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Subject: Brant on the Pamlico Sound
From: <ginger_travis(AT)bellsouth.net>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 7:44am
Saw about 20 Brant in two groups on the Pamlico Sound Thursday, April 14. Audrey
Booth, Sue Fletcher and I were crossing from Ocracoke to Cedar Island on the
ferry. The Brant were a mile or so off Ocracoke. A small group was dabbling in
very shallow water outside the channel, and a larger group was riding the waves
close to ferry as we passed. I was surprised to see them -- assumed all the
northern waterfowl would be gone by now. (Pea Island was almost completely
deserted.) But Fussell's frequency charts show Brant lingering into the first
week of June ("Birder's Guide to Coastal North Carolina").
We also saw two separate gannets flying over the sound. One was very mottled on
top, so maybe a second-year bird?
I can't imagine a place where it's more fun to watch birds than on the Ocracoke
ferry.
Ginger Travis
Orange Co., N.C.
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Subject: Re: Another bird surprise
From: Sfantony20(AT)aol.com
Date: 16 Apr 2006 8:27am
In a message dated 4/16/2006 12:04:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
clyde_sorenson(AT)ncsu.edu writes:
All,
I spent yesterday in northern Granville County (about 10 miles N. of
Oxford) in pursuit of Ben Franklin's choice for the national bird. (As
is almost always the case when I go turkey hunting, no turkeys were
harmed in the making of this tale...). wall of the
feed and tack room, so I hopped up on the feed box and looked in. Sure
enough, there was an egg in a scrape in the debris on the floor of the
tack room. Looking back out at the vulture, I noticed another sitting in
a tree 30 or 40 yards back. They found an excellent "fake cave;" I'll
check on them later in the season and try to get some pictures.
Take care,
Clyde Sorenson
Clayton and Raleigh, NC
I know it's off subject but my son told me yesterday about a man in Lincoln
County who bagged a 57 pound tom. Is there such a thing as a turkey that big?
Tammy Lester
Atlantic Beach, NC
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Subject: Re: TV nest at Falls Lake
From: James Coman <hillshepherd(AT)skybest.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 8:59am
Brian, and all:
The only turkey vulture nest I have ever seen was on the second floor of an
abandoned cabin in Caswell County about 30 miles north of Hillsborough.
James Coman
Executive Director
Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust
P. O. Box 2557
Boone, N. C. 28607
828-263-8776
info(AT)brrlt.org
www.brrlt.org
Farm Office:
9124 NC Hwy 93
Piney Creek, N. C. 28663
336-359-2909
Fax 336-359-8643
hillshepherd(AT)skybest.com
On 4/15/06 7:04 PM, "birdranger" <cbockhahn4(AT)earthlink.net> wrote:
> I know I read somewhere about Turkey Vultures nesting in old barns, but I
> was very suprised when one of my co-workers found and photographed one on
> nest in an old barn at Falls Lake, Wake County, north of Raleigh NC. They
> had two large eggs laid underneath the rotting floor, the bird must have to
> squat and crawl a few feet to get to them for incubation. 10 years here
> and I'd never seen it, is this common for the locale?
>
> Brian Bockhahn
> Falls Lake State Park Ranger
> Falls & Kerr Lake CBC Compiler
> cbockhahn4(AT)earthlink.net
>
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Subject: strange goings on
From: Sfantony20(AT)aol.com
Date: 16 Apr 2006 9:54am
I was watching a male cardinal out the window this morning, he was standing
on top of my fence eating something that I thought must be a BIG dragonfly.
I grabbed my binocs for a closer look and the "dragonfly" turned out to have
LEGS! I watched him give it to his ladyfriend, who seemed perplexed about
the offering. Of course they took off before I could get the camera. Has
anyone ever hear of such a thing?? Do Cardinals eat lizards???
