ARBIRD-L for Saturday, April 12, 2008

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Subject: Re: Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
From: JoAnne Rife <RifeJA(AT)AOL.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 2008 9:27am

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Scissor-tailed flycatchers were not a part of my youth  in Benton  County 
about WWII time..Even without any abnormal interest  in birds,  surely I would 
have seen a scissor-tail  living on a farm on the  Bentonville (Osage) prairie. 
However, I believe they are now even as far  east as the Mississippi, right 
fellow birders?  I have been told that   a theory of the spread of western 
species into our state came about  with  the building of  the series of dams up
the White River.. started WWII  time.  I know that is likely true of 
roadrunners.. first heard of them in  the Ozark hills in the 1950's.   

JoAnne Rife  in the Arkansas Ozarks

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Subject: Immigrants
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joe_Mosby?= <jhmosby(AT)CYBERBACK.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 2008 10:37am

JoAnne Rife's comments about the arrival of scissor-tailed flycatchers and 
roadrunners leads to some thinking and speculation about other species. I 
recall seeing a scissor-tailed near the Arkansas River south of Conway in 
the 1960s. Saw a roadrunner close to Conway about that time. Cattle egrets 
moved into the Conway area a little later, maybe the early 1970s. Didn't 
these come up through Texas?

We had coyotes and armadillos move in earlier, and were these from Texas 
or Oklahoma? Or both? And fire ants. Wow. Didn't they come up through 
Louisiana?


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Subject: Osprey & floodwaters
From: Don & Judy <waterfall(AT)HBEARK.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 2008 5:01pm

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Working at my desk, I just watched a huge hawk circle above the creek in =
front of the falls & land in an oak overlooking the Piney. It was so =
much larger than the usual Red-tailed & Red-shouldered Hawks I =
frequently see here. Striking bird, very large, all bright white & =
black. The head was mostly white with a strong black eyestripe & a =
smudge of tawny color.  After I got a good look at the still bird with =
binoculars, he swooped down into the creek, picked up something & flew =
off downstream on long wings.=20
This was a thrill!
I have seen Osprey at this time of year over the White River between =
Beaver Dam & Beavertown, but never over this tributary to the Kings =
River. Of course all is at flood stage now in those larger waterbodies =
so as the water recedes in our stream we have discovered a variety of =
dead animals along the banks & in debris piles.  Does anyone out there =
know if Osprey also eat carrion? =20
Our BV's & TV's are very happy this spring with plenty to feed their =
nestlings.

Judith
Ninestone, Carroll County
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Subject: Fw: Immigrants
From: "FENNELL, Ellen" <EFENNELL(AT)AUDUBON.ORG>
Date: 12 Apr 2008 5:03pm

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From: FENNELL, Ellen
To: 'jhmosby(AT)cyberback.com' <jhmosby(AT)cyberback.com>
Sent: Sat Apr 12 18:04:49 2008
Subject: Re: Immigrants

I remember seeing on on roadrunner about 1970 on Hwy 17 driving from Clarendon
to Brinkley. Don't recall seeing on on scissortail here till much later-ten or
fifteen years ago.
Ellen
Little Rock

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Sent: Sat Apr 12 11:37:16 2008
Subject: Immigrants

JoAnne Rife's comments about the arrival of scissor-tailed flycatchers and
roadrunners leads to some thinking and speculation about other species. I
recall seeing a scissor-tailed near the Arkansas River south of Conway in
the 1960s. Saw a roadrunner close to Conway about that time. Cattle egrets
moved into the Conway area a little later, maybe the early 1970s. Didn't
these come up through Texas?

We had coyotes and armadillos move in earlier, and were these from Texas
or Oklahoma? Or both? And fire ants. Wow. Didn't they come up through
Louisiana?