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1. No hay Brambling
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:55:41 -0500
2. Nou Board meeting
lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 05:31:45 -0500 (CDT)
3. None
"Lanny Randolph" <randolphl@unk.edu>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:26:42 -0500
4. White-winged Dove (Knox County)
Mark Brogie <mbrogie@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:24:03 -0500 (CDT)
5. Nebraska Birdline for 4/22/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:22:07 -0500
6. [Nebirds] Harlan Co. Reservoir, April 22
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:39:29 -0500
7. Re: White-winged Dove (Knox County)
Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us>
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:00:06 -0500
8. Re: White-winged Dove (Knox County)
Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us>
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:12:01 -0500
9. W.W. Dove (Knox County)
Mark Brogie <mbrogie@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:38:27 -0500 (CDT)
10. Nebraska Birdline for 4/23/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:45:06 -0500
11. Birds
"Susan J. Herrick" <th41814@mail.navix.net>
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 21:39:20 -0500
12. Re: Brambling in Scottsbluff
NevaLCP@aol.com
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 04:59:39 EDT
13. Friday birds at North Basin WPA (Near Utica)
Joe Gubanyi <JGUBANYI@seward.cune.edu>
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:09:33 -0500 (CDT)
14. [NeBirds] Harlan Co. Apr. 22-23
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:10:20 -0500
15. [NeBirds] RFI from Apr. Winging It
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 16:42:49 -0500
16. Chalco Hills Saturday
"John W. Hall" <jwhall2@juno.com>
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 19:37:27 -0500
17. Bird briefs
cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:24:10 CDT
18.
"Gregg Hoover" <gregg@kdsi.net>
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:33:14 -0500
19. Re: White-throated Sparrow in North Platte area
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 22:16:27 -0500
20. Keith County birding.
Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 23:24:50 -0600
21. Pileated Woodpeckers
James Kovanda <jkovanda@juno.com>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 09:54:35 EDT
22. Pileated Woodpeckers at FF Sunday
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 13:12:11 -0500
23. Good Flight at HNA
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 16:21:58 -0500
24. Walnut Creek Sunday
"John W. Hall" <jwhall2@juno.com>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 16:37:17 -0500
25. Re:
"Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 17:09:40 -0600
26. [NeBirds] Apr. 25 Phelps and Gosper Co.
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:31:59 -0500
27. Eastern Rainwater Basin report
"Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 21:02:47 -0500
28. Pileated Woodpecker drumming
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:39:36 -0500
29. Wiildcat hills- Morrill Co.
Janece Mollhoff <wm14915@navix.net>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:58:06 -0700
30. Re: Wiildcat hills- Morrill Co.
"Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 21:17:37 -0600
31. Nebraska Birdline for 4//25/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:32:45 -0500
32. Eastern Nebraska
Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:24:43 -0500
33. Oh Yeah!
Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:32:54 -0500
34. RE: Pileated Woodpeckers
"Gilster, Shirley" <SGIL01@CONAGRAFROZEN.COM>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:48:03 -0500
35. Re: Oh Yeah!
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:35:33 -0500
36. [NeBirds]Pileated Woodpeckers
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:04:02 -0500
37. USAF Hitchcock Study
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:16:15 -0500
38. Pileated Woodpecker
paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:36:15 -0500
39. Nebraska Birdline for 4/27/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:28:12 -0500
40. [NeBirds] I barely left town
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:51:20 -0500
41. Why the Brambling went away?
NevaLCP@aol.com
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 04:59:41 EDT
42. Birding
Alan and Lynette Risor <arisor@gpcom.net>
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:15:55 -0500
43. Firsts
Jan Johnson <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:57:39 -0500 (CDT)
44. Attn: John Sullivan
pkaufman@sccm.cc.ne.us
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:20:47 -0500
45. Re: Birding
"Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com>
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:09:01 -0600
46. Fontanelle Forest Info
"Randall D. Williams" <yiams@avalon.net>
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 05:47:45 -0500 (CDT)
47. Fontenelle Forest
Alan and Lynette Risor <arisor@gpcom.net>
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:19:25 -0500
48. Re: Fontanelle Forest Info
cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:37:22 CDT
49. birds without going birding
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:31:38 -0500
50. Thanks
Alan and Lynette Risor <arisor@gpcom.net>
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:52:18 -0500
51. Prairie Falcon
"Susan J. Herrick" <th41814@mail.navix.net>
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:52:52 -0500
52. Hitchcock April 28
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:10:21 -0500
53. Nou Board meeting
lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:21:36 -0500 (CDT)
54. Nou Board meeting
lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:25:40 -0500 (CDT)
55. Nebraska Birdline for 4/30/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:10:21 -0500
56. Birds in York and Seward Counties
Joe Gubanyi <JGUBANYI@seward.cune.edu>
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:55:40 -0500 (CDT)
57. Fontenelle Forest-Friday
NevaLCP@aol.com
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:58:25 EDT
58. Fw: Oklahoma RBA 30 April 1999
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:13:06 -0500
59. Sandhills 5/1
Carolyn Hall <cjhall@huntel.net>
Sat, 01 May 1999 13:50:20 -0500
60. NE Nebraska
Jan Johnson <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Sat, 1 May 1999 15:10:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: No hay Brambling Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:55:41 -0500 NEBirders: Dipped on the Brambling Weds. Birded around Scottsbluff a bit, nothing great except for 16 (!!) Cinnamon Teal at Kiowa Springs WMA and a ditch/pond just north of Kiowa. Most I've seen in one day in NE by far. Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
From: lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 05:31:45 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Nou Board meeting There will be an NOU Board meeting , Friday May 14th at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education atNorth 33rd and Holderge Steets at 9 pm. I am inviting Board and committee and project people to attend this meeting. I am also requesting the nominees for next year to attend. I do not have e -mail addresses for Dr. Johnsgard, or Mitzi Fox, secretay elect. Will some one send me their address if you have it. Telephone numbers will help if they have no e-mail. Committee reports should be ready for sharing with us , with a copy for the secretary . A lot has been accomplished this year , thanks to a lot of people working very hard. I cannot thank you all enough. I think you all will agree that the advent of e-mail has pulled us as a state wide organization, a lot closer together. I will call Mary Lou Pritchard. Betty Allen Omaha, NE
From: "Lanny Randolph" <randolphl@unk.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:26:42 -0500 Subject: None marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) on 04/22/99 08:08:56 AM To: Lanny Randolph/CNSS/UNK/UNEBR cc: Subject: None >>From jacana@swnebr.net Wed Apr 21 15:23:21 1999 >From: "Wanda Hoge" <jacana@swnebr.net> >To: "Robin" <marshwren@nctc.net> >Subject: >Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:24:24 -0000 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Priority: 3 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-SLUIDL: FF5F0289-F71E11D2-B5800010-4B31688B > >at the l83 bridge we had a Piping Plover and 5 Willet's and 3 Semipalmated >Sandpipers and do mean Sandpipers also Baird"s Sandpipers. Down at the dam >below the spillway there was a Black-necked Stilt. Baird's Sandpipers >Lesser Yellowlegs Killdeer and a Eastern Phoebe. With this wind glad >sandpipers are on the ground not in a tree like 200 Cedar Waxwings at >Ceder Point. Good Birding >Wanda and Glen >
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:24:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mark Brogie <mbrogie@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Subject: White-winged Dove (Knox County)
When I arrived home today after school there was a White-winged Dove
feeding at my triple-tube feeder. It was scared away by a squirrel at
which time I put out some cracked corn near the base of the tree. Around
a half an hour later the bird came in again and fed, then drank from my
pool and then flew to a small bunch of cedar just east of my house. The
large white wing patches and white outer corners of the tail were clearly
visible when the bird flew.
