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7 Nov JP Sandhills [Beverly Richardson ]
6 Nov N.W.Indiana 11/05,11/06 - Swallows, Warblers, Pelicans [Michael Topp ]
6 Nov Jasper Pulaski - Sandhill Cranes [Birder ]
6 Nov Fairfax RED-THROATED LOON [Amy Kearns ]
6 Nov Sandhill Cranes [Ed Peter ]
6 Nov Golden Eagle at Pigeon River FWA and Steuben Co. birds [Dan Stoltzfus ]
6 Nov Hawthorn Mine, Beehunter ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
6 Nov Re: What is torpor? ["Allen T. Chartier" ]
6 Nov Re: What is torpor? [Ron & Judy Green ]
6 Nov What is torpor? ["Allen T. Chartier" ]
6 Nov Northern Shrike at Beehunter Marsh [Lee Sterrenburg ]
6 Nov Birding in Gibson County [Vicky Whitaker ]
5 Nov Le Cont's, Solitaire, and Surf Scoters photos [Dan Stoltzfus ]
5 Nov Keeping House Sparrows away from bird feeders (no sightings) ["B.G. Sloan" ]
5 Nov Lake Monroe, Stillwater ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
5 Nov Eared Grebe at Eagle Creek [Steve Pancol ]
5 Nov Eagle Creek Park , 11/5/09 [G L Chastain ]
5 Nov Keeping "Our" Whooping Cranes Wild [Dan Kaiser ]
5 Nov Washington Co. ["Castrale, John" ]
5 Nov Whooping Crane Sightings ["Feaster, Brad" ]
4 Nov near Gibson Lake, Gibson County [Y Harris ]
4 Nov Ewing Bottoms Sandhill Crane [Dan Kaiser ]
4 Nov Hawthorn Mine, Goose Pond, Beehunter ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
4 Nov Lk. Lemon - BLSC [Jim Hengeveld ]
4 Nov GRAY CATBIRD ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
4 Nov FW: eBird Report - Falls of the Ohio (IN) , 11/4/09 [Ed Peter ]
4 Nov Marian College Ecolab , 11/4/09 [G L Chastain ]
4 Nov Re: Hummingbird 10-17-09 ["Allen T. Chartier" ]
4 Nov Hummingbird 10-17-09 [Brian Taylor ]
4 Nov Midwest Birding Symposium Audio Clips [WERNER KARL ]
3 Nov Pigeon River & Steuben Co. []
3 Nov Lake Monroe (Fairfax, Paynetown) ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
3 Nov Eagle Marsh, Ft Wayne []
3 Nov Red breasted Nuthatch [Russell Allison ]
3 Nov Birding in Gibson County [Vicky Whitaker ]
3 Nov Wild turkey [Spring Ryding ]
3 Nov Posey Co.: Hovey Lake FWA, Twins Swamps Preserve [Charles Crawford ]
3 Nov Eagle Creek Park - 11/2 and 11/3 [Steve Pancol ]
3 Nov Goose Pond FWA waterfowl count Nov 3 2009 ["Brittain, Ross Alan" ]
3 Nov Unknown photographer [Richard Patterson ]
3 Nov Christmas and Winter Feeder Count Information [Richard Patterson ]
2 Nov Eastern Screech Owl [Spring Ryding ]
2 Nov Birding in Gibson County [Vicky Whitaker ]
2 Nov Birding Report 11/2/09 [Ed Peter ]
2 Nov Re: Odd Cooper's Hawk behavior ["B.G. Sloan" ]
2 Nov Townsend's Solitaire - NO [Canyon Wren ]
2 Nov Lk. Lemon - 11/1 [Jim Hengeveld ]
2 Nov Pipits [David Crouch ]
2 Nov Winter Wren in Elkhart [Trice Berkley ]
2 Nov Re: Odd Cooper's Hawk behavior [Tom Leggett ]
2 Nov Re: Odd Cooper's Hawk behavior [Matthew Enos ]
2 Nov Norton automatic renewal Cancelled [Rick Read ]
2 Nov Lake Monroe ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
2 Nov IAS feeder count ["Castrale, John" ]
2 Nov Lake Monroe [Mike Clarke ]
2 Nov November Pewees at Pine Creek GHA [Ed Hopkins ]
2 Nov Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - NO ["B.G. Sloan" ]
2 Nov GPFWA Ibis sp and Cattle Egret [Lee Sterrenburg ]
2 Nov West Beach Solitaire [Clint Maddox ]
2 Nov Lakeshore supplement, 31 Oct 2009 ["Dunning, John B" ]
2 Nov Townsend's Solitaire [Canyon Wren ]
2 Nov Suday:West Beach Townsend's Solitaire...no Cattle Egret yes [Bob Huguenard ]
1 Nov Elkhart Co. Le Conte's, Lincoln's, & Fox Sparrows [Leland Shaum ]
1 Nov Close Encounter of Avian Kind [Greg Oskay ]
1 Nov FW: eBird Report - Charlestown SP , 11/1/09 [Ed Peter ]
1 Nov Zimmerman Wetlands - 110109 [Jeff Riegel ]
1 Nov Muscatatuck NWR [Tom and Colleen Becker ]
1 Nov Cental NW IN, Pewees, 11/1/09 [Ed Hopkins ]
1 Nov Celery Bog ,Hayes St. feeders [Russell Allison ]
1 Nov Downtown Indy - a Coot! [Don Gorney ]
1 Nov Scissor-tailed Flycatcher info (no sighting) ["B.G. Sloan" ]
1 Nov Scissor-tail; Red-thr. Loon ["Whitehead, Donald R." ]
1 Nov Re: Lakefront 31Oct09 Red Phal., T. Solitaire, Red X-bill [Jeff McCoy ]
1 Nov notes for the archives: Beverly Shores 24 Oct- 30 OCWA's [Jeff McCoy ]
1 Nov Wabash Co. yardbirds: brown creepers [Lynnanne ]
1 Nov Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - yes [Susan Hengeveld ]

Subject: JP Sandhills
From: Beverly Richardson <beverlybird1217 AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:22:47 -0500
An IDNR website lists a count of 10,200 on 11-3-09.

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Subject: N.W.Indiana 11/05,11/06 - Swallows, Warblers, Pelicans
From: Michael Topp <mtopp7927 AT AOL.COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:40:59 -0500
I checked some spots in N.W. Indiana the last couple of mournings.
    I also posted some new pictures.
               *Photos
  11/06 
   MILLER BEACH:
    Highlights include Barn Swallows, Snow Buntings, Loons, Scoters.
      12-C.Loons * (Flight shot)
      15-Horned Grebes
       8-D.C.Cormorants
       15-Canada Geese (Flying in off the Lake)
        2-Cackling Geese (With the Canada Geese)
       10-Mallards
        1-Black Duck (With the Mallard flock)
        3-N.Pintail
        5-N.Shovelers
       20-Ring-necked Ducks
       10-Greater Scaup
       30-Scaup (Sps.)
        2-Redhead
        5-Surf Scoters (Diving off Lake Street)
        3-Bufflehead
        1-Red-tailed Hawk
        3-Great Black-backed Gulls (1-Adult)
        1-Red-bellied Woodpecker
        2-BARN SWALLOWS (Juvs.) * (Bad photos- they were out a ways)
        1-Red-breasted Nuthatch
        2-E.Bluebirds
        4-Lapland Longspurs (Landed on the beach)
      180+ Snow Buntings
         9-Horned Larks (On the beach)

        GIBSON WOODS (Hammond0
         1-Coopers Hawk *
         3-W.T.Sparrows
   
       11/5
        MILLER Beach:
       5-C.Loons
      17-Horned Grebes
       5-D.C.Cormorants
      40-Scaup (Sps.)
       1-A.Kestrel
      17-Bonaparte's Gulls (14 Adults, 3-Juvs.) * (Flight Shots)
       1-Dunlin
       1-Sanderling (Juv.)
       6-A.Crows
       1-N.Flicker
      15-Blue Jays
       2-E.Blubirds
      17-Snow Buntings
       2-Horned Larks
   
      FORSYTHE Park:
     19-Mute Swans 
       1-ORANGE-CROWNED Warbler (This bird had quite yellow undersides -
          perhaps a Western subspecies)  * Bad photos
       1-PALM Warbler
       
       Hammond Bird Sanctuary :
       1- Coopers Hawk
       1-N.Flicker
       1-Belted Kingfisher
       3-G.C.Kinglets
       1-R.C.Kinglet
       1-Y.R.Warbler
       1-Winter Wren
       2-Fox Sparrows
       3-W.T.Sparrows

     10/31
       Forsythe Park :
      2-A.Pelicans *
      1-Y.R.Warbler
         also at my feeded (11/01) - Red-breasted Nuthatch

 Michael Topp 

 Highland IN. 


      New Pictures : Townsend's Solitaire, White Pelican, Common Loon,
                          Barn Swallow, Orange-crowned Warbler, Cooper's Hawk,
                          Bonaparte's Gulls.
         Photos:
                   http://community.webshots.com/user/mtopp101
                    In the "New Pictures" album.

                                                                         
                                                       
  
 
       
      
       
  
       

      

      
       
       
       
        
   



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Subject: Jasper Pulaski - Sandhill Cranes
From: Birder <birding1983 AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:43:18 -0500
 

Has anyone been up to Jasper Pulaski lately to see the Sandhill Cranes?  I'm
thinking of going up tomorrow, but wanted to know if it'd be worth it yet.

 

Thanks,

Stephen 

Lafayette


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Subject: Fairfax RED-THROATED LOON
From: Amy Kearns <greenpertplus AT HOTMAIL.COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:51:40 -0500
I birded around Monroe County today.  The highlight was an adult RED-
THROATED LOON in basic plumage at the Fairfax marina.  Lake Lemon was nice 
with several Ruddy Ducks, some Horned Grebes and a few Bonaparte's Gulls.  
Stillwater, Paynetown & Cutright were pretty dull.  I did find a Dark-eyed 
Junco that had florescent bands on its legs (right leg orange, left leg pink 
over 

silver).  Anyone know what those florescent color bands are all about?

Amy Kearns
Mitchell

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Subject: Sandhill Cranes
From: Ed Peter <e.peter AT INSIGHTBB.COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:28:16 -0500
Beautiful day for birding!  Drove north today to check on Sandhill Cranes.
Stopped at Starve Hollow on the way to Medora (I have observed Sandhills
near Medora in the past.).  Did not see any Sandhills until were close to
Ewing Bottoms.  Ewing Bottoms is just west of Brownstown in Jackson County.
Scanned the flock with my scope but did not observe any cranes other than
Sandhills.  Stopped at Muscatatuck on the way home.

 

Location:     Ewing Bottoms

Observation date:     11/6/09

Number of species:     2

 

Red-tailed Hawk     1

Sandhill Crane     700

 

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

 

Location:     Starve Hollow SRA

Observation date:     11/6/09

Number of species:     21

 

Canada Goose     60

Mallard     4

Ring-necked Duck     5

Northern Bobwhite     1

Common Loon     1

Pied-billed Grebe     2

Turkey Vulture     2

Killdeer     18

Mourning Dove     4

Downy Woodpecker     1

Northern Flicker     1

Pileated Woodpecker     2

Blue Jay     2

American Crow     3

Carolina Chickadee     2

American Robin     2

Northern Mockingbird     2

European Starling     2

White-throated Sparrow     4

Dark-eyed Junco     8

Northern Cardinal     2

 

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

 

 

Location:     Muscatatuck NWR

Observation date:     11/6/09

Number of species:     30

 

Canada Goose     200

American Black Duck     6

Mallard     6

Ring-necked Duck     15

Ruddy Duck     1

Pied-billed Grebe     1

Great Blue Heron     2

Turkey Vulture     2

American Coot     5

Killdeer     4

Mourning Dove     6

Downy Woodpecker     1

Northern Flicker     1

Pileated Woodpecker     1

Blue Jay     4

American Crow     3

Carolina Chickadee     2

Tufted Titmouse     2

White-breasted Nuthatch     1

Eastern Bluebird     2

American Robin     2

Northern Mockingbird     2

European Starling     4

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     1

Song Sparrow     3

Dark-eyed Junco     3

Northern Cardinal     2

Purple Finch     2

House Finch     2

American Goldfinch     2

 

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

 

Ed Peter

Floyds Knobs

 


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Subject: Golden Eagle at Pigeon River FWA and Steuben Co. birds
From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:25:01 EST
Today Leland Shaum, Perry Miller, Gary Chupp and I went to find a reported  
Whooping Crane in Steuben Co. without success. However we had a productive 
day.  First we saw a Rough Legged Hawk near Perry Miller's home in Elkhart 
County and  then went to Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area and while 
driving east on 300N a Juvenile Golden Eagle flew north across 300N just ahead 
of 

us just before we  reached 1100E. The white patches on the underside of the 
wings were clearly seen  and the white base of the tail. Leland spotted it 
north of us again when we went  east into Steuben County. So it can be 
counted for both counties.
 
