliff Swallow (29) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (12) Am. Pipit (5) Yellow Warbler (2) Magnolia Warbler (1 male) Yellow-rumped Warbler (5) Black-throated Green Warbler (3) Blackburnian Warbler (1 male) Bay-breasted Warbler (1 male) *Kentucky Warbler (1 singing) Hooded Warbler (1 male) Scarlet Tanager (2 males) LARK SPARROW (1- 4th longshore flight record) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (2) Indigo Bunting (23) Bobolink (1 male) Orchard Oriole (3) Baltimore Oriole (49) *Purple Finch (1) FORSYTHE PARK Cooperıs Hawk (1) Least Flycatcher (4) Red-breasted Nuthatch (1- female) Orange-crowned Warbler (1) Nashville Warbler (1) Yellow Warbler (1) Magnolia Warbler (1) Yellow-rumped Warbler (1) Palm Warbler (2) Black and white Warbler (4) Am. Redstart (1 female) Savannah Sparrow (1) YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD (1 female) HAMMOND LAKEFRONT SANCTUARY WHIP-POOR-WILL (1 female) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1 ad fem- ties 5th latest lakefront record) Least Flycatcher (10) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (3) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1) Veery (1) Gray Catbird (20- heavy movement) Nashville Warbler (3) Yellow Warbler (5) Magnolia Warbler (3 males) Yellow-rumped Warbler (6) Blackburnian Warbler (1 singing) Palm Warbler (2) Black and white Warbler (2) Am. Redstart (5- 3 males & 2 females) Ovenbird (1) Common Yellowthroat (8) Wilsonıs Warbler (1) Lincolnıs Sparrow (2) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (1 male) STATE LINE WOODS (A parcel of Indiana on the west side of Wolf lake) Least Flycatcher (1) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1) Swainsonıs Thrush (1) Wood Thrush (1-singing) Am. Redstart (2) N. Waterthrush (1 singing) SUMMER TANAGER (1 female) McCOOL BASIN (high water, limited habitat) Spotted Sandpiper (4) Least Sandpiper (5) Dunlin (1- alternate plumage) Pectoral Sandpiper (1) WILSONıS PHALAROPE (1- alternate female) American Pipit (25) Savannah Sparrow (20) BEVERLY SHORES (*observed by John in early morning) Wood Duck (2- female & downy chick) Hooded Merganser (1) Cooperıs Hawk (2) Red-tailed Hawk (8-small flight) *American Woodcock (1) *Whip-poor-will (3) *Willow Flycatcher (1) Great-crested Flycatcher (2) *Marsh Wren (3) Black and warbler (1) Prothonotary Warbler (2-singing) Ken Brock Chesterton, IN Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Interesting sparrow day From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:57:06 -0700 After 4 or 5 days of not seeing a White-throated Sparrow I saw several today. And after a couple of weeks of seeing White-crowned Sparrows only one at a time I saw maybe 6-8 at once today. Chipping Sparrows had kind of disappeared for a while too, but today I saw quite a few. Bernie Sloan Bloomington Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Pine Siskin From: Kyle Bixler <kyleb AT HANFIELD.ORG> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:37:02 -0400 I had one lone Pine Siskin this morning on my thistle feeder with a group of goldfinches. I'm sure passing through to somewhere. 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 Subject: Red Breasted Nuthatch Southwestway Park From: "Ryan J. Sanderson" <sandersonrj AT UINDY.EDU> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:53:30 -0400 I'm TAing Roger Sweets' ornithology class for the University of Indianapolis this summer. On our first trip out to Southwestway Park today, we found a female red-breasted nuthatch. I've been in Southwestway fifteen to twenty times over the last two months and have never seen one there. The bird was not calling. A student said, "Look, there's a bird over there." And surprise! It was the red breasted nuthatch. Other birds of note were magnolia warbler, scarlet tanager (male and female pair), rose breasted grosbeak, northern parula and eastern meadowlark (the only notable bird found in the western part of the park. Ryan Sanderson 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 Subject: Laughing Gulls From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:13:33 -0400 This morning I birded the Fairfax area on Lake Monroe - very few passerines and virtually nothing on the lake. Some Gulls sitting in the flooded parking lot at the beach. The highlights: Turkey Vulture - 14 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 45 LAUGHING GULL - 2 (beautiful alternate plumage) E. Wood-pewee - 3 Least Flycatcher - 2 (singing and calling) Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 E. Kingbird - 3 Cape May Warbler - 1 Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 Kentucy Warbler - 2 Orchard Oriole - 2 Baltimore Oriole - 3 In our yard this morning: Wilson's Warbler - 1 (singing) White-cr. Sparrow - 2 Rose-br. Grosbeak - 1 (male) 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 Subject: Steuben County May Day Count From: Holly Meyers <HMeyersKbirder AT AOL.COM> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:24:04 EDT Steuben County May Day Bird Count..Dave and Holly Meyers in the county, Fred Wooley and Fred Zilch on foot at Pokagon State Park. Great weather, but surprising lack of Gulls and Waterfowl and Birds of Prey. Number of species: 97 Canada Goose 135 Mute Swan 6 Wood Duck 3 Mallard 14 Ring-necked Pheasant 3 Wild Turkey 4 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 17 Green Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 36 Osprey 2 Red-tailed Hawk 4 Sandhill Crane 7 Killdeer 13 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 American Woodcock 1 Rock Pigeon 43 Mourning Dove 46 Great Horned Owl 2 Chimney Swift 11 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 8 Downy Woodpecker 7 Hairy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 15 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 4 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 8 White-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 21 American Crow 28 Horned Lark 2 Purple Martin 27 Tree Swallow 25 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5 Bank Swallow 80 Barn Swallow 45 Black-capped Chickadee 9 Tufted Titmouse 6 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 11 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 14 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 7 Eastern Bluebird 7 Swainson's Thrush 6 Hermit Thrush 1 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 87 Gray Catbird 15 European Starling 88 Golden-winged Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 1 Nashville Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 49 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 2 Cerulean Warbler 1 American Redstart 1 Prothonotary Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 42 Hooded Warbler 4 Wilson's Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Scarlet Tanager 7 Chipping Sparrow 28 Field Sparrow 8 Vesper Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 8 Song Sparrow 33 Swamp Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 4 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 26 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 6 Indigo Bunting 2 Bobolink 3 Red-winged Blackbird 143 Eastern Meadowlark 5 Common Grackle 71 Brown-headed Cowbird 7 Orchard Oriole 3 Baltimore Oriole 12 House Finch 11 American Goldfinch 31 House Sparrow 53 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) 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 Subject: Monroe Co. Yard Birds 5/12 From: Scott Evans <scottev12 AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:24:22 +0000 I had a great day of hanging out in the yard and doing work while observing birds yesterday. Highlights include 6 thrush species on the day with great looks at VEERY and GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. Also, I had 13 warbler species including beautiful breeding male WILSON'S WARBLER and BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. All in all, 64 species on the day. Location: Crow's Nest Observation date: 5/12/08 Number of species: 64 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Mourning Dove 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Chimney Swift 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Acadian Flycatcher 1 LEAST FLYCATCHER 1 (FOY) Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 4 Blue Jay 6 American Crow 5 Tree Swallow 2 Carolina Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 2 Eastern Bluebird 1 VEERY 1 (FOY heard singing 5/13 am) GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH 1 (heard singing 5/13 am) Swainson's Thrush 6 Wood Thrush 5 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 Golden-winged Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 5 Nashville Warbler 3 Northern Parula 1 Magnolia Warbler 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 4 Black-throated Green Warbler 2 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER 2 (FOY from yard) Yellow-throated Warbler 1 PALM WARBLER 1 (FOY from yard) American Redstart 2 Kentucky Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 WILSON'S WARBLER 1 (FOY adult male singing and great looks) Summer Tanager 2 Scarlet Tanager 2 Eastern Towhee 1 Chipping Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 3 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 House Finch 1 American Goldfinch 7 House Sparrow 1 Scott Evans Holland Hill Monroe Co. 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 Subject: Muscatatuck NWR rails From: Gary Dorman <cowboybirder AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 03:09:28 -0700 Dan Woods, the biologist at the refuge, told me Saturday that while doing some work with Copperbelly snakes in the closed of the refuge he flushed between 30-and 40 Sora's and 2 KING RAILS. I would loved to have been there as I have not seen KIRA's on the refuge. 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 Subject: Kingsbury, Pierce Rd. 10 May - Snowy Egret, W. Phalarope, Brewer's Blackbird From: Jeff McCoy <jeffmccoy AT EMBARQMAIL.COM> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 02:32:48 -0500 Saturday 10 May, 2008 After doing the May Count with Ken Brock in northern Porter County I made a late afternoon stop at Kingsbury FWA and the flooded field on Pierce Rd. east of Kingsbury. Weather was unseasonably cool with NNE wind 5-10mph and a high of 57'F under mostly cloudy skies. My highlights for the day: White-winged Scoter (2), Black-billed Cuckoo, Surf Scoter (9; digiscoped), Least Bittern (heard only), Sedge Wren (a migrant in the dune grass near the beach at Beverly Shores), Golden-winged Warbler (4), Orange-crowned Warbler (2), Black-throated Blue Warbler, Rusty Blackbird (east Beverly Shores late afternoon), Snowy Egret, Black Tern, Sandhill Cranes with young, Wilson's Phalarope (2), Brewer's Blackbird (6). The Sandhill Cranes with young were at Kingsbury and I don't recall any previous nesting here. Does anyone know of any confirmed nesting records for this site? Kingsbury FWA - Birded Big Marsh on River Rd. only. Water levels continue to decrease but there were fewer shorebirds than last week. Mute Swan 3 Mallard 20+ Blue-winged Teal 8 Wild Turkey 2 Great Blue Heron 14 Great Egret 8 SNOWY EGRET 1 (digiscoped) COMMON MOORHEN 2 American Coot 50+ SANDHILL CRANE 4 (family group with 2 downy colts about 1 foot tall) Semipalmated Plover Killdeer 8 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Solitary Sandpiper 15+ Lesser Yellowlegs 60+ Least Sandpiper 50+ Pectoral Sandpiper 20+ Dunlin 9 Caspian Tern 2 BLACK TERN 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Tree Swallow 30+ Northern Rough-winged Swallow 10+ Bank Swallow 8 Barn Swallow 20+ Yellow Warbler 5 Swamp Sparrow 6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Baltimore Oriole 2 Pierce Rd. flooded field - Should be good habitat here for at least another week. Semipalmated Plover 5 Killdeer 8 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 30+ Least Sandpiper 30+ Pectoral Sandpiper 15+ Dunlin 3 Short-billed Dowitcher 3 WILSON'S PHALAROPE 2 (male and female; digiscoped) BREWER'S BLACKBIRD 6 (this is a traditional breeding area for this species) Good birding, Jeff McCoy Columbia City, Indiana jeffmccoy AT embarqmail.com Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Lakefront Migrants 5/12 From: John Kendall <jeffro595 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 00:17:27 -0400 On my way to the airport, I made forays through Hammond Sanctuary, Whiting Park and State Line Woods. Although birding was slow, the highlights were two "relatively rare in the traps" and firsts for me at State Line Woods-seen together--a female Hooded Warbler(photos) and a Louisiana Waterthrush. Whiting Park: Blue-Headed Vireo-2 singing Cape May Warbler-1 yellow-Rumped Warbler-12 Palm Warbler-3 White-Throated Sparrow-8 White-Crowned Sparrow-4 House Wren-2 Red-Breasted Nuthatch-1 female Hammond Sanctuary: Cape May Warbler-2 Warbling Vireo-1 Yellow Warbler-3 Palm Warbler-8 Wison's Warbler-1 Magnolia Warbler-1 Tennessee Warbler-1 Chesnut-Side Warbler-1 Swainson's Thrush-2 White-Throated Sparrow-14 Least Flycatcher-2 LIncoln's Sparrow-2 House Wren-2 Common Yellowthroat-3 State Line Woods: Hooded Warbler- 1 female (photos) Louisiana Waterthrush-1 bright legs, broadened white supercillium, clear throat Yellow-Rumped Warbler-20 Palm Warbler-6 Yellow Warbler-2 Swainson's Thrush-3 Veery-1 Wood Thrush-1 singing Swamp Sparrow-2 White-Crowned Sparrow-6 Blackburnian Warbler-1 singing Warbling Vireo-1 singing John Kendall Valparaiso Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Central Newton Co, 5/10/08 From: "Hopkins, Edward M" <hopkinse AT PURDUE.EDU> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:57:14 -0400 Central Newton Co, 5/10/08 I was very inefficient. I just covered parts of Willow Slough FWA and the S parts of TNC Kankakee Sands. WS had all the gates closed so I had to bike into several areas. I left for KS instead of doing some woodland birding and didn't get back to WS until mid-afternoon. I got 130 species. Pied-billed Grebe,3 Double-crested Cormorant,8 Great Blue Heron,16 Green Heron,2 Least Bittern,1 American Bittern,7 Canada Goose,269 Wood Duck,47 Gadwall,1 Green-winged Teal,2 Mallard,29 Northern Pintail,1 Blue-winged Teal,10 Ring-necked Duck,8 Lesser Scaup,4 Turkey Vulture,8 Bald Eagle,1 Northern Harrier,1 Cooper's Hawk,1 Red-tailed Hawk,7 Wild Turkey,8 Ring-necked Pheasant,12 Sandhill Crane,5 King Rail,1 Sora,13 Common Moorhen,3 American Coot,580 Semipalmated Plover,11 Killdeer,27 American Woodcock,3 Greater Yellowlegs,4 Lesser Yellowlegs,18 Solitary Sandpiper,3 Spotted Sandpiper,3 Semipalmated Sandpiper,1 Least Sandpiper,32 Pectoral Sandpiper,3 Dunlin,3 Wilson's Phalarope,5 Ring-billed Gull,5 Black Tern,1 Mourning Dove,11 Eastern Screech-Owl,1 Barred Owl,1 Common Nighthawk,2 Whip-poor-will,22 Chimney Swift,4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird,1 Belted Kingfisher,2 Red-headed Woodpecker,10 Red-bellied Woodpecker,6 Downy Woodpecker,5 Hairy Woodpecker,2 Northern Flicker,7 Olive-sided Flycatcher,1 Eastern Wood-Pewee,2 Least Flycatcher,1 Eastern Phoebe,1 Great Crested Flycatcher,6 Eastern Kingbird,10 Horned Lark,9 Purple Martin,35 Tree Swallow,56 Northern Rough-winged Swallow,7 Bank Swallow,73 Cliff Swallow,5 Barn Swallow,33 American Pipit,162 House Wren,5 Sedge Wren,3 Marsh Wren,9 Gray Catbird,30 Brown Thrasher,1 Eastern Bluebird,2 Gray-cheeked Thrush,1 Swainson's Thrush,1 Wood Thrush,7 American Robin,57 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher,9 Tufted Titmouse,3 White-breasted Nuthatch,6 Blue Jay,3 American Crow,21 European Starling,39 White-eyed Vireo,2 Yellow-throated Vireo,7 Warbling Vireo,3 Red-eyed Vireo,2 Golden-winged Warbler,1 Tennessee Warbler,3 Nashville Warbler,1 Northern Parula,1 Yellow Warbler,25 Magnolia Warbler,2 Cape May Warbler,1 Yellow-rumped Warbler,38 Blackburnian Warbler,2 Palm Warbler,17 Blackpoll Warbler,1 Ovenbird,5 Common Yellowthroat,82 Yellow-breasted Chat,1 Scarlet Tanager,2 Eastern Towhee,34 Chipping Sparrow,12 Field Sparrow,20 Vesper Sparrow,1 Lark Sparrow,2 Savannah Sparrow,4 Henslow's Sparrow,7 Grasshopper Sparrow,9 Song Sparrow,35 Swamp Sparrow,7 White-crowned Sparrow,8 White-throated Sparrow,48 Northern Cardinal,26 Rose-breasted Grosbeak,21 Blue Grosbeak,2 Indigo Bunting,1 Dickcissel,7 Bobolink,4 Red-winged Blackbird,236 Eastern Meadowlark,17 Common Grackle,24 Brown-headed Cowbird,27 Baltimore Oriole,9 Orchard Oriole,3 House Finch,1 American Goldfinch,40 House Sparrow,10 ==== 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 Subject: ignore extra post From: Liz Day <lizday44 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:01 -0700 Sorry the duplicate posting, I am on an unfamiliar computer. 