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2 Sep Hillenbrand FWA Greene Co September 1 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 2 Sep Whip-poor-will ["Terri B. Greene" ] 2 Sep Goose Pond - Western Sandpiper [Kirk Roth ] 2 Sep 34 Common Nighthawk [Ray Troyer ] 1 Sep Beehunter, Goose Pond ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 1 Sep Goose Pond FWA waterfowl survey August 31 2010 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 1 Sep Wed. AM bird walk [Dan Stoltzfus ] 1 Sep black-throated blue warbler [Vince Gresham ] 1 Sep Franke Park [Jerry Brown ] 31 Aug new photos [Jeff Moore ] 31 Aug Madison Co. Buff-breasted Sanpiper and McCool Basin [John Kendall ] 31 Aug Montgomery Eurasian-Collared Doves [Amy Kearns ] 31 Aug Franke Park [] 31 Aug Goose Pond FWA Plegadis ibis August 31 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 31 Aug Little quakers [Bill Poindexter ] 31 Aug Fairfax area ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 30 Aug Swifts and Nighthawks [John Harley ] 30 Aug Fwd: Photos ["Kenneth J. Brock" ] 30 Aug Nighthawks [Sara Brink ] 30 Aug Goose Pond FWA Buff-breasted Sandpipers continue [Mike Clarke ] 30 Aug Lake Monroe ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 30 Aug New IOS Photo Quiz (no sightings) [Robert Hughes ] 29 Aug Warrick county birding trip. [Vicky Whitaker ] 29 Aug The Kearns Buff-breasted Sandpipers at Beehunter 5S 8-29-10 [] 29 Aug Celery Bog [Russell Allison ] 29 Aug 6 Buff-Breasted Sandpipers, Sanderling - Goose Pond FWA [Amy Kearns ] 29 Aug Eagle Creek Park, Sunday August 29, 2010 [John Ulmer ] 29 Aug Eastern Screech Owls & Mississippi Kite [Vicky Whitaker ] 29 Aug Limberlost Swamp [John Harley ] 29 Aug Least Terns [Mel Lodato ] 29 Aug Willow Slough FWA [Jed Hertz ] 29 Aug Limberlost shorebirds [] 29 Aug Fairfax - Buff-br. Sandpiper ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 29 Aug Heaton Lake Sandhills [Trice Berkley ] 29 Aug Fwd: [IN-BIRD-L] GPFWA Buff-breasted Sandpiper [Lee Sterrenburg ] 29 Aug GPFWA Buff-breasted Sandpiper [Lee Sterrenburg ] 28 Aug Lk. Lemon - 8/28 and prior [Jim Hengeveld ] 28 Aug Stillwater, North Fork ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 28 Aug Pigeon R. & MI: Least Bittern, R-n Phal [] 28 Aug NW Ind 28Aug10 Red Knot, Buff-br Sand., Ruby-crn Kinglet ["Kenneth J. Brock" ] 28 Aug Willow Slough FWA 8/27/10 [Jed Hertz ] 28 Aug Wakarusa shorebirds and swallows [Dan Stoltzfus ] 28 Aug Prophetstown SP , 8/28/10 ["Dunning, John B" ] 28 Aug lost sun glasses [Lee Sterrenburg ] 27 Aug N.W.Indiana - 8/27, Avocet, Knot, Turnstones [Michael Topp ] 27 Aug Lake Monroe ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 27 Aug Fox Island [] 27 Aug Pine Creek Gamebird Habitat Area , 8/27/10 ["Dunning, John B" ] 26 Aug Beehunter Marsh Unit BH5S August 25 afternoon [Lee Sterrenburg ] 26 Aug migrant warblers Morgan Co [Doug & Cheri Johnstone ] 26 Aug Chain O' Lakes State Park [] 26 Aug Blackpoll Warbler [Jerry Brown ] 26 Aug IOS Photo Quiz (no sightings) [Robert Hughes ] 26 Aug Summer Bird Counts [Amy Kearns ] 26 Aug SW Allen Thrushes- Aug 26 AM ["Rodger P. Rang" ] 25 Aug Beehunter, Goose Pond ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 25 Aug FW: eBird Report - Falls of the Ohio (IN) , 8/25/10 [Ed Peter ] 25 Aug Beehunter Marsh Baird's Sandpipers [Lee Sterrenburg ] 25 Aug Goose Pond FWA Waterfowl Survey Aug 24 1010 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 25 Aug Lakefront 25 Aug '10 ["Kenneth J. Brock" ] 25 Aug Dunes Area, 8/25/10 [Brad Bumgardner ] 25 Aug Eagle Marsh ducks, shorebirds [] 25 Aug Eagle Creek Tuesday Aug. 24th 2010 [Spike Selig ] 25 Aug Lake Monroe shorebirds, RUGR, OSFL [Mike Clarke ] 24 Aug Eagle Marsh, Ft Wayne [] 24 Aug Fairfax area ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 24 Aug Goose Pond FWA/Beehunter Marsh [Eric Ripma ] 24 Aug Limberlost shorebirds [] 24 Aug eBird Report - Marian College Ecolab , 8/24/10 [G L Chastain ] 24 Aug Case of the missing godwits ["Kenneth J. Brock" ] 23 Aug L. Shaum's photos [Dan Stoltzfus ] 23 Aug Flatwoods Park Henslow's and Dickcissels [Cathy Meyer ] 23 Aug yellow-throated vireo [Vince Gresham ] 23 Aug The IBA south of Waterford [Dan Stoltzfus ] 23 Aug Eagle Creek count Sunday Aug 22, 1010 [Spike Selig ] 23 Aug No Subject [Bill Poindexter ] Subject: Hillenbrand FWA Greene Co September 1 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:35:53 -0400 Yesterday evening (September 1 2010) I visited the grassland portion of Hillenbrand FWA in far western Greene County (the western edge of the property is on the Sullivan County line). I was there 6:50-8:55 PM. Sunset was 8:21 PM. The primary purpose of the trip to was to check out some recent prescribed burn areas in the grasslands. It was mainly a habitat tour. Conditions were very dry with drought continuing in western Greene County. Walking out the grasslands and along roads through them produced basically no lingering obligate grassland bird species. If there were any bird highlights, I guess it would be 3 BARRED OWLS vocalizing. Weather: a WSW front moved through just before I arrived, bringing wind, a few sprinkles, and thunder rumbling off to the north and south. Then the wind calmed down and by sunset water on the lakes was almost classy calm. Location: Hillenbrand FWA Observation date: 9/1/10 Notes: Grassland habitat inspection at Hillenbrand FWA Number of species: 17 duck sp unident 3 flew over at twilight, only seen going away, either Mallard or Wood Duck Green Heron 1 called at Moss Lake Greater Yellowlegs 1 called at Moss Lake Mourning Dove 5 Barred Owl 3 vocalizing at three widely separate locales, the first at 7:57 PM over 20 minutes before sunset Hairy Woodpecker 1 American Crow 6 Carolina Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Gray Catbird 4 European Starling 385 Cedar Waxwing 5 fly-catching over Moss Lake Tennessee Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 6 Blue Grosbeak 1 a male singing along a roadside Indigo Bunting 4 Common Grackle 2 American Goldfinch 21 at seeding plants in the grasslands, virtually the only species out in the grasslands This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Whip-poor-will From: "Terri B. Greene" <tgreene AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:20:04 -0400 I heard a Whip-poor-will this morning south of my house. 1 Whip-poor-will Terri Greene SW Monroe Co ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond - Western Sandpiper From: Kirk Roth <kirkleeroth AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:16:41 -0400 Yesterday evening (Sep 1) from around 6-6:30 I had a single Western Sandpiper at Goose Pond in the mudflats north of Tern Island. It appeared to be a 1st summer bird - fairly grayish, but still with brown intrusions. It and a couple of Least Sandpipers were the only peeps there. A front passed through last night, but if it is still there this individual had a pretty pronounced droop to the bill, was mostly grayish, and the small head/hunchback feeding posture seemed very noticeable. Also, the Black Terns that Don Whitehead reported were at this same location during the entire time I was there. I saw no signs of the ibis he reported. I also checked out BH5S. The five Buff-breasted Sandpipers were there. I recommend slowly scanning, with a scope, the far edge of the mudflat, where sparse weeds grow. Look for movement. The Baird's Sandpipers were also there, closer on the mudflat. I had at least six. In addition to the birds that Don mentioned, I also had a single Wilson's Snipe. -Kirk ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: 34 Common Nighthawk From: Ray Troyer <raytroyer AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 03:34:03 +0000 At 6:15 PM there were 34 Common Nighthawk in 2 groups around the area where CR 26 overpasses CR17 in Elkhart County. Ray Troyer Goshen, Elkhart Co ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Beehunter, Goose Pond From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:20:18 -0400 This morning Bob Dodd, Bob Kissel, Jim Mitchell, Dan Weber (from Terre
Haute), and I birded Beehunter and various sites in Goose Pond. A very
nice morning - great views of some nice birds. The highlights:
100S from 67 to Beehunter:
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
E. Wood-pewee - 1
E. Kingbird - 1
Beehunter 4/5:
Canada Goose - 22
Wood Duck - 6
Mallard - 2
Blue-winged Teal - 25
No. Shoveler - 6
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Great Blue Heron - 14
Great Egret - 28
Green Heron - 1
Semipalmated Plover - 4
Killdeer - 29
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2
Least Sandpiper - 12
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 4
BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER - 5
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird - 3
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Bell's Vireo - 2
Sedge Wren - 6
MPE - from 59:
Double-cr. Cormorant - 137
Am. Bittern - 1
Great Blue Heron - 38
Great Egret - 45
Black-cr. Night-heron - 2
Bald Eagle - 1 (juv)
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Sora - 2
Semipalmated Plover - 1
Killdeer - 6
Bell's Vireo - 2
Bobolink - 2
Sites along 59 - mostly MPW:
Killdeer - 16
Black-necked Stilt - 24
Lesser Yellowlegs - 3
Least Sandpiper - 12
Pectoral Sandpiper - 6
Swallows - 3000 - 95% Tree Swallows, 150 Bank Swallows, 2 Rough-wings
1200 - Looking N over MPW:
Canada Goose - 46
Wood Duck - 12
Mallard - 8
Blue-winged Teal - 28
Green-winged Teal - 3
Double-cr. Cormorant - 35
Am. Bittern - 1
Great Blue Heron - 65
Great Egret - 115
Little Blue Heron - 4
Cattle Egret - 5 (on 500)
Turkey Vulture - 5
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Am. Kestrel - 1
PLEGADIS IBIS - 1 (flew from N - landed in cattails 200 yds N of Tern
Island - at 10:32)
BLACK TERN - 7
Killdeer - 18
Black-necked Stilt - 9
Lesser Yellowlegs - 6
Henslow's Sparrow - 3
Indigo Bunting - 4
Bobolink - 1
Don Whitehead
Bloomington
whitehea AT indiana.edu
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Subject: Goose Pond FWA waterfowl survey August 31 2010From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:37:51 -0400 Yesterday (August 31 2010) I conducted the weekly DNR waterfowl survey at Goose Pond FWA in Greene County. Property Manager Brad Feaster had a conflict and could not participate. In his place, Matt Bredeweg and Dennis Workman of the DNR did the driving for Main Pool West. They also checked a few Units on their own. Waterfowl results included 402 CANADA GEESE (100 by Matt and Dennis), 489 WOOD DUCKS, 404 MALLARDS (50 by Matt and Dennis), 741 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 37 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, and 10 GREEN-WINGED TEAL. The robust count on Blue-winged Teal was especially gratifying, given the relatively early date in fall. Brock's Birds of Indiana lists the peak date for Blue-winged Teal for the southern tier in fall as September 20. Goose Pond FWA may actually peak earlier than that. Even if there are more BWTE later, the start of early Teal hunting season on Saturday September 4 will likely make the big groups of BWTE spookier and harder to find and tally. Abundant results aside from waterfowl featured 5 AMERICAN WHITE PELI CANS, 268 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, 5 AMERICAN BITTERNS, 6 LEAST BITTERNS, 389 GREAT BLUE HERONS, 801 GREAT EGRETS, 6 LITTLE BLUE HERONS, 5 CATTLE EGRETS, 24 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS including 10 nestlings, 1 PLEGADIS IBIS sp, 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 29 BLACK-NECKED STILTS, and 9 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, a new property high count for the species. Land birds included 9 BELL'S VIREOS (all still singing) and 33 BOBOLINKS. The property was crawling with birds, most notably or obviously the over 800 showy Great Egrets. That spectacle alone is worth the drive. Time: 6:40 AM to 8:55 PM, with a couple of breaks to compile data, eat lunch, and get out of the hot sun. Weather: yet another hot day. Afternoon nigh temperature 91 F at the Weather Underground Station at Casey's in Linton. Wind calm early and at sunset, afternoon SW 6-7 mph occasionally gusting to 10-12 mph. Skies clear early, partly cloudy late afternoon, clearing again toward sunset. Very dry and drought conditions prevail on the ground. Several wetland Units are drying out rapidly. Location: Goose Pond FWA Unit GP11 Observation date: 8/31/10 Notes: Starting