We stopped at the Waterfowl Resting Area at the Steuben County line and  
saw:
8 White Fronted Geese
8 Mute Swans
300 or more Canada Geese
Mallards
2 Blue-winged Teal
1 Wild Turkey
 
We crossed route 327 about a 1/2 mile and stopped to see Sandhill Cranes  
and recorded:
241 Sandhill Cranes
1 Red-tailed Hawk
6 approximately Horned Larks
2 E. Blue Birds
700 + Red-winged Blackbirds
3 Am. Tree sparrows
 
At about 4:30 the Cranes began leaving and Canada Geese moved in.So we  
went north to the Fawn River  Fish Hatchery and found:
1 Great Blue Heron
2 Hooded Mergansers
31 Killdeer
1 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Dunlin
9 Wilson's Snipe
6 Mourning Doves
2 Am. Tree Sparrows
 
Also of note was Gary Chupp's observation of a Redstart at his house in  
Elkhart Co yesterday and Perry Miller's observation of an Adult Bald Eagle  
flying over his place several days ago.
 
Dan Stoltzfus
Goshen
Elkhart county

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Subject: Hawthorn Mine, Beehunter
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:57:56 -0500
This morning I took two Alabama birders, Lorna West and Caroline Snow 
(now from TN) to Hawthorn and points in between. The objective of our 
venture was to find Rough-legs, Tree Sparrows, and Northern Shrike. For 
the morning we scored 2 out of 3 - amazingly, we failed on Tree 
Sparrows. Had them at Hawthorn a week ago, but nowhere today. The 
morning's highlights:

Hawthorn:

     Rough-legged Hawk - 4 (2 dark phase - one an adult female; 2 light phase -
          one adult female - the two other birds were both immatures)

     No. Harrier - 14 (5 males, 9 imm)

     Red-tailed Hawk - 6

     Tree Sparrows - ZERO!

Beehunter - on way home:

     Northern Shrike - 1 (at about 10:05 - perched in small tree on S side of
          CR100S - just W of the drive to the old house - flew further E to the
          N side of 100 - then flew a little further E - each time landing in
          a low tree. Then took off and flew N - still about 50 yds W of the
          drive. could not see where it landed.)

Don Whitehead
Bloomington
whitehea AT indiana.edu

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Subject: Re: What is torpor?
From: "Allen T. Chartier" <amazilia1 AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:54:31 -0500
Judy,

Normally hummingbirds go into torpor perched on branches and don't fall off. 
The perches on feeders are slippery and when the bird is in torpor it is no 
longer consciously maintaining its balance so occasionally can slip off the 
perch or even rarely upside down.

Allen T. Chartier
amazilia1(at)comcast.net
Inkster, Michigan, USA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron & Judy Green" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] What is torpor?


> Last year in two separate incidences I had a couple of hummers fall off of
> the perches at the feeder from extreme torpidity.  I was teased and told I
> might be feeding them fermented sugar water, but that was not the case. 
> The
> hummers were leaning backwards and fell to the ground. I went outside, put
> gloves on and was able to pick the hummer up into my hands to warm it. 
> When
> it was warm it flew away.  This seemed to happen near dusk when the sun 
> was
> disappearing.   I have a couple of pictures of me holding the hummer.
>
> Judy Green
> Grant Co.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bird discussion list for Indiana
> [mailto:IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of Allen T. Chartier
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 12:44 PM
> To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
> Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] What is torpor?
>
> Birders,
>
> I got this inquiry privately asking about torpor,  and thought more people
> might be interested so I have forwarded it here with the permission of the
> original poster...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: raytroyer AT comcast.net
> To: Allen T. Chartier
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09
>
>
> Allen,
>
> Is torbor a state of shock or rest, and is there a recovery rate?  I 
> assume
> it's caused by over exertion?  [snip]Thanks,
>
> Ray Troyer
>
> Goshen, Elkhart, IN
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Allen T. Chartier
> To: raytroyer AT comcast.net
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09
>
>
> Ray,
>
> Torpor is an adaptation in most hummingbirds, and some other bird 
> families,
> that allows them to conserve energy on cold nights. They reduce their
> metabolism, slowing their heart and breathing rates considerably. This is
> similar to what bats do when they hibernate in caves. Rufous Hummingbirds
> have been known to survive nighttime temperatures as low as 1-5 degrees
> farenheit, while Ruby-throats are probably somewhat less cold tolerant. 
> So,
> I would not use any of the terms you used, as it is not "shock" or "rest"
> really, and since they do it on purpose it isn't really accurate to call 
> it
> a "recovery rate".
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Allen T. Chartier
> amazilia1(at)comcast.net
> Inkster, Michigan, USA
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Allen T. Chartier" 
>  To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
>  Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 8:52:17 AM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara /
> Mexico City / Monterrey
>  Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09
>
>  Brian,
>
>  This is the classic pose for a hummingbird in torpor. Thanks for posting!
>
>  Allen T. Chartier
>  amazilia1(at)comcast.net
>  Inkster, Michigan, USA
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Brian Taylor" 
>  To: 
>  Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:45 AM
>  Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09
>
>
>  > http://www.flickr.com/photos/27643609 AT N07/4074175058/
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > This bird was observed in Rockville, IN - Parke Co.  It stayed
> motionless
>  > all evening and night long.  It took off sometime around 6am and was 
> not
>  > seen again.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Brian Taylor
>  >
>  > Evansville
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
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Subject: Re: What is torpor?
From: Ron & Judy Green <rjgreen123 AT EIWIFI.COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:18:08 -0500
 Last year in two separate incidences I had a couple of hummers fall off of
the perches at the feeder from extreme torpidity.  I was teased and told I
might be feeding them fermented sugar water, but that was not the case.  The
hummers were leaning backwards and fell to the ground. I went outside, put
gloves on and was able to pick the hummer up into my hands to warm it.  When
it was warm it flew away.  This seemed to happen near dusk when the sun was
disappearing.   I have a couple of pictures of me holding the hummer.

Judy Green
Grant Co. 


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Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] What is torpor?

Birders,

I got this inquiry privately asking about torpor,  and thought more people
might be interested so I have forwarded it here with the permission of the
original poster...

----- Original Message -----
From: raytroyer AT comcast.net
To: Allen T. Chartier
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09


Allen,

Is torbor a state of shock or rest, and is there a recovery rate?  I assume
it's caused by over exertion?  [snip]Thanks,

Ray Troyer

Goshen, Elkhart, IN



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Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:47 AM
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Ray,

Torpor is an adaptation in most hummingbirds, and some other bird families,
that allows them to conserve energy on cold nights. They reduce their
metabolism, slowing their heart and breathing rates considerably. This is
similar to what bats do when they hibernate in caves. Rufous Hummingbirds
have been known to survive nighttime temperatures as low as 1-5 degrees
farenheit, while Ruby-throats are probably somewhat less cold tolerant. So,
I would not use any of the terms you used, as it is not "shock" or "rest"
really, and since they do it on purpose it isn't really accurate to call it
a "recovery rate".

I hope this helps.

Allen T. Chartier
amazilia1(at)comcast.net
Inkster, Michigan, USA

  ----- Original Message -----
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  Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09

  Brian,

  This is the classic pose for a hummingbird in torpor. Thanks for posting!

  Allen T. Chartier
  amazilia1(at)comcast.net
  Inkster, Michigan, USA

  ----- Original Message -----
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  Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09


  > http://www.flickr.com/photos/27643609 AT N07/4074175058/
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  >
  >
  > This bird was observed in Rockville, IN - Parke Co.  It stayed
motionless
  > all evening and night long.  It took off sometime around 6am and was not
  > seen again.
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  >
  >
  > Brian Taylor
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Subject: What is torpor?
From: "Allen T. Chartier" <amazilia1 AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:43:39 -0500
Birders,

I got this inquiry privately asking about torpor, and thought more people might 
be interested so I have forwarded it here with the permission of the original 
poster... 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: raytroyer AT comcast.net 
To: Allen T. Chartier 
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09


Allen,

Is torbor a state of shock or rest, and is there a recovery rate? I assume it's 
caused by over exertion? [snip]Thanks, 


Ray Troyer

Goshen, Elkhart, IN



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Allen T. Chartier 
To: raytroyer AT comcast.net 
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09


Ray,

Torpor is an adaptation in most hummingbirds, and some other bird families, 
that allows them to conserve energy on cold nights. They reduce their 
metabolism, slowing their heart and breathing rates considerably. This is 
similar to what bats do when they hibernate in caves. Rufous Hummingbirds have 
been known to survive nighttime temperatures as low as 1-5 degrees farenheit, 
while Ruby-throats are probably somewhat less cold tolerant. So, I would not 
use any of the terms you used, as it is not "shock" or "rest" really, and since 
they do it on purpose it isn't really accurate to call it a "recovery rate". 


I hope this helps.

Allen T. Chartier
amazilia1(at)comcast.net
Inkster, Michigan, USA

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 Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 8:52:17 AM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara / Mexico 
City / Monterrey 

  Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09

  Brian,

  This is the classic pose for a hummingbird in torpor. Thanks for posting!

  Allen T. Chartier
  amazilia1(at)comcast.net
  Inkster, Michigan, USA

  ----- Original Message ----- 
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  Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09


  > http://www.flickr.com/photos/27643609 AT N07/4074175058/
  >
  >
  >
  > This bird was observed in Rockville, IN - Parke Co.  It stayed motionless
  > all evening and night long.  It took off sometime around 6am and was not
  > seen again.
  >
  >
  >
  > Brian Taylor
  >
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  >
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Subject: Northern Shrike at Beehunter Marsh
From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:53:11 -0500
Don Whitehead called a few minutes ago to report a NORTHERN SHRIKE at  
Beehunter Marsh at Goose Pond FWA.

The shrike as along CR 100 S, west of the farmhouse driveway.  It  
eventually flew northward up the driveway toward the ruined farmhouse  
in Unit BH5.


--Lee Sterrenburg
Bloomington 

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Subject: Birding in Gibson County
From: Vicky Whitaker <hostas4u AT VERIZON.NET>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:44:21 -0500
I had a Ruby-throated hummingbird at my feeder.
11-5-09 Visited three times before to dark to see.

11-6-09 Have seen her once this moring already.

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Subject: Le Cont's, Solitaire, and Surf Scoters photos
From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:58:52 EST
My computer is working again and I am giving a bird list from Leland  
Shaum's home place and a Webshots site to see his pictures taken Oct 31 and 
Nov. 

1
Check this web site for the pictures:
      _http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/575371403hPVRTO_ 
(http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/575371403hPVRTO) 
 
Our bird list from Leland Shaum's home place Nov. 1 2009
Location:     L. Shaum homestead
Observation date:   11/1/09
Notes:     Leland  Shaum discovered  the LeCont's Sparrow and called me. We 
(his wife Sharon and his children went  back and refound it and Leland got 
very good photos of it which I put on  Webshots and can be shared.
Number of species:      23

Canada Goose     30
Mourning Dove      14
Downy Woodpecker     2
Hairy Woodpecker   1
Northern Flicker     1
Blue Jay   2
Horned Lark     3
Black-capped  Chickadee     2
Tufted Titmouse      1
White-breasted Nuthatch     2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet   2
Eastern Bluebird     3
American Robin   10
Yellow-rumped Warbler     1
Le Conte's  Sparrow     1
Fox Sparrow     1
Song  Sparrow     2
Lincoln's Sparrow      2
White-crowned Sparrow     3
Northern Cardinal   5
Red-winged Blackbird     40
House  Finch     2
American Goldfinch      6

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Subject: Keeping House Sparrows away from bird feeders (no sightings)
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:06:20 -0800
 
Almost seven weeks ago I posted a request to a couple of birding lists, asking 
for advice on how to keep House Sparrows (HOSPs) away from backyard bird 
feeders. 


Evidently this is a popular topic. I received nearly 50 replies to my question, 
by far the most responses I’ve ever received for an e-mail question. Thanks 
to all who took the time to reply! 


The responses ranged from despair ("It is a lost cause") to resignation ("We 
have decided that if we are going to have birds, we can't select what we 
feed. Take what comes."). Several people suggested violent but tempting 
solutions. For example: "How about a sawed-off shotgun?" and "I'm convinced 
that there is only one way to keep them from your feeder. Two letters...BB."  
:-) 


The advice people offered can be broken down into two categories: 1) The type 
of feed to use (and/or NOT use), and 2) Equipment. 