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 Subject: cardinal nest predated From: Liz Day <lizday44 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:18:40 -0700 My cardinals' second nest this year was predated by some mammal (it was tipped over). The fact that the nests seem to be always depredated shortly after the babies hatch makes me wonder if some diurnal animal hears the babies calling and thereby locates the nest, but I'm not sure. The female bird is not the same as last year, so she too may take 5 nests to figure out that the only safe place is on the building side of the parking lot. Liz D. Indianapolis Liz Day wrote: Saturday May 10 at Mulvey Pond in Tippecanoe county, May day counters saw two sandhill cranes. They might be nesting there, as I think pairs have nested there in past years (?). Most strikingly, both birds were the color of the "lesser summer plumage" in Sibley - solid brown (one bird) and solid rust (the other bird) everywhere except their heads, necks, and stomachs. (I understand that Greaters also have this rust color, so the color doesn't mean they're Lessers.) Does anyone know what causes this color? What is unique about cranes that they get stained? Dozens of other wetland bird species must go the same geographic places as the cranes, being exposed to the same ... whatever it is in the dirt - yet they don't become rust-stained. (Or do they?) Are cranes slovenly, that they allow crud to get on their plumage, while somehow, miraculously to me, shorebirds can stick their beaks right from the mud into their feathers and have the feathers remain nice and white? Should the laundry companies look into this for their ads? ("Preens the stain right out!") How does the rust come off the cranes? Has anyone else seen rusty cranes this year? thanks, Liz D. Indianapolis Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html 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 Subject: rusty cranes From: Liz Day <lizday44 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:08:59 -0700 Saturday May 10 at Mulvey Pond in Tippecanoe county, May day counters saw two sandhill cranes. They might be nesting there, as I think pairs have nested there in past years (?). Most strikingly, both birds were the color of the "lesser summer plumage" in Sibley - solid brown (one bird) and solid rust (the other bird) everywhere except their heads, necks, and stomachs. (I understand that Greaters also have this rust color, so the color doesn't mean they're Lessers.) Does anyone know what causes this color? What is unique about cranes that they get stained? Dozens of other wetland bird species must go the same geographic places as the cranes, being exposed to the same ... whatever it is in the dirt - yet they don't become rust-stained. (Or do they?) Are cranes slovenly, that they allow crud to get on their plumage, while somehow, miraculously to me, shorebirds can stick their beaks right from the mud into their feathers and have the feathers remain nice and white? Should the laundry companies look into this for their ads? ("Preens the stain right out!") How does the rust come off the cranes? Has anyone else seen rusty cranes this year? thanks, Liz D. Indianapolis Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Re: Hovering HOSPs From: Liz Day <lizday44 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:56:03 -0700 I haven't seen them hover together in numbers, but I have seen them chase moths in flight that involved hovering. Also, I saw one sitting in the lawn as a Japanese beetle approached flying low over the grass. As it reached the sparrow, he leaped up and grabbed it out of the air. Liz D. Indianapolis "B.G. Sloan" wrote: Walking the IU cross country course several times in the past few days I've observed small flocks of sparrow-like birds hovering above the long grass. They would hover almost like an American Kestrel (but nowhere near as high) and dive into the grass. I thought I had found some exotic grassland bird as I had never seen this feeding behavior before. This morning I finally got close enough to the birds to identify them as...House Sparrows! :-) According to Birds of North America Online, HOSPs "occasionally catch insects by flycatching and hover pouncing." These birds were doing this big time! Just wondering how common this behavior is? Bernie Sloan Bloomington ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ 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 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 Subject: Willets Bluegrass in Warrick county From: Brian Taylor <brian.taylor AT HAUBSTADT.COM> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:53:34 -0500 On my way home from work I went to Bluegrass real quick. In the field across from the back lakes were 6 willets. They were not shy at all. They let me pull right next to them so I could take some pictures. 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 Subject: Phalaropes,LaGrange Co. From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:43:19 EDT Yesterday, May 10, four of us did birding in southwest LaGrange County for the LaGrange County spring count and got the following: Location: Farmer's field near Emma Observation date: 5/10/08 Notes: Enos Yoder, Chris Yoder, Myron Bontreger, and myself. One female and one male Wilson's Phalarope were with shorebirds north side of CR 300 S about 2 miles west. Number of species: 31 Turkey Vulture 2 Semipalmated Plover 7 Killdeer 2 Solitary Sandpiper 3 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 17 Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 Least Sandpiper 21 Pectoral Sandpiper 43 Dunlin 16 WILSON'S PHALAROPE 2 Rock Pigeon 20 Mourning Dove 8 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Horned Lark 4 Purple Martin 8 Cliff Swallow 100+ at the barn on 300S west of SR5 Tree Swallow 4 House Wren 1 Gray Catbird 1 Brown Thrasher 1 Chipping Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 2 Indigo Bunting 1 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Baltimore Oriole 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(_http://ebird.org_ (http://ebird.org) ) Dan Stoltzfus **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) 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 Subject: Eagle Marsh Black Tern- May 12 PM From: Rodger Rang <rrang AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:10:25 -0400 A quick review of Eagle Marsh at 8:15 this evening netted a few noteworthy species. From the Boy Scout parking lot overlook: Blue-winged Teal- 4 (3m, 1f) Great Egret- 2 BLACK TERN- 1 hawking bugs low over the water, my FOS From the Verizon parking lot overlook: Northern Shoveler- 1m Savannah Sparrow- 1 Eastern Meadowlark- 1 From Engle Road: Blue-winged Teal- 6 (3pr) No shorebirds other than Killdeer and Spotted SP Earlier, in the late afternoon, my wife saw a coyote in this area. A property first?? 