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1. Dodge Park, etc
"Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net>
Tue, 11 May 1999 16:18:22 -0500
2. Nebraska Birdline for 5/11/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Tue, 11 May 1999 20:37:54 -0500
3. Re: [NeBirds] Hall Co. report yet Buffalo Co. S.-b. Dowitchers
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Tue, 11 May 1999 21:38:41 -0500
4. Directions to the Bird Collection @Nebraska Hall -NOU
"Linda R. Brown" <lb14735@navix.net>
Wed, 12 May 1999 11:55:06 +0000
5. Colorful migrants
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Wed, 12 May 1999 16:45:21 -0500
6. Re: Directions to the Bird Collection @Nebraska Hall -NOU
lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen)
Wed, 12 May 1999 16:55:25 -0500 (CDT)
7. Big Morning in Colfax County
paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Wed, 12 May 1999 22:33:48 -0500
8. Need Birder Contact in Lexington, NE area
"Mike Mnich" <mmnich@eurekaherald.com>
Thu, 13 May 1999 22:37:16 -0500
9. Brown & KP county
Carolyn Hall <cjhall@huntel.net>
Fri, 14 May 1999 09:02:38 -0500
10. Red Crossbill in Kearney
murwille <murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us>
Fri, 14 May 1999 18:14:00 -0500
11. Nebraska Birdline for 5/15/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Sat, 15 May 1999 19:09:33 -0500
12. Bubba's Birding Bonanza! 5/16/99
murwille <murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us>
Sun, 16 May 1999 14:47:55 -0500
13. eastern RWB report
"Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net>
Sun, 16 May 1999 18:54:31 -0500
14. Sunday Sightings
"Jan Johnson" <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Sun, 16 May 1999 20:33:50 -0700
15. Lincoln area
"Thomas E. Labedz" <tlabedz@unlinfo.unl.edu>
Mon, 17 May 1999 08:43:35 -0500
16. [NeBirds] Before and after the NOU meeting
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Mon, 17 May 1999 13:56:02 -0500
17. Sunday Birds
paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Mon, 17 May 1999 15:22:28 -0500
18. Sunday/monday birding.
Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Mon, 17 May 1999 15:43:56 -0600
19. Nebraska birding.
Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Mon, 17 May 1999 15:53:31 -0600
20. Red Crossbill Again Today
murwille <murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us>
Mon, 17 May 1999 17:32:38 -0500
21. Fw: Arctic Tern & Elegant Tern
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Mon, 17 May 1999 20:13:32 -0500
22. Warblers, warblers
Moni J Usasz <musasz@juno.com>
Mon, 17 May 1999 20:57:51 -0500
23. Wilderness Park
John C Sulllivan <johnsllvn@juno.com>
Mon, 17 May 1999 22:31:29 -0500
24. Weekend Birds
John C Sulllivan <johnsllvn@juno.com>
Mon, 17 May 1999 22:32:39 -0500
25. NOU
lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen)
Mon, 17 May 1999 23:35:25 -0500 (CDT)
26. NOU meeting Sarpy County bird list
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Mon, 17 May 1999 17:47:17 -0500
27. Re: NOU meeting Sarpy County bird list
NevaLCP@aol.com
Tue, 18 May 1999 09:06:16 EDT
28. Re: Need Birder Contact in Lexington, NE area
Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us>
Tue, 18 May 1999 08:25:55 -0500
29. RE: Sunday/monday birding.
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Tue, 18 May 1999 11:46:51 -0500
30. Re: Warblers, warblers
John C Sulllivan <johnsllvn@juno.com>
Tue, 18 May 1999 20:51:58 -0500
31. Sarpy Co birds
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Tue, 18 May 1999 23:04:23 -0500
32. American Kestrel needs ride from Lincoln to Ogallala
"Linda R. Brown" <lb14735@navix.net>
Wed, 19 May 1999 15:37:18 +0000
33. Lancaster Co. birds at the NOU meeting
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Thu, 20 May 1999 00:17:50 -0500
34. Nebr. Bird Review, Last Chance.
"Thomas E. Labedz" <tlabedz@unlinfo.unl.edu>
Thu, 20 May 1999 09:23:39 -0500
35. Doane College Campus
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Thu, 20 May 1999 11:18:22 -0500
36. Nebraska Birdline for 5/20/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Thu, 20 May 1999 15:26:38 -0500
37. Eastern RWB
"Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net>
Thu, 20 May 1999 19:04:02 -0500
38. [NeBirds] NOU web site addition
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Thu, 20 May 1999 21:53:52 -0500
39. henslow report
"Kevin Poague"<kpoague@audubon.org>
Fri, 21 May 99 08:31:28 -0400
40. Yellow-bellied and other Flycatchers, Swainson's Hawks at Twin La
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Fri, 21 May 1999 12:28:59 -0500
41. Ruddy turnstone
paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Fri, 21 May 1999 16:54:52 -0500
42. [NeBirds] White-winged Dove in Kearney
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Fri, 21 May 1999 22:00:53 -0500
43. Re: [NeBirds] White-winged Dove in Kearney
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Fri, 21 May 1999 22:54:54 -0500
44. Twin Lakes and Tamora
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Sat, 22 May 1999 10:41:46 -0500
45. Nebraska Birdline for 5/22/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Sat, 22 May 1999 20:44:33 -0500
46. Fw: [BIRDWG01] Those dang Western Flycatchers
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sat, 22 May 1999 20:51:05 -0500
47. [NeBirds] May 22 southcentral birds
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sun, 23 May 1999 11:13:18 -0500
48. Red-throated and Pacigic Loons
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sun, 23 May 1999 11:57:31 -0500
From: "Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net> Subject: Dodge Park, etc Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:18:22 -0500 NE-birders. I birded northeastern Douglas Co today (5/11) and below is what I found. Joel Jorgensen ------------------ Dodge Park 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Philadelphia Vireo (close looks and watched it sing) 4 Orange-crowned Warbler 50+ Tennessee Warblers (very common) numerous Yellow Warbler 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 3 Chesnut-sided Warbler 4 Blackpoll Warbler 2 Mourning Warblers 1 Wilson's Warbler 6 Northern Waterthrushs 2 Swainson's Thrushes Forest Lawn Cemetery 6 Blue-headed Vireos 1 Magnolia Warbler 1 Chesnut-sided Warbler Hummel Park 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Chesnut-sided Warbler 6 American Redstarts Ft Calhoun Cemetery, Washington Co. 3 Blackpoll Warblers 1 Mourning Warbler 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 Pine Siskins
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 20:37:54 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 5/11/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * May 11, 1999 * NEST9905.11 - Birds Mentioned White-tailed Kite Prairie Warbler Sandhill Crane Eastern Wood-Pewee Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak American Bittern Cattle Egret Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Blackburnian Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Mourning Warbler Wilson's Warbler Northern Waterthrush Blue-headed Vireo Magnolia Warbler Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Red-breasted Nuthatch Blackpoll Warbler Pine Siskin Gray-cheeked Thrush Bay-breasted Warbler Kentucky Warbler Pileated Woodpecker Golden-winged Warbler Canada Warbler Cerulean Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Ferruginous Hawk Black-bellied Plover Solitary Sandpiper American Avocet Hudsonian Godwit White-rumped Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Dunlin American Woodcock Long-eared Owl Northern Parula Lazuli Bunting Virginia Rail Sora Bobolink Little Blue Heron White-faced Ibis Swainson's Hawk Black Tern - 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, May 11th. In central Nebraska in Hall County on the 10th, a WHITE-TAILED KITE was seen at the Crane Meadows Nature Center, but was not reported on the 11th. For more information call 308 382-1820. On the 7th, a PRAIRIE WARBLER was seen on the Wild Rose Ranch, & 32 SANDHILL CRANES were spotted on the Platte River by the Alda Road. In Harlan County on the 8th, an EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE & a BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK were seen at Harlan Reservoir below the dam. On the 9th, a BLUE GROSBEAK was seen northwest of Alma. In Phelps County on the 10th, an AMERICAN BITTERN & a CATTLE EGRET were found at Funk Lagoon. In eastern Nebraska in Douglas on the 11th, the following species were seen in Dodge Park in Omaha: 2 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES, a PHILADELPHIA VIREO, a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, 3 CHESTNUT- SIDED WARBLERS, 2 MOURNING WARBLERS, a WILSON'S WARBLER & 6 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES. On the 11th in Forest Lawn Cemetery, 6 BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, a MAGNOLIA WARBLER & a CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER were found. In Hummel Park on the 11th, 4 BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS, & a CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER were seen. In Washington County on the 11th, a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, 3 BLACKPOLL WARBLERS, a MOURNING WARBLER & 2 PINE SISKINS were seen. In Sarpy County in Schramm State Park on the 9th, GRAY-CHEEKED & SWAINSON'S THRUSHES, a BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER & a KENTUCKY WARBLER were found at Schramm Park. On the 11th in Fontenelle Forest in Bellevue, a PILEATED WOODPECKER, a PHILADELPHIA VIREO, 2 GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS, 2 CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLERS & a CANADA WARBLER were seen on lowland trails. On the 10th, a CERULEAN WARBLER & a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER were found on North Stream Trail, & an EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE was found on the Hidden Lake Trail. On the 9th, a FERRUGINOUS HAWK & a MOURNING WARBLER were seen at Hidden Lake. A BAY-BREASTED WARBLER was also seen in Fontenelle Forest on the 9th. In Lancaster County on the 8th at Branched Oak Lake, a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, a SOLITARY SANDPIPER, an AMERICAN AVOCET, a HUDSONIAN GODWIT, a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, a STILT SANDPIPER & a DUNLIN were found. Also on the 8th, an AMERICAN WOODCOCK, a LONG- EARED OWL, a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, a NORTHERN PARULA & a LAZULI BUNTING were seen at Conestoga Lake. On the 8th at Little Salt Fork Marsh, a VIRGINIA RAIL, a SORA, & a BOBOLINK were found. On the 8th at the Cracker Barrel Marsh in Lincoln, a LITTLE BLUE HERON, a WHITE-FACED IBIS, a SWAINSON'S HAWK & a BLACK TERN were seen. In Iowa in Mills County on the 11th, 16 WHITE-FACED IBIS were seen in a wet area a half mile east of the I-29 Plattsmouth exit. 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. Be sure to include the date of the sighting. Thank you and good birding! - End transcript
