1. Cunninham L birds
"Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net>
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 16:35:03 -0600
2. Adios Black Scoter
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:51:03 -0600
3. Birding the Cowboy Trail
Carolyn Hall <cjhall@huntel.net>
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:59:42 -0600
4. Hawk and Owl Victory!
rluehrs@kearney.net (Richard Luehrs)
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:49:20 -0600
5. Sunday birding @ Massie.
"Linda R. Brown" <lb14735@navix.net>
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 11:42:46 +0000
6.
Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us>
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:27:49 -0600
7. [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding
rluehrs@kearney.net (Richard Luehrs)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:16:32 -0600
8. Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding
"Shelly Novakowski" <snovakowski@accessomaha.com>
Tue, 02 Mar 1999 08:38:09 -0600
9. Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding
cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:13:19 CDT
10. Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding
Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us>
Tue, 02 Mar 1999 12:25:58 -0600
11. Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding
"Shelly Novakowski" <snovakowski@accessomaha.com>
Tue, 02 Mar 1999 13:29:13 -0600
12. Re: Harvey L. Gunderson, 1913-1999
Paul Johnsgard <pjohnsga@unlinfo.unl.edu>
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:23:07 -0600 (CST)
13. Bruner
"Thomas E. Labedz" <tlabedz@unlinfo.unl.edu>
Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:07:00 -0600
14. Re: replies
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Wed, 03 Mar 1999 20:44:04 -0600
15. Harlan Co Feb 28 highlights
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Wed, 03 Mar 1999 21:06:41 -0600
16. Bassett bird deaths
Carolyn Hall <cjhall@huntel.net>
Thu, 04 Mar 1999 08:43:35 -0600
17. inappropriate threads
"Lanny Randolph" <randolphl@unk.edu>
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:30:51 -0600
18. Standing Bear Lake Birding
NRATZLAFF@aol.com
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:01:25 EST
19. bird sightings
"Kevin Poague"<kpoague@audubon.org>
Fri, 05 Mar 99 08:36:10 -0500
20. Nebraska Birdline for 3/5/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:04:02 -0600
21. spring in Dodge Co.
paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Fri, 05 Mar 1999 17:27:51 -0600
22. RE: bird sightings
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:33:37 -0600
23. from Robin
"Lanny Randolph" <randolphl@unk.edu>
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:45:16 -0600
24. Friday afternoon at BOL
John C Sulllivan <johnsllvn@juno.com>
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 20:45:55 -0600
25. inappropriate threads
paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:17:53 -0600
26. Re: inappropriate threads
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sat, 6 Mar 1999 16:31:15 -0600
27. Re: inappropriate threads
Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Sat, 6 Mar 1999 16:25:06 -0700
28. Common Crane
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sat, 06 Mar 1999 19:46:41 -0600
29. Common Crane
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sat, 6 Mar 1999 21:50:51 -0600
30. NeBirds: early March in the western Rain Water Basin
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sat, 06 Mar 1999 22:25:23 -0600
31. {Nebirds} West Omaha Lakes
"John W. Hall" <jwhall2@juno.com>
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 00:04:04 -0600
32. Common Crane in Buffalo Co
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sun, 07 Mar 1999 09:34:34 -0600
33. Common Crane
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 13:03:30 -0600
34. weekend birds
"Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net>
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 15:37:14 -0600
35. Common Crane
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sun, 07 Mar 1999 16:06:06 -0600
36. Fw: Common Crane
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:37:25 -0600
37. Re: Fw: Common Crane
"Brandon K. Percival" <flammowl@juno.com>
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:08:22 -0700
38. Re: Fw: Common Crane
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:12:59 -0600
39. Fw: [BIRDCHAT] Common Crane
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:47:40 -0600
40. Common Crane
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:58:46 -0600
41. Bald Eagles
"Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com>
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:15:55 -0700
42. (NeBirds) Lake Zorinsky
"John W. Hall" <jwhall2@juno.com>
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:04:45 -0600
43. Re: Fw: Common Crane
lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen)
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:54:03 -0600 (CST)
44. Nebraska Birdline for 3/8/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:26:11 -0600
45. Re: Fw: Common Crane
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:43:42 -0600
46. Rusty Blackbirds
NRATZLAFF@aol.com
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:25:49 EST
47. Common Crane Update
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:40:46 -0600
48. Re: Common Crane Update
"Lanny Randolph" <randolphl@unk.edu>
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:03:57 -0600
49. Common Crane
Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:00:17 -0700
50. Western Nebraska birding.
Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:12:53 -0700
51. Nebraska Birdline for 3/9/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:47:02 -0600
52. Prairie Falcons
"Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com>
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:03:03 -0700
53. RE: Prairie Falcons
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:21:30 -0600
54. [NeBirds] Ruby-crowned Kinglets
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:32:38 -0600
55. Common Crane Update
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:21:39 -0600
56. [NeBirds] Whooping Crane
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:37:34 -0600
57. Re: Prairie Falcons
"Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com>
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:42:29 -0700
58. opportunity
"Randall D. Williams" <yiams@avalon.net>
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 05:41:36 -0600 (CST)
59. EArly Arrival
Jan Johnson <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:37:15 -0600 (CST)
60. RE: Prairie Falcons
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:59:30 -0600
61. Administrivia
"Robert I. Price" <price@rip.physics.unk.edu>
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:40:08 +0000
62. Common Crane update
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:47:02 -0600
63. Nebraska Birdline for 3/11/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:45:51 -0600
64. Nebraska Birdline for 3/12/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 20:44:49 -0600
65. [NeBirds] Harlan Co. 3/12
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:08:10 -0600
66. Re: [NeBirds] Harlan Co. 3/12
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:40:13 -0600
67. sexing screech owls
Jerry Toll /Carol Schmid <cjs_jwt@radiks.net>
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:47:02 -0800
68. Re: sexing screech owls
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:13:36 -0600
69. Common Crane Update (3-14)
murwille <murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us>
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:57:08 -0600
70. Nebraska Birdline for 3/14/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 14:45:16 -0600
71. Great Horned Owls/Common Crane
murwille <murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us>
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 15:26:04 -0600
72. Re: Great Horned Owls/Common Crane
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:42:37 -0600
73. [NeBirds] Funk Lagoon 3/13
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:02:58 -0600
74. Re: sexing screech owls
Jan Johnson <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:56:32 -0600 (CST)
75.
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:02:55 -0600
76. NOU Back Issue Update
"Thomas E. Labedz" <tlabedz@unlinfo.unl.edu>
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:59:50 -0600
77. Common Crane
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:18:51 -0600
From: "Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net> Subject: Cunninham L birds Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 16:35:03 -0600 Hello NE-birders I birded Cunningham Lake, Douglas County both Saturday and Sunday mornings, as well as a few other sites. The few highlights follow. I found one bird that I think deserves a little explaining. In March of 1996, I observed a presumed Common Goldeneye X Hooded Merganser hybrid at Cunningham Lake. I wrote a decription/summary of my observations of that bird in the Nebraska Bird Review (Volume 65:135-6). In addition, a black-and-white photograph was included in the article. Well, both Saturday and Sunday I observed a bird identical to the 1996 Common Goldeneye X Hooded Merganser hybrid. It shouldn't be too much of a stretch to presume this is the same bird from two years ago, since there are likely very few such hybrids with identical morphological features roaming the countryside. I should state that I did not observe the bird last March, possibly only because I was out of state and did not bird Cunningham last March. Joel Jorgensen --------------- 27 Feb Cunningham L 1 Common Goldeneye X Hooded Merganser Hybrid 25 Common Goldeneyes 25 Common Mergansers 1 Red-breasted Merganser 16 Hooded Merganser 200 Ring-billed Gulls 1 Herring Gull Carter Lake 40 Redheads 3 Ruddy Ducks 1 American Coot Summit Lake 43 Redhead 18 Canvasbacks 16 Ring-necked Ducks 6 Lesser Scaup Blair 1 Killdeer 5 Common Grackles 1 Carolina Wren (actually seen on 22 Feb) 28 February Cunningham Lake 2 Wood Ducks 1 Common Goldeneye X Hooded Merganser Hybrid 3 Lesser Scaup 50 Common Mergansers 50 Common Goldeneyes 8 Hooded Mergansers 1 Red-breasted Merganser 350 Ring-billed Gulls 7 Herring Gulls
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: Adios Black Scoter Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:51:03 -0600 Hi all, Gave the Blue Stem ducks one more close look over today, but I again came up empty on the Black Scoter. I must sadly conclude that she has moved on. Hundreds of Lesser Scaup at Blue Stem now along with numerous Gadwalls and Mallards. Still a sprinkling of other ducks including Redhead, Canvasback, American Wigeon, Bufflehead, Northern Pintail, Ring-necked Duck, Common Merganser, and Common Goldeneye. Mark O Mark O
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:59:42 -0600 From: Carolyn Hall <cjhall@huntel.net> Subject: Birding the Cowboy Trail February 28 61* at 3PM Bassett,NT Walked 1 mile east of Bassett on the Cowboy Trail. It is now surfaced yet but didn't walk too badly. Saw 3 chickadees in dead elm trees on the north side of the trail. They were chasing like breeding season is coming. Next came chipping sparrows in the tall weeds south of the trail. Lots of American robins anywhere in cedars and elm trees. Had two Harris sparrows in a willow which is beginning to show spring color. Near a row of cedar trees had a flock of tree sparrows. I left the trail a mile east of Bassett and walked 100 yards north to a gravel county road. As I walked west I noticed a bird flit along the south road ditch. Finally it perched on the top wire of the fence next to a willow bush. Beautiful bird, black and white markings on the head with a little yellow on the throat and when it turned its head there was chestnut on the nape of the neck. Finally I stepped a step closer to it and it turned around in prepartation of flying and I got a really good look at its back and tail. A chestnut-collared longspur. Close to a puddle of water I saw redwinged blackbirds singing their spring O-KA-LEE. And I heard ????? a frog. Can't be, its February! Back at the highway 1/2 mile north of town a bullfrog was calling. Maybe that other pond did have a frog in it!!!! Across from the salebarn, a flock of European starlings sailed over. A block of wild turkeys sauntered across the road ahead of me. We have about 200 turkeys that live right here in town. Back at my house, I had goldfinches and house finches at my feeder. I ran out of fine sunflower hearts so the house sparrows are mad at me (grin)! As I drove to Newport to the Methodist Church soup and pie supper, I saw a pair of Canada geese. At the supper, one of the men said he saw red-winged blackbirds two weeks ago. He said that is the earliest he has ever seen rwb's. He keeps a daily diary of things and had checked on bird sightings in years past. Carolyn Hall
From: rluehrs@kearney.net (Richard Luehrs)
Subject: Hawk and Owl Victory!
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:49:20 -0600
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>From: Cindy Dunn <cdunn@AUDUBON.ORG>
>Subject: Hawk and Owl Victory!
>Comments: To: PABIRDS@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG, PA-BOARD@list.audubon.org
>To: AUDUBON-PA@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG
>
> TO: Hawk, Owl and Habitat lovers
>
> FROM: Cindy Dunn, Audubon
>
> Reach over your shoulder and pat yourself on the back! The proposal
> from Vernon Shaffer, Chairman of the Game Commission, to remove
> protection from Red-tailed Hawks and Great Horned Owls at Middle Creek
> and Blue Marsh was rescinded.