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 Subject: Hovering HOSPs From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:04:47 -0700 Walking the IU cross country course several times in the past few days I've observed small flocks of sparrow-like birds hovering above the long grass. They would hover almost like an American Kestrel (but nowhere near as high) and dive into the grass. I thought I had found some exotic grassland bird as I had never seen this feeding behavior before. This morning I finally got close enough to the birds to identify them as...House Sparrows! :-) According to Birds of North America Online, HOSPs "occasionally catch insects by flycatching and hover pouncing." These birds were doing this big time! Just wondering how common this behavior is? Bernie Sloan Bloomington ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ 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 Subject: Dowitcher ? From: Ray Troyer <raytroyer AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:42:20 +0000 What did we do before photos? We are still looking for a definitive answer. Today I took some time to search through some flickr photos. Compared to the ones by John Kendall (LBDO), and Jim Sullivan (SBDO), I think the bird I photographed looks more like the ones by Jim Sullivan. http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2344970620101565606kxywXG -- Ray Troyer Goshen Elkhart County raytroyer 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 Subject: Monroe sites From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:21:49 -0400 This morning I visited both Paynetown and Cutright on Lake Monroe - a lovely, but cool morning - water levels continue to rise once again on the lake. The morning's highlights: Canada Goose - 36 (counting 14 goslings) Mallard - 6 Common Loon - 1 (alternate plumage) Great Blue Heron - 2 Turkey Vulture - 6 Spotted Sandpiper - 2 Ring-billed Gull - 35 Forster's Tern - 2 Chimney Swift - 28 E. Wood-pewee - 3 White-eyed Vireo - 3 Yellow-thr. Vireo - 5 Warbling Vireo - 7 Red-eyed Vireo - 16 Tree Swallow - 6 Cliff Swallow - 39 Barn Swallow - 12 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 E. Bluebird - 2 Tenn. Warbler - 4 Nashville Warbler - 2 No. Parula - 3 Yellow Warbler - 6 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Cape May Warbler - 3 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 (FOS) Blackpoll Warbler - 2 Prothonotary Warbler - 2 Kentucky Warbler - 2 Co. Yellowthroat - 5 Hooded Warbler - 1 Scarlet Tanager - 2 White-cr. Sparrow - 2 Indigo Bunting - 8 Orchard Oriole - 7 Baltimore Oriole - 5 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 Subject: Yard Birds From: Vicky Foltz <vfoltz AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:43:28 -0500 Hello everyone, Finally, on Mother's Day, the orioles came! I had three on my feeder :) Also, FOY for me was two ruby throated hummers, and one male rose-breasted grosbeak. And, of course, the usual suspects: 2 morning doves 4 cardinals (two pair) 1 pr blue birds 1 pr chickadees 1 chipping sparrow 2 Engl. sparrows (1 pair) 1 downey woodpecker 1 hairy woodpecker 1 redbellied woodpecker 1 whitebreasted nuthatch tufted titmouse goldfinches two house finches Missing for a day or so now: white-crowned sparrow Missing for a week or so now: red breasted nuthatch Vicky Foltz, Ft. Wayne Allen County Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Lake Cumberland Junco From: Terry Ballenger <t.ballenger AT ATT.NET> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:23:59 +0000 Hello all-- On a weekend trip to Lake Cumberland Kentucky in Russell Co., had what seemed to me to be a very late Dark-eyed Junco. It was foraging on the buds of newly blossomed wildflowers. Other highlights were: Scarlet Tanager Summer Tanager (male & female) Blackpoll warbler Baybreasted warbler Nashville warbler Blue Grosbeak (first year male: singing) A life bird for me. I've been chasing this one for the last two years. Eastern Bluebird Green Heron Wood Duck (taking hand outs around the boat docks!? Very unusual.) Great-crested flycatcher It seemed to be the tail end of the warbler migration at that geographical location what with Blackpolls coming through and all. Hopefully we still have some to go here. Good birding to all, 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 Subject: Marbled Godwits at Goose Pond FWA From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:30:30 -0400 This morning (May 12, 2008) while doing ISS (International Shorebird Survey) monitoring in Main Pool West of Goose Pond FWA, Property Manager Brad Feaster saw 2 MARBLED GODWITS. The Godwits were flyovers. Brad said they came from the direction of GP10S or GP9 and kept on going, apparently putting down somewhere in the south end of Main Pool East. There is no close to the road access to MPE and it would take several hours round trip to hike in and try to look for the Godwits. I may or may not give that a try, depending on how the afternoon goes. --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 Subject: Montgomery Co, 700 S 100 E From: marty jones <indth33 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 07:38:13 -0700 I only had a few minutes to stop here on my way to work. At 9:45 am May 12th, found one Wilson's Phalarope feeding alongside a single Dunlin. Several other more common shorebirds also present. Phalarope and Dunlin were in flooded area furthest west (toward 231) about 35 yards to the southside of 700 S. I may have a few mediocre photo's to post on flickr later tonight. Marty Jones Terre Haute --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. 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 Subject: Eagle Creek Park, Sunday May 11, 2008 From: John Ulmer <remlu AT TDS.NET> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:15:35 -0400 Cool and rain. Temperature dropping from 55 to 51 degrees with gusty southwest wind. With both limited conditions and a limited number of Sunday birders we managed to tally 100 species including 26 warblers. The list included -- Common Loon Double Crested Cormorant Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Coopers Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk American Coot Spotted Sandpiper Laughing Gull Caspian Tern Foresters Tern Rock Dove Barred Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black and White Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch House Sparrow Bire walks begin at 9am each Sunday at the Nature Center, all are welcome. -- John Ulmer Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Big May count From: Tom <annntom AT EMBARQMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:22:43 -0400 For anyone who birded in Johnson County on Saturday please send me your data for compilation. Thanks to Jack for already doing this. I do have electronic forms that can be filled out to facilitate this process. We need your birds plus the effort expended on a separate form. Thanks for participating in this scientific effort. I had fairly good success for me. I walked around our area plus drove to a couple of spots I thought would yield some different species. I saw 257 birds of 59 species including 10 warbler species. I am not very good with the songs etc so these all were seen. I did not have time to go out on the lake where I could have picked up a few additional species plus I did not record some birds that I have been seeing daily so I am happy with the results. Hopefully others can expand this for the rest of Johnson County. Tom Hougham on Lamb Lake in SW Johnson 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 Subject: Cosc. Co. Surf Scoter From: Steve and Connie Doud <sandcdoud AT MCREMC.NET> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 06:53:48 -0400 The second Sat. in May brought us out again for 15 mostly exciting hours in our birdy SW corner of Kosc. Co. The highlight was undoubtedly a female-type SURF SCOTER on Yellowcreek Lake, near the church camp on the west end. An Osprey flyover distracted us momentarily, but pix of both were obtained. A total of 116 species was recorded for the day, about 5 better than average for this area over the last 15 years. Notable species: Screech Owl--first bird of the day Common Loon--Hill Lake 24 DC Cormorants--Palestine Lk 2 Ospreys--Palestine Lk, Yellowcreek Lk 8 RN Pheasants-scattered 10 Shorebird sp.