CarolinaBirds for Friday, August 25, 2006

Messages are displayed in the order they were received.  Subject  From  Time   Fw: Georgia's 4th Annual Colonial Coast Birding & Nature   Will Cook   9:34am   Re: I knew I had Bats   Susan Campbell    5:55pm   Re: hummer happenings in NC   Michael Logue    6:30pm   Nocturnal Flight Call Help   Jason Giovannone   9:05pm

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Subject: Fw: Georgia's 4th Annual Colonial Coast Birding & Nature
From: "Will Cook" <cwcook(AT)duke.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 2006 9:34am

For more details about this event, see 
http://www.coastalgeorgiabirding.org/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sargent Bob A Civ 78 CEG/CEVP" (bob.sargent(AT)robins.af.mil)
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:24 AM
Subject: Georgia's 4th Annual Colonial Coast Birding & Nature Festival

Dear Birders,

Hopefully most of you are aware that Georgia will soon be hosting its
4th annual coastal birding festival on Jekyll Island during Oct 13-15th
(please see the attachments).  The festival attracts 300-400 folks each
year, as many people are eager to take advantage of the opportunity to
participate in field trips out to at least 10 of Georgia's barrier
islands.  We'd sure like to see more birders join us from our
neighboring states partly, of course, so we can show off our state, but
mainly so we can meet and get to know others who are passionate about
birding.  

Thank you, and please don't hesitate to contact me if you have
questions.  I hope to meet you on the Georgia coast in October!

Bob Sargent
President, GA Ornithological Society
(478) 397-7962

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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: Re: I knew I had Bats
From: Susan Campbell <susan(AT)ncaves.com>
Date: 25 Aug 2006 5:55pm

Dear All,

Took me a few days to recall this--but at Asa Wright Nature Center in 
Trinidad, the bats feed from their sugar water feeders after dark.  
Although at that point, the feeders usually have little left in them 
given the hordes of hummingbirds and bananaquits that drink from them 
during the day...

Susan Campbell
Whispering Pines, NC


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Subject: Re: hummer happenings in NC
From: Michael Logue <mlogue(AT)madison.main.nc.us>
Date: 25 Aug 2006 6:30pm

It seems we have gone through about 35 lbs of sugar since the  
beginning of July.  I hate to think how many hummers that means we  
are feeding.  There are clouds of them buzzing around the feeders and  
you can see then all over the place.  I wonder just how far they  
range or how far away they were fledged.  We started seeing them in  
numbers at the beginning of July, but in discontinuous groups.  When  
we saw them, we saw a lot, but then nothing.  And then they would be  
back.  Since early August there has been one continuous swarm.  That  
is what makes me think there are far more coming to the feeder than  
you see at any one time.  However, starting last Friday there has  
been a slight drop off in numbers.  I have only had to mix 6 cups of  
sugar water each day instead of 10 or so.

3600 ft, Upper Spring Creek, Madison Co.

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mlogue(AT)madison.main.nc.us
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Subject: Nocturnal Flight Call Help
From: "Jason Giovannone" <buteo2808(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 25 Aug 2006 9:05pm

For the last few months I've been running a flower pot mic 
(http://www.oldbird.org/mike_home.htm) on my roof to listen & record 
nocturnal migrants. I've only recorded a handful of birds, most of which 
were a resident mockingbird. Some calls like the Greater Yellowlegs doing 
its normal three noted call were easy to ID, but I do have 6 recordings I've 
been working through to figure out what they are. I was wondering if there 
was a resource out there to help narrow down the search. I've got the Evans 
& O'Brien CD-Rom, but find it impractical when looking at a spectagram I'm 
unsure of. I was hoping someone had written something like, double upsweeps 
are X,Y, or Z bird, or if note is 0.3 seconds long look at these birds. 
Something to narrow things down to a few instead of 100. I'm running the mic 
through a guitar amp & then into my computer. I'm using Syrink Software to 
detect, record, and view the data. Does anyone know of such a resource, or 
have any practical advice for a novice flight call learner? Thanks in 
advance for any help.

Good Birding!
Jason Giovannone
Columbia, SC

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