The most interesting aspect of the "type of feed" advice is that people 
have experienced contradictory results, i.e, what worked for some people did 
not work for others. For example, where one person said they got rid of 
sparrows by offering safflower seed, another remarked that their sparrows got 
used to safflower and started eating it. Where one person said they solved 
their problem by only using feed with no millet or cracked corn, another 
related that this did not solve their HOSP problem. A couple of folks said 
HOSPS didn’t like peanut pieces, while another said their HOSPs liked them 
("we have 45 or so House Sparrows at our feeder and they consume everything, 
including peanut pieces"). And one person even said that black oil sunflower 
seed worked for them at one residence, but when they moved to another house the 
HOSPs there LOVED black oil sunflower. A couple of people suggested 
"diversionary feeding" (feeding cracked corn and white millet on 

 the ground away from the feeders), while others tried that without success.

In my original note I also said I was considering feeding peanut pieces. 
Several people encouraged me to do so, saying it would attract many desirable 
species. But others warned of possible dire consequences: "If a squirrel or 
raccoon can get to the feeder it WILL be destroyed" and "The squirrels will 
tear your feeders apart trying to get to the peanuts.  I really would 
discourage feeding peanut pieces for that reason." More on my experiences with 
squirrels and raccoons in a bit. 


As far as equipment is concerned, several people suggested various solutions 
that used monofilament fishing line. They all said it worked like a charm in 
keeping the HOSPs away from the feeder. But two of them had experiences with 
other species getting tangled in the lines and decided it was not worth the 
risk. Another birdwatcher said the monofilament tends to tangle with itself on 
a windy day. While it sounds like it has potential, I’d rather not risk the 
chance of having to untangle a bird from monofilament. From my experience with 
fishing, it’s bad enough when monofilament gets tangled with itself, let 
alone with a bird. 


Very few people had suggestions with regard to bird feeders. There were 
suggestions about how to keep squirrels away from feeders if I decided to feed 
peanut pieces, but very little about the feeders themselves. But the overall 
best piece of advice I received was about feeders. One backyard 
birdwatcher gave some great advice when she said: "The perches are the problem 
– get rid of the perches." Apparently HOSPs don’t like feeders without 
perches. 


Intrigued by this suggestion I went into my storage shed and found two feeders 
that would let me conduct a "no perches" experiment (note: I stopped putting 
out bird feed for about six weeks prior to beginning this experiment a month 
ago, so this might have some bearing on my success so far). 


1. This feeder from Wild Birds Unlimited has perches, but they can be flipped 
up. I tied them up with garbage bag twisty ties, just in case an enterprising 
HOSP figured out how to flip them down. Birds cling to a metal mesh to get at 
the feeding ports.  I filled this one with sunflower hearts. 

http://tinyurl.com/y87zpy8 

2. This Duncraft feeder has no perches. I filled this one with a woodpecker 
feed mix (shelled peanuts, sunflower kernels, corn, pecans, pistachios, shelled 
pumpkin seed, and dried cherries). 

http://tinyurl.com/yewynl8

Both of these feeders have the added advantage of being squirrel-proof. I’ve 
never seen a squirrel get anything out of them in the past. And I found out 
that they are raccoon-proof as well. The night after I added the woodpecker mix 
a raccoon destroyed my ceramic birdbath while trying to reach the feeder. It 
must have perched on the edge of the birdbath and tipped it over. The next 
night a raccoon knocked over the stand that holds the feeders and scattered the 
feeders across the patio. The feeders were fine and lost very little feed. I 
weighted down the base of the stand and have had no problems since. 


The HOSPs definitely do NOT seem to like the perch-less feeders. The Tufted 
Titmice, Carolina Chickadees, White and Red-breasted Nuthatches, Hairy and 
Downy and Red-bellied and Red-headed Woodpeckers all LOVE the setup. I will 
occasionally scatter some seed on the ground to keep the juncos and other 
winter sparrows interested, so I do have a few HOSPs around, but not on the 
feeders. 

 
I've only been doing this for a month, so I think the jury's still out on this 
experiment, but so far, so good (fingers crossed tightly!). 


Bernie Sloan
Bloomington





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Subject: Lake Monroe, Stillwater
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:51:40 -0500
This morning I visited both Paynetown and Cutright on Lake Monroe and 
then, later in the morning, wandered to Stillwater. The highlights;

Paynetown:
     Ring-necked Duck - 4
     Common Loon - 31
     Am. Coot - 18
     Great Blue Heron - 2
     Bald Eagle - 4 (adults - two of them over mid-lake, stooping on coot)
     Red-tailed Hawk - 2
     Turkey Vulture - 35
     Golden-cr. Kinglet - 4
     Am. Robin - 16

Cutright:
     Canada Goose - 3
     Ring-billed Gull - 8
     Bonaparte's Gull - 2
     Turkey Vulture - 69
     Black Vulture - 3
     Am. Robin - 11

Stillwater:
     Canada Goose - 36
     Green-winged Teal - 2
     Am. Coot - 21
     Killdeer - 2
     Ring-billed Gull - 6
     Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
     Red-tailed Hawk - 1

Our Yard today:
     Cooper's Hawk - 1 (imm)
     E. Phoebe - 1 (on fence around our garden)
     Chipping Sparrow - 2

Don Whitehead
Bloomington
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Subject: Eared Grebe at Eagle Creek
From: Steve Pancol <s.pancol AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:40:21 -0500
Haley Samuelson-Couchman and I found an EARED GREBE at Eagle Creek Park,
Indianapolis, on Thursday.  The bird was seen from the marina within the
park.  WHen we saw it was at about 1 o'clock from the martin house off the
marina point.  It was loosely associating with two Horned Grebes.  Steven
Pancol refound the bird at about 12:15pm but it was at 10 o'clock from the
point and in poor light.  It was still with the horned grebes so youi can
tell the Eared Grebe by shillouette.

Sent by Don Gorney from Steve Pancol's e-mail account


-- 
Steve Pancol
Anderson,Indiana
Madison County
Website:http://stevepancol.com
New photos on Bird Alerts page

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Subject: Eagle Creek Park , 11/5/09
From: G L Chastain <glcbirds AT MSN.COM>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:23:26 -0500
On my way to the park this beautiful morning a male merlin flew across the road 
in front of me on Lafayette Road just south of 56th St. On the way back home a 
Kestrel with a mouse in its talons flew across in front of me on Lafayette Road 
south of 71st. Unfortunately I didn't see a Peregrine to make it a 3 falcon 
day. But it did start me wondering how many people have had a 3 falcon day, and 
if anyone has ever seen all 3 plus Gyrfalcon for a 4 falcon day. 


 

There was also a male Redhead hiding among one of the 2 huge rafts of Coots.

 

Gordon Chastain

Indianapolis
 
> 
> Location: Eagle Creek Park
> Observation date: 11/5/09
> Number of species: 35
> 
> Canada Goose 8
> Gadwall 5
> Mallard 16
> Redhead 1
> Lesser Scaup 10
> Pied-billed Grebe 5
> Double-crested Cormorant 11
> Great Blue Heron 7
> Great Egret 1
> Red-shouldered Hawk 1
> American Kestrel 1
> Merlin 1
> American Coot 550
> Killdeer 1
> Ring-billed Gull 77
> Rock Pigeon 18
> Mourning Dove X
> Downy Woodpecker 3
> Pileated Woodpecker 2
> Blue Jay 8
> American Crow 13
> Carolina Chickadee 12
> Tufted Titmouse 7
> White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 5
> Brown Creeper 1
> Carolina Wren 3
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
> Northern Mockingbird 3
> European Starling X
> White-throated Sparrow 4
> Dark-eyed Junco 5
> Northern Cardinal 12
> Common Grackle 30
> American Goldfinch 6
> House Sparrow X
> 
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
 		 	   		  
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Subject: Keeping "Our" Whooping Cranes Wild
From: Dan Kaiser <dhkaiser AT SPRYNET.COM>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:41:57 -0500
Keeping "Our" Whooping Cranes Wild

Although not a crane expert by any means, as a volunteer I do have first
hand experience with the Whooping Cranes as they migrate through
Indiana.  Helping track, ID and monitor the birds has made me very aware
of their fragile existence and the need to keep them wild.

As noted earlier the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership, WCEP, the
people who are responsible for the reintroduction of the Whooping Crane
(WHCR) to the eastern US, have requested reports of sightings be limited
to the county level, not more specific.  There are very good reasons for
this.

The eastern WHCR population currently consists of 86 birds, not counting
the 20 ultralight led 2009 birds, who recently started their migration
to Florida from Wisconsin.  Many of the eastern population do migrate
through Indiana and it is important we keep them safe.  Should the
location of one or more of these birds become too public they will
certainly draw crowds. Uninformed people will then approach too close,
even feeding the birds. Indeed this has happened recently in Florida and
the result was one bird being removed from the wild due to it leading
other birds to populated areas.  Fortunately when the errant bird was
removed the others returned to better behavior.

Young naive birds are particularly susceptible, I have photos of young
WHCR dancing along the side of a highway.  These birds were seen
approaching automobiles, as if to beg for food.  One easily sees the
dangers here.

I know how exciting it is to see these magnificent birds, and one
naturally wishes to share the excitement.  However we must consider the
birds safety.  Hopefully in years to come the Whooping Cranes will be
plentiful and a joy for all of us to see as they pass through the
Hoosier state.

For more information see...

  www.savingcranes.org 

and

www.operationmigration.org

Dan Kaiser
Columbus

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Subject: Washington Co.
From: "Castrale, John" <JCastrale AT DNR.IN.GOV>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:21:20 -0500
A flock of approximately 100 sandhill cranes (FOS) were catching
thermals and heading south around noon yesterday just south of the
Muscatatuck River and SR 135.

Amy Kearns and I also stopped at a large private lake/marsh along SR 56
southwest of Salem around 3:00PM and noted:

resident mute swans (9)
Canada geese (~8)
Ring-necked duck (5)
Pied-billed grebe (~20)
Ruddy duck (1)
Belted kingfisher (1)
Northern harrier (1)

Plus a number of waterfowl decoys.

Just to the north near West Washington schools, a flock of approximately
200 starlings and 75 brown-headed cowbirds was feeding by the road.

John Castrale

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Subject: Whooping Crane Sightings
From: "Feaster, Brad" <BFeaster AT DNR.IN.GOV>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:19:32 -0500
Over the course of the next few months Whooping Cranes will once again be 
passing through Indiana. I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone 
that the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP) requests that details of 
sightings not be posted more precise than the county level while the cranes are 
present. Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area has always asked, and continues to 
ask, that visitors honor this WCEP request. 


If you are fortunate enough to see a Whooping Crane in Indiana you may report 
the sighting to 
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/whoopingcrane/sightings/sightingform.cfm . Reports 
to this address provide useful tracking information to the WCEP. 


You may also follow the progress of the ultra-light led migration at 
http://www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html or at 
http://www.savingcranes.org/whoopingcranereintroductionupdates/8.html 


Thank you.

Brad Feaster
Certified Wildlife Biologist
Property Manager; Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area
R.R.#1 Box 431
Linton, IN 47441
Office Tx (812)659-9901

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Subject: near Gibson Lake, Gibson County
From: Y Harris <jyharris1 AT VERIZON.NET>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:07:39 -0500
November 4, a bright sunny afternoon in Southern Indiana
Activity was noted with the birds.  A pair of BALD EAGLES were at the nest 
and then flew away.  An immature BALD EAGLE was also seen south of Gibson 
Lake.  There was more activity with DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS flying in 
and out of their usual area.  Of note in the little lake with the cormorants 
were 15 HOODED MERGANSERS, FOS.  The Mallard population seems to be 
increasing as does the RING-BILLED GULL  population.  Only two GREAT 
EGRETS were seen at Cane Ridge.  Pictures of the Bald Eagles have been 
posted on flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jyharris

Yvonne Harris

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Subject: Ewing Bottoms Sandhill Crane
From: Dan Kaiser <dhkaiser AT SPRYNET.COM>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:46:30 -0500
Stopped by the Ewing bottoms, just outside of Brownstown, this evening
at sunset.  I thought the north winds may have brought something in and
they had.  800+ sandhill were seen, many near Ewing road, also known as
slab road.  Also had a nice surprise in a Great Horned Owl landing on a
telephone pole right in front of me, great looks!