--various wet fields 1 Forsters Tern--Diamond Lk 18 Warbler sp--Blue Wings, Ceruleans, Parulas, Ovenbirds, Chat, both Water Thrushes 19 RB Grosbeaks 13 Bobolinks 7 Veerys--some singing 3 Sedge Wrens--last bird of the day Big Misses: Pileated WP Bl.W.Teal Least FC Cedar Waxwing Y Thr. Warb Dickcissel Grasshopper & Henslows--can you say Ethanol? Bobwhite Steve and Connie Doud Roann, 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 Subject: Eastern Wood PeeWee, Elkhart Co From: Wilma J Harder <wilmajeanharder AT JUNO.COM> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 06:29:54 -0400 Thought I heard an eastern wood peewee two days ago, saw one this morning in my neighbors tree. Not a figment of my imagination this time. :) Rose breasted grossbeaks are still here. Usually not here this long. Wilma Harder Goshen "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 Subject: Update to Earlier Post From: Canyon Wren <canyonwren AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:07:01 -0500 Hi All, As I stated in my earlier post today, I asked Ken Brock for confirmation regarding Barred Owl records. Ken responded stating that the Owl Surveys done by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore were, indeed, single party counts. Therefore, my team's count this week-end will constitute a count in the top ten, but not a new state record. Even so, we were thrilled to have that many Barred Owls. Thanks, Ken, for clarifying the owl data for me. Good Birding! Lynea Lynea Hinchman Michigan City, Indiana Heart of the Indiana Dunes CanyonWrenatComcastdotnet "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived though its first material expression be destroyed. A vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again." William Beebe 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 Subject: Monroe County weekend birds From: Cathy <cmeyer AT KIVA.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:03:40 -0400 I helped a group of 8 birders visiting form northern Indiana find birds in the area yesterday and today. Tomorrow they are meeting Lee Sterrenberg to see Goose Pond.Yesterday we had a beautiful day, in contrast to today's rain. I believe the group is up to about130 for their trip and they were happy to see, or at least hear, some of our local birds. I think their reactions make me reconsider some of the birds I take for granted here and appreciate them more. A few highlights: Sat. 5/10 Flatwoods Park - Bobwhite, 2 singing Willow Flycatchers, White-crowned Sparrows, nice variety of warblers in the woods Upper Woodall Rd. - 2 singing Grasshopper Sparrows (1 perched on a fence in full view), a dozen bobolinks in the grape vines, 2 Blue Grosbeak males (nice looks), Red-headed Woodpecker (far to the west calling loudly from the top of a big dead tree) Bryant's Creek Rd. - 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, lots of warblers - including Ovenbird, Worm-eating, Kentucky (good looks), Hooded, Blue-winged, Parula, Louisiana Waterthrush, Yellow, Yellow-throated, Cerulean, Redstart, Scarlet Tanager, Gray-cheeked Thrush Lake Griffy - White-eyed Vireos building a nest over the parking lot, Scarlet and Summer Tanagers, pr. Blue-winged Teal, more Sun. 5/11 Riddle Point - 3 Common Loons, D. C.Cormorant, Spotted Sandpiper, nice variety of warblers, including Blackpoll, Cape May, lots of Yellow-rumped, and Palm, Cliff Swallows on a wire Little Africa - Prothonotary, Yellow-throated, and Prairie Warblers, Northern Waterthrush Brummet's Creek Rd. - 5 Lesser Yellowlegs Stillwater - Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Northern Waterthrush. Least Flycatcher, Redstart Paynetown - Cattle Egret in the primitive campground (we watched it gobble up a big nightcrawler) Monroe dam- Ruddy Duck Fairfax - 2 Caspian Terns, 2 Forster's Terns, 2 Laughing Gulls in alternate plumage, 1 Herring Gull, Spotted Sandpiper Cathy Meyer Bloomington Cathy Meyer 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 Subject: Re: LBDO, UPSA pics From: Liz Day <lizday44 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:44:06 -0700 > http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2344970620101565606kxywXG The wide pale edges to the back feathers cause me to wonder if perhaps this particular bird might be a short-billed. Any thoughts? Liz Day Indianapolis Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Greene Co. May Day count highlights From: Mike Clarke <redeyegravy AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:28:36 -0400 On Saturday, Jim Mitchell and I worked the Greene Co. side of the Greene-Sullivan State Forest for the Big May Day count. In the evening, we poached on other's areas in Goose Pond and Beehunter Marsh where we added most of the evening-species mentioned in Jim Hengeveld's report for our personal day-list. We finished the day with 133 species, 107 in our assigned area. Highlights included: 1 Common Loon, 5 Ring-necked Ducks, 2 Black-crowned Night Herons, 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 5 Barred Owls, 1 Common Nighthawk, 4 CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOWS, 8 Eastern Wood Pewee, 4 Veery, 12 Swainson's Thrush, 9 Wood Thrush, 24 warbler species (including 1 Golden-winged and 2 Pine), 4 Summer Tanagers, and 9 sparrow species (including 2 Grasshopper, 2 Savannah and 2 Swamp). -Mike Clarke and Jim Mitchell 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 Subject: Spring Count (Lake Co.) - Glaucous Gull, Clay-colored Sp., Moorhens From: Michael Topp <mtopp7927 AT AOL.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 20:59:28 -0400 I covered Parts of Lake County for the Spring Count - 5/10 Highlights were Glaucous Gull, Bald Eagle, Clay-colored Sparrow Moorhens and some tardy ducks. * Photos I will post later. Highlights: MILLER BEACH: 1-Common Loon 3-Horned Grebes 3-Red-breasted Mergansers 1-BALD EAGLE (Juv. bird feeding on the beach.) 1-Osprey 1-Peregrine Falcon 13-Spotted Sandpipers (Together at the breakwall) 8- Sanderlings 27-Dunlin (Including a flock of 24 flybys.) 1-GLAUCOUS GULL (Juv. bird ) * 5-Caspian Terns 1-Forster's Tern 1-Horned Lark 1-Brown Thrasher 1-Field Sparrow GARY (Area) : 1-GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Male) 2-Blue-winged Teal 2-N.PINTAILS (Pair) 1-N.SHOVELER (Male) 3-Hooded Mergansers 1-Great creasted F.C. 3-E.Kingbirds 5-Marsh Wrens 1-E.Bluebird 1-Wood Thrush 2-Swainson's Thrush 1-Veery 10-Palm Warblers 4-Yellow Warblers 3-Y.R.Warblers 3-C.Yellowthroats 1-Indigo Bunting 3-Swamp Sparrows 11-White-throated Sparrows 2-Savhanna Sparrows CLINE AVE. MARSH AREA - (HIGHLAND) 1-Pied-billed Grebe 29-D.C.Cormorants 58-G.B.Herons 6-Great Egrets 17-B.C.Nightherons 4-Green Herons 12-Wood Ducks 2-Blue-winged Teal 3-Hooded Mergansers 2-Turkey Vultures 1-Virgina Rail 6-Soras 7-COMMON MOORHENS (all were seen.) 1-Lesser Yellowlegs 5-Spotted Sandpipers 6-Solitary Sandpipers 1-Belted Kingfisher 4-Red-headed Woodpeckers 2-Red-bellied Woodpeckers 1-E.Phoebe 1-Great-creasted F.C. 2-E.Kingbirds 3-Warbling Vireos 2-R.E.Vireos 12-Marsh Wrens 1-Swainson's Thush 1-Blue-winged Warbler 2-Tennessee Warblers 2-Nashville Warblers 1-Northern Parula 9-Yellow Warblers 2-Magnolia Warblers 10-Y.R.Warblers 1-Black-throated Green Warbler 12-Palm Warblers 1-Black and White Warbler 1-A.Redstart 1-Ovenbird 2-N.Waterthrush 9-C.Yelowthroats 1-Wilson's Warbler 1-Indigo Bunting 2-E.Towhees 1-Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2-Chipping Sparrows 1-CLAY-COLORED SPARROW 1-Lincoln's Sparrow 5-Swamp Sparrows 11-White-throated Sparrows 9-White-crowned Sparrows 2-RUSTY BLACKBIRDS (Feeding on cracked corn in my yard.) 5-Baltimore Orioles (At my feeder) 2- Monk Parakeets (Cline Ave. nest) My wife had 5 at the Post office site. Michael Topp Highland 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 Subject: May Count - St. Joe County (Potato Creek) From: JOHN CASSADY <jcassady AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 17:07:52 -0600 Wendy and Kelly Cassady once again joined me for our annual May Count at Potato Creek. Late migration was evident - Yellow-rumpeds and Palms were still around in numbers, but few other warblers, and almost no flycatchers (it has been years since we have missed Willow). However it was a beautiful day to bird, and we did have some nice highlights - including: BROAD-WINGED HAWK, PINE WARBLER (female on the ground!), YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, FORSTER'S TERN, and our "bird of the day" - BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. 