>
> At the beginning of the 4 pm meeting, it was announced that they had
> received word from the Fish and Wildlife Service that the proposal
> would not be approved.
>
> Mike Schmidt, Deputy Executive Direcotr of the Game Commission
> announced that they had received an extraordinary amount of mail on
> the subject - 280 against and 2 in favor....thanks to all of you who
> took the time to write!
>
> Only a few speakers were in favor of the proposal. One was the guy
> named Colantuno (Spelling?) who receives permits many years to shoot
> Black-crowned night herons at his aquaculture facility.
>
> The sportsmen's groups were on our side. Pheasants Forever, the
> falconers, and others were aganist the proposal. The Federation of
> Sportsmen's Clubs and the PA wildlife Federation also were against it
> but didn't speak up.
>
> It appeared that NONE of the Game Commission staff were in favor of
> it, and half of the commissioners weren't supportive. It really calls
> to attention the break down that occurred for this hare-brained idea
> to even see the light of day. Glenn Bower, past Executive Director of
> the Game Commission, spoke up adamantly against it.
>
> Two Raptor rehabilitators, Wendy Looker and Beth Curacato spoke up
> very forcefully against the proposal.
>
> We certainly made an impression. There was standing room only. TWe had
> sign placards and a live Short-eared Owl which was recently injured by
> a shot. We had superb TV news coverage. Now we have got to keep up
> the momentum to make the Game Commission a true wildlife agency that
> works for all wildlife. We all need to pay more attention to their
> appointment process and get good commissioners in place.
>
>
>--
>
Richard
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 11:42:46 +0000 From: "Linda R. Brown" <lb14735@navix.net> Subject: Sunday birding @ Massie. Good Morning Birdline People, Yesterday Paul Johnsgard and I drove to Massie Federal Waterfowl Production Area south of Clay Center in Clay county. We spent a couple hours in an elevated very nice ten person blind watching 40-50,000 Snow Geese, 10-15,000 White-fronted geese, a couple hundred Canada Geese, Northern Pintail (30), Mallard (too many to count), Northern Shovelers (4), 5 Bald Eagles in the area, Northern Harrier, and one Loggerhead Shrike as we left. We got to meet Mary Ann Thompson, one of the organizers for the Clay Center Spring Wing Ding. It sounds like an excellent birding festival and is cheap. It starts this coming Friday night with a $10 banquet. Saturday morning buses leave at 6 am for one of the closed refuges. It was a great disappointment to walk into Harvard Federal Waterfowl Production Area and find not one bird on the water. A gun was bamming to the east so I understand why the birds could not use the area. A leisurely look at Pintail SWMA, a marsh southeast of Aurora in Hamilton County, gave a wonderful late afternoon light view of 20-30 feeding Green-wing Teal, 9 Redheads, 3 Northern Pintail, 4 Gadwall, and several Mallards. Linda R. Brown Lincoln, NE 68506 lb14735@navix.net
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:27:49 -0600 From: Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us> Subject: Good morning, Today, there was a surprise in Buffalo County at a property I work with---2 killdeer I also heard the Northern Bobwhite calling--is spring here or what? Laurel Badura
From: rluehrs@kearney.net (Richard Luehrs) Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:16:32 -0600 Posted to BIRDCHAT by a good friend, who I think won't mind my reposting it here. _____________________________________________________________________ / I imagine it's hard for a middle-aged | Richard Luehrs \ / man to get to the top in the business | Big Bend A.S. \ / world when his name is Fat Baby Moxford. | Friends Of Rowe Sanctuary \ | --------------- Kearney, Nebraska, USA | \ Mr. I-Know-Where-They-Are | mailto:rluehrs@kearney.net / \ aka Bob & Ray | "The School of Cosa Beakstra" / \___________________________|_________________________________________/ >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:19:24 -0600 >Reply-To: drintoul@KSU.EDU >Sender: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line)" > <BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> >From: Dave Rintoul <drintoul@KSU.EDU> >Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding >Comments: To: ksbirds-l@ksu.edu >To: BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > >A business-related trip took me to central Nebraska over the past >couple of days, but I did get to do some birding up there. So I >thought I would share some of those sights with you all. > >Grand Island to Kearney to Funk Lagoon and back 2/25/99 > >There were still waves of wind-sculpted snow on the north sides of the >fencelines, but the sky was blue and the weather was of the >shirt-sleeve variety. Over the last couple of weeks, southerly winds >have pushed lots of waterfowl and cranes into the Big Bend stretch of >the Platte River. Flocks of geese, including Canada, white-fronted, >and snow geese, were overhead in such numbers that it was always easy >to find a flock of shadows moving across the ground at your feet. Bald >eagles, tracking and grading these geese, were also plentiful. There >were at least 15 eagles at Funk Lagoon, and all looked exceptionally >well-fed. One young eagle could barely lift off; his distended crop >gave evidence of a recent meal of a goose or perhaps two. A merlin >near one of the bridges near Alda seemed very interested in the flocks >of recently-arrived red-winged blackbirds, but he looked a little >hungrier than the eagles. > >Ducks at Funk and elsewhere included many mallards, pintails, gadwall, >and wigeon. Less numerous were redheads, canvasbacks, buffleheads, >lesser scaup, and wood ducks. A few coots (ivory-billed rails) were >also found at Funk, and a Virginia rail was heard calling. Evidence of >spring was found in the observation that some of the red-winged >blackbirds were setting up territories, advertising their masculinity >from fenceposts and taller cattails in the marshes. > >Sandhill cranes were numerous anywhere west of Grand Island. The >fields and wet meadows along the Platte River Road had plenty of >cranes, and bugling trios and flocks of cranes were common overhead as >well. It is a bit early for the big numbers of sandhills, mid-March is >the usual peak, but crane-watchers out and about on this warm late >February day were not going to be disappointed. Whooping cranes have >not yet been seen in Nebraska this spring, but that could change >anyday. > >If you have never been to the Big Bend region of the Platte in March, >you have missed out on one of the last great wildlife migratory >spectacles in North America. Over a half-million sandhill cranes, as >well as millions of geese and ducks, will funnel through there in the >next month. For information on the 1999 Rivers and Wildlife Conference >in Kearney on March 12-14, go to > >http://rip.physics.unk.edu/audubon/RWC/ > >But if you can't make it this year, do make plans to do it sometime, >and maybe I'll see you there! > > > >-- >Dave Rintoul, Ph.D. mailto:drintoul@ksu.edu >Biology Division - KSU ICBM: 39.18N, 96.34W >Manhattan KS 66506-4901 VOX: 785-532-6663 >http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~drintoul/ FAX: 785-532-6653 > >"Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to >change their minds in response to arguments." - C.M. Bowra, 1898-1971 >
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 08:38:09 -0600 From: "Shelly Novakowski" <snovakowski@accessomaha.com> Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding I'm a recent Michigan transplant to Nebraska and my family and I would = like to plan a trip to view cranes in the Grand Island area in March. Can = you recommend the best viewing areas, possible guided tours and accommodati= ons in the area? I live in the Omaha area and am not yet familiar with = mid and western Nebraska. I've read about the bird migrations through = this area since I was a child and am excited about finally being able to = have the wonderful opportunity to view the migration. Michigan has = beautiful birds but not the mass migrations that are experienced along = this area of the Platte River. I certainly enjoy Birdchat and look = forward to opening my mail each morning! Thank you for any recommendations= you may have. >>> Richard Luehrs <rluehrs@kearney.net> 03/01/99 09:16PM >>> Posted to BIRDCHAT by a good friend, who I think won't mind my reposting = it here. _____________________________________________________________________ / I imagine it's hard for a middle-aged | Richard Luehrs \ / man to get to the top in the business | Big Bend A.S. \ / world when his name is Fat Baby Moxford. | Friends Of Rowe Sanctuary = \ | --------------- Kearney, Nebraska, USA = | \ Mr. I-Know-Where-They-Are | mailto:rluehrs@kearney.net = / \ aka Bob & Ray | "The School of Cosa Beakstra" / \___________________________|_________________________________________/ >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:19:24 -0600 >Reply-To: drintoul@KSU.EDU >Sender: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line)" > <BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> >From: Dave Rintoul <drintoul@KSU.EDU> >Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding >Comments: To: ksbirds-l@ksu.edu >To: BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > >A business-related trip took me to central Nebraska over the past >couple of days, but I did get to do some birding up there. So I >thought I would share some of those sights with you all. > >Grand Island to Kearney to Funk Lagoon and back 2/25/99 > >There were still waves of wind-sculpted snow on the north sides of the >fencelines, but the sky was blue and the weather was of the >shirt-sleeve variety. Over the last couple of weeks, southerly winds >have pushed lots of waterfowl and cranes into the Big Bend stretch of >the Platte River. Flocks of geese, including Canada, white-fronted, >and snow geese, were overhead in such numbers that it was always easy >to find a flock of shadows moving across the ground at your feet. Bald >eagles, tracking and grading these geese, were also plentiful. There >were at least 15 eagles at Funk Lagoon, and all looked exceptionally >well-fed. One young eagle could barely lift off; his distended crop >gave evidence of a recent meal of a goose or perhaps two. A merlin >near one of the bridges near Alda seemed very interested in the flocks >of recently-arrived red-winged blackbirds, but he looked a little >hungrier than the eagles. > >Ducks at Funk and elsewhere included many mallards, pintails, gadwall, >and wigeon. Less numerous were redheads, canvasbacks, buffleheads, >lesser scaup, and wood ducks. A few coots (ivory-billed rails) were >also found at Funk, and a Virginia rail was heard calling. Evidence of >spring was found in the observation that some of the red-winged >blackbirds were setting up territories, advertising their masculinity >from fenceposts and taller cattails in the marshes. > >Sandhill cranes were numerous anywhere west of Grand Island. The >fields and wet meadows along the Platte River Road had plenty of >cranes, and bugling trios and flocks of cranes were common overhead as >well. It is a bit early for the big numbers of sandhills, mid-March is >the usual peak, but crane-watchers out and about on this warm late >February day were not going to be disappointed. Whooping cranes have >not yet been seen in Nebraska this spring, but that could change >anyday. > >If you have never been to the Big Bend region of the Platte in March, >you have missed out on one of the last great wildlife migratory >spectacles in North America. Over a half-million sandhill cranes, as >well as millions of geese and ducks, will funnel through there in the >next month. For information on the 1999 Rivers and Wildlife Conference >in Kearney on March 12-14, go to > >http://rip.physics.unk.edu/audubon/RWC/ > >But if you can't make it this year, do make plans to do it sometime, >and maybe I'll see you there! > > > >-- >Dave Rintoul, Ph.D. mailto:drintoul@ksu.edu >Biology Division - KSU ICBM: 39.18N, 96.34W >Manhattan KS 66506-4901 VOX: 785-532-6663 >http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~drintoul/ FAX: 785-532-6653 > >"Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to >change their minds in response to arguments." - C.M. Bowra, 1898-1971 >
From: cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:13:19 CDT
Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding
> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 08:38:09 -0600
> Reply-to: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu
> From: "Shelly Novakowski" <snovakowski@accessomaha.com>
> To: <NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu>
> Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding
Shelly,
There are numerous places you can go to view Sandhill Cranes. They
basically occur from just east of Grand Island to 30-40 miles west of
Kearney. For your own day viewing good places to go are anywhere
south or north of I-80 in the above area. An easy place to start is
go south out of Grand Island toward Hastings on the Tom Osborne Exp.
for several miles and then turn right on Platte River Road and drive
west until you come to a 'T' and then you can turn right toward Alda
and I-80. Just before I-80 is the Crane Meadows Nature Center run by
The Nature Conservancy (good sighting information). They also have
blinds you can make reservations for evening and morning viewing on
the river. Probably no room left however. They fill early.