Tammy Lester
Atlantic Beach, NC
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Subject: Easter weekend count Evergreen Nature Preserve
From: "Larry" <Larry(AT)lbarden.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 12:37pm
This morning 4/16 we saw three additional species to add to our weekend
list: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Field Sparrow singing up a storm in the top
of a pine tree, and a pair of Hermit Thrushes. The Bustles also got a
mature Red-headed Woopecker on the cell phone tower this morning near ENP,
for a total of 51 species seen in in the Preserve 4/13- 4/16. During this
period we had a 16 new species migrating from the south and several winter
residents that will depart soon for the far north, including Ruby-crowned
Kinglet and Hermit Thrush.
Cheers,
Larry and Louise Barden
Evergreen Nature Preserve
4 miles east of downtown Charlotte.
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Subject: RE: TV nest at Falls Lake
From: "Rob G." <thrush(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 4:33pm
B. Bockhahn wrote:
I know I read somewhere about Turkey Vultures nesting in old barns, but I
was very suprised when one of my co-workers found and photographed one on
nest in an old barn at Falls Lake, Wake County, north of Raleigh NC. They
had two large eggs laid underneath the rotting floor, the bird must have to
squat and crawl a few feet to get to them for incubation. 10 years here
and I'd never seen it, is this common for the locale?
Many yrs. ago a pair of TVs nested regularly on the upper deck of an old
structure (barn?) at Eno State Park in Durham, often startling hikers --
someone here (Edith Tatum??) may recall the details better than I do...
(even rarer, many yrs. before that, BARN owls nested in a structure at Eno
St. Pk.)
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**Rob Gluck...... Chapel Hill, NC...... thrush(AT)hotmail.com ....
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hmmm... obsessing over big, bodacious, black-and-white,
hard-to-find, pointy-headed woodpeckers??? : - )
....VISIT: http://ivorybills.blogspot.com
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Subject: White Pelicans at Falls Lake
From: rdnc <rdnc(AT)earthlink.net>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 5:14pm
Hi Folks
Found 5 Am. White Pelicans this morning at Falls Lake. They were
standing in the Will Suit Rd Peninsula shallows. They were easily seen
from Redwood Rd Boat Landing and from Cheek Rd causeway (scope of
course). I wonder if they were from the group of 6-8 seen at Jordan Lake
last week, or if different birds. We will never know unless someone can
find the Jordan L. birds to prove they are still there! Later, Ricky
Ricky Davis
Rocky Mount, NC
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Subject: Re: TV nest at Falls Lake
From: Helmut Mueller <hmuelle(AT)earthlink.net>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 5:31pm
I had a Ph.D student (Patty Parker) who worked on vultures. She found
most of her nests in and under barns. I remember going with her to two
nest sites (can't remember whether they were TV or BV) under barns,
where you could scarcely get in by crawling on your belly to get to the
young.
Helmut C. Mueller PhD.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology and Curriculum in Ecology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280 USA
919-942-4937
email: hmueller(AT)email.unc.edu
On Apr 16, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Rob G. wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> B. Bockhahn wrote:
>
> I know I read somewhere about Turkey Vultures nesting in old barns,
> but I
> was very suprised when one of my co-workers found and photographed one
> on
> nest in an old barn at Falls Lake, Wake County, north of Raleigh NC.
> They
> had two large eggs laid underneath the rotting floor, the bird must
> have to
> squat and crawl a few feet to get to them for incubation. 10 years
> here
> and I'd never seen it, is this common for the locale?
>
>
> Many yrs. ago a pair of TVs nested regularly on the upper deck of an
> old structure (barn?) at Eno State Park in Durham, often startling
> hikers -- someone here (Edith Tatum??) may recall the details better
> than I do... (even rarer, many yrs. before that, BARN owls nested in a
> structure at Eno St. Pk.)
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~}
>
> **Rob Gluck...... Chapel Hill, NC...... thrush(AT)hotmail.com ....
>
> ------------------
> hmmm... obsessing over big, bodacious, black-and-white,
> hard-to-find, pointy-headed woodpeckers??? : - )
> ....VISIT: http://ivorybills.blogspot.com
> ------------------
>
>
>
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Subject: Yet another hummer report and ...
From: Jim Seaman <cb(AT)jbs-blog.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 7:04pm
Today while preparing dinner I saw the first of the year female
Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Several males have been around since the first
week of April.