35 Canada Goose 3 Mute Swan 11 Mallard 5 Wild Turkey 1 Pied-billed Grebe 8 Double-crested Cormorant 3 Great Blue Heron 1 Green Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Osprey 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Sandhill Crane 1 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 American Woodcock 1 Ring-billed Gull 4 Forster's Tern 4 Rock Pigeon 1 Mourning Dove 1 Black-billed Cuckoo 1 Barred Owl 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Acadian Flycatcher 4 Least Flycatcher 2 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 Eastern Kingbird 9 White-eyed Vireo 10 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 5 Warbling Vireo 7 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 15 American Crow 11 Tree Swallow 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 8 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 10 House Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 13 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Eastern Bluebird 5 Veery 5 Swainson's Thrush 7 Wood Thrush 18 American Robin 27 Gray Catbird 1 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 6 Blue-winged Warbler 4 Tennessee Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler 46 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Magnolia Warbler 17 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Black-throated Green Warbler 3 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Pine Warbler 9 Palm Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 2 American Redstart 7 Ovenbird 6 Northern Waterthrush 1 Louisiana Waterthrush 24 Common Yellowthroat 5 Hooded Warbler 2 Yellow-breasted Chat 5 Scarlet Tanager 12 Eastern Towhee 6 Chipping Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 14 Song Sparrow 3 Swamp Sparrow 13 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 29 Northern Cardinal 12 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 6 Indigo Bunting 38 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 11 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Orchard Oriole 17 Baltimore Oriole 2 House Finch 16 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow Total species reported: 100 Wendy, John & Kelly Cassady jcassady AT verizon.net To view our gallery of "digiscoped" bird photos, go to the following link: http://www.jkcassady.com Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Greene Co. MDC - 5/10 From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 17:54:28 -0400 Susan & I participated in the Greene Co. May Day Count yesterday. We spent the majority of the day in Hillenbrand FWA in the northwest section of the county, the first time we had birded this area. After Hillenbrand, we covered the Linton Conservation Club (no. of Linton) before ending up in the Goose Pond area, where we looked for birds that were seen by Lee Sterrenburg's group, by Mike Clarke & Jim Mitchell, by Don Whitehead's group, and by the group of Stephen Nawrocki, Roger Sweets, Ryan Sanderson, and Ryan Hamilton. We finished the day with 137 species, 111 of those in "our" area. Highlights in our area included 2 Hooded Mergansers, 2 Ospreys, Virginia Rail, Sora, 12 Bell's Vireos, 3 Sedge Wrens, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, good numbers of the expected thrush species, 22 warbler species, 27 Henslow's Sparrows, and 2 Pine Siskins. At Goose Pond, we added both bitterns, BC Night-Heron, Great Egret, King Rail, Semi. Plover, BN Stilt, Dunlin, WESTERN SANDPIPER (a beautiful bird in alt. plumage), Least Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, SB Dowitcher, 2 Wilson's Phalaropes, and Black Tern. The following list includes the count of birds from our area, the first number for Hillenbrand birds and then additions from outside of that FWA. -Canada Goose - 9 + 12 -Hooded Merganser - 2 -Wild Turkey - 5 -No. Bobwhite - 16 -Green Heron - 1 -Gr. Blue Heron - 2 -Turkey Vulture - 17 + 4 -Osprey - 2 -Cooper's Hawk - 1 -Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 -Red-t. Hawk - 3 + 4 -Virginia Rail - 1 -Sora - 2 -Killdeer - 3 + 4 -Gr. Yellowlegs - 1 -Am. Woodcock - 4 -Mourning Dove - 17 + 10 -Gr. Horned Owl - 2 -Barred Owl - 4 + 1 -Com. Nighthawk - 1 -Whip-poor-will - 3 -Chimney Swift - 0 + 2 (+ 25 in Linton) -Ruby-thr. Hummingbird - 0 + 2 -Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 + 1 -Red-bel. Woodpecker - 9 + 5 -Downy Woodpecker - 2 + 1 -Pileated Woodpecker - 4 -E. Wood-Pewee - 5 -Acadian Flycatcher - 3 -Least Flycatcher - 1 -E. Phoebe - 6 + 1 -Gr. Crested Flycatcher - 9 + 3 -E. Kingbird - 10 + 3 -White-e. Vireo - 22 + 11 -Yellow-thr. Vireo - 3 + 1 -Bell's Vireo - 12 -Blue-headed Vireo - 1 -Red-e. Vireo - 28 + 9 -Warbling Vireo - 4 + 1 -Blue Jay - 6 + 5 -Am. Crow - 22 + 4 -Tree Swallow - 4 -Purple Martin - 6 + 2 -Cliff Swallow - 1 -No. Rough-w. Swallow - 4 + 2 -Barn Swallow - 4 + 7 -Car. Chickadee - 8 -Tufted Titmouse - 24 + 4 -White-br. Nuthatch - 5 + 1 -House Wren - 8 + 2 -Carolina Wren - 16 + 10 -Sedge Wren - 3 -Ruby-cr. Kinglet - 1 -Blue-gr. Gnatcatcher - 25 + 5 -E. Bluebird - 2 + 2 -Wood Thrush - 15 + 5 -Veery - 7 + 2 -Gray-ch. Thrush - 3 -Swainson's Thrush - 22 + 6 -Am. Robin - 8 + 30 -Gray Catbird - 16 + 5 -No. Mockingbird - 1 + 1 -Brown Thrasher - 6 + 3 -Eur. Starling - 6 + 110 -Prothonotary Warbler - 4 -Tennessee Warbler - 15 -Nashville Warbler - 1 -No. Parula - 5 + 2 -Chestnut-s. Warbler - 3 -Magnolia Warbler - 2 -Yellow-rumped Warbler - 34 + 3 -Blackburnian Warbler - 0 + 1 -Black-thr. Green Warbler - 3 -Yellow-thr. Warbler - 1 -Prairie Warbler - 8 + 4 -Pine Warbler - 1 -Palm Warbler - 10 + 4 -Yellow Warbler - 11 + 4 -Kentucky Warbler - 19 + 1 -Canada Warbler - 1 -Ovenbird - 6 -Louisiana Waterthrush - 0 + 1 -Northern Waterthrush - 2 -Com. Yellowthroat - 76 + 9 -Yellow-br. Chat - 20 + 3 -Am. Redstart - 11 -Summer Tanager - 8 + 1 -Scarlet Tanager - 9 + 1 -E. Towhee - 21 + 3 -Field Sparrow - 34 + 9 -Chipping Sparrow - 9 + 2 -Henslow's Sparrow - 27 -Song Sparrow 10 + 11 -White-thr. Sparrow - 5 -White-cr. Sparrow - 14 -Rose-br. Grosbeak - 10 + 4 -No. Cardinal - 42 + 10 -Dickcissel - 2 -Blue Grosbeak - 7 + 5 -Indigo Bunting - 72 + 17 -Bobolink - 7 -E. Meadowlark - 10 + 5 -Red-w. Blackbird - 57 + 58 -Com. Grackle - 5 + 20 -Brown-h. Cowbird - 22 + 2 -Orchard Oriole - 10 -Baltimore Oriole - 16 + 4 -Pine Siskin - 0 + 2 -Am. Goldfinch - 16 + 16 -House Sparrow - 6 + 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 Subject: Gibson Co. Pacific Loon - No? From: Gary Bowman <otus44 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:31:41 -0400 We checked the strip mine pit where the loon was seen yesterday and this morning. The wind was howling and the rain was coming down so I am not surprised that we didn't see the loon. It was probably trying to stay out of the wind along the edge to the pit somewhere. This is a large, narrow, two section