Dan Kaiser
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Subject: Hawthorn Mine, Goose Pond, Beehunter
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:15:58 -0500
This morning Bob Dodd, John Eakin, Don Allen, Jim Mitchell and I 
ventured to Hawthorn, stopping at Beehunter on the way (and on the way 
back) and at Goose Pond 9/10/11 on the way home. An initially cloudy 
day with showers turned into a beautiful sunny day with a nice wind for 
raptors. The highlights:

Beehunter:
     Canada Goose - 18
     Mallard - 6
     Black Duck - 4
     Ring-necked Duck - 12
     Great Blue Heron - 3
     Sandhill Crane - 1 (in BH5N)
     Whooping Crane - 2 (in cornfield just W of Beehunter at 8:30 - they were
          not there later in the day)
     No. Harrier - 3 (2 imm, 1 male)
     Red-tailed Hawk - 2
     Savannah Sparrow - 6

Hawthorn Mine:
     Canada Goose - 35
     Gadwall - 4
     Mallard - 17
     Ring-necked Duck - 310
     Pied-billed Grebe - 13
     Great Blue Heron - 4
     Am. Coot - 11
     No. Harrier - 23 (6 males, 1 fem, 16 imm)
     Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
     Cooper's Hawk - 1
     Red-sh. Hawk - 1 (imm)
     Red-tailed Hawk - 9
     Rough-legged Hawk - 8 (1 dark adult fem, 7 light-phase imm)
     Am. Kestrel - 4
     No. Bobwhite - 12
     Killdeer - 2
     No Flicker - 15
     Tree Swallow - 56
     E. Bluebird - 4
     Am. Robin - 290 (huge flocks flying over)
     Am. Pipit - 25
     Cedar Waxwing - 16
     E. Towhee - 2
     Vesper Sparrow - 1
     Red-winged Blackbird - 250
     E. Meadowlark - 25
     Co. Grackle - 5000 (huge flocks)

Goose Pond 9/10/11:
     Canada Goose - 26
     Gadwall - 75
     Mallard - 50
     No. Shoveler - 2
     Ring-necked Duck - 35
     Great Egret - 3
     Great Blue Heron - 4
     Am. Coot - 110
     Pied-billed Grebe - 7
     No.Harrier - 3 (1 male, 2 imm)
     Red-sh. Hawk - 1
     Red-tailed Hawk - 5
     Bald Eagle - 8 (2 adult, 2 basic I or II, 4 juv)
     Tree Swallow - 35
     Savannah Sparrow - 8

Don Whitehead
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Subject: Lk. Lemon - BLSC
From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:15:56 -0500
This evening from the base of Shuffle Creek on Lake Lemon:

   -4 Mallards
   -2 Am. Black Ducks
   -9 Gadwall
   -3 Redheads - FOS
   -7 Ring-n. Ducks
   -1 BLACK SCOTER  (fem.) - with Ring-n. Ducks
   -36 Ruddy Ducks
   -12 Com. Loons
   -16 Pied-b. Grebes
   -12 Horned Grebes
   -260 Am. Coots
   -18 Bonaparte's Gulls
   -48 Ring-b. Gulls


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Jim & Susan Hengeveld
Unionville, IN

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Subject: GRAY CATBIRD
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:30:20 -0500
Got home from a fine trip to Hawthorn, Goose Pond, and Beehunter (will 
post later) and found a GRAY CATBIRD foraging under the spruce tree in 
our front yard.

Don Whitehead
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Subject: FW: eBird Report - Falls of the Ohio (IN) , 11/4/09
From: Ed Peter <e.peter AT INSIGHTBB.COM>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:17:24 -0500
Black Scoter was a life bird for me.  First time I have observed Wild
Turkeys at the Falls.

Location:     Falls of the Ohio (IN)
Observation date:     11/4/09
Notes:     Wild Turkeys were in a tree on Shipping Port Island.  Black
Scoter was on Ohio River above MacAlpine Dam.
Number of species:     21

Canada Goose     4
Mallard     4
Black Scoter     1
Wild Turkey     5
Double-crested Cormorant     32
Great Blue Heron     24
Ring-billed Gull     6
Rock Pigeon     14
Mourning Dove     16
Downy Woodpecker     1
Blue Jay     2
American Crow     4
Carolina Chickadee     2
Tufted Titmouse     2
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
American Robin     2
European Starling     12
Northern Cardinal     4
House Finch     2
American Goldfinch     2
House Sparrow     2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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Subject: Marian College Ecolab , 11/4/09
From: G L Chastain <glcbirds AT MSN.COM>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:32:15 -0500
The Wed am hike at Marian College Ecolab this morning found Rusty Blackbirds, 
Orange-crowned Warbler, and a Sharp-shinned Hawk. 


 

Gordon Chastain

Indianapolis
 
> 
> Location: Marian College Ecolab
> Observation date: 11/4/09
> Number of species: 24
> 
> Mallard 1
> Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
> Mourning Dove 2
> Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
> Downy Woodpecker 3
> Blue Jay 3
> American Crow X
> Carolina Chickadee 3
> White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 4
> Carolina Wren 3
> Winter Wren 1
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
> Eastern Bluebird 2
> American Robin 8
> European Starling 12
> Orange-crowned Warbler (celata) 1
> Eastern Towhee 1
> Song Sparrow 5
> White-throated Sparrow 1
> Dark-eyed Junco 4
> Northern Cardinal 3
> Rusty Blackbird 4
> Common Grackle 12
> American Goldfinch 30
> 
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Subject: Re: Hummingbird 10-17-09
From: "Allen T. Chartier" <amazilia1 AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:52:17 -0500
Brian,

This is the classic pose for a hummingbird in torpor. Thanks for posting!

Allen T. Chartier
amazilia1(at)comcast.net
Inkster, Michigan, USA

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Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Hummingbird 10-17-09


> http://www.flickr.com/photos/27643609 AT N07/4074175058/
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>
>
> This bird was observed in Rockville, IN - Parke Co.  It stayed motionless
> all evening and night long.  It took off sometime around 6am and was not
> seen again.
>
>
>
> Brian Taylor
>
> Evansville
>
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Subject: Hummingbird 10-17-09
From: Brian Taylor <brian.taylor AT PAR-RESEARCH.COM>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:45:55 -0600
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27643609 AT N07/4074175058/

 

This bird was observed in Rockville, IN - Parke Co.  It stayed motionless
all evening and night long.  It took off sometime around 6am and was not
seen again.

 

Brian Taylor

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Subject: Midwest Birding Symposium Audio Clips
From: WERNER KARL <karlwerner AT SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:21:35 -0800
I attended the symposium last Sept. in Lakeside Ohio. They now have the audio 
clips on-line from most of the speakers.  Obviously, you miss something by not 
being able to see the speaker or the slides used, but still it's a cheap and 
easy way to hear a lot of outstanding birding speakers. 


Here is the website

https://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/mwb/clips.php

Karl Werner

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Subject: Pigeon River & Steuben Co.
From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:39:04 EST
Art Dahl (visiting birder, Colorado) and I found 59 species, 55 in Indiana, 
 today at Pigeon River FWA, various locations in Steuben County, and the  
Kinderhook MI sewage ponds.  Waterfowl continue to be very scarce, but we  
came up with Rusty Blackbirds and the first Am. Tree Sparrow and Lapland  
Longspurs of the season.  Our Indiana list, at Pigeon R. unless  noted:
 
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Mallard
Hooded Merganser 2
Red-breasted Merganser 1, Crooked L., Steuben
Pied-billed Grebe 8 (4 Pigeon R., 4 L. Gage)
Horned Grebe 7 Crooked L.
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk
Am. Coot 20 pond on SR 327 S of Orland
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Wilson's Snipe 4 Fawn R. Fish Hatchery
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Woodpecker:  Red-headed 2 Pokagon SP, Red-bellied, Downy, Hairy, N.  
Flicker, Pileated 2
Blue Jay
Am. Crow
Horned Lark Steuben Co.
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-br. Nuthatch
Brown Creeper 3
Golden-cr. Kinglet 1
Ruby-cr. Kinglet 1
E. Bluebird
Am. Robin
Eur. Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Sparrow:  Am. Tree 1, Fox 3, White-throated 2
Dark-eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur 2 with larks on Steuben Co. 300N just E of hwy 327
N. Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird 3
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch 2 Pigeon R., 1 Pokagon feeders
House Finch
Am. Goldfinch
House Sparrow
 
Jim Haw

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Subject: Lake Monroe (Fairfax, Paynetown)
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:04:53 -0500
This morning I visited both Fairfax and Paynetown on Lake Monroe - 
another gorgeous morning - no fog today. The highlights:

Fairfax:
    Common Loon - 14
    Pied-billed Grebe - 1
    Am. Coot - 5
    Ring-billed Gull - 42
    Bonaparte's Gull - 10
    Killdeer - 12
    Great Blue Heron - 2
    Turkey Vulture - 57
    BLACK VULTURE - 2
    Red-tailed Hawk - 1
    American Pipit - 2
    Dark-eyed Junco - 15

Paynetown:
    Canada Goose - 66
    Lesser Scaup - 45
    Am. Coot - 26
    Common Loon - 5
    Ring-billed Gull - 10
    Bonaparte's Gull - 2
    Great Blue Heron - 2
    Turkey Vulture - 17
    Am. Robin - 15
    Dark-eyed Junco - 12

Our Yard:
    Cooper's Hawk - 1 (imm fem)
    E. Towhee - 2
    Chipping Sparrow - 2
    White-thr. Sparrow - 6
    Dark-eyed Junco - 14

Don Whitehead
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Subject: Eagle Marsh, Ft Wayne
From: zzedpowers AT AOL.COM
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:04:04 -0500
I visited Eagle Marsh this afternoon. Waterfowl variety continues to 
disappoint, though the American Coot count set a Marsh record. Also notable was 
a WINTER WREN and Eagle Marshes first November record (!) of Red-winged 
Blackbird. 


Mute Swan     3
Mallard     140
Pied-billed Grebe     5
Great Blue Heron     2
American Coot     330
Blue Jay     1
Winter Wren     1
Eastern Bluebird     1
European Starling     100
Song Sparrow     4
White-crowned Sparrow     2
Red-winged Blackbird     35
American Goldfinch     2

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Subject: Red breasted Nuthatch
From: Russell Allison <grounds11 AT VERIZON.NET>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:51:19 -0500
 I had my first of the season Red breasted Nuthatch  at 4:00pm today. 

Also at feeders:

American Goldfinch-21-they love those cloth hanging feeders!!

Tufted Titmouse-2

Carolina Chickadee-2

House Sparrow-5

House Finch-7

I filled all my feeders, suet, water, rubbed one suet cake on my White Pine
tree bark, Filled all of my Thistle feeder bags with new seed. I am feeding
Black oil Sunflower seed, Safflower, Thistle seed and suet. Fresh water in
four areas. 

The Cornell feeder Watch begins on Nov. 14 for me. 

The Indiana Audubon Winter Bird feeder count starts on Nov. 20

The Operation Migration group of  (20) Whooping Cranes went 45 miles today.
A total of 95 miles so far on the way to Florida. 

 BRING ON THE WINTER!          

Good birding 

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Subject: Birding in Gibson County
From: Vicky Whitaker <hostas4u AT VERIZON.NET>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:34:47 -0500
11-3-09

1 Dark-Eyed junco (fos)

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Subject: Wild turkey
From: Spring Ryding <smelryd AT BLUEMARBLE.NET>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:09:22 -0500
I saw a wild turkey on my way home from work this afternoon.

It was in the grass to the west of the road along South Old State Road 
37 across the road from the business with all the trucks just past 
(while heading south) the sharp curve after crossing Highway 37.

I had no idea wild turkeys were so big and colorful.

Spring

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Subject: Posey Co.: Hovey Lake FWA, Twins Swamps Preserve
From: Charles Crawford <cr4d AT INSIGHTBB.COM>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:24:28 -0600
Posey County, extreme SW Indiana


Location:     Hovey Lake FWA
Observation date:     11/3/09

Notes: Hovey Lake lake and dikes will be closed for duck hunting  
beginning 11/23/09

Number of species:     38

Hooded Merganser     2
Pied-billed Grebe     3
Double-crested Cormorant     750
Great Blue Heron     4
Great Egret     24
Turkey Vulture     15
Bald Eagle     2
Sharp-shinned Hawk     1
Ring-billed Gull     5
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     5
Downy Woodpecker     5
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     3
Blue Jay     10
American Crow     700     Mass of crows in a corn field
Tree Swallow     500
Carolina Chickadee     3
Tufted Titmouse     5
White-breasted Nuthatch     3
Brown Creeper     1
Carolina Wren     1
Winter Wren     2
Marsh Wren     1     Photos
Golden-crowned Kinglet     1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     1
Eastern Bluebird     12
European Starling     50
Yellow-rumped Warbler     1
Song Sparrow     5
Swamp Sparrow     8
White-throated Sparrow     10
Dark-eyed Junco     1
Northern Cardinal     1
Red-winged Blackbird     500
Eastern Meadowlark     1
Common Grackle     100
American Goldfinch     11



Location:     Twin Swamps Nature Preserve
Observation date:     11/3/09

Twin Swamps will not be closed for visits, but....Deer hunting will  
occur on the Nature Preserve from 11/14 to 11/29 and 12/5 to 12/20.

