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Subject: Nature, but not birds, query
From: Carol Williamson <cncbrdr(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 17 Aug 2006 10:23am
On my second-floor office window appeared yesterday an
irregular, but basically crescent-shaped cluster of
tiny cream-colored eggs. The crescent is about 1.5
inches long and about one quarter inch wide. I'd guess
it has 100+ eggs in it.
Any ideas about whose "babies" these are???
Thanks,
Carol Williamson
Durham, NC
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Subject: (Fwd) BIRDS! exhibit at the Schiele
From: "Will Cook" <cwcook(AT)duke.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 2006 11:01am
The Schiele Museum in Gastonia, NC is featuring an exhibit on birds
through December 2006. See below and visit their website for more
info.
------- Forwarded message follows -------
From: Rogers, Mary Alice
Sent: 7/31/2006 1:43:56 PM
Subject: BIRDS! exhibit at the Schiele
The skies over North Carolina and South Carolina were once
splashedwith orange and green. But theextinction of the
Carolinparakeet brought an end to that color and to the only
subtropical parrot in America. You're invited to seea mounted
example of one of those colorful birds at theSchiele Museum of
Natural History in Gastonia, NC.A Carolina parakeet shares museum
space with a Passenger pigeon, another North Carolina bird that was
hunted to extinction. The Schiele also is featuring four bird
specimens from the Smithsonian Institute at its BIRDS! exhibit.
Visitors can learn about everything avian -- from beaks and bills to
feet and feathers. The final stop at the BIRDS! exhibit is a live
bird aviary, which is home to 15 tropical birds. The Schiele Museum
is at 1500 East Garrison Blvd.,in Gastonia. Take exit 20 off I-85
and follow the brown signs. We're less than 2 miles from t! he
interstate. Museum hours are 9-5 Monday through Saturday and 1-5
Sunday. Admission to BIRDS! is $3 in addition to$4 general
admission.
Mary Alice Rogers
Marketing Director
The Schiele Museum of Natural History
1500 East Garrison Boulevard
Gastonia, NC 28054
Direct: 704.866.6923
Fax: 704.866.6041
maryalicer(AT)cityofgastonia.com
http://www.schielemuseum.org/
------- End of forwarded message -------
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Charles W. "Will" Cook w 919-660-5144
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook cwcook(AT)duke.edu
Box 90340, Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Durham, NC 27708
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Subject: Old State Road 08/17
From: "Jason Giovannone" <buteo2808(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 17 Aug 2006 10:55am
Had a late start at work this morning, so I decided to drive out Old State
Road in Lexington County from 8:30 to 9:30. I made three main stops along
the road first at the boat landing, then the fields near the waste water
treatment plant and finally several miles down the road at the sludge farm.
Near the sludge farm was the best birding with a large murder of crows in
one of the fields making a lot of ruckus and getting everybody worked up.
There was a yellow warbler hanging out there as well. I assume it was a
first year male, although it only had two red markings on its right breast.
Good Birding!
Jason Giovannone
Columbia, SC
Full List
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Killdeer
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Kingbird
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
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Subject: More Sav. Spoil Site trips at Fall CBC meeting + birder
access info
From: "Cape Romain Bird Observatory" <crbo(AT)dmzs.com>
Date: 17 Aug 2006 11:48am
Carolinabirders,
The response for CRBO's Savannah Spoil Site trip on October 7 has been
overwhelming. Certainly more than the 20-person limit we are being held to.
However: I understand that there will also be field trips to "The Spoil Site"
on September 29 and 30 during the CBC fall meeting to be held in Savannah.
The decision to allow birders in to the Spoil Site this fall has only been
reached in the past couple of days, so word might not have reached everyone
yet about this other option.
I feel compelled to mention the September 29+30 CBC options, especially since
I think the second half of September is the optimum time to bird the Spoil
Site.
So if you are interested in the Spoil Site field trips, keep in mind that:
1. There is now a healthy waiting list for CRBO's October 7 trip.
2. There will be Spoil Site trips the weekend beforehand during the Fall
Carolina Bird Club meeting.
**** A final note: birder access to this location is VERY tenuous these days.
We all need to be on our best behavior and not "make waves" with the
management. The paperwork, restrictions and on-again, off-again access are a
pain, but unavoidable.
