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Subject: Re: [PABIRDS] Chickadee - odd - Lawrence County
From: Dave DeReamus <becard(AT)FAST.NET>
Date: 7 Sep 2004 1:31am
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hess" <phess(AT)SALSGIVER.COM>
>
> Interesting bird. At first glance it looks like a partially albinistic
B-c
> or Carolina Chickadee. But is everyone confident that this is a
> chickadee? Unless my screen is fooling me, the bill looks too large --
> wide at the base and rather blunt -- and pale for a chickadee's tiny,
> sharp, black bill.
-------------------------------------
Hi Paul and all,
Until you pointed out the bill's size and shape, I also initially believed
(and mostly still do) that this bird is a partial albino Chickadee with the
lack of pigment also being responsible for the pale bill.
The bill seems more like that of a Titmouse, which makes me wonder if this
might be a "Chickmouse"----no joke! There have been documented reports of
rare hybridization between a chickadee and a titmouse. The October '97
issue of Birder's World has a photo of one, taken by E. Vernon Laux, the
Martha's Vineyard birder who recently found the Red-footed Falcon. Although
the bird in that photo doesn't look exactly like this bird, it does have the
longer, blunter bill and the beady-looking titmouse eye like this bird. A
letter in a later issue tells of another birder who remembered seeing one at
Mill Grove, PA back in 1957. But, I still have to lean more towards the
partial albino with an abnormal bill since I believe that a "Chickmouse"
would have a dark bill like that of both of its parents. All in all, seeing
this bird would make anyone do a double-take.
Good Birding,
Dave DeReamus
Compiler of the 'Eastern PA Birdline'
Easton, PA
becard(AT)fast.net
Eastern PA Birding Website: http://www.users.fast.net/~becard/index.html
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Subject: Re: [PABIRDS] Chickadee - odd - Lawrence County
From: Scott Weidensaul <sweidnsl(AT)INFIONLINE.NET>
Date: 7 Sep 2004 8:18am
I've looked at the photos, too, and come down firmly on the side of
this simply being an aberrant chickadee, rather than a hybrid or
(least likely) some weird exotic escapee. From its shape, posture and
build, it's clearly a parid, and I think what appears to be an oddly
proportioned bill may just be an artifact of the photographs and the
fact that the bill is white instead of black. There is an area of
white feathering at the base of the bill, from the nares (nostrils)
back, which gives the bill a wider, longer look than would otherwise
be the case. Cover that area with your finger, and it's a regular,
small chickadee beak.
As for the titmousish "beady eye" that Dave mentioned, I imagine
chickadees would likewise have a beady eye -- if the face were
normally pale instead of black. My major reason for rejecting a
hybrid origin, though, is that the bird lacks any hint of a titmouse
-- except for the white facial mark, everything else about it appears
to be normal for a chickadee. No bit of a crest, no dilution in the
black of the crown or the rest of the bib. It also appears in the
first photo to show pale edgings on the coverts, another chickadee
trait. And as Dave noted, a hybrid wouldn't explain the lack of
pigment in the bill.
The simplest explanation is that this is a chickadee born with a
slight genetic hiccup in its facial coloration -- a very slight
hiccup, since the only change is that the area of white that normally
ends just below the eye, in this bird ends just above it, and
includes the bill.
Scott Weidensaul
Schuylkill Haven, Pa.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Hess" <phess(AT)SALSGIVER.COM>
>>
>> Interesting bird. At first glance it looks like a partially albinistic
>B-c
>> or Carolina Chickadee. But is everyone confident that this is a
>> chickadee? Unless my screen is fooling me, the bill looks too large --
>> wide at the base and rather blunt -- and pale for a chickadee's tiny,
>> sharp, black bill.
>-------------------------------------
>
>Hi Paul and all,
>
>Until you pointed out the bill's size and shape, I also initially believed
>(and mostly still do) that this bird is a partial albino Chickadee with the
>lack of pigment also being responsible for the pale bill.