Number of species:     24

Turkey Vulture     7
Red-headed Woodpecker     12
Red-bellied Woodpecker     5
Downy Woodpecker     5
Northern Flicker     7
Pileated Woodpecker     2
Blue Jay     3
American Crow     11
Carolina Chickadee     5
Tufted Titmouse     10
White-breasted Nuthatch     12
Brown Creeper     3
Carolina Wren     2
Golden-crowned Kinglet     6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     2
Yellow-rumped Warbler     2
Eastern Towhee     4
Field Sparrow     3
Song Sparrow     4
Swamp Sparrow     6
White-throated Sparrow     11
White-crowned Sparrow     9
Northern Cardinal     2
Common Grackle     150

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Charlie Crawford
Henderson KY



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Subject: Eagle Creek Park - 11/2 and 11/3
From: Steve Pancol <s.pancol AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:38:39 -0500
Eagle Creek Park - Coffer Dam - west channel

11/2
Two Peregrine Falcons were on the island to the southwest
of the handicapped parking area. One was taking a bubble bath
in the west channel while the other falcon was perched on the
horizontal dead tree on the island. This is close to where the
gull roost was before rain took away the mudflats. I assume these
are the Peregrines which nest downtown. I zoomed in with my
Swarovski and saw bands on both legs on one of them. The bands
flashed red on both. I could not detect any other colors. Too far away.
After bathing, the Peregrine stooped on the Ring-billed Gulls
multiple times.

11/3
2      Dunlin
1      Greater Yellowlegs
1     Bonaparte's Gull
many Ring-billed Gulls


-- 
Steve Pancol
Anderson,Indiana
Madison County
Website:http://stevepancol.com
New photos on Bird Alerts page

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Subject: Goose Pond FWA waterfowl count Nov 3 2009
From: "Brittain, Ross Alan" <rabritta AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:35:01 -0500
Hello All,
Lee had some pressing engagements today so was unable to conduct the 
weekly waterfowl count at Goose Pond FWA for 11/3/2009. So I helped 
Brad Feaster do the count in his stead... "Lee Light" if you will. The 
first part is the official waterfowl count and the last bit is a list 
of incidental birds seen during the count time (6:45 - 9:00am) and 
birds seen after the count time. There were no real surprises and the 
Ibis seen by Dennis Workman over the weekend was not seen by us today. 
Interestingly, the Great Egrets have abandoned the Main Pools and were 
all seen in the vicinity of GP11S where they are replacing the culvert 
to the parking area. The only mud flats were also in GP11S, which is 
where the GRYEs were seen.

GPFWA Weekly Waterfowl Count:
Beehunter Marsh:
Wood Duck - 14
Mallard - 34
Green-winged Teal - 7
Canada Goose - 12

GP 1 & 2:
Wood Duck - 87
Mallard - 32
Canada Goose - 8

Main Pool West:
Canada Goose - 97
Wood Duck - 14
Mallard - 114
American Coot - 559 (conservative, the vegetation hid many more, no doubt)
Northern Pintail - 8
Pied-billed Grebe - 20
Redhead - 11
Ring-necked Duck - 58
Gadwall - 39
Green-winged Teal - 80
American Wigeon - 11
Northern Shoveler - 2
Double-crested Cormorant - 1 (yes, just one!)


Non-waterfowl incidentally seen/heard during the count time at Goose Pond:
Red-winged Blackird - 2000+ (at least 5 were advertising males)
Other Icterid sp. - 5000+ (mixed flocks of mostly grackles with at 
least some Brewer's Blackbirds heard twice)
Song Sparrow - 3
White-throated Sparrow - 2
Killdeer - 2
American Goldfinch - 22
Tree Swallow - 1000+
Northern Harrier - 6
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Great Blue Heron - 61
Bald Eagle - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 5
Eastern Meadowlark - 14

Birds seen outside of the count time:
GP9:
Gadwall - 63
Mallard - 11
Canada Goose - 31
American Coot - 56
Bald Eagle - 2
Great Egret - 1

GP11S (walking the dike along GP10N):
Greater Yellowlegs - 9
Great Egret - 11
American Pipit - 1 (flyover)
Swamp Sparrow - 3
Field Sparrow - 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Bald Eagle - 5
Northern Harrier - 4

Other taxa:
Butterflies seen:
American Lady - 1
Orange Sulphur - 1
Cabbage White - 1

Seasonally confused frogs:
spring peeper - 1
chorus frog - 5
southern leopard frog - 2

Happy Birding,
Ross Brittain
Greenwood, IN

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Subject: Unknown photographer
From: Richard Patterson <rpatters AT MATH.IUPUI.EDU>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:56:23 -0500
There is a nice picture of a Hairy and a Downy Woodpecker together
that was posted on flickr by destabee. Would this person please
contact me? Or if you know who this is could you put me in touch?

Dick Patterson
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Subject: Christmas and Winter Feeder Count Information
From: Richard Patterson <rpatters AT MATH.IUPUI.EDU>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:53:26 -0500
Information and dates for Christmas Counts in Indiana and also Winter
Feeder Count Forms can be found on the website of the Indiana Audubon
Society, www.indianaaudubon.org under Activities.

Some dates are not known yet, but will be posted as soon as I receive
the information.

Dick Patterson
Marion County

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Subject: Eastern Screech Owl
From: Spring Ryding <smelryd AT BLUEMARBLE.NET>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:41:09 -0500
Last night (Sunday night) Dad and I walked in the moonlight from about 7 
- 9 p.m. at Jackson-Washington State Forest in the area around Knob 
Lake.  We walked only the paved roadways.  Clear skies and full moon or 
about full.  Very still.  Temperature at 7 p.m. was about 60-65 degrees. 
  Had dropped significantly by 9:00 p.m., possibly down into the 40's. 
About 8:30-8:45 p.m., I heard an owl.  The bird was more easily heard 
farther from the lake in the general vicinity of the picnic pavilions 
where I couldn't even see the lake.  I have spent quite some time today 
listening to owl calls and have identified it as an Eastern Screech Owl.

Spring

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Subject: Birding in Gibson County
From: Vicky Whitaker <hostas4u AT VERIZON.NET>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:36:52 -0500
Didn't have alot of time today, but late this afternoon was able to walk part 
of 

property.

3 Northern Cardinals

1 Fox Sparrow (fos)

100+ Starlings

10+ Blue Jays

3 White-Throated Sparrows

10+ American Robins

1 Turkey Vulture, see everyday early afternoon

Also the last 3 days have been seeing a small hawk I think is a Coopers.

Great Birding to all
Vicky Whitaker

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Subject: Birding Report 11/2/09
From: Ed Peter <e.peter AT INSIGHTBB.COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:41:17 -0500
Beautiful day for birding.  Birding was better at home than at Mt Saint
Francis.  Blue Jays loved the peanuts (in shell) I put in my feeder tray,
they ate a pint of peanuts in under 15 minutes.  The Pileated Woodpecker
came to the my feeder tray which surprised me as it is less than ten feet
from my house.

Location:     Home - Floyds Knobs, IN
Observation date:     11/2/09
Number of species:     21

Canada Goose     14
Mourning Dove     6
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Downy Woodpecker     2
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Blue Jay     5
American Crow     5
Carolina Chickadee     4
Tufted Titmouse     8
White-breasted Nuthatch     2
Carolina Wren     1
American Robin     20
European Starling     4
Cedar Waxwing     6
White-throated Sparrow     2
Dark-eyed Junco     2
Northern Cardinal     7
Red-winged Blackbird     6
House Finch     4
American Goldfinch     11

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Location:     Mt Saint Francis, IN
Observation date:     11/2/09
Number of species:     17

Turkey Vulture     1
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Killdeer     2
Ring-billed Gull     1
Mourning Dove     3
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Blue Jay     4
American Crow     3
Carolina Chickadee     2
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
American Robin     2
Field Sparrow     2
White-throated Sparrow     1
Dark-eyed Junco     4
Northern Cardinal     2
Red-winged Blackbird     60
American Goldfinch     3

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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Subject: Re: Odd Cooper's Hawk behavior
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:01:23 -0800
 
Tom Leggett said: "Regarding Liz's Cooper's Hawk...".
 
Actually, it was my Cooper's Hawk. Let me give some context as to why I thought 
it was odd behavior for a Cooper's Hawk. My suburban neighborhood has had quite 
a few Cooper's over the past several years. There are plentiful perches, both 
natural and manmade. Lots of tree branches, fences, and wooden posts. The other 
Cooper's Hawks have used these perches regularly. 

 
But this Cooper's sits on the flat roofs of parked cars as it hunts, which is 
different. I'm thinking of calling it "Mustang Cooper". :-) 

 
Bernie Sloan
Bloomington

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From: Tom Leggett 
Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Odd Cooper's Hawk behavior
To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 7:15 PM


Regarding Liz's Cooper's Hawk I concur with Matt that he was simple there.
As in Glenview in kentwood by Grand Rapids another surbarban area they seem to 
do well, last winter I had 2 often come to feeder in same day, a male and 
female. This year a female is visiting. When I lived in Indiana would have at 
least one every year. It seems they are increasing with the City life! Also 
House Sparrows and Starlings and Mourning Doves are they perferred target, so 
maybe premium bird seeds that cut down on these types may not be good for the 
feeder birds that we perfer. 

 
Happy Birding! I do miss my weekly Indiana birding!
Tom Leggett
Kentwood,Michigan(Formerly Argos,In)
 
 

--- On Mon, 11/2/09, Matthew Enos  wrote:


From: Matthew Enos 
Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Odd Cooper's Hawk behavior
To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 6:07 PM


Regarding Liz's question, the answer might be simply "because it is there." 
Here in Glenview Coopers hunt suburban neighborhoods and perch where they can 
see and dive at sparrows and feeders (one snatched a Goldfinch from our sock 
feeder recently). Across the street I saw a Coopers perch on the overhead light 
rack of a pick-up truck, the better to spot sparrows in the shrubbery. "Our" 
Coopers, a juvenile bird that comes around regularly, hops on and around 
sculpted bushes trying to flush out the terrified sparrows hiding inside. I 
have seen it jump down and run around a bush trying to get at the sparrows. I 
think it also hunts from the top of our roof. Somewhere recently I read that 
Coopers are increasing. Suburban life is pretty good! P.S. To qualify as 
superstitious learning, something should be truly unrelated to achieving the 
positive consequence -- e.g., the "lucky" socks star basketball player Pete 
Maravich refused to wash. 

Matt Enos
matthewenos AT mac.com
319 Crescent Drive
Glenview, IL 60025
847-983-0746
847-373-8908 Cell Phone

On Oct 26, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Liz Day wrote:

> >Over the last few weeks I've often encountered a large Cooper's Hawk
> >perched on top of parked cars. The bird seems to be using the cars as
> >a hunting platform..... This seemed a little odd to me.
> 
> Never heard of that, but they do have to learn a lot of their hunting 
technique, so maybe one day he sat on a car, got a chipmunk, and decided to 
keep sitting on cars....  animal behaviorists call this "superstitious 
learning".   Possible? 

> 
> Liz
> Indy
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Subject: Townsend's Solitaire - NO
From: Canyon Wren <canyonwren AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:30:29 -0600
A visit to West Beach this afternoon failed to yield the Townsend's Solitaire. 
We searched for the bird in the area where it was last seen for more than an 
hour beginning at about 3:20pm. 


Other species observed at West Beach included:
DE Junco  40
Ea Bluebird 2 (M)
Blue Jays (4)
Am Crow (8)
Red-tailed Hawk
Belted Kingfisher (Long Lake)
Hooded Mergansers 8 (Long Lake)
Pied-billed Grebes (2) (Long Lake)
Am Coot (60) (Long Lake)



Lynea Hinchman
Michigan City, Indiana
Heart of the Indiana Dunes
CanyonWrenatComcastdotnet
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canyon_wren 
 
"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
 

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Subject: Lk. Lemon - 11/1
From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:02:01 -0500
Birds that were on the lake yesterday included:

   -1 GR. WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE (heard overhead at the base of Shuffle  
Ck.)
   -1 Common Loon
  -29 Pied-b. Grebes
  -1 (juv.) DC Cormorant -- the banded bird
  ~110 Am. Coots
  -1 Gr. Yellowlegs
  -1 (1st-cycle) Herring Gull
  -21 Ring-b. Gulls
  -4 Bonaparte's Gulls



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Subject: Pipits
From: David Crouch <david AT PROGRADE.NET>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:56:31 -0500
While exploring Crane habitat conditions in the Ewing bottoms on  
Saturday I had my FOS American Pipits in a couple of the few harvested  
fields along Jackson County Road 300N. For the records:

American Pipit		-20	Flocks of 12 and 8 foraging on edges of wet fields.
Northern Harrier	-1	An especially colorful Juvenile.
American Kestrel	-3	All three hunting and two were successful. 		
American Crow	-11	All congregated in one field.
Eastern Meadowlark-3


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Seymour

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Subject: Winter Wren in Elkhart
From: Trice Berkley <Cellistharpsichordist AT YAHOO.CA>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:40:37 -0500
While walking the whippet in the alley between Maple Row and Laurel on
Elkhart's west side this morning, John Davis saw a small brown wren with a
very short and erect tail (about7am).  