Please do not call, write or email to GA DOT or US ACE and complain - that
would probably get access yanked for the foreseeable future. On the other
hand, thank you letters after your visit would be a very good thing. Please
consider asking your trip organizers for contact information about where to
send thank-you letters.
---
Nathan Dias
Executive Director
Cape Romain Bird Observatory
http://www.crbo.net/
crbo(AT)dmzs.com
P.O. Box 362
McClellanville, SC 29458
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Subject: Fwd: Orangeburg sod Farms
From: "Lois" <croakie(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 17 Aug 2006 11:57am
Hi Lois-
It might be worth a post, as I did find 17 Upland Sandpipers. Fifteen were
in the first field as you go onto the Industrial Blvd, and 2 were just off
Super Sod Blvd in the main complex. I also found about 25 Pectoral
Sandpipers and 2 Least Sandpipers in a wet area in the first big field on
the right as you go into Super Sod. The best way to see them is to take a
right at the first intersection and go 3/4 the way down and look to your
right for a wet area. That held most of the birds.
Thanks-Chris Feeney
Lois Stacey
North Augusta, SC (Aiken Cnty)
croakie(AT)comcast.net
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Subject: Cuckoo in Cary; Rachel Carson preserve
From: "Phil Dickinson" <pdickins(AT)triad.rr.com>
Date: 17 Aug 2006 3:59pm
On our way back from the coast, we stopped this noon at the Reedy Creek
picnic area at Umstead Park. A yellow-billed cuckoo gave us great views
perched about 30 feet from our table.
We kayaked and birded in Rachel Carson natural area in Beaufort on Wed.
morning. White ibis was the most common species, followed by American
oystercatchers. Also: whimbrels, snowy and great egrets, Wilson and
black-bellied plovers, great blue and tri-colored heron, greater
black-backed (1), ring-billed and laughing gulls, double-crested cormorant,
least and common terns, black skimmers, pelicans, and eurasian collared-dove
flying between preserve and Front St.
Phil Dickinson
Winston-Salem
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Subject: Recent Alaska birding trip
From: Charles Boyce <charles.boyce(AT)cubistdude.com>
Date: 17 Aug 2006 4:18pm
Hello Carolinabirders.
Although this is not specifically a Carolina's birding note, I thought
some of you may be interested in a recent birding trip to the Kenai
Peninsula Alaska my wife and I just completed. We found a great
resource through the Internet and I would highly recommend them if you
are interested in such a trip. Marlows on the Kenai
<http://www.marlowsonthekenai.com/birding.htm> is a family-run company
with cabins on the Kenai river, a B&B in Seward and a chartered fishing
boat out of Seward. They provide fishing, birding and lodging packages.
The Marlows are all very friendly, social and quite knowledgeable about
local birds and birding spots. We spent 3.5 days in the Soldatna area
and 3.5 days in the Seward area. We were able to bird the Kenai river
and area lakes, along with Kenai, Homer and other areas along Cook
Inlet. On the east side of the peninsula, we did land birding around
Seward, a marine tour of the Kenai Fjords National Park, and a fishing
trip to Harris Bay and the Chiswell Islands. The weather was quite cool
and gray, but a welcome relief from the Charleston SC summer. Average
was 58 degrees Fahrenheit with mist/rain on most days. Overall we ended
up with 76 bird species, which is not bad considering we were there in
an "off" season, meaning most of the migrants had already passed
through. Of the 76, 13 were lifers for me and and 28 were lifers for my
wife. When I have a chance to update my web site with some photos, I'll
drop a note.