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: Re: [NeBirds] Hall Co. report yet Buffalo Co. S.-b. Dowitchers Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 21:38:41 -0500 Hi, On my way home from work Friday, May 7, in Buffalo County just south of the Gibbon I-80 exit I saw a Little Blue Heron in breeding plumage at a slough of an old channel of the Platte River. Saturday, May 8, Robin and I did our little share of the Hall County Migration Day Bird Count, the southwest corner of the county. This includes the Lilley Sandpits which has the warbler habitat, Platte River flood plain and sandhills. We stayed out all day, something we haven't done in quite a while. We hadn't intended to, but we were having fun. Sometimes Robin and I allow ourselves more time than we had originally planned by evoking what we call the good birding clause. To my mind it is something like Santa Claus. Some of the highlights were seven Wild Turkeys, a Spotted Sandpiper, 22 Franklin's Gulls, six Forster's Terns, a Least Flycatcher(heard), our first twelve Western Kingbirds for the year, a Loggerhead Shrike, five Warbling Vireos, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, five Orange-crowned Warblers, a Blackpoll Warbler, a Black and White Warbler, four Grasshopper Sparrows, a Lincoln's Sparrow, a White-throated Sparrow and four Bobolinks. We had just left Hall County and thought that we had finished our count. We hadn't driven even a hundred yards when we came to a flooded triangle between three roads. There were three Lesser Yellowlegs, ten dowitchers and twenty Wilson's Phalaropes. We studied the dowitchers and our references for quite a long time and at our leisure. The shorebirds were amazingly tolerant of people. There is a small community there called Denman. The children were riding their bicycles back and forth and generally talking and laughing past the birds which they were entirely ignoring. The children ignored us too after their initial curiosity. Adults in a vehicle from the community drove by very slowly ignoring the birds but smiling at us. An occassional eighteen wheeler going by on the blacktop would flush the shorebirds but they would circle and come back. We heard the tu tu tu flight calls of Short-billed Dowitchers coming from the departing shorebirds. These three notes were all on the same pitch. Robin told me that she saw one standing with its neck stretched out, it opened its bill and gave a tu tu tu. When they weren't flying they were mostly quiet, but ocassionally a soft tu or more ocassionally a soft tu tu was heard. We have never before had the opportunity to study dowitchers for as long as we wanted, from as close as we wanted, and still stay on the road where we could keep our books, papers and tapes dry. And we took advantage of it. The front of these birds necks, their breasts and their bellies were light orange-red not salmon. They had little or no dark markings on the front of their necks, their breasts or their bellies. On the tail of the dowitcher that was preening, the tail bars of black and white were of about equal width. They had little or no white in the vent area and little more on the undertail. We concluded that these ten dowitchers were Short-billed Dowitchers of the Hendersoni subspecies. Around here, if you were expecting Short-billed, you would be expecting Hendersoni. Just as we were packing up our stuff to leave, six of the Short-billed Dowitchers flew off and into Hall County. Wow, what a day. We even got to count our best bird in our migration count area. 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: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:55:06 +0000 From: "Linda R. Brown" <lb14735@navix.net> Subject: Directions to the Bird Collection @Nebraska Hall -NOU Hello All, This is a special message to those of you coming to the Nebraska Ornithologist's Union Open House at the bird collection Friday night, May 14, 1999 on 5th floor of Nebraska Hall on the University of Nebraska campus in Lincoln, NE. I want to give you directions for finding Nebraska Hall. Alert: Nebraska Hall is not Morrill Hall. From the Interstate: Exit Interstate 80 at the 27th street exit. Go south to Holdrege. Turn right (west) on Holdrege. Cross N. 17th (the one-way stree going north) and then the street will turn left (south) onto N. 16th street (the one-way street going south). Proceed south about 2 blocks, keeping to the left lane. Turn into the 2nd driveway past (south) of Y St. This is the Red #10 parking lot on the north side of Nebraska Hall. Signs in the parking lot will direct you to the bird collection Open House. From Downtouwn. Go east from downtown to 17th St. (Known as N. 17th on the north side of O St.) Turn north on N. 17th. Cross Vine street. Turn left (west) on Y street. Drive one block. Turn left (south) on N. 16th street. Turn into the 2nd driveway south of Y St. This is the Red #10 parking lot on the north side of Nebraska Hall. Signs in the parking lot will direct you to the bird collection Open House. See you there! Linda R. Brown, Coordinator for the NOU 100th anniversary weekend 3745 Garfield Lincoln, NE 68506 402-489-2381 lb14735@navix.net P.S. Add-on Bonus: Charles and Mary Bomberger Brown will be presenting: Why Do Birds Live in Groups: Eighteen Years of Studying Cliff Swallows in Nebraska. Saturday, May 15th, 1999 @ 3:30 p.m. in the Morrill Hall Auditorium.
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: Colorful migrants Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:45:21 -0500 Hi all, It may that it is because I'm new to Nebraska, but this just seems like an awesome May so far for tanagers, orioles, grosbeaks and buntings. After giving my last final of the day here at Doane College, I walked back to my office (200-300 yards) and counted 4 male Baltimore Orioles and a male Summer Tanager along the way! Mark O -----Original Message----- From: marshwren@nctc.net [mailto:marshwren@nctc.net] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 3:21 PM To: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu Subject: Re: Sunday Nebraska birders, We have had the same experience as Jan. Sometimes a short trip turns into a big day. When the birds are out, take advantage. Does anyone wish to speculate why so many Palm Warblers this year? We have also seen more than ever before. On May 06, at our home southeast of Gibbon, we saw a Field Sparrow, two male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, lots of Baltimore Orioles including a couple females, only a few Harris's Sparrows, Clay-colored Sparrows and a Lincoln's Sparrow. 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: lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:55:25 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Directions to the Bird Collection @Nebraska Hall -NOU Linda, These were marvelous directions. Thank you for thinking about this angle. I would have been hopelessly LOST! Would you be able to have copiesof this put on the registration table at the Nebraska center for Continuing Education. I hate to ask you to do one thing more. You have been wonderful at seeing to so much detail already. I was planning to bring Neal and Izen with me but he feels he can manage to drive over himself. More power to him. So I will be coming over by myself. I plan to be there for the 4 pm registration. Unless i get lost. I'm used to having a Navigator .... Betty Allen Omaha, NE
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:33:48 -0500 From: paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis) Subject: Big Morning in Colfax County NEBirders: In our continuing quest to bird often-neglected Colfax County, we spent a chunk of the morning there today racking up species for our list at a dizzying rate. In 2 1/2 hours we accumulated a total of 64 species. With the total from our previous foray into Colfax County, we're probably up around 75 or so. (Watch for us on the NOU county list totals! Only 50 birds to go!) Highlights were a blue grosbeak (a Dodge Co. bird), immature Swainson's hawks, bobolinks, magpies, 9 sparrow species and a green heron. Warblers were a little scarce (3 species), but we managed to see shorebirds without going to the Rainwater Basin! (lesser yellowlegs, long-billed dowitcher, upland sandpiper, pectoral and Wilson's phalarope) At one point I forced Don to turn around on highway 30 because I'd seen a peep in a puddle by the side of the road. It turned out to be a *really* little, long-legged, fuzzy 'peep' that looked remarkably like a killdeer. See you all (or at least a lot of you) in Lincoln this weekend, when we will be enlightened as to the significance of 'zrtac'. Janis
From: "Mike Mnich" <mmnich@eurekaherald.com> Subject: Need Birder Contact in Lexington, NE area Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:37:16 -0500 Dear Friends, I'm teaching a birding class to 5th.-9th. graders at Lexington, NE June 20-24. I'm unfamiliar with the area and could use a good contact to give directions to nearby birding sites, and to perhaps share a little with the kids. Any contacts? Names, phone, email... Thanks, Mike Mnich
