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1. [Ne Birds] Funk Lagoon 9/7/99
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:10:20 -0500
2. Listserver Etiquette
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:27:51 -0500
3. Pileateds at Fontanelle
Moni J Usasz <musasz@juno.com>