Mark A. Brogie - Science Dept. HOME:
Creighton Community Schools Mark A. Brogie
1609 Redick Ave., Box 10 508 Seeley St., Box 316
Creighton, NE 68729 Creighton, NE 68729
(402) 358-3663 (402) 358-5675
FAX (402) 358-3804
mbrogie@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:22:07 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 4/22/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * April 22, 1999 * NEST9904.22 - Birds Mentioned Brambling (not seen) Cinnamon Teal Common Loon Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Cattle Egret Piping Plover Willet American Avocet Marbled Godwit Semipalmated Sandpiper Black-necked Stilt White-faced Ibis Black-bellied Plover Baird's Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Franklin's Gull Forster's Tern Marsh Wren Yellow-headed Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Black-crowned Night-Heron Sora Swainson's Hawk Common Snipe Western Kingbird Brown Thrasher Hudsonian Godwit Upland Sandpiper -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 Thursday, April 22nd. In western Nebraska in Scotts Bluff County, the BRAMBLING in Scottsbluff has not been seen since Monday, the 19th. On the 21st, 16 CINNAMON TEAL were seen at Kiowa WMA. In Keith County on the 20th, a COMMON LOON, 3 EARED GREBES, 18 WESTERN GREBES & 2 CLARK'S GREBES were found on Lake Ogallala. In central Nebraska in Harlan County on the 22nd, 20 CATTLE EGRETS, a PIPING PLOVER, 5 WILLETS, 60 AMERICAN AVOCETS, 13 MARBLED GODWITS & 6 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS were seen from the Highway 183 bridge across Harlan Reservoir. On the 21st, a BLACK-NECKED STILT was seen below the dam. On the 20th at Harlan Reservoir, a WHITE-FACED IBIS & a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen. In Phelps County on the 18th at Funk Lagoon the following species were found: 22 EARED GREBES, a CINNAMON TEAL, 2 AMERICAN AVOCETS, a MARBLED GODWIT, 14 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE, 350 FRANKLIN'S GULLS, 2 FORSTER'S TERNS, 3 MARSH WRENS, 200 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS & 5 GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES. In eastern Nebraska in Stanton County on the 20th, a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON & 2 SORAS were found at Wood Duck WMA. In Lancaster County on the 20th, at Little Salt Fork Marsh, 3 SWAINSON'S HAWKS, a COMMON SNIPE & GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES were seen. In Douglas County on the 21st east of Eppley Airport, a WESTERN KINGBIRD was found. On the 20th, a BROWN THRASHER was seen in the Keystone area of Omaha. In Iowa on the 21st north of Missouri Valley, 15 WHITE-FACED IBIS, a HUDSONIAN GODWIT & 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS were found in a wet meadow 2 miles north on Highway 183 & a mile west on 280th Street. 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: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [Nebirds] Harlan Co. Reservoir, April 22 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:39:29 -0500 >From: "Wanda Hoge" <jacana@swnebr.net> >To: "Robin and Lanny" <marshwren@nctc.net> >Subject: none >Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:01:21 -0000 > >Robin and Lanny > Tonight from the l83 bridge we had 20 Cattle Egrets 13 M Godwits 5 >Willet's and >60 Avocet's 6 Semipalmated Sandpipers. 1 Piping Plover 12 Lesser >Yellowlegs > and Glen had 2 Lark Sparrow's in the yard. Weather is very wet mist and >fog on lake . Lots of Gulls and Pelican, too. What are you doing this >weekend? Good birding Wanda and Glen
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:00:06 -0500 From: Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us> Subject: Re: White-winged Dove (Knox County)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:12:01 -0500 From: Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us> Subject: Re: White-winged Dove (Knox County) I saw the eurasian collared dove at my feeders yesterday. Laurel Kearney At 06:24 PM 4/22/99 -0500, you wrote: >When I arrived home today after school there was a White-winged Dove >feeding at my triple-tube feeder. It was scared away by a squirrel at >which time I put out some cracked corn near the base of the tree. Around >a half an hour later the bird came in again and fed, then drank from my >pool and then flew to a small bunch of cedar just east of my house. The >large white wing patches and white outer corners of the tail were clearly >visible when the bird flew. > >Mark A. Brogie - Science Dept. HOME: >Creighton Community Schools Mark A. Brogie >1609 Redick Ave., Box 10 508 Seeley St., Box 316 >Creighton, NE 68729 Creighton, NE 68729 >(402) 358-3663 (402) 358-5675 >FAX (402) 358-3804 > mbrogie@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us >
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:38:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mark Brogie <mbrogie@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Subject: W.W. Dove (Knox County)
The White-winged Dove was at my feeder this morning (Friday). Flew in
just after 7:00. Fed for about a half hour and then flew to a small bunch
of cedar to the east of my house. That is where it roosted last night.
Mark A. Brogie - Science Dept. HOME:
Creighton Community Schools Mark A. Brogie
1609 Redick Ave., Box 10 508 Seeley St., Box 316
Creighton, NE 68729 Creighton, NE 68729
(402) 358-3663 (402) 358-5675
FAX (402) 358-3804
mbrogie@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:45:06 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 4/23/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * April 23, 1999 * NEST9904.23 - Birds Mentioned White-winged Dove Black-crowned Night-Heron Sora Swainson's Hawk Common Snipe Great-tailed Grackle Western Kingbird Brown Thrasher Cattle Egret Piping Plover Willet American Avocet Marbled Godwit Semipalmated Sandpiper Black-necked Stilt White-faced Ibis Black-bellied Plover Eared Grebe Cinnamon Teal Baird's Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Franklin's Gull Forster's Tern Marsh Wren Yellow-headed Blackbird Common Loon Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Hudsonian Godwit Upland Sandpiper -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 Friday, April 23rd. In eastern Nebraska in Knox Count on the 22nd, a WHITE-WINGED DOVE came to a feeder at 508 Selley St. in Creighton. In Stanton County on the 20th, a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON & 2 SORAS were found at Wood Duck WMA. In Lancaster County on the 20th, at Little Salt Fork Marsh, 3 SWAINSON'S HAWKS, a COMMON SNIPE & GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES were seen. In Douglas County on the 21st east of Eppley Airport, a WESTERN KINGBIRD was found. On the 20th, a BROWN THRASHER was seen in the Keystone area of Omaha. In central Nebraska in Harlan County on the 22nd, 20 CATTLE EGRETS, a PIPING PLOVER, 5 WILLETS, 60 AMERICAN AVOCETS, 13 MARBLED GODWITS & 6 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS were seen from the Highway 183 bridge across Harlan Reservoir. On the 21st, a BLACK-NECKED STILT was seen below the dam. On the 20th at Harlan Reservoir, a WHITE-FACED IBIS & a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen. In Phelps County on the 18th at Funk Lagoon the following species were found: 22 EARED GREBES, a CINNAMON TEAL, 2 AMERICAN AVOCETS, a MARBLED GODWIT, 14 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE, 350 FRANKLIN'S GULLS, 2 FORSTER'S TERNS, 3 MARSH WRENS, 200 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS & 5 GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES. In western Nebraska in Scotts Bluff County on the 21st, 16 CINNAMON TEAL were seen at Kiowa WMA. In Keith County on the 20th, a COMMON LOON, 3 EARED GREBES, 18 WESTERN GREBES & 2 CLARK'S GREBES were found on Lake Ogallala. In Iowa on the 21st north of Missouri Valley, 15 WHITE-FACED IBIS, a HUDSONIAN GODWIT & 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS were found in a wet meadow 2 miles north on Highway 183 & a mile west on 280th Street. 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: "Susan J. Herrick" <th41814@mail.navix.net> Subject: Birds Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 21:39:20 -0500 April 23rd. around 4:15 in my backyard near 70th. and Colby St. there was a pair of Ruby-crowned kinglets in the neighbors yard and a Prairie Falcon being scolded after by a crow. I got a great look at it since I had the binocs out on the Kinglets. I paused to consider how lucky I was and looked up into the sky and saw 3 Sharpshinned hawks in a kettle over my head. Not bad for 15 minutes. Susan Herrick, Lincoln
From: NevaLCP@aol.com Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 04:59:39 EDT Subject: Re: Brambling in Scottsbluff Hi Alice, I wanted to thank you for getting the word out on the Brambling. I must have been one of the first to hear about it because I was online diddling around on the Internet when the NEbirds post came in and AOL piped up with "You've got mail." I clicked over, read it and then ran right upstairs and told Ken I had to go to Scottsbluff. He just grunted as usual. I gather from recent reports that the bird has left. It's a shame it didn't hang around a bit longer but at least some of us got to see it and I expect Steve Dinsmore got good pictures. I'm sure the Drawbaughs are disappointed. They really seemed to be enjoying both the bird and the excitement it produced. As I told Phyllis and Dean in the note I sent this week we have to remember it's a Siberian bird and at this time of year something inside her is saying "time to go north." I'm glad I listened to my inner voice that said "head west right away." I hope you are planning to be here for the big 100th anniversary NOU meeting. Neva Pruess
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:09:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Gubanyi <JGUBANYI@seward.cune.edu> Subject: Friday birds at North Basin WPA (Near Utica) I spent two hours at Tamara WMA and North Basin WPA in Seward CO late Friday and saw the following species: North Basin WPA American Bittern - 2 mallard - 10+ pintail - 2 green-winged teal - 50+ blue-winged teal - 100+ American wigeon - 1 northern shoveler - 20+ northern harrier - 1 American coot - 20+ willet - one flock of about 50 lesser yellowlegs - 16 greater yellowlegs - 1 long-billed dowitcher - 13 Franklin's gull - 100+ yellow-headed blackbird - 1000+ also RW blackbirds and BH cowbirds swamp sparrow - 1 song sparrow - 2+ Tamara WMA - not much activity only a few waterfowl species (same as above but no pintail or wigeon) merlin - 1 Joseph Gubanyi Concordia University Seward, NE 68434 (402) 643-7316 jgubanyi@seward.cune.edu
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] Harlan Co. Apr. 22-23 Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:10:20 -0500 >From: "Wanda Hoge" <jacana@swnebr.net> >To: "Robin" <marshwren@nctc.net> >Subject: none >Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:56:08 -0000 > >Padelford's were here saw the B necked Stilt and lots of Avocet's some >Marbled Godwits and Willet's Also we had 2 Snowy Egret's and an Osprey . > Today we have seen Waxwings everywhere. Glen thinks in all over 500 . >When you coming down are way? >Good birding Wanda and Glen
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] RFI from Apr. Winging It Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 16:42:49 -0500 Nebraska birders, In the April 1999 issue of Winging It (newsletter of the American Birding Association), are three requests for information (RFI). Some of you may have already seen these, please excuse me. One of the requests is for reports and observations of albino or albinistic Red-tailed Hawks. The contact person is Henry C. Kendall, 1638 Timberlake Manor Parkway, Chesterfield, MO 63017. His phone number is (314) 532-0658 and his email is hawkhak5@aol.com. One of the other RFI is for reports of color-banded Northern Flickers. Contact Karen Wiebe, Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, 112 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7N 2C3. Another RFI is for reports of White-faced Ibises wearing orange leg streamers. Contact Salt Plains NWR, Rt. 1, Box 76, Jet, OK 73749. The last RFI is for first dates of arrival for Purple Martins. Contact the Purple Martin Conservation Association at their website: http://www.purplemartin.org or write to them at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA 16444. Their phone number is (814) 734-4420, their FAX number is (814) 734-5803 and their email is pmca@edinboro.edu. These kinds of studies always attract my interest although I rarely see banded birds. Robin Harding 50370 24th Road Gibbon, NE 68840 308-468-5057 (home), 308-865-8647 (work) marshwren@nctc.net (home), HardingR@UNK.edu (work)
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 19:37:27 -0500 Subject: Chalco Hills Saturday From: "John W. Hall" <jwhall2@juno.com> Saturday afternoon on the education trail at Chalco Hills: 1 Song Sparrow 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglets 2 Brown Creepers 1 Swamp Sparrow 1 Coopers Hawk On Wehrspann: 1 Eared Grebe 3 Western Grebe 3 Bufflehead 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: cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:24:10 CDT
Subject: Bird briefs
Birders,
Did a short walk at Fontenelle Forest as a teacher/naturalist guide
today and guess what! On Wren Trail I saw 2 WINTER WRENS.