Unit for the weekly DNR waterfowl survey, a watch from the GP11S parking lot, 6:40-7:10 AM Wood Duck 128 American Bittern 5 all flying before sunrise, 3 commuted off to other units, 2 circled up but landed back in the GP11N cattails Least Bittern 3 GP11S, 1 flying and at least 2 more dong kak calls Green Heron 9 morning flight Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 heard only, GP11S along Black Creek Common Nighthawk 1 American Crow 4 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Location: Goose Pond FWA Main Pool West Observation date: 8/31/10 Notes: The weekly waterfowl count with Matt Bredeweg and Dennis Workman of the DNR driving and assisting, 7:20-9:45 AM. Included a tour of the east levee. Later walking north solo from the Least Tern island for shorebirds in the far south end, 3:05-4:15 PM. No ducks counted as new on this second excursion. Canada Goose 276 almost all flying out in westerly directions, early AM Wood Duck 339 Mallard 348 Blue-winged Teal 616 clouds of them, particularly south of the Double Ditches peninsula Northern Shoveler 18 resting and foraging together Green-winged Teal 6 Pied-billed Grebe 3 American White Pelican X counted in the evening in MPE Double-crested Cormorant X ditto, counted in the evening in MPE Least Bittern 3 all 3 doing kak calls Great Blue Heron 173 doubtless a significant under count Green Heron 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron 5 2 adults & 3 juveniles. See note later below on one adult carrying nesting material. PLEGADIS sp. 1 a Plegadis ibis sp seen flying with ducks, not observed on the ground or with a scope Northern Harrier 1 dark juvenile Sora 4 2 heard along the east levee, 2 heard walking north of the Least Tern island American Golden-Plover 3 seen from the east levee Killdeer X did not count Black-necked Stilt 28 included 23 together east of the cattails along SR 59. Most of these BNSTs would likely not have been visible from the west side of MPW or from SR 59 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Greater Yellowlegs 6 Lesser Yellowlegs 75 included a flock of 39 dropping in before sunset Semipalmated Sandpiper 5 Least Sandpiper 13 Pectoral Sandpiper 56 Mourning Dove 10 Belted Kingfisher 1 Eastern Kingbird 3 Bell's Vireo 9 all along the east levee, and all 9 still singing American Crow 12 Sedge Wren 1 Gray Catbird 3 Common Yellowthroat 2 Field Sparrow 4 Grasshopper Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 4 Indigo Bunting 3 Dickcissel 2 Bobolink 33 in two groups. Despite what ebird warning flags say this is NOT an unusual or exceptional count for GPFWA at the end of August. GPFWA is a major fall staging area for Bobolink in Indiana. Eastern Meadowlark 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Note: Great Egrets, Double-crested Cormorants, etc were tallied at the evening roost in MPE and were not counted in the morning. We did do Great Blue Herons in the morning. Location: Goose Pond FWA Beehunter Marsh BH5S Observation date: 8/31/10 Notes: Beehunter Mash Unit BH5S, walking out the splitter levee. I went looking for Buff-breasted Sandpipers but did not find them. The compensation was a new property high for Baird's Sandpiper. Time 5:35-6:50 PM. Wood Duck 6 Mallard 2 Blue-winged Teal 18 Great Blue Heron 9 Northern Harrier 1 adult male Semipalmated Plover 3 Killdeer 53 high count on one sweep Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 4 Least Sandpiper 20 Baird's Sandpiper 9 juveniles, all in view at the same time, number confirmed on 3 different sweeps. Wilson's Snipe 1 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) (Note: we did not visit Beehunter Marsh for the waterfowl survey in the AM. I went there in the early evening to look for shorebirds.) Location: Goose Pond FWA Main Pool East Observation date: 8/31/10 Notes: Driving by with Matt and Dennis in the morning; later viewing from a distance in the evening to see the Great Egret roost, 7:15-8:55 PM. Doing the evening roost is about the only way to get somewhat comprehensive numbers on the Great Egrets. All waterfowl numbers are morning only: Canada Goose 17 Wood Duck 13 Blue-winged Teal 37 Northern Shoveler 19 different group from the Shovelers across Hamilton Ditch in MPW Green-winged Teal 4 American White Pelican 5 number in view at the same time, evening visit Double-crested Cormorant 268 count on one scope sweep at the evening roost. These were the only DCCOs included in the day tally. Great Blue Heron 189 all counted on one scope sweep from the former pump station and gate locale at the far south end Great Egret 801 doubtless an undercount. Good numbers were continuing on south beyond the usual roost, and some of those were missed. Ending at 8:04 PM I counted 620 already on the roost. The rest were tallied as they arrived in groups through after sunset. Over 100 arrived after sunset. Little Blue Heron 6 evening count at the egret and heron roost. 1 present and 5 more arrived in a group Cattle Egret 5 number at the roost when we passed by in the morning Black-crowned Night-Heron 18 8 adults, and 10 nestlings in 3 nests. See notes below. Solitary Sandpiper 1 calling in the evening This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) BCNH notes: One adult Black-crowned Night-Heron carrying nesting material while flying over the Double Ditches peninsula at MPW in the morning made for a surprising sight on the last day of August. At the BCNH nesting colony in Main Pool East the first wave of nests has now been followed up by three more (and different) pairs nesting successfully, with nestlings currently occupying those nests. But starting to build new nest at the end of August? Maybe two Night-Herons are building a time share condo for fall and early winter! The three more recent BCNH nests at the MPE colony had a total of 10 nestlings yesterday. The earlier set of nests produced at least 19 nestlings in view at one time. This means that some 29 nestlings have been observed at the MPE Black-crowned Night-Heron breeding colony so far this summer and early fall. If anything, a total of 29 would be an under count, with many birds often the way blocking views of the nests. Anyway, lots of young Black-crowned Night-Herons this year. A few other results from some other Units here and there: GPFWA UNIT GP12, 1:00-1:18 PM: Blue-winged Teal 51 Turkey Vulture 2 Black-necked Stilt 1 Least Sandpiper 11 (I went to BH12 on tip from Matt and Dennis, who found the BWTE flock there.) GPFWA UNIT GP10: Canada Goose 100 conservative estimate by Matt and Dennis Red-shouldered Hawk 1 juvenile soaring over the Unit at 1:22 PM, by LS GPFWA UNIT GP8, by Matt and Dennis only: Mallard 50 GPFWA UNIT GP9: Blue Grosbeak 1 GPFWA BEEHUNTER MARSH UNIT BH2, evening after visiting BH5S, 7:02-7:05 PM. BH2 is drying out rapidly. Mallard 4 Great Blue Heron 9 GPFWA UNIT GP13: Wood Duck 3 (no shorebirds found except for Killdeer) Swallow note. While doing the traveling waterfowl count I did not try to count or sort out Swallows. There were several 1000s, comprised mostly of Bank, Tree, and Barn Swallows when I checked occasionally in cursory fashion. I likewise did not work on the large Blackbird flocks in Main Pool West in the evening while counting Great Egrets. I also dropped from the overall reported counts good numbers of ducks and geese seen here and there. Note to visitors to Goose Pond FWA. Early Canada Goose hunting season began today, September 1, as did Mourning Dove season. Be on the lookout for hunters before entering Units. Lee Sterrenburg, Bloomington & Matt Bredeweg and Dennis Workman, Goose Pond FWA ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Wed. AM bird walk From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:14:29 EDT Location: Shanklin Park Observation date: 9/1/10 Notes: 75 deg. sunny, moderate wind. Dan Stoltzfus,Larry ford, Janeen Bertsche Johnson, Mary Martin, Elaine Harley, Mim Weaver, Don Beyerler, Liz Jacobs, Melissa Kinsey. Number of species: 36 Mute Swan 33 Mallard 95 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Kestrel 1 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Mourning Dove 13 Great Horned Owl 1 Common Nighthawk 1 Chimney Swift 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 6 Eastern Phoebe 1 Warbling Vireo 4 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 200 Barn Swallow 6 Black-capped Chickadee 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 1 American Robin 14 Gray Catbird 5 European Starling 10 Cedar Waxwing 4 Song Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 6 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 5 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Dan Stoltzfus Elkhart County ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: black-throated blue warbler From: Vince Gresham <dempsey618 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:36:26 -0400 One of my better warbler pics. Taken behind the nature center. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rum_village/4948855726/ Vince ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Franke Park From: Jerry Brown <jwbrown8628 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:10:19 -0400 I arrived at day break in order to beat the heat, and found a few good birds near the north entrance and a small flock along the north creek trail. A slow moving cold front tonight and tomorrow should bring some improvement. Red-eyed Vireo 1 Carolina Wren 1 Magnolia Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 WILSON'S WARBLER 1 A. Redstart 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 Has any one else noticed the abundance of butterflys, especially Buckeyes this fall? Jerry Brown, Fort Wayne ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: new photos From: Jeff Moore <merlin46783 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:21:54 -0400 I have been shooting the bluebirds nesting near our house. See how many different kinds of food you can identify :-) The young should fledge around this coming weekend. They have done well to tolerate all of the construction activity. Jeff Moore Roanoke, IN http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffmoore/ ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Madison Co. Buff-breasted Sanpiper and McCool Basin From: John Kendall <jeffro595 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:38:14 -0400 I birded a stormwater retention basin inside the Nestle facility along I-69 near Anderson while working today. This pond normally holds a few ducks, waders and geese, once in a while a few shorebirds. The dry August has left a 5 acre area of both wet and dry mudflat. The buffie caught my eye along the road inside and I obtained permission to set up a scope. Killdeer-34 Semipalmated Plover-1 Gr. Yellowlegs-3 L. Yellowlegs-5 Spotted Sandpiper-juv-1 Baird's Sandpiper-1 juv. Semipalmated Sandpiper-9 Least Sandpiper-12 Stilt Sandpiper-7 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER-1 juv. Pectoral Sandpiper-14 I also stopped by McCool Basin at 7 pm, which is drying up fast, with rain coming tonight: Killdeer-25 Semi plover-1 Stilt Sandpiper-1 juv. Semipalmated Sandpiper-3 2 juv's. Least Sandpiper-8 mostly juv's. L. Yellowlegs-2 Solitary Sandpiper-1 juv. John Kendall Valparaiso ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Montgomery Eurasian-Collared Doves From: Amy Kearns <greenpertplus AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:48:42 -0400 Yesterday while passing through the town of Montgomery in Daviess county, John Castrale and I noted 10 Eurasian Collared-Doves. The doves were in the residential areas in town as well as around the town's feed mill. At the feed mill, 2 doves in a group of 4 were juveniles. I can't find any record of EUCD being reported in this town before. There are no ebird reports for that location and we don't have any atlas records for EUCD in Montgomery. We also checked several former Loggerhead Shrike territories in Daviess, but did not locate any shrikes. Amy Kearns John Castrale Mitchell ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Franke Park From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:51:52 EDT Looking for something short on a hot Tuesday, Sandy Schacht and I birded
Ft. Wayne's Franke Park for two hours this morning. Nothing spectacular,
but we actually did better than I thought we would. There were two small
flocks, one at the creek trail entrance on the west side of the BMX track
clearing and one along the creek in the northwest corner of the park.