>
>The bill seems more like that of a Titmouse, which makes me wonder if this
>might be a "Chickmouse"----no joke! There have been documented reports of
>rare hybridization between a chickadee and a titmouse. The October '97
>issue of Birder's World has a photo of one, taken by E. Vernon Laux, the
>Martha's Vineyard birder who recently found the Red-footed Falcon. Although
>the bird in that photo doesn't look exactly like this bird, it does have the
>longer, blunter bill and the beady-looking titmouse eye like this bird. A
>letter in a later issue tells of another birder who remembered seeing one at
>Mill Grove, PA back in 1957. But, I still have to lean more towards the
>partial albino with an abnormal bill since I believe that a "Chickmouse"
>would have a dark bill like that of both of its parents. All in all, seeing
>this bird would make anyone do a double-take.
>
>Good Birding,
>
>Dave DeReamus
>Compiler of the 'Eastern PA Birdline'
>Easton, PA
>becard(AT)fast.net
>Eastern PA Birding Website: http://www.users.fast.net/~becard/index.html
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Subject: [PABIRDS] Philadelphia RBA, September 7, 2004
From: Armas Hill <armas(AT)FOCUSONNATURE.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 2004 1:01pm
RBA
* Pennsylvania
* Philadelphia
* September 7, 2004
* PAPH0409.07
* Birds mentioned:
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN (nj)
Blue-winged Teal
American Green-winged Teal
Sora
American Avocet
American Golden Plover
Semipalmated Plover (pa)
Killdeer
Hudsonian Godwit
Whimbrel (pa)
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
RED-NECKED STINT (de)
Western Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper (pa)
Pectoral Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher (pa)
Wilson's Phalarope
Bonaparte's Gull
Laughing Gull (pa)
Common Tern (pa)
Roseate Tern (nj)
Caspian Tern
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay (feature)
Blue-headed Vireo
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-winged Warbler
Northern Parula
Tennessee Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
LARK SPARROW (nj)
Scarlet Tanager
Bobolink
NORTHERN RIGHT WHALE
pelagic trip announcement
Philadelphia Birdline
Date: September 7, 2004
Number: 215/567-BIRD
To Report: Armas Hill, 302/529-1876 (VOICE)
302/529-1085 (FAX)
Compiler: Armas Hill
Coverage: Delaware Valley, and southern New Jersey
Transcriber: Risė Hill
This is a Philadelphia Birdline update for Tuesday, September 7th.
The Birdline comes from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in Philadelphia,
and is supported by a number of bird clubs and individuals.
I'm Armas Hill, glad to be with you.
In Delaware, at the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, on Saturday,
September 4th, a bird well-described as a RED-NECKED STINT was seen at the
north end of Raymond Pool. It was seen well, filling the images in scopes,
from about noon to1pm.
Regarding the bird, it was just about identical to the illustration 192a in
the book "Shorebirds" by Heyman etc (the pre-breeding plumage) except for
some facial details.
It was notably smaller than the WESTERN SANDPIPERS that were with it. No
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS were next to it for comparison.
The STINT was actively feeding, and turning, so that all postures were viewed.
It was an adult in, or nearly completing, its pre-basic moult.
A striking point was the bright rufous chin and throat, encircled by a
"necklace" of dark streaks across the upper breast. Worn rufous feathering
encircled the bill. But there was no rufous coloration on the sides of the
neck, or on the cheeks (as in that illustration referred to, 192a), or on
the lightly streaked crown, or anywhere on the back.
But, that the bright rufous was on the chin as well as on the throat, ruled
out SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER and LITTLE STINT.
The bill was straight and slender. At times, the bill appeared to be
thicker, longer, and too blunt. However, as the bird was observed actively
feeding, with its head under water much of the time, during the split
second it lifted its head out of the water, black mud was seen sliding down
its bill, and gathering in a droplet at the tip.
Thus, the bill at times appeared blunt, or even expanded at the tip
(bringing to mind, excitingly, a SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER - which the bird
was NOT).
Fortunately, when the bird was seen (by scope) with its head out of the
water, it was seen swiping its bill clean with its foot - revealing the
proper, short, straight, tapered-to-a-point bill of appropriate size and
shape for a RED-NECKED STINT.
Some photographs were taken of the STINT, and have been posted on the
internet. Their quality is not as good as desired. But still, in them, the
bird appears to be a RED-NECKED STINT.
In the FONT web-site (www.focusonnature.com), there's a fine photo of a
RED-NECKED STINT in non-breeding plumage, in a piece relating to shorebirds
in Japan.
On the home page, go to the links to "Featured Items of Interest" and
"Shorebirds in Japan". The RED-NECKED STINT photo is #40.