Also did a quick drive by of Walnut Creek Lake Recreation Area just
south of Papillion, NE. Lots of:
Lesser Scaups
Ruddy Ducks
Blue-winged Teal
Am. Coots
Of more interest were:
2 Eared Grebes
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
40+ Yellow-rumped Warblers (In every small bush and throughout
the parking lots on
both sides of the
lake)
20+ Harris' Sparrows
20+ White-throated Sparrows
9 Chipping Sparrows
Clem Klaphake
cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu
From: "Gregg Hoover" <gregg@kdsi.net> Subject: Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:33:14 -0500 I've had a white throated sparrow at my yard for the past four days. The first one that I have noticed, since birding here for the last twenty years. Is this an unusual find? I live just South of North Platte, Nebraska. gregg hoover
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: Re: White-throated Sparrow in North Platte area Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 22:16:27 -0500 Gregg and Nebraska birders, Since you have been birding in the North Platte area for the last twenty years, I would say that you are a good judge of what is unusual for the area. In the Kearney area, we see a few White-throated Sparrows in most springs. I would say they were uncommon in our area but not unusual in April and May. Robin Harding 50370 24th Road Gibbon, NE 68840 308-468-5057 (home), 308-865-8647 (work) marshwren@nctc.net (home), HardingR@UNK.edu (work) >I've had a white throated sparrow at my yard for the past four days. The >first one that I have noticed, since birding here for the last twenty years. >Is this an unusual find? I live just South of North Platte, Nebraska. >gregg hoover
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 23:24:50 -0600
From: Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Subject: Keith County birding.
> Hello Birders-
Loren & Babs Padelford and I spent the day birding in
Keith County. We finished with 112 species, not a bad total
for a single Nebraska county in late April. Here are the
highlights:
Lake Ogallala area
4 Common Loons
1 White-faced Ibis
1 Cinnamon Teal
1 Greater Scaup
**2 Oldsquaw
2 Piping Plovers
1 Upland Sandpiper
2 Long-billed Curlews
277 Bonaparte's Gulls
Lake McConaughy
4 Common Loons
60 Ross's Geese
1 Merlin
1 Peregrine Falcon
4 Piping Plovers
48 Willets
1 Long-billed Curlew
106 Marbled Godwits
**1 Dunlin
2 Stilt Sandpipers
200 Wilson's Phalaropes
2 Lark Sparrows
Clear Creek marshes (Keith County)
2 Cinnamon Teal
1 Merlin
1 Long-billed Curlew
26 American Pipits
Some other totals for the day included 23 species of
waterfowl, 162 American Avocets, 1 Barn Owl, and 29
Loggerhead Shrikes.
Stephen J. Dinsmore
Fort Collins, CO
steve_dinsmore@usgs.gov
Subject: Pileated Woodpeckers From: James Kovanda <jkovanda@juno.com> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 09:54:35 EDT Jim Kovanda On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:10:20 -0500 marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) writes: >>From: "Wanda Hoge" <jacana@swnebr.net> >>To: "Robin" <marshwren@nctc.net> >>Subject: none NeBirders, This morning, Sunday, 25 April, at 8:22 a.m., Ross Silcock called to say he had just seen TWO male Pileated Woodpeckers in Fontenelle Forest. >From the new blind located on the floodplain south of the new Hitchcock Education Center, Ross heard them drumming. He then found them at the east end of the Great Marsh amidst several large cottonwood trees. One of them flew south toward Hidden Lake. The other disappeared into the woods where he had first seen them. This species has been recently reported by several observers and this may be the time to add Pileated to your Nebraska list. Jim Kovanda ___________________________________________________________________ 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: Pileated Woodpeckers at FF Sunday Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 13:12:11 -0500 NeBirders: Thanks to Jim Kovanda for posting the sightings early this morning! After I called Jim I had ANOTHER sighting, this one on North Stream Trail at a dead stub about 60 yards north of the deer exclosure. The stub is about 25 feet tall and has extensive "workings" including 3 large holes on its north side. This bird could have been one of those first seen southeast of Hidden Lake, but I doubt it. The bird I saw on the stub was a female (no red on chin) and if only males do the drumming, then a male was in the area also, as drumming was heard to the east of the stub. All activity was in the time period 7-9 am. The best clue to locating the birds is the drumming, a deep, rather loud roll. They drum on large branches, thus the sound is deep, rather like the comparison between hitting a bass drum vs a snare drum. I only heard the calls twice. Beware of the White-breasted Nuthatch call series, which, believe it or not, sounds a lot like a Pileated call! The first bird was found close to the Hidden Lake Trail, about 400 yards south of the footbridge at the east end of Great Marsh. I couldn't identify it to gender, but it flew northwest towards Great Marsh. This was probably the same bird I saw as I left, when it was drumming on large trees at the south edge of Great Marsh, about halfway between the new and old viewing blinds. The second bird was seen as the first flew northwestward, but this one flew southeastward, towards Hidden Lake and the Missouri River. I also could not identify it to gender, but it was drumming continuously, as was the first. I suspect that these were 2 territorial males whose territories meet at the Hidden Lake Trail spot 400 yards or so south of the footbridge. Thus I am sure there were 2 birds southeast of Great Marsh, and if only males drum, then the bird north of the deer exclosure, a female, had to be #3. If the drumming heard north of the deer exclosure had to have been done by a male, then there may have been a pair in that area different from the two birds southeast of Hidden Lake, thus a total of 4! Amazing. Does anyone know if both genders drum? I had a few other birds of interest also at Fontenelle Forest: Snowy Egret 2 (roosting in trees across from new viewing blind on Great Marsh at dawn) Winter Wren 5 House Wren 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12 Northern Parula 6 (most on North Stream and Missouri River Trails) Yellow-rumped Warbler 8 Yellow-throated Warbler 3 Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: Good Flight at HNA Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 16:21:58 -0500 Hi all, Had a magical 1st hour and, all in all, a very good day at Hitchcock Nature Area yesterday. Winds were light but steady out of the Southeast and the sun was out until early afternoon. That evidently was all the hawks needed: Raptors and Vultures (4.75 hrs) Turkey Vulture 44 (residents active too) Osprey 4 Northern Harrier 6 Sharp-shinned Hawk 16 Cooper's Hawk 2 Swainson's Hawk 6 (1 Dark Morph) Red-tailed Hawk 16 (3 Harlan's [all immatures]) Broad-winged Hawk 103 Peregrine Falcon 1 (imm) American Kestrel 6 unidentified buteo 1 10/205 Highlights: 94 raptors and vultures of 10 species in the 10-11am hour. 18 Broad-wing, 2 Sharp-shin= "kettle" 8 Broad-wing, 3 Osprey, 1 Sharp-shin, 1 Cooper's= "kettle" Other migrants (ests): 14 Tree Swallow 22 Barn Swallow 1 Double-crested Cormorant 3 Great Blue Heron 1 Snowy Egret 170 White Pelican 1 Killdeer 150 Chimney Swift 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (first for 1999) 1 Eastern Wood Pewee (ditto) 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Belted Kingfisher I heard Wild Turkeys several times in the woods below the lodge. One of the migrant Red-tails was VERY HIGH with prey in its talons ( a bird I think). Couldn't tell for sure what the victim was, but it wasn't small (bobwhite or meadowlark?). Strange... I didn't hve a scope, which probably means that I missed a lot of birds. Mark O PS Few shorebirds at Branched Oak, but another Peregrine Falcon, an Osprey and a Common Tern were present. Swa another Swainson's Hwk today near Pleasant Dale. -----Original Message----- From: James Kovanda [mailto:jkovanda@juno.com] Sent: Sunday, April 25, 1999 8:55 AM To: nebirds@rip.physics.unk.edu Subject: Pileated Woodpeckers Jim Kovanda On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:10:20 -0500 marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) writes: >>From: "Wanda Hoge" <jacana@swnebr.net> >>To: "Robin" <marshwren@nctc.net> >>Subject: none NeBirders, This morning, Sunday, 25 April, at 8:22 a.m., Ross Silcock called to say he had just seen TWO male Pileated Woodpeckers in Fontenelle Forest. >From the new blind located on the floodplain south of the new Hitchcock Education Center, Ross heard them drumming. He then found them at the east end of the Great Marsh amidst several large cottonwood trees. One of them flew south toward Hidden Lake. The other disappeared into the woods where he had first seen them. This species has been recently reported by several observers and this may be the time to add Pileated to your Nebraska list. Jim Kovanda ___________________________________________________________________ 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: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 16:37:17 -0500 Subject: Walnut Creek Sunday From: "John W. Hall" <jwhall2@juno.com> Just before the rain began: 10 Yellow-rump Warblers 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets 1 Eared Grebe 2 Vesper Sparrows 30 Yellow-headed Blackbirds. 