When we left for work and hour later, it was still there and gave us a great
view of a Winter Wren.  It was hanging around the thick brush, honeysuckle
and Virginia creeper vines behind our neighbor's house.  Hopefully it will
hang around a few days.  Haven't seen one in northern Indiana for quite some
time.

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Subject: Re: Odd Cooper's Hawk behavior
From: Tom Leggett <tom_leggett2001 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:15:51 -0800
Regarding Liz's Cooper's Hawk I concur with Matt that he was simple there.
As in Glenview in kentwood by Grand Rapids another surbarban area they seem to 
do well, last winter I had 2 often come to feeder in same day, a male and 
female. This year a female is visiting. When I lived in Indiana would have at 
least one every year. It seems they are increasing with the City life! Also 
House Sparrows and Starlings and Mourning Doves are they perferred target, so 
maybe premium bird seeds that cut down on these types may not be good for the 
feeder birds that we perfer. 

 
Happy Birding! I do miss my weekly Indiana birding!
Tom Leggett
Kentwood,Michigan(Formerly Argos,In)
 
 

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From: Matthew Enos 
Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Odd Cooper's Hawk behavior
To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 6:07 PM


Regarding Liz's question, the answer might be simply "because it is there." 
Here in Glenview Coopers hunt suburban neighborhoods and perch where they can 
see and dive at sparrows and feeders (one snatched a Goldfinch from our sock 
feeder recently). Across the street I saw a Coopers perch on the overhead light 
rack of a pick-up truck, the better to spot sparrows in the shrubbery. "Our" 
Coopers, a juvenile bird that comes around regularly, hops on and around 
sculpted bushes trying to flush out the terrified sparrows hiding inside. I 
have seen it jump down and run around a bush trying to get at the sparrows. I 
think it also hunts from the top of our roof. Somewhere recently I read that 
Coopers are increasing. Suburban life is pretty good! P.S. To qualify as 
superstitious learning, something should be truly unrelated to achieving the 
positive consequence -- e.g., the "lucky" socks star basketball player Pete 
Maravich refused to wash. 

Matt Enos
matthewenos AT mac.com
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Glenview, IL 60025
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Liz Day wrote:

> >Over the last few weeks I've often encountered a large Cooper's Hawk
> >perched on top of parked cars. The bird seems to be using the cars as
> >a hunting platform..... This seemed a little odd to me.
> 
> Never heard of that, but they do have to learn a lot of their hunting 
technique, so maybe one day he sat on a car, got a chipmunk, and decided to 
keep sitting on cars....  animal behaviorists call this "superstitious 
learning".   Possible? 

> 
> Liz
> Indy
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Subject: Re: Odd Cooper's Hawk behavior
From: Matthew Enos <matthewenos AT MAC.COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:07:23 -0600
Regarding Liz's question, the answer might be simply "because it is  
there." Here in Glenview Coopers hunt suburban neighborhoods and  
perch where they can see and dive at sparrows and feeders (one  
snatched a Goldfinch from our sock feeder recently). Across the  
street I saw a Coopers perch on the overhead light rack of a pick-up  
truck, the better to spot sparrows in the shrubbery. "Our" Coopers, a  
juvenile bird that comes around regularly, hops on and around  
sculpted bushes trying to flush out the terrified sparrows hiding  
inside. I have seen it jump down and run around a bush trying to get  
at the sparrows. I think it also hunts from the top of our roof.  
Somewhere recently I read that Coopers are increasing. Suburban life  
is pretty good! P.S. To qualify as superstitious learning, something  
should be truly unrelated to achieving the positive consequence --  
e.g., the "lucky" socks star basketball player Pete Maravich refused  
to wash.
Matt Enos
matthewenos AT mac.com
319 Crescent Drive
Glenview, IL 60025
847-983-0746
847-373-8908 Cell Phone

On Oct 26, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Liz Day wrote:

> >Over the last few weeks I've often encountered a large Cooper's Hawk
> >perched on top of parked cars. The bird seems to be using the cars as
> >a hunting platform..... This seemed a little odd to me.
>
> Never heard of that, but they do have to learn a lot of their  
> hunting technique, so maybe one day he sat on a car, got a  
> chipmunk, and decided to keep sitting on cars....  animal  
> behaviorists call this "superstitious learning".   Possible?
>
> Liz
> Indy
>
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Subject: Lake Monroe
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:52:06 -0500
This morning I preceded Mike Clarke to Paynetown (saw him coming down 
446 as I was heading home!). I visited only Paynetown - fog was just 
lifting. The highlights:

     Common Loon - 14 (some taking off)
     RED-THROATED LOON - 1  (juv) - with 2 Common Loons fairly far out
          on a line with the tip of the Allen's Creek peninsula.
     Am. Coot - 35 (small raft far out to the W)
     Canada Goose - 16
     Mallard - 16
     Lesser Scaup - 4
     Ring-billed Gull - 27
     Bonaparte's Gull - 14
     Great Blue Heron - 4
     Red-tailed Hawk - 2
     Cooper's Hawk - 1 (imm)
     Turkey Vulture - 51
     No. Flicker - 5
     E. Bluebird - 6
     Am. Robin - 25
     Chipping Sparrow - 4

Don Whitehead
Bloomington
whitehea AT indiana.edu
     Dark-eyed Junco - 14

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Subject: IAS feeder count
From: "Castrale, John" <JCastrale AT DNR.IN.GOV>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:41:59 -0500
I will again be compiling the Indiana Audubon Society's Winter Feeder
Count.  If you would like to participate and need forms/instructions,
drop me an e-mail.

The first of 4 count periods is November 20-25.

John Castrale

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Subject: Lake Monroe
From: Mike Clarke <redeyegravy AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:03:58 -0500
This morning I made a trip to Paynetown, Cutright and Pine Grove on Lake
Monroe.  Very little on the lake and not very birdy overall.  Highlights
included a MERLIN flying over the ridge above the pumping station across
from Paynetown, my first sapsuckers and Hooded Merganser of the year and a
late NASHVILLE WARBLER at Cutright, and an AMERICAN WOODCOCK that I flushed
in the woods just above the boat ramp at Pine Grove.

Totals for the morning:

Location:     Paynetown SRA

Canada Goose     47
Mallard     8
Common Loon     2
Great Blue Heron     1
Turkey Vulture     29
Red-tailed Hawk     1
MERLIN    1
Killdeer     2
Bonaparte's Gull     1
Ring-billed Gull     9
Mourning Dove     13
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Downy Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     3
Blue Jay     2
American Crow     12
Horned Lark     2
Carolina Chickadee     1
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Carolina Wren     1
American Robin     4
European Starling     9
Yellow-rumped Warbler     1
Song Sparrow     2
Dark-eyed Junco     9
Northern Cardinal     1
Red-winged Blackbird     6
Common Grackle     22

Location:     Cutright SRA

Canada Goose     16
Ring-necked Duck     3
Hooded Merganser     1
Common Loon     1
Great Blue Heron     1
Turkey Vulture     42
Bald Eagle     2
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Bonaparte's Gull     7
Ring-billed Gull     4
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     2
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker     2
Pileated Woodpecker     1
American Crow     5
Horned Lark     1
Carolina Chickadee     2
Tufted Titmouse     1
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Carolina Wren     1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     1
American Robin     6
Cedar Waxwing     12
Nashville Warbler     1
Yellow-rumped Warbler     2
Field Sparrow     1  (had a large growth on top of its head)
Song Sparrow     2
Swamp Sparrow     2
White-throated Sparrow     5
Dark-eyed Junco     15
Northern Cardinal     2
Brown-headed Cowbird     2
American Goldfinch     4

Location:     Pine Grove


Great Blue Heron     1
Turkey Vulture     13
Bald Eagle     2
American Woodcock     1
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-headed Woodpecker     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Northern Flicker     2
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Blue Jay     6
American Crow     7
Carolina Chickadee     1
Tufted Titmouse     2
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Carolina Wren     1
Golden-crowned Kinglet     1
American Robin     5
Cedar Waxwing     5
Yellow-rumped Warbler     1
Song Sparrow     3
White-throated Sparrow     2
Dark-eyed Junco     9

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

-Mike Clarke
Bloomington

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Subject: November Pewees at Pine Creek GHA
From: Ed Hopkins <birder4in AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:07:36 -0500
  I looked in Brock’s Birds of Indiana and saw only one November
record of Eastern Wood-Pewee (EAWP). Therefore, I will describe the
two EAWPs that I saw on 1 November 2009 at Pine Creek Gamebird Habitat
Area in NE Benton County.
  About 11:10 AM, I noticed a dark olive flycatcher in some young
saplings near a grove of larger trees along Big Pine Creek.  I,
almost, didn’t follow up and planned to call it an Eastern Phoebe, but
it looked rather small.  As I got closer, I noticed that the basal
third of the lower mandible was yellow.  It had no eye ring.  The
head, back, wings and tail were a dark olive.  The rump was a brownish
olive.  The under parts were an off white.  The wing bars were white,
as well as, the trailing edge of the tertials.  It had a slight crest
on the rear portion of the crown.
  It, eventually, flew northward toward a line of trees that were
connected to a block of privately owned woodlands.  It interacted with
another bird, which turned out to be a second EAWP.
  The second pewee was an obvious immature bird.  It had a darker
breast.  It had brownish-white wing-bars with no noticeable light
streaks on the tertials.  It had yellow on the basal two thirds of the
lower mandible.  On one occasion, it landed above me within eight
feet.  When I was leaving, the second bird flew over to a tree and
joined the first.  Both EAWPs were quiet.  Even though it had frosted
the previous night, both birds were insect catching on the sunny edge
of woodlands.
  I had carried a camera earlier in the morning searching for sparrows
in the Feldt Marsh, but the bird action was low.  I neglected to have
it with me when I found these birds.

====
Ed Hopkins
W Lafayette, IN

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Subject: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - NO
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:40:29 -0800
Looks like Scissor-tailed Flycatcher season is officially over. I spent two 
hours out on the IU XC course this morning checking out every possible roost 
tree, and checking out the bird's favorite roosts multiple times. No luck. That 
makes 24 hours with no sightings. 


But there WAS a dead leaf in the bird's favorite tree that was cruelly 
impersonating the flycatcher from a distance. :-) 


The morning wasn't a complete loss. I encountered a few American Pipits. BIGBY 
species #178 for the year. 


Bernie Sloan
Bloomington



      

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Subject: GPFWA Ibis sp and Cattle Egret
From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:30:13 -0500
Goose Pond FWA Property Manager Brad Feaster writes to report that  
Dennis Workman observed the PLEGADIS IBIS sp again in the south end  
of Main Pool West on Saturday October 31.

Details on the location in MPW are the same as in my previous posting  
about the ibis.

Also on Saturday October 31 Dennis saw 1 CATTLE EGRET in the south  
end of Main Pool West.  Brad's email put the Cattle Egret out in MPW  
and about halfway between the double ditches peninsula and the Brewer  
Ditch levee at the far south end.  There are some trees for roosting  
or perching out there.

--Lee Sterrenburg
Bloomington

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Subject: West Beach Solitaire
From: Clint Maddox <clint.maddox AT AIRHOP.COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:28:18 -0500
Hello Birders,

Dana & I spent the weekend birding the lakefront , and while at Miller
Beach Sat. afternoon were told about the Townsend's Solitaire. We looked
for it Sat. with no luck, but did find it Sunday morning about 11:30. It
was behind (north) of the restrooms along the blacktop trail to the
beach. It was eating juniper berries in the tree just up the hill from
the fence. It also spent some time in the Oaks directly behind the
restrooms as well as the cottonwoods on the east side by the wet area.

 

Good birding & good luck,

Clint & Dana Maddox

W.P.C.


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Subject: Lakeshore supplement, 31 Oct 2009
From: "Dunning, John B" <jdunning AT PURDUE.EDU>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:40:14 -0500
Eleven members of the Sycamore Audubon Society and Purdue chapter of The 
Wildlife Society worked the lakeshore on Saturday from Michigan City Harbor 
through West Beach. We recorded many of the same species reported earlier by 
Ken Brock et al., with some differences. We also stopped at Jasper-Pulaski to 
see the cranes both at daybreak and in the afternoon. Clearly, the bulk of the 
cranes have not arrived yet. 