Another interesting item from this past weekend is from the north end of
the New Jersey Coast. Not relating to a bird, but interesting none the less.
At Sandy Hook, a very rare creature was observed in the water, seen from
shore - a NORTHERN RIGHT WHALE!
One of the rarest of the world's whales.
Birders were there, in the afternoon of Sunday, September 5th, hoping for a
seabird or two.
But, instead, they saw the whale - active feeding, and periscoping. At
times, it stuck its whole head out of the water. As it fed, its tail was
seen well.
The whale was so close to shore the observers feared that it might
ultimately be beached.
During all this, a Coast Guard boat came, and stayed nearby.
After about half an hour, however, the whale, and then the Coast Guard boat
left - each going their separate ways.
This upcoming weekend, September 11/12, the annual FONT late-summer
overnight pelagic trip will be conducted to the Hudson Canyon.
There are still some places available.
Saturday/Sunday September 11/12, departing from Barnegat Light, New Jeresy,
about midnight, returning by late-afternoon.
On the 100-foot, and fast, "Doris Mae", To both NJ & NY offshore waters, to
be at the canyon at daybreak. The cost: $119.
During this trip in the past: WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL. And warm water
would bring other nice possibilities. Also possible could be birds
displaced by the large hurricane to our south.
And, of course, the CAPE VERDE SHEARWATER (formerly a subspecies of the
CORY'S) will be looked for. Likely this time of year would be JAEGERS.
If you' like to join this trip: please either call 1-800-721-9986, or fax:
302-529-1085,
or e-mail: font(AT)focusonnature.com
web-site: www.focusonnature.com
At the south end of the Jersey Shore, this past weekend, birds included: 3
ROSEATE TERNS and a juvenile BONAPARTE'S GULL, seen from shore at Cape May
Point, on Saturday, September 4th.
That same day, birds at the Brigantine (or Forsythe) Refuge, near
Oceanville NJ, northwest of Atlantic City, included:
a WHITE PELICAN, that has continued at the refuge - it was at the west pool,
a SORA along the south dike,
GOLDEN PLOVER along the north dike, by the west pool,
an AVOCET on the east pool, seen from the north dike,
a flock of 11 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, continuing on the west pool,
WILSON'S PHALAROPE in the east pool,
CASPIAN TERN (over 20 in the west pool),
and lastly, but not least, a LARK SPARROW, along the road to the gull pond
tower.
During a Bluegrass Music Festival in Salem County, in southwestern New
Jersey, last weekend, a birder took some time from the bluegrass music to
turn and look out at sod farm grass to see: 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS,
along with PECTORAL and LEAST SANDPIPERS and KILLDEER.
Shifting to some recent Pennsylvania reports:
Near Northeast Philadelphia, on the grounds of the Pennypack Trust in
Montgomery County, on Sunday morning, September 5th, there were numerous
WARBLERS. Many were low in the vines and small trees.
Particularly numerous were REDSTARTS and BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS.
Also there were: MAGNOLIAS and BLACK-THROATED BLUES, PARULAS and
TENNESSEES. There was a single BLUE-WINGED.
VIREOS included WHITE-EYED and BLUE-HEADED. There were SCARLET TANAGERS
(actually green).
In the natural grass fields of the Raytharn Farm, there were about 30
BOBOLINKS.
Elsewhere in Montgomery County PA, among birds lately in Ambler have been:
REDSTARTS and BLUE-THROATED BLUE WARBLER. Also BLACKPOLL WARBLER.
And SCARLET TANAGER, and RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS.
In south-central Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River, at the
Conejohela Flats, in Washington Boro, Lancaster County, during the morning
of Sunday, September 5th, there were:
20 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 1 GOLDEN PLOVER, 25 KILLDEER, 6 GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, 9 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER (that makes sense), 2
SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 1 WHIMBREL, a hundred SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, a
hundred LEAST SANDPIPERS. 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 10 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, and
1 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER. Also both TEAL, LAUGHING GULL, and COMMON TERN.
Now, our Birdline Feature, as it will be given this week on the radio. The
Birdline, for more than 5 years now, has been on radio station AM1450 WILM
in Wilmington, Delaware, every Wednesday, before 6am, 9am, and 7pm. Some
changes are now underway at that station, and it appears that an outcome
may be that the Birdline will have, soon, a more extensive radio coverage.