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: "Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com> Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 17:09:40 -0600 Gregg, In the Scottsbluff-Gering area we see few White-throated Sparrows. I suspect there are a few here each year during migration, but we just are not at the right time & place to see them. So we don't see them every year. I would call them uncommon in our area. Alice Kenitz -----Original Message----- From: Gregg Hoover <gregg@kdsi.net> To: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu <NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu> Date: Saturday, April 24, 1999 7:37 PM >I've had a white throated sparrow at my yard for the past four days. The >first one that I have noticed, since birding here for the last twenty years. >Is this an unusual find? I live just South of North Platte, Nebraska. >gregg hoover > >
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] Apr. 25 Phelps and Gosper Co. Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:31:59 -0500 Nebraska birders, Today started with the first Green Heron of the year for us near the Gibbon I-80 exit. It rained on and off all day and we had some muddy roads but we did pretty good. Last week we heard that a few inches of rain fell in western Phelps and eastern Gosper Counties so we decided that it would be a worthwhile trip. In Phelps County at a flooded field five miles north of Bertrand, we saw ten Greater Yellowlegs and fifteen Lesser Yellowlegs. At another flooded field four and a half miles north of Bertrand, we saw nine Wilson's Phalaropes, eight Barn Swallows and 250 Yellow-headed Blackbirds. One of the Wilson's Phalaropes entertained us as it walked on some floating plant debris while the wind was making some big waves. I was getting sea-sick just watching it. At one time, the Yellow-headed Blackbirds landed on the road in front of us in such a tight flock that it made for an amazing sight. As we drove away from this flooded field, the Barn Swallows accompanied us as if we were stirring up bugs as we went. In a small flooded feedlot two and a half miles north of Bertrand, we saw a Willet in a flock of 35 Lesser Yellowlegs and three Greater Yellowlegs. In Gosper County at Elley Waterfowl Production Area (WPA), we got a great look at a Savannah Sparrow. In the southeast corner of Gosper County, we saw forty Vesper Sparrows, three Swainson's Hawks, seven Cedar Waxwings and two Sharp-shinned Hawks. We returned to the flooded field four and a half miles north of Bertrand and saw a male and female Ring-necked Ducks. Despite the rain and mud, we had a good day. If you ever find yourself in the area, there is a great place to eat in Smithfield called Tuffy's. It is a bar and cafe that looks run-down from the outside but the food is great. As Jim Kovanda once kidded me, "Robin knows all the good bars in the area." What have you been seeing? 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: "Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net> Subject: Eastern Rainwater Basin report Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 21:02:47 -0500 Hello all. I spent the weekend shorebirding and birding in the eastern Rainwater Basin (Seward, York, Hamilton, Fillmore, and Clay Counties). Below are the highlights. Joel Jorgensen --------------------- Selected Shorebird Totals for the Weekend Black-bellied Plover 3 American Golden-plover 45 American Avocet 103 Willet 127 White-rumped Sandpiper 2 Baird's Sandpiper 587 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Long-billed Dowitcher 211 Other birds 24 April Hultine WPA 1 Cattle Egret Whitefront WPA 23 Swainson's Hawks Harvard WPA 7 (!) Western Grebes 71 Eared Grebes 3 Peregrine Falcons 29 American Kestrels Hastings Basin (southeast edge of Hastings) 1 Cinnamon Teal 5 Hooded Mergansers Ayr Lake 1 Western Grebe 16 Black-crowned Night-heron Kissinger WMA 1 Western Grebe 47 Black-crowned Night-herons **1 Baird's Sparrow Oberlong WPA 2 Great Egrets 15 White-faced Ibis Wilkins WPA 28 White-faced Ibis ***1 Glossy Ibis*** 25 April Springer WPA 1 White-faced Ibis eastern Hamilton Co. 1 Peregrine Falcon I observed the Glossy Ibis with the group of 28 White-faced Ibis from approximately 5:45 p.m. to dusk. During my observation, the entire flock moved up a ditch towards me, until they were about 50 feet away, thus the birds were rather close. The bird appeared to be a full adult plegadis ibis with absolutely NO signs of immaturity. The bird lacked the white feathers around the eye and facial skin that were present on the White-faced. Rather, a VERY narrow border on what appeared to be the facial skin was whitish. This thin border was at the top and bottom of the facial skin and extended from the bill to, but not around, the eye. This pale border had a clear rich, but pale, blue cast or hue. The interior of the facial skin was grayish. Every White-faced Ibis present had obvious and complete rosy or pink facial skin. Also, the size of the facial skin appeared to be dramatically smaller on the Glossy Ibis. This is somewhat (I guess) of an illusion since the white border of White-faced Ibis is actually feathers. This bill was completely brownish in color. The legs were brownish also, but the joints were rosy color. Every White-faced legs were completely rosy colored. The eye appeared dark. However, While it appeared that some of the White-faced Ibis had pink eyes, at times their eyes appeared dark as well. Thus, I am not putting alot of stock in the field mark for this observation. The Glossy Ibis also appeared noticeably bigger (just a little bit however) and it's back stood higher (While feeding) than the White-faced Ibis. I returned at 6:20 a.m. the next morning and the entire flock was gone. The Baird's Sparrow at Kissinger WMA was in an area of new (green) grass right along the county road (west side of the WMA). I saw the bird fooling around while I was scoping the basin. It was only 20 ft away and I watched it through my scope for approximately 5 minutes. I was able to see all the field marks (somewhat large-headed, large billed sparrow, ochre central crown. fine streaks on the breast that form the necklace, etc). What is possibly most interesting about this is the habitat the bird was found. Not nescessarily the fact that it was in short, green (cool-season) grass, but that it was found in such a moist habitat (somewhat near a marsh). Knowing that the Baird's Sparrow breeds in the northern plains, one might surmise (like I did) that it would be found in a drier, more upland setting during migration. Moreover, the circumstances of this observation are similar to those of a bird I found last year at about this time north of Bradshaw, York County, at what is now Heron WPA. I found and photographed a Baird's Sparrow there that favored the short, green grass of a mininum maintenance road at the south end of the basin. Not far from where the sparrow was, the road was flooded like it often is here. In fact, in some of my photos their is a Snow Goose corpse immediately behind the sparrow. This Sparrow remained here for 2 weeks. I bring this up since the Baird's Sparrow is one of those elusive birds that we know must migrate through the state, but is rarely detected. possibly this information may somehow help those observers searching for this elusive species.