Also, about a week ago I put my CarolinaBirds subscription on digest mode -
one large piece a mail once a day with everyone's posts all together. Much
less distracting than a new message popping up every 20 minutes all day
long! I can now get things done!
It may not be for everyone but instructions are here:
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/cbirds.html
And speaking of getting things done - I've got a new website up and running
- http://www.jseaman.com/
It is my photography site and of course it has lots of birds!
Jim Seaman - Raleigh, NC
http://www.jbs-blog.com/
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Subject: Easter Sunday at Jackson Park
From: tominbrevard(AT)webtv.net (Tom Joyce)
Date: 16 Apr 2006 7:01pm
Hi all!
A goodly number of birders at JP today found no Easter Bunnies, but the
spring migrants provided a show of their own for the attendees. The
participants, in a number of groups, saw the following interesting
species:
*Several Prairie Warblers
*A well-seen Golden-winged Warbler along the Nature Trail
*An Orange-crowned Warbler at the beginning of the Bottomlands Trail
* A Wood Thrush farther along the Bottomlands Trail
Ron Selvey, an early am arrival, saw and heard a Fish Crow at the Park's
back entrance, a rare sighting here.
In addition to our local birders, Ron, Harvey Neal, John Lindfors, and
myself. Our visitors included Hilda and Al Reese from the Greenville Cty
(SC) Bird Club, and Connie and Stan from the Carolina Field Birders
(Haywood Cty.)
Y'all will have a chance to view the action on CBC's upcoming Spring
Meeting Field Trips later this month.
Tom
Tom Joyce
Brevard, NC
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Subject: BV nest site
From: "Edith K. Tatum" <ektatum(AT)nc.rr.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 8:18pm
Rob wrote:
"Many yrs. ago a pair of TVs nested regularly on the upper deck of an old
structure (barn?) at Eno State Park in Durham, often startling hikers -- "
As I recall it was Black Vultures who has nested in the upstairs of an old
cabin. The floor of this cabin is rotting out and unsafe. The rangers
there don't encourage anyone to try to go inside. I think it is still used
as a nest site for BV's.
According to Jim Keighton, there was an old shed? barn? that used to be a
nesting/roosting site for Barn Owls. The only thing that remains is the
foundation.
Edith Tatum
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Subject: RBTH
From: "Phil Dickinson" <pdickins(AT)triad.rr.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 8:29pm
For the record, I finally got my male ruby-throat back today. He came to the
feeder several times this afternoon and early evening.
Other notable reports from Winston this weekend were two Baltimore Orioles
at Washington Park; Ovenbird, Northern Parula, Black-Throated Green, Common
Yellowthroats and Rusty Blackbird at Reynolda; American Redstart calling
near my home. Red-shouldered Hawks at Miller Park and near my home are busy
feeding young.
Check this interesting waxwing behavior reported by Ferenc Domoki at
Reynolda: "I saw 2 birds sitting next to each other on a branch. One of
them put a berry into the other bird`s bill. But that did not swallow it,
instead after a few seconds returned to the original bird. Then the ceremony
started over. I counted that they exchanged the berry at least 20 times back
and forth before one of them (maybe accidentally) swallowed it. So much
about pair-bonding."
Phil Dickinson
Winston-Salem
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Subject: Blue Wall Preserve Birding
From: clay bolt <clay(AT)claybolt.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 9:10pm
I spent saturday morning at the Blue Wall Preserve near Landrum South
Carolina. My main purpose was to take part in an informal salamander survey
of the site but saw and heard some great birds during my visit. The two
highlights for me were a pair of broad winged hawks circling overhead during
my entire time at the preserve. I also saw my first ever Worm-Eating
Warbler which was busy inspecting the shore of the first pond. Other
highlights included a blue-headed vireo, several blue-gray gnatcatchers, an
Eastern Phoebe, a Hairy Woodpecker and one of my hiking companions heard a
common-yellowthroat and a hooded warbler on his way in.
Anyone interested in reptiles might want to visit this site now as well as
snakes and lizards were out and about including a 4' long racer which made
its prescence known by loudly vibrating its tail.