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:02:38 -0500 From: Carolyn Hall <cjhall@huntel.net> Subject: Brown & KP county On Monday, May 11 Nancy Hall & Roger Riss drove to Bassett coming from the south on Hwy 183. About 15 miles south of Bassett they saw 7 avocets and a flock of white pelicans. This is in Rock county. On Tuesday May 12, Carolyn Hall joined them birding south of Long Pine in Brown county. Speies seen: Pied-billed grebe White pelican - flock Common egret -1 Great blue heron - 6 American bittern - 6 Canada goose - about a dozen including nesting birds on muscrat mounds Mallard - lots Gadwill - 1 pair Northern pintail - 2 pair Blue-winged teal - lots American widgeon - 1 Northern shoveler- 3 pair Redhead - 1 Ringed-necked duck - 1 pair Lesser scaup Ruddy duck - 1 Turkey vulture Ringed-necked pheasant - heard Wild turkey American coot - lots Killdeer - lots including 2 fuzzy babies Solitary sandpiper Willet Lesser yellowlegs Common snipe Wilson's phalarope Ring- billed gull Forester's tern Mourning dove Northern flicker Eastern kingbird Western kingbird Horned lark Tree swallow Barn swallow Northern rough-winged swallow Common crow Black-capped chickadee White-breasted nuthatch House wren Grey catbird Brown Thrasher American robin Eastern bluebird Dedar waxwing Warbling vireo Black & white warbler Orange crowned Yellow Yellow - rumped Common yellow-throat American redstart - male and female Bobolink Western meadowlark Yellow-headed blackbirds - nesting Red- winged blackbirds - nesting Brewer's blackbird - pair Northern oriole Brown-headed cowbird Dickcissel - heard Grasshopper sparrow Lark sparrow Chipping Clay-colored Field - heard Harris Seen in Keya Paha county Horned lark Wood duck - 5 males Wednesday we were joined by Bill Vodehnal and added: White-crowned sparrow Indigo bunting Redheaded woodpecker Downy woodpecker Loggerhead shrike Black-poll warbler Double-crested cormorant Redtailed hawk Gray partridge Upland sandpiper Great-horned owl We hope all of you are enjoying spring. I have enjoyed reading the Platte River reports. Usually within 1-2 days those birds will be up here. Thank you
From: murwille <murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us> Subject: Red Crossbill in Kearney Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:14:00 -0500 Hello Nebraska Birders, I was just upstairs commenting to my wife, who is not a birder, about our birds at our feeder. I mentioned that the House Finches I had seen lately did not seem to be afflicted with the conjunctivitis I had seen last Fall. She said that we did have a strange one yesterday (May 13) she forgot to tell me about, that had a grossly deformed bill. I said did the bills cross? She said they did and positively identified its picture. Our feeder is right next to our back window and we commonly view the birds from behind a drape at a distance of about 2 ft. I don't think there is any doubt we had a Red Crossbill here at Seven Hills Observatory (about 4 miles Northwest of Kearney). She said the bird was around for about 20 minutes. If I see the bird again I will sure pass it along. Good Birding - Mark Urwiller Mark Urwiller Physics Instructor, Kearney High School Seven Hills Observatory Director Home Address: 4711 Heather Lane, Kearney NE 68847 Home Phone: 308-234-6536 e-mail: murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us Web Pages: 204.234.2.2/~murwille/7hills.htm 162.127.10.1/~murwille/resume.htm 204.234.2.2/~murwille/birding.htm
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:09:33 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 5/15/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * May 15, 1999 * NEST9905.15 - Birds Mentioned Hammond's Flycatcher MacGillivray's Warbler Veery Hermit Thrush Pygmy Nuthatch Red Crossbill Cassin's Finch Cinnamon Teal Whimbrel Northern Parula Golden-crowned Kinglet Mountain Plover Pacific Loon Snowy Plover Piping Plover Snowy Egret Golden-winged Warbler Canada Warbler Mourning Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Magnolia Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Wilson's Warbler Palm Warbler Baltimore/Bullock's Oriole (hybrid)\ Northern Waterthrush Yellow-billed Cuckoo Pileated Woodpecker Wood Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Blackburnian Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Scarlet Tanager White-eyed Vireo Common Tern Connecticut Warbler - Transcript Tape Number: 402 292-5325 Compilers: Babs & Loren Padelford Transcriber: Babs (lpdlfrd@juno.com) Welcome to an update of the Nebraska Birdline, sponsored by the Audubon Society of Omaha, for Saturday, May 15th. In western Nebraska in Scotts Bluff County on the 11th & 12th, a HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER was seen at Scottsbluff National Monument & on the 11th, a MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER was spotted there. Also on the 11th, a VEERY & a HERMIT THRUSH were found in Westlawn Cemetery in Gering. On the 12th, 2 PYGMY NUTHATCHES, 2 RED CROSSBILLS & a CASSIN'S FINCH were found at Wildcat Hills Nature Center south of Scottsbluff. In Kimball County on the 12th, a CINNAMON TEAL & 3 WHIMBRELS were seen at Oliver Reservoir, & on the 11th, a NORTHERN PARULA was found there. On the 12th, a NORTHERN PARULA & a GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET were seen at the Bushnell Cemetery. On the 11th & 12th, a MOUNTAIN PLOVER was seen south of the Kimball airport. In Keith county on the 12th & 13th, a PACIFIC LOON was found at Lake Ogallala. In the central in Phelps County on the 13th, 2 SNOWY PLOVERS & a PIPING PLOVER were found at Funk Lagoon. In Buffalo County on the 14th, a RED CROSSBILL was seen at a feeder at 7 Hills Observatory 4 miles northwest of Kearney. In Clay County on the 14th, a SNOWY EGRET was found at Kissinger WMA. In eastern Nebraska on the 14th in Fillmore County, 20 species of warblers including, GOLDEN- WINGED, CANADA, 3 MOURNING, a YELLOW-THROATED & 2 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS were seen in the Geneva cemetery. In Douglas County on the 13th in Neale Woods, a MAGNOLIA WARBLER, a CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, a NORTHERN PARULA & a WILSON'S WARBLER were seen on the Krimlofski tract. Also on the 13th, a PALM WARBLER & a BULLOCK'S/BALTIMORE ORIOLE hybrid were seen at Neale Woods Nature Center. On the 12th at Neale Woods, a CANADA WARBLER was found on Settler's Trail in Neale Woods. On the 12th, in Toll Park in Omaha, 2 NORTHERN PARULAS, a CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER & a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH were seen. In Sarpy County in Fontenelle Forest on the 15th, 21 species of warblers were found on both upland & lowland trails. Highlights of the NOU Fontenelle field trip were: YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, PILEATED WOODPECKER, WOOD THRUSH, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, GOLDEN- WINGED WARBLER, 2 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS, 2 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS, 2 MOURNING WARBLERS, 2 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS & a SCARLET TANAGER. On the 11th, a WHITE-EYED VIREO was seen north of the Gifford Road parking lot on Sycamore Trail. Also on the 11th, 2 COMMON TERNS were seen at Offutt Lake south of Bellevue. In Cass County on the 10th, a CONNECTICUT WARBLER was found at Schilling Wildlife Refuge east of Plattsmouth. 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. Be sure to include the date of the sighting. Thank you and good birding! - End transcript
From: murwille <murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us>
Subject: Bubba's Birding Bonanza! 5/16/99
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 14:47:55 -0500
Hello Nebraska Birders,
The Birding Bubbas of Kearney (Mark Urwiller, John Kozak, and John Murphy)
went out for a morning trip today and had some really nice birds. Our
total for the trip and in town is 90 species. Here are the highlights with
appropriate narrations:
Common Loon - seen at Union Pacific SRA at the Odessa I-80 interchange.
Nearly full plumage.
Cattle Egrets - 25 seen about 2 miles East of Funk WPA on the "T- Road"
Hooded Warbler - seen in a grove of trees a couple of hundred feet North of
the T-Road about 1/4 mile
East of the main body of water at Funk WPA. This bird was spotted by
John Kozak
and seen by all 3 of us! No Doubt! A nicely plumed male adult - it
stayed deep in
the brush. Seen at close range! A life bird for all of us!
Great Horned Owls - 2 also seen near the Hooded Warbler.
Blue Grosbeak - same location - nice male!
Grasshopper Sparrows - same location
Great-tailed Grackle - T-Road intersection
Willet - seen across the dike on the East side, South of the T-Road
intersection.
Wilson's Phalarope - same location
Hooded Merganser - One male on a pond South of the road approximately 1/2
mile West of the Kiosk.
Eared Grebe - same pond
Black Terns - same location except North of the road.
Lark Bunting - seemingly reading the Kiosk! (He was on the ground right at
its base!) We observed him
at close range and even managed to leave without flushing him.
Sora - one seen right out in the open in the mud flat near the road close
to the minimum maintenance
road East of the Kiosk.
Cinnamon Teal - a pair in the ditch 100 ft or so up the minimum maintenance
for the main road from the
main road East of the Kiosk.
Snowy Egret - Same location except South across the road along the dike
Spotted Sandpiper - same location as Snowy Egret
Baird's Sandpiper - same location
Least Sandpiper - same location
Semipalmated Sandpiper - same location
Pectoral Sandpiper - same location
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo - seen in a willow tree right along the road about 1/4
mile East of the Teals.
American Redstart - seen in the grove of trees on the North side of the
road about 1/2 mile East of the
minimum maintenance road.
Pine Warbler - spotted by John Murphy confirmed by Mark Urwiller - looked
just like that pictured in Natl.
Geographic - female. Not a goldfinch! Definitely a warbler
bill! Wingbars clearly visible.
same location as the Redstart.
Blackpoll Warbler - same location
Willow Flycatcher - same location
Least Flycatcher - same location
Vesper Sparrow - same location
Bell's Vireo - same location
Warbling Vireo - same location
Orange-crowned Warbler - same location
Yellow-rumped warbler - same location
Western Grebes - at least 5 of them on the Easternmost portion of the main
lake at Funk WPA
Other birds at Funk
Dowitcher sp? Too windy and too far away for identification even in a
scope.
Redheads
Franklin's Gulls - approx. 50
Swainson's Hawk
Sharp-shinned hawk
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Bank Swallow
Ruddy Ducks
Blue-winged Teals
Green-winged Teals
Shovelers
Northern Bobwhites
Ring-necked Pheasants
Red-bellied Woodpecker
and several others
All in all we had a pretty good day! We hope your weekend birding has been
good too!
