CarolinaBirds for Monday, August 28, 2006

Messages are displayed in the order they were received.  Subject  From  Time   Mystery Bird Photo Winners   Simon Thompson   2:05pm   "New Opening" yields fabulous birds at Jackson Park   John Lindfors    3:18pm   Savannah Spoil site field trips   Kent Fiala    7:06pm   Whoops   KC Foggin   8:11pm

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Subject: Mystery Bird Photo Winners
From: "Simon Thompson" <simont(AT)charter.net>
Date: 28 Aug 2006 2:05pm

C-birders

The last 3 months Mystery Bird Photo Winners are as follows:
May - Lois Stacey
June - Clyde Sorenson
July - Dave Hardin
Each person wins a Ventures gift certificate. The August one only has a few 
more days to run so get your answer is this week!!

Ventures has been working on a cross-promotional agreement with Redshank 
Software here in North Carolina. As well as giving away the Ventures Gift 
Certificate every month, starting in January we will be adding an Avendex 
disc to the prize. Avendex is a software application for birders that 
contains an integrated database of over 30,000 unusual bird sightings from 
North and South Carolina. With Avendex, birders can plot sightings on a map, 
analyze them by sighting period, location, or geophysical range --- for any 
species or group of species. It's like having a team of super-birders on 
your PC! For additional information on Avendex, please visit their website: 
http://www.redshanksoftware.com
Thanks and good luck with the last few days of this months photo
Simon

Simon Thompson
Ventures Birding and Nature Tours
PO Box 1095
Skyland, NC 28776
Phone: 828.253.4247
Travel AT birdventures.com
www.birdventures.com


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Subject: "New Opening" yields fabulous birds at Jackson Park
From: John Lindfors <jwl127(AT)netzero.com>
Date: 28 Aug 2006 3:18pm

Today, Monday, August 28th, I went to Jackson Park (Henderson County in 
western NC) and decided to check out an area that lies south of the 
Nature Trail and the pine woods and west of the softball fields south of 
the group picnic area.  Apparently bulldozers are clearing a large area 
out there that gives you access to the "south swamp" all the way to the 
BMX access road drainage ditch.  (This is the ditch which is between the 
west side of the nature trail and the BMX access road.  It has the new 
steel pedestrian bridge over it.) 

At the utility line I saw a very large flycatcher with a vest and large 
bill, which had no trace of a yellow belly or cinnamon rufous in the 
wings.  It was not a myiarchus flycatcher, so I am calling it an 
Olive-sided Flycatcher.  Ron Selvey called me this afternoon, and said 
that he thought he heard an Olive-sided while he was in the very same 
area after I had left it.  He found Hooded Warblers, American Redstarts, 
an Ovenbird and a Kentucky Warbler.  He also was intrigued my two or 
three empids.

If this area doesn't get to filled in with growth it will be an 
excellent addition to the birding areas of Jackson Park.  Especially on 
days like today when the Warbler Trail was warblerless.


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Subject: Savannah Spoil site field trips
From: Kent Fiala <fiala(AT)ipass.net>
Date: 28 Aug 2006 7:06pm

Plans for field trips to the Savannah Spoil Site at the CBC Fall meeting
at Savannah are now in place. Information on how to register is on the
CBC web site at http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/

-- 
Kent Fiala
Chapel Hill Township, NC


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Subject: Whoops
From: "KC Foggin" <KCFoggin(AT)sc.rr.com>
Date: 28 Aug 2006 8:11pm

I saw the Juvie Hummer arriving at the feeder and wasn't quite sure which one to
 focus on :)

http://jjd.pbase.com/image/65932986

KC Foggin
Socastee
Myrtle Beach SC

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