If you go further west to about 10 miles east of Kearney, at the
Gibbon exit, you can go south for about 2 miles and then right onto a
sand road you will come to the Rowe Sanctuary Headquarter farmhouse.
All through this area there will be huge flocks of cranes everywhere.
Rowe also has blinds you can make reservations for evening and
morning viewing. Again, they are probably filled by now. Especially
for the weekends.
Of the two places I prefer the Rowe Sanctuary. National Audubon
and Rowe Sanctuary are having their annual Rivers and Wildlife
Conference in Kearney March 12-14. There are lots of experienced
birders and fieldtrips every morning and evening that probably will
still have room in them for the blinds.
Rowe Sanctuary - 308-468-5282
Crane Meadows - 800-658-3178
Clem Klaphake
Bellevue University
Bellevue, NE
> I'm a recent Michigan transplant to Nebraska and my family and I would like to plan a trip to view cranes in the Grand Island area in March. Can you recommend the best viewing areas, possible guided>
> >>> Richard Luehrs <rluehrs@kearney.net> 03/01/99 09:16PM >>>
> Posted to BIRDCHAT by a good friend, who I think won't mind my reposting it
> here.
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
> / I imagine it's hard for a middle-aged | Richard Luehrs \
> / man to get to the top in the business | Big Bend A.S. \
> / world when his name is Fat Baby Moxford. | Friends Of Rowe Sanctuary \
> | --------------- Kearney, Nebraska, USA |
> \ Mr. I-Know-Where-They-Are | mailto:rluehrs@kearney.net /
> \ aka Bob & Ray | "The School of Cosa Beakstra" /
> \___________________________|_________________________________________/
>
>
> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:19:24 -0600
> >Reply-To: drintoul@KSU.EDU
> >Sender: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line)"
> > <BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
> >From: Dave Rintoul <drintoul@KSU.EDU>
> >Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding
> >Comments: To: ksbirds-l@ksu.edu
> >To: BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> >
> >A business-related trip took me to central Nebraska over the past
> >couple of days, but I did get to do some birding up there. So I
> >thought I would share some of those sights with you all.
> >
> >Grand Island to Kearney to Funk Lagoon and back 2/25/99
> >
> >There were still waves of wind-sculpted snow on the north sides of the
> >fencelines, but the sky was blue and the weather was of the
> >shirt-sleeve variety. Over the last couple of weeks, southerly winds
> >have pushed lots of waterfowl and cranes into the Big Bend stretch of
> >the Platte River. Flocks of geese, including Canada, white-fronted,
> >and snow geese, were overhead in such numbers that it was always easy
> >to find a flock of shadows moving across the ground at your feet. Bald
> >eagles, tracking and grading these geese, were also plentiful. There
> >were at least 15 eagles at Funk Lagoon, and all looked exceptionally
> >well-fed. One young eagle could barely lift off; his distended crop
> >gave evidence of a recent meal of a goose or perhaps two. A merlin
> >near one of the bridges near Alda seemed very interested in the flocks
> >of recently-arrived red-winged blackbirds, but he looked a little
> >hungrier than the eagles.
> >
> >Ducks at Funk and elsewhere included many mallards, pintails, gadwall,
> >and wigeon. Less numerous were redheads, canvasbacks, buffleheads,
> >lesser scaup, and wood ducks. A few coots (ivory-billed rails) were
> >also found at Funk, and a Virginia rail was heard calling. Evidence of
> >spring was found in the observation that some of the red-winged
> >blackbirds were setting up territories, advertising their masculinity
> >from fenceposts and taller cattails in the marshes.
> >
> >Sandhill cranes were numerous anywhere west of Grand Island. The
> >fields and wet meadows along the Platte River Road had plenty of
> >cranes, and bugling trios and flocks of cranes were common overhead as
> >well. It is a bit early for the big numbers of sandhills, mid-March is
> >the usual peak, but crane-watchers out and about on this warm late
> >February day were not going to be disappointed. Whooping cranes have
> >not yet been seen in Nebraska this spring, but that could change
> >anyday.
> >
> >If you have never been to the Big Bend region of the Platte in March,
> >you have missed out on one of the last great wildlife migratory
> >spectacles in North America. Over a half-million sandhill cranes, as
> >well as millions of geese and ducks, will funnel through there in the
> >next month. For information on the 1999 Rivers and Wildlife Conference
> >in Kearney on March 12-14, go to
> >
> >http://rip.physics.unk.edu/audubon/RWC/
> >
> >But if you can't make it this year, do make plans to do it sometime,
> >and maybe I'll see you there!
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Dave Rintoul, Ph.D. mailto:drintoul@ksu.edu
> >Biology Division - KSU ICBM: 39.18N, 96.34W
> >Manhattan KS 66506-4901 VOX: 785-532-6663
> >http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~drintoul/ FAX: 785-532-6653
> >
> >"Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to
> >change their minds in response to arguments." - C.M. Bowra, 1898-1971
> >
>
>
>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 12:25:58 -0600 From: Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us> Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding Shelly, The Rowe Sanctuary blinds are not completely full as of yet, and I do not know about Crane Meadows however, I assume they may have some openings. If you would give me your full name and address, I can send you some information regarding birding here along the Platte, which would include a map of the Rainwater Basins to enhance your crane experience. Sincerely, Laurel Badura lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us At 12:13 PM 3/2/99 -0500, you wrote: >> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 08:38:09 -0600 >> Reply-to: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu >> From: "Shelly Novakowski" <snovakowski@accessomaha.com> >> To: <NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu> >> Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding > >Shelly, >There are numerous places you can go to view Sandhill Cranes. They >basically occur from just east of Grand Island to 30-40 miles west of >Kearney. For your own day viewing good places to go are anywhere >south or north of I-80 in the above area. An easy place to start is >go south out of Grand Island toward Hastings on the Tom Osborne Exp. >for several miles and then turn right on Platte River Road and drive >west until you come to a 'T' and then you can turn right toward Alda >and I-80. Just before I-80 is the Crane Meadows Nature Center run by >The Nature Conservancy (good sighting information). They also have >blinds you can make reservations for evening and morning viewing on >the river. Probably no room left however. They fill early. > >If you go further west to about 10 miles east of Kearney, at the >Gibbon exit, you can go south for about 2 miles and then right onto a >sand road you will come to the Rowe Sanctuary Headquarter farmhouse. >All through this area there will be huge flocks of cranes everywhere. >Rowe also has blinds you can make reservations for evening and >morning viewing. Again, they are probably filled by now. Especially >for the weekends. > Of the two places I prefer the Rowe Sanctuary. National Audubon >and Rowe Sanctuary are having their annual Rivers and Wildlife >Conference in Kearney March 12-14. There are lots of experienced >birders and fieldtrips every morning and evening that probably will >still have room in them for the blinds. > >Rowe Sanctuary - 308-468-5282 >Crane Meadows - 800-658-3178 > >Clem Klaphake >Bellevue University >Bellevue, NE > >> I'm a recent Michigan transplant to Nebraska and my family and I would like to plan a trip to view cranes in the Grand Island area in March. Can you recommend the best viewing areas, possible guided> >> >>> Richard Luehrs <rluehrs@kearney.net> 03/01/99 09:16PM >>> >> Posted to BIRDCHAT by a good friend, who I think won't mind my reposting it >> here. >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> / I imagine it's hard for a middle-aged | Richard Luehrs \ >> / man to get to the top in the business | Big Bend A.S. \ >> / world when his name is Fat Baby Moxford. | Friends Of Rowe Sanctuary \ >> | --------------- Kearney, Nebraska, USA | >> \ Mr. I-Know-Where-They-Are | mailto:rluehrs@kearney.net / >> \ aka Bob & Ray | "The School of Cosa Beakstra" / >> \___________________________|_________________________________________/ >> >> >> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >> >Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:19:24 -0600 >> >Reply-To: drintoul@KSU.EDU >> >Sender: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line)" >> > <BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> >> >From: Dave Rintoul <drintoul@KSU.EDU> >> >Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding >> >Comments: To: ksbirds-l@ksu.edu >> >To: BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU >> > >> >A business-related trip took me to central Nebraska over the past >> >couple of days, but I did get to do some birding up there. So I >> >thought I would share some of those sights with you all. >> > >> >Grand Island to Kearney to Funk Lagoon and back 2/25/99 >> > >> >There were still waves of wind-sculpted snow on the north sides of the >> >fencelines, but the sky was blue and the weather was of the >> >shirt-sleeve variety. Over the last couple of weeks, southerly winds >> >have pushed lots of waterfowl and cranes into the Big Bend stretch of >> >the Platte River. Flocks of geese, including Canada, white-fronted, >> >and snow geese, were overhead in such numbers that it was always easy >> >to find a flock of shadows moving across the ground at your feet. Bald >> >eagles, tracking and grading these geese, were also plentiful. There >> >were at least 15 eagles at Funk Lagoon, and all looked exceptionally >> >well-fed. One young eagle could barely lift off; his distended crop >> >gave evidence of a recent meal of a goose or perhaps two. A merlin >> >near one of the bridges near Alda seemed very interested in the flocks >> >of recently-arrived red-winged blackbirds, but he looked a little >> >hungrier than the eagles. >> > >> >Ducks at Funk and elsewhere included many mallards, pintails, gadwall, >> >and wigeon. Less numerous were redheads, canvasbacks, buffleheads, >> >lesser scaup, and wood ducks. A few coots (ivory-billed rails) were >> >also found at Funk, and a Virginia rail was heard calling. Evidence of >> >spring was found in the observation that some of the red-winged >> >blackbirds were setting up territories, advertising their masculinity >> >from fenceposts and taller cattails in the marshes. >> > >> >Sandhill cranes were numerous anywhere west of Grand Island. The >> >fields and wet meadows along the Platte River Road had plenty of >> >cranes, and bugling trios and flocks of cranes were common overhead as >> >well. It is a bit early for the big numbers of sandhills, mid-March is >> >the usual peak, but crane-watchers out and about on this warm late >> >February day were not going to be disappointed. Whooping cranes have >> >not yet been seen in Nebraska this spring, but that could change >> >anyday. >> > >> >If you have never been to the Big Bend region of the Platte in March, >> >you have missed out on one of the last great wildlife migratory >> >spectacles in North America. Over a half-million sandhill cranes, as >> >well as millions of geese and ducks, will funnel through there in the >> >next month. For information on the 1999 Rivers and Wildlife Conference >> >in Kearney on March 12-14, go to >> > >> >http://rip.physics.unk.edu/audubon/RWC/ >> > >> >But if you can't make it this year, do make plans to do it sometime, >> >and maybe I'll see you there! >> > >> > >> > >> >-- >> >Dave Rintoul, Ph.D. mailto:drintoul@ksu.edu >> >Biology Division - KSU ICBM: 39.18N, 96.34W >> >Manhattan KS 66506-4901 VOX: 785-532-6663 >> >http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~drintoul/ FAX: 785-532-6653 >> > >> >"Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to >> >change their minds in response to arguments." - C.M. Bowra, 1898-1971 >> > >> >> >> >