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Pileated Woodpecker drumming Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:39:36 -0500 Nebirders: Found the answer to my question in Terres (Encyclopedia of North American Birds). Both genders drum, females less often than males. Drumming advertises territory and attracts a mate. Birds also drum when about to roost for the night (hint!). Roosting hole is entered about 30 min before sunset and left before sunrise. Most nesting holes are near water. Because both genders drum, I had a minimum of 2 birds this morning at Fontenelle Forest, but possibly as many as 4. Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:58:06 -0700 From: Janece Mollhoff <wm14915@navix.net> Subject: Wiildcat hills- Morrill Co. Hi all Spent the weekend SLOGGING up and down the canyons SW of Redington, in another attempt to document breeding by pinyon jays and red crossbills, in the general area where they apparently bred last year. Got lots of excercise, covered a lot of miles, was wet most of the time. After 11 hrs of hiking, I finally found the first jays Sat evening about 1730, almost exactly where I started at 0630. Unsuccessful in finding breeding activities for either species. In addition to jays and crossbills, saw an osprey (which was followed by a flock of 27 pelicans) heading north. ?going to Pumpkin Creek to fish?? Also saw: mtn bluebirds townsend's solitaires say's phoebes red-breasted nuthatch golden eagle (full adult plumage) ruby-cr kinglet plus the usual doves, larks, turkeys, bobwhite,grackles,chickadees, etc. The only breeding activity noted was a great-horned owl nest with two young whose primaries were just beginning to emerge from the sheaths. Can't recommend the roads -- got stuck Sun. noon on the way out, but was lucky and dug myself out in about 20 min -- wished I'd had my 4WD pickup! You know its time to head for the hardtop when you see a pair of mallards swimming IN THE ROAD a few miles south of Redington. I checked the area on Easter Saturday with about the same luck bird-wise but instead of rain, there was several inches of snow..... I'll bet the Panhandle would be really beautiful in the spring with the sun out! Good birding Wayne Mollhoff
From: "Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com> Subject: Re: Wiildcat hills- Morrill Co. Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 21:17:37 -0600 Wayne-- It was beautiful here this afternoon when the sun finally came out!! Alice -----Original Message----- From: Janece Mollhoff <wm14915@navix.net> To: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu <NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu> Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 8:40 PM Subject: Wiildcat hills- Morrill Co. >Hi all >Spent the weekend SLOGGING up and down the canyons SW of Redington, in >another attempt to document breeding by pinyon jays and red crossbills, >in the general area where they apparently bred last year. Got lots of >excercise, covered a lot of miles, was wet most of the time. After 11 >hrs of hiking, I finally found the first jays Sat evening about 1730, >almost exactly where I started at 0630. Unsuccessful in finding >breeding activities for either species. > In addition to jays and crossbills, saw an osprey (which was followed >by a flock of 27 pelicans) heading north. ?going to Pumpkin Creek to >fish?? >Also saw: > mtn bluebirds townsend's solitaires > say's phoebes red-breasted nuthatch > golden eagle (full adult plumage) ruby-cr kinglet >plus the usual doves, larks, turkeys, bobwhite,grackles,chickadees, etc. > >The only breeding activity noted was a great-horned owl nest with two >young whose primaries were just beginning to emerge from the sheaths. > >Can't recommend the roads -- got stuck Sun. noon on the way out, but >was lucky and dug myself out in about 20 min -- wished I'd had my 4WD >pickup! >You know its time to head for the hardtop when you see a pair of >mallards swimming IN THE ROAD a few miles south of Redington. > >I checked the area on Easter Saturday with about the same luck bird-wise >but instead of rain, there was several inches of snow..... I'll bet the >Panhandle would be really beautiful in the spring with the sun out! > >Good birding >Wayne Mollhoff >
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:32:45 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 4//25/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * April 25, 1999 * NEST9904.25 - Birds Mentioned GLOSSY IBIS White-faced Ibis Western Grebe Black-crowned Night-Heron BAIRD'S SPARROW Eared Grebe Peregrine Falcon Cinnamon Teal Hooded Merganser Whooping Crane Great Egret Cattle Egret Wilson's Phalarope Yellow-headed Blackbird Green Heron Black-necked Stilt Snowy Egret American Avocet Willet Hudsonian Godwit Pileated Woodpecker Winter Wren Northern Parula Yellow-throated Warbler Vesper Sparrow White-winged Dove American Bittern Little Blue Heron Virginia Rail Sora Common Loon Osprey Long-billed Dowitcher Greater Scaup Oldsquaw Piping Plover Upland Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Bonaparte's Gull Ross's Goose Merlin Marbled Godwit Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Barn Owl American Pipit - 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 Sunday, April 25th. In central Nebraska in Fillmore County on the 24th, a GLOSSY IBIS was found with a flock of 28 WHITE- FACED IBIS at Wilkins WPA, however, it could not be found again on the 25th. In Clay County on the 24th, a WESTERN GREBE, 47 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS & a BAIRD'S SPARROW were found at Kissinger WMA. Also on the 24th, 7 WESTERN GREBES, 71 EARED GREBES & 3 PEREGRINE FALCONS were seen at Harvard WPA. In Adams County on the 24th, a CINNAMON TEAL & 5 HOODED MERGANSERS were found at Hastings Basin. In Phelps County on the 24th & 25th, 5 WHOOPING CRANES were seen in a corn field on the southeast side of Funk Lagoon & 3 GREAT EGRETS & 12 CATTLE EGRETS were seen on the north side. On the 25th, 9 WILSON'S PHALAROPES & 250 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS were seen 4‡ miles north of Bertrand. In Buffalo County on the 25th, a GREEN HERON was spotted near the Gibbon I-80 exit. In Harlan County on the 23rd, the BLACK-NECKED STILT was still being seen below the dam at Harlan Reservoir. Also on the 23rd, 2 SNOWY EGRETS, 120 AMERICAN AVOCETS, 51 WILLETS, & 8 HUDSONIAN GODWITS were seen on the west side of Harlan Reservoir. In eastern Nebraska in Sarpy County in Bellevue on the 25th, at least 2 PILEATED WOODPECKERS were seen in Fontenelle Forest at the east end of the Great Marsh & north of the deer exclosure on North Stream Trail. Also seen in Fontenelle on the 25th, were 2 SNOWY EGRETS, 5 WINTER WRENS, 6 NORTHERN PARULAS & 3 YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS. On the 25th, an EARED GREBE, 2 VESPER SPARROWS & 30 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS were found at Walnut Creek Lake south of Papillion. On the 24th, an EARED GREBE & 3 WESTERN GREBES were seen at Wehrspann Lake. In Knox County on the 24th, the WHITE-WINGED DOVE was seen again at 508 Seeley St. in Creighton. In Dakota County on the 23rd, a WHITE-FACED IBIS, 3 AMERICAN BITTERNS, an adult LITTLE BLUE HERON, 2 VIRGINIA RAILS & a SORA were found at a slough along the Missouri River. Also seen on the 23rd, was a COMMON LOON at Crystal Cove in South Sioux City. In Lancaster County on the 25th, an OSPREY & 18 WILLETS were seen at Branched Oak Lake. In Seward County on the 23rd, 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, 50 WILLETS, 13 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS & over 1,000 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS were seen at Tamara WMA. In western Nebraska in Keith County on the 24th, 4 COMMON LOONS, a WHITE-FACED IBIS, a CINNAMON TEAL, a GREATER SCAUP, 2 OLDSQUAWS, 2 PIPING PLOVERS , an UPLAND SANDPIPER, 2 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS & 277 BONAPARTE'S GULLS were seen in the Lake Ogallala area. Also on the 24th, 4 COMMON LOONS, 60 ROSS'S GEESE, a MERLIN, a PEREGRINE FALCON, 4 PIPING PLOVERS, 48 WILLETS, 106 MARBLED GODWITS, a DUNLIN, 2 STILT SANDPIPERS & 200 WILSON'S PHALAROPES were seen at Lake McConaughy. Other birds seen in the area were 162 AMERICAN AVOCETS, a BARN OWL & 26 AMERICAN PIPITS. 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: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:24:43 -0500 From: Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us> Subject: Eastern Nebraska Hello--This weekend I saw 57 species about 8 miles south of Nebraska City!!!! Among them was a life bird--3 winter wrens I also saw (highlights) Whip-poor-will 7 Ruby-crowned Kinglets 35 Swamp Sparrows 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 18 Yellow-rumped Warbler 5 Lark Sparrow 8 Eastern Bluebird 10 Song Sparrow 4 Lesser Yellowlegs 6 Cattle Egret 3--Chasing a manure spreader around Canada Geese with goslings White-breasted Nuthatch 6 Tufted Titmouse 2 Turkey Vulture 35 Chipping Sparrow 22 House Wren 18 Brown Thrasher 15 Wood Duck 2 Field Sparrow 24 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 And many more "common" species. Cardinals, juncos, Harris' sparrows, Great Blue Herons, Red-tailed hawks, robins, downy/hairy woodpeckers Laurel Badura-- Kearney NE
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:32:54 -0500 From: Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us> Subject: Oh Yeah! I also hear one Eastern Towhee. Laurel
From: "Gilster, Shirley" <SGIL01@CONAGRAFROZEN.COM> Subject: RE: Pileated Woodpeckers Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:48:03 -0500 okay, Jim, Here's the plan: I'll get a cell phone; you get a cell phone; the moment you hear of or have another Pileated sighting, call me (but first tie the bird to a tree). Dang it!! my plan was to go birding Saturday AM and Sunday AM; had to chase raptors around instead. SOMEDAY I WILL SEE THE PILEATED!! Shirley -----Original Message----- From: James Kovanda [mailto:jkovanda@juno.com] Sent: Sunday, April 25, 1999 8:55 AM To: nebirds@rip.physics.unk.edu Subject: Pileated Woodpeckers Jim Kovanda On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:10:20 -0500 marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) writes: >>From: "Wanda Hoge" <jacana@swnebr.net> >>To: "Robin" <marshwren@nctc.net> >>Subject: none NeBirders, This morning, Sunday, 25 April, at 8:22 a.m., Ross Silcock called to say he had just seen TWO male Pileated Woodpeckers in Fontenelle Forest. >From the new blind located on the floodplain south of the new Hitchcock Education Center, Ross heard them drumming. He then found them at the east end of the Great Marsh amidst several large cottonwood trees. One of them flew south toward Hidden Lake. The other disappeared into the woods where he had first seen them. This species has been recently reported by several observers and this may be the time to add Pileated to your Nebraska list. Jim Kovanda ___________________________________________________________________ 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: Oh Yeah! Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:35:33 -0500 Hey Laurel: Where were you 8 miles south of Nebraska City? In the woods, sounds like. Could you give me a location? I go down that way quite a bit. Nice habitat down there. Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us> > To: Nebirds@rip.physics.unk.edu > Subject: Oh Yeah! > Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 8:32 PM > > I also hear one Eastern Towhee. > Laurel >
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:04:02 -0500 Subject: [NeBirds]Pileated Woodpeckers From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> Nebirders, Received word from Roland Barth that he saw two Pileated Woodpeckers today, 4/26, at 8:15 a.m. in Fontenelle Forest north of the deer exclosure on North Stream Trail. The birds were not calling or drumming. They were seen on a Sycamore tree with a lot of obvious woodpecker excavations on the east side of the trail. 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: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: USAF Hitchcock Study Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:16:15 -0500 Loren and Babs, Thanks for putting Andreas Smith from Geo-Marine on to me. He is coming out here this week, and hopefully Hitchcock will put on a good show for him. Last Saturday's flight 10 species 205 individuals + some great photos-- would bear repeating. If he gets the Air Force grant, maybe I can get a funding for a fall hawkwatch intern out of him! This radar data should be interesting indeed... Mark -----Original Message----- From: Loren J. Padelford [mailto:lpdlfrd@juno.com] Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 10:04 PM To: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu Cc: lpdlfrd@juno.com Subject: [NeBirds]Pileated Woodpeckers Nebirders, Received word from Roland Barth that he saw two Pileated Woodpeckers today, 4/26, at 8:15 a.m. in Fontenelle Forest north of the deer exclosure on North Stream Trail. The birds were not calling or drumming. They were seen on a Sycamore tree with a lot of obvious woodpecker excavations on the east side of the trail. 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]
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:36:15 -0500
From: paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Subject: Pileated Woodpecker
Hi All,
Janis and I had a nice walk in the forest today, but failed to see
the bird. We did see the nice tree up around the deer enclosure twice,
three people who were also looking for it, and one person, Roland
Barth, who actually saw a pileated fly away from the tree earlier in the
morning without determining its sex. (I mean the sex of the bird and not
the tree.)