That would be great!
Here's this week's Birdline Feature, as on the radio:
This time, about some BIRDS, in our region, that are BLUE.
Theres the BLUEBIRD, with its reddish breast.
But, better known is the BLUE JAY. Many people see it and hear it in their
yards. (RECORDING)
The common BLUE JAY is blue and white.
However, I'm careful with my phrasing NOT to say that its COLORS are blue
and white. In a popular sense, of course, BLUE and WHITE are thought of as
colors.
But there's more to it than that when it comes to bird's FEATHERS.
FEATHERS are what makes BIRDS birds. All birds have them in common. In all
feathers, there are very tiny air pockets that scatter light.
Many birds throughout the world COLORFUL - with bright reds, and yellows,
and so on. Birds are probably among the most COLORFUL of the creatures on
Earth.
But the BLUE JAY (that's blue and white) is actually, you could say, COLORLESS.
While most birds have feathers with COLORS determined by the PIGMENTS they
contain (colors of the visible spectrum ranging from red to violet), WHITE
FEATHERS have no pigment at all - and feathers that appear BLUE, to our
eyes, contain only a black or brown pigment.
WHITE FEATHERS look WHITE to us because ALL of the light that strikes them
is reflected.
There seems to be NO PIGMENT in feathers that's BLUE.
The barbs in them that appear blue are composed of:
one) a colorless LAYER, in which the tiny air particles, referred to
earlier, scatter, or reflect, the blue light rays (to our eyes), and
two) another, deeper LAYER containing a dark pigment (that's brown or
black) which absorbs all of the other colors. That's why the BLUE JAY and
the BLUEBIRD are BLUE.
That's a technical explanation.
More romantically, one could say these birds are BLUE just as the SKY is BLUE.
White light passing through a perfectly clear atmosphere produces no color.
But the upper atmosphere is filled with minute particles that scatter (or
reflect) the shortest (or blue) light waves. That's why our clear sky is
BLUE.
Putting "sky and bird" into one sentence, Henry Thoreau once wrote that the
BLUEBIRD "carries the sky on its back".
I'm Armas Hill.
Thank you, as always, for tuning in to the Birdline, and good birding,
wherever you may be.
- end transcript
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Subject: [PABIRDS] BroadwingSEPT Volunteers Needed
From: "Moulton, R. K." <Kirk.Moulton(AT)UNISYS.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 2004 1:29pm
Attention: Volunteers are needed to count hawks on BroadwingSEPT in Bucks and
southern Lehigh County this year Monday September 13 through Thursday September
23. Please email me now or one of the site leaders and join us for a day or
half-day on a hawk watch near you.
Lehigh Campus: Kirk Moulton kirk.moulton(AT)unisys.com
· Pleasant Valley: Kirk Moulton
kirk.moulton(AT)unisys.com
· Lake Nockamixon: Bob Friederman Friederperson(AT)aol.com
· Pipersville: Diane Allison
dalliso(AT)mail.ptd.net
· Peace Valley: August Mirabella
AugustMirabella(AT)aol.com
· Buckingham: George Rowe GRO1032(AT)aol.com
Core Creek: Pat Rossi Circuscyan(AT)aol.com
Here is how it works. For most of September, I am actively on the
Internet, on the phone, and on the computer We are in constant touch with
leaders of the established hawk watches up and down the East Coast and we become
big, big students of weather, both regionally and for North America. As
Broad-winged Hawks start to move from up north, we generally know that evening.
During the count weeks of Broadwing SEPT, it really gets crazy. In addition to
constant phone calls with other hawk watches, the BroadwingSEPT site leaders
call in with their counts each evening and we talk about the events of the day
and what tomorrow might bring. What we know, they know, and through them so do
the volunteers staffing the BroadwingSEPT watches.
·
The most important success factor to this project is the hawk watches and the
people who volunteer their time. Our count hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Often
people count for half days, 9 to 1 or 1 to 5. Work it out with the site
leaders, we will take all the time people are willing to give. Also, we very
much want to get several people on the site together because it makes for much
more fun and the more people, the more hawks are spotted. All the sites have a
lot of sky to handle. Don't worry about your identification skills, there will
be someone there who can teach you.
