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Subject: Kentucky W and Blue-h V on the move
From: Joe Neal <jneal(AT)FS.FED.US>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 8:02am
The little woods patch outside my office catches, briefly, a few of the
migrants in w. AR. This morning, heavy overcast, with Kentucky Warbler and
Blue-headed Vireo FOS here.
JOSEPH C. NEAL, biologist
Poteau Ranger District, Ouachita NF
P.O. Box 2255 (1541 Highway 248 W)
Waldron, AR 72958
jneal(AT)fs.fed.us 479-637-4174
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Subject: Rose breasted grosbeak
From: Gail Northcutt <northcutt71(AT)YAHOO.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 8:19am
My husband got a quick look at a Rose breasted
grosbeak this morning amid at least 100 gold finches
continuing to feed heavily on thistle seed.
Gail Northcutt in Stuttgart
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Subject: Bald Eagle nest with chicks, Ouachita NF
From: Joe Neal <jneal(AT)FS.FED.US>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 9:08am
Since 2000, I have made quick trips out to record information about a Bald
Eagle nest in a big old shortleaf pine on the Ouachita NF in Scott County.
I have seen chicks in this nest in all but one of those years. I have an
observation spot at considerable distance from the nest, on a parallel
ridge covered with young pines. It reduces the potential disturbance
associated with such observations and provides me with a better view of
nest contents. Yesterday, I saw an adult and 2 chicks, which I believe are
in the range of 2-3 weeks old. It means the eggs are laid in early March,
when the chorus frogs and peepers tune up here, but the hardwood trees are
dormant. The chicks hatch when the service berries bloom, and they are
peering out into their vast new world when the Yellow-throated Vireos
arrive and take their place in what Arkansas poet Lily Peter termed "the
green linen of summer." It's a soft green now, that early shade of green.
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From: Joyce Bennett <jabird(AT)BELLSOUTH.NET>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 9:07am
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Subject: firsts of season
From: Don & Judy <waterfall(AT)HBEARK.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 9:40am
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Chuck-wills-widow sang pre-dawn & I just saw an Indigo Bunting.=20
Still no hummingbirds or their native plants blooming here, although the =
feeder has been up.
Judith
Ninestone, Carroll County, AR
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Subject: Cornell's Bird of the Week...
From: Sandy Berger <fsbirdlady(AT)YAHOO.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 10:47am
....is the Red-cockaded Woodpecker.
birds.cornell.edu
Sandy B.
FS, AR
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Subject: Baltimore Oriole
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karen_Holliday?= <karenh(AT)ARKLEG.STATE.AR.US>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 12:01pm
Had the FOS of my returning male Baltimore Orioles singing up a storm in my
backyard last night. We've had two nesting pair spend the last two summers
with us. Hope the rest return also.
Karen Holliday
Maumelle, Pulaski Co.
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Subject: Indigo Bunting
From: Lyle Melton <lyle.melton(AT)GMAIL.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 12:15pm
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One of the advantages of being a new birder and moving to a new home is that
you have the joy of discovering new birds. Last night I saw my FOY and
first ever Indigo Bunting. I say him two more times during the
afternoon/evening. Hope he sticks around.
Lyle
Lyle Melton
Otter Creek
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Subject: finally!
From: Don & Judy <waterfall(AT)HBEARK.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 12:25pm
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A ruby-throated male finally showed up for lunch at the hummingbird =
feeder. That's 3 new migrants since the day began, I wonder who else is =
here!
Judith=20
Ninestone
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Subject: GH Owlets
From: Jacque Brown <jacque.brown1102(AT)YAHOO.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 12:41pm
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The gates to the Fish Hatchery were closed today so I couldn't drive through.
I went past the GH Owl nest instead. It's a far piece back of the pasture but
through the scope you could see there were two very large Owlets. I haven't
been so sure about that until today. I tried digiscoping them again. It looks
good on the camera but who knows what will show up on the computer.
I have had a few migrants show up at the house and I can hear the woodpeckers
drilling holes in the woods for nests but am awaiting the Hummers!!
Jacque Brown, Bella Vista.
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Subject: Lunchtime Surprises
From: Kelly Chitwood <kchitwood(AT)CABLELYNX.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 1:30pm
I visited Sandy Beach in Camden, Arkansas on my lunchbreak.
The Ouachita river has fallen a couple of feet, and I hoped to check
on a pair of nesting Red-shouldered Hawks. No luck there,
I still can't see the nest. I scanned the trees and sky for
the birds.
To my surprise a soaring raptor turned into a Bald
Eagle. Not a FOS but my FFC. (First For Camden.)
Cheers!