The Bubbas (Mark Urwiller reporting)
Mark Urwiller
Physics Instructor, Kearney High School
Seven Hills Observatory Director
Home Address: 4711 Heather Lane, Kearney NE 68847
Home Phone: 308-234-6536
e-mail: murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us
Web Pages:
204.234.2.2/~murwille/7hills.htm
162.127.10.1/~murwille/resume.htm
204.234.2.2/~murwille/birding.htm
From: "Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net> Subject: eastern RWB report Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:54:31 -0500 Hello all. I birded the eastern Rainwater Basin, as usual, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Friday I birded with Steve Dinsmore and Saturday I lead the NOU Field Trip to the region. The party I lead consisted of Jerry Probst and his son. Eventhough shorebirds were around, I consider shorebird numbers to be pathetic for mid-May, thank goodness the warblering was incredible. Between the 3 of us we recorded 24 species of Warblers in Clay and Fillmore Cos this weekend, and I have recorded 26 species of Warblers in those two counties this Spring. Below are the highlights. Joel Jorgensen -------------- Friday, 14 May regionwide 100+ Buff-breasted Sandpipers (small groups scattered around) Sinninger WPA 1 Red-necked Phalarope 3 Dunlin Lange WPA, Clay Co 1 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Chesnut-sided Warber 2 Magnolia Wablers 3 Wilson's Warblers 4 Am. Redstarts 1 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 3 Blackpolls Warblers Kissinger WMA 1 Snowy Egret Harvard WPA 1 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Dunlin Geneva Cemetery 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Philadelphia Vireo (SJD) *1 Golden-winged Warbler *1 Yellow-throated Warbler *1 Canada Warbler (SJD) 2 Black-throated Green Warblers 3 Mourning Warblers 3 Magnolia Warblers 5+ Ovenbirds 2 Northern Waterthrushes 15 May Regionwide 50 Buff-breasted Sandpipers Sinninger WPA 4 Black-bellied Plover 4 Dunlin Geneva Cemetery 4 Magnolia Warblers 2 Black-throated Green Warblers 1 Chesnut-sided Warblers 4 Blackpoll Warblers Clay Center Cemetery **1 MacGillvray's Warbler (Found by Jerry Probst, both of us got very nice looks) Kissinger WMA 2 Snowy Egrets 1 White-faced Ibis McMurtrey Refuge *1 Lazuli Bunting 1 Magnolia Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Eastern Towhee (singing) Ayr Lake 2 Common Tern (JP) 2 Ring-necked Ducks Harvard Cemetery 2 Northern Waterthrushes 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 16 May Selected Shorebird total for the region Black-bellied Plover 34 Whimbrel 11 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Dunlin 9 Short-billed Dowitcher 3 Buff-breasted Sandpiper 57 Stilt Sandpiper 297 Sinninger WPA 1 Magnolia Warbler Geneva Cemetery ***1 Cape May Warbler (nice male, glaring into spruce trees finally payed off) 5 Chesnut-sided Warblers 6 Blackpoll Warblers 1 Philadelphia Vireo 1 Bell's Vireo Harvard WPA **11 Whimbrel 1 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Mourning Warbler 6 Bobolink 12 Sedge Wrens North Harvard 4 Great Egrets 1 Snowy Egret Tamora WPA 1 Osprey 1 American Bittern
From: "Jan Johnson" <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Subject: Sunday Sightings
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 20:33:50 -0700
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We had a pretty good few hours in Dixon County today. We had a total of =
73 species for 4 hours birding compared to 65 species for the same route =
two weeks ago today. Not only did we see great birds but high numbers =
of almost every species. Following is a list of the highlights:
South of highway 20 and west of Allen:
Least Flycatcher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Yellow Warbler
Brown Thrasher
Clay-colored Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
Loggerhead Shrike
Catbird
Western Kingbird (Fahrenholz Ponds)
Orchard Oriole
Indigo Bunting
Tennessee Warbler
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Eastern Phoebe
Warbling Vireo
Lark Sparrow
Marbled Godwit (on 871 Rd. between 583 and 584 Ave. in a farm pond =
on the south side of the road)
Ponca State Park (we saw many of the same as above but added the =
following):
Red-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo (3 below the swimming pool)
American Redstart (17 total)
Wood Thrush (1 in the swings area west of swimming pool)
Great-Crested Flycatcher (same area as Wood Thrush)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (along Missouri River)
Spotted Sandpiper
Cedar Waxwing
White-crowned Sparrow
Eastern Wood Pee Wee
Wild Turkey
Scarlet Tanager (below the campground area)
Swainson's Thrush
Eastern Towhee (7 total)
Harris' Sparrow (5)
Black and White Warbler
Ovenbird (This one was unreal! I heard him, we stopped the pickup, =
got out and listened. He flew to a tree branch about 60 feet from the =
road and sat and sang. Richard couldn't spot him and I went to the =
pickup about 20 feet away for the scope, returned, set it up and he was =
still singing when we left.)
Bobolink (5 total on the return trip home)
Jan Johnson
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>We had a pretty good few hours in =
Dixon County
today. We had a total of 73 species for 4 hours birding compared =
to 65
species for the same route two weeks ago today. Not only did we =
see great
birds but high numbers of almost every species. Following is a =
list of the
highlights:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>South of highway 20 and west of
Allen:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Least =
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Red-headed
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Clay-colored
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Baltimore =
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Loggerhead
Shrike</FONT></DIV>
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Catbird</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Western Kingbird =
(Fahrenholz
Ponds)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Orchard =
Oriole</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Indigo =
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Tennessee
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Rose-breasted
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between 583 and 584 Ave. in a farm pond on the south side of the
road)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Ponca State Park (we saw many of the =
same as
above but added the following):</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Red-eyed =
Vireo</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Yellow-throated =
Vireo (3
below the swimming pool)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> American Redstart =
(17
total)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Wood Thrush (1 in =
the swings
area west of swimming pool)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Great-Crested =
Flycatcher
(same area as Wood Thrush)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Olive-sided =
Flycatcher (along
Missouri River)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Spotted
Sandpiper</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Cedar =
Waxwing</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> White-crowned
Sparrow</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Eastern Wood Pee
Wee</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Wild =
Turkey</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Scarlet Tanager =
(below the
campground area)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Swainson's
Thrush</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Eastern Towhee (7 =
total)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Harris' Sparrow
(5)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Black and White
Warbler</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Ovenbird (This =
one was
unreal! I heard him, we stopped the pickup, got out and =
listened. He
flew to a tree branch about 60 feet from the road and sat and =
sang.
Richard couldn't spot him and I went to the pickup about 20 feet away =
for the
scope, returned, set it up and he was still singing when we =
left.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> Bobolink (5 total =
on the
return trip home)</FONT></DIV>
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Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 08:43:35 -0500 From: "Thomas E. Labedz" <tlabedz@unlinfo.unl.edu> Subject: Lincoln area Dear birders, Northern Mockingbird on UNL's city campus Friday (15 May) evening. Hopping among the landscaping in the Cather Garden just south of Burnett Hall. Olive-sided Flycatcher at Spring Creek Prairie south of Denton on Sunday morning (17 May). I want to thank everyone who worked so hard to bring the Nebr. Ornithologists' Union to Lincoln this past weekend. I hope everyone had a good time, learned something of their organization's history, and saw some good birds too. Thomas Labedz, Lincoln tlabedz@unl.edu
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] Before and after the NOU meeting Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:56:02 -0500 Nebraska birders, Lanny and I saw our first Bobolink for this year on May 12 in a prairie beside the Platte River south of our home (three miles southeast of Gibbon). On Friday, May 14, we saw a pair of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks in our yard and an Orchard Oriole nearby. On our way to the Nebr. Ornithologists' Union meeting, while driving through western Hall County, we saw three Forster's Terns on the Platte River. We stopped at Crane Meadows Nature Center (at the Alda I-80 exit) to look for the White-tailed Kite that had been reported a few days earlier. Along one of their trails, we saw a Black-billed Magpie and a Merlin. Also in Hall County, three and a half miles west of the Grand Island I-80 exit, we saw eleven Cattle Egrets. We will send a message about the birds seen at the NOU meeting when we get everybody's lists organized. It was a spectacular meeting with many great birds and wonderful people. On our way home from the NOU meeting on May 16, in Seward County at North Lake Basin, we heard four Sedge Wrens. In York County at Freeman Lakes, we saw four American White Pelicans and two Savannah Sparrows. At Waco Basin, we saw 24 Double-crested Cormorants. At Beaver Creek, three and a half miles west of York, we saw an Orchard Oriole. At Kirkpatrick Basin, we saw three Ring-billed Gulls, 160 Franklin's Gulls, four Upland Sandpipers and four beautiful Black-bellied Plovers. We had never seen Black-bellied Plovers in alternate plumage before, wow! 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: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:22:28 -0500
From: paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Subject: Sunday Birds
Greetings from Ames,
At Hormel park Sunday morning, there were so many yellow and
Tennessee warblers singing, they just about drowned out everything else,
except for the wood thrushes. I had a hard time actually seeing much
but the thrush numbers were the best I had all spring. Noteworthy birds
were:
Wood thrush (at least 10 heard, 3 seen)
Swainson's thrush 5
Blue-headed vireo 2
Chestnut-sided war. 6
Osprey 1
I hesistate to mention this, but on the way to Fremont, I saw
some shore birds that had flown over a berm along the road and I
stopped at a field entrance culvert to try to get look at them. There
was no sign of them but as I walked into the grass along the ditch, a
small rail flushed. It flew about 20 feet and disappeared in the grass
across the ditch. This bird had a definite though not at all showy white
stripe in the trailing edge of the wing.
As I walked to see if I could locate the first bird, a second
bird flopped through of the grass and young cat-tails at my feet and
disappeared across the ditch. All I had was a glimpse of something small
and a tawny yellow when viewed from above.
Further attempts to see something more produced no results,
dang nabbit !
Don Paseka
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:43:56 -0600
From: Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Subject: Sunday/monday birding.
> NEBirders-
I spent most of 16-17 May birding with Loren and Babs
Padelford from Lincoln westward. Here are the highlights.
16 May
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Wilderness Park, Lincoln (SJD only)
**1 male Blue-winged Warbler
1 male Golden-winged Warbler
Geneva cemetery (we missed Jorgensen)
1 Bell's Vireo
2 Mourning Warblers
1 Yellow-breasted Chat
1 Lark Bunting-near Massie WPA
Kissinger WMA
1 Snowy Egret
3 Short-billed Dowitchers
Funk lagoon
2 Peregrine Falcons
Sutherland Reservoir
1 Caspian Tern
1 adult Mississippi Kite-Ogallala
Lake Ogallala
**1 Pacific Loon (present since 12 May)
26 American Avocets
Lake McConaughy
**1 Red-throated Loon (base of Martin Bay)
3 Great Egrets
2 Caspian Terns
17 May
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1 Tennessee Warbler-Kimball
Oliver Reservoir
**1 Gray Flycatcher (near entrance, same area as Pine
Warbler last fall)
3 Plumbeous Vireos
1 Veery
2 MacGillivray's Warblers
1 N. Waterthrush
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1 Lazuli Bunting
1 Prairie Falcon
southwest Kimball County
1 Mountain Plover (on nest, present since 11 May)
1 Ferruginous Hawk (dark phase)
2 Northern Mockingbirds
Stephen J. Dinsmore
Fort Collins, CO
steve_dinsmore@usgs.gov
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:53:31 -0600
From: Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov (Steve Dinsmore)
Subject: Nebraska birding.