Neotropicals were:
Warbling Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Warbler:
Tennessee 1
Chestnut-sided 1
Magnolia 1
Black-throated Green 1
Blackburnian 1
Black and White 1
Am. Redstart 2
Canada 1
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Subject: Goose Pond FWA Plegadis ibis August 31From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:29:06 -0400 A partial and preliminary report. This morning (August 31 2010) I did the weekly DNR waterfowl count at Goose Pond FWA in Greene County. Dennis Workman and Matt Bredeweg of the DNR assisted me on the east levee of Main Pool West. We observed 1 PLEGADIS IBIS sp flying along with the many ducks in Main Pool West. The morning total so far on BLUE-WINGED TEAL is 712. (50 of them by Dennis and Matt in Unit GP8) That is not a bad tally for Blue-winged Teal in the southern tier in August. A total of 5 AMERICAN BITTERNS flew out of GP11N in the early morning. The east side of Main Pool West had 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS on the emergent mud flats. More later, after the day's tally is over. --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Little quakers From: Bill Poindexter <bpoindex AT CINERGYMETRO.NET> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:09:21 -0500 While walking along the Ohio River in Madison this morning I saw a mother duck with at least five youngsters swimming along the riverbank. Mallards? I was on the street that goes along the river. I didn't have my binoculars and they were in line with the sun. Isn't it late in the season for ducks to be having newborns? ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Fairfax area From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:16 -0400 I ventured to Fairfax this morning - a little too late as folks were
walking dogs on the peninsula - however, a nice morning. the highlights:
Canada Goose - 44
Mallard - 17
Great Blue Heron - 3
Black Vulture - 23
Turkey Vulture - 37
Osprey - 2
Killdeer - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 124
Caspian Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 1
E. Screech-owl - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 5
Barn Swallow - 12
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
E. Bluebird - 6
Don Whitehead
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Subject: Swifts and NighthawksFrom: John Harley <ekjwh68 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:02:10 -0400 Several evenings in the last week or so Elaine and I have spent time sitting on our dock on the Goshen Dam pond. Tonight we were treated to a Great Blue Heron perching above our heads for a short time, a Great Egret (last week we had 2 Great Egrets), a Pied-billed Grebe, over 30 Mute Swans, Wood Ducks, Cedar Waxwings, Rough-winged Swallows, Canada Geese, Chimney Swifts and Nighthawks. At about 8:30 the evening sky seemed to fill with Chimney Swifts and there were 6 Common Nighthawks in the air at one time. One of them dipped down into the water for a drink. Earlier in the evening Elaine opened the front door and stopped, because there were 3 (possibly a 4th) baby Carolina Wrens right outside the door. It is always amazing to see the bird life around us. John and Elaine Harley, ekjwh68 AT hotmail.com, Goshen, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Fwd: Photos From: "Kenneth J. Brock" <kj.brock AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:40:45 -0500 John Cassady is having computer problems and asked me to post the following. Ken Brock Chesterton Begin forwarded message: > From: John & Wendy CassadySubject: Nighthawks From: Sara Brink <sarajazzgirl2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:13:55 -0400 While watering our trees, we were lucky enough to glance up and see a Common Nighthawk flying directly above our heads! Within seconds, another one flew in the opposite direction of the first. Although the lighting wasnt great, the white stripe was completely visible. What a beauty!! Russ and Sara Brink Canaan, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond FWA Buff-breasted Sandpipers continue From: Mike Clarke <redeyegravy AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:45:45 -0400 This morning I visited Beehunter Marsh and Goose Pond to look for shorebirds. The first stop was Beehunter 5S where it seemed as though I wasn't going to find any of the Buff-breasted Sandpipers reported by Amy and Noah Kearns and Michael Brown. After twenty five minutes enjoying the small flock of peeps and a couple of Baird's Sandpipers from the splitter levy, a group of *8 Buff-breasted Sandpipers* flew in together into the northwest quadrant of BH5S. They foraged together on the dry and sparsely- grassed mud before splitting into a group of 3 and a group of 5. All were still there when I left the unit at around 8:45. I also checked GP10 and Main Pool West from the tern island before heading back to Bloomington. A total of 13 shorebird species for the property. There was a Sanderling, a Stilt Sandpiper and an American Golden Plover in Main Pool West. Lots of Sora and Sedge Wrens on the property as well as many thousands of swallows. Highlights for the morning: Beehunter 5: Northern Bobwhite 1 Sora 6 (4 responding to clapping east of farmhouse drive and 2 foraging on flats in BH5S) Semipalmated Plover 3 Killdeer X Spotted Sandpiper 2 Greater Yellowlegs 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 11 Least Sandpiper 14 Baird's Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Buff-breasted Sandpiper 8 Bell's Vireo 2 Sedge Wren 4 (along farmhouse drive) Goose Pond 10N: Cooper's Hawk 1 Sora 2 Semipalmated Plover 1 Killdeer X Spotted Sandpiper 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Sanderling 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 4 Least Sandpiper 6 Pectoral Sandpiper 22 Main Pool West (from tern island): Double-crested Cormorant X Great Egret X Little Blue Heron 1 Sora 2 American Golden-Plover 1 Killdeer X Lesser Yellowlegs 5 Semipalmated Sandpiper 12 Least Sandpiper 33 Baird's Sandpiper 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 56 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow X Tree Swallow X Bank Swallow X Barn Swallow X Cliff Swallow X Sedge Wren 1 Vesper Sparrow 1 Henslow's Sparrow 1 Dickcissel 2 Bobolink 8 Mike Clarke Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? 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Monroe - a nice "wavelet" at Cutright (responding to iPod). The
highlights:
Paynetown:
Great Blue Heron - 6
OSPREY - 1
Turkey Vulture - 29
Ring-billed Gull - 5
Killdeer - 6
Red-eyed Vireo - 3
Cutright:
Canada Goose - 8
Mallard - 3
Great Blue Heron - 3
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 19
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
E. Screech-owl - 1
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird - 1
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER - 2
E. Wood-pewee - 2
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Warbling Vireo - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 3
Barn Swallow - 45
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8
Gray Catbird - 2
Tenn. Warbler - 1
No. Parula - 3
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Am. Redstart - 2
Hooded Warbler - 1
Don Whitehead
Bloomington
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Subject: New IOS Photo Quiz (no sightings)From: Robert Hughes <rhughes.enteract AT RCN.COM> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:58:12 -0500 The Early Fall 2010 IOS Photo Quiz is now up. An answer will be given in mid October. http://www.illinoisbirds.org/photo_quiz.html Robert D. Hughes Chicago, Illinois ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Warrick county birding trip. From: Vicky Whitaker <hostas4u AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:50:47 -0400 8-29-10 I forgot to thank the Evansville Audubon Society for sponsoring the field trip, sorry. Vicky Whitaker Oakland City ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: The Kearns Buff-breasted Sandpipers at Beehunter 5S 8-29-10 From: MikePytlak AT AOL.COM Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:41:33 EDT 8-29-10 10:30 pm Late this afternoon, I saw the note from Amy and Noah Kearns on INBIRD by Lee Sterrenburg and went after the Buff-breasted Sandpipers at Beehunter 5S in Greene County, Indiana today. I was there from about 6:30pm until 7:30pm. There were (6) Buff-breasted Sandpipers at Beehunter 5S tonight. They were in two groups, one group of four and another group of 2 and stayed that way the entire time I was there. They were still there when I left. The Baird's Sandpipers were also still there. I also saw two immature Black-crowned Night Herons fly up from the ditch west of the parking area. Buff-breasted photos from BH5S and Egret roost photo from GP MPE taken from GP5S at: _http://www.flickr.com/photos/67383370 AT N00/?saved=1_ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/67383370 AT N00/?saved=1) Thanks Amy and Noah for chance to get hoosier Buff-breasted photos! Michael Brown Terre Haute _MikePytlak AT aol.com_ (mailto:MikePytlak AT aol.com) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Celery Bog From: Russell Allison <grounds11 AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:15:37 -0400 I made a day of birding the Celery Bog. 8:30am to 6:00pm. The Osprey was present the entire day. I was hoping to get a Photo of him diving into the water after a fish but missed tat. He did catch another large Goldfish at 5:30pm. I saw my first Warblers of the Fall. Birds seen: Wood Duck-50+ Mallard 300+ Black Duck-1 Canada Goose-30+ Pied billed Grebe-1-I haven't seen many this year. Great blue Heron-27 Green Heron-5 Killdeer-9 Double crested Cormorant-7-They flew in about 5:30pm. Cooper's Hawk-1-At one Time I had (1) Cooper's,(2) Crows, and (1) Osprey in the same tree at once. There was an debate about whose tree it was. Red tailed Hawk-1 Osprey-1 Turkey Vulture-1 American Crow-3 Northern Cardinal-3- Carolina Chickadee-5 American Goldfinch-7 Ruby throated Hummingbird-3 Blue Jay-2 Belted Kingfisher-1 American Redstart-2 American Robin-10 European Starling-25 Tufted Titmouse-4 Tennessee Warbler-1 Cedar Waxwing-12 Mourning Dove-15-May have been chased by the Cooper's Hawk a few times. They flew by in a panic a few times. Barn Swallow-5 Tree Swallow-4 Chimney Swift-9 Northern Flicker-4 White breasted Nuthatch-4 Downey Woodpecker-5 Red bellied Woodpecker 4 Red headed Woodpecker-9-4 adult and 5 immature Solitary Sandpiper-5 Good birding Russ Allison, West Lafayette http://ww.flickr.com/photos/russ_allison be sure to put the underscore between russ and allison ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? 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I took some documentation photos which I hope to have in my flickr if not not by tonight then in the next couple days: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37627358 AT N07/ The most I could get in one photograph was 2 birds. I hope a proper photographer will be able to get out to Beehunter soon and get some better photos! All 5 of the birds were still there when we left. Bloomfield gas station ~6:40 AM 1 Common Nighthawk - flyover Beehunter 5S 7-9:20 AM x Canada Goose 10 Wood Duck 8 Blue-winged Teal 1 Double-crested Cormorant - flyover 15 Great Blue Heron 1 juv Night-Heron - flushed from the ditch by the parking lot, this is the second time recently I've had night-herons in this ditch 2 Bald Eagle - imm, 2nd and 3rd year 2 Northern Harrier - 1 male, 1 fem/juv 15 Semipalmated Plover 50 Killdeer 2 Greater Yellowlegs 4 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Semipalmated Sandpiper 20 Least Sandpiper 4 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - juvs in view at one time 10 Pectoral Sandpiper 5 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - all 5 juvs in view at one time in the back of BH5S. Seen from the levee. Excellent looks in perfect light from as close as 30 feet. Foraging actively on the dry mudflats, flying occasionally but always returning. Weak dry flight call. Yellow legs, completely buffy breast with plain buffy face and short black bill, scaled pattern on the back and and wings. In flight showed white underneath the wings and plain upperparts. Photographed for documentation. 4 Rock Pigeon 10 Mourning Dove 1 White-eyed Vireo - feeding young - late! 1 Bell's Vireo 1 Purple Martin 20 Tree Swallow 100 Bank Swallow - didn't pay much attention to swallows; most were Bank 5 Barn Swallow 3 Cliff Swallow 1 Gray Catbird 1 Brown Thrasher 25 Cedar Waxwing 5 Song Sparrow 2 Indigo Bunting 300 Red-winged Blackbird 1 American Goldfinch GP13 10-10:15 AM 1 Pied-billed Grebe 10 Killdeer 1 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - Towards the back of the unit, foraging on dry mudflats. We originally saw it from the parking lot on 1400W, and then hiked the levee to get a better look and documentation photographs. After hiking back out from GP10N, we rechecked GP13 from the back levee on 100S and did not refind the bird (although we didn't try very hard). 1 Warbling Vireo GP10N 10:15-11:45 AM 90 degrees, sunny and HOT. Lots of heat distortion, less than 100 shorebirds, most of them distant. We were there primarily to look for the Red-necked Phalarope, which we did not find. Canada Goose 60 Blue-winged Teal 10 Green-winged Teal 3 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 6 Great Blue Heron X Great Egret 15 Green Heron 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 - imm put up shorebirds Semipalmated Plover X Killdeer X Spotted Sandpiper X Greater Yellowlegs X Lesser Yellowlegs X Semipalmated Sandpiper X Least Sandpiper X Pectoral Sandpiper X Dowitcher spp (heat distortion, extreme distance) 1 Mourning Dove X Chimney Swift 1 Warbling Vireo 2 American Crow X Bank Swallow X Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Common Yellowthroat 2 Field Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow X Main Pool West 12-1:20 PM from bridge on 1200W until we bit the bullet and walked down to the Tern Island for a better look x Canada Goose x Wood Duck x Mallard 80 Blue-winged Teal 1 Northern Shoveler - at least, we did not spend time on ducks 2 Green-winged Teal 1 Pied-billed Grebe x Double-crested Cormorant x Great Blue Heron 100 Great Egret - at least 3 SNOWY EGRET 1 LITTLE BLUE HERON - imm 1 Green Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Semipalmated Plover x Killdeer 1 Black-necked Stilt x Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 3 Greater Yellowlegs 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 SANDERLING - juv 100 feet from the Tern Island, seen from the road. A big white chunky shorebird nearly as big as the Pectoral next to it and much larger than both the Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers foraging near it. Black legs and bill. Foraged actively and chased the small peeps around it. Photographed (very poor digiscope for documentation). Was still near the Tern Island when we left. 4 Semipalmated Sandpiper 8 Least Sandpiper x Pectoral Sandpiper x Mourning Dove 2 Horned Lark x Tree Swallow x Bank Swallow x Barn Swallow 3 Sedge Wren - singing 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 Blue Grosbeak - singing 4 Bobolink - west side of the road 1 Eastern Meadowlark - in the thigh-level grass on the Tern Island Cow pasture on 500S: 5 Cattle Egret - with the cows. At least 4 still had some orange plumes Amy & Noah Kearns Mitchell ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Eagle Creek Park, Sunday August 29, 2010 From: John Ulmer <remlu AT TDS.NET> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:22:23 -0400 The Sunday Bird Group tallied 14 species of warblers for a total of 79 species altogether. The list included -- Double Crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Osprey Bald Eagle Coopers Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Sora Killdeer Ring-billed Gull Rock Dove Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Winter Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Swainson's Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black and White Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Common Grackle Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Bird walks begin at 9am at the Ornithology Center, all are welcome. -- John Ulmer ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Eastern Screech Owls & Mississippi Kite From: Vicky Whitaker <hostas4u AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:46:25 -0400 8-26-10 Went fishing on White River, on a sandbar. I didn't catch anything, but bug bites. But I had a great time, visiting with great friends and seeing lots of Killdeer along the shore, and some other small shorebirds. When the sun went down the real show started, at least for me it did. We started hearing Screech Owls singing, and they sing very pretty I might add. There were at least four of them. It only lasted a few minutes and then they were quit for an hour or so. Then a couple of them started trilling, music to a birders ear. I heard a couple of great Blue Herons, a Barred Owl sang a few bars, and last but not least the coyotees as I pronounce it, started singing. Some were accross the river from us and some were behind us. very cool. We were all blessed with the best kind of music you could ever hear. 8-28-10 I was invited to go with a group of birders, that were going to Warrick county, looking for Mississippi Kites and lots of other wonderful birds. I think there were 15 of us, being led by Jim Campbell and his Wife Mary Jo. We went to Scales lake first to look for the Kites. We saw one fly over the camp ground with food in his or her mouth. Then drove up the road a ways and we saw 13 Wild Turkeys foraging. Went a little further and got out to go on a small hike. We saw a Yellow-Billed Cuckoo fly over, lots of Rough-winged swalllows, a Pied-Billed Grebe, a Great-Blue Heron fly over. A little Prothonatary escorted us part of the way. We saw lots of birds and some we were not able to see long enough to ID. We saw Carolina Chickadees, Tufted Titmice, Cedar Waxwing, Downys, Blue Jays, heard a Pileated. We drove down another road that looked out over the lake and saw Baltomore Orioles, Eastern Kingbirds, Song sparrow, a Belted Kingfisher, we heard a Warbling Vireo. We saw a Brown Thrasher, lots of Robins. We drove out of the park and started towards BlueGrass. Somewhere between the two we stopped and heard Bell's Vireo and American Goldfinches. We had a great time, and lots of good fellowship. It's always nice talking to people who have the same interests. We then dropped off most of the birders, and the few diehards(6) of us me included, got a quick bite to eat and then went to Newburgh to go to the French Island Loop. We saw and heard an Eastern Wood Pewee, and saw two Red-Headed Woodpeckers. That was our day. I know I probably missed few birds, I always do. Thanks to LD and Brian for driving, and thanks again to the Campbells. I got to add two lifers, the Kite and the Bell's Vireo. Sorry so long I just had alot to say this time around. Vicky Whitaker Oakland city ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Limberlost Swamp From: John Harley <ekjwh68 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:28:23 -0400 Late yesterday afternoon/early evening Elaine and I visited Loblolly and Limberlost areas that Jim Haw has been reporting on. Things were pretty dry and we have little to add to what Jim Haw saw. We counted 31 Great Blue Herons and saw a solitary American Avocet at Limberlost. The Avocet spent a fair amount of time with little more than its head showing above some of the vegetation, but at times it moved out into clear view and we could see its upturned bill and watch it sweep its bill back and forth in the water. John and Elaine Harley, ekjwh68 AT hotmail.com, Goshen, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Least Terns From: Mel Lodato <jclodato AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:18:07 -0400 On Saturday the 28th of August Wesselman Woods Canoe Evansville took a canoe trip down the Wabash River from the town of New Harmony to New Harmony State Park. On the sand bars were between 6 - 8 Least Terns. 2 of the Terns were immature. One was being fed by an adult. Also of note were about 100 kildeer, 10 least sandpipers, 1 lesser yellowlegs, 1 Osprey, 15 Turkey vultures and12 Great Blue Herons. ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Willow Slough FWA From: Jed Hertz <jhh_60910 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:39:53 -0700 Hi all, Sunday 29-Aug-10: Willow Slough FWA, Newton Co, IN: 0540-0950H (1 W + 1 D)_Sun_70-90_SE 5_B. Ratcliff_E Chipmunk_Sunrise 0620H. Bronson Ratcliff and I found the following 83 species at the HQ this morning: Anatidae 3 ¨ ¨ 12 Canada Goose ¨ ¨ ¨ 12 Wood Duck ¨ ¨ ¨ 9 Mallard ¨ Melagrididae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Wild Turkey ¨ Ardeidae 3 ¨ ¨ 4 Great Blue Heron ¨ ¨ ¨ 17 Great Egret ¨ 0550H ->N ¨ ¨ 3 Green Heron ¨ Cathartidae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Turkey Vulture ¨ Accipitridae 3 ¨ ¨ 1 Osprey ¨ ad ¨ ¨ 1 Bald Eagle ¨ ad at 0555H ¨ ¨ 1 Cooper's Hawk ¨ Gruidae 1 ¨ ¨ 7 Sandhill Crane ¨ Charadriidae 2 ¨ ¨ 1 Semipalmated Plover ¨ ¨ ¨ 14 Killdeer ¨ Scolopacidae 9 (Mostly at a distance) ¨ ¨ 4 Greater Yellowlegs ¨ ¨ ¨ 3 Lesser Yellowlegs ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Solitary Sandpiper ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Spotted Sandpiper ¨ imm ¨ ¨ 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Least Sandpiper ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Stilt Sandpiper ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Short-billed Dowitcher ¨ Prob; at distance ¨ ¨ 1 Wilson's Snipe ¨ Columbidae 1 ¨ ¨ 7 Mourning Dove ¨ Coccyzidae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo ¨ Strigidae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Eastern Screech-Owl ¨ Soft trilling Caprimulgidae 2 ¨ ¨ 1 Common Nighthawk ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Whip-poor-will ¨ Partial calls. Apodidae 1 ¨ ¨ 3 Chimney Swift ¨ Trochilidae 1 ¨ ¨ 7 Ruby-throated Hummingbird ¨ Cerylidae 1 ¨ ¨ 2 Belted Kingfisher ¨ Picidae 6 ¨ ¨ 4 Red-headed Woodpecker ¨ ¨ ¨ 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker ¨ ¨ ¨ 3 Downy Woodpecker ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Hairy Woodpecker ¨ ¨ ¨ 4 Northern Flicker ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Pileated Woodpecker ¨ Tyrannidae 5 ¨ ¨ 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher ¨ FOS and 25 days later then my earliest. ¨ ¨ 9 Eastern Wood-Pewee ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Eastern Phoebe ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Great Crested Flycatcher ¨ ¨ ¨ 10 Eastern Kingbird ¨ Vireonidae 4 ¨ ¨ 1 White-eyed Vireo ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Yellow-throated Vireo ¨ ¨ ¨ 6 Warbling Vireo ¨ ¨ ¨ 6 Red-eyed Vireo ¨ Corvidae 2 ¨ ¨ 6 Blue Jay ¨ ¨ ¨ 7 American Crow ¨ Hirundinidae 3 ¨ ¨ 5 Purple Martin ¨ ¨ ¨ 34 Tree Swallow ¨ ¨ ¨ 4 Barn Swallow ¨ Paridae 1 ¨ ¨ 4 Tufted Titmouse ¨ Sittidae 1 ¨ ¨ 4 White-breasted Nuthatch ¨ Sylviidae 1 ¨ ¨ 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ¨ Turdidae 4 ¨ ¨ 2 Eastern Bluebird ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Veery ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Swainson's Thrush ¨ ¨ ¨ 12 American Robin ¨ Mimidae 2 ¨ ¨ 12 Gray Catbird ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Brown Thrasher ¨ Sturnidae 1 ¨ ¨ 200 European Starling ¨ % Blackbird Flock 0605H ->S Bombycillidae 1 ¨ ¨ 84 Cedar Waxwing ¨ Parulidae 10 ¨ ¨ 4 Tennessee Warbler ¨ 1st year female (1YF) ¨ ¨ 1 Northern Parula ¨ 1YF ¨ ¨ 1 Yellow Warbler ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Black-throated Green Warbler ¨ 1YF; FOS and 6 days later then my earliest. ¨ ¨ 1 Blackburnian Warbler ¨ F ¨ ¨ 1 Blackpoll Warbler ¨ 1YF ¨ ¨ 3 American Redstart ¨ FT ¨ ¨ 1 Ovenbird ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Wilson's Warbler ¨ Thraupidae 1 ¨ ¨ 2 Scarlet Tanager ¨ F Emberizidae 4 ¨ ¨ 3 Eastern Towhee ¨ ¨ ¨ 6 Chipping Sparrow ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Field Sparrow ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Song Sparrow ¨ Cardinalidae 1 ¨ ¨ 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak ¨ Icteridae 4 ¨ ¨ 2,000 Red-winged Blackbird ¨ % Blackbird Flock 0605H ->S ¨ ¨ 200 Common Grackle ¨ % Blackbird Flock 0605H ->S ¨ ¨ 100 Brown-headed Cowbird ¨ % Blackbird Flock 0605H ->S ¨ ¨ 6 Baltimore Oriole ¨ Fringillidae 1 ¨ ¨ 7 American Goldfinch ¨ Jed Hertz Kankakee, Kankakee Co, IL (60 mi South of Chicago) Photos/Videos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhertz/ Give "ebird" a try: http://ebird.org/content/ebird ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Limberlost shorebirds From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:00:32 EDT Nine species of shorebirds remained at Limberlost Swamp Wetland Preserve, Adams Co., on Sunday morning. The wetland is drying up rapidly. I suspect that it will be completely dry in a few days unless we get substantial rain. Still, it has been great while the water lasted, and is certainly a very worthwhile project. It should get even better; there are plans to install a wooden water-control structure. Mallard Great Blue Heron 25 Semipalmated Plover 1 Killdeer 27 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 43 Semipalmated Sandpiper 26 Least Sandpiper 11 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER 3 Pectoral Sandpiper 16 STILT SANDPIPER 3 Mourning Dove Barn Swallow Horned Lark 4 Bobolink 3 Jim Haw ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Fairfax - Buff-br. Sandpiper From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:19:32 -0400 This morning Betsy and I visited Fairfax on Lake Monroe - only one
shorebird on the beach, but it was a beautiful immature BUFF-BREASTED
SANDPIPER! The morning's highlights:
Canada Goose - 14
Mallard - 19
Black Vulture - 10
Turkey Vulture - 16
Great Blue Heron - 4
Killdeer - 7 (near new launch ramp)
BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER - 1 (immature - striking plumage - nice scaly back)
Ring- billed Gull - 93
Caspian Tern - 2
E. Screech-owl - 1
E. Wood-pewee - 1
E. Kingbird - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
Gray Catbird - 3
Don Whitehead
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Subject: Heaton Lake SandhillsFrom: Trice Berkley <Cellistharpsichordist AT YAHOO.CA> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:14:58 -0400 I went out to CR 4 just east of CR 13 and found 3 Sandhill Cranes about 30' from the road on the North side next to a corn-patch. 2 adults and a juvenile, so apparently they nested successfully in the Heaton/Simonton-Lake marshy area. ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Fwd: [IN-BIRD-L] GPFWA Buff-breasted Sandpiper From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:51:44 -0400 Amy Kearns just called again with an update on the report below. She says that they are now looking at 4 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS in view at the same time. Amy notes that the sandpipers are not visible from the parking lot on CR 100 S and that in order to see them one has to walk out the splitter levee that separates Units BH5S and BH5N. --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington Begin forwarded message: > From: Lee SterrenburgSubject: GPFWA Buff-breasted Sandpiper From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:45:17 -0400 Sunday August 29 2010 Amy Kearns just called. She and Noah found 1 juvenile BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER in Goose Pond FWA Beehunter Marsh Unit BH5S. --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Lk. Lemon - 8/28 and prior From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:50:25 -0400 Today (8/28) at the east end of Lk. Lemon were the following: -52 Turkey Vultures -1 Osprey -1 Sharp-shinned Hawk -1 L. Yellowlegs -1 Forster's Tern -1 E. Phoebe -1 E. Wood-Pewee -1 Warbling Vireo -1 Red-e. Vireo - 3 Tree Swallows -15 Purple Martins -20 Bank Swallows -5 Cliff Swallows -250 Barn Swallows -1 Yellow-throated Warbler Yesterday (8/27): -9 Blue-w. Teal -1 Pied-b. Grebe - our FOS -1 Pectoral Sandpiper -1 Ring-b. Gull -1 Forster's Tern -2 Black Terns -2 E. Wood-Pewees, -2 E. Kingbirds -3 Red-e. Vireos -1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO -4 Blue-gr. Gnatcatchers -11 Cedar Waxwings -1 Yellow-thr. Warbler -1 WILSON'S WARBLER 8/26: -18 BW Teal -2 No. Shovelers -1 Cooper's Hawk harassing the hundreds of roosting starlings & redwings -1 Common Nighthawk - our FOS -2 E. Kingbirds 8/25: 1 Osprey & 4 Forster's Terns 8/23: 500+ swallows including a few Trees, 100+ Purple Martins, 75+ Banks, ~10 Cliffs, a few No. Rough-wingeds, and ~300 Barns 8/22: -4 Green Herons -1 E. Wood-Pewee -2 Red-e. Vireos -1 No. Parula -2 Scarlet Tanagers - two very interesting birds, both of which had thin but distinct wingbars (one with a single wingbar, the other with 2; both were in basic plumage - at least one was a 1st-cycle male & they might both have been. Both lacked the strong contrast between the upper back and the lower back/rump that is characteristic of Western Tanager. 8/16 - 8/21: -2 Green Herons (8/17 - 8/21) -1 Osprey (8/17, 8/19) -1 MERLIN (8/21) - early ad. male harassing the swallows flying over the lotus -1 Semipalmated Plover (8/17 - 8/20) -1 Killdeer (8/18 - 8/20) -1 Lesser Yellowlegs (8/16) -1 Solitary Sandpiper (8/21) -1 Spotted Sandpiper (8/16 - 8/20) -2 Least Sandpipers (8/16 - 8/19) -1 Pectoral Sandpiper (8/20) -2 Black Terns (8/17, 819, 8/21) -1 YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER (8/19) - the second ever from our yard -1 Waterthrush sp. (8/19) ******************** Jim & Susan Hengeveld East Lake Lemon Observatory Southshore Drive Unionville, IN 47468 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Stillwater, North Fork From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:12:28 -0400 This morning Betsy and I drove down McGowan Rd to North Fork - lovely,
cool morning - not very birdy. The highlights:
Wood Duck - 10
Wild Turkey - 2
Great Blue Heron - 11
Great Egret - 2
Green Heron - 2
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Cooper's Hawk - 2 (imm)
Killdeer - 3
Solitary Sandpiper - 2
Warbling Vireo - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 4
Cedar Waxwing - 14
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Subject: Pigeon R. & MI: Least Bittern, R-n PhalFrom: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:21:19 EDT Sandy Schacht and I recorded 71 species in Indiana and 6 more in Michigan
on a visit to Pigeon River FWA and vicinity plus the Kinderhook MI sewage
ponds. Highlight at Pigeon River was a LEAST BITTERN that flew across the
road at area D marsh. My previous latest record for NE IN was Aug. 4. The
species is surely present regularly into late August or later; we just
don't find it. Highlight in Michigan was three juv. RED-NECKED PHALAROPES at
the Kinderhook sewage ponds, along the west side of the impoundment north of
the area office.
Indiana birds, at Pigeon R. unless otherwise noted:
Canada Goose pond on SR 120, Steuben Co.
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Mallard SR 120 pond
LEAST BITTERN 1
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk
Am. Kestrel
Common Moorhen 4 juv.
Sandhill Crane 17
Killdeer Fawn R. Fish Hatchery
Least Sandpiper 2 SR 120 pond
Wilson's Snipe 1 Griffin Rd. pond, Allen Co.
Ring-billed Gull Fawn R.