Highlights:

Jasper-Pulaski State Management Area, daybreak
Sandhill Crane          AT 2000


Michigan City Harbor (very strong winds in early AM, some duck flocks were 
blown relatively close to shore. We didn't ID the bulk of the waterfowl moving 
further out) 


Mallard                           27
Northern Shoveler      5
Black Scoter                   4
Surf Scoter                    3
Scoter species          20
LONG-TAILED DUCK     3   (flying by with 4 of the unIDed scoters)
Common Loon            1
Peregrine Falcon   1 (carrying a small waterbird probably a Green-winged Teal)


Beverly Shores (11 AM, winds much reduced, again IDs mostly of the close flying 
flocks) 


Mallard                                15
Green-winged Teal         2
Lesser Scaup                       30
Peregrine Falcon              1

Indiana Dunes State Park (feeders)
Purple Finch                         3
Dark-eyed Junco                 3
White-throated Sparrow    2

Long Lake
Mallard                   5
Green-winged Teal    5
Ring-necked Duck      55
Pied-billed Grebe   1
Greater Yellowlegs    6

West Beach (looked for the solitaire, but winds were strong again and no luck) 


Horned Grebe                     3
Lesser Scaup                    AT 300
Red-breasted Merganser   15

Jasper-Pulaski    (4-5 PM)
Sandhill Crane                450


Barny
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Subject: Townsend's Solitaire
From: Canyon Wren <canyonwren AT COMCAST.NET>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:09:35 -0600
Hi All,
If anyone has or does re-find the Townsend's Solitaire since Bob Huguenard last 
looked for it on Sunday at 10:15PM, please let me know. You may reach me at my 
day time phone number in my signature below. 


A visiting birder needs this species for a Lifer and would like to see it while 
here on Monday or Tuesday providing it is re-found. 


Thanks much,
Lynea


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Michigan City, Indiana
Daytime after 9AM: 219/879-0686
Heart of the Indiana Dunes
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Subject: Suday:West Beach Townsend's Solitaire...no Cattle Egret yes
From: Bob Huguenard <roberthuguenard AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:58:42 -0500
Hi,

 

  I cruised up to West Beach to try for the Townsend's yesterday morning.  I
was there from 7:15 - 10:15 local time.  At about 8:00 I walked to the beach
house and got 2 Western Grebes fishing and drifting slowly east to west.
When I returned up the hill to the Juniper trees, a few other birders had
arrived. No sign of the Solitaire, but we did have a few interesting birds.
Had a juvie Cooper's being chased by a Peregrine.  (Which might explain the
lack of the Townsend's) I spoke to another birder from Michigan for a while
(Allison, a Berrien County Birder). She walked down to the beach house a
little later and got a Cattle Egret perched atop the beach house. It then
flew to a nearby tree. She came back and alerted me and we both got good
scope looks. It took off and flew towards Long Lake, not relocated. (Allison
also had a Great Black Backed Gull.)

 

 Other birds noted:

Eastern Meadowlark - 1 Flyover off the lake

Red Shouldered Hawk - 1 Hunting the parking area as I arrived.

Purple Finch - 2

Goldfinch - 17

Juncos- everywhere

N. Cardinal - 3

Blue Jay - 5

White Throated Sparrow - 2

A. Robin- 3 

A. Crows - 12

E. bluebird - 4 Parking area

House Finch - 5

 

Bob

 

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Subject: Elkhart Co. Le Conte's, Lincoln's, & Fox Sparrows
From: Leland Shaum <sleepyck AT MAPLENET.NET>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:05:29 -0500
Today I found a Le Conte's Sparrow at my house. Dan Stolzfus came over and we 
were able to refind the bird and get great looks of it and some photos. We also 
found a rather late Lincoln's Sparrow and a Fox Sparrow. Dan may post a 
complete list and photos later. 


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Subject: Close Encounter of Avian Kind
From: Greg Oskay <oskay13 AT NETSCAPE.NET>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:26:48 -0500
Shortly after we arrived at our Parke County farm on Saturday afternoon I
walked past our feeder and noticed a Red-breasted Nuthatch searching for
crumbs in the empty seed hopper.  I grabbed some seed to refill the feeder
and as I neared the feeder the little Nuthatch stayed put.  I took a hand
full of sunflower seed and held it out toward it and it looked interested. 
I slowly approached and when my hand was about 2 inches from it, it grabbed
a seed and flew off to a nearby tree.

I have never had a wild bird eat out of my hand before.  Since it was a
Red-breasted Nuthatch made the experience that much more special.

Sunday afternoon we had 8 Purple Finches at the feeder.  4 male and 4
female/imm. 

Greg Oskay
Indianapolis

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Subject: FW: eBird Report - Charlestown SP , 11/1/09
From: Ed Peter <e.peter AT INSIGHTBB.COM>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:19:59 -0500
Beautiful day for birding!  Day started out with an American Kestrel perched
about ten feet outside one of my sunroom windows.  What a beautiful bird.
There were robins all over the north end of Charlestown SP, 125 is probably
a very conservative estimate.  Saw the Red-tailed hawk perched in a tree in
the southern part of the park. Another beautiful bird.

Location:     Charlestown SP
Observation date:     11/1/09
Number of species:     18

Black Vulture     2
Turkey Vulture     4
Red-tailed Hawk     1
American Kestrel     1
Mourning Dove     4
Red-headed Woodpecker     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Northern Flicker     2
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Blue Jay     8
American Crow     12
Carolina Chickadee     2
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
American Robin     125
Northern Mockingbird     1
White-throated Sparrow     10
Northern Cardinal     6
American Goldfinch     8

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Ed Peter
Floyds Knobs

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Subject: Zimmerman Wetlands - 110109
From: Jeff Riegel <jkriegel AT BIRDCOUNTRY.US>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:59:24 -0800
Ann Maxwell, Phil and Jo Kelly, and I birded the Bill Zimmerman  
Wetland Preserve at Stonehead (Brown County) today from about 10:00 to  
11:30 a.m. Numbers were considerably lower than in past trips there  
presumably due to our late start, thanks to some very vocal saw-whet  
owls at Yellowwood State Forest last night. Here's the list:

Turkey Vulture - 14
Red-shouldered Haw - 4
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Killdeer - 2
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 4
American Crow - 15
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Tufted Titmouse - 1
White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
Carolina Wren - 5
Eastern Bluebird - 2
Cedar Waxwing - 12
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
Eastern Towhee - 2
Field Sparrow - 12
Song Sparrow - 5
Swamp Sparrow - 8
White-throated Sparrow - 5
White-crowned Sparrow - 9
Northern Cardinal - 5
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 13

Jeff, Ann, Phil, and Jo
-- 
Jeff Riegel
PO Box 6194
Bloomington, IN  47407
812-275-5708
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Subject: Muscatatuck NWR
From: Tom and Colleen Becker <Cbirding AT AOL.COM>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:22:16 -0500
Location:     Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge
Observation date:     11/1/09
Notes: Would like to note that the Brewer's Blackbirds were flying over and 
Colleen noticed a call note different than that of Red-winged Blackbirds and 
immediately whipped out the Ipod and deduced they were in fact, Brewer's. 
As a side note: Many of the crops have been harvested in Ewing Bottoms and 
as expected lots of standing water. Conditions appear good for the 
anticipated visit of Sandhills, etc.... 3 Northern Harriers, 2 Red-tailed Hawks 

and 2 American Kestrel were the only birds of interest.

Number of species:     41

Canada Goose     87
Wood Duck     4
American Black Duck     2
Mallard     39
Blue-winged Teal     14
Northern Shoveler     2
Green-winged Teal     36
Ring-necked Duck     10
Hooded Merganser     1
Pied-billed Grebe     67
Great Blue Heron     3
Great Egret     1
American Coot     53
Killdeer     11
Wilson's Snipe     8
Mourning Dove     6
Red-bellied Woodpecker     3
Downy Woodpecker     2
Northern Flicker     4
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Blue Jay     5
American Crow     12
Carolina Chickadee     5
Tufted Titmouse     7
White-breasted Nuthatch     5
Carolina Wren     3
Eastern Bluebird     7
American Robin     5
Cedar Waxwing     7
Eastern Towhee     2
Chipping Sparrow     2
Fox Sparrow     2
Song Sparrow     12
White-throated Sparrow     7
White-crowned Sparrow     1
Dark-eyed Junco     5
Northern Cardinal     7
Red-winged Blackbird     80
Brewer's Blackbird     23
Purple Finches     2
American Goldfinch     15


Tom and Colleen Becker
Floyd County

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Subject: Cental NW IN, Pewees, 11/1/09
From: Ed Hopkins <birder4in AT GMAIL.COM>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:55:27 -0500
Cental NW IN, 11/1/09
  I spent four hours or so at PCGHA.  I did some walking in the NE
section.  About 11:10 AM, I stumbled across an E Wood-Pewee along Big
Pine Creek.  I followed it around for awhile.  It, eventually, flew N
to the edge of a privately owned woodland where it joined a second
pewee.  This sighting is two weeks later than my previous latest
record.
  I was looking for sparrows, but their numbers seemed down.

Pine Creek Gamebird Hab. Area
Benton CR200N E of CR850E

Canada Goose,353
Wood Duck,1
Gadwall,5
Mallard,10
Green-winged Teal,10
Ring-necked Pheasant,6
Wild Turkey,1
Northern Harrier,1, Fem.
Red-tailed Hawk,3, adults
American Kestrel,1
American Coot,10
Killdeer,4
Mourning Dove,1
Red-bellied Woodpecker,1
Downy Woodpecker,1
Northern Flicker,2
Eastern Wood-Pewee,2
Blue Jay,4
American Crow,44
Horned Lark,4
Red-breasted Nuthatch,1
Brown Creeper,1
Golden-crowned Kinglet,7
Ruby-crowned Kinglet,3
Eastern Bluebird,1
American Robin,30
European Starling,18
American Pipit,48
Cedar Waxwing,47
Yellow-rumped Warbler,5
Eastern Towhee,1
Fox Sparrow,2
Song Sparrow,5
Swamp Sparrow,16
White-throated Sparrow,1
White-crowned Sparrow,20
Dark-eyed Junco,8
Lapland Longspur,32
Northern Cardinal,6
Red-winged Blackbird,510
Eastern Meadowlark,5
Common Grackle,25
Purple Finch,1
House Finch,6
American Goldfinch,13

Mulvey Pond
Tippecanoe CR500N at US231 N of Montmorenci

Ring-necked Duck,7
American Coot,4
Red-winged Blackbird,6
Brown-headed Cowbird,1

====
Ed Hopkins
W Lafayette, IN

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Subject: Celery Bog ,Hayes St. feeders
From: Russell Allison <grounds11 AT VERIZON.NET>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:14:17 -0500
I arrived at the Celery Bog at 9:30am. Temp.31 degrees , some frost. The
water contained Hundreds of American Coot. All weedy areas had many American
Goldfinch. 

Birds seen:

American Coot-500 est. 

Black Duck-1

Ring necked Duck-18

Gadwall-14

Canada Goose-20

Pied billed Grebe-12

Mallard-70+

Northern Shoveler-8

Mute Swan-3

Green winged Teal-3

Great blue Heron-10

Bald Eagle-1-Adult bird sailing West to East over Bog at 12:00 noon.

Red shouldered Hawk-1

Red tailed Hawk-1

American Crow-3

Northern Cardinal-3

Carolina Chickadee-8

House Finch-3

American Goldfinch-35+

Blue Jay-3

Dark eyed Junco-5

Golden crowned Kinglet-3

House Sparrow-9

European Starling-25

Tufted Titmouse-2

Yellow rumped Warbler-1

Mourning Dove-7

Northern Flicker-1

Downey Woodpecker-3

Red bellied Woodpecker-2

Hayes St feeders. Cornell Feeder watch starts in 2 weeks. 

Northern Cardinal-2

Carolina Chickadee-3

House Finch-5

American Goldfinch-16

Rose breasted Grosbeak-1- adult female has been coming to Sunflower feeder
for 3 weeks

Tufted Titmouse-2

Mourning Dove-2

White breasted Nuthatch-2

Red bellied Woodpecker--1

Downey Woodpecker-1

Good birding

Russ Allison, West Lafayette

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Subject: Downtown Indy - a Coot!
From: Don Gorney <dongorney AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:20:17 -0800
Radar showed very strong migration overnight through Indiana so I visited 
downtown Indianapolis early on November 1 to look for downed birds.  I found 15 
dead or injured birds.  I assume those out birding today will see an increase 
in bird numbers.  There is unlikely to be too many more big migration pushes 
like last night. 