Kelly Chitwood
Camden, AR
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Subject: BWWA
From: Ted <ted(AT)MUSIKHAUS.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 3:00pm
I found a male Blue-Winged Warbler (Lifer) today along with FOY
Common Yellowthroat and Indigo Bunting.
Ted S
Russellville, AR
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Subject: Re: BWWA
From: Jacque Brown <jacque.brown1102(AT)YAHOO.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 3:30pm
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We were passing through after visiting relatives in Missouri when I remember
stopping by a little rest area, with a nice clear spring. I had been racking my
brain recently trying to remember what pretty birds we saw that day. There
were two.
I was checking out an old bird book I used (Pre-Sibley) since I am putting my
Lifers on the computer.
I have a notation by the Blue-Winged Warbler for 5/13/1996 in SW Missouri.
That's the day at the rest area. I also have a question mark next to what is
listed as a "Lawrence's Warbler", it's a Blue Winged - Golden Winged Warbler
hybrid. So...I pose a question to you all. What could my second Warbler have
been other than the hybrid? Jacque Brown, Bella Vista also at
bluebird2(AT)cox.net.
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Subject: BWWA
I found a male Blue-Winged Warbler (Lifer) today along with FOY
Common Yellowthroat and Indigo Bunting.
Ted S
Russellville, AR
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Subject: Baffled
From: Dennis Braddy <dmbraddy(AT)MAC.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 4:53pm
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I recently received an email asking what we do to keep squirrels from
raiding the birdcam feeders. At or near the beginning of the Arkansas
Birder Guest Photo Album is a picture of our solution.
The feeders are hung from hooks sprouting from the top of a 6.5-foot
pole placed away from trees or other squirrel launching platforms.
Below the feeders on the pole is a 2-foot cylindrical baffle. The top
is enclosed and the bottom is 1.5 feet above the ground. That puts the
top of the cylinder just barely too high for the squirrels, though
they tried and tried at first. The chipmunk regularly climbs the pole
up inside the baffle, but is stymied by the closed top end.
This setup is raccoon resistant, but not raccoon proof. One evening we
watched a raccoon grasp the pole below the baffle with its hind feet
while bear-hugging the baffle. Slowly, over several minutes, it was
able to shimmy up far enough to reach the top of the baffle and pull
itself up. After all that hard work it was almost a shame to chase it
away. Almost. We used to have raccoons nightly, but haven't seen any
lately.
The problem we are having now is an ever-present flock of about 200
American Goldfinches that empty 7 feeders a day. They've been at it
for several weeks, even though we intentionally let the feeders go
empty a few times. As soon as we refill them, the goldfinches are
back. >:-/
Dennis and Patricia Braddy and Skip
Little Rock, AR
http://www.arkansasbirder.net
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too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
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Subject: Chimney Swifts
From: Gail Miller <gail.miller(AT)CONWAYCORP.NET>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 4:58pm
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The Swifts arrived at work today at Conway Human Development Center. I =
reported their arrival to http://www.chimneyswifts.org/
Gail Miller
Conway (Faulkner Co.) AR.
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Subject: Dusking in the yard
From: Herschel Raney <herschel.raney(AT)CONWAYCORP.NET>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 7:59pm
Titmice making their way across the roof of my trees beneath the chatter
of Martins. The Purples nest in the boxes in the fields to the west but
like to soar overhead in the evening twisting among the chitter of
Chimney Swifts. North and south Barred Owls echo each other. Somewhere
nearby a Great Crested Flycatchers wheeeps. Gray Treefrogs test the air
for coming rain. One grates and creaks somewhere on the porch. Last year
it lived near the lights and sheltered in a potted plant.
This is the aural season. And I encourage all those out there to get up
early on the mornings of the next six weeks. If it just means coffee on
the patio a bit before you usually get out and about it will mean
birdsong for you. There is no excuse for not learning birdsong at this
time of year. Looking through scopes at distant ducks and shorebirds is
nice. I enjoy it. But there is nothing like woods full of morning
birdsong. This is the time of year when you can hear birds that are here
only a month or less. Warblers and flycatchers. Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.
I have been listening for over 37 years now and I have still not heard
all the variants and singers. I have heard calling Canada Warblers only
twice. The Golden-winged Warbler perhaps three times. The skyhigh
Blackburnian maybe 5 or 6. This could be the year I hear a Mourning
Warbler sing. I see about 1 male a year. I have never heard them make a
sound. Palm Warblers twice. Orange-crowneds maybe twice. It is one thing
to chase down a rare straggler. But nothing compares to finding that
singer in the bush that doesn't quite seem right and finding one of
these guys making their way through your own property or through your
favorite back yard tree.