Clay Bolt
Greenville, South Carolina
www.claybolt.com
clay(AT)claybolt.com
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Subject: Re: White Pelicans at Jordan Lake
From: <elzie_j(AT)bellsouth.net>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 9:27pm
> Hi all,
Friday morning two of us saw two white pelicans from the observation platform on
Jordan Lake--off Hwy 751. They were flying with the multitude of cormorants
flying by.
Judy Elzinga, Apex NC
> From: rdnc <rdnc(AT)earthlink.net>
> Date: 2006/04/16 Sun PM 05:14:06 EDT
> To: carolinabirds(AT)duke.edu
> Subject: White Pelicans at Falls Lake
>
> Hi Folks
>
> Found 5 Am. White Pelicans this morning at Falls Lake. They were
> standing in the Will Suit Rd Peninsula shallows. They were easily seen
> from Redwood Rd Boat Landing and from Cheek Rd causeway (scope of
> course). I wonder if they were from the group of 6-8 seen at Jordan Lake
> last week, or if different birds. We will never know unless someone can
> find the Jordan L. birds to prove they are still there! Later, Ricky
>
>
> Ricky Davis
> Rocky Mount, NC
>
>
>
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Subject: Stagecoach Road
From: Sandy Cash <lcashjr(AT)nc.rr.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 9:31pm
Hi all,
I went for a run along the Stagecoach Rd. railroad bed down to Jordan
Lake. Heard were:
Great-crested Flycatcher (actually in my neighborhood, not along the
trail, but they're gonna be everywhere soon enough)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Tufted Titmouse
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Wood Thrush
Red-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler (SCADS)
Ovenbird
Black-and-white Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Northern Parula
Prothonotary Warbler (maybe four or five singing around the end, right
along the lakeshore, plus one or two along the trail in the swamps)
Indigo Bunting
White-throated Sparrow (gonna miss that song, always do)
Seen were two (maybe three) Wood Ducks. I didn't see either of the Bald
Eagles I'd been seeing of late down by the lake.
Good Birding,
-Sandy
--
Sandy Cash
Durham, NC
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Subject: Re: Issaqueena Birding, Goldfinches, fewer yard migrants
From: "Steve" <scompton(AT)sc.rr.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 9:37pm
Carolinabirders (and our far-flung friends),
I did a quick trip up Sassafras Mountain (Pickens County,SC), and Caesar's
Head (Greenville County)
on Saturday. From the intersection of Highways
178 and 14 all the way to the summit of Sassafras, thining out at 2500 feet,
the loudest and most common singers were the Black-throated Green Warblers.
It may be that it was the first time I've made this yearly trip in my new
Jeep with the top down, but I was amazed at how many there were! Hooded and
Parula Warblers were common, but only a few Ovenbirds, one Black-and-white,
and no
Worm-eating or Black-throated Blues (yet). Blue-headed Vireo was singing
near the summit but no Scarlets yet.
One Broad-winged Hawk flew over at Sassafras, but the
big show was over at Caesar's Head, where three Broad-wings were chasing,
soaring, and whistling in what must
have been their courtship display. I had never witnesed this before.
Awesome.
I waited for about thirty minutes, at midday, at sunny and unusually hot
Caesar's Head for the resident Ravens.
A pair finally flew over slowly. Caesar's Head is probably the most
accessible and reliable spot for this species in SC (for you year listers).
Bring your camera, the Ravens
are not camera-shy and their acrobatics are unparalleled.
Back at mom's, in Greenville, I was awakened at 4:01am by a very loud and
rude Barred Owl just outside the closed window. Cool.
Steve Compton
Summerville,SC
----- Original Message -----
From: "kaye fenlon" <ktfenlon(AT)hotmail.com>
To: <carolinabirds(AT)duke.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 12:17 PM
Subject: Issaqueena Birding, Goldfinches, fewer yard migrants
> Hi Spring Birders
>
> Here is the highlights of an early morning birding trip to Issaqueena Rd.
> just north of Clemson.