> NEBirders-
I just returned from 6 days of birding in Nebraska. I
spent part of this time at the NOU meeting in Lincoln (great
meeting) and most of the remainder in western Nebraska. Fort
the trip, I recorded 242 species of birds, highlighted by 9
species of herons, 22 species of waterfowl, 33 species of
shorebirds, and 25 species of warblers. Here are some brief
highlights for the period 11-15 May.
11 May
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1 Mountain Plover plus a nest in SW Kimball County
1 Merlin-SW Kimball County
1 Green-tailed Towhee-SW Kimball County
1 N. Parula-Oliver Reservoir
1 Cassin's Kingbird-Long Canyon, Banner County
1 Hammond's Flycatcher and 1 MacGillivray's Warbler-Scotts
Bluff national Monument
2 Great-tailed Grackles-Facus Springs
12 May
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Dave Ely, Joe Fontaine, and I did a Big Day in the Panhandle
and recorded 173 species. Highlights were:
1 Pacific Loon at Lake Ogallala
1 Peregrine Falcon at Lake McConaughy
3 Whimbrel at Oliver Reservoir
single Barn Owls at Clear Creek, in SW Garden Co., and
Gering
2 Common Poorwills at Ahs Hollow State Park
1 Hammond's Flycatcher at Scotts Bluff National Monument
1 American Pipit at Lake McConaughy
1 N. Parula at Bushnell
1 Green-tailed Towhee at West Lawn cemetery in Gering
1 female Cassin's Finch at the Wildcat Hills Nature Center
13 May
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1 Pacific Loon at Lake Ogallala
1 N. Parula and 1 Peregrine Falcon at Enders Reservoir
2 Piping Plovers and 1 Whimbrel at Swanson Reservoir
1 Snowy Plover, 1 Piping Plover, 1 Western Sandpiper, and 1
male Cinnamon Teal at Funk Lagoon
14 May
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2 Snowy Plovers at Funk Lagoon
1 Peregrine Falcon at Gleason WPA
other highlights covered by Jorgensen
15 May
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1 Golden-winged Warbler-Fontenelle Forest
1 adult Little Blue Heron-Cracker Barrel Marsh, Lincoln
1 Canada Warbler and a Carolina Wren brood at Wilderness
Park
Stephen J. Dinsmore
Fort Collins, CO
steve_dinsmore@usgs.gov
From: murwille <murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us> Subject: Red Crossbill Again Today Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:32:38 -0500 Hello Nebraska Birders, The Red Crossbill was seen again at our feeders here at Seven Hills Observatory today by my wife at about 10:30 AM (while I am at work). She does not have time to look out the window often. She has an in home daycare with 8 kids! I'm sure the bird makes several stops here a day. At this point my wife only describes a male. Again our home and observatory is about 4 miles NW of downtown Kearney. Mark Urwiller Physics Instructor, Kearney High School Seven Hills Observatory Director Home Address: 4711 Heather Lane, Kearney NE 68847 Home Phone: 308-234-6536 e-mail: murwille@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us Web Pages: 204.234.2.2/~murwille/7hills.htm 162.127.10.1/~murwille/resume.htm 204.234.2.2/~murwille/birding.htm
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Fw: Arctic Tern & Elegant Tern Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 20:13:32 -0500 Wow!! Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Robb Schenck <rschenck@server2.dakota.net> > To: Multiple recipients of sd-birds <sd-birds@science.northern.edu> > Subject: Arctic Tern & Elegant Tern > Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 1:30 AM > > On Sunday (5/16/99) Jeff Palmer, Odean Selchert and I found an Artic > Tern sitting on the road on the west side of the Oahe Dam Tailrace. > Start by looking for a tern with very short legs (~1/2 Common Tern) and > no black tip on the bill. > > On Saturday (5/15/99)we found a Elegant Tern ( you can stop laughing now > we are serious) on the east side of the tailrace along the shore, 500 > yards south of the parking area. > > We ran our BIG DAY on friday (5/14/99) with a total of 161 Species. > ************************************ > * To post message, email to: > * sd-birds@science.northern.edu > * > * To subscribe to "sd-birds" discussion group, > * email at: majordomo@science.northern.edu with > * message body "subscribe sd-birds <your name>" > * making certain not to use a subject heading or > * signature file. (Leave quotes "" out of text...) > * > * To unsubscribe to "sd-birds" email at: > * majordomo@science.northern.edu with message > * body "unsubscribe sd-birds" making certain not to > * use subject headings or signature files. > * > * Report any problems to: > * birdman@science.northern.edu > ************************************ > >
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 20:57:51 -0500 Subject: Warblers, warblers From: Moni J Usasz <musasz@juno.com> Got a call from Rosalind Morris about a "fall-out" of warblers in the balsam trees - apparently the aphids are quite attractive to warblers - behind Game and Parks, on East Campus in Lincoln. This is just north of the parking lot north of the building. Dinan and Locke from Game and Parks apparently had seen 12 species in one tree. Terri and I went between 6 and 7Pm tonight and saw 8 different warblers Cape May -male and female (maybe two pairs) - our first! Redstart - male and female Nashville - quite a few Blackpoll - one Orange-crowned w - ?? Tennessee - lots Yellow - lots Wilson's - one also a Harris' sparrow ___________________________________________________________________ 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, 17 May 1999 22:31:29 -0500 Subject: Wilderness Park From: John C Sulllivan <johnsllvn@juno.com> Hello All, Here are the highlites from Wilderness Park on Mon. 5-17 from 5:00 - 7:30pm 1 Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 13 Warbler sp. 1 Bay-breasted 3 Chestnut-sided 2 Magnolia 6 Blackpoll 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: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:32:39 -0500 Subject: Weekend Birds From: John C Sulllivan <johnsllvn@juno.com> Hello All, I had a great time with the NOU festivities last weekend. Thanks to everyone involved that helped turn the event into such a success! Highlites of the Weekend Birds: 5-14 Cracker Barrel Marsh ----------------------------------- 1 Little Blue Heron, adult 3 Black Terns Little Salt Fork Marsh --------------------------- 3 Dunlin 2 Bobolink 5-15 Cracker Barrel Marsh ------------------------------------ 2 Little Blue Herons, adults 1 Great Egret 1 Cattle Egret 1 Am. Bittern 1 Am. Widgeon 3 Lesser Scaup Branched Oak Lake ------------------------------- 1 Peregrine Falcon, adult 3 Caspian Terns 1 Magnolia Warbler Platte River S.P. --------------------- 13 Warbler sp. Both Waterthrushes Orchard Oriole 5-16 Cracker Barrel Marsh ----------------------------------- 4 Black-crowned Night-herons 1 Sora Schramm S.P. ------------------- 1 Alder Flycatcher 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 14 Warbler sp. 3 Chestnut-sided 2 Magnolia 1 Blackburnian 1 Connecticut 1 Mourning 1 Canada 1 Black-throated Green Private Prairie just north of Spring Creek Prairie ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1 singing Henslow's Sparrow (heard by Kent Fiala as he was driving past on the highway!!) 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]
From: lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 23:35:25 -0500 (CDT) Subject: NOU HI everybody that worked on the making of our 100 th anniversary a success. Many of you did lots of things and reamain anonymous. Others, of you I know, and you worked long hard hours to make the conference move smoothly, Many , many thanks to Linda Brown for coordinating all the activities ! I shall not begin to name others for fear I will leave some one out. All of you working together made the weekend a success. We can't forget the weather for in spite of being wet and muddy underfoot, the trees and bushes rang out with what we came to see .... our avian friends ! Thank you all ..... Past President Betty Allen Omaha, NE
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: NOU meeting Sarpy County bird list Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:47:17 -0500 Hi Nebraska birders, We had a successful NOU meeting, you might even say that it was wonderful and went off smoothly. But, for a variety of reasons, the final bird tally was not held. I am going to complete the final tally by correspondence. The result will not be very accurate without a lot of help. The following list is what I have so far for birds seen in Sarpy County only, I will send a different message for each county that I already have a long list for. So, anyone that birded in Sarpy County, Nebraska May 14, 15 or 16, whether you went to the meeting or not, please look through this list and send the names of the birds that you identified that I don't already have recorded. Send me the bird names and the county that you saw each one in, plus details if any of them need documenting to MarshWren@nctc.net which is my home e-mail address, Robin's also. If you wish, send your highlights plus the circumstances, like how good a look you got and how much fun you had, to NeBirds. Sarpy County, May 14-16, 1999 Great Blue Heron Green Heron Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Turkey Vulture Wild Turkey American Coot Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Eastern Bluebird Gray-cheeked Thursh Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Solitary Vireo unidentified as to species Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole American Goldfinch House Sparrow 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: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:06:16 EDT Subject: Re: NOU meeting Sarpy County bird list Hi Lanny and Nebirders I can add Bell's Vireo to the Sarpy list. We had a good vireo count at Fontenelle Saturday (15th) and after I left, since it was still cool and the birds were still surprisingly active at noon, I swung around to the NW corner of Chalco Hills, on Giles Road, where I almost always got Bell's Vireo when I ran the Gretna BBC route. The big clump of bushes was still there and so was the Bell's Vireo. One even popped up and let me see it, something they rarely did all the BBC years. Neva Pruess Lincoln, NE
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:25:55 -0500 From: Laurel Badura <lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us> Subject: Re: Need Birder Contact in Lexington, NE area Mike, I live in the Kearney area, but go birding near Lexington often enough to show you some good spots to hit if you'd like. You can e-mail me at lteten@ngpc.state.ne.us 308-237-1496--Home My name is Laurel Badura At 10:37 PM 5/13/99 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Friends, > I'm teaching a birding class to 5th.-9th. graders at Lexington, NE June >20-24. >I'm unfamiliar with the area and could use a good contact to give >directions to nearby birding sites, and to perhaps share a little with the >kids. >Any contacts? Names, phone, email... >Thanks, >Mike Mnich >
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Subject: RE: Sunday/monday birding.
