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Subject: [birders] MI CBCs
From: "Darrin O'Brien" <treecreeper(AT)wowway.com>
Date: 22 Dec 2009 7:59am
http://michiganaudubon.org/research/surveys_forms_data/christmas_count/national_count.html
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Darrin O'Brien
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Subject: [birders] Fwd: [Ohio-birds] Spotlight on Ohio birding
From: Lathe Claflin <lathe.claflin(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 22 Dec 2009 9:34am
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From: Kenn Kaufman <kenn.kaufman(AT)worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Spotlight on Ohio birding
To: OHIO-BIRDS(AT)listserv.muohio.edu
Hi All,
Many of you already know that every issue of Birding, the magazine of the
American Birding Association, is filled with valuable info for every serious
birder. But you may not know that the upcoming January 2010 issue is going
to have a particular focus on Ohio.
The cover of the issue is a spectacularly beautiful piece of artwork by our
own Jennifer Brumfield, featuring spring migrant warblers at the boardwalk
at Magee Marsh. I think this may be the best Birding cover EVER done ... if
you haven't seen the brilliant artwork that Jen has been doing recently,
prepare to be blown away! On the inside of the issue, world birder (and
Tropical Birding guide) Sam Woods has written a stirring essay about
traveling to observe migration, and he puts a special emphasis on northwest
Ohio (the Magee Marsh / Ottawa NWR area) as one of his favorite places.
Finally, there's an in-depth article that I wrote about the Magee area and
the factors that make it so great for observing spring migration; the
article is illustrated with photographs by Ohio birders Brian Zwiebel and
Delores Cole.
The Jen Brumfield cover by itself should be enough to make this issue a
collectors' item for Ohio birders, and the stuff on the inside is just
gravy. This post is mainly a heads-up for non-members or lapsed members of
the American Birding Association: If you've been thinking about joining or
renewing your membership in the ABA, doing it now would get you on the list
for this special issue.
Kenn Kaufman
Oak Harbor, Ohio
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Subject: [birders] (Fwd) [enviro-semich] Please Help Us To Save Eliza
Howell Park
From: "Bruce M. Bowman" <bbowman99(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 22 Dec 2009 12:17pm
I don't this park, but I assume it's a place that could be of interest to
birders--and worth saving. See below. There's a meeting tonight
(Tuesday) at 6:00.
Bruce
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From: "Larry D. Noodén" <ldnum(AT)umich.edu>
To: enviro-semich(AT)umich.edu
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Subject: [enviro-semich] Please Help Us To Save Eliza Howell Park!
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From: Rouge Park <rougepark(AT)gmail.com>
Subject: Please Help Us To Save Eliza Howell Park!
To: rougepark(AT)gmail.com
Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 8:11 PM
Hello-
Detroit's Eliza Howell Park is currently in jeopardy
of being lost. As you may have heard, an heir to the
family who donated part of the land for Eliza Howell Park is
suing the City to get it back. We need you to help us to
save Eliza Howell Park, please come to this meeting if you
can:
Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
God Land Unity Church
22450 Schoolcraft
(Westbound I-96 Service Drive
Between Outer Drive & Telegraph)
Detroit, MI 48223
I apologize for any cross posting but appreciate if you can
help get the word out. Feel free to pass this along to
anyone who might be interested.
-Sally,
President Friends of Rouge Park
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Subject: [birders] Flickers
From: Melissa Pappas <ftknoxfox53(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 22 Dec 2009 9:47am
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Every year I'm surprised to hear that seeing Northern Flickers is somewhat =
unusual. Since we moved here in August of '03, we've had increasing numbers=
of Flickers in our yard. This past weekend, I saw a group (appeared to be =
'family') of four taking turns on the suet. At the same time, there were at=
least two additional individuals up at the house on some of the varying se=
ed and peanut feeders. I'm not certain how many=A0there are in the area, bu=
t I would have to surmise that there are probably more than the six I've se=
en at the same time. We do live adjacent to the non-public portion of Huron=
Meadows Metropark, so I'm sure that helps with our yard's bird diversity.
Melissa Pappas
Hamburg Township, Livingston County, MI=0A=0A=0A
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Subject: [birders] Metro Beach Fall 2009 Banding Report
From: "Allen T. Chartier" <amazilia1(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 22 Dec 2009 4:16pm
Birders and Banders,
I have finished my full-length banding summary for fall 2009 at Metro Beach
Metropark, Macomb County, Michigan, and have uploaded it (PDF) to my website
at:
http://www.amazilia.net/MetroBeachBanding/
Scroll down to the hyperlink for the Fall 2009 report. Also, I have updated
the 2004-Present page with the fall 2009 data, so you may want to check out
that link as well.