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Woodpecker: Red-headed 1, Red-bellied, Downy, N. Flicker, Pileated 1
E. Wood Pewee 11
E. Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
E. Kingbird 4
Vireo: White-eyed 1, Yellow-throated 4, Warbling 3, Red-eyed 9
Blue Jay
Am. Crow
Purple Martin 6
Tree Swallow 4
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-br. Nuthatch
Wren: House 1, Marsh 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
E. Bluebird
Am. Robin
Gray Catbird
Eur. Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Warbler:
Blue-winged 3
Tennessee 4
Nashville 3
Magnolia 2
Black-throated Green 2
Black and White 2
Am. Redstart 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Hooded 1
E. Towhee
Sparrow: Field, Song, Swamp
N. Cardinal
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole 1
Am. Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Kinderhook MI notables:
Blue-winged Teal 6
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 5
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE 3
Jim Haw
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Subject: NW Ind 28Aug10 Red Knot, Buff-br Sand., Ruby-crn KingletFrom: "Kenneth J. Brock" <kj.Brock AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:05:29 -0500 Today (28 August ’10) Susan Bagby, John Cassady, Ed Hopkins, Randy Pals, and I birded the lakefront plus several inland sites. We began at the traps and enjoyed a fine warbler flock at the Hammond Sanctuary, but little else. So we adjourned to Miller Beach where we finished the morning. After lunch we visited Grand Kankakee Marsh, 157th Ave pond, Jerry Allen March, McCool Basin and finished the day at Beverly Shores. The fall migration is clearly well underway. HIGHLIGHTS (note- IMF stands for immature male or female) HAMMOND LAKEFRONT SANCTUARY Chimney Swift (10) RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET (1- Indiana’s second earliest fall record and second August record). Brown Thrasher (1) Cedar Waxwing (20) Tennessee Warbler (2- ad male & imm) Magnolia Warbler (2 IMF) Cape May Warbler (1- 1st-cycle female) Black-throated Green Warbler (2- one 1st-cycle female & 1 IMF) Blackburnian Warbler (2- 1st-cycle male & 1st-cycle female) Bay-breasted Warbler (2- IMF & 1st-cycle female) Blackpoll Warbler (2) Black and white Warbler (1- 1st-cycle female) American Redstart (8- IMF) FORSYTHE PARK & ADJACENT WOLF LAKE Double-crested Cormorant (400 est. as many flocks flew northward over Wolf Lake) Magnolia Warbler (1- IMF) MILLER BEACH (We joined Leland Shaum’s group, plus Michael Topp and Jeff McCoy) Blue-winged Teal (4) Double-crested Cormorant (20) Great Blue Heron (4) Turkey Vulture (3) Semipalmated Plover (4- 1 adult & 3 not aged) RED KNOT (1 juv- Jeff got excellent photos) Least Sandpiper (3 juvs) Sanderling (21- 1 adult & 20 juvs) Pectoral Sandpiper (2) Baird’s Sandpiper (2 juvs) BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER (1 juv- watch for Cassady photos) Bonaparte’s Gull (6- 1 adult & 5 juvs) Caspian Tern (1) Black Tern (1) Common Tern (2) Forster’s Tern (8- in basic plumage) Chimney Swift (5) B. Kingfisher (1) Cliff Swallow (1) Blackburnian Warbler (1 ad male-*see below note) Field Sparrow (2 singing) *IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE: Prior to our arrival sharp-eyed members of Leland’s group detected a small southbound passerine far out on the lake. They monitored the obviously exhausted bird as it approached the beach, noting it land on the water for several brief rests. As it got closer they identified the bird as an adult male Blackburnian Warbler and began rooting for it to successfully reach shore. They also alerted Jeff who was initially unable to get on the bird. The tired warbler, which had been fighting a stiff headwind all night as it crossed Lake Michigan, struggled mightily to reach the beach, but once again landed only 50 feet from the sandy beach. Jeff finally located the floating bird just in time to see an opportunist Ring- billed Gull swoop down pick up the hapless warbler and swallow it whole. GRAND KANKAKEE MARSH (water mostly gone, only two small pools remain) Blue-winged Teal (1) Green-winged Teal (4) T. Vulture (4) Semipalmated Plover (1 juv) Semipalmated Sandpiper (2 juvs) Least Sandpiper (14- an adult & 13 juvs) House Wren (2) We visited 157th Ave wetland and Jerry Allen; both still had high water and no shorebird habitat. McCOOL BASIN (thanks to an alert by Leland, we visited this site and enjoyed several shorebirds that his group found) Killdeer (28) Semipalmated Sandpiper (3- including one that displayed a very long bill) Least Sandpiper (10 juvs) Baird's Sandpiper (2 juvs) Stilt Sandpiper (1 juv- watch for Cassady pix) WEST BEVERLY SHORES Ruby-throated Hummingbird (3) E. Screech Owl (1 called) E. Wood-Pewee (7) E. Phoebe (3) E. Kingbird (1) White-eyed Vireo (1 dark-eyed young bird) Yellow-throated Vireo (2) Red-eyed Vireo (3) E. Bluebird (1) Swainson’s Thrush (2) Am. Robin (15 apx) Gray Catbird (2) Brown Thrasher (1) Summer Tanager (1 called) Scarlet Tanager (2- male & female) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (1 1st-cycle male) E. Towhee (3- including 1 juv) Brown-headed Cowbird (1 juv- thanks Susan) Baltimore Oriole (3- together) Ken Brock Chesterton, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Willow Slough FWA 8/27/10 From: Jed Hertz <jhh_60910 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:03:23 -0700 Hi all, Friday 27-Aug-10: Willow Slough FWA, Newton Co, IN: 0535-1015H (1 W + 1 D)_Sun_51-76_S 5_Domestic Cat_Sunrise 0618H. I spent Friday morning at the Willow Slough FWA HQ where Owls and Whip-poor-Will were vocalizing as I arrived, while Nighthawks silently coursed high over the water. Bald Eagle appeared at dawn, perching temporarily, then setting forth on the morning hunt. Small numbers of waterfowl were active before dawn and a variety of shorebirds were huddled together feeding together along a narrow sand-spit off the closest island. A flock of 19 Great Egret, minus any diminutive relatives, came in low from the south, as they have on previous visits, while pairs of Sandhill Crane bugled loudly from across the slough. The dawn Blackbird flock, now building to sizable numbers, erupted from their cattail roost departed in waves strewn along the horizon heading mostly westward. Later, one of the Pileated Woodpeckers heard drumming/calling earlier, made an appearance along entrance road - always a treat for us prairie dwellers. Warblers are still trickling in and a few Swainson's Thrush made their first fall appearance. Here's the run-down on 87 species recorded Friday morning at the HQ: Anatidae 5 ¨ ¨ 8 Canada Goose ¨ ¨ ¨ 23 Wood Duck ¨ ¨ ¨ 14 Mallard ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Blue-winged Teal ¨ ¨ ¨ 3 Green-winged Teal ¨ Phasianidae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Ring-necked Pheasant ¨ Melagrididae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Wild Turkey ¨ Podicipedidae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Pied-billed Grebe ¨ Ardeidae 3 ¨ ¨ 8 Great Blue Heron ¨ ¨ ¨ 19 Great Egret ¨ 0555H -> N ¨ ¨ 4 Green Heron ¨ Cathartidae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Turkey Vulture ¨ Accipitridae 2 ¨ ¨ 1 Osprey ¨ ad ¨ ¨ 2 Bald Eagle ¨ ad; just after dawn Gruidae 1 ¨ ¨ 6 Sandhill Crane ¨ dawn Charadriidae 2 ¨ ¨ 2 Semipalmated Plover ¨ ¨ ¨ 24 Killdeer ¨ Scolopacidae 5 ¨ ¨ 15 Lesser Yellowlegs ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Spotted Sandpiper ¨ ¨ ¨ 5 Semipalmated Sandpiper ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Pectoral Sandpiper ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Stilt Sandpiper ¨ Columbidae 1 ¨ ¨ 14 Mourning Dove ¨ Strigidae 2 ¨ ¨ 2 Eastern Screech-Owl ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Barred Owl ¨ Caprimulgidae 2 ¨ ¨ 6 Common Nighthawk ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Whip-poor-will ¨ Apodidae 1 ¨ ¨ 3 Chimney Swift ¨ Trochilidae 1 ¨ ¨ 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird ¨ Cerylidae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Belted Kingfisher ¨ Picidae 6 ¨ ¨ 5 Red-headed Woodpecker ¨ 1 imm ¨ ¨ 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker ¨ ¨ ¨ 4 Downy Woodpecker ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Hairy Woodpecker ¨ ¨ ¨ 6 Northern Flicker ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Pileated Woodpecker ¨ 1 called (sighted) + 1 drumming Tyrannidae 4 ¨ ¨ 3 Eastern Wood-Pewee ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Least Flycatcher ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Eastern Phoebe ¨ ¨ ¨ 4 Eastern Kingbird ¨ Vireonidae 4 ¨ ¨ 3 White-eyed Vireo ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Yellow-throated Vireo ¨ ¨ ¨ 8 Warbling Vireo ¨ ¨ ¨ 5 Red-eyed Vireo ¨ Corvidae 2 ¨ ¨ 10 Blue Jay ¨ ¨ ¨ 6 American Crow ¨ Hirundinidae 6 ¨ ¨ 4 Purple Martin ¨ ¨ ¨ 74 Tree Swallow ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Bank Swallow ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Cliff Swallow ¨ ¨ ¨ 11 Barn Swallow ¨ Sittidae 1 ¨ ¨ 5 White-breasted Nuthatch ¨ Troglodytidae 2 ¨ ¨ 2 Carolina Wren ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 House Wren ¨ Sylviidae 1 ¨ ¨ 5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ¨ Turdidae 4 ¨ ¨ 2 Eastern Bluebird ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Veery ¨ Sighted ¨ ¨ 3 Swainson's Thrush ¨ FOS and 4 days later then my earliest. ¨ ¨ 22 American Robin ¨ Mimidae 2 ¨ ¨ 14 Gray Catbird ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Brown Thrasher ¨ Sturnidae 1 ¨ ¨ 4,000 European Starling ¨ % blackbird dawn flight ->W Bombycillidae 1 ¨ ¨ 94 Cedar Waxwing ¨ Parulidae 9 ¨ ¨ 2 Tennessee Warbler ¨ imm ¨ ¨ 2 Yellow Warbler ¨ Yellow undertail ¨ ¨ 1 Magnolia Warbler ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Blackburnian Warbler ¨ imm female ¨ ¨ 1 Blackpoll Warbler ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 American Redstart ¨ FT ¨ ¨ 1 Common Yellowthroat ¨ F ¨ ¨ 2 Wilson's Warbler ¨ FOS and 5 days later then my earliest. ¨ ¨ 1 Canada Warbler ¨ Thraupidae 1 ¨ ¨ 3 Scarlet Tanager ¨ F + 2M (basic) Emberizidae 4 ¨ ¨ 6 Eastern Towhee ¨ ¨ ¨ 14 Chipping Sparrow ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Field Sparrow ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Song Sparrow ¨ Cardinalidae 3 ¨ ¨ 6 Northern Cardinal ¨ 1 F ¨ ¨ 3 Rose-breasted Grosbeak ¨ ¨ ¨ 3 Indigo Bunting ¨ Icteridae 5 ¨ ¨ 2 Bobolink ¨ FO calling ¨ ¨ 20,000 Red-winged Blackbird ¨ % blackbird dawn flight ->W ¨ ¨ 1,000 Common Grackle ¨ % blackbird dawn flight ->W ¨ ¨ 500 Brown-headed Cowbird ¨ % blackbird dawn flight ->W ¨ ¨ 4 Baltimore Oriole ¨ Fringillidae 1 ¨ ¨ 12 American Goldfinch ¨ Jed Hertz Kankakee, Kankakee Co, IL (60 mi South of Chicago) Photos/Videos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhertz/ Give "ebird" a try: http://ebird.org/content/ebird ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Wakarusa shorebirds and swallows From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:47:19 EDT Location: Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Facility Observation date: 8/28/10 Notes: Sunny, in sixties. There was a large midge hatch, which provided food, and brought in many birds. When I opened my car windows a lot of the midges came in but not a mosquito. I hope there will not be aerial spraying of the area. The midges do not bite and they attract the birds. Number of species: 30 Canada Goose 12 Wood Duck 11 Mallard 25 Blue-winged Teal 4 Northern Shoveler 14 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Kestrel 3 Semipalmated Plover 1 Killdeer 45 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Semipalmated Sandpiper 9 Least Sandpiper 15 Baird's Sandpiper 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 Mourning Dove 35 Chimney Swift 30 Northern Flicker 1 American Crow 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 20 Tree Swallow 7 Bank Swallow 25 Barn Swallow 80 Cliff Swallow 1 European Starling 12 Cedar Waxwing 35 Song Sparrow 1 American Goldfinch 4 House Sparrow 25 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(_http://ebird.org_ (http://ebird.org) ) Dan Stoltzfus Elkhart county ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? 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But we did see 45 species and got soaked walking through the restored prairie (big bluestem is really big...). Highlights included 15 singing SEDGE WRENS, one of which showed itself well, and good looks at other specialties of the state park such as Red-headed Woodpecker, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, and a group of immature Dickcissels. Barny Dunning misner13 AT verizon.net Canada Goose 5 Mallard 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 1 Mourning Dove 4 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-headed Woodpecker 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 4 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4 Tree Swallow 10 Barn Swallow 3 Cliff Swallow 8 Carolina Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Carolina Wren 1 Sedge Wren 15 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 15 Gray Catbird 2 European Starling 10 Cedar Waxwing 3 Common Yellowthroat 3 Field Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 1 Indigo Bunting 8 Dickcissel 7 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 Baltimore Oriole 3 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 10 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? 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If anyone lost a pair and wants to send a description to me we might arrange a return. --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: N.W.Indiana - 8/27, Avocet, Knot, Turnstones From: Michael Topp <mtopp7927 AT AOL.COM> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:50:16 -0400 8/27
I checked a couple of spots this mourning and was rewarded with some
nice birds despite the High pressure that has settled in. Birds include
American Avocet, Red Knot, Ruddy Turnstones, Red-breasted Nuthatch,
Warblers and Juvenile Shorebirds.
