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Subject: BACKYARD BIRDS
From: Kelly Chitwood <kchitwood(AT)CABLELYNX.COM>
Date: 6 May 2008 8:06am
I was piddling around in my backyard early this morning when I heard
a familiar scold note, but couldn't quite place it.
I searched until I spied a Common Yellowthroat in my weeping yaupon
about 8 feet away!
That's a new one for my yard list.
Kelly Chitwood
Camden, AR
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Subject: weekend birding
From: Jacque Brown <bluebird2(AT)COX.NET>
Date: 6 May 2008 9:04am
See Mike Mlodinow's e mail.
I stopped by Centerton FH Monday morning on the way to running errands to look
for the Sora. Mike and David Oakley were there and Mike pointed out the
Sanderling. I had seen these while living on the gulf coast but it had been a
long while. I never would have found it in the book because it is between
plumages.
If anyone is interested in seeing that I will be sending the photo to the
Arkansas Birder site. I went back to Centerton in the afternoon after the
errands to look for the Sora and the Sanderling was still there . It was still
by the second pond to the East at the East entrance. No Sora but I did find a
Killdeer nest with the Killdeer protecting it with her finest dance.
After I got home I staked out the Phoebe nest to get a photo of mom on the nest.
It's over my car under the carport. I wandered around the yard and found
fledglings everywhere, Bluebirds in trees, Brown Thrashers standing so stock
still in a small ceder not two feet away from me I almost missed them, other
babies hopping around on the ground. There is a Titmouse nest in the small
Dogwood by the driveway. I spent the afternoon watching birds fly repeatedly to
the same places.
I am also seeing birds every day that I have to look up. Yesterday's was a
Wilson's Warbler. I thought, Oh it's just another Yellow Warbler, I got it in
the camera lens and found different.
I finally got a photo of a Yellow Breasted Chat at the gold course and saw
White Crowned Sparrows, Chipping Sparrows, a Lincolns Sparrow , and Indigo
Buntings galore. This morning I glanced out the door and saw a Rose Breasted
Grosbeak among the goldfinches.
It's pouring rain right now but I will be back out after it stops.
I have noticed that a goodly amount of the Bluebird boxes on the golf course
have been claimed by Tree Sparrows. Has anyone else noticed this? Good
Birding, Jacque.
--
Jacque Brown
Bella Vista,
Benton, Co AR,
bluebird2(AT)cox.net
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Subject: Yard birds
From: Toni Davidson <aqdez(AT)ATT.NET>
Date: 6 May 2008 9:29am
Living in the middle of J'boro, I don't get oodles of birds like you
all have been reporting. However, two thrills recently,have been an
indigo bunting , first ever in the yard, it stayed all day eating
sunflower and resting in my ficus, and as I watered newly planted
impatiens, a ruby throat male hummer landed on the wet leaves of the
minature cutleaf hydrangia and enjoyed a bath in the sprinkles! This
morning a pair of rosebreasted grossbeaks joined, Stubby, our
tailless squirrel, for breakfast. This Spring ,has been special,
inspite of the losses many are suffering. My heart goes out to all.
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Subject: Lake Leatherwood
From: Jason Luscier <jluscie(AT)UARK.EDU>
Date: 6 May 2008 10:11am
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Glenn Manning, James Van Dyke, and I went to Lake Leatherwood near Eureka
Springs yesterday to search for Collared Lizards. We saw 5 beautiful males
booming and 3 or 4 females. Below are the birds and herps we encountered.
Canada Goose
Blue-winged Teal 4
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Chimney Swift
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Mockingbird
Tennessee Warbler
Northern Parula
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Summer Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
HERPS:
Collared Lizards (8+)
Coachwhip Snake
Brown Earth Snake
Northern Water Snake
Jason D. Luscier
e-mail: <mailto:jluscie(AT)uark.edu> jluscie(AT)uark.edu
Department of Biological Sciences SCEN 632
1 University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201
(479) 575-2984
my website: http://comp.uark.edu/~jluscie/
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Subject: Bird photos
From: Richard Baxter <dickbaxter100(AT)GMAIL.COM>
Date: 6 May 2008 11:44am
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For some bad shots of some pretty good birds try:
http://www.pbase.com/dickbaxter/spring_2008&page=all
Just keep looking up, because you never know what might fly by...
Good birding!
Dick Baxter
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Subject: global warming and Arkansas birds
From: Kimberly Smith <kgsmith(AT)UARK.EDU>
Date: 6 May 2008 1:47pm
http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/globalwarming/Arkansas.pdf
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Kimberly G. Smith, Chair
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479-575-4248 fax: 479-575-4010
email: kgsmith(AT)uark.edu
homepage: comp.uark.edu/~kgsmith
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Subject: Ninestone field trip Saturday May 17
From: Joe Neal <jneal(AT)FS.FED.US>
Date: 6 May 2008 2:34pm
Come out and join a field trip on the Ninestone Land Trust, Saturday May
17. Ninestone is located in Carroll County, north of Kingston and south of
Berryville (it's near Metalton on 21 on the Arkansas state map). We are
officially meeting there at 9 AM, but folks are welcomed earlier, too. We
set the 9 AM start to make it easier for travel. Folks from Arkansas Native
Plant Society will be out at mid-afternoon, so we can do 2X duty in terms
of natural history. Come and go on your own schedule.