Happy Holidays everyone!
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Subject: [birders] A Red-Tailed wish for the holidays!
From: "Robert Setzer" <doctorbass(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 22 Dec 2009 4:43pm
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Judy and I were eating breakfast this morning and saw a beautiful mature
Red-Tailed Hawk flash us about 15 feet away as he pursued a dove from our
neighbor's feeder. Whew! It was a lovely "mental snapshot"! It was the first
time we saw a pursuit happen! (I do not think he got it.)
Shortly thereafter, I saw him flying again at the far back of our viewing
area (near the river) and watched as he landed in a naked tree. I took
several pics with my 10x Kodak. He flew into another tree a bit farther and
I took some more. It just "made my day"!!!
Maybe it was lucky my Canon was in the shop - these little Kodak's are
great! I'll post some pics sometime, but that card is four cards behind in
the queue. I need to work on other adventures and our recent Christmas trip
to see the kids first.
Anyway, I just want to thank you all for being inspirational to me this
year, and to wish you all the happiest most memorable holidays ever!
Thanks and best cheer!
"Dr. Bob"
"Dr. Bob" Setzer
Streamwood Estates, Rochester Hills (Crooks & Hamlin), Oakland County
"Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day." Teaching a man to "bird"
is much harder!
Blog: <http://drbobsbirdblog.blogspot.com/>
http://drbobsbirdblog.blogspot.com/
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Subject: [birders] Visteon Gulls- Wayne Co 12/22
From: theowlranch <theowlranch(AT)aol.com>
Date: 22 Dec 2009 10:38pm
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Howdy folks,
I spent a few hours at the Visteon pond off of I-275 in southern Wayne Cou=
nty today. There were a couple thousand gulls to sift through, and a handf=
ul of goodies to enjoy. Despite looking a few times now, I have not seen=
Darrin's Franklin's Gull, a most excellent December find!
However today there were,
Thayer's Gull- 1 1st cycle
Thayer's/Iceland Gull- 2 adults
Glaucous Gull- 1 adult
Lesser Black-backed Gull- 2 (1 1st cycle, 1 adult)
Great Black-backed Gull-23 (various age classes)
The more interesting waterfowl included 3 Redhead, a female Canvasback and=
a female Hooded Merganser.=A0
Over at French's Landing there were two Great Blue Herons duking it out fo=
r the privilege of standing over a hole in the ice shelf. Aren't herons on=
ice just about one of the most pitiful things one can see?
~Skye Haas
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Subject: [birders] RE: Do birds depend on feeders in winter?
From: "Penny" <Jumpthroughhoops(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 22 Dec 2009 10:52pm
Typically, I think, a flock of birds would find a patch of land with their
type of food growing on it, consume all available food there, and then,
move on to find the next place with abundant food and repeat the process.
Over the years, these places would be fairly constant at certain times of
year, unless disturbed by farming or sprawl. In the wild some of these
birds would die if the flock was unable to find replacement feeding
grounds. With feeders, the food diminishes but is immediately replaced,
so the birds don't have to move on to another feeding ground. They also
don't have to travel exhausting distances; even the weaker birds can fly
across the street to your feeder. This allows more birds to survive and
allows the adults to bring their young to the sure source of food. I know
in my yard, at least, all naturally occurring breeds in this area have
increased every year - way more grackles, robins, and red-wing blackbirds
in spring and summer, more cardinals, goldfinches, chickadees, titmice,
doves, and nuthatches in winter. And more hawks. I now have dozens of
birds of each species, whereas I used to only have one or 2 at a time. I
counted 12 juncos this morning, over 20 goldfinches, and 6 or so
cardinals. I've even seen chickadees caching seeds for later when the
feeders are freshly filled.
As for the mourning dove behavior mentioned by Fred, I find that they are
hard to see in my yard, blending in so well with wood chips, etc.,that
I've almost stepped on them, and they are rarely taken by hawks here. I
think they rely on camo more than brains.
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Subject: [birders] RE: Do birds depend on feeders in winter?
From: "Fred Kaluza" <fkaluza(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 22 Dec 2009 11:28pm
Good comments Penny, I agree that the camouflage is pretty-darn good
on Doves and as pointed-out, whatever they're doing seems to have become a
working strategy for survival based on their numbers. The scary thing about
feeders is what will become of our catered-to feathered friends should
caring and generous suburban residents pull the plug on their supplemental
repasts? I think an extreme and fairly localized population crash would
result. There's been some good science recently on tracking and locating
migrating birds with a new generation of tracking devices. I wonder how
much is known about the wanderings of "resident" birds?
