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Subject: Least terns nest destroyed????
From: Linda and Don Mallonee <donlin(AT)COX.NET>
Date: 1 Aug 2002 12:10am
My neighbor came over to visit tonight and to tell me that she had spent =
the afternoon with the lady who owns Hearth and Home. She told my =
neighbor that there had been a lot of 4 wheeling done in the field =
behind the store yesterday and that part of the fence was down. We did =
see 3 birds fishing on the lake tonight, but it is easy to fear the =
worst,
Linda Mallonee
Wichita
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Subject: Hummingbirds
From: Lloyd Moore <ictinia(AT)SWBELL.NET>
Date: 1 Aug 2002 1:11am
Hey! All you hummingbird spotters. If possible/known give age and sex of
hummingbirds reported as well as number of individuals of each species.
Thanks,
Lloyd
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Subject: Re: Be on the lookout for Cave Swallows
From: Sebastian Patti <sebastianpatti(AT)HOTMAIL.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 2002 7:14pm
. . . .OR . . .how 'bout KANSAS birders looking for Red-necked Stint at
Cheyenne Bottoms/Quivira????
>From: Robert Fisher <bobgfisher(AT)COMCAST.NET>
>Reply-To: MO Wild Bird Forum <MOBIRDS-L(AT)PO.MISSOURI.EDU>
>To: MOBIRDS-L(AT)PO.MISSOURI.EDU
>Subject: Be on the lookout for Cave Swallows
>Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:28:47 -0500
>
>Whuda thunkit? A Red-necked Stint in Missouri in July? OK. Miracles do
>happen -- albeit rarely. But let's get real. That was last month. Now it's
>August. A more realistic expectation for Missouri's next first state
>record is Cave Swallow. And now's the time to be on the lookout for them.
>
>Kansas' first Cave Swallows, two molting juveniles, showed up at Cheyenne
>Bottoms roughly about this time last year. It took only two weeks for the
>next one to appear -- also at Cheyenne Bottoms. Once people start looking
>for birds, the chances that they will be noticed multiply exponentially.
>
>When Tim Barksdale was around, he used to say "That means they're also in
>Missouri" whenever a new species showed up in Kansas. He said that when
>White-throated Swifts appeared in Lawrence, KS, and sure enough, one was
>found in Missouri. The same principle operated in reverse the year the
>Slaty-backed Gull showed up near the bridge to Alton, IL (i.e. what is now
>REDA). Kansans and western Missourians streamed east to see it and learned
>to identify Thayer's Gulls in the process. Within a year, the first Kansas
>record of Thayer's Gull occurred -- a bird photographed by Ted Cable. But
>that was just a beginning. There were six additional reports of Thayer's
>Gull in Kansas that year! And several Thayer's Gulls have been reported in
>Kansas every winter since then!
>
>You get my point. Cave Swallow has now showed up in Kansas. It's time to
>look for them in Missouri.
>
>Adult and juvenile Cave Swallows usually differ most strikingly from Cliff
>Swallows in that they have a pale throat. Dark-throated adult Cave Swallows
>occaisionally occur, however, as sometimes do pale-throated juvenile Cliff
>Swallows. However, pale throated adult Cliff Swallows never occur, nor do
>paled-eared juvenile Cliff Swallows. If you think you might have a Cave
>Swallow, look carefully at its throat and ears.
>
>Of course, the pale throat, ears and nape of a juvenile Cave Swallow --
>the most likely age of Cave Swallow to appear in Missouri -- will
>distinguish it out as something quite different from the usual juvenile
>Cliff Swallow. Most juvenile Cliff Swallows have dark caps, faces, ears and
>throats. Likewise, the usual adult Cave Swallow's pale throat will mark it
>as conspicuously different from the usual adult Cliff Swallow. Also check
>out all square-tailed swallows with darker-than-usual rumps. A second look
>might reveal that it is a Cave Swallow.