The 400 odd acres at Ninestone includes the riparian zone along Piney
Creek, high pastures, sandstone glades, shortleaf pine stands, high bluff
lines, and the series of waterfalls for which the land trust is named. If
you are courageous, and can stand the cool spring water, jump into one of
the sandstone kettles formed by the waterfalls, and admire the crawfish,
lichens, and waterthrushes up close and personal.
Habitat diversity equals diversity for both the bird and plant community.
The scenic upland fields are typical of an earlier day in the Ozarks. This
field trip, like previous ones, will help document the bird community
associated with the landtrust. And most importantly, it will be fun!
As in the past, we will share an informal pot luck type lunch on the porch
while keeping a sharp eye out for feeder birds, and birds along Piney Creek
near the waterfalls.
If you have questions about the trip, please contact Judith or Don (below).
--Joe Neal
1.For those coming from Berryville or north-
Directions from intersection of Hwy. 62 E & Hwy. 21 S just east of
Berryville: From Hwy. 62 east of Berryville, take Hwy. 21 South for 10 +
miles to the Cedar Creek Country Store on the RIGHT. IMMEDIATELY after
the store & parking lot, turn RIGHT onto a gravel road. The gravel road
is CR 512, but is not well marked, so just turn RIGHT immediately after
the store. Do Not Cross the Bridge over Cedar Creek!
Continue on the gravel road for 1 MILE, staying to the LEFT at any
choices. You will pass 3 mailboxes on the LEFT, one is a large blue
mailbox. Continue on to our log cabin on the LEFT.
2.For those coming from Fayetteville or South-
Directions from intersection of Hwy. 412 & Hwy. 21 N: From Hwy. 412 take
Hwy. 21 North for about 7 + miles. Cross the Cedar Creek Bridge first &
turn LEFT onto the gravel road (CR 512) before you get to the Cedar
Creek Country Store on the LEFT. Continue on the gravel road for 1 MILE,
staying to the LEFT at any choices.You will pass 3 mailboxes on the
LEFT, one is a large blue mailbox. Continue on to our log cabin on the
LEFT.
Judith Griffith & Don Matt, Ninestone Land Trust, 870-545-3559,
waterfall(AT)hbeark.com
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Subject: NW Ark Audubon Society field trip to Chesney Prairie
Saturday, May 24
From: Joan Reynolds <joanreynolds(AT)GMAIL.COM>
Date: 6 May 2008 4:39pm
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You are all invited to a field trip at the Chesney Prairie Natural Area near
Siloam Springs beginning at 8:00 a.m. Saturday, May 24, 2008. Chesney
Prairie is one of the last remnants of native prairie in our area replete
with native tallgrasses, wildflowers, Mima mounds, and wildlife. We should
see plenty of birds including beautiful spring migrants. There will be lots
of native wildflowers blooming and we will be checking those out as well. Our
guide on the prairie will be Joe Woolbright, curator of CPNA. We will be
walking the mowed paths through the prairie on mostly level land.
To get there from I-540 take Hwy 412 West to near the Siloam Springs city
limits. At the intersection of 412 & 59, turn North onto 59, approximately 1
mile past the airport take Bill Young Road East about 0.8 miles. At this
point there is a gravel farm road going North; go approximately 0.5 miles
North on this road to its end and there you will see the entrance sign to
the Chesney Prairie Natural Area where we will meet.
--Joan Reynolds
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Subject: Craighead
From: Richard Baxter <dickbaxter100(AT)GMAIL.COM>
Date: 6 May 2008 4:58pm
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This morning at Craighead:
Tennessee
Nashville
Chestnut-sided
Magnolia
Yellow-rumped
BT Green
Pine
Bay-breasted
Blackpoll (lots)
Black-and-white
Redstart
Ovenbird
N. Waterthrush
Yellowthroat
Also, lots of thrushes, including 2 Veery.
Good birding!
Dick Baxter
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Subject: Visiting Birders Looking for a Buddy
From: Dan Scheiman <birddan(AT)COMCAST.NET>
Date: 6 May 2008 4:59pm
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Two birders from New Jersey are staying at the Double Tree hotel in Little Rock
for the next few days. They are here following a Presidential Library tour with
an elderhostel. Joan Salzberg and her husband want to bird but they don't have
a car and don't know the area. Is there someone out there who would like to
show them around Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday? They are happy to go anywhere
for any bird on any day. I told them about ASCA's trip on Saturday and they'd
like to go IF someone can pick them up. Please let me know if you'll volunteer
to do that. You can reach them at 501-372-4371 Room 528. Thank you.
Dan Scheiman
Little Rock, AR
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Subject: yard birds
From: "J. O. and Sally Jo Gibson" <sjogibson(AT)ALLTEL.NET>
Date: 6 May 2008 5:23pm
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Two Summer Tanagers showed up at our feeders this morning.