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 13:29:13 -0600 From: "Shelly Novakowski" <snovakowski@accessomaha.com> Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding I wish to thank all of you who were so kind to send me information on = viewing the cranes and sharing other favorite birding sites with me! I'm = so glad I found your BIRDCHAT site! >>> Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us> 03/02/99 12:25PM >>> Shelly, The Rowe Sanctuary blinds are not completely full as of yet, and I = do not know about Crane Meadows however, I assume they may have some openings. = If you would give me your full name and address, I can send you some information regarding birding here along the Platte, which would include a map of the Rainwater Basins to enhance your crane experience. Sincerely, Laurel Badura lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us At 12:13 PM 3/2/99 -0500, you wrote: >> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 08:38:09 -0600 >> Reply-to: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu >> From: "Shelly Novakowski" <snovakowski@accessomaha.com> >> To: <NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu> >> Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding > >Shelly, >There are numerous places you can go to view Sandhill Cranes. They >basically occur from just east of Grand Island to 30-40 miles west of >Kearney. For your own day viewing good places to go are anywhere >south or north of I-80 in the above area. An easy place to start is >go south out of Grand Island toward Hastings on the Tom Osborne Exp. >for several miles and then turn right on Platte River Road and drive >west until you come to a 'T' and then you can turn right toward Alda >and I-80. Just before I-80 is the Crane Meadows Nature Center run by >The Nature Conservancy (good sighting information). They also have >blinds you can make reservations for evening and morning viewing on >the river. Probably no room left however. They fill early. > >If you go further west to about 10 miles east of Kearney, at the >Gibbon exit, you can go south for about 2 miles and then right onto a >sand road you will come to the Rowe Sanctuary Headquarter farmhouse. >All through this area there will be huge flocks of cranes everywhere. >Rowe also has blinds you can make reservations for evening and >morning viewing. Again, they are probably filled by now. Especially >for the weekends. > Of the two places I prefer the Rowe Sanctuary. National Audubon >and Rowe Sanctuary are having their annual Rivers and Wildlife >Conference in Kearney March 12-14. There are lots of experienced >birders and fieldtrips every morning and evening that probably will >still have room in them for the blinds. > >Rowe Sanctuary - 308-468-5282 >Crane Meadows - 800-658-3178 > >Clem Klaphake >Bellevue University >Bellevue, NE > >> I'm a recent Michigan transplant to Nebraska and my family and I would like to plan a trip to view cranes in the Grand Island area in March. Can you recommend the best viewing areas, possible guided> >> >>> Richard Luehrs <rluehrs@kearney.net> 03/01/99 09:16PM >>> >> Posted to BIRDCHAT by a good friend, who I think won't mind my = reposting it >> here. >> >> _____________________________________________________________________= >> / I imagine it's hard for a middle-aged | Richard Luehrs = \ >> / man to get to the top in the business | Big Bend A.S. = \ >> / world when his name is Fat Baby Moxford. | Friends Of Rowe = Sanctuary \ >> | --------------- Kearney, Nebraska, USA = | >> \ Mr. I-Know-Where-They-Are | mailto:rluehrs@kearney.ne= t / >> \ aka Bob & Ray | "The School of Cosa Beakstra" = / >> \___________________________|_________________________________________= / >> >> >> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >> >Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:19:24 -0600 >> >Reply-To: drintoul@KSU.EDU >> >Sender: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line)" >> > <BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> >> >From: Dave Rintoul <drintoul@KSU.EDU> >> >Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Platte River birding >> >Comments: To: ksbirds-l@ksu.edu >> >To: BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU >> > >> >A business-related trip took me to central Nebraska over the past >> >couple of days, but I did get to do some birding up there. So I >> >thought I would share some of those sights with you all. >> > >> >Grand Island to Kearney to Funk Lagoon and back 2/25/99 >> > >> >There were still waves of wind-sculpted snow on the north sides of the >> >fencelines, but the sky was blue and the weather was of the >> >shirt-sleeve variety. Over the last couple of weeks, southerly winds >> >have pushed lots of waterfowl and cranes into the Big Bend stretch of >> >the Platte River. Flocks of geese, including Canada, white-fronted, >> >and snow geese, were overhead in such numbers that it was always easy >> >to find a flock of shadows moving across the ground at your feet. Bald >> >eagles, tracking and grading these geese, were also plentiful. There >> >were at least 15 eagles at Funk Lagoon, and all looked exceptionally >> >well-fed. One young eagle could barely lift off; his distended crop >> >gave evidence of a recent meal of a goose or perhaps two. A merlin >> >near one of the bridges near Alda seemed very interested in the flocks >> >of recently-arrived red-winged blackbirds, but he looked a little >> >hungrier than the eagles. >> > >> >Ducks at Funk and elsewhere included many mallards, pintails, gadwall, >> >and wigeon. Less numerous were redheads, canvasbacks, buffleheads, >> >lesser scaup, and wood ducks. A few coots (ivory-billed rails) were >> >also found at Funk, and a Virginia rail was heard calling. Evidence of >> >spring was found in the observation that some of the red-winged >> >blackbirds were setting up territories, advertising their masculinity >> >from fenceposts and taller cattails in the marshes. >> > >> >Sandhill cranes were numerous anywhere west of Grand Island. The >> >fields and wet meadows along the Platte River Road had plenty of >> >cranes, and bugling trios and flocks of cranes were common overhead as >> >well. It is a bit early for the big numbers of sandhills, mid-March is >> >the usual peak, but crane-watchers out and about on this warm late >> >February day were not going to be disappointed. Whooping cranes have >> >not yet been seen in Nebraska this spring, but that could change >> >anyday. >> > >> >If you have never been to the Big Bend region of the Platte in March, >> >you have missed out on one of the last great wildlife migratory >> >spectacles in North America. Over a half-million sandhill cranes, as >> >well as millions of geese and ducks, will funnel through there in the >> >next month. For information on the 1999 Rivers and Wildlife Conference >> >in Kearney on March 12-14, go to >> > >> >http://rip.physics.unk.edu/audubon/RWC/ >> > >> >But if you can't make it this year, do make plans to do it sometime, >> >and maybe I'll see you there! >> > >> > >> > >> >-- >> >Dave Rintoul, Ph.D. mailto:drintoul@ksu.edu= >> >Biology Division - KSU ICBM: 39.18N, 96.34W >> >Manhattan KS 66506-4901 VOX: 785-532-6663 >> >http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~drintoul/ FAX: 785-532-6653 >> > >> >"Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to >> >change their minds in response to arguments." - C.M. Bowra, 1898-1971 >> > >> >> >> >
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:23:07 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Johnsgard <pjohnsga@unlinfo.unl.edu> Subject: Re: Harvey L. Gunderson, 1913-1999 Tom; Please ask Brett if he found the unframed version of the Bruner photo. Besides a scan, I would like to make a slide of it. I am tempted to photograph that old photo of the cliff swallow colony near North Platte too, so don't put it somewhere that can't be retrieved. I made a list of all the past NOU presidents and editors of the NBR. You would think it should be easy, but it wasn't! The history section of the proposed "souvenir program" is about done. Paul
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:07:00 -0600 From: "Thomas E. Labedz" <tlabedz@unlinfo.unl.edu> Subject: Bruner Paul, Brett reports no unframed version of the Bruner print. He did find a very small photo published in an Ent. Dept. newsletter. Let me talk to our artist and see what I can get done. Thomas Paul Johnsgard wrote: > > Tom; > Please ask Brett if he found the unframed version of the Bruner > photo. Besides a scan, I would like to make a slide of it. I am tempted to > photograph that old photo of the cliff swallow colony near North Platte > too, so don't put it somewhere that can't be retrieved. > I made a list of all the past NOU presidents and editors of the > NBR. You would think it should be easy, but it wasn't! > The history section of the proposed "souvenir program" is about done. > > Paul
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: Re: replies Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 20:44:04 -0600 Nebraska birders, Please be aware that when you reply to message on the NeBirds list, the reply is posted to everyone on the list, not just the author of the message. Every once in a while I make this mistake. Luckily, there have been no embarrassing consequences. Robin
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: Harlan Co Feb 28 highlights Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 21:06:41 -0600 Nebraska birders, On Sunday, February 28, Lanny and I spent the a few hours birding with friends at the west end of Harlan County Reservoir. Highlights include about 200 American White Pelicans, about 10 Double- crested Cormorants, some Ring-necked Ducks, six Hooded Mergansers, some Northern Pintails, one Blue-winged Teal, one Wood Duck and about three Mourning Doves. The one Pine Siskin that we heard was in Alma. What have you been seeing? Robin Harding
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 08:43:35 -0600 From: Carolyn Hall <cjhall@huntel.net> Subject: Bassett bird deaths Good morning, 30*, no wind, clear and sun shine, can't be better here in the Sandhills. Robins and goldfinches are singing their hearts out! Bill Vodehnal, NGPC, called me last night and this morning we examined the birds that we had collected here in Bassett. Bill was gone all last week so missed out on the snow, etc. In the reexamination of the dead birds, we concluded that they are all LAPLAND LONGSPURS (sorry for the identification). Bill will be taking the specimans to Lincoln to John Dinan next Monday. Hopefully we can get a report on what happened to them. Karl Menzel is speculating that the town lights, the snow, possibly a wind shear occurance, might have "slammed" the birds into buildings or wires. Carolyn Hall Bassett, NE
From: "Lanny Randolph" <randolphl@unk.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:30:51 -0600 Subject: inappropriate threads --0__ñcJHRuwLUuIcBtAMCoIFnFqRv9oYH7DusfJYHcVOqJ3otwWUY2aoRsr Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi Nebraska birders, When each of you subscribed to this list, the reply that you received included a description of the topic under discussion by the discussion group of this list. The exact wording of this description appears below, after my signature. But briefly, this list exists to discuss the identification, distribution and movement of the wild birds of Nebraska. So far there has been a low volume of messages submitted to this list, so the list owner and two members of the NOU board have decided to allow single off-subject messages to be submitted as a service to members to notify them of closely related topics being discussed elsewhere. This policy will be revised as the traffic on this list increases. But, now a single off-subject message has turned into a thread. The one about hawk and owl management for Ring-necked Pheasants. The next step would be for those who still wish to continue discussing this interesting topic to continue discussing it by private e-mail. If there is enough remaining interest to make a list server convenient, then they may subscribe to Audubon@rip.physics.unk.edu, AUDUBON-CHAT@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG or any other list with a topic of discussion that would fit the hawk and owl thread. Now I am going to ask the members of this list to police themselves from now on as to this regard, now that the rules have been made plain. If you find an off-subject message turning into a thread, please move it to private messages or another list. Thank you. good birding and goodbye, Lanny Lanny Randolph southcentral Nebraska 50370 24th rd. Gibbon Ne. 68840 308-468-5057 MarshWren@nctc.net (home) RandolphL@UNK.edu (work) ============================================================ Nebraska Birds (NeBirds) is a mailing list for people interested in discussing the identification, distribution and movement of wild birds in Nebraska. --0__ñcJHRuwLUuIcBtAMCoIFnFqRv9oYH7DusfJYHcVOqJ3otwWUY2aoRsr Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable =A0While *any* interested individual may subscribe to this list, the discussions= on this list deal only with the interests of the intended group. The NeBirds list has a narrow focus. =A0During our discussions we may m= ention such things as: =A0Bluebird trails, habitat enhancement, feeder conditions, = bird houses, et cetera. While these topics are vital with regard to our subj= ect (birding) these topics per se belong on a list devoted to a more genera= l discussion of birding and other environmental issues. =A0For example: =A0= A message stating you saw a White-throated Sparrow at your feeder would be approp= riate for the NeBirds list. =A0A message explaining or asking how to attract White-throated Sparrows to your feeder would be appropriate for these o= ther two lists. =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Audubon@rip.physics.unk.edu =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 AUDUBON-CHAT@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG For a more general discussion of birding and other environmental issues= please consider subscribing to either of these other lists. = --0__ñcJHRuwLUuIcBtAMCoIFnFqRv9oYH7DusfJYHcVOqJ3otwWUY2aoRsr--
From: NRATZLAFF@aol.com Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:01:25 EST Subject: Standing Bear Lake Birding Spent part of Thursday afternoon, March 4 at Standing Bear Lake It was very quiet, but there were: 6 Red-breasted Mergansers (4 drakes and 2 drakettes) 1 female Scaup and best of all: 7 Ring-billed Gulls!! Neal Ratzlaff
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 99 08:36:10 -0500
From: "Kevin Poague"<kpoague@audubon.org>
Subject: bird sightings
Folks,
Saw my first bluebird of the year this morning (Friday, 3/5), just
south of Denton on my way to Spring Creek Prairie. Speaking of Spring
Creek, I counted 22 green-winged teal and 12 wood ducks on the ponds a
few days ago, along with many singing western meadowlarks and a
plethora of robins (nice word, huh?). Our resident kestrel is still
hanging around, and a sharp-shinned hawk flew through the prairie
yesterday. Finally, yesterday for the third time this year, we
identified prairie-chickens on the property. This time 2 were coaxed
out of a ravine. Two weeks ago 5 flew up from the prairie near the
cornfield near the southeast corner of the section. That's all for
now.