Kirk Moulton
BroadwingSEPT
North Wales, PA
610-648-2048
More details:
For the eleventh straight year, we are running BroadwingSEPT (South Eastern
Pennsylvania Transect). Our official count period this year is Monday September
13 through Thursday September 23, designed to coincide with the expected peak
of the Broad-winged Hawk migration in this area. We will go longer if necessary
depending on flight status. BroadwingSEPT is a transect line consisting of
seven hawk watches, spaced approximately five miles apart, running in a
northwest to southeast line at an angle perpendicular to the theoretical
preferred angle of migration of 242 degrees
for Broad-winged Hawks in this region. Our geographical center point is
Doylestown, PA in Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia.
The project's original goal was to demonstrate the existence of a major hawk
migration corridor between Hawk Mountain and Philadelphia. The observed numbers
(over 200,000) in these past ten years have dramatically confirmed the breath
and diversity of this migration corridor. As the project has matured, we have
expanded our research to include an effort to unravel the mechanics of the
flight dynamics of Broad-winged Hawks as they are affected by wind and other
weather as related to the more global aspects of migration from their breeding
grounds in Canada and northeastern United States, down over our region, into
Texas and beyond.
A critically important success factor to BroadwingSEPT is the online and
real-time communication provided by BIRDHAWK and its contributors. I want to
extend my warmest thanks to each and every one of you. As you can imagine,
organizing and staffing seven sites at once is a huge job and real
time access to data is a fundamental requirement. As in the past years, you
can help by posting here any and all sightings of Broad-winged Hawks, real time
as they occur. If a Broad-winged Hawk sneezes in New England or Ontario, I
want to know about it as soon as it happens. All sightings, no matter how few,
are important!
Finally, if you are in the southeastern PA area and would like to count hawks,
send me an email. Everyone is welcomed and needed, independent of your
experience level. There will be an experienced hawk watcher on the site at all
times. Include address and phone number and I will get you hooked up with one
of our local leaders.
Here is a site summary for BroadwingSEPT:
Lehigh University Campus, 2 miles south of Bethlehem, PA at the Lehigh
University Sports Complex (75* 22' latitude 40* 35.5' longitude).
Pleasant Valley (75* 17' latitude 40* 31.5' longitude), 5 miles southeast of
Hellertown, PA.
Lake Nockamixon (75* 13' latitude 40* 27.5' longitude) 12 miles north-northwest
of Doylestown, PA.
Pipersville (75* 22' latitude 40* 26.5' longitude), 7 miles north of Doylestown,
PA.
Peace Valley Park (75* 12' latitude 40* 19' longitude), 2 miles west of
Doylestown, PA.
Buckingham (75* 4' latitude 40* 17.5' longitude), 3 miles southeast of
Doylestown, PA.
Core Creek County Park (74* 55.5' latitude 40* 11.5' longitude), 3 miles south
of Newtown, PA.
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Subject: [PABIRDS] HSR: Rose Tree Park (07 Sep 2004) 22 Raptors
From: reports(AT)HAWKCOUNT.ORG
Date: 7 Sep 2004 6:36pm
Rose Tree Park Hawkwatch, Media, PA
Pennsylvania, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 07, 2004
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
------------------ ----------- -------------- --------------
Turkey Vulture 0 5 5
Black Vulture 0 3 3
Osprey 4 24 32
Northern Harrier 1 5 5
Mississippi Kite 0 0 0
Bald Eagle 1 12 14
Sharp-shinned Hawk 6 13 16
Cooper's Hawk 0 4 5
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0
Broad-winged Hawk 7 86 116
Swainson's Hawk 0 0 0
Red-tailed Hawk 0 1 7
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 2 9 9
Merlin 1 3 4
Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown 0 5 7
Total: 22 170 223
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 15:00:00
Total observation time: 7 hours
Official Counter: Charlie Haag, Larry Krutulis
Observers: Barbara Shanko, Janet Crawford, Jim Lockyer, Larry Krutulis
Visitors:
Jim McConnell
Weather:
Partly Cloudy with mostly E winds from calm-8mph. Temperature from 70-84F.
