 |
|
|
|
|
CarolinaBirds for Saturday, May 27, 2006
[ Prev Day
| Next Day
| Calendar Month
| CarolinaBirds Info
]
|
|
To use email addresses replace '(AT)' with '@'.
This is done to confuse the spam 'bots.
|
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: Saturday fishing trip birds
From: Alex Netherton <danetherton(AT)charter.net>
Date: 27 May 2006 7:43pm
Hi folks;
My wife, the champion bird caller, was off on a plant shopping trip
today, so I left Piglet the Black Pug at home and went fishing. I would
have taken him, but there is only so much stimulation I can stand. I am
sure he would have had a wonderful time, until the heat got to him and
forced us to go home. So, hardening my heart (he looked so pitiful, it
would bring tears to a stone), and going out the door, I went fishing.
After fishing a little while and catching little, I went to the ponds at
Owen Park in Buncombe County. While fishing (and catching lots of nice
Bluegill) I heard the song of a Yellow Warbler. There was a young man
and his mom there, and I got him into pssht'ing for the bird, and it
came out where we could see it; a perfectly lovely Yellow Warbler,
shining like a new penny. Moving on down, I had a perfect sighting of an
Orchard Oriole, a bird I know I have seen before, but only fleetingly,
and never well. Watched him for about 5 minutes.
After fishing, I was heading back to the car, when a pair of Eastern
Kingbirds came in like a pair of FA-18 Super Hornets, and chased off a
Purple (Common) Grackle and a crow. I swear they looked so much like
fighter planes I expected to see vapor trails off their wing tips! Must
have a nest nearby. Also saw a nice pair of (probably) Comma butterflies.
A nice day, and Piglet wasn't too mad at me when I got home, but Suzanne
had some harsh words; I took pictures of the fish I caught - she is a
fisherwoman herself. :-D She was very jealous, and was also jealous of
the birds I saw.
Good birding friends!
--
Alex Netherton, an Appalachian Naturalist
http://alexnetherton.com
danetherton charter dot net
Asheville, NC
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: Magnificent Frigatebird, Sullivan's Island, SC
From: William Hutcheson <jeccawilly(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 27 May 2006 8:07pm
A Frigatebird was sailing northeast over the dunes on
Sullivan's Island, SC this evening, 5/27, at 6:30 PM.
It circled as it neared Breach Inlet, then flapped
(with characteristic deep, slow, floppy beats) inland,
out of sight toward the Intracoastal Waterway. Winds
were fairly stiff out of the southwest, so it was
moving right along. I had no binoculars, but I saw
white on the breast as it flew generally away from me.
My wife, who was farther up the beach, saw a dark
head, so we'll call it a female.
Willy Hutcheson
Charleston, SC
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: SNOWY PLOVER reported from Cape (Hatteras) Point, NC
From: Harry LeGrand <harry.legrand(AT)ncmail.net>
Date: 27 May 2006 9:06pm
Folks:
Jeff Pippen called me today, while I was out all day watching
soccer, that a group of birders discovered a Snowy Plover at the back
side of the Salt Pond at Cape Point, NC, this morning. As I'm reading
carolinabirds this evening at 9 pm, I'm surprised that no one who saw
the bird this morning had gotten to a computer to tell folks about it.
(I first played back my phone messages around 8 pm!). This is the second
record/report of Snowy Plover from NC, and hopefully the first with a
photograph (haven't heard about that yet).
That's all I know!
Harry LeGrand
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: Western Baby Birds & Rattlesnake
From: "John Ennis" <swampwolf(AT)thebusinessbirder.com>
Date: 27 May 2006 9:07pm
Thanks for the help.
We had two or three possibilities for the baby birds and nothing for the
snake.
Several of you replied and most said "Starling".and Kent Fiala sent a couple
of websites for us to look at.
So Edith Tatum was right.she had nursed orphaned Starlings years ago.but we
could see only the heads in the pictures.
Several of you said the snake was a Prairie Rattlesnake which sounds good to
us.
John Ennis
Leland, NC
910-371-9729
|
|
|
|
BIRDxxxx
US:South
ARBIRD-L
CarolinaBirds