Arkansas (Statewide) RBA
April 3, 2008
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Subject: Arkansas RBA--April 3, 2008
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-RBA
*Arkansas
*Statewide
*April 3, 2008
*ARST0304.08
-Species Mentioned
Merlin
Eared Grebe
Horned Grebe
-Transcript
Welcome to the Arkansas Rare Bird Alert for April 3, 2008, sponsored by the
Audubon Society of Central Arkansas (ASCA). ASCA meets at 7:00pm the second
Thursday of each month at the John Gould Fletcher Library, located at 823
Buchanan St. on the corner of Buchanan and H Streets in Little Rock. The next
meeting will be April 10th. The meeting topic will be “Ecology of Prescribed
Burning” presented by Roger Fryar, USDA Forest Service. Check the ascabird.org
website for details on upcoming meetings and field trips.
Due to extreme flooding at Cook’s Lake and the White River NWR, plus a massive
inundation of buffalo gnats at Cook’s Lake, the April ASCA field trip location
has been changed. The date is still April 12. Below are the details. (Woolly
Hollow State Park is 12 miles north of Conway on Hwy. 65, then 6 miles east of
Greenbrier, AR. on Hwy. 285.)
We will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the south end of the commuter parking lot at I-630
and Shackleford Road in Little Rock. We will arrive at Woolly Hollow State Park
around 8:45 a.m. for those who would like to meet us there. Early spring
migrants are our target birds. After birding Woolly Hollow, we will drive to
Mayflower to eat lunch at the Glory B’s café. After lunch, we
will head to the Camp Robinson Special Use Area to look for Bachman’s Sparrows.
All birders are welcome to join us! For more information, contact Karen
Holliday at karenh@arkleg.state.ar.us.
Don’t forget to register for the statewide meeting of Arkansas Audubon Society
at Fort Smith on April 25-27th. Details are available at www.arbirds.org.
From around the state recent sightings are:
In Poinsett Co. at the bridge on Punkin Center Rd., an Eared Grebe (breeding
plumage) and
5 Horned Grebes (nonbreeding and transitional plumage) were reported.
In Russellville (Pope County), next to Arkansas Tech University’s ball fields
along Hwy 124, there is a Merlin chasing small birds across the highway
Thanks for calling the Arkansas Rare Bird Alert. Your contributions make the
Rare Bird Alert possible. If you would like to leave a message, please wait for
the chirp. Good Birding!
Hotline: Arkansas
Date: April 3, 2008
Phone number: (501)753-5853
To Report: (501)753-5853, ARBird email discussion list, BRC forms available at
ARBirds.org
Compiler/Transcriber: DeLynn Hearn
Coverage: Statewide
-End transcript
DeLynn Hearn
Senior Consultant, Mary Kay Cosmetics
317 West K St.
N. Little Rock, AR 72116
(501)771-4686
www.marykay.com/dhearn1
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