* Photos I will post later
MILLER BEACH:
15-D.C.Cormorants
3-G.B.Herons
1-Great Egret
6-Mallards
8-B.W.Teal
1-R.T.Hawk
1-Coopers Hawk
1-A.Kestrel
10-Killdeer
10-Semipalmated Plovers (1ad.,9Juvs)*
1-AMERICAN AVOCET (Flyby about 200yrds. out)
1-Spotted Sandpiper (Juv.)
2-RUDDY TURNSTONES *
1-RED KNOT (Juv.)
20-Sanderlings (3ad. , 17Juvs.) *
2-Semipalmated Sandpipers (Juvs.)
3-Least Sandpipers (Fresh Juvs.) *
2-BAIRD'S Sandpipers (Juvs.) *
1-Pectoral Sandpiper
1-Dowitcher (Sps.)
1-Great Black-backed Gull (Juv.)
6-Bonaparte's Gulls (4ad. , 2 Juvs.)
7-Caspian Terns
2-Forster's Terns
6-BLACK TERNS
50+ Chimney Swifts
1-Hummingbird
1-Belted Kingfisher
1-Downy W.P.
1- Blue Jay
100+ Barn Swallows
1-RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH (The bird was first heard then seen
in the nearest tree to the breakwall.)
1-Magnolia Warbler (Breakwall vegetation.)
1-Field Sparrow (Singing)
1-Indigo Bunting (Singing)
6-Goldfinch
HAMMOND BIRD SANCTUARY:
1-A.Kestrel
1-Hummingbird
1-Belted Kingfisher
1-N.Flicker
1-Cedar Waxwing
1-G.C.Flycatcher
25+Barn Swallows
1-Blue Jay
2-B.C.Chickadees
2-House Wrens
1-W.B.Nuthatch
1-SWAINSON'S Thrush
1-Y.T.Vireo
2-R.E.Vireo
2-Tennessee Warblers
1-ORANGE-CROWNED Warbler (Well seen)
1-Nashville Warbler
1-Chestnut-sided Warbler
2-Magnolia Warblers (1-male)
2-Blackpoll Warblers
1-Black & White Warbler
1-A.Redstart
1-Canada Warbler
2-C.Yellowthroats
1-Scarlet Tanager (Female)
Also 2 Monk Parakeets flew over my house when I returned home.
There was also a mass migration of dragonflys with many hundreds
at both locations.
Michael Topp
Highland IN.
Photos:
http://community.webshots.com/user/mtopp101
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Subject: Lake MonroeFrom: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:36:17 -0400 This morning I visited both Paynetown and Cutright on Lake Monroe. A
beautiful, clear, still, cool morning - a few things of interest.
Paynetown:
Mallard - 3
Great Blue Heron - 4
Turkey Vulture - 14
Killdeer - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 7
E. Kingbird - 1
Warbling Vireo - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 4
Barn Swallow - 115 - impressive flight
Cutright:
Double-cr. Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron -3
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 78
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
E. Wood-pewee - 3
E. Phoebe - 2
E. Kingbird - 1
Warbling Vireo - 6
Red-eyed Vireo - 45
Barn Swallow - 25
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 10
E. Bluebird - 5
Gray Catbird - 2
Cedar Waxwing - 12
No. Parula - 2
Yellow-thr. Warbler - 1
Prairie Warbler - 1
Am. Redstart - 1
Don Whitehead
Bloomington
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Subject: Fox IslandFrom: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:51:03 EDT Fox Island County Park, Allen Co., produced 51 species on this cool, sunny
Friday morning, including nine species of warblers. As an observer-comfort
bonus, I ran into virtually no mosquitoes.
Wood Duck 32
Great Blue Heron 9
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
AKilldeer 6
Mourning Dove 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird 6
Woodpecker: Red-bellied 12, Downy 17, Hairy 3, N. Flicker 2, Pileated 1
E. Wood Pewee 13
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Vireo: White-eyed 3, WSarbling 4, Red-eyed 6
Blue Jay 6
Am. Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 18
Tufted Titmouse 16
White-br. Nuthatch 11
Wren: Carolina 3, House 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Am. Robin 190
Gray Catbird 38
Brown Thrasher 4
Eur. Starling 40
Cedar Waxwing 12
Warbler:
Tennessee 6
Chestnut-sided 3
Magnolia 1
Blackburnian 1
Black and White 2
Am. Redstart 5
Ovenbird 3
Common Yellowthroat 4
Canada 1
Scarlet Tanager 2
E. Towhee 8
Sparrow: Field 12, Song 3
N. Cardinal 29
Rose-br. Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 9
Red-winged Blackbird 8
Common Grackle 92
Baltimore Oriole 7
Am. Goldfinch 23
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Subject: Pine Creek Gamebird Habitat Area , 8/27/10From: "Dunning, John B" <jdunning AT PURDUE.EDU> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:54:14 -0400 I did the first of the weekly waterfowl surveys for the DNR this morning. At Pine Creek Gamebird Habitat area in Benton County there was a pleasant variety of birds, especially pleasant since the whole property was essentially dry last year and we missed fall migration there. Large numbers of waterfowl were there, especially Blue-winged Teal. If you want to visit, however, consider that early waterfowl seasons for Canada Geese and teal start on Sept 1 -4, depending on species. So this weekend is likely to be the best time to visit. Half of the property is closed during hunting season to give the waterfowl a refuge where they won't be disturbed. There was a scattering of shorebirds, most of which were ID'ed by silhouette due to the lighting conditions. There is a good amount of shorebird habitat and more will develop as the water levels drop. The Bobolink sang briefly, as did the Sedge Wren. Barny Dunning Misner13 AT verizon.net Location: Pine Creek Gamebird Habitat Area Observation date: 8/27/10 Number of species: 32 Canada Goose 28 Wood Duck 27 Mallard 264 Blue-winged Teal 130 Ring-necked Pheasant 4 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Great Blue Heron 37 Great Egret 15 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Sora 1 Killdeer 24 Lesser Yellowlegs 12 Least Sandpiper 6 Pectoral Sandpiper 11 Stilt Sandpiper 2 Mourning Dove 1 Chimney Swift 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 2 Tree Swallow 500 Bank Swallow 1 Cliff Swallow 1 Sedge Wren 1 American Robin 7 European Starling 42 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 1 Bobolink 1 American Goldfinch 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? 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I was wearing hip boots and thought I might try to cross the entire interior of the wetland. Rails have sometimes used the smartweed islands. I was curious to see what the islands looked like from the inside. The islands were not very promising, at least to my subjective eye. Most of them were quite dried out and one of them had smartweed taller than my head. I did not even know that smartweed got that tall. Admittedly, the vegetation was so thick and tall on the islands that I likely would not have seen a rail, even if some were present. (If the smartweed gets that tall in adjacent flooded BH5N it could potentially provide some cover for waterfowl hunters.) With vegetation so high and dense I scrubbed the attempt to do an interior transect of BH5S. Michael Brown arrived on the splitter levee as I was leaving. We briefly watched 6 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS foraging on the mudflats before I departed. The walk turned up 13 species of shorebirds including 1 WILSON'S SNIPE kicked up from vegetated island edges in the east end. Location: Goose Pond FWA Beehunter Marsh Observation date: 8/25/10 Notes: Walking in GPFWA Beehunter Marsh Unit BH5S checking on shorebirds and habitat, 3:30-5:45 PM. Wood Duck 1 Mallard 7 Blue-winged Teal 14 Northern Shoveler 8 Northern Bobwhite 1 on the levee next to Beehunter Ditch Great Blue Heron 5 Semipalmated Plover 2 Killdeer 29 Black-necked Stilt 4 all faded adults Spotted Sandpiper 4 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 13 Semipalmated Sandpiper 20 Least Sandpiper 31 Baird's Sandpiper 6 juveniles, all in view at the same time Pectoral Sandpiper 8 Stilt Sandpiper 12 Wilson's Snipe 1 flushed next to an island in the east end Rock Pigeon 8 Mourning Dove 4 Bell's Vireo 1 singing along Beehunter Ditch Indigo Bunting 4 Red-winged Blackbird 60 American Goldfinch 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: migrant warblers Morgan Co From: Doug & Cheri Johnstone <dougcher2080 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:24:13 -0400 Today we had a first year female chestnut-sided, female redstart, first year male blackburnian, and a Tennessee warbler. All first for the fall season. Doug Johnstone, Morgan Co. ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Chain O' Lakes State Park From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:34:38 EDT Sandy Schacht and I, joined for the morning by Casey Ryan and Jeff
Antonelis-Lapp (visiting birder, Washington) went to Chain O'Lakes in Noble
County
on Thursday morning. We were hoping that last night's cold front would
bring the first good influx of migrant warblers. It didn't. There were more
warblers than we have yet seen, but still just a trickle. We found one
good flock, a few other pockets of some activity, and long stretches that
were essentially birdless. Still, we managed 55 species in the park,
including some added in a walk around Dock Lake after Casey and Jeff left.
Sandy
and I quit at 12:30. All birds below were in the park.
Turkey 4
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 5
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Woodpecker: Red-headed 1, Red-bellied 5, Downy 2, N. Flicker 1, Pileated 1
E. Wood Pewee 14
Acadian Flycatcher 3
E. Phoebe 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
E. Kingbird 3
Vireo: Yellow-throated 3, Warbling 7, Red-eyed 1
Blue Jay 5
Am. Crow 2
Barn Swallow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 19
Tufted Titmouse 7
White-br. Nuthatch 5
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 7
Am. Robin 12
Gray Catbird 6
Cedar Waxwing 12
Warbler:
Blue-winged 2
Tennessee 5
Nashville 1
Magnolia 3
Black-throated Green 1
Blackburnian 1
Bay-breasted 2
Black and White 1
Hooded 1
Scarlet Tanager 3
E. Towhee 4
Sparrow: Chipping 4, Field 7, Song 1
N. Cardinal 24
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 2
Baltimore Oriole 3
Am. Goldfinch 7
House Sparrow 1
Jim Haw
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Subject: Blackpoll WarblerFrom: Jerry Brown <jwbrown8628 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:03:12 -0400 A decent number of Magnolias and a FOS Blackpoll Warbler were the only bright spots in Franke this morning. Maybe I'll try Eagle Marsh tomorrow since the prediction is for lows in the high 40's tonight. Great Blue Heron 1 Coopers Hawk 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Pewee 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 A. Redstart 2 Magnolia Warbler 5 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 Jerry Brown, Fort Wayne ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: IOS Photo Quiz (no sightings) From: Robert Hughes <rhughes.enteract AT RCN.COM> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:30:45 -0500 An answer to the Late Summer 2010 IOS Photo Quiz is now up. A new quiz will be posted in a few days. http://www.illinoisbirds.org/photo_quiz.html Robert D. Hughes Chicago, Illinois ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Summer Bird Counts From: Amy Kearns <greenpertplus AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:11:52 -0400 If you participated in the Summer Bird Count, please send your data to us by September 1st. You can email it to John Castrale or I (any format is fine although I prefer the SBC tally sheet), fax it or snail mail it. Thanks for your participation! Amy Kearns Indiana Division of Fish & Wildlife akearns AT dnr.in.gov John Castrale jcastrale AT dnr.in.gov 562 DNR Rd Mitchell IN 47446 Fax (812) 849-6013 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: SW Allen Thrushes- Aug 26 AM From: "Rodger P. Rang" <rrang AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:32:05 -0400 Just now outside my front door, I noted a fair number of Swainson's Thrushes flying overhead. Cold fronts are cool! Rodger Rang Fort Wayne ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Beehunter, Goose Pond From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:14:23 -0400 This morning Bob Kissel, Bob Dodd and I birded Beehunter and various
sites at Goose Pond. A good morning with nice views of many shorebirds.