Dead birds included:

Downy Woodpecker - 1, female (second one this weekend found dead)
Hermit Thrush - 1
Tennessee Warbler - 1
Ovenbird - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 4

Live, but injured, birds were:

AMERICAN COOT - 1, taken to rehabber, appears in decent shape
American Woodcock - 1, not doing well, 
Swamp Sparrow - 1, taken to rehabber, unlikely to live
Song Sparrow - 1, eluded capture

The coot was a surprise and I was concerned about being able to capture.  But, 
it turned out to be an easy catch.  Assume it was a building-strike (versus 
road-strike) since it was in the area with the worst building-strike problem 
and it was huddled next to the building.   


I also found a live bat which was taken to the rehabber.  Have no idea as to 
species (most look alike to me).  Wes Homoya found a live Silver-haired Bat 
(easy ID) this past week which I took to a rehabber.  The one I found today I 
believe is a building-strike due to location found.  Very active in my car and 
was very perky at the rehabber's.  




Don Gorney

Indianapolis, IN

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Subject: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher info (no sighting)
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:09:49 -0800
While over on the IU XC course this AM I got to wondering where your average 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher should be at this time of year. From my reading of 
BNA Online's fall migration info, while this poor guy is in Indiana dealing 
with freezing nighttime temps and frost, his buddies are living the good life 
in southern Mexico. 


Also, from reading BNA's account of the species' distribution, vagrant 
Scissor-tailed Flycatchers are less common in the fall than in the spring: "a 
rare but recurrent straggler throughout much of North America from s. British 
Columbia and Nova Scotia south, especially during spring; scarcer during fall". 


A quick look at Brock's Birds of Indiana indicates fewer than 20 records for 
the state. This morning's sighting would constitute a new Indiana record late 
date by one day. (Brock lists a late date of October 31, 1931). 


Finally, a couple of Horned Larks flew overhead while I was walking the 
northern section of the XC course to see if the flycatcher might have moved 
there. New BIGBY species for 2009, bringing my total up to 177! 


Bernie Sloan
Bloomington




      

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Subject: Scissor-tail; Red-thr. Loon
From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:11:40 -0500
This morning Betsy and I visited the IU Cross-country course to look 
for the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and then went to Paynetown and 
Cutright on Lake Monroe - an incredibly beautiful morning - with much 
of interest.

X-country course:
     Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
     Red-tailed Hawk - 1
     SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER - 1 (on same tree as yesterday)
     Cedar Waxwing - 250
     E. Bluebird - 8
     Am. Robin - 16

Paynetown (initially much fog, returned after visiting Cutright):
     Canada Goose - 65
     Mallard - 2
     Ring-necked Duck - 2
     Common Loon - 1 (flying)
     RED-THROATED LOON - 1 (JUVENILE) - relatively close to parking area
          for marina - about 300 yards offshore on a line to the Boy Scout
          camp on the S shore - close to 2 Ring-necked Ducks)
     Pied-billed Grebe - 3
     Ring-billed Gull - 3
     Bonaparte's Gull - 1
     Killdeer - 11
     Great Blue Heron - 3
     Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
     No. Harrier - 1 (imm)
     Cooper's Hawk - 1 (imm)
     Red-tailed Hawk - 1
     Red-sh. Hawk - 1
     Turkey Vulture - 66
     Am. Robin - 26 (feeding on honeysuckle and sumacs)
     Dark-eyed Junco - 25

Cutright:
     Canada Goose - 2
     No. Shoveler - 8
     Ruddy Duck - 1
     Am. Coot - 45
     Turkey Vulture - 76
     BLACK VULTURE - 3 (sitting in parking lot with Turkey Vultures)
     E. Phoebe - 1
     E. Towhee - 1
     White-thr. Sparrow - 19

Don Whitehead
Bloomington
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Subject: Re: Lakefront 31Oct09 Red Phal., T. Solitaire, Red X-bill
From: Jeff McCoy <jeffmccoy AT EMBARQMAIL.COM>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:03:31 -0400
Saturday 31 October, 2009

The waterfowl flight was so good in the morning that a few of us (John
Cassady, Jamie Claus, John Kendall, and Michael Topp) returned to Miller
Beach after a mid-day run to view the very cooperative TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE
at West Beach.  Much thanks to Jamie for calling me about this bird (#303
for the year - the RED CROSSBILL and RED PHALAROPE were 301 and 302).  It
was a lifer for most of Leland Shaum's large group of birders.

John Cassady and I then moved to Beverly Shores for a mid-afternoon
lakewatch and found the ducks still moving.

A check of the weather history for the day for Gary showed west winds 15-20
gusting to 35mph and a high of 48'F.

Miller Beach  (lakewatch 12:30-2:00pm) - All numbers are in addition to
Ken's previously reported tallies.
Gadwall 5
American Wigeon 3
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 60+
Blue-winged Teal 4
Northern Shoveler 15+
Northern Pintail 6
Green-winged Teal 13
Redhead 10+
Ring-necked Duck 25+
Greater Scaup 15+
Lesser Scaup 250+ (mostly in large rafts and milling about)
BLACK SCOTER 1 (scoters were notably absent today from the hordes of passing
divers)
Bufflehead 6
Hooded Merganser 3
Red-breasted Merganser 1 (also notable for its nearly complete absence)
Ruddy Duck 6 (a rare fly-by of this normally nocturnal migrant)
RED-THROATED LOON 3 (1ad swimming & 2 unaged fly-by's)
Horned Grebe 8 (21 total in 3 rafts, an increase from the 13 tallied
earlier)
Double-crested Cormorant 18
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 (ad)
American Coot 1
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER 1 (late)
Sanderling 1
Dunlin 75
Bonaparte's Gull 4

Beverly Shores (lakewatch 2:30-5:00pm from Tropical House restoration
site) -
Gadwall 9
American Wigeon 12
American Black Duck 3
Mallard 50+
Blue-winged Teal 2
Northern Shoveler 13
Green-winged Teal 4
Redhead 10+
Ring-necked Duck 35+
Greater Scaup 20+
Lesser Scaup 400+
SURF SCOTER 3
Bufflehead 4
Horned Grebe 8
Bonaparte's Gull 20 (all ad)

Note: They say that most birders under-estimate numbers when counting large
flocks and this was proven today.  I carefully counted by tens the number of
birds in our largest Dunlin flock of the day and arrived at 60 each of 5
times I counted them as the birds coursed back-and-forth along the beach.
John Kendall's photo showed 68 birds.

This summer when we estimated the Willet megaflock at Michigan City while in
flight over the lake we had 150-200, but when they landed a careful count
revealed 358 actual birds.

Good birding,
Jeff McCoy

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From: "Kenneth J. Brock" 
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Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:45 PM
Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Lakefront 31Oct09 Red Phal., T. Solitaire, Red X-bill


Today (31 October 09) Susan Bagby, Randy Pals, and I birded the
lakefront.

We began with a Miller Beach lakewatch, which was abruptly terminated
when a Jamie Claus called and reported that he was watching a
Townsend’s Solitaire at West Beach.  The lakewatch yielded the
season’s best duck movement plus Red Crossbill and Red Phalarope.
After West Beach my group headed for Beverly Shores; others returned
to Miller Beach and will post their results later.

HIGHLIGHTS

MILLER BEACH (lakewatch 7:00-11:00AM, 42degrees F, overcast, wind west
at 10-15.  We joined John Cassady, John Kendall, Jeff McCoy, Kevin
Nevers, Leland Shaum & his group, and Michael Topp.)
Wood Duck (26)
Gadwall (34)
Am. Wigeon (26)
Am. Black Duck (2)
Mallard (99)
N. Shoveler (210- this ties the lakefront’s 2nd highest count)
Blue-winged Teal (69- a most remarkable count for this late date)
Green-winged Teal (53)
Canvasback (1 female)
Redhead (45)
Greater Scaup (59)
Lesser Scaup (604)
Ring-necked Duck (80)
Bufflehead (8)
Hooded Merganser (5)
Red-breasted Merganser (1)
Ruddy Duck (20, in two flocks)
Red-throated Loon (2)
Common Loon (7)
Horned Grebe (13)
N. Harrier (1 adult male)
Am. Kestrel (1)
Killdeer (1)
Greater Yellowlegs (15- in a migrating flock)
Dunlin (2)
RED PHALAROPE (1 flyby ~ 400m out)
Sandhill Crane (2)
Bonaparte’s Gull (21- all adults except one)
E. Phoebe (1)
Horned Lark (2)
Carolina Wren (1 singing!)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (1)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (3)
E. Bluebird (4)
Hermit Thrush (1)
E. Towhee (1)
Am. Tree Sparrow (3)
White-throated Sparrow (6)
White-crowned Sparrow (2- 1st-cycle)
RED CROSSBILL (1- call female flyby)

WEST BEACH (met Jamie Claus)
Green-winged Teal (7 on Long Lake)
Greater Yellowlegs (8 on Long Lake)
TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE (1 adult- watch for great photos)

BEVERLY SHORES
Redhead (4)
Greater Scaup (3)
Lesser Scaup (80 aprox.)
Black Scoter (10 aprox.)
Bufflehead (8)
Red-breasted Merganser (4)
Greater Yellowlegs (1- calling flyby)
E. Phoebe (3)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1)
Hermit Thrush (7)
Field Sparrow (1)
Swamp Sparrow (2)
White-throated Sparrow (8)
White-crowned Sparrow (1- first-cycle)
Dark-eyed Junco (13)

Ken Brock
Chesterton, IN

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Subject: notes for the archives: Beverly Shores 24 Oct- 30 OCWA's
From: Jeff McCoy <jeffmccoy AT EMBARQMAIL.COM>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:58:28 -0400
Saturday 24 October, 2009

After birding with Ken Brock's group and getting my much sought-after
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at West Beach, I joined Brendan Grube at Beverly
Shores.  The large numbers of passerines evidenced at West Beach were also
present here, perhaps a mass grounding caused by overnight rains.

Brendan had been birding for here for several hours before I met up with him
and I continued birding here for an hour after he left.  We made a number of
quick stops at select locations all the way to Mt. Baldy, employing the
screech-owl tape at each stop.  Following are combined totals of the
highlights.

Beverly Shores:
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
EASTERN WOOD-PEEWEE 1 (ties latest record for northern tier)
Eastern Phoebe 12
BLUE-HEADED VIREO 7 (3rd highest lakefront and 5th highest state count)
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 7
Carolina Wren 2 (had not been seeing them since early spring)
Winter Wren 9
Golden-crowned Kinglet 47
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 43
Hermit Thrush 91 (3rd highest state count)
American Robin 60+
GRAY CATBIRD 5 (largest late fall count - post 15 Oct. - for lakefront)
BROWN THRASHER 1 (late)
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER 30 (State record count; Brendan had 23 and I had
12, some of them shared; state record prior to this year was 10 on 12
Oct, 2002, but last week Brendan had 18 on the lakefront 16 Oct. and 14 on
11 Oct.)
Nashville Warbler 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler 21
Palm Warbler 8
American Tree Sparrow 8
Chipping Sparrow 3
Field Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow 5
LINCOLN'S SPARROW 2 (late)
Swamp Sparrow 35+
White-throated Sparrow 180+
White-crowned Sparrow 35+
Dark-eyed Junco 45+
PURPLE FINCH 2

Good birding,
Jeff McCoy
Columbia City, Indiana
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Subject: Wabash Co. yardbirds: brown creepers
From: Lynnanne <leavesofthefall AT EMBARQMAIL.COM>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:03:03 -0500
The yard is abuzz with birds this morning (amazing what can happen when one 
decides to fill feeders, huh?!). Nothing much out of the usual to report, but 
my two brown creepers are back, a yellow-rumped warbler flew in, a male 
bluebird has now arrived, and my first junco just emerged from the neighboring 
cornfield. 


Lynnanne ~ southern Wabash Co.

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Subject: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - yes
From: Susan Hengeveld <shengeve AT INDIANA.EDU>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:40:31 -0500
Don Whitehead called to report that the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was  
being seen this morning between 8:00-8:30am.  There were a number of  
folks looking for it and it was seen in the original tree.

 From yesterday:
> From 10th & the 45/46 Bypass, go East on 10th / SR 45 to the first  
> stop light & go left on Range road.  At the first curve, continue  
> straight to the gravel road, through the gate (closes at 3:00 P.M.)  
> & go straight past where the road forks & has a curve to the right.   
> The road will force you to go left.  You can park at another locked  
> gate and search the field to the south.


You can park outside of the first gate and walk into the field also.
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1001 E. 3rd Street
Department of Biology
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405

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