>
> Yellow-throated Vireo
> Philadelphia Vireo
> Northern Parula Warbler
> Prairie Warbler
> Swainson's Warbler
> Field Sparrow
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet
> Common Yellow throat
>
> Earlier in the week I also saw:
>
> Several Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
> White-eyed Vireo
>
> Of course there were a few others (warblers) I could not positively
> identify, but I'm getting better!
>
> Also of note. There has been an increasing number of Goldfinches in my
> backyard. A few days ago a huge flock..I'm sure more than a 100 flew into
> the tops of the trees near the lake, I've never seen so many. They are
> cleaning me out of sunflower hearts! My neighbors said they also can not
> keep the feeders filled. Why the sudden invasion? I had a more wintering
> over this year too, but not until mid winter?
>
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Subject: Blue Ridge Parkway
From: mjwestphal <mjwestphal(AT)unca.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 10:27pm
More migrants have moved into the mountains. Birds along the way up the BRP
to Mount Mitchell included the birds that had arrived earlier, the Black and
White Warblers and Blue-headed Vireos, joined by:
Worm-eating Warbler - 1
Ovenbird - many
Blackburnian Warbler - many
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3
Hooded Warbler - a few
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
Broad-winged Hawk - 3
All of the above except the BH Vireos were still limited to the lower and
middle elevations - below 4000 feet. But Black-throated Green Warblers have
joined the Blue-headed Vireos in the Spruce/Fir zone, and I also had one
Blackburnian up that high. The Hermit Thrush was still singing at Balsam Gap,
and I found a Turkey making a scrape in a rather obvious location below one of
the overlooks. It might not be so obvious once the trees leaf out, though.
Trees are partially leafed out at the lower elevations, just beginning to leaf
out at the middle elevations, and still bare or just buds at the higher
elevations. The third week of April is usually the big week for arrivals at
the middle elevations, so I expect this week to be pretty active. Ceruleans
should arrive this week at their BRP breeding area. There were scads of
Spring Beauty in bloom along the road past Craggy Gardens. It was quite
impressive.
Also stopped briefly at Beaver Lake and found at least one of the Warbling
Vireos had arrived. It was in the sanctuary in the trees above Beaverdam
Creek.
Happy Spring!
Marilyn
Marilyn Westphal
Environmental Quality Institute
University of North Carolina-Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
828/251-6823
mjwestphal(AT)unca.edu
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Subject: Bird ID
From: "Jeff Catlin" <shieff(AT)netzero.net>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 10:59pm
Hi,
ID help needed! I photographed this bird in Jackson Park, Saturday morning.
http://www.myimagehub.com/files/3640/P1010558%20Unknown.jpg
I never had a good look at it. It was Hermit sized. It appaered to have a
mottled gray head. Could it be a Hermit in molt? Any help with an ID would
be appreciated.
Thanks!!
Jeff Catlin
Marietta, SC
shieff at netzero.net
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Subject: Re: Bird ID
From: "Jeff Catlin" <shieff(AT)netzero.net>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 11:45pm
That's probably it. The color on the wing is right and it was in the right
location for Swamp. It was near the wooden bridge on the Nature Trail, at
the far end of the cut-through. It looked bigger or longer than a Swamp and
the bill looks a little long, but I believe that must it. Sparrows can still
give me a rough time.
Thanks Wayne!!
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne K. Forsythe"
To: "Jeff Catlin"
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: Bird ID
Jeff,
How about a Swamp Sparrow!
Wayne
Wayne K. Forsythe
Hendersonville, N. C.
828-697-6628
wforsythe AT mchsi dot com
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Subject: Northern Saw Whet on Grandfather Mountain
From: Jesse Pope <osprey1014(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2006 11:41pm
Hello everyone,
Tonight around 10:30 I was on Grandfather Mountain,
near the Animal Habitats, and heard a Saw Whet Owl
just down slope from the bear enclosures. The bird
sounded as though it was about 100 meters down slope
in a mixed hardwood/spruce fir transition type forest.
It was the first time I've heard one in this area of
Grandfather. I typically hear them near the Black
Rock trail area and also on the upper portions of the
Profile trail.
Jesse Pope
Naturalist, Grandfather Mountain
P.O. Box 129
Linville, NC 28646
828-733-4326
www.grandfather.com
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