The highlights;
100S from 67 to Beehunter:
Am. Kestrel - 3
Killdeer - 3
Bell's Vireo - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1
E. Towhee - 1
Indigo Bunting - 6
Brown-headed Cowbird - 500 (one huge flock mixed with starlings)
Beehunter 4/5:
Canada Goose - 12
Wood Duck - 4
Blue-winged Teal - 16
No. Bobwhite - 3
Great Blue Heron - 8
Semipalmated Plover - 6
Killdeer - 18
Black-necked Stilt - 4
Spotted Sandpiper - 4
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2
Least Sandpiper - 26
Baird's Sandpiper - 1
Stilt Sandpiper - 10
Pectoral Sandpiper - 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Common Nighthawk - 2
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Sedge Wren - 7
Gray Catbird - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Indigo Bunting - 4
Baltimore Oriole - 1
MPE from 59:
Blue-winged Teal - 25
Double-cr. Cormorant - 115 (one group of 75 flying N)
Great Blue Heron - 45
Great Egret - 56
Green Heron - 2
Black-cr. Night-heron - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 1
Caspian Tern - 1
Bell's Vireo - 2
Grasshopper Sparrow - 2
Bobolink - 2
GP10N:
Mallard - 16
Blue-winged Teal - 24
No. Shoveler - 26
Great Blue Heron - 16
Great Egret - 8
Green Heron - 4
Semipalmated Plover - 12
Killdeer - 32
Spotted Sandpiper - 6
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2
Least Sandpiper - 45
Baird's Sandpiper - 5
Stilt Sandpiper - 1
Pectoral Sandpiper - 95
Short-billed Dowitcher - 1
E. Wood-pewee - 1
Swallows - 5000 (75% tree, 20% bank, also barn and rough-winged)
Cedar Waxwing - 14
Sedge Wren - 4
Henslow's Sparrow - 3
1200 looking N over MP:
Canada Goose - 2
Wood Duck - 6
Mallard - 12
Blue-winged Teal - 35
No. Bobwhite - 3
Double-cr. Cormorant - 16
Great Blue Heron - 65
Great Egret - 179
Little Blue Heron - 2
Cattle Egret - 5 (farm on 500)
Black-cr. Night Heron - 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Bell's Vireo - 2
Swallows - 3500 (mostly tree and bank)
Sedge Wren - 5
Henslow's Sparrow - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 6
Baltimore Oriole - 1
Don Whitehead
Bloomington
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Subject: FW: eBird Report - Falls of the Ohio (IN) , 8/25/10From: Ed Peter <e.peter AT INSIGHTBB.COM> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:30:17 -0400 Location: Falls of the Ohio (IN) Observation date: 8/25/10 Number of species: 32 Canada Goose 5 Wood Duck 6 Mallard 50 Double-crested Cormorant 6 Great Blue Heron 25 Great Egret 18 Black-crowned Night-Heron 15 Black Vulture 30 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Kestrel 1 Killdeer 2 Caspian Tern 1 Rock Pigeon 50 Mourning Dove 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Eastern Kingbird 2 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 3 Barn Swallow 6 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 American Robin 30 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 40 Song Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 2 Baltimore Oriole 1 House Finch 3 American Goldfinch 6 House Sparrow 4 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Ed Peter Floyds Knobs ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? 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As I was leaving the splitter levee Michael Brown and I watched 6 juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS in view at the same time, 5 of them together in one scope field. I Michael is now out on the mudflats photographing some of the shorebirds. --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond FWA Waterfowl Survey Aug 24 1010 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:07:50 -0400 Yesterday morning (August 24 2010) Property Manager Brad Feaster and I did the inaugural weekly DNR waterfowl survey of the fall season at Goose Pond FWA in Greene County. This fall's survey featured our best start for ducks so far. We have been conducting the weekly DNR waterfowl survey from early fall through winter since the state acquired and opened the Goose Pond FWA property to public access in November of 2005. Yesterday's tallies were 213 CANADA GEESE, 414 WOOD DUCKS, 258 MALLARDS, 371 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 49 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, and 10 GREEN-WINGED TEAL. A glance at the database suggests these are all time property high counts for the month of August for Wood Duck, Blue-winged Teal, and Northern Shoveler. Last Friday August 20 DNR staff member Dennis Workman set a new August property high count for MALLARDS with 350 tallied. This also is the second highest state count for Mallard for the month August according to Ken Brock. The 1226 acre Main Pool West Unit has made a big difference for migratory duck foraging and resting. The newly completed Main Pool West first filled with water starting with the January thaw of 2009. Last year in August of 2009 we were fogged out at MPW the morning of the first day of the waterfowl survey. Fewer ducks were present on the property. And we had less physical access into the interior parts of MPW. (Inevitably, we still miss birds in large portions of the MPW wetland impoundment; the rapidly increasing vegetation obscures the view.) Among non-waterfowl: an evening vigil of the egret and heron roost in Main Pool East produced a new high tally for the current year of 883 GREAT EGRETS. The two Main Pool wetland Units at GPFWA continue to harbor the largest Great Egret spectacle in recorded Indiana history. Some other numbers on the day were 5 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, 3 SNOWY EGRETS, 37 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, 3 COMMON MOORHENS, and 28 BLACK-NECKED STILTS. Fifteen BELL'S VIREOS were still singing as we toured the levees searching for waterfowl. The routes and Units: Brad started watching the early flight out at Beehunter Marsh Unit BH5. I started watching the Wood Duck flight out at Goose Pond Unit GP11. We then combined forces and visited the east levee of Main Pool West. Later Ross Brittain and Breck Robinson joined us for two forays into the swales and channels on west side the Main Pool West. I returned in the evening and did some more Units, including the watch of the egret and heron roost in Main Pool East through after sunset. Brad and I generally concentrated on waterfowl and except for the Black-necked Stilts we did not pause to count or scope shorebird concentrations when we encountered them. Weather: Starting an hour before sunrise: clear skies, full moon still up, some light patchy low fog. Later skies becoming partly cloudy at mid-day, mostly overcast late afternoon through evening. Temperature mid-60s F at the start with a mid-afternoon high of 81 F (much cooler than in recent weeks). Wind NE 2-6 mph in the morning, by mid-late afternoon NE 10 mph occasionally gusting to 18 mph, calming down toward sunset. GPFWA BEEHUNTER MARSH UNIT BH5, by Brad Feaster only: Wood Duck 9 Mallard 63 Blue-winged Teal 18 Northern Shoveler 5 GPFWA UNIT GP11N, 6:10-7:05 AM. Linton sunrise was 7:09 AM. By Lee only: Canada Goose 20 Wood Duck 87 Mallard 1 AMERICAN BITTERN 2 both flew from the tall grass prairie to the cattails LEAST BITTERN 3 1 seen flying and at least 2 more doing kak calls Great Blue Heron 12 Green Heron 7 Northern Bobwhite 1 Mourning Dove 3 Eastern Kingbird 1 American Crow 3 Barn Swallow 10 Carolina Wren 1 Gray Catbird 1 Song Sparrow 3 Red-winged Blackbird 52 (the big numbers in the cattails just starting to stir around when I left) American Goldfinch 3 GPFWA MAIN POOL WEST, from the east levee by Brad and Lee starting at 7:22 AM, and then, at mid-day starting at noon, two ventures into the interior of the far south end with Ross Brittain and Breck Robinson also coming along: Canada Goose 115 all leaving and heading west shortly after sunrise Wood Duck 251 Mallard 183 Blue-winged Teal 353 Northern Shoveler 2 Green-winged Teal 10 Pied-billed Grebe 2 AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN 5 Double-crested Cormorant X didn't count, tally done in MPE Great Blue Heron X didn't count Great Egret X counted at the evening roost in MPE small white egret/heron sp 6 seen flying distantly evening with binoculars only, either Cattle Egrets or Little Blue Herons, based on flight I would guess Cattle Egret Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 1 adult Common Moorhen 3 fully grown juveniles together in a south end swale Killdeer X did not count BLACK-NECKED STILT 28 included 26 on one sweep from the north end levee at the check-in stand, one less than Eric Ripma and his party found there; 2 more were on the east side of MPW Greater Yellowlegs 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Eastern Kingbird 8 Bell's Vireo 13 all of them singing along ditch lines Sedge Wren 1 Gray Catbird 3 Field Sparrow 3 Grasshopper Sparrow 5 Blue Grosbeak 1 Dickcissel 3 Eastern Meadowlark 2 Bobolink 2 GOOSE POND FWA MAIN POOL EAST, looking over from the Main Pool West east levee in the morning (Brad and Lee) and then doing a watch of the MPE egret roost in the evening 7:10-8:35 PM (Lee only): Wood Duck 5 Mallard 4 Double-crested Cormorant 190 morning tally Least Bittern 1 calling in cattails, morning Great Blue Heron X did not count GREAT EGRET 883 individually counted at the evening roost, see notes below SNOWY EGRET 3 in view together at the evening roost Cattle Egret 1 only 1 seen at the evening roost BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON 37 20 adults, 15 juveniles, 2 nestlings (some of the BCNHs were also in MPW), all recorded in the morning with Brad Pectoral Sandpiper 131 a severe under count Gray Catbird 1 Field Sparrow 5 Indigo Bunting 4 Red-winged Blackbird X large evening flocks not counted Yesterday evening I used a different angle for watching the evening roost. This move allowed me to get more comprehensive numbers on the increasing Great Egrets but it did not afford as good a view of the smaller white birds on the lower east side of the the roost. I found only 1 Cattle Egret, 3 Snowy Egrets together, and no Little Blue Herons. At 7:33 PM I counted 688 Great Egrets already at the roost. The rest of the Great Egrets were counted in flight as they arrived over the next hour. Next week we should start counting Great Blue Herons too. Their numbers are increasing GPFWA FIELD B, Brad and Lee: American Kestrel 1 GPFWA UNIT GP6W: Red-tailed Hawk 1 GPFWA UNITS GP8 and GP7, Brad, Ross, Breck, and Lee: Northern Harrier 1 dark juvenile, looked like one of the local birds GPWA UNIT GP13, Ross, Breck, and Lee: Turkey Vulture 3 GPFWA UNIT GP9, Ross, Breck, and Lee: Wood Duck 5 Pied-billed Grebe 4 Sedge Wren 1 GPFWA UNIT GP10N, from the north levee mid-day, Ross, Breck, and Lee. Very bad glare and thermal distortion conditions by the time we arrived prevented us from doing many of the shorebirds: Semipalmated Plover 7 high in view at the same time Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Least Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 130 Bell's Vireo 1 singing All the rest of the Units were by Lee only. GPFWA UNIT GP5N, the stock pond, evening: Wood Duck 14 flying out toward Main Pool East Eastern Kingbird 3 GPFWA FIELD J (new numbering system) along CR 300 S, east of CR 1100 W, early evening: Northern Bobwhite 2 Mourning Dove 84 GPFWA UNIT GP1, mostly looking in from the Unit GP4 south levee: Canada Goose 73 Wood Duck 10 Mallard 7 Northern Shoveler 10 Least Sandpiper 2 Tree Swallow 40 on power wires along CR 1100 W Bank Swallow 80 ditto Gray Catbird 1 Note: 42 Northern Shovelers were loafing in Unit GP1 in the early evening. These could possibly have included the 32 seen earlier in Main Pool East across the Black Creek tree line in the morning. I therefore opted for caution and only counted 10 of the 42 seen in GP1 as new on the day. GPFWA UNIT GP2, in the ditch separating the Unit GP2 and GP14: Bell's Vireo 1 singing GPFWA UNIT GP5S: Wood Duck 33 --Lee Sterrenburg, Bloomington, Brad Feaster, Linton, Ross Brittain, Greenwood, & Breck Robinson, Linton ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Lakefront 25 Aug '10 From: "Kenneth J. Brock" <kj.brock AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:28:55 -0500 Today (24 August ’10) Joel Greenberg, John Kendall, and I conducted a lakewatch at Miller Beach (7:00-11:00AM). The wind was NNW at 15 and diminished a bit prior to our termination. The sky was clear with temperatures in the low 70s. Despite these promising conditions there was little movement on the lake and the hoped for jaeger did not appear. HIGHLIGHTS MILLER BEACH Blue-winged Teal (106) Double-crested Cormorant (8) T. Vulture (1) Cooper’s Hawk (1) Am. Kestrel (1) Peregrine Falcon (2 flew past together) WILLET (5) Sanderling (17- 1 adult, 8 juvs, & 8 not aged) Semipalmated Sandpiper (3 juvs) Baird’s Sandpiper (1 juv) Bonaparte’s Gull (11- 1 ad & 10 juvs) Caspian Tern (3 adults) Black Tern (70- in two large flocks) Common Tern (71- well offshore) Chimney Swift (12) Hummingbird (1) Barn Swallow (9) Ken Brock Chesterton, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Dunes Area, 8/25/10 From: Brad Bumgardner <bumgbj01 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:02:32 -0500 Greetings, I spent a few hours this morning checking a few sites. Only some modest movement and no real passerine numbers migrating after the dry, cold front. INDIANA DUNES SP: (pavilion 6:45am-9am) Mallard- 2 Blue-winged Teal- 60 DC Cormorant- 2 Turkey Vulture- 8 Red-shouldered Hawk- 1 (imm) Bonaparte's Gull- 69 (~80% were juvs) Ring-billed Gull- 110 Herring Gull- 15 Caspian Tern- 8 Black Tern- 9 Chimney Swift- 21 Barn Swallow- 28 STRIEBEL POND: RING-NECKED DUCK- 1 Great-blue Heron- 3 Great Egret- 1 Spotted Sandpiper- 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper- 2 (juvs) Least Sandpiper- 2 (juvs) Caspian Tern- 2 BEVERLY SHORES: (quick drive) Great-blue Heron- 1 Great Egret- 2 Red-shouldered Hawk- 5 (including 1 imm perched on telephone wire) Ruby-throated Hummingbird- 1 Red-headed Woodpecker- 3 N MOCKINGBIRD- 2 (Beverly, just west of Broadway) Brad Bumgardner Chesterton, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Eagle Marsh ducks, shorebirds From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:51:15 EDT I hiked out from the Boy Scout building and checked the impoundments on each side of the pumphouse dike this Wednesday morning. My reward was a notable influx of ducks and a fair shorebird variety. There is shorebird habitat on both sides of this dike. Canada Goose Wood Duck AMERICAN WIGEON 1 earliest fall record for NE IN by 9 days Mallard Blue-winged Teal 13 Northern Shoveler 18 Green-winged Teal 1 Pied-billed Grebe 10 or so Great Blue Heron 30 or so Great Egret 22 Green Heron 1 Am. Kestrel 1 Sora 2 Common Moorhen 8 (1ad., 7 juv.) Am. Coot 20+ Semipalmated Plover 1 Killdeer Solitary Sandpiper 6 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Semipalmated Sandpiper 3 Least Sandpiper 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 14 Ring-billed Gull 3 Belted Kingfisher 2 Tree Swallow 3 Eur. Starling Song Sparrow 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 9 Red-winged Blackbird Jim Haw ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Eagle Creek Tuesday Aug. 24th 2010 From: Spike Selig <spikeselig AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:34:46 -0700 Just a couple of notes. I spent about an hour at the SE end of Eagle Creek and the adjacent South end of the Eagle Creek Airport. At the airport, near the top of the tallest dead branch in the tallest tree, 2 Kestrels sat perched about 3 feet apart. It would have made a spectacular picture but I havn't gotten my camera back for my scope