Some birds of lesser interest found in FF were:
Northern parula
Yellow- throated warbler
Orange -crowned warbler
Northern water thrush
Common yellow throat
Dozens of yellow rumps including one Audobon's
Eastern Pewee
Osprey
Chimney Swift
On the way in we saw our first Upland sandpiper sitting on a
power line in Douglas county and our first Great tailed grackle at
the Fremont lakes on the way home.
Don
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:28:12 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 4/27/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * April 27, 1999 * NEST9904.27 - Birds Mentioned Whooping Crane White-faced ibis Wilson's Phalarope Black-crowned Night-heron Pileated Woodpecker Chimney Swift Orange-crowned Warbler Parula Yellow-throated Warbler Northern Waterthrush Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's race) Common Yellowthroat Lincoln's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-winged Dove Cattle Egret Whip-poor-will Red-headed Woodpecker Winter Wren Brown Thrasher Lark Sparrow Osprey Golden Eagle Say's Phoebe Pinyon Jay Townsend's Solitaire Mountain Bluebird Red Crossbill - 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 Tuesday, April 27th. In central Nebraska in Phelps County on the 26th, 5 WHOOPING CRANES were still present in a corn field on the southeast side of Funk Lagoon. Also seen on the 26th at Funk Lagoon were 6 WHITE- FACED IBIS & 200 WILSON'S PHALAROPES. In Buffalo County on the 26th, 8 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS were seen in a slough south of Ravenna. In eastern Nebraska in Sarpy County in Bellevue on the 26th, 2 PILEATED WOODPECKERS were seen in Fontenelle Forest north of the deer exclosure on North Stream Trail. Also seen in Fontenelle on the 26th, were CHIMNEY SWIFTS, an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, 2 PARULAS, a YELLOW- THROATED WARBLER, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (Audubon's race), a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, LINCOLN'S SPARROWS & WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS. In Knox County on the 26th, the WHITE-WINGED DOVE was seen again at 508 Seeley St. in Creighton. In Otoe County on the 25th the following species were seen 8 miles south of Nebraska City: 3 CATTLE EGRETS, 7 WHIP-POOR-WILLS, 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS, 3 WINTER WRENS, 15 BROWN THRASHERS & 8 LARK SPARROWS. In western Nebraska on the 24th & 25th in southwest Morrill County, an OSPREY, an adult GOLDEN EAGLE, SAY'S PHOEBES, PINYON JAYS, TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRES, MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS & RED CROSSBILLS were seen in canyons southwest of Redington. In Iowa south of Council Bluffs on the 26th, a HORNED GREBE, 8 EARED GREBES, a WESTERN GREBE, 300 FRANKLIN'S GULLS, 10 BONAPARTE'S GULLS & 12 FORSTER'S TERNS were seen at Lake Manawa. 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: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] I barely left town Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:51:20 -0500 Hi Nebraska birders, In Buffalo County, Thursday, April 22, in Kearney I saw nineteen Purple Martins. It was also that day that I saw what appeared to be a loon on Pony Lake while Robin was driving us by on the interstate. It took until yesterday, April 26, before I found enough time time to check. I still only took enough time to zip out there, look and zip back. Between Kearney and three miles east of Kearney I saw about 360 Franklin's Gulls in flocks of thirty to ninety individuals. From one mile south of the manufacturerEaton, Yale and Towne, which is on east highway thirty, straight south to the dead end at the interstate, which is where pony lake is, I saw a Swainson's Hawk and two Loggerhead Shrikes. On a pond in front of the Kearney Sewage Treatment Plant, which is just before you get to Pony Lake and across the road, I saw six Lesser Scaup. Just as I pulled up to the near edge of Pony Lake I could see a Common Loon in winter plumage or an immature right by the near bank about ten yards away. As it slowly swam away I got excellent looks. However, when I drove Robin by there on our way home about an hour later we could not find the loon. But, where there had been one Swainson's Hawk on a power pole, there was now three Swainson's Hawks on fence posts right next to the road. I didn't see them until we were right beside them so I stopped there. They stayed put more than a minute and when they left one at a time they seemed in no hurry, hunting as they went. Robin wondered why all the Swainson's Hawks she has seen this year were unafraid of people. It seems that at about the same time that I was looking at the loon Robin was watching and listening to twenty Chimney Swifts on the UNK Campus, our first for the season. Just as we drove down our driveway and turned to go past the front of our yard a large bird launched off a big snag twenty yards in front of our truck. An Osprey, wow. This morning, Tuesday, April 27, on our way to work we saw two Great Egrets at the sandpit at the northwest corner of the Gibbon I-80 exit. There are still large numbers of Double-crested Cormorants there, as there are all along the interstate between Kearney and Gibbon. A few miles further west we saw six Turkey Vultures circling over trees between the interstate and the river. 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)
From: NevaLCP@aol.com Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 04:59:41 EDT Subject: Why the Brambling went away? The following post from BirdChat may explain why the Scottsbluff Brambling disappeared so abruptly. She must have checked the E-mail personal ads. After all she was late heading north and Juneau is a lot closer than Siberia. ;-) Neva Pruess Lincoln, NE From BirdChat 4/26/99 >From: Nina Mollett <Nina.Mollett@NOAA.GOV> >Subject: Rambling Boy Seeks Brambling Girl >SMM seeks SMF for long-term relationship. World traveler, fluent in Russian, >I've now settled down in north Douglas, a residential island across from Juneau, >Alaska. The address is Fish Creek -- come fly over and you'll find me by my >song. I'm the only one who sings it for miles around. Come join me! And enjoy >rural living -- far from the madding crowd -- and yet it's a capital place ;-). >Must want children. No pine siskins or ruby-crowned kinglets need apply. I'm >sorry to be exclusive but I've been scouring every bush for my soulmate, the >girl of my heart. Plenty to eat here, good nesting materials. Hey!! To be >honest, it's lonely here for a single, well-educated, European finch. I'm >healthy, work out daily, and, well, I don't know how to say this without seeming >immodest--handsome. You won't be disappointed!! Photo available.
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:15:55 -0500 From: Alan and Lynette Risor <arisor@gpcom.net> Subject: Birding Hello, I am kind of new at this birding. After seeing all the sightings listed I thought mine were kind of insignificant but decided to send them anyway. On April 19 my wife and I were going to Fremont and about 6 miles out of West Pt on hiway 275 about 2 miles before the Elkorn River bridge there was a turkey vulture on the ground feeding on something. It was just on the old railroad rightofway and acted lilke it didn't have a care in the world. Just outside of Scribner in kind of a little backwater from the river there was a flock of Pelicans. I just kind of estimated them but there must have been around 200 or so of them. They were still there around 3 hrs later on our trip home and we stopped and watched them. They couldn't have been more than 2 blocks from the highway but didn't seem to mind all the traffic noise going by. Also was that Brambling sighting around Scottsbluff a real bird or was that just a joke thing? Will someone be kind enough to let me know about that? Thank you Alan Risor arisor@gpcom.net
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:57:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jan Johnson <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Subject: Firsts
Yesterday late afternoon I saw my first Barn Swallow in ne Nebraska, Dixon
Co. You note I said first as in only one bird. We had seen them 2 weeks
ago in southeastern Nebraska so it seems as though they took the long
flight path north. I do live on a farm remember so there are great
numbers around all summer.
This a.m. driving in to school I saw my first Swainson's Hawk. I've been
looking for a couple of weeks now since everyone south and west of here
has been reporting them.