Kevin Poague
Audubon Nebraska
kpoague@audubon.org
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:04:02 -0600 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 3/5/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * March 5, 1999 * NEST9903.05 - Birds Mentioned Wood Duck Greater Prairie Chicken American Black Duck Rough-legged Hawk Yellow-rumped Warbler Red-breasted Merganser Hooded Merganser Common Goldeneye X Hooded Merganser Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Redhead Ruddy Duck American Coot White-crowned Sparrow Harris's Sparrow Golden-crowned Kinglet Killdeer Bald Eagle Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Whooping Crane Sandhill Crane Virginia Rail American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Gadwall Snow Goose Greater White-fronted Goose Northern Harrier Loggerhead Shrike Lapland Longspur Bufflehead Lesser Scaup Canvasback - Transcript Tape Number: 402-292-5325 Compilers: Babs & Loren Padelford Transcriber: Loren Padelford (lpdlfrd@juno.com) Welcome to an update of the Nebraska Birdline, sponsored by the Audubon Society of Omaha , for Friday, March 5th. In eastern Nebraska in Lancaster County on March 4th, 12 WOOD DUCKS & 2 GREATER PRAIRIE CHICKENS were seen on the Springhill Prairie near Denton. in Knox County on the 28th, an AMERICAN BLACK DUCK was seen at the Niobrara marsh. In Saunders County on the 27th, a black phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK & a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER were seen at Wolf Lake near Morse Bluff. In Douglas County on the 4th, 6 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS were found at Standing Bear Lake. On the 27th, a RED-BREASTED MERGANSER, 16 HOODED MERGANSERS, a COMMON GOLDENEYE X HOODED MERGANSER hybrid, 200 RING-BILLED GULLS & a HERRING GULL were found at Cunningham Lake in Omaha. On the 28th, 3 WOOD DUCKS, 350 RING-BILLED GULLS & 7 HERRING GULLS were seen at Cunningham Lake. On the 27th, 40 REDHEADS, 3 RUDDY DUCKS & an AMERICAN COOT were seen at Carter Lake. In Sarpy County in Bellevue a WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, a HARRIS'S SPARROW & 2 GOLDEN- CROWNED KINGLETS were seen at a feeder south Bellevue University on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th. On the 1st 5 KILLDEER, 10 BALD EAGLES & 500 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS were found south of Offutt Base Lake. In Washington County on the 27th, a KILLDEER & 5 COMMON GRACKLES were seen in Blair. In central Nebraska in Buffalo County on the 4th, a WHOOPING CRANE was spotted with SANDHILL CRANES southeast of Gibbon. In Phelps County on the 25th, a VIRGINIA RAIL was heard calling at Funk Lagoon. On the 28th in Harlan County, 200 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, 20 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, a WOOD DUCK, BLUE-WINGED TEAL & 6 HOODED MERGANSERS were found at Harlan Reservoir. In Hamilton County on the 28th, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN PINTAILS, GADWALLS & REDHEADS were seen at Pintail SWMA. In Clay County on the 28th, about 30,000 SNOW GEESE, 10,000 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, 5 BALD EAGLES, a NORTHERN HARRIER & a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE were spotted at Massie WPA. In Rock County, the CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPURS reported from Bassett on the 23rd, were identified as LAPLAND LONGSPURS. In Iowa at DeSoto NWR, 145 BALD EAGLES were counted on March 2nd. This was a record high for eagles at the refuge. South of Bartlett on the 28th, about 100,000 SNOW GEESE, BUFFLEHEADS, REDHEADS, LESSER SCAUP & CANVASBACKS were found at Forney Lake. Also on the 28th, 7 immature BALD EAGLES were seen in a field 2 miles north of Forney Lake. For more information on this week's sightings, you may call 402-292-5556. To report your sightings, please leave your name, your phone number and your report after the tone at the end of this message. Thank you for calling the Nebraska Birdline and good birding! - End transcript
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 17:27:51 -0600
From: paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Subject: spring in Dodge Co.
Nebraska Birders:
Spring must be getting close: we saw our first bluebirds on 3/2, so
Don cleaned out all the houses (not the one WE live in, of course).
Today (3/5) we did some checking of local lakes, with the following
results: (Apologies to Neal: we neglected to tally drakes and
'drakettes'. And are you sure you're using the current nomenclature? I
was under the impression that female ducks are 'Lady Drakes'.)
our farm ponds (SE Dodge Co.)
10 gadwall
2 wood ducks
Trouble Creek Lake (SE Dodge Co.)
20 canvasbacks
35 lesser scaup
3 common mergansers
5 redheads
Memphis SRA (Saunders Co.)
5 common merganser
6 ruddy ducks
Hartford Sand Pit (west of Fremont)
6 coots
60 white-fronted geese
4 green-winged teal
10 lesser scaup
2 buffleheads
20 canvasbacks
25 ring-necked ducks
1 pied-billed grebe
Also NW of Fremont we saw 200 mallards, 4 pintails, 1 Northern shrike
and 1 sharp-shinned hawk. There are Canada geese everywhere: too
numerous to count.
The 10,000 or so Lapland longspurs we saw flying west last Saturday
(2/27) seem to be gone for good. Don saw 12 on 2/28 and none since
then.
Don & Janis Paseka
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Subject: RE: bird sightings
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:33:37 -0600
Kevin and all,
Checked Bluestem again yesterday. Had the following notables from the dam.
Canada Goose
White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Common Merganser
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Gadwall
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Eastern Bluebird
Red-winged Blackbird
A small flock of bluebirds and a much larger one of Red-wings were present.
All the waterfowl species were present in good numbers except for
Bufflehead, Pied-billed Grebe and Common Merganser. Raptors were 2 adult RT
1 imm. SS. Late afternoon seems to be the best viewing time. Again, lots of
gulls; as far as I could tell, all Herring and Ring-billed.
Mark O
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Poague [mailto:kpoague@audubon.org]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 7:36 AM
To: NeBirds@RIP.physics.UNK.edu
Subject: bird sightings
Folks,
Saw my first bluebird of the year this morning (Friday, 3/5), just
south of Denton on my way to Spring Creek Prairie. Speaking of Spring
Creek, I counted 22 green-winged teal and 12 wood ducks on the ponds a
few days ago, along with many singing western meadowlarks and a
plethora of robins (nice word, huh?). Our resident kestrel is still
hanging around, and a sharp-shinned hawk flew through the prairie
yesterday. Finally, yesterday for the third time this year, we
identified prairie-chickens on the property. This time 2 were coaxed
out of a ravine. Two weeks ago 5 flew up from the prairie near the
cornfield near the southeast corner of the section. That's all for
now.
Kevin Poague
Audubon Nebraska
kpoague@audubon.org
From: "Lanny Randolph" <randolphl@unk.edu> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:45:16 -0600 Subject: from Robin "Robin Harding" <hardingr@unk.edu> on 03/05/99 11:54:34 AM To: RandolphL@platte.unk.edu cc: (bcc: Lanny Randolph/CNSS/UNK/UNEBR) Subject: forward to nebirds Lanny, Please forward this to NeBirds. Nebraska birders, On March 04 at about 8 am we saw one Whooping Crane just to the east of our home southeast of Gibbon. It was feeding with a group of Sandhill Cranes in a corn field. It was there until about 9 am when we went to work. It was not there in the evening when we came home and we heard that some people looked for it in the afternoon but did not find it. Today (March 05) I spoke with Paul Currier of the Platte River Trust. He said that there was one Whooping Crane near their office which is in the Alda area. It may be the same crane since the two locations are not very far apart. A fellow named Wally at the Grand Island Fish and Wildlife Service office told me that this is the first Whooping Crane that he has heard about this year. It is a little earlier than usual but it is following the same pattern as a couple of Whoopers that were in the area last year. How many others can claim a Whooping Crane on their yard list? Robin
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 20:45:55 -0600 Subject: Friday afternoon at BOL From: John C Sulllivan <johnsllvn@juno.com> Hello all, I ran out to Branched Oak Lake after work this afternoon Friday 3-5, this is what I found: Very few ducks on the lake. Small numbers of 10 species. 500 Ring-billed Gulls 30 Herring Gulls *1 first winter Thayer's Gull on the mud in the nw corner, area 10 1 Pied-billed Grebe 3 Rusty Blackbirds w/ 50 Red-wings 4 American Woodcocks peenting and flight displaying from the parking lot at area 9 in the nw corner of the lake at 6:45 pm. John Sullivan Lincoln, NE ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:17:53 -0600
From: paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Subject: inappropriate threads
Lanny and other readers of NeBirds,
This is regarding your recent posting of a reminder to us about the
topics
appropriate for discussion on NeBirds.
We read NeBirds every day, and we would just like to say that we
don't
think, given the low volume of traffic on NeBirds, that there is a
problem yet
with inappropriate postings and threads. We read Clem's original owl
and
hawk posting in its entirety and we at least looked at the successive
postings
in that thread to find out how the problem was resolved.