pit possibly 1/2 mile or more long so it could have been hidden from view. I can't imagine that the bird has left in these weather conditions. If you try for it, the pit is about 2 miles east of Mackey in the southeast corner of Gibson County. Go east from the blinker light at SR57 on CR700S nearly two miles to a cemetery on the north side of the road at a jog in the road. Continue a little farther to a stop sign at an intersection and then coninue a short distance to the pit. It is on the right side of the road. Good luck. Gary Bowman Vincennes 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 Subject: More Allen Co. May Day count From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 14:20:02 EDT Ryan Smith and I birded Fox Island for the Allen Co. May Day count yesterday morning. Doug Rood and Marisa Windell joined us for afternoon in northwest Allen Co., and I quickly surveyed the Woodburn sewage ponds in the evening. Our party total for the day was 115 species, but there was nothing unexpected among them. We had 78 species at Fox Island, which is decidedly subpar for a May Day count, including 21 warblers. New for the year was Philadelphia Vireo. Ed and Cynthia Powers, a second Fox Is. party for the morning, added several additional species in the park, including the first Blackpoll Warbler of the year. Although a few migrant species were in fair numbers, most were quite low. Missed entirely at Fox Is. were Blue-headed and Yellow-throated Vireos, Veery, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Black and White Warbler, and Lincoln's Sparrow. Some other species--many flycatchers including E. Wood Pewee, both cuckoos, Canada, Mourning, and Connecticut Warblers--have not yet been reported in northeast Indiana in this late spring migration. In the afternoon we found a few shorebirds--several Spotted Sandpipers, 1 Greater and 9 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Least Sandpipers, 2 Dunlin, 3 Wilson's Snipe, but again the shorebird variety has not reached us yet. New for the year was Bobolink, present in our assigned area in one of the three locations where they have been found in the recent past. They are just starting to come in. I had assumed that there were no late-lingering ducks around, but we found Blue-winged and Green-winged Teal, a pair of Ring-necked Ducks, 4 Lesser Scaup, and a pair of Ruddy Ducks in one location. A glorious day to be out and a good party total in spite of the big gaps on our list. Jim Haw **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) 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 Subject: Allen County May Day Count- May 10 From: Rodger Rang <rrang AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 13:00:21 -0400 Jerry Brown, Sandy Schacht, Sister Mary Joan and I participated in Saturday's Big May Day Count, covering the north central section of Allen County from Franke Park northward into the Cedar Creek area. We tallied 99 species- average at best- in mostly low numbers, with no lingering waterfowl, very few shorebirds, virtually no grassland species, and no new arrivals. We found only 21 warblers, the best probably being the continuing male Golden-winged (singing) at Franke and two Louisiana Waterthrushes (singing) at Bicentennial Woods and off Chapman Road. We did have a few lingering early migrants: one each of Red-breasted Nuthatch, Winter Wren, and Purple Finch (singing) at Franke, but overall, the list was fairly unexciting. Best highlight was the weather- mostly sunny with a refreshing light north breeze, a stark contrast to this morning's dark skies and consistent rain. I'm happy to stay inside today. 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 Subject: Lk. Lemon - siskins, Surf Scoter From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 12:19:24 -0400 There are currently 24 PINE SISKINs at our feeders. A fem/imm SURF SCOTER was at the east end of the lake at ~11 am. There are 2 E. WOOD-PEWEES in our yard. ........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 Subject: Riddle Point 5/10 From: Robert Kissel <bluesdoc AT BLUEMARBLE.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 11:53:55 -0400 In walking my dogs early evening at Riddle Point (w end of Lake Lemon), I had a Spotted Sandpiper land on a log near the camp. Otherwise, Riddle Point and the lake seemed pretty quiet, beyond 3 Common Loons mid-lake and the expected Canada Geese. Bluebirds were feeding young at the box at the camp (prior years occupied by Tree Swallows). Bob Kissel NE Monroe 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 Subject: Re: Question about Wild Turkey in Indianapolis From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 08:46:35 -0700   I wanted to thank Steve Backs for taking the time to address the "urban wild turkey" issue. It's always good to hear from the experts.   Steve mentions two potential reasons for the presence of tukeys in urban areas:   1. They may be released "pen-raised" turkeys that look like wild turkeys. 2. With urban sprawl, our communities are moving into areas that were once more rural and wooded. I'd like to offer another potential reason: there are a heck of a lot more wild turkeys than there used to be. I saw one estimate that said there were only 1300 wild turkeys in Indiana as recently as 1969. Turkey numbers have increased about a hundredfold since then. In one document published by the Purdue extension service they estimated that there 125,000 turkeys in Indiana in 2005. These turkeys have to have someplace to go, and in some cases they might be slowly expanding their territories into urban/suburban areas, much as was the case with whitetailed deer. Bernie Sloan Bloomington --- On Thu, 5/8/08, Castrale, John wrote: From: Castrale, John Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Question about Wild Turkey in Indianapolis To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008, 10:10 AM Steve Backs asked me to post this to IN-Bird. John Castrale I apologize for not responding sooner to your request about wild turkeys around urban areas in Indiana but things have been a little hectic around here. The whole issue of urban "wild" turkeys is something wild turkeys biologists are a little perplexed in addressing. Unfortunately, none of the scenarios is good for true wild turkeys nor those folks who appreciate seeing wild critters. First, several urban areas around the state have a chronic history of releases of "pen-reared" turkeys that are the wild looking type. Examples: Carmel area, Greenwood, Geist Reservoir, several communities in NC Indiana. By experience we are often suspect of the origin of "wild" turkeys that show up in some urban settings. In some cases, these birds may have been hatched from real wild turkey eggs, that were illegally removed from wild nests under the perception the nest had been abandoned and these were hatched in an incubator, the hatched chicks become imprinted to humans and their habitations. Once the birds begin to get some size and become a problem to keep the folks turn them lose. Please note all the associated activities of this latter scenario are illegal. Second, as urban sprawl has moved into areas that were once more rural and wooded we have seen a greater frequency of wild turkeys becoming more acclimated to humans. Generally, backyard bird feeders become the mechanism for this acclimation during periods of winter stress when birds lose some of the inherent wildness because of their need to find food resources. Each subsequent generation of birds who frequent these feeding sources becomes more acclimated. Before you know you have semi-domesticated wild birds. Finally, we did make one wild turkey release at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis against our biological recommendations. The question was not so much will they survive but what if they survive. We are not sure of the true status of these