yet. Ring-billed Gulls were present in large numbers totaling 128, a high count for me this summer. I suspect a herring Gull might have come in and joined the crowd, but after much searching of the flock. I could not find any. The Osprey was still in the area. today was beautiful day, winds light and visibility good, the temperature cool enough to keep the Cicadas from mounting their drone. This last spring's and early summer's high rain levels from state line to state line in central Indiana flooded many mudflats and other shorebird habitats . This month, Indianapolis is coming close to breaking the record for driest August ever and the mud flats should be reopening at Eagle Creek. With the opening of some mudflats, cool northely winds, and increases in migrating warblers, this Sunday's Eagle Creek Bird Walk should be a great one. Great birding, Spike ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Lake Monroe shorebirds, RUGR, OSFL From: Mike Clarke <redeyegravy AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:27:56 -0400 On Monday morning, I birded a few spots around Lake Monroe. An abbreviated list of highlights: North Fork: Great Egret- 17 Greater Yellowlegs- 1 Lesser Yellowlegs- 3 Solitary Sandpiper- 4 Semi-palmated Sandpiper- 6 Spotted Sandpiper- 2 Stilt Sandpiper- 1 At the HEE clearcut on Deckard Ridge Rd.: Olive-sided Flycatcher- 2 Crooked Creek area (LOTS of shorebird habitat, but only a smattering of shorebirds): Ruffed Grouse- 1 drumming not far from the access road about 1/2 mile south of the boat ramp Great Egret- 8 Semi-palmated Plover- 3 Solitary Sanpiper- 8 Pectoral Sandpiper- 13 Spotted Sandpiper- 6 Semi-palmated Sandpiper- 14 Also saw a number of passerines, but no obvious migrants (other than the OSFL). -Mike Clarke Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Eagle Marsh, Ft Wayne From: zzedpowers AT AOL.COM Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:50:05 -0400 I hadn't walk the entire Trail 1 for a while, so I did that today. As has been my experience lately, there wasn't a lot of activity away from the Pump Road. I did come upon a dead Double-crested Cormorant in the middle of the trail; I didn't do a forensic examination, but there was no apparent evidence of foul play (notice how I restrained myself from saying "fowl play"). Cause of death unknown. Number of species: 26 Canada Goose 1 (!) Wood Duck 2 Mallard 100 Blue-winged Teal 2 Pied-billed Grebe 3 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 31 Great Egret 37 Common Moorhen 8 American Coot 19 Killdeer 4 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 Mourning Dove 1 Chimney Swift 11 Belted Kingfisher 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Kingbird 2 Barn Swallow 6 European Starling 300 Song Sparrow 3 Indigo Bunting 6 Red-winged Blackbird 200 American Goldfinch 6 House Sparrow 15 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Ed Powers Allen County ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Fairfax area From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:40:36 -0400 This morning I visited Fairfax, hoping for shorebirds - again, little luck. The highlights: Canada Goose - 42 Mallard - 35 Great Blue Heron - 3 BLACK VULTURE - 31 (numbers increasing day by day) Turkey Vulture - 36 Red-sh. Hawk - 1 (imm) Killdeer - 2 Ring-billed Gull - 87 Caspian Tern - 2 E. Wood-pewee - 1 E. Phoebe - 1 E. Kingbird - 4 Barn Swallow - 18 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 Magnolia Warbler - 1 (FOS) Don Whitehead Bloomington whitehea AT indiana.edu ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond FWA/Beehunter Marsh From: Eric Ripma <eripma AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:26:27 -0400 Marty Williams, Rob Ripma, Mary Lou Stark, and I birded around Goose Pond most of the day today. The highlights included good looks at Buff-breasted and Baird's Sandpiper. Highlights: GP Main Pool West (From the Tern Island and dike south of the check-in station): Northern Shoveler-4 Green-winged Teal-1 American White Pelican-1 Snowy Egret-1 (from Tern Island) Little Blue Heron-4 (from Tern Island) Black-necked Stilt-27 (counted in one sweep from the check-in station dike) Stilt Sandpiper-6 GP10N (from the N dike): Osprey-1 Stilt Sandpiper-12 Short-billed Dowitcher-2 Prothonotary Warbler-1 (along the dike, my first on the Goose Pond property) BH5S: Baird's Sandpiper-2 Stilt Sandpiper-8 Buff-breasted Sandpiper-1 Eric Ripma Carmel and Zionsville, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Limberlost shorebirds From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:35:07 EDT Sandy Schacht, Marisa Windell and I enjoyed another fine morning of shorebirding at Limberlost Swamp Wetland Preserve, Adams Co. Water continues to fall, total number of shorebirds (other than Killdeer) was down a bit, but variety was up with thirteen shorebird species tallied. The list from Limberlost; shorebird numbers reflect an actual count but are not exact as birds move around: Canada Goose Mallard Great Blue Heron 11 Red-tailed Hawk 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER 1 Semipalmated Plover 5 Killdeer 520 AMERICAN AVOCET 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 67 Semipalmated Sandpiper 59 Least Sandpiper 8 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER 3 Pectoral Sandpiper 77 STILT SANDPIPER 4 juv. Wilson's Snipe 1 Mourning Dove Am. Crow 4 Horned Lark 2 European Starling Bank Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 15 Savannah Sparrow 5 Bobolink 12 The Woods Rd. mudflat in Darke County, Ohio added Solitary Sandpiper and Short-billed Dowitcher, making 15 shorebird species for the day, plus more of the commoner species listed above and 5 Baird's Sandpipers. Jim Haw ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: eBird Report - Marian College Ecolab , 8/24/10 From: G L Chastain <glcbirds AT MSN.COM> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:04:35 -0400 A beautiful day for my first trip to the Ecolab in months, and I was rewarded with lots of residents and some migrants - Philadelphia Vireo, 2 Chestnut-sided Warblers, Ovenbird, and 2 Magnolia Warblers. Gordon Chastain Indianapolis > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:00:32 -0400 > From: do-not-reply AT ebird.org > To: glcbirds AT msn.com > Subject: eBird Report - Marian College Ecolab , 8/24/10 > > > > Location: Marian College Ecolab > Observation date: 8/24/10 > Number of species: 37 > > Canada Goose 1 > Wood Duck 9 > Great Blue Heron 1 > Mourning Dove 4 > Common Nighthawk 1 > Chimney Swift 1 > Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 > Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 > Downy Woodpecker 2 > Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3 > Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 > Willow Flycatcher 1 > Eastern Kingbird 3 > White-eyed Vireo 3 > Warbling Vireo 1 > Philadelphia Vireo 1 > Red-eyed Vireo 1 > Blue Jay 1 > Carolina Chickadee 7 > Tufted Titmouse 1 > White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 3 > Carolina Wren 4 > House Wren 3 > Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5 > American Robin 100 > Gray Catbird 35 > Brown Thrasher 2 > European Starling 30 > Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 > Magnolia Warbler 2 > Ovenbird 1 > Song Sparrow 5 > Northern Cardinal 6 > Indigo Bunting 1 > Red-winged Blackbird 1 Baltimore Oriole 5 - 1 carrying nest material! > American Goldfinch 60 > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Case of the missing godwits From: "Kenneth J. Brock" <kj.brock AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:40:58 -0500 Years ago, after numerous embarrassing experiences with the identification of young jaegers, I finally adopted the maxim, “never call a juvenile jaeger until it is safely out of sight.” In view of today’s pervasive digital photography it now seems appropriate to create a similar tenet for the counting of passing bird flocks. On 21 August I reported a record-tying flock of 52 Hudsonian Godwits that thrilled birders at Miller Beach. The birds were first detected circling over the impoundment and after milling about a bit they flew eastward about 200m off the beach. Members of my group (at the Lake Street lot) monitored their flight from the impoundment until they disappeared to the east. At no point were any birds noted breaking off or departing the flock. During this event the birder nearest the godwits, who also had the longest and closest look, counted 52 birds, twice (this observer made a conscience effort to avoid counting birds while they were bunched in the flock). As the roiling flock passed Lake Street one birder counted 50 and another 48. At the time the record looked like a slam- dunk. In view of several previous 52 godwit tallies in the state, I even suggested that godwits could count. The morning was gloomy-dark and light rain was falling, rendering photography virtually hopeless. However, as the flock passed the Lake Street lot I snapped some 20 shots. Michael Topp also took a few pictures. Alas, every photo revealed significantly fewer that 52 godwits. Indeed, the highest number I came up with was 43. Michael Topp reached a similar conclusion with his photos. The other birders present subsequently examined the photos and no one was able to find 52 birds. So we did not tie the Indiana record (which, by the way, was not photographed) and will have to settle for 43 godwits. It is very disconcerting that counts of 52, 52, 51, and 48 godwits by three separate observers, were uniformly off by such a wide margin, but who can argue with the pixels. An explanation for these precise, but inaccurate tallies, is wanting. Though it remains debatable whether godwits can count, it is painfully obvious that birders cannot. Ken Brock Chesterton ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: L. Shaum's photos From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:58:22 EDT Leland Shaum has taken some very good photos at the Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Facility and one of a Baird's Sandpiper may be of special interest: _http://www.flickr.com/photos/28248328 AT N05/4921259611/_ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/28248328 AT N05/4921259611/) If you have trouble accessing it let me know. Dan Stoltzfus Elkhart county ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Flatwoods Park Henslow's and Dickcissels From: Cathy Meyer <cmeyer AT KIVA.NET> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:58:23 -0400 Returned to Flatwoods Park this afternoon with Sandy Belth and was pleased to hear 2 whistling Bobwhites, 2 singing Dickcissels, and several ( at least 6-7) singing Henslow's Sparrows in the west field that extends to County Line Road. The trail in this area is very rough but these birds could have been heard from County Line Road if anyone wants to find them. There are hundreds of butterflies there, which Sandy will report to in-bugs. We also flushed a few small rodents, so this may be a good hunting ground this winter for raptors. Cathy Meyer Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? 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Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: The IBA south of Waterford From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:16:33 EDT I birded this area to keep some continuity for the Elkhart River Corridor Important Bird Area. This is about 1/4 of the IBA Location: Turkey Creek and Elkhart River Observation date: 8/23/10 Notes: I walked the church path, then along the Elkhart river which was heavily overgrown and difficult to walk. Magnolia Warber first warbler of the fall season for me. Number of species: 37 Mute Swan 2 Wood Duck 8 Great Blue Heron 7 Great Egret 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Ring-billed Gull 2 Mourning Dove 11 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 4 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Eastern Phoebe 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Warbling Vireo 3 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 31 Bank Swallow 4 Barn Swallow 14 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4 Eastern Bluebird 3 American Robin 14 Gray Catbird 5 Cedar Waxwing 18 Magnolia Warbler 1 Northern Cardinal 6 Indigo Bunting 1 American Goldfinch 7 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(_http://ebird.org_ (http://ebird.org) ) Dan Stoltzfus Elkhart county ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Eagle Creek count Sunday Aug 22, 1010 From: Spike Selig <spikeselig AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:29:49 -0700 I spent most of Sunday morning checking out the airport and Ricks Cafe/dam area
of Eagle Creek Park. Highlights of the day included watching a Coopers Hawk
sitting on the fence right over 2 fox squirrels. The hawk watched them intently
but the squirrels, a long way from a safe tree ignored the hawk. Finally, the
hawk made a half hearted swoop at one of the squirrels then left. During the
Eagle Creek Sunday Walk brunch, we were treated with Broakwinged hawks, the
first groug of five reacting to an adult Blad Eagle. Later, possibly the same
group appeared again making spectacular dives at each other. In their third and
last appearance, the Broad-wings dived at a red-shouldered hawk. Hard to
determine the exact count so I am leaving it at 5. The Bird walk group had a
great count of 79 species. I saw only 2 bird in the afternoon that would add to
that count bringing it up to 81, Great Egret and Tree Swallow. Great visibility
and cooler temperatures. My count hit 46 with no warblers. My thought is that
next week, the ducks will start coming in to the lake area.
Great birding,
Spike
Double-crested Cormorant 50? Not accurate count probable many
more.
Great Blue Heron 11
Green Heron 1 Immature with yellowish
legs,brown
throat striping.
American Egret 8
Turkey Vulture 6
Canada Goose 40
Wood Duck 1
Mallard 38
Osprey 1 Rick's Cafe. 2 were
seen there by another
birder the same
morning.
Bald Eagle 4 2 first year, 2 adult.
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 5 May have been as many as 10.
Killdeer 29
Solitary Sandpiper 4 First shorebird besides
Killdeer and
spotted this
summer at Eagle Creek.
Ring-billed Gull 90 Some second year, some
adult.
Mourning Dove 10
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Eastern Wood Peewee 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 5
Barn Swallow 30
Tree Swqllow 2
Carolina Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 2
Whitei=breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin 15
Gray Catbird 5
European Starling 75
Cedar Waxwing 9
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 8
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Eastern Meadowlark 4 Eagle Creek Airport.
Brown-headed Cowbird 25
American Goldfinch 6
House Sparrow 16
Northern Cardinal
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Subject: No SubjectFrom: Bill Poindexter <bpoindex AT CINERGYMETRO.NET> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:44:34 -0500 A couple of hours ago I was on Madison's riverfront. A T.V. landed on a light pole twenty feet away. Shortly afterward out of the corners of my eyes I saw the profile of a smaller bird come down on the top of the T.V. I turned my head and it appeared it was coming down upon the vulture with its feet spread out. I assumed it was a kestrel. The vulture flew away and the bird landed on the pole. It was a mockingbird, not a kestrel. I've never seen a mocker act like that before. ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu ********************************************************** |