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 11:46:51 -0500
Steve,
What a list! The dark morph Ferrug, the Pac Loon, and the kite alone would
have made it worthwhile!
Mark O
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov [mailto:Steve_Dinsmore@usgs.gov]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 4:44 PM
To: nebirds@rip.physics.unk.edu
Subject: Sunday/monday birding.
> NEBirders-
I spent most of 16-17 May birding with Loren and Babs
Padelford from Lincoln westward. Here are the highlights.
16 May
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Wilderness Park, Lincoln (SJD only)
**1 male Blue-winged Warbler
1 male Golden-winged Warbler
Geneva cemetery (we missed Jorgensen)
1 Bell's Vireo
2 Mourning Warblers
1 Yellow-breasted Chat
1 Lark Bunting-near Massie WPA
Kissinger WMA
1 Snowy Egret
3 Short-billed Dowitchers
Funk lagoon
2 Peregrine Falcons
Sutherland Reservoir
1 Caspian Tern
1 adult Mississippi Kite-Ogallala
Lake Ogallala
**1 Pacific Loon (present since 12 May)
26 American Avocets
Lake McConaughy
**1 Red-throated Loon (base of Martin Bay)
3 Great Egrets
2 Caspian Terns
17 May
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1 Tennessee Warbler-Kimball
Oliver Reservoir
**1 Gray Flycatcher (near entrance, same area as Pine
Warbler last fall)
3 Plumbeous Vireos
1 Veery
2 MacGillivray's Warblers
1 N. Waterthrush
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1 Lazuli Bunting
1 Prairie Falcon
southwest Kimball County
1 Mountain Plover (on nest, present since 11 May)
1 Ferruginous Hawk (dark phase)
2 Northern Mockingbirds
Stephen J. Dinsmore
Fort Collins, CO
steve_dinsmore@usgs.gov
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 20:51:58 -0500 Subject: Re: Warblers, warblers From: John C Sulllivan <johnsllvn@juno.com> Moni, Thanks for the Cape May report. Elaine Bachel, Jackie Canterbury and I saw a nice male there at about 6:00 this evening. John Sullivan Lincoln, NE On Mon, 17 May 1999 20:57:51 -0500 Moni J Usasz <musasz@juno.com> writes: >Got a call from Rosalind Morris about a "fall-out" of warblers in the >balsam trees - apparently the aphids are quite attractive to warblers >- behind Game and Parks, on East Campus in Lincoln. This is just >north of the parking lot north of the building. Dinan and Locke from >Game and Parks apparently had seen 12 species in one tree. > >Terri and I went between 6 and 7Pm tonight and saw 8 different >warblers >Cape May -male and female (maybe two pairs) - our first! >Redstart - male and female >Nashville - quite a few >Blackpoll - one >Orange-crowned w - ?? >Tennessee - lots >Yellow - lots >Wilson's - one >also a Harris' sparrow > > >___________________________________________________________________ >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] ___________________________________________________________________ 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: Sarpy Co birds Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 23:04:23 -0500 Lanny: Add the following (all FF): Downy Wdpk, Red-bellied Wdpk, Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, Purple Martin, Brown Creeper, Swainson's Thrush, Lincoln's Sparrow. Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:37:18 +0000 From: "Linda R. Brown" <lb14735@navix.net> Subject: American Kestrel needs ride from Lincoln to Ogallala Dear Birders, Raptor Recovery needs to get an American Kestrel transported to Ogallala in the next three weeks. The bird is at the Raptor Recovery Center near Elmwood Ne. Call Betsy Hancock: (402) 994-2009 if you might be heading west and wouldn't mind a hitchhiking bird for a companion. You could also email me if you know by Thursday night... or after Sunday. Linda R. Brown lb14735@navix.net 3745 Garfield Lincoln, NE 68506 402-489-2381
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: Lancaster Co. birds at the NOU meeting Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 00:17:50 -0500 Hi NeBirders, Thank you for your help with the Sarpy County bird list. Below is what I have for Lancaster County birds seen during the 1999 spring NOU meeting. Please look and see if you identified any birds in Lancaster County on May 14-16 that are not on this list. There shouldn't be too many this time, we already have 160 species of birds for Lancaster County on the three days. If you have any additions please send them to my home address. Lanny Lanny Randolph southcentral Nebraska 50370 24th rd Gibbon, Ne. 68840 308-468-5057 Marshwren@nctc.net (home) RandolphL@UNK.edu (work) ======================================================== Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Snow Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Lesser Scaup Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Osprey Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Sora American Coot Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull Caspian Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern Rock Dove Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwings Loggerhead Shrike European Starling Bell's Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Harris' Sparrow Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:23:39 -0500 From: "Thomas E. Labedz" <tlabedz@unlinfo.unl.edu> Subject: Nebr. Bird Review, Last Chance. Dear Nebraska Birders, There are many issues of the Nebraska Bird Review remaining even though those attending the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union's (NOU) centennial meeting made off with a bunch. The NOU will send to recycling any remaining backissues not taken by June 1st, 1999. To refresh you memory, the NOU needed to clear space at the museum. Numerous back issues, dating to 1902, needed to be eliminated. 25 of each issue (when 25 are available) will be held in the NOU library, but all others must be disposed. A complete list of what is available is below. The issues to be given away are outside room W-505 Nebraska Hall on the Univ. Nebr.'s city campus. Nebraska Hall is at 16th and W Sts. Take what you want. Call me (Thomas Labedz) at 402/472-8366 or e-mail at TLABEDZ@UNL.EDU if you have questions or need more directions. The NOU will not hold or mail any copies to anyone, you must come get them yourself or send someone to get them. Back issues available are: Proceedings Vol. III (1902) Nebr. Bird Review V1(1933): 1, 4; V2: 2, 3, 4; V3: all; V4: 2, 3, 4; V5: 1, 2; V10: 1; V14: 2; V15: 1; V19: 3, 4; V20: 1; V22: 2, 4; V23: 3, 4; V24: 3, 4; V25: 3; V26: 3; V27: 2; V28: all; V29: 2, 4; V30: 3, 4; V31: 1, 2, 3; V32: to V51: all; V52: 3, 4; V53: 1, 3, 4; V54: 1, 2, 3; V55: 1, 2, 4; V56: to V60: all; V61: 1, 2, 4; V62: 1, 2, 3; V63: 2; V64: 2, 3, 4; V65(1997): 2, 3, 4. Annotated Bibliography of Iowa Ornithology. Key: V1(=Volume 1): 1, 4 (=Issue numbers 1 and 4 available), all (=all 4 issues available). Thank you, good birding to all. Thomas Labedz tlabedz@unl.edu
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: Doane College Campus Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:18:22 -0500 Hi all, Birded the campus here in Crete this morning (usually a good place for migrant warblers and other passerines) but came up fairly empty-handed. Numbers and activity were low, and I struggled to reach a total of 37 species. I was desperate enough to count Doane's domesticated Mute Swans and leucistic Mallards in that total! Great-crested Flycatcher and Tennessee Warbler were the only even semi-notable species. Warblers and vireos, all over the place a week ago, were nearly absent. I wonder if this spring's wonderful "warbler tide" is finally starting to ebb? Mark O -----Original Message----- From: marshwren@nctc.net [mailto:marshwren@nctc.net] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 12:18 AM To: NeBirds@RIP.physics.UNK.edu Subject: Lancaster Co. birds at the NOU meeting Hi NeBirders, Thank you for your help with the Sarpy County bird list. Below is what I have for Lancaster County birds seen during the 1999 spring NOU meeting. Please look and see if you identified any birds in Lancaster County on May 14-16 that are not on this list. There shouldn't be too many this time, we already have 160 species of birds for Lancaster County on the three days. If you have any additions please send them to my home address. Lanny Lanny Randolph southcentral Nebraska 50370 24th rd Gibbon, Ne. 68840 308-468-5057 Marshwren@nctc.net (home) RandolphL@UNK.edu (work) ======================================================== Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Snow Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Lesser Scaup Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Osprey Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Sora American Coot Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull Caspian Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern Rock Dove Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwings Loggerhead Shrike European Starling Bell's Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Harris' Sparrow Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 15:26:38 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 5/20/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * May 20, 1999 * NEST9905.20 - Birds Mentioned Snowy Egret Cinnamon Teal Bell's Vireo Pine Warbler Lark Bunting Blue Grosbeak Hooded Warbler Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone MacGillivray's Warbler Cape May Warbler Canada Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-billed Cuckoo Worm-eating Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Alder Flycatcher Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Wild Turkey Northern Mockingbird Olive-sided Flycatcher Henslow's Sparrow Little Blue Heron Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Dunlin Sanderling Caspian Tern Philadelphia Vireo Yellow-throated Warbler Scarlet Tanager Marbled Godwit White-faced Ibis GRAY FLYCATCHER Veery Plumbeous Vireo White-throated Swift Violet-green Swallow Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Clark's Grebe Common Loon Mississippi Kite - 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, May 20th. Warbler fallouts were reported from Sarpy & Douglas Counties west to Phelps County, with 24 species being seen by one reporter in Clay & Fillmore Counties over the week-end. In central Nebraska in Phelps County on the 16th, a SNOWY EGRET, 2 CINNAMON TEAL, a BELL'S VIREO, a PINE WARBLER, a LARK BUNTING & a BLUE GROSBEAK were found at Funk Lagoon. A HOODED WARBLER was also seen on the 16th, about 1/4 mile east of the main pool at Funk Lagoon. In Clay County on the 16th, 11 WHIMBRELS & a RUDDY TURNSTONE were found at Harvard WPA, & a LARK BUNTING was seen near Massie WPA . On the 15th, a MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER was found at Clay Center Cemetery. Also on the 15th, a LAZULI BUNTING was seen at McMurtrey Refuge. In eastern Nebraska in Bellevue on the 16th in a yard south of Bellevue University, a CAPE MAY WARBLER & a CANADA WARBLER were seen & on the 18th, a BAY-BREASTED WARBLER & a MAGNOLIA WARBLER were seen there. On the 20th in Fontenelle Forest on the upper boardwalk, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, a WORM-EATING WARBLER & a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER were found. On the 18th, a BLUE GROSBEAK was spotted at Offutt Lake south of Bellevue. On the 15th at Schramm State Park, an ALDER FLYCATCHER, a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, a CANADA WARBLER, a CONNECTICUT WARBLER & a MOURNING WARBLER were found. In Douglas County on the 16th, a WORM-EATING WARBLER was seen at the north end of Hummel Park. Also on the 16th, a CAPE MAY WARBLER was seen in a yard east of Cunningham Lake. On the 20th, in west Omaha, a WILD TURKEY was spotted in Silverwood at I-680 & Pacific Street. In Lancaster County on the 17th on the UNL east campus, 12 species of warblers were seen including 2 CAPE MAY WARBLERS. On the 15th, a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was found on the main UNL campus. On the 16th, an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was seen at Spring Creek Prairie south of Denton. On the 15th, a HENSLOW'S SPARROW was heard singing just north of Spring Creek Prairie. At Cracker Barrel Marsh on the 15th, 2 LITTLE BLUE HERONS were found. On the 15th in Wilderness Park, a BLUE-WINGED WARBLER & a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER were seen. In Platte County on the 16th at Lake North, a DUNLIN, a SANDERLING, 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES & 3 CASPIAN TERNS were found. In Fillmore County on the 16th in the Geneva Cemetery, a BELL'S VIREO, a PHILADELPHIA VIREO, a CAPE MAY WARBLER & 2 MOURNING WARBLERS were seen & on the 14th, a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER & a CANADA WARBLER were found there. In Dixon County on the 16th, an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER & a SCARLET TANAGER were spotted in Ponca State Park. Also on the 16th, a MARBLED GODWIT was seen west of Allen on 871 Road. In western Nebraska in Kimball County on the 17th, 10 WHITE-FACED IBIS, a GRAY FLYCATCHER, a VEERY, 3 PLUMBEOUS VIREOS, 2 MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLERS were found at Oliver Reservoir. In Scotts Bluff County on the 18th, WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS, VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS & a LAZULI BUNTING were seen at Scotts Bluff National Monument. In Keith county on the 16th a RED-THROATED LOON was seen at Lake McConaughy & a PACIFIC LOON was found on Lake Ogallala. On the 18th, a WHIMBREL was seen on the north side of the dam at Lake McConaughy, & 4 CLARK'S GREBES were seen at Omaha Beach. On the 19th, a PACIFIC LOON, 5 COMMON LOONS & a CLARK'S GREBE were seen on Lake Ogallala. Also on the 19th, 2 adult MISSISSIPPI KITES were seen in the Boot Hill area of Ogallala. 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. Be sure to include the date of the sighting. Thank you and good birding! - End transcript
From: "Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net> Subject: Eastern RWB Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:04:02 -0500 Hello NE-birders, I did a quick, partial shorebird count in the eastern Rainwater Basin today (20 May). Despite rain, heavy at times, and very greasy roads, that kept me away from a several basin, I had an excellent time. Below are the few highlights. Joel Jorgensen --------------------------------------- Selected Shorebird Totals, 20 May 28 Black-bellied Plovers *1 Black-necked Stilt (Kissinger Basin WMA) 2 Greater Yellowlegs 9 Willets ***27 Red Knots (one flock at Ayr Lake, and yes that is a 27) 416 White-rumped Sandpipers 4 Baird's Sandpipers 604 Stilt Sandpipers 47 Buff-breasted Sandpipers 23 Short-billed Dowitchers 0 Long-billed Dowitchers
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] NOU web site addition Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:53:52 -0500 Nebraska birders, A Common Crane photo is on the NOU web site. Bub Blake generously gave me one of his photos to send to the NOU Records Committee and put up on the web site. It is at http://rip.physics.unk.edu/NOU/ The crane photo is in the section called Special Reports. Please take a look and tell us what you think. We continue to work on and hopefully improve the web site. Your comments are always welcome. 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: Fri, 21 May 99 08:31:28 -0400
From: "Kevin Poague"<kpoague@audubon.org>
Subject: henslow report
Howdy!
Has everyone recovered from their case of 'warbleritis?' I hope so.
Just a note to say there are at least 2 Henslow's sparrows in the
prairie just north of the huge gravel pile which is north of Spring
Creek Prairie south of Denton.
Kevin Poague
kpoague@audubon.org
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Subject: Yellow-bellied and other Flycatchers, Swainson's Hawks at Twin La
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:28:59 -0500
Hi all,
Birded Twin Lakes SWMA (near Pleasant Dale)this morning for 2 hours and had
the following 53 species:
Canada Goose 30+
Great Blue Heron 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Killdeer 2
Belted Kingfisher 1 male
Common Nighthawk 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2(both adults)
SWAINSON'S HAWK 2 (both immatures)
American Kestrel 1 (female)
Chimney Swift 1
Barn Swallow many
Tree Swallow many
Bank Swallow 1
Rough-winged Swallow 5+
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Wild Turkey 1
Ring-necked Pheasant 2(heard only)
Northern Bobwhite 1 (heard only)
Mourning Dove many (including one that appeared to be injured)
Northern Flicker 15+
Downy Woodpecker 1 (heard only)
Red-headed Woodpecker 4
Eastern Kingbird 20+
Least Flycatcher 15+
Willow Flycatcher 4+
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER 2
empid species 4+
Brown Thrasher 1
House Wren 4
American Crow 30+
Blue Jay 20+
Common Grackle many
European Starling many
Red-winged Blackbird many
Brown-headed Cowbird many
Orchard Oriole 10+
Baltimore Oriole 15+
Eastern Meadowlark many
Western Meadowlark a few
American Robin many
Eastern Bluebird 1
Horned Lark 1
Gray Catbird 10+
Warbling Vireo many
Red-eyed Vireo 1 heard
Bell's Vireo 1
Yellow Warbler many
Northern Cardinal 6+
Indigo Bunting 3+
American Goldfinch many
Chipping Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 3+
Savannah Sparrow 6+
This is a nice little place to bird. I had a Common Loon and a variety of
ducks at Twin Lakes in late March.
Mark O
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Poague [mailto:kpoague@audubon.org]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 7:31 AM
To: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu
Subject: henslow report
Howdy!
Has everyone recovered from their case of 'warbleritis?' I hope so.
Just a note to say there are at least 2 Henslow's sparrows in the
prairie just north of the huge gravel pile which is north of Spring
Creek Prairie south of Denton.
Kevin Poague
kpoague@audubon.org
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:54:52 -0500 From: paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis) Subject: Ruddy turnstone NeBirders: We were thinking of going out to Ayr Lake this morning to look for Joel's red knots, but by the time we got to Columbus, we had 17 species of waders, so we came home. Don says it must be that we were wearing our lucky NOU T-shirts! Great egret 1 Lake North Cattle egret 10 Great blue heron 1 Black-bellied plover 77 Dodge and Colfax American golden plover 2 Dodge Co. (14 Blvd. & Q Road) Killdeer Lesser yellowlegs 4 Willet 1 Dodge Co. (Road R & Road 4) (not there in the afternoon) Spotted sandpiper 2 Lake North Upland sandpiper 2 Dodge & Colfax RUDDY TURNSTONE 1 Dodge Co. (R & 4) (not there in the afternoon) Sanderling 4 Lake North Western sandpiper 10 Dodge Co. White-rumped sandpiper 1 Dodge Co. Baird's sandpiper 300+ Dodge & Colfax Pectoral sandpiper 3 Dodge & Colfax Dunlin 1 Dodge (R & 4) (not there in the afternoon) Non-shorebird bonus birds: Western grebe 2 Lake North Black tern 22 Lake North Blue grosbeak 2 Dodge Co. It's a good thing these birds weren't here last week when all the warblers were. We wouldn't have had time to look at everything! I think we hit a really lucky time and place this morning. These birds were all close to the road, and the light was great. We got the impression there were LOTS more out there, too. The turnstone was a lifer for us! Don & Janis
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] White-winged Dove in Kearney Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:00:53 -0500 Nebraska birders, Roger Newcomb called me today (May 21) to report a White-winged Dove at his feeder. Roger and Marilyn are the couple that had a White-winged Dove at their feeder in Kearney last fall. The last time Roger saw that bird was in late January. Could this be the same bird? Has it just been in someone else's yard for the past three and a half months? The Newcombs also still have several pairs of Eurasian Collared-Doves in their neighborhood. The Newcomb's address is 402 E. 32nd Street, Kearney. 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: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Re: [NeBirds] White-winged Dove in Kearney Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:54:54 -0500 Hi all: I think, if I remember correctly, that Laurel Badura has reported the WW Dove a time or two through the winter. I'd assume it is the same bird (I've never been wrong before, either!!!) Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Randolph and Harding <marshwren@nctc.net> > To: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu > Subject: [NeBirds] White-winged Dove in Kearney > Date: Friday, May 21, 1999 10:00 PM > > Nebraska birders, > > Roger Newcomb called me today (May 21) to report a > White-winged Dove at his feeder. Roger and Marilyn > are the couple that had a White-winged Dove at their > feeder in Kearney last fall. The last time Roger saw > that bird was in late January. Could this be the same > bird? Has it just been in someone else's yard for the > past three and a half months? The Newcombs also still > have several pairs of Eurasian Collared-Doves in their > neighborhood. The Newcomb's address is 402 E. 32nd > Street, Kearney. > > 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: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: Twin Lakes and Tamora Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 10:41:46 -0500 Hi all, Joe Gubanyi and I tried and failed to relocate the Yellow-bellied Flycatchers that I found at Twin Lakes yesterday. We did find numerous Least and Willow Flycatchers, Bell's Vireos, and a new one for Twin Lakes for the last couple of days-- a Green Heron. Afterward, I drove alone to Tamora,Nebraska, upon Joe's suggestion, to try and track down a potential life bird for me-- the elusive (particularly for someone from the northeastern US) Blue Grosbeak. I followed Joe's directions to the intersection of Alvo and 350th roads (southeast of Tamora), as I was approaching some dilapidated barns on the right, I thought I heard some interesting song and stopped the truck. Over the next 10 minutes I watched 3 Blue Grosbeaks (2 males 1female in this little area. They are great birds different in shape and behavior than I was expecting in some ways. I snapped a few photos to commemorate the occasion. There was a farm cat sort of stalking the two males at one point, but they evaded it. THANKS JOE!!! Also in this general area, I had a Great-tailed Grackle, a flock of 23 Black-bellied Plovers (along Fletcher Rd., and a probable Stilt Sandpiper. There were numerous other shorebirds in flooded or muddy farm fields, but without a fully functional scope, I couldn't id them. Mark O -----Original Message----- From: Linda R. Brown [mailto:lb14735@navix.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 10:37 AM To: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu Subject: American Kestrel needs ride from Lincoln to Ogallala Dear Birders, Raptor Recovery needs to get an American Kestrel transported to Ogallala in the next three weeks. The bird is at the Raptor Recovery Center near Elmwood Ne. Call Betsy Hancock: (402) 994-2009 if you might be heading west and wouldn't mind a hitchhiking bird for a companion. You could also email me if you know by Thursday night... or after Sunday. Linda R. Brown lb14735@navix.net 3745 Garfield Lincoln, NE 68506 402-489-2381