Here is the bird list:
* denotes lifers for me and # denotes lifers for my wife (the * without
# are birds I saw, but my wife did not) (numbers seen)
Red-throated Loon (<10)
Pacific Loon # (10+)
Common Loon (50+)
Red-necked Grebe # (10+)
Northern Fulmar *# (1)
Double-crested Cormorant (50+)
Pelagic Cormorant (50+)
Trumpeter Swan # (10+)
Canada Goose (10+)
Mallard (10+)
Green-winged Teal (10+)
American Wigeon (10+)
Northern Shoveler (2)
White-winged Scoter # (50+)
Surf Scoter # (10+)
Harlequin Duck # (10+)
Long-tailed Duck *# (10+)
Barrow's Goldeneye * (1)
Common Goldeneye (1)
Common Merganser (50+)
Red-breasted Merganser (10+)
Northern Harrier (3)
Bald Eagle (20+)
Merlin (1)
Spruce Grouse *# (5)
Sandhill Crane (20+)
Semipalmated Plover (10+)
Greater Yellowlegs (10+)
Lesser Yellowlegs (<10)
Spotted Sandpiper (10+)
Pectoral Sandpiper (2)
Short-billed Dowitcher (<10)
Wilson's Snipe (10+)
Red-necked Phalarope # (20+)
Long-tailed Jaeger *# (1)
Mew Gull # (10+)
Herring Gull (50+)
Glaucous-winged Gull (100+)
Black-legged Kitiwake *# (100+)
Arctic Tern (5)
Aleutian Tern *# (1)
Common Murre # (100+)
Pigeon Guillemot # (50+)
Marbled Murrelet *# (5)
Rhinocerous Auklet * (2)
Horned Puffin # (100+)
Tufted Puffin # (100+)
Belted Kingfisher (10+)
Hairy Woodpecker (2)
Alder Flycatcher * (2)
Bank Swallow (10+)
Gray Jay # (20+)
Black-billed Magpie # (50+)
Northwestern Crow *# (20+)
Common Raven (50+)
Black-capped Chickadee (10+)
Boreal Chickadee *# (20+)
Brown Creeper (2)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (10+)
American Dipper (1)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (20+)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (20+)
Hermit Thrush (3)
American Robin (10+)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (20+)
Townsend's Warbler # (5)
Yellow Warbler # (2)
Wilson's Warbler # (5)
Chipping Sparrow (10+)
Fox Sparrow (10+)
Savanah Sparrow (50+)
Lincoln's Sparrow # (10+)
White-crowned Sparrow (<10)
Dark-eyed Junco (50+)
White-winged Crossbill * (1)
Pine Siskin # (20+)
Other critters seen:
Moose (10+)
Mountain Goat (6)
Showshoe Hare (1)
Dall's Porpoise (10+)
Harbor Porpoise (2)
Harbor Seal (50+)
Humpback Whale (1)
Killer Whale (30+)
Sea Otter (10+)
Stellar Sea Lion (50+)
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Charles Boyce
Mount Pleasant, SC
cubistdude.com
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Subject: Hilton Pond 08/01/06 (Composite Flowers)
From: BILL HILTON JR The Piedmont Naturalist <hilton(AT)hiltonpond.org>
Date: 17 Aug 2006 5:09pm
By August, the best place to look for wildflowers in the Carolina
Piedmont is open areas like fields, roadsides, and lake margins. And
the flowers most likely to be growing there are the so-called
"composites." That's certainly the case "This Week at Hilton Pond,"
where members of the Asteraceae are about the only blooms to be found.
For a photo essay about these unusual two-part flowers, please refer
to our installment for 1-14 August 2006 at
http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek060801.html
As always we include a tally of all birds banded, a list of
recaptures, and a few miscellaneous nature notes.
Happy Nature Watching!
BILL
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BILL HILTON JR., Executive Director
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
hilton(AT)hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845
The mission of Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History is "to
conserve plants, animals, habitats, and other natural components of
the Piedmont Region of the eastern United States through observation,
scientific study, and education for students of all ages." Please
visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net) at
http://www.hiltonpond.org and http://www.rubythroat.org ("Operation
RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project").
"Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to
watch the sunset." BHjr.
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Subject: Columbia Swift roost
From: "John M. Grego" <jrgrego(AT)mindspring.com>
Date: 17 Aug 2006 9:52pm
Hi ya'll--I was walking down Sumter Street, and just past the Senate
Street intersection, I noticed a swarm of Chimney Swifts behind 1016
Sumter Street. I walked down Senate Street to the large parking lot
in the back of the building, and saw about 150 swifts circling a
large chimney there. This was around 8:20 at night, which I would
think might be the tail-end of the roost, so maybe it's larger.
John Grego
Columbia, SC
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