We agree, Lanny, that some control is necessary, but right now
NeBirds is
such a comfortable little list, and it's used by so many Nebraska
birders with
such a wealth of interesting things to say. I'd hate to scare people
away to
another list because they were afraid someone might consider one of
their
postings inappropriate.
Lanny, we appreciate the time and energy you and others put into
keeping
NeBirds up and running. It's really made a difference in our ability to
keep in
touch with other birders.
Don & Janis Paseka
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Re: inappropriate threads Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 16:31:15 -0600 Hi y'all: I agree with Don and Janis's post. Well said. Until we get as big as Birdchat (and have as many rowdies as they do!), I'm not worried about a few off-topic comments. Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Paseka, Janis <paseka@tvsonline.net> > To: NeBirds <NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu> > Subject: inappropriate threads > Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 3:17 PM > > Lanny and other readers of NeBirds, > > This is regarding your recent posting of a reminder to us about the > topics > appropriate for discussion on NeBirds. > We read NeBirds every day, and we would just like to say that we > don't > think, given the low volume of traffic on NeBirds, that there is a > problem yet > with inappropriate postings and threads. We read Clem's original owl > and > hawk posting in its entirety and we at least looked at the successive > postings > in that thread to find out how the problem was resolved. > We agree, Lanny, that some control is necessary, but right now > NeBirds is > such a comfortable little list, and it's used by so many Nebraska > birders with > such a wealth of interesting things to say. I'd hate to scare people > away to > another list because they were afraid someone might consider one of > their > postings inappropriate. > Lanny, we appreciate the time and energy you and others put into > keeping > NeBirds up and running. It's really made a difference in our ability to > keep in > touch with other birders. > > Don & Janis Paseka >
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 16:25:06 -0700
From: Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Subject: Re: inappropriate threads
> Hello birders-
I agree with Lanny's post regarding appropriate
threads. Although we currently have a very low volume of
messages on NEBirds, I expect this could change in the
future. If the subject falls within the guidelines
prescribed by this listserve, then feel free to post on it.
If someone wants to keep abreast of topics not covered by
NEBirds, then they should subscribe to one of the many other
listserves such as BIRDCHAT. I see no reason to broaden the
scope of NEBirds and duplicate material that is best
discussed elsewhere. I think we all agreed to abide by
these guidelines when we subscribed to NEBirds. Just a
thought.
Stephen J. Dinsmore
Fort Collins, CO
steve_dinsmore@usgs.gov
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: Common Crane Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 19:46:41 -0600 Nebraska birders, I am sure a message will come soon by one of the people who saw the bird but I have not seen a message yet. Lanny and I stopped by Rowe Sanctuary in Buffalo County on our way home and learned that someone had seen a COMMON CRANE two miles east of Lowell Road on Elm Island Road. You can find the spot by going south from the Gibbon I-80 exit to the Plautz Crane Viewing area on the south side of the river. Turn left there and go about two miles. We spent about an hour looking but no luck. For current information about the crane, call Rowe Sanctuary at 308-468-5282. I think someone will be in the visitor's center every day in March. Was there a Common Crane seen in Nebraska last year or was it the year before? How many sightings does that make now for Nebraska? Robin
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Common Crane Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 21:50:51 -0600 Hi folks: In answer to Robin's question, here are the previous Nebraska records of Common Crane, all in the narrow period 16 Mar-1 Apr: 31 Mar-1 Apr 1972 Phelps Co 25-31 Mar 1972 between Hershey and North Platte (generally assumed to be a different bird from above) 16-23 Mar 1974 Kearney Co 30-31 Mar 1996 southern Hall and northern Adams Cos Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: NeBirds: early March in the western Rain Water Basin Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 22:25:23 -0600 Hi Nebraska birders, Saturday, March 6, in Buffalo County about 2 1/2 miles south of the Gibbon I-80 exit we saw 19 Cedar Waxwings. In Kearney County two miles east of Funk Lagoon we saw two Wood Ducks, a female Northern Harrier, four Killdeer, a very early Spotted Sandpiper, six Ring-billed Gulls and six Herring Gulls. In Phelps County at Funk Lagoon we saw eleven species of ducks including about 12000 Northern Pintails, fifteen Canvasbacks, six Lesser Scaup, a female Hooded Merganser and ten Ruddy Ducks. Also at Funk Lagoon we saw a Prairie Falcon. Three miles north of the Holdrege airport we saw an immature Ferruginous Hawk. We saw three more Northern Harriers in eastern Phelps County. good birding and goodbye, Lanny Lanny Randolph southcentral Nebraska 50370 24th rd Gibbon, Ne. 68840 308-468-5057 Marshwren@nctc.net (home) RandolphL@platte.UNK.edu (work)
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 00:04:04 -0600
Subject: {Nebirds} West Omaha Lakes
From: "John W. Hall" <jwhall2@juno.com>
Quick check on west Omaha lakes today turned up a wide variety and large
numbers of migrating waterfowl.
Boystown Center Lake:
American Widgeon 6
Ring-necked ducks 34
Lesser Scaup ~30
Gadwall ~60
American Coots 5
Redheads ~40
Canvasback 8
Pied-bill Grebe 4
Mallards, and Canada Geese
Lake Zorinsky:
Bald Eagle 4
Lesser Scaup 4
Ring-billed Gull ~250
Herring Gull 6
Ruddy Duck 12
Hooded Merganser 7
* Still have a large number of winter kill fish being consumed by gulls
and eagles.
Wehrspoon Lake:
Lesser Scaup ~350
Ring-necked ducks ~30
Canvasback 63
Gadwall ~40
Hooded Merganser 9
Common Goldeneye 2
Ring-billed Gull ~40
Ruddy Ducks ~30
Charlies Lake (144th and F)
Lesser Scaup 12
Common Goldeneye 2
John W. Hall
Omaha, Nebraska
jwhall2@juno.com
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From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: Common Crane in Buffalo Co Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 09:34:34 -0600 Nebraska birders, We heard that the Common Crane was seen again this morning (March 07) at dawn in about the same place. You can find the spot by driving south from the Gibbon I-80 exit about two miles. At the Plautz Crane Viewing Area turn east onto Elm Island Road. Drive about two miles east and look in the flocks of Sandhill Cranes in the fields south of the road. Good luck, Robin
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Common Crane Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 13:03:30 -0600 Hi folks: I refound the Common Crane Sunday March 7 at 8.57 am on Elm Island Road exactly 2 miles east of Lowell Road (the north-south paved road which mets I-80 at the Gibbon exit #285). There is a mailbox and prominent address sign in black and white which says 50965 Elm Island Road. The house to the south has a large grain bin to its north, about 50 yards from the road. The flock of Sandhills containing the Common Crane was feeding in the cornfields around the house, mostly to the east when I saw the Common. The Common Crane was about 50 yards from me and flew another 100 yards away when I moved in my car. It is as large or larger than the largest Sandhill Cranes, and very pale grey, rather ghostly grey. Its primaries are black and impart a mottled look to the folded flight feathers. In flight all the flight feathers (primaries and secondaries) are black, a totally different look than that of the Sandhills, of course. The head is pale grey, tending to white, framed by a black nape, crown, and foreneck, the latter extending about halfway rearwards. At 50 yards this bird was hard to miss. Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
From: "Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net> Subject: weekend birds Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 15:37:14 -0600 Hello all: On Saturday, March 6, Mark Brogie showed me an American Black Duck, 41 Great-tailed Grackles, and a rather early Greater Yellowlegs in the marshy areas near Niobrara, Knox County. On Sunday, March 7, I found an early Franklin's Gull, 2 Red-breasted Mergansers, 90 Common Mergansers, 350 Ring-billed Gulls, and 6 Herring Gulls at Cunningham Lake, Douglas County. Thats all. Joel Jorgensen
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: Common Crane Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 16:06:06 -0600 Nebraska birders, Ross Silcock told us that he saw the Common Crane at about 10 am on Sunday, March 07, so we decided to try to find it again. On our way to the spot where Ross saw the crane, we saw a Northern Shrike. The shrike was about one mile east of Lowell Road on Elm Island Road. While we were scanning a flock of Sandhill Cranes at about two miles east of Lowell Road, John Kozak and John Murphy stopped to tell us that they were on there way to the spot where they had seen the crane just a half hour earlier. We followed them along with a couple other vehicles. We stopped and began to scan another flock of Sandhill Cranes. It is so hard to be patient and keep looking and looking at Sandhill after Sandhill. I could not find the Common Crane in the flock even though I knew it was there. With help from Lanny and Kozak, I finally found it. It was beautiful! When its head was up, it was easy to see, but when its head was down, it blended in with the Sandhill Cranes very well. The flock with the Common Crane flew away while we were watching but it should still be in the area two to three miles east of Lowell Road and within a mile south of Elm Island Road. Lowell Road is the paved road that goes to the south from the Gibbon I-80 exit. Good luck, Robin
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Fw: Common Crane Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:37:25 -0600 Hi folks: I sent this to Birdchat; some of you may not be Birdchatters. Any comments from those of you who have seen this bird? Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Ross Silcock <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> > To: Birdchat <birdchat@listserv.arizona.edu> > Subject: Common Crane > Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 4:10 PM > > Chatters: > The Common Crane in central Nebraska was refound today, Sunday March 7, > after first being discovered March 6. > I have a couple of questions to those who may be familiar with plumages of > this species (Grus grus). > The Nebraska bird is large, as large as or larger than the largest Sandhill > Cranes present, and is rather pale, noticeably more pale than even the few > pale Sandhills present; it could be described as pearly gray or even > greyish white. (It was not a Whooping Crane, as in flight its secondaries > were entirely black as were its primaries, and the head markings were > wrong.) The blackish crown, nape, and foreneck markings are not as > extensive as those in the NGS Guide, Cramp and Simmons, and photos in > Nebraska Bird Review of the 1972 Nebraska bird, and it seems much paler > than those illustrated in those sources. > With the limited info I have, I suspect this bird is of the expected > eastern subspecis lidfordi, which tends to be paler and larger than the > western, nominate, subspecies. There was no reddish coloration on the > forecrown, suggesting this bird was a subadult. > I am at a loss to explain the coloration of this bird, unless, of course, > it is leucistic. > Any comments? > > Ross Silcock > Tabor, IA > silcock@sidney.heartland.net > New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:08:22 -0700 Subject: Re: Fw: Common Crane From: "Brandon K. Percival" <flammowl@juno.com> What about Whooping Crane X Sandhill Crane hybrid?? I and other Colorado birders are leaving in a couple of hours to be at the location of the "Common Crane" at sunrise tomorrow morning. So, if the bird is NOT a Common Crane, I would like to know very soon. Thanks, Brandon K. Percival Pueblo West, CO flammowl@juno.com On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:37:25 -0600 "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> writes: >Hi folks: >I sent this to Birdchat; some of you may not be Birdchatters. Any >comments >from those of you who have seen this bird? > >Ross Silcock >Tabor, IA >silcock@sidney.heartland.net >New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 > >---------- >> From: Ross Silcock <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> >> To: Birdchat <birdchat@listserv.arizona.edu> >> Subject: Common Crane >> Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 4:10 PM >> >> Chatters: >> The Common Crane in central Nebraska was refound today, Sunday March >7, >> after first being discovered March 6. >> I have a couple of questions to those who may be familiar with >plumages >of >> this species (Grus grus). >> The Nebraska bird is large, as large as or larger than the largest >Sandhill >> Cranes present, and is rather pale, noticeably more pale than even >the >few >> pale Sandhills present; it could be described as pearly gray or even >> greyish white. (It was not a Whooping Crane, as in flight its >secondaries >> were entirely black as were its primaries, and the head markings >were >> wrong.) The blackish crown, nape, and foreneck markings are not as >> extensive as those in the NGS Guide, Cramp and Simmons, and photos >in >> Nebraska Bird Review of the 1972 Nebraska bird, and it seems much >paler >> than those illustrated in those sources. >> With the limited info I have, I suspect this bird is of the expected >> eastern subspecis lidfordi, which tends to be paler and larger than >the >> western, nominate, subspecies. There was no reddish coloration on >the >> forecrown, suggesting this bird was a subadult. >> I am at a loss to explain the coloration of this bird, unless, of >course, >> it is leucistic. >> Any comments? >> >> Ross Silcock >> Tabor, IA >> silcock@sidney.heartland.net >> New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Re: Fw: Common Crane Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:12:59 -0600 Brandon: I really doubt it. The black patterning on the nape, crown, and foreneck and the black primaries AND secondaries are right for Common Crane; this pattern wouldn't arise from Whooping/Sandhill parentage. It is essentially a washed out bird, I suspect leucistic. Good luck! I look forward to your comments. Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Brandon K. Percival <flammowl@juno.com> > To: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu > Subject: Re: Fw: Common Crane > Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 6:08 PM > > What about Whooping Crane X Sandhill Crane hybrid?? I and other Colorado > birders are leaving in a couple of hours to be at the location of the > "Common Crane" at sunrise tomorrow morning. So, if the bird is NOT a > Common Crane, I would like to know very soon. > > Thanks, > > Brandon K. Percival > Pueblo West, CO > flammowl@juno.com > > On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:37:25 -0600 "Ross Silcock" > <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> writes: > >Hi folks: > >I sent this to Birdchat; some of you may not be Birdchatters. Any > >comments > >from those of you who have seen this bird? > > > >Ross Silcock > >Tabor, IA > >silcock@sidney.heartland.net > >New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 > > > >---------- > >> From: Ross Silcock <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> > >> To: Birdchat <birdchat@listserv.arizona.edu> > >> Subject: Common Crane > >> Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 4:10 PM > >> > >> Chatters: > >> The Common Crane in central Nebraska was refound today, Sunday March > >7, > >> after first being discovered March 6. > >> I have a couple of questions to those who may be familiar with > >plumages > >of > >> this species (Grus grus). > >> The Nebraska bird is large, as large as or larger than the largest > >Sandhill > >> Cranes present, and is rather pale, noticeably more pale than even > >the > >few > >> pale Sandhills present; it could be described as pearly gray or even > >> greyish white. (It was not a Whooping Crane, as in flight its > >secondaries > >> were entirely black as were its primaries, and the head markings > >were > >> wrong.) The blackish crown, nape, and foreneck markings are not as > >> extensive as those in the NGS Guide, Cramp and Simmons, and photos > >in > >> Nebraska Bird Review of the 1972 Nebraska bird, and it seems much > >paler > >> than those illustrated in those sources. > >> With the limited info I have, I suspect this bird is of the expected > >> eastern subspecis lidfordi, which tends to be paler and larger than > >the > >> western, nominate, subspecies. There was no reddish coloration on > >the > >> forecrown, suggesting this bird was a subadult. > >> I am at a loss to explain the coloration of this bird, unless, of > >course, > >> it is leucistic. > >> Any comments? > >> > >> Ross Silcock > >> Tabor, IA > >> silcock@sidney.heartland.net > >> New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Fw: [BIRDCHAT] Common Crane Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:47:40 -0600 NeBirders: Just received this fascinating message. Looks like the same bird as seen last fall in Alaska! It's paleness was noted by observers there, too. Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Jeff Bouton <jbouton@isni.net> > To: Ross Silcock <silcock@SIDNEY.HEARTLAND.NET> > Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Common Crane > Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 7:58 PM > > Ross, > > I was wondering where this bird was going to show up! I'm surprised it > hasn't been seen until now. From your description, I'd believe this is the > same bird found traveling with some 2,000 Sandhills in Delta Junction, > Alaska late last September. The bird was easily recognized among its > counterparts by its much lighter plumage. Some claimed to see red on the > head, but most didn't and those who said they saw it, described it as dull. > I was personally surprised by the marked contrast between the upperwing > coverts and the flight feathers. I'd never seen this species before, but > was expecting a much darker, uniform winged bird from the very little > research I did before driving out to see it. This was my last hoorah for > Alaska and I haven't had another lifer since. Oh well! Glad others are able > to see the bird as well. I'd bet money it's the same bird! > > Congratulations, > > Jeff Bouton > Port Charlotte, FL > jbouton@isni.net
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Common Crane Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:58:46 -0600 NeBirders: Just received a very important piece of info from Paul Tebbel, Rowe Sanctuary: The Common Crane was first found by Tammy VerCauteren at about 2.30 pm Sat March 6. Tammy recently received her Masters from UNL on Sandhill Crane use of lowland grasslands along the Platte. Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
From: "Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com> Subject: Bald Eagles Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:15:55 -0700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01BE68D7.4E9FB7A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, Had word from Brad McKinney of USFWS this last week that the Bald Eagles = are on their nest at Lake Alice (northeast of Scottsbluff) again--this = is year #7. In 2 of the previous years they fledged 3, and in the = others they fledged 2. Alice Kenitz ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01BE68D7.4E9FB7A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Had word from Brad McKinney of USFWS = this last week that the Bald Eagles are on their nest at Lake Alice (northeast of Scottsbluff) again--this is year #7. In 2 of the previous years = they fledged 3, and in the others they fledged 2.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Alice = Kenitz</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01BE68D7.4E9FB7A0--
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:04:45 -0600 Subject: (NeBirds) Lake Zorinsky From: "John W. Hall" <jwhall2@juno.com> Made another stop this afternoon at Lake Zorinsky. Lots of gulls, only two Bald Eagles, 5 Hooded Mergansers, 3 Lesser Scaup, and 12 Ruddy Ducks. The most interesting aspect of the stop was the number of visitors carrying binoculars, sporting spotting scopes, or stopping along the roadways attempting to spot the Bald Eagles. Everyone had heard about them, and it seems had made a special trip to find them. One lady had returned for her fifth time this weekend. She said she and her husband had seen 13 eagles there earlier in the week. Others commented about how neat it was to have these fine birds right there in their own backyards. Traffic was not overly heavy, but I would say it was steady, both by auto and by foot. Must be almost a miniscule version of the sandhill crane viewing in central Nebraska. John W. Hall Omaha, Nebraska jwhall2@juno.com ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
From: lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:54:03 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Fw: Common Crane Hey, It would be nice to know where this common crane is hanging out. Central Nebraska is a big place! With this storm predicted to come through , I hope it makes it into a safe place. Betty Allen Omaha, NE
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:26:11 -0600 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 3/8/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * March 8, 1999 * NEST9803.08 -Birds Mentioned Common Crane Wood Duck Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Herring Gull Prairie Falcon Hooded Merganser Ferruginous hawk Pied-billed Grebe Thayer's Gull Ring-billed Gull Rusty Blackbird American Woodcock American Black Duck Greater Yellowlegs Great-tailed Grackle Red-breasted Merganser Franklin's Gull Winter Wren White-throated Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Song Sparrow Lesser Scaup Bald Eagle Gadwall Ring-necked Duck Redhead American Coot Canvasback Eastern Bluebird - Transcript Tape Number: 402 292-5325 Compilers: Babs & Loren Padelford Transcriber: Babs Padelford (lpdlfrd@juno.com) Welcome to an update of the Nebraska Birdline, sponsored by the Audubon Society of Omaha , for Monday, March 8th. In central Nebraska in Buffalo County, the COMMON CRANE, first seen on the 6th, was seen again on the 7th. Directions to the area where the bird is most likely to be are as follows: Take the Gibbon I-80 Exit 285 and go south about 2 miles. Look in the area 2-3 miles east of the Lowell Rd. & within a mile south of Elm Island Rd. For more information call the Audubon Rowe Sanctuary at 308 468-5282. In Kearney County on the 6th 2 miles east of Funk Lagoon, 2 WOOD DUCKS, 4 KILLDEER, a SPOTTED SANDPIPER & 6 HERRING GULLS were found. In Phelps County on 6th, a PRAIRIE FALCON & 11 species of ducks including a HOODED MERGANSER were seen at Funk Lagoon. Also on the 6th, a FERRUGINOUS HAWK was spotted 3 miles north of the Holdrege airport. In eastern Nebraska in Lancaster County on the 5th, the following species were seen at Branched Oak Lake: a PIED-BILLED GREBE, a 1ST winter THAYER'S GULL, 30 HERRING GULLS, 500 RING-BILLED GULLS & 3 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. Also on the 5th, 4 AMERICAN WOODCOCKS were seen displaying at Branched Oak near the parking lot at Area 9. On the 5th at Bluestem Lake, a PIED-BILLED GREBE & 13 species of waterfowl were seen from the dam. In Knox County on the 6th, an AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, a GREATER YELLOWLEGS & 41 GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES were found at the Niobrara marshes. In Douglas County on the 7th at Cunningham Lake, 2 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, a FRANKLIN'S GULL, 350 RING-BILLED GULLS & 6 HERRING GULLS were found. On the 5th at Neale Woods, a WINTER WREN, WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, SWAMP SPARROWS & SONG SPARROWS were found on the Missouri Ecology Trail. On the 7th at Zorinsky Lake in Omaha, 4 LESSER SCAUP, 7 HOODED MERGANSERS, 4 BALD EAGLES, 250 RING-BILLED GULLS & 6 HERRING GULLS were seen. On the 7th at Boy's Town Lake 4 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 60 GADWALLS, 34 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 30 LESSER SCAUP, 40 REDHEADS & 5 AMERICAN COOTS were seen. In Sarpy County on the 7th, 6 species of ducks were seen at Wehrspann Lake including, 63 CANVASBACKS & 9 HOODED MERGANSERS. On the 5th, 4 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS were seen on Dyson Hollow Rd. between Platteview Rd. & Cedar Island Rd. southwest of Bellevue. For more information on this week's sightings, you may call 402-292-5556. To report your sightings, please leave your name, your phone number and your report after the tone at the end of this message. Thank you for calling the Nebraska Birdline and good birding! - End transcript
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Re: Fw: Common Crane Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:43:42 -0600 NeBirders: Sorry Betty about a lack of directions; Lanny and Robin mentioned these in their 2 posts, and I believe I did in one of mine, but here goes. From I80 take exit 285 (Gibbon) and go south on the paved road (Lowell Road) about 2 miles until just after the south channel of the Platte where the Plautz Viewing Site is. Just after this take a road to the left (Elm Island Road) and go about 2 miles to a mail box address that says 50965 Elm Island Road. The flock of Sandhills with the Common Crane has been in the fields around the house to the south. The Common Crane is very pale, probably leucistic. Shouldn't be hrd to find if it is there, unless the cranes are packed together resting. Good luck! Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: elizabeth allen <lizprints@webtv.net> > To: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu > Subject: Re: Fw: Common Crane > Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 10:54 PM > > Hey, It would be nice to know where this common crane is hanging out. > Central Nebraska is a big place! > With this storm predicted to come through , I hope it makes it into a > safe place. > > > > Betty Allen Omaha, NE >