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 20:44:33 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 5/22/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * May 22, 1999 * NEST9905.22 - Birds Mentioned Red Knot Buff-breasted Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Black-necked Stilt Black-bellied Plover Willet White-rumped Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher White-winged Dove Eurasian Collared-Dove Henslow's Sparrow Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Bell's Vireo Blue Grosbeak Great-tailed Grackle Western Grebe Great Egret Sanderling Black Tern American Golden-Plover Ruddy Turnstone Western Sandpiper Dunlin Kentucky Warbler Mourning Warbler Northern Parula Prothonotary Warbler Least Tern Swainson's Thrush Blackpoll Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Ovenbird Scarlet Tanager Black-billed Cuckoo Clark's Grebe - 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 Saturday, May 22nd. In central Nebraska in Clay County on the 20th, 27 RED KNOTS were found at Ayr Lake east of Hastings. On the 21st, 18 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS & 4 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were seen at Ayr Lake, but the RED KNOTS could not be found. On the 20th in Hamilton County, a BLACK-NECKED STILT was seen at Kissinger WMA. Other shorebirds found on the 20th in the eastern Rainwater Basin were: 28 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 9 WILLETS, 416 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 604 STILT SANDPIPERS, 47 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS & 23 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS. In Buffalo County on the 21st, the WHITE-WINGED DOVE returned to 402 E. 32nd St. in Kearney. Several pairs of EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES are still being seen in that neighborhood. In eastern Nebraska in Lancaster County on the 21st, 2 HENSLOW'S SPARROWS were seen in a prairie north of the gravel pile just north of Spring Creek Prairie. In Seward County near Pleasant Dale on the 21st, 2 YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS, 4 WILLOW FLYCATCHERS, 15 LEAST FLYCATCHERS & a BELL'S VIREO were found at Twin Lakes WMA. On the 22nd southeast of Tamora WMA, 3 BLUE GROSBEAKS were seen at the intersection of Alvo & 350th Roads. In the same general area on the 22nd, 23 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS & a GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE were found in flooded fields on Fletcher Road. In Platte County on the 21st at Lake North, 2 WESTERN GREBES, a GREAT EGRET, 4 SANDERLINGS & 22 BLACK TERNS were seen. In Dodge County on the 21st, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, a WILLET, a RUDDY TURNSTONE, a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, 10 WESTERN SANDPIPERS, a DUNLIN & 2 BLUE GROSBEAKS were seen. In Cass County on the 22nd, a KENTUCKY WARBLER & a MOURNING WARBLER were heard singing at Rake's Creek WMA. Also on the 22nd, several NORTHERN PARULAS & a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER were heard singing a mile east of Rake's Creek. On the 22nd, 3 LEAST TERNS, 50 BLACK TERNS & a BELL'S VIREO were found at Schilling Wildlife Area east of Plattsmouth. In Bellevue on the 21st in Fontenelle Forest, a SWAINSON'S THRUSH, 4 BLACKPOLL WARBLERS, 2 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS, an OVENBIRD & a SCARLET TANAGER were seen from the upper boardwalk. On the 21st north of Omaha, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO & a BELL'S VIREO were seen at Neale Woods Nature Center. In Iowa on the 21st east of Decatur in Monona County, a CLARK'S GREBE was seen with 3 WESTERN GREBES at south Blue Lake south of Lewis & Clark State Park. 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. Be sure to include the date of the sighting. Thank you and good birding! - End transcript
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Fw: [BIRDWG01] Those dang Western Flycatchers Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 20:51:05 -0500 Food for thought for you Panhandle junkies (Steve, you out there?) Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Larry Gorbet <lgorbet@UNM.EDU> > To: BIRDWG01@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > Subject: Re: [BIRDWG01] Those dang Western Flycatchers > Date: Saturday, May 22, 1999 7:33 PM > > Tony Leukering wrote > > >Here > >on the Colorado plains, I'm not even willing to identify silent migrant > >"Westerns". This is because I believe it is too likely that Pacific-slope > >could be regular over here, where, 30 miles east of the foothills, Cassin's > >Vireo is more common in fall than is Plumbeous! > > To add a bit of impetus to Tony's remark, here in the Rio Grande > Valley of Albuquerque (N.M.) we also get mostly Cassin's Vireo in > fall, despite breeding Plumbeous within 15 miles or so. > > This past fall, with the new Pyle guide in hand, we threw wing > formulae at the Western's we mist-netted and *all* turned out clearly > or very likely Pacific-Slope. As a little reality check, we measured > skins at the University of New Mexico of birds whose time and place > of collection made one or the other species much more likely (e.g. > late June birds in the mountains of northern N.M. were assumed to > probably be Cordilleran), and used the same formulae. They worked > out quite well on most of the birds --- obviously some would, by the > formulae, be undetermined --- and *none* gave strong indications from > the formulae of being the "wrong" species. > > One of the birds we banded, assuming the most likely subspecies of > Pacific-Slope, should have probably been a male, so we watched it > carefully after release, and it soon gave the classic male > Pacific-Slope call. During fall migration, we did not hear any birds > that, by call, would be identified as Cordilleran. > > We have begun to look at some of our older records to see if we can > get a feel for a longer-term pattern. It does look like spring here > is quite different from fall, with at least a predominance of > Cordilleran. > > ************************************* > Larry Gorbet Albuquerque, New Mexico > > University of New Mexico (Anthropology & Linguistics) > & Rio Grande Bird Research, Inc. > > voice: (505) 883-7378 HOME (505) 277-6353 WORK > email: lgorbet@unm.edu
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] May 22 southcentral birds Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 11:13:18 -0500 NeBirders, According the weather report, Saturday was supposed to be the better of the two days this weekend so that's when Lanny and I went birding. As it turned out, Sunday would have been a better choice. That's just typical of weather forecasting in Nebraska. On Saturday at our home southeast of Gibbon, we saw two adult and one juvenile Eastern Bluebirds. This is the first juvenile bluebird we've seen this year. In a prairie just south of our home, we saw and heard some Bobolinks. At one of the Gibbon Platte River bridges, we heard a Warbling Vireo and saw a subadult Swainson's Hawk. In Kearney County, a couple miles southwest of Lowell, in the sandhills-like habitat, we saw a Turkey Vulture, Western Kingbirds, Grasshopper Sparrows, Dickcissels and Orchard Orioles. There were at least four adult and four first year male Orchard Orioles. And we saw many more later in the day. In Kearney County, we drove through Gleason WPA looking for shorebirds. Plants are beginning to grow in the marsh and there is still not much water so we did not find any shorebirds. We stopped at a small overgrown woodlot just west of Axtell to look for warblers but found only the usual birds. In Phelps County at Funk Lagoon we found some interesting birds. There was one Eared Grebe, one Western Grebe, one lonely American White Pelican, one Ring-necked Duck, about twenty Ruddy Ducks, one Semipalmated Plover, one Spotted Sandpiper, one Ruddy Turnstone, about ten White-rumped Sandpipers, about 25 Stilt Sandpipers, two Wilson's Phalaropes, one Willow Flycatcher (we heard it fitz-bew), two singing Swamp Sparrows and about twenty Great-tailed Grackles. We looked for the Hooded and Pine Warblers that were reported last weekend but we found only the usual. I guess they have moved on already. In a small lake at the Odessa I-80 exit, we saw a Common Loon in breeding plumage, probably the same one seen last weekend by the Bubbas. Good birding, Robin and Lanny 50370 24th Road Gibbon, NE 68840 308-468-5057 (home), 308-865-8647 (work) marshwren@nctc.net (home), HardingR@UNK.edu (work)
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: Red-throated and Pacigic Loons Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 11:57:31 -0500 Hi NeBirders, I sent this last night, but I got the address wrong. I just now found the bounced message. I am sorry, some of you may have gone out there today. Lanny -------------------------------------------------- Hi NeBirders, Kent Fiala just called. He saw a Pacific Loon in winter plumage and a Red-throated Loon also in winter plumage with an adult plumaged Common Loon at Lake Ogallala from the eagle viewing building today (5-22-99). The Pacific Loon had the chinstrap. The Red-throated Loon as compared to the Pacific Loon was smaller and pale gray with an upturned thin bill. I thought maybe some of you would want to know right away. 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)
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