Certainly recapture studies from Julie Craves and Allen Chartier
give some info about the home areas of "local" birds and I've personally
wondered about the size of "my Coopers Hawk's" territory or whether "my"
Downy Woodpeckers or Black-Capped Chickadees wander more than 1/2 mile from
my yard? My mother-in-law has detected on more than one occasion when I've
run out of Nyger or Thistle seed based on how many more Goldfinches show up
at her house but that's only 5 houses down the street.
P.S. K9 pet food and supply on Mound Road just got some 50 lb bags
of Thistle from that grower in Shiawassee County for like $33 per bag!
-----Original Message-----
From: Penny [mailto:Jumpthroughhoops(AT)yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 10:52 PM
To: birders(AT)umich.edu
Subject: [birders] RE: Do birds depend on feeders in winter?
Typically, I think, a flock of birds would find a patch of land with their
type of food growing on it, consume all available food there, and then,
move on to find the next place with abundant food and repeat the process.
Over the years, these places would be fairly constant at certain times of
year, unless disturbed by farming or sprawl. In the wild some of these
birds would die if the flock was unable to find replacement feeding
grounds. With feeders, the food diminishes but is immediately replaced,
so the birds don't have to move on to another feeding ground. They also
don't have to travel exhausting distances; even the weaker birds can fly
across the street to your feeder. This allows more birds to survive and
allows the adults to bring their young to the sure source of food. I know
in my yard, at least, all naturally occurring breeds in this area have
increased every year - way more grackles, robins, and red-wing blackbirds
in spring and summer, more cardinals, goldfinches, chickadees, titmice,
doves, and nuthatches in winter. And more hawks. I now have dozens of
birds of each species, whereas I used to only have one or 2 at a time. I
counted 12 juncos this morning, over 20 goldfinches, and 6 or so
cardinals. I've even seen chickadees caching seeds for later when the
feeders are freshly filled.
As for the mourning dove behavior mentioned by Fred, I find that they are
hard to see in my yard, blending in so well with wood chips, etc.,that
I've almost stepped on them, and they are rarely taken by hawks here. I
think they rely on camo more than brains.
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Subject: [birders] RE: Do birds depend on feeders in winter?
From: "Fred Kaluza" <fkaluza(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 22 Dec 2009 11:40pm
Also Penny, I think perhaps that landscapes unmanaged by humans tend
to be more dynamic than we may give credit for. Fires that are started
naturally that go un-quenched and droughts that go unmitigated and various
other climatological events are bound to push birds to their limits but...as
I'm typing this I'm beginning to think that probably nature rarely if ever
changes the face of the earth as humans have done.
More likely it's we who are driving birds to new evolutionary
heights by challenging their abilities like they've not been challenged
since the great comets or whatever wiped-out most everything all those
millions of years ago if that's the cause you're comfortable with.
Hmmmmm...
In my head right now a movie is playing and the plot is still
evolving. It's 11:30 and I am not missing anything on TV that's for sure.
Question to other thinkers...What do you do if you start to get
"commercial interruptions in your imagination"?
-----Original Message-----
From: Penny [mailto:Jumpthroughhoops(AT)yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 10:52 PM
To: birders(AT)umich.edu
Subject: [birders] RE: Do birds depend on feeders in winter?
Typically, I think, a flock of birds would find a patch of land with their
type of food growing on it, consume all available food there, and then,
move on to find the next place with abundant food and repeat the process.
Over the years, these places would be fairly constant at certain times of
year, unless disturbed by farming or sprawl. In the wild some of these
birds would die if the flock was unable to find replacement feeding
grounds. With feeders, the food diminishes but is immediately replaced,
so the birds don't have to move on to another feeding ground. They also
don't have to travel exhausting distances; even the weaker birds can fly
across the street to your feeder. This allows more birds to survive and
allows the adults to bring their young to the sure source of food. I know
in my yard, at least, all naturally occurring breeds in this area have
increased every year - way more grackles, robins, and red-wing blackbirds
in spring and summer, more cardinals, goldfinches, chickadees, titmice,
doves, and nuthatches in winter. And more hawks. I now have dozens of
birds of each species, whereas I used to only have one or 2 at a time. I
counted 12 juncos this morning, over 20 goldfinches, and 6 or so
cardinals. I've even seen chickadees caching seeds for later when the
feeders are freshly filled.
As for the mourning dove behavior mentioned by Fred, I find that they are
hard to see in my yard, blending in so well with wood chips, etc.,that
I've almost stepped on them, and they are rarely taken by hawks here. I
think they rely on camo more than brains.
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