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Subject: Peru List
From: "Mark A. Corder" <buddesystem(AT)MSN.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 2002 9:53am
I believe I have my Peru trip list completed. If anyone is interested I =
can clip it to a private e-mail. Also, if anyone is contemplating a trip=
to Southern Peru you should consider using our guide, Ramiro Yabar (Amaz=
onia Lodge owner). He was on top of everything for us--on time for every=
thing, we started birding as soon as it was light enough -- all day long =
then into the night for Night birds! He worked his tail off for us. 529=
species seen and heard in 15 days--
Night birds seen: =20
Swallow-tailed Nightjar
Band-winged Nightjar
Lyre-tailed Nightjar
Crested Owl
Tawny-bellied Owl
Black-banded Owl
Amazonian Pygmy-Owl
Heard: Spectacled owl, Oscellated Poorwill
Matt and Alan know how hard it is to see these owls...
What a trip!!!
Mark Corder
Olathe, Kansas
buddesystem(AT)msn.com
Amazonia Lodge has a website--they have two observation towers---
If anyone is going and want some tips let me know that too.
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Subject: Saturday Bird Walk
From: Chuck Otte <cotte(AT)OZNET.KSU.EDU>
Date: 26 Jul 2002 2:34pm
Greetings KSBirders!
I have survived yet another county fair and am ready to get back to
important things like birding!
If you haven't burned up yet your welcome to join me in my monthly bird
walk at Milford Lake. We'll be meeting at the parking lot at the south end
of the dam at Milford Lake tomorrow (27th) at 8 AM. We'll check out the
main body of the lake for terns and gulls then hit some of the mud flats for
shorebirds. Milford Lake has been drawn down for navigational water on
the Missouri. I doubt that the water from Milford increased the flow even a
half inch, but it has made lots of great mud flats that we haven't had before
so we'll take advantage of them and look to sharpen our shorbird ID skills!
Chuck
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Geary County Extension Office, PO BOX 28 785-238-4161
Junction City, Kansas 66441-0028 FAX 785-238-7166
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Subject: Kirwin Shorebird Survey
From: Shannon L Rothchild <Shannon_Rothchild(AT)FWS.GOV>
Date: 26 Jul 2002 3:06pm
The shorebird survey resulted in minimal birds this morning. Below is a
list of those recorded on the refuge.
Killdeer 27
Least sandpiper 1
"Peep" 2
Spotted sandpiper 2
Sanderling 12
Common tern 40
Black tern 20
The terns and sanderlings were on the mudflats north of the South Shore
Boat Ramp. The terns were competing with gulls, wipers and white bass for
the schooling shad.
Shannon Rothchild
Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge
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Subject: Re: Origins of Jenny Wren
From: Scott & Diane Seltman <sselt(AT)GBTA.NET>
Date: 26 Jul 2002 4:05pm
Yeah, I know. This thread is SO last week! But when it's 105F everyday and
it hasn't rained for months, being a farmer becomes a little like being a
Global Crossing pensioner, i.e. lots of time and nothing much to do!!
During the last few days I've spent several hours looking through old books
of English literature in an attempt to find early references to "Jenny
Wren". I hit quite a few of the high spots: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare,
assorted Elizabethan poets, Donne and a few others right up to the
Romantics. To my surprise, I couldn't even find one mention of the wren in
any of the usual places. Even Keats, who knew enough about birds to be
considered an early "birder" and mentions many species including
hummingbirds in his poetry, apparently just skipped over the lowly wren. So
that reference dated 1648 from the Oxford Dictionary cited by Dave Rintoul
predates anything I could find.
Of course the scarcity of literary references doesn't mean that the term
"jenny wren" didn't have wide usage throughout England from a very early
date. One could easily imagine the old word "wrenne" being combined with
the French word "genisse" [or variation thereof] really at any point after
the Norman Conquest. So perhaps the phrase was adopted out in the
countryside quite early on and just didn't make it into the written record
very often.
As I said earlier, there are many references to "Jenny Wren" in children's
literature and music beginning late in the 1800's. While the writers of
that era didn't invent anthropomorphism [We know it existed before Aesop and
beyond.] Beatrix Potter and others began to use that literary device almost
exclusively in a "new" type of literature aimed specifically at children.
And for the first time in history, a fair percentage of those children could
actually read the books themselves!! This was good. But it started a trend
that troubles me, the tendency for young children to learn about animals
only in the abstract or to look at wildlife as characters in their own
personal cartoons. One only has to go someplace where the general public is
encountering wildlife, like in a national park, to realize that many adults
aren't any more sophisticated than their toddlers in that regard! Well,
don't get me started on that.
I'll shut up, but first here are a few interesting links to Jenny Wren stuff
that I ran across:
Scathing review of Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend" including a critique of the
human character "Jenny Wren" written by a young and very acerbic Henry
James, published in "The Nation", December 1865.
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/OMF/james.html
Story entitled: A QUARREL BETWEEN JENNY WREN AND THE FLY CATCHERS. C.
L.GRUBER, State Normal School, Kutztown, Pa. From a magazine called: "Birds
and All Nature", April 1899.
http://www.birdnature.com/apr1899/jenny.html
Song called: Cock Robin & Jenny Wren, "The Baby's Opera", circa 1900.
http://www.2020site.org/baby_opera/cockrobin.html
Part of the original Mother Goose collection of children's poems, 1916.
http://www.bygosh.com/MotherGoose/Jenny.htm
Jenny Wren depicted as a caricature of Mae West in the Disney cartoon,
"Who Killed Cock Robin?", 1935.
http://www.teemings.com/shorts/disney/years/1935/1935.html#18
It is wicked hot this afternoon!
Scott Seltman
RR 1 Box 36
Nekoma, KS 67559
sselt(AT)gbta.net
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Subject: Re: Origins of Jenny Wren
From: Henry Armknecht <douga(AT)NCKCN.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 2002 4:52pm
Speaking of bird names, I got my copy of American Birds with the CBC
results
yesterday. I have read it practically cover-to-cover. After that, I got onto
the web site
and was looking at some former CBC results. One Canadian CBC of 50 or so years
ago listed 50 birds called Snowflake. Does anyone know what bird this name
refers to?
Henry A
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Subject: Yellow-headed blackbird.
From: "Robert J. Mangile" <rmangile(AT)APEXCORP.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 2002 10:58pm
A relative mentioned to me that he had a lone yellow-headed blackbird at
his residence northwest of Pittsburg, Crawford County, KS on
approximately July 19th or 20th.
I might mention that on July 19th a pair of Carolina Wrens fledged three
young from a blue, plastic Wal-Mart Store sack, half-full of white,
paper shop rags that was hanging on the wall inside my garage. Quite an
event!
Green herons nested again, in the small thicket in my back yard. On one
occasion, probably when the nestlings were very young, the brooding
heron became very annoyed at my presence. Surprisingly, it began making
a lot racket that attracted several neighborhood crows and other birds,
(including our cochin banty chickens) and they all joined in the
racket. On July 3rd I saw at least two fuzzy young herons in the scant
nest about 15-20 feet above the ground; and a few days later they were
gone - apparently climbing in the branches at a very early age.
Bob Mangile
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