Still nothing in the way of shorebirds. The only species I've seen in
this area are Yellowlegs and Bairds and none of them for over a week!
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From: pkaufman@sccm.cc.ne.us Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:20:47 -0500 Subject: Attn: John Sullivan John, E-mail me. I couldn't find your address and have a question for you. Thanks, Paul
From: "Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com> Subject: Re: Birding Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:09:01 -0600 Alan, The Brambling in Scottsbluff was a real bird. And it was a nifty little bird, too. Alice Kenitz Gering -----Original Message----- From: Alan and Lynette Risor <arisor@gpcom.net> To: NeBirds <NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu> Date: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 6:16 AM Subject: Birding >Hello, > >I am kind of new at this birding. After seeing all the sightings listed >I thought mine were kind of insignificant but decided to send them >anyway. > >On April 19 my wife and I were going to Fremont and about 6 miles out >of West Pt on hiway 275 about 2 miles before the Elkorn River bridge >there was a turkey vulture on the ground feeding on something. It was >just on the old railroad rightofway and acted lilke it didn't have a >care in the world. > >Just outside of Scribner in kind of a little backwater from the river >there was a flock of Pelicans. I just kind of estimated them but there >must have been around 200 or so of them. They were still there around 3 >hrs later on our trip home and we stopped and watched them. They >couldn't have been more than 2 blocks from the highway but didn't seem >to mind all the traffic noise going by. > >Also was that Brambling sighting around Scottsbluff a real bird or was >that just a joke thing? Will someone be kind enough to let me know about >that? > >Thank you > >Alan Risor >arisor@gpcom.net > >
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 05:47:45 -0500 (CDT) From: "Randall D. Williams" <yiams@avalon.net> Subject: Fontanelle Forest Info Birders, Could someone please provide me with a telephone number and/or hours of operation, oh, and price of admission for non-members to Fontanelle Forest? A friend and I wish to travel to Omaha on Satruday in an attempt to see the Pileated(s). Thanks, Randy = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = * From the (former) Home Office in Sioux City, Iowa Randall D. Williams MT(ASCP)BB Loess Hills Audubon Society newsletter editor & web-spinner http://www.avalon.net/~yiams/ yiams@avalon.net Requisite signature file quote: "This calls for hyperspeed!" -Space Ghost = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = *
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:19:25 -0500 From: Alan and Lynette Risor <arisor@gpcom.net> Subject: Fontenelle Forest Randy, To find out more about Fontenelle Forest type in this URL in your location space http://www.accessomaha.com/Living/attractions.html press enter and it has the hours and prices and schedule when it is open. Good luck on seeing the Pileated Alan Risor Wisner NE
From: cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:37:22 CDT Subject: Re: Fontanelle Forest Info > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 05:47:45 -0500 (CDT) > Reply-to: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu > To: IA-BIRD@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG, NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu > From: "Randall D. Williams" <yiams@avalon.net> > Subject: Fontanelle Forest Info > Cc: Mike Franken <mfranken@pionet.net> Randy, Fontenelle Forest ph. # 402-731-3140 Admission - approximately $3.50 for adults; $2.00 for seniors; $1.50 for children (3-11). Clem Klaphake cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu Bellevue, NE > Birders, > > Could someone please provide me with a telephone number and/or hours of > operation, oh, and price of admission for non-members to Fontanelle Forest? > A friend and I wish to travel to Omaha on Satruday in an attempt to see the > Pileated(s). > > Thanks, > > Randy > > = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = * > From the (former) Home Office in Sioux City, Iowa > Randall D. Williams MT(ASCP)BB > Loess Hills Audubon Society newsletter editor & web-spinner > http://www.avalon.net/~yiams/ > yiams@avalon.net > > Requisite signature file quote: > "This calls for hyperspeed!" -Space Ghost > = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = * > > >
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: birds without going birding Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:31:38 -0500 Hi Nebraska birders, In Buffalo County, Wednesday, April 28, in Kearney, I saw an estimated 200 Franklin's Gulls circling above the UNK campus. On my drive home I saw a Swainson's Hawk four and a half miles east of Kearney and another six and a half miles east. Two and a half miles west of Gibbon I saw a Wilson's Phalarope at a slough of an old north channel of the Platte River that still fills with water when it rains. This morning under a feeder at home I saw a Spotted Towhee. 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)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:52:18 -0500 From: Alan and Lynette Risor <arisor@gpcom.net> Subject: Thanks Thank you to all the birders out there that responded to my question about the Bramblilng. This is surely an informative and friendly site . Thanks again Alan
From: "Susan J. Herrick" <th41814@mail.navix.net> Subject: Prairie Falcon Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:52:52 -0500 Wednesday 4/28 around 6:45 p.m. I saw the Prairie Falcon again while walking near 70th. and Holdrege in Lincoln. During this time my husband Todd saw a Prairie Falcon from out living room window. I first saw it last Friday and I think it must have decided to call this north east part of Lincoln home. The bird probably won't stay in the same area for 5 days if it is just passing through, or would it? Susan Herrick
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: Hitchcock April 28 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:10:21 -0500 Hi all, Because of a strange string of occurrences, I'm doing a lot less general birding and a lot more hawkwatching then I would have anticipated this spring. Today, I was joined by Andreas Smith, a biologist from Florida, working for Geo-Marine Corporation. He is doing bird-migration radar studies, working under contract to the US Air Force, because of a severe "birdstrike" problem due to migrating raptors and waterfowl at Offutt Air Force Base.Bird deaths and heavy damage to planes has been caused in the last year by collisions with Bald Eagles (x2), a Red-tailed Hawk, a flock of Mallards, and two Canada Geese. Some funding possibilities for the watch hang in the balance Today, we had the following migrating raptors and vultures: 6 hours Sky clear Temp. warm and sunny wind:se 1-15mph Turkey Vulture 55** Osprey 1 Northern Harrier 2 Sharp-shinned 21 Cooper's Hawk 8 Broad-winged Hawk 23 Swainson's Hawk 9 Red-tailed Hawk 9 (1 imm. Western Light Morph)* Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult male Tundra-- small, very white chest) American Kestrel 7 Unidentified Buteo 1 Unidentified Raptor 1 Total 10/138 *Resident birds active ** Resident Birds active-- tough to distinguish from migrants. Other migrants (ests): Great Blue Heron 3 Canada Goose 2 Double-crested Cormorant 330 Brown-headed Cowbird 38 Barn Swallow 120 Tree Swallow 12 American Goldfinch 10 Morning Dove 18 Unlike many fall hawkwatches, spring migration at Hitchcock isn't too bad if you pick the right day. Mark O
From: lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:21:36 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Nou Board meeting There will be an NOU Board meeting , Friday May 14th at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education atNorth 33rd and Holderge Steets at 9 pm. I am inviting Board and committee and project people to attend this meeting. I am also requesting the nominees for next year to attend. I do not have e -mail addresses for Dr. Johnsgard, or Mitzi Fox, secretay elect. Will some one send me their address if you have it. Telephone numbers will help if they have no e-mail. Committee reports should be ready for sharing with us , with a copy for the secretary . A lot has been accomplished this year , thanks to a lot of people working very hard. I cannot thank you all enough. I think you all will agree that the advent of e-mail has pulled us as a state wide organization, a lot closer together. I will call Mary Lou Pritchard. Betty Allen Omaha, NE
From: lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:25:40 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Nou Board meeting There will be an NOU Board meeting , Friday May 14th at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education atNorth 33rd and Holderge Steets at 9 pm. I am inviting Board and committee and project people to attend this meeting. I am also requesting the nominees for next year to attend. I do not have e -mail addresses for Dr. Johnsgard, or Mitzi Fox, secretay elect. Will some one send me their address if you have it. Telephone numbers will help if they have no e-mail. Committee reports should be ready for sharing with us , with a copy for the secretary . A lot has been accomplished this year , thanks to a lot of people working very hard. I cannot thank you all enough. I think you all will agree that the advent of e-mail has pulled us as a state wide organization, a lot closer together. I will call Mary Lou Pritchard. Betty Allen Omaha, NE