>
>We are now coming into the time of year when swallows finish nesting,
>disperse and stage preparatory to migrating. You can look over sizeable
>groups of staging Cliff swallows at leisure on the ground or on telephone
>wires. That's how Missouri's first Cave Swallow will probably be
>discovered.
>
>Cave Swallows have rapidly been expanding their ranges northward from
>southern Texas and southern New Mexico. (No doubt they are being noticed
>outside their traditional ranges in part because more people are looking
>for them). I would not be surprised if they were to nest regularly in
>Kansas some day. By the logic of Tim Barksdale, they will show up in
>Missouri long before they settle down to nest in Kansas.
>
>Neotropic Cormorants and Mottled Ducks are two other southern birds that
>showed up first in Kansas, then in Missouri. Cave Swallows may well be
>next.
>
>Ready. On your mark. Get set. Go!
>
>Bob Fisher
>Independence, MO
>bobgfisher(AT)comcast.net
>
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Subject: late report - July 29th big day
From: chet gresham <cogresha(AT)YAHOO.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 2002 7:58pm
KSBirders,
Tyler Hicks and I attempted a July big day on the
29th. It was a fairly good day of birding. We started
the day in Cowley County at the convergence of Grouse
Creek and the Ark River. In that general are we saw
and heard the resident species like Wood Thrush,
Kentucky Warbler, N. Parula, Summer Tanager, Pileated
Woodpecker, Painted Bunting, etc... We then headed
toward Wichita and picked up Pete's ECODO and headed
north of Colwich where we saw about 10 Buff-breasted
Sandpipers. There could have been more, but we bolted
after we saw those. At the Goose Refuge at Cheney we
had 2 Caspian Terns, Forster's, Black and Least. At
DeWeese Park we picked up a Least Flycatcher and Blue
Grosbeak. We then proceeded to Quivira where we had 3
Marbled Godwits, a Black-bellied Plover, Willet and
all the other expected birds. Cheyenne Bottoms wasn't
panning out the species we needed, but we found a
Common Moorhen, 5 Sanderling, Burrowing Owl, and
another Least Flycatcher along with a Willow, and a
few other easy species we had missed. We needed about
8 more species to break the record and we had run out
of options. So we tucked our tails and went home, but
we thought we might as well hit Quivira again on the
way home and when we did new species just started
popping up. Dunlin, Tri-colored Heron, Redhead,
Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Eared Grebe, Ruddy Duck
(how we had missed that one I'll never know), King
Rail, Black Rail and all of the sudden we had 146
species and we only needed a bittern or a
Chuck-will's-widow or a host of other species we had
missed and lo and behold . . . we found not one more
day bird. So we ended up with 146. It was fun and
I'm ready for more big days! If only we had found a
stint! Oh the poetry we would have written.
good birding,
Chet
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Subject: Cheyenne Bottoms shorebirds
From: Helen Hands <helenh(AT)WP.STATE.KS.US>
Date: 1 Aug 2002 8:00pm
I didn't see as many shorebirds on my shorebird survey today as I did =
last week. I'm not sure there are fewer birds at the Bottoms. I think =
they are just using harder-to-see locations. There is less mudflat in =
Pool 4A and the birds seemed to have moved into Pools 3A and 3B, where =
they are harder to see because of the cattail. However, I estimate that =
there are about 5-10,000 shorebirds. Species recorded were: =
black-bellied, snowy, and semipalmated plovers; killdeer; black-necked =
stilt; avocet; greater and lesser yellowlegs; solitary, spotted, =
semipalmated, western, least, Baird's, pectoral, stilt, and =
buff-breasted (7 seen) sandpipers; dowitchers; and Wilson's phalarope. =
An excellent variety of shorebirds can easily be seen in Pool 1A along =
the dike between Pool 1A and Pools 4A and 4B.
Helen Hands, Wildlife Biologist
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area
56 NE 40 Rd.
Great Bend, KS 67530
620-793-3066
helenh(AT)wp.state.ks.us
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