Observations:
1 Juvenile Bald Eagle at 1437 EDT.
1 Common Nighthawk
Predictions:
Showers and scattered thunderstorms, especially in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
========================================================================
Report submitted by Janet Crawford (janet.l.c(AT)att.net)
Rose Tree Park Hawkwatch, Media, PA information may be found at:
www.jl-studio.com/RTP_HW
For additional information please contact: Jim Lockyer (jim(AT)jl-studio.com),
Janet Crawford (janet.l.c(AT)att.net)
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Subject: [PABIRDS] HSR: Waggoner's Gap (07 Sep 2004) 39 Raptors
From: reports(AT)HAWKCOUNT.ORG
Date: 7 Sep 2004 6:57pm
Waggoner's Gap Hawkwatch
Pennsylvania, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 07, 2004
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
------------------ ----------- -------------- --------------
BV 0 0 0
TV 0 0 0
OS 12 47 102
BE 4 17 61
NH 2 10 30
SS 5 29 71
CH 0 10 28
NG 0 0 0
RS 0 0 4
BW 11 171 496
RT 3 24 80
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 1 12 71
ML 0 1 1
PG 0 0 1
UR 1 5 14
Total: 39 326 959
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 8 hours
Official Counter: Dave Grove
Observers: Craig Houston, Ron Freed
Visitors:
Shorty Lowe, John Hoffman, Pat Freed, Dickinson College Ecology class - 25.
10
Weather:
Overcast with a moderate SSE wind becoming light
Observations:
adult BE at 10:26,11:05,11:34 and 12:45
TV with white primaries seen again
Hummers - 10 monarch - 1
========================================================================
Report submitted by dave grove (waggap(AT)pa.net)
Waggoner's Gap Hawkwatch information may be found at:
http://user.pa.net/~waggap/
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Subject: [PABIRDS] HSR: Allegheny Front (07 Sep 2004) 1 Raptors
From: reports(AT)HAWKCOUNT.ORG
Date: 7 Sep 2004 7:34pm
Allegheny Front Hawkwatch, Central City,
Pennsylvania, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 07, 2004
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
------------------ ----------- -------------- --------------
BV 0 0 4
TV 0 0 0
OS 0 30 61
BE 0 4 20
NH 0 8 14
SS 0 40 88
CH 0 15 24
NG 0 0 1
RS 0 1 10
BW 1 330 736
RT 0 66 148
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 0 7 29
ML 0 1 2
PG 0 0 0
UA 0 2 6
UB 0 3 12
UF 0 0 0
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 4 27
Total: 1 511 1182
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Observation start time: 07:00:00
Observation end time: 15:00:00
Total observation time: 8 hours
Official Counter: Tony Barle
Observers: Che &Marian Mincone
Visitors:
Dick Akers
Weather:
WSPD Moderate
WFM SE
TEMP 16 to 18c
CLCV FOG for 7 Hrs. Cleared for 1 Hr. - back to Fog
VISB 0 for 7 Hrs. to 1 Mi. back to 0
Observations:
FDIR S
HTFL LOW
NG Local Bird
Predictions:
TEMP 70F
PRECIP 90%
WIND E 8 to 9MPH
========================================================================
Report submitted by Che Mincone (51cecidio(AT)libcom.com)
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Subject: [PABIRDS] Lake Nockamixon, Bucks Co
From: Bill Etter <better(AT)NETCARRIER.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 2004 9:17pm
A few things worth mentioning from Lake Nockamixon, Bucks Co, today 07 Sept:
A Black Tern flew up the lake past the fishing pier and spent some time feeding
late this afternoon.
Lesser Black-backed Gulls have been scarce here so far this season, so 4 adults
today was good. They were around the fishing pier with 20 or so Ring-billed
Gulls.
I had a largish, very distant, briefly intriguing bird flying toward me over the
water today. Started to get excited til i got it in the scope and realized it
was a Pileated Woodpecker. It's always amusing getting thrown off by
out-of-place birds. Wanted to turn it into something better, but Pileated it
remained. Think i've fallen for that one before...wish they would stay in the
woods. It was actually my "park bird" for the year, so can't really complain i
guess.
Last, i got a text from Devich Farbotnik this evening that a Snowy Egret was
across from the marina, so i went over to see it. This bird (presumably the
same one..) has been seen going to roost here in the evenings several times
since mid August. A Great Egret was there tonight too.
Oh yeah...4-5 Egyptian Geese are more or less permanent fixtures near the marina
boat ramp now, just as last fall. If anyone wants em, come get em...
Bill Etter
Lake Nockamixon
Bucks County
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