And, as always in the last week of April listen for the Hermit Thrushes
before they go. It will make your morning. Perhaps your week. And the
Gray-cheeked Thrushes as they zip by. Every year they make me smile.
Herschel Raney
Conway AR
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Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - April 17
From: David Arbour <arbour(AT)WINDSTREAM.NET>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 8:33pm
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84 species were found on the Red Slough Bird Survey today. It was =
mostly cloudy, mild, and very windy. A number of first of the year =
birds were found today including Mississippi Kite and Blue Grosbeak. =
American Bitterns were seen and heard everywhere again. Soras were =
almost constantly calling. Here is a complete list of all found: =20
Canada Goose - 7
Wood Duck - 18
Gadwall - 5
Blue-winged Teal - 207
Northern Shoveler - 11
Northern Pintail - 1 male
Hooded Merganser - 1 female
Wild Turkey - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 32
American White Pelican - 4
Double-crested Cormorant - 50
Anhinga - 4
American Bittern - 24
Least Bittern - 1 (Bittern Lake)
Great Blue Heron - 16
Great Egret - 11
Snowy Egret - 5
Little Blue Heron - 18
Cattle Egret - 41
Green Heron - 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 1
White Ibis - 30
Dark Ibis sp. - 2
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 19
Mississippi Kite - 1
Bald Eagle - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Broad-winged Hawk - 1
King Rail - 2 (1 seen)
Virginia Rail - 4
Sora - 35
Common Moorhen - 4
American Coot - 170
Solitary Sandpiper - 2
Greater Yellowlegs - 16
Lesser Yellowlegs - 94
Mourning Dove - 3
Chimney Swift - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 7
Red-eyed Vireo - 7
Blue Jay - 9
American Crow - 14
Fish Crow - 6
Purple Martin - 2
Tree Swallow - 154
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 4
Cliff Swallow - 40
Barn Swallow - 6
Carolina Chickadee - 7
Tufted Titmouse - 6
Carolina Wren - 2
Sedge Wren - 6
Marsh Wren - 21
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 14
Eastern Bluebird - 3
Northern Mockingbird - 4
Brown Thrasher - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 9
Pine Warbler - 2
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Prothonotary Warbler - 7
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 23
Hooded Warbler - 1
Summer Tanager - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 7
Lincoln's Sparrow - 3
Swamp Sparrow - 8
White-throated Sparrow - 9
White-crowned Sparrow - 24
Northern Cardinal - 6
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 55
Common Grackle - 7
Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
American Goldfinch - 2
Odonates:
Fragile Forktail
Orange Bluet
Common Green Darner
Slender Baskettail
Mantled Baskettail
Oklahoma Clubtail
Blue Corporal
Common Pondhawk
Blue Dasher
Red/Carolina Saddlebags
Black Saddlebags
Herps:
American Alligator
Missouri River Cooter
Red-eared Slider
Mississippi Map Turtle
Mississippi Mud Turtle
Eastern Box Turtle
Diamond-backed Watersnake
Green Treefrog
Eastern Gray Treefrog
Bullfrog
Good birding!
David Arbour
De Queen, AR
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Personal Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/sloughbirder
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Subject: The Nest in a Nest in a Bucket in the Shop
From: Joyce Hartmann <hart(AT)ARTELCO.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 8:58pm
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My husband Bob spends most of his days outdoors, and reports all sorts of
interesting things that I miss by staying in my studio. He told me that
many weeks ago he discovered an old bird's nest, and for lack of a better
place at the moment, set it in a bucket of ashes in his shop. But before he
could put the nest in a more appropriate place, a pair of Carolina wrens
built a new nest on top of the old one. Soon they had eggs in their nest. He
also found that many mornings, there was a great fluttering of wings and
rustling of plastic as a wren flew out of a Wal-Mart plastic bag that was
hanging nearby in the shop. It was probably a warm place to take naps during
those cold snaps. Today the first hatchling flew up on top of the bucket and
perched for a few minutes, making a great deal of noise. "Look, Ma!" It was
so loud that a white-breasted nuthatch came into the shop to offer help.
Then more hatchlings jumped up and they all tumbled over the side of the
bucket, onto the floor and into the grass. Soon the parents enticed the
whole crew over to the burn pile, where several trailerloads of branches
were stacked. Lots of chattering and squawking. Four flopped and flew their
way over to join their parents. More calls and squawks, so loud and constant
that Bob thought there was a snake nearby. But no, it was just the fifth
baby, just a little more curious and slower than the rest, but it finally
fluttered and bounced its way to the pile of branches, too.
That's a pretty good count for that Nest in a Nest in a Bucket in the Shop.
Joyce Hartmann
Rock'n'Pine Glades, Clinton AR
hart(AT)artelco.com
www.joycehartmann.com
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