birds because we know we have had some subsequent releases of pen-reared birds in the general area as well. From a biological perspective, none of the situations discussed above is good for the long term future of true wild turkey flocks in Indiana because of potential disease concerns from contact with contaminated fowl, genetic pollution, and the unfortunate nuisance complaints that eventually occur. It does take very long for a turkey walking on the roof of a car to cause several hundred dollars of scratching damage, roosting on antennas, satellite dishes, and gutters along with accumulated feces around homes and lawn furniture, flogged windows or humans especially children, scratched up flower gardens or vegetable gardens, broken car windshields, etc before the perception of natural beauty goes to beast! Bottom-line, wild turkey biologists strongly discourage any feeding of any wild turkeys and consider any turkeys in an urban setting to be of either suspect origin and potentially contaminated as carriers of diseases that pose a potential threat to true wild turkey flocks. When asked to address the nuisance complaints regarding such turkeys, trap and transplanting such birds to someplace else is not an option for primarily the reasons discussed. Steven E. Backs Wildlife Research Biologist Wild Turkey Project Leader -----Original Message----- From: Castrale, John Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:28 AM To: Backs, Steve Subject: FW: [IN-BIRD-L] Question about Wild Turkey in Indianapolis fyi -----Original Message----- From: Bird discussion list for Indiana [mailto:IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:21 PM To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Question about Wild Turkey in Indianapolis Ellie Baker asked: "Has anyone else seen a turkey in the city [Indianapolis]? We do live on Little Crooked Creek, so it could have come via that corridor. But it does not make much sense." I checked the Christmas Bird Counts (Indianapolis and Indianapolis NW) since about 1990. There were Wild Turkeys reported in just one count (1999-2000), and even then only two birds. And I couldn't find any sightings in the IN-BIRD-L archives. So it looks like they aren't common in Indy. But urban Wild Turkeys aren't unheard of. When I was observing a flock of turkeys in my old Urbana, IL neighborhood I did a lot of background reading and found quite a few examples. Several Chicago suburbs had turkeys, as did Boston, Pittsburgh, Hartford CT, and Minneapolis. Turkeys have even been spotted in Manhattan! Bernie Sloan Bloomington Eleanor Baker wrote: About 10 minutes ago, a neighbor called to report a very large, irredescient bird strolling in her back yead. I rushed down and indeed it was a male turkey. Location: North Willow Park at Brewster and Cinnebar, one block south of Tulane (which goes into College Park). About 1/2 mile north of 86th Street. Has anyone else seen a turkey in the city? We do live on Little Crooked Creek, so it could have come via that corridor. But it does not make much sense. Ellie Baker 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 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 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ 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 Subject: Fort Harrison SP May 11 - Rain! From: Don Gorney <dongorney AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 08:37:43 -0700 The most amazing sighting on May 11 at Fort Harrison State Park, Indianapolis, was a birdwatcher for the bird hike despite the downpour. The regulars all stayed home but one high school student came out for the hike. Since there was heavy rain at 8am I delayed the hike an hour so we birded in the drizzle and moderate rain. Only 56 species were found. Seven warbler species, a few flycatchers, and one cuckoo were the highlights. The entire list: Canada Goose 29 Mallard 8 Great Blue Heron 10 Cooper's Hawk 1 Killdeer 3 Mourning Dove 6 Cuckoo sp 1 seen in flight as I got out of my car Chimney Swift 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 2 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6 Barn Swallow 6 Carolina Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 7 Swainson's Thrush 1 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 32 Gray Catbird 5 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 17 Cedar Waxwing 2 Tennessee Warbler 3 Nashville Warbler 2 Northern Parula 1 Yellow Warbler 6 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 4 Wilson's Warbler 1 Summer Tanager 1 Scarlet Tanager 2 Chipping Sparrow 9 Field Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 5 White-crowned Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 11 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 7 Red-winged Blackbird 8 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 7 Brown-headed Cowbird 20 Orchard Oriole 3 Baltimore Oriole 5 American Goldfinch 12 House Sparrow 2 A bird hike will be held each Sunday in May at Fort Harrison. Meet at 8am at Delaware Lake parking lot. Don Gorney Indianapolis, IN dongorney AT yahoo.com www.dongorney.com Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: BIG MAY COUNT & NEW STATE RECORD From: Canyon Wren <canyonwren AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 09:36:42 -0500 Hi Birders, While I won't have time to report all of my sightings until later today or Monday (due to Mother's Day activities), there is one record that worthy of SPECIAL MENTION. BARRED OWLS: While I seek confirmation of this record from Dr. Kenneth J. Brock, it appears that a new state record was set. My team, comprised of Dr. Jack Swelstad, Dr. Jason Swelstad and myself, were fortunate enough to have observed a new STATE HIGH SINGLE PARTY SPRING COUNT for Barred Owls. This is based upon data published in "Brock's Birds of Indiana." Our tally of Barred Owls for the day was SEVEN. If I have intrepreted the data in "Brock's Birds of Indiana" correctly, the previous high spring single party count was six. These owls were all observed in Porter County; four in Indiana Dunes State Park and three in the Heron Rookery unit of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. My team is thrilled with this record. OTHER BIG MAY HIGHLIGHTS: We had a Turkey flush from within four feet of us in the Heron Rookery. This is a first for this species in that location. An Osprey was an exciting addition to our Big May Count list. Both it and a Common Loon were observed by Jack and Jason from the foot bridge near Wilson Shelter in the state park while I was conveniently back at the porta-pot near the Wilson Shelter parking lot. Our total species for the day was in the 100 species range. We had 24 warbler species for the count; 5 vireo species missing Philly; 4 flycatcher species missing, among others, Eastern Wood-Pewee which may not have arrived this far north yet. We delighted to watch a mother Wood Duck with 14 chicks. Another welcome speices: three Hooded Mergs, at least one was a female that flew in low over the footbridge. A singleton Red-breasted Nuthatch put in an appearance as we finished our Trails 2-10 loop back at Wilson Shelter. We added a second Pine Warbler to the state park tally when we heard both the one counted by Ken Brock near the former Green Tower site and a second one from across the street. We were also successful in observing the Yellow-throated Warbler in the Heron Rookery, the only reliable place for this species in the entire Dunes area. That's about it for now. An update will follow later. Happy Mother's Day and Good Birding! Lynea Lynea Hinchman Michigan City, Indiana Heart of the Indiana Dunes CanyonWrenatComcastdotnet "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived though its first material expression be destroyed. A vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again." William Beebe 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