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:10:21 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 4/30/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * April 30, 1999 * NEST9904.30 - Birds Mentioned Great Egret Common Loon Chimney Swift Pileated Woodpecker Louisiana Waterthrush Yellow-throated Warbler Parula Warbler Brown Creeper Spotted Sandpiper Osprey Orange-crowned Warbler Northern Waterthrush Swainson's Thrush Prairie Falcon Swainson's Hawk Barn Swallow White-winged Dove (not seen) Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Peregrine Falcon - Transcript Tape Number: 402 292-5325 Compiler: 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 Friday, April 30th. In central Nebraska in Buffalo County on the 29th, 2 GREAT EGRETS were seen in a sandpit in the northwest corner of the Gibbon I-80 exit. On the 26th, a COMMON LOON was spotted at Pony Lake across from the Kearney sewage treatment plant. Also on the 26th, 20 CHIMNEY SWIFTS were seen on the UNK campus in Kearney. In eastern Nebraska in Sarpy County in Bellevue on the 29th, a PILEATED WOODPECKER was seen in Fontenelle Forest north of the deer exclosure on North Stream Trail. The birds may be attempting to nest & are very wary. Because of the close proximity of the site to the trail, please approach the area with caution. Also found on the 29th in Fontenelle Forest were a CHIMNEY SWIFT, LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, PARULA WARBLER, BROWN CREEPER & a SPOTTED SANDPIPER at the Great Marsh. On the 28th in Fontenelle Forest, an OSPREY, an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER & a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH were found & on the 26th, a SWAINSON'S THRUSH was seen there. In Lancaster County on the 28th, a PRAIRIE FALCON was seen near 70th & Holdrege Streets in Lincoln. In Dixon County on the 27th, a SWAINSON'S HAWK & a BARN SWALLOW were seen. In Knox County, the WHITE-WINGED DOVE has not been seen in Creighton since the 27th. In Iowa north of Crescent the following hawks were seen at Hitchcock Nature Area on the 29th: an OSPREY, 21 SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS, 8 COOPER'S HAWKS, 23 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, 9 SWAINSON'S HAWKS & a PEREGRINE FALCON. 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, 30 Apr 1999 08:55:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Gubanyi <JGUBANYI@seward.cune.edu> Subject: Birds in York and Seward Counties Visited Kirkpatrick WMA in York Co on Thursday, April 29 and saw the following birds: Cooper's hawk - 1 female merlin - 1 female numerous shorebirds (we weren't looking for shorebirds, so this surely is not a complete list): lesser yellowlegs, Baird's sandpipers, killdeer savannah sparrow vesper sparrow Harris' sparrow song sparrow possible Baird's sparrow (it seemed right but the bird moved across the road on the west side into corn stubble and could not be relocated; we just didn't get a good enough look) yellow-rummped warblers in plum thickets Brewer's blackbirds (~100) in a field about 2 miles north of Kirkpatrick At Spike Rush WMA (1 mile west of Waco in York CO) in 20 minutes of observation: great blue heron - 2 black-crowned night-heron cattle egrets - 2 5 species of waterfowl A. coots yellow-headed blackbirds no shorebirds Friday morning in Seward (in residential areas) numerous yellow-rumped warblers several orange-crowned warblers one black-and-white warbler numerous ruby-crowned kinglets Joseph Gubanyi Concordia University Seward, NE 68434 (402) 643-7316 jgubanyi@seward.cune.edu
From: NevaLCP@aol.com Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:58:25 EDT Subject: Fontenelle Forest-Friday I spent a pleasant morning in the bottomlands at Fontenelle. No Pileated Woodpeckers in the marsh-hidden lake area but I saw the female at the deer pen tree about 1PM. She was working on the hole on the northwest side and then took off to the East. I sat there quietly for about half an hour but neither bird showed again. There was some drumming off to the East. Along the hidden lake trail there was a lot of drumming but except for one Hairy it was all Downy Woodpeckers. I did hear a distant call that might have been a Pileated but I suspect it was a Flicker. Other birds: Swamp Sparrow at the end of the boardwalk across the east end of the Marsh. 4 White-throated Sparrows Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 White-breasted Nuthatches Brown Creeper Yellow-rumped Warblers Ruby-Crowned Kinglets 8 Wood Ducks Belted Kingfisher, fishing A House Wren singing about every 50 yards And, in Hidden Lake, some of the biggest Carp I've ever seen. Neva Pruess
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Fw: Oklahoma RBA 30 April 1999 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:13:06 -0500 The (rest of the) Ibi are coming!!! Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Martha B. Kamp <mkamp@worldnet.att.net> > To: BIRDCNTR@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > Cc: OKbirds@lists.ou.edu > Subject: Oklahoma RBA 30 April 1999 > Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 1:17 PM > > - RBA > * OKLAHOMA > * Statewide > * April 30, 1999 > * OKST9904.30 > > - Birds Mentioned > WHITE IBIS > WHITE-FACED IBIS > GLOSSY IBIS > BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK > CINNAMON TEAL > BLACK-NECKED STILT > EURASIAN COLLARED DOVE > WHITE-WINGED DOVE > LEWIS'S WOODPECKER > > - Locations Mentioned > Broken Bow, McCurtain County > South Tulsa County > Little River NWR, McCurtain County > Cache Sewage Ponds, Comanche County > Salt Plains NWR, Alfalfa County > Cherokee, Alfalfa County > Rose Lake, Canadian County > Residence, Oklahoma County > Residence, Rogers County > > - Transcript > Hotline: Oklahoma Rare Bird Alert > Date: 30 April 1999 > Number: 918-669-6646 > To Report: 918-669-6646 > Coverage: Statewide > Compiler: Patricia Seibert and Jo Loyd > Transcribers: Martha B. Kamp <mkamp@worldnet.att.net> and Jo Loyd > <joloyd@ionet.net> > > Friday morning, April 30. This is the Oklahoma Rare Bird Alert sponsored > by the Oklahoma Ornithological Society and Oxley Nature Center. If you > have a message to leave, wait for the tone at the end of the report. > Please leave your telephone number as well as your name. > > WHITE IBIS, April 26 & April 28, McCurtain County > WHITE-FACED IBIS, April 29, Tulsa County > GLOSSY IBIS, April 29, Tulsa County > BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK, April 27, McCurtain County > CINNAMON TEAL, April 23, Comanche County > CINNAMON TEAL, April 24, Alfalfa County > BLACK-NECKED STILT, April 29, Alfalfa County > BLACK-NECKED STILT, April 23, Canadian County > EURASIAN COLLARED DOVE, Alfalfa County > WHITE-WINGED DOVE, April 24, Oklahoma County > LEWIS'S WOODPECKER, April 29, Rogers County > > On Monday, April 26, 60 WHITE IBIS, that included one immature, were > seen flying near Broken Bow in McCurtain County. On Wednesday, April > 28, an adult WHITE IBIS was observed at the rookery on 7th Street in > Broken Bow. This rookery is located just south of the city park on the > north side of Broken Bow. > > 17 WHITE-FACED IBIS and 1 GLOSSY IBIS have been observed in Tulsa > County at 121st Street South and Sheridan Road, Monday, April 26, > through Thursday, April 29. > > On Tuesday, April 27, Two BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS were circling > over a rookery on the Little River NWR in McCurtain County > > Two BLACK-NECKED STILT were on the Salt Plains NWR on Thursday, April > 29. They were observed from Sandpiper Trail off State Hwy11 on the north > side of the refuge. A BLACK-NECKED STILT was at Rose Lake in Canadian > County on Friday, April 24. To reach Rose Lake take Sara Road north from > US Hwy 66 or 39NW Expressway. Sara Road is between Lake Overholser and > the town of Yukon. > > Three CINNAMON TEAL were at the Cache Sewage Ponds in Comanche County on > Friday, April 23. The ponds are located a short distance south of the > town of Cache, west of Lawton. CINNAMON TEAL were also present at the > Salt Plains NWR in Alfalfa County on Saturday, April 24th. > > On Saturday, April 24, EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES were observed in the town > of Cherokee in Alfalfa County. Look for the doves around the grain > elevators and the park. > > A WHITE-WINGED DOVE was at the residence of Nancy Vicars in Oklahoma > City on Saturday, April 24. For additon information, contact the Vicars > residence at 405-732-9885. > > The LEWIS'S WOODPECKER, present in Rogers County since October 1998, was > seen on Thursday, April 29. If you wish addition information, contact > Bill Luster at 918-371-7321. The woodpecker is seen daily at this > residence. > > This is the end of the report. Thanks for calling and good birding! > > - End Transcript > > -- > Martha B. Kamp > Tulsa, Oklahoma USA > mkamp@worldnet.att.net >
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 13:50:20 -0500 From: Carolyn Hall <cjhall@huntel.net> Subject: Sandhills 5/1 Today Bill Vodehnal and I took the bird identification class south from Carolyn Hall, Bassett, NE 40* sunny at 7AM-60* and still sunny at 1:30 PM Long Pine about 15 miles. Lots of water! Here is what we saw: 36 species and 4 species in Long Pine & Bassett White Pelican Double-crested cormorant Great blue heron - at least 6 different pairs Canada goose - 3 different pairs Mallard Gadwall Pintail Blue-winged teal Shoveller Redhead Lesser scaup Northern harrier - male Sharp-tailed grouse Ring-necked pheasant Turkey American coot Killdeer Common snipe Willet - possible - very short look Mourning dove Yellow-shafted flicker - - 2 males courting one female Eastern kingbird Tree swallow Common crow Black-capped chickadee Robin Eastern bluebird - pair trying to locate a nesting hole in some dead cottonwood trees Orange-crowned warbler Parula warbler - possible- very short look Yellow-rumped warbler Western meadowlark Yellow-headed blackbird - both male & female Red-winged blackbird - both male and female Brewer's blackbird - one pair Brown-headed cowbird Chipping sparrow In Long Pine - house sparrow, grackle, starling In Bassett - goldfinches, house finches
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 15:10:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jan Johnson <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Subject: NE Nebraska
Drove to Sioux City this a.m. seeing my first Brown Thrashers of the
spring. On the way home I drove along a favorite streamside road loaded
with willows. Paid off. I had 11 Yellowrump Warblers, 1 Magnolia Warbler
and 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Farther down the road I was able to spot my
first Eastern Phoebe of the year. All in southern Dixon County.
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