From: NRATZLAFF@aol.com Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:25:49 EST Subject: Rusty Blackbirds I know Rusty Blackbird sightings aren't that unusual, but they aren't usual at my suburban backyard feeders in West Omaha. Early this afternoon 24 of them dropped out of the snow filled sky to spend a couple of hours at our feeders. Perhaps the most interesting bird at the feeders is a Northern Flicker (yellow-shafted) that manages to feed on a tube feeder with one of those wire cages around it to keep out all but small birds like finches and chickadees. It perches on the cage, sticks its head in as far as it can (which isn't far enough) and then uses its tongue to access the sunflower hearts in the feeder. By so doing, it has accomplished something even the squirrels and starlings have yet failed to do. Neal Ratzlaff
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:40:46 -0600 Subject: Common Crane Update From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> Hi Nebraska Birders, The Common Crane was seen around noon on Tuesday, March 9th, by Steve Dinsmore about 3 miles east southeast of the previous location. The exact location of the bird was the northeast quadrant of the intersection of Roads X and 41. Is this in Kearney County or Buffalo County? Loren Padelford Bellevue, NE lpdlfrd@juno.com ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
From: "Lanny Randolph" <randolphl@unk.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:03:57 -0600 Subject: Re: Common Crane Update Hi Loren and other Nebraska birders, The intersection of X and 41 roads is in Kearney County because the Kearney County roads are designated by numbers and letters and the Buffalo County roads are designated by numbers and names. Remember that the house number near where Ross saw the Common Crane was 50 something Elm Island Road. Now the northeast quadrant is a different matter. It is probably in Kearney county. Anything to the south of the south channel of the Platte is in Kearney county in that area and anything north is in Buffalo County. The south channel of the Platte River looks like a small creek in this area. The big channel to the north is called the middle channel of the Platte River. After we drive by on the way home or look at a good map once we get home we will be able to tell for sure. We saw the bird in Kearney County and Robin is documenting that sighting. Ross and many others saw the bird in Buffalo County, my guess is that Ross has documented his sighting already. good birding and goodbye, LANNY ============================================================ Hi Nebraska Birders, The Common Crane was seen around noon on Tuesday, March 9th, by Steve Dinsmore about 3 miles east southeast of the previous location. The exact location of the bird was the northeast quadrant of the intersection of Roads X and 41. Is this in Kearney County or Buffalo County? Loren Padelford
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:00:17 -0700
From: Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Subject: Common Crane
> Hello Birders-
Thanks to Loren Padelford for posting the Common Crane
update earlier today. As his message stated, I found the
bird today (March 9th) at 11 a.m. and watched it for an
hour. The precise location was NE of the junction of County
Roads X and 41 in Kearney County. The bird was with a large
flock (5,000+) of Sandhill Cranes feeding 200-300m north of
the narrow east-west line of trees at this location. In the
mid-day sun, the bird was NOT very easy to pick out. The
bird is quite pale on the wings and mantle, but not any
paler than the palest Sandhills. Contrary to earlier
comments, I do not believe the bird is leucistic; I think it
is probably just unusually pale for this species. The bird
is slightly larger than the largest Sandhill Crane and has a
gray bustle that is mottled with black. The fact that the
bustle is not solid black makes me wonder if the bird is
perhaps a sub-adult. The bird was actively foraging during
my observation, and its head sometimes remained out of sight
for several minutes at a time. In fact, I had searched
through the cranes in this field several times, both today
and yesterday, before finally finding the bird. Good luck!
Stephen J. Dinsmore
Fort Collins, CO
steve_dinsmore@usgs.gov
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:12:53 -0700
From: Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Subject: Western Nebraska birding.
> NEBirders-
I just returned from 3 days of birding, mostly in
western Nebraska. I made a short detour to the central
Platte River Valley to look for the Common Crane. Here are
the highlights.
7 March
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2 Mountain Bluebirds-SW Kimball County
16 Ross's Geese-NW of Kimball
Sowbelly Canyon
77 Wild Turkey
10 Mountain Bluebirds
60+ Red Crossbills, including 1 very recent fledgling!
Monroe Canyon
20 Wild Turkey
1 Northern Shrike
40+ Red Crossbills
all 3 nuthatch species
SW Sioux County
3 Mountain Bluebirds
15 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches
8 March
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Lake Ogallala
**1 fourth-basic Lesser Black-backed Gull
5 Thayer's Gulls
1 Glaucous Gull (same L. h. barrovianus silcockii bird)
1 imm. male Oldsquaw
22 Greater Scaup
1 Horned Grebe
Lake McConaughy
1 Horned Grebe
1 Thayer's Gull
1 Golden Eagle & 1 Ferruginous Hawk-n of Roscoe
9 March
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area SE of Gibbon
**1 Common Crane
1 Prairie Falcon
Johnson Lake
1 Glaucous Gull
1 Thayer's Gull
1 California Gull
1 Greater Scaup
20,000 Snow Geese
1 Merlin-east of Oliver Reservoir
Stephen J. Dinsmore
Fort Collins, CO
steve_dinsmore@usgs.gov
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:47:02 -0600 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 3/9/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * March 9, 1999 * NEST9903.09 - Birds Mentioned Common Crane Sandhill Crane Whooping Crane Cinnamon Teal Killdeer Baird's Sandpiper Common Snipe Herring Gull Great-tailed Grackle Greater White-fronted Goose Prairie Falcon Rusty Blackbird Fox Sparrow Pied-billed Grebe American Coot Northern Shrike Lapland Longspur - Transcript Tape Number: 402 292-5325 Compilers: Babs & Loren Padelford Transcriber: Babs Padelford (lpdlfrd@juno.com) Welcome to an update of the Nebraska Birdline, sponsored by the Audubon Society of Omaha , for Tuesday, March 9th. In central Nebraska in Kearney County, the COMMON CRANE, was seen again on the 9th with about 5,000 SANDHILL CRANES northeast of the junction of county roads X and 41. Take the Gibbon I-80 Exit 285 and go south about 2 miles to the Elm Island Rd. Go east and south from there to find roads X and 41. For more information, call the Audubon Rowe Sanctuary at 308 468-5282. In Hall County on the 9th, the WHOOPING CRANE was still being seen on the Platte River Road east of the Alda Road. In Phelps County on the 7th at Funk Lagoon the following birds were seen: 13 species of waterfowl, including a male CINNAMON TEAL, 3 KILLDEER, a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, a COMMON SNIPE, 2 HERRING GULLS & 25 GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES. In eastern Nebraska in Lancaster County on the 7th, a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE & a PRAIRIE FALCON were seen at Jack Sinn WMA south of Ceresco. In Douglas County on the 8th, 24 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS visited a feeder southwest of Methodist Hospital in Omaha. On the 8th at Neale Woods Nature Center, a FOX SPARROW was seen at the feeders. In Dodge County on the 5th west of Fremont, a PIED-BILLED GREBE, 6 species of waterfowl including 60 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE & 6 AMERICAN COOTS were seen at the Hartford Sandpit. Also on the 5th, a NORTHERN SHRIKE was spotted northwest of Fremont. In Iowa east of DeSoto NWR on the 8th, about 600 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen on the Wilson Island Road south of Highway 30. For more information on this week's sightings, you may call 402-292-5556. To report your sightings, please leave your name, your phone number and your report after the tone at the end of this message. Thank you for calling the Nebraska Birdline and good birding! - End transcript
From: "Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com> Subject: Prairie Falcons Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:03:03 -0700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002E_01BE6A67.D751F180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Nebraska Birders, Had a report yesterday from the National Park Service staff that 2 = Prairie Falcons were seen at Scotts Bluff National Monument yesterday. Alice Kenitz ------=_NextPart_000_002E_01BE6A67.D751F180 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hi Nebraska Birders,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Had a report yesterday from the = National Park Service staff that 2 Prairie Falcons were seen at Scotts Bluff National = Monument yesterday.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Alice Kenitz</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_002E_01BE6A67.D751F180--
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: RE: Prairie Falcons Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:21:30 -0600 Alice, Any word on whether this is a mated pair? Mark O -----Original Message----- From: Alice Kenitz [mailto:akenitz@prairieweb.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 9:03 PM To: Nebraska Birds Subject: Prairie Falcons Hi Nebraska Birders, Had a report yesterday from the National Park Service staff that 2 Prairie Falcons were seen at Scotts Bluff National Monument yesterday. Alice Kenitz
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] Ruby-crowned Kinglets Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:32:38 -0600 Nebraska birders, On March 09 at the Univ. of Nebr. at Kearney campus, I heard an unusual bird sound coming from the trees in which there were lots of American Robins. It sounded like a high-pitched whistle similar to Cedar Waxwings but I could not see anything but robins. Finally, I heard a little chattering, I looked up and saw a kinglet. I did not have my binoculars and I could not identify the kinglet. Then I remembered that the high-pitched whistle sounded like the introductory notes of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet's song and the chattering sounded like its scolding notes. It did not sound like the SEE SEE SEE of a Golden-crowned Kinglet. I believe there were at least six Ruby-crowned Kinglets. They usually are not seen until the first week of April. One more species arriving early this year. Robin Harding marshwren@nctc.net
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:21:39 -0600 Subject: Common Crane Update From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> Hi Nebraska Birders, We've had two reports of Common Crane sightings today, March 10th. It was seen in the same area as yesterday: north of X and east of 41 roads. Earlier it was seen on the south side of Elm Island Rd. between mailboxes 50225 and 50965. Babs and Loren Padelford Bellevue, NE lpdlfrd@juno.com ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] Whooping Crane Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:37:34 -0600 Nebraska birders, I spoke with Donna at the Whooping Crane Trust office on March 09. She told me that the Whooping Crane had been seen in the Alda area on Sunday, March 07, 1999. For more information, call her at 308-384-4633. Robin Harding 50370 24th Road Gibbon, NE 68840 308-468-5057 (home), 308-865-8647 (work) marshwren@nctc.net (home), HardingR@UNK.edu (work)
From: "Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com> Subject: Re: Prairie Falcons Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:42:29 -0700 Mark, I am not sure about the Prairie Falcons. Historically they have nested at Scotts Bluff National Monument. I will try to find out more about them from the Monument staff. Alice Kenitz -----Original Message----- From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> To: 'NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu' <NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu> Date: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 11:39 AM Subject: RE: Prairie Falcons >Alice, > >Any word on whether this is a mated pair? > >Mark O > >-----Original Message----- >From: Alice Kenitz [mailto:akenitz@prairieweb.com] >Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 9:03 PM >To: Nebraska Birds >Subject: Prairie Falcons > > >Hi Nebraska Birders, >Had a report yesterday from the National Park Service staff that 2 Prairie >Falcons were seen at Scotts Bluff National Monument yesterday. >Alice Kenitz > >
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