SJG
Sally Jo Gibson
512 Yorkshire Cove
Harrison, AR 72601
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
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Subject: C. Ground Dove
From: Leif E Anderson <leanderson(AT)FS.FED.US>
Date: 6 May 2008 9:16pm
Greetings,
This morning I saw a Common Ground-Dove, 2m North of Hector on Hwy 27,
along the road edge and a pasture. Unfortunately I couldn't relocate it in
the late afternoon, though the rain could have effected it's re-appearance.
Cheers, Leif @ Hector
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Subject: Do Orioles ever have an orange spot on their otherwise black
head?
From: Jim Dixon <jamesdixonlr(AT)ATT.NET>
Date: 6 May 2008 9:38pm
I saw a bird at Two Rivers Park this morning. Black on top, orange on
bottom. I'm thinking probably Orchard Oriole. I saw him from the back
at first and his rump was orange until it met the black. Then I had a
view of the top of his head and there was an orange patch.
thanks,
--
Jim Dixon
Little Rock, AR
www.jamesdixon.us
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Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - May 6
From: David Arbour <arbour(AT)WINDSTREAM.NET>
Date: 6 May 2008 9:46pm
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It was overcast, cool, slightly windy, with a thunderstorm on the bird =
survey today. Highlights include finding a pair of Purple Gallinules =
and their nest, a male Mottled Duck, two Neotropic Cormorants, a Lazuli =
Bunting hybrid, and numerous migrant warblers in the willows at Bittern =
Lake. The male gallinule was standing on the back of the female in =
their nest when I found them. While I was watching the gallinules, an =
American Alligator started bellowing (mating call) close by. The noise =
it made was so loud and vibrating that if I had been deaf I could have =
felt the vibration from it through the air. It was truely amazing and a =
first for me. The Lazuli Bunting hybrid looked pretty good with the =
orange breast and white belly and bold white wingbars. Then I noticed =
it had blue spots on its belly. It must have been a back cross as it =
appeared 90% Lazuli. Here is a complete list of all found today:=20
Canada Goose - 5
Wood Duck - 25
Mallard - 4
Mottled Duck - 1 male (unit 15)
Blue-winged Teal - 6
Northern Shoveler - 2
Ring-necked Duck - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 21
Neotropic Cormorant - 2 (Otter Lake)
Double-crested Cormorant - 6
Anhinga - 19
American Bittern - 12
Great Blue Heron - 17
Great Egret - 105
Snowy Egret - 34
Little Blue Heron - 36
Cattle Egret - 35
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 9
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 3
White Ibis - 53
White-faced Ibis - 33 (unit 16W)
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 14
Osprey - 1
Mississippi Kite - 3
King Rail - 1 (unit 30)
Sora - 26
Purple Gallinule - 2 (Bittern Lake)
Common Moorhen - 11
American Coot - 68
Spotted Sandpiper - 2
Greater Yellowlegs - 21
Lesser Yellowlegs - 76
Stilt Sandpiper - 1
Short-billed Dowitcher - 1
Wilson's Phalarope - 1
Franklin's Gull - 5
Mourning Dove - 2
Inca Dove - 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 11
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 2
White-eyed Vireo - 5
Bell's Vireo - 5
Warbling Vireo - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 7
Fish Crow - 1
Purple Martin - 4
Tree Swallow - 12
Bank Swallow - 10
Cliff Swallow - 10
Barn Swallow - 3
Carolina Chickadee - 5
Tufted Titmouse - 2
Carolina Wren - 5
Marsh Wren - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4
Eastern Bluebird - 2
Gray Catbird - 3
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Cedar Waxwing - 31
Tennessee Warbler - 5
Nashville Warbler - 1
Yellow Warbler - 8
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Pine Warbler - 2
Blackpoll Warbler - 3 (Bittern Lake)
Black-and-white Warbler - 2
Prothonotary Warbler - 7
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Kentucky Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 26
Yellow-breasted Chat - 7
Summer Tanager - 1
Scarlet Tanager - 1 (2nd record for RS!)
Savannah Sparrow - 8
Lincoln's Sparrow - 8
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 1
White-crowned Sparrow - 9
Northern Cardinal - 11
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Lazuli X Indigo Bunting hybrid - 1
Indigo Bunting - 9
Painted Bunting - 3
Dickcissel - 23
Bobolink - 34
Red-winged Blackbird - 30
Eastern Meadowlark - 3
Common Grackle - 17
Brown-headed Cowbird - 11
Orchard Oriole - 4
Baltimore Oriole - 3
Odonates (To cool & cloudy for much activity):
Fragile Forktail
Orange Bluet
Southern Spreadwing
Common Pondhawk
Blue Dasher
Herps:
American Alligator
Pallid Spiny Softshell
Yellow-bellied Watersnake
Blanchard's Cricket Frog
Eastern Gray Treefrog
Green Treefrog
Bullfrog
Good birding!
David Arbour
De Queen, AR
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http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/ouachita/natural-resources/redslough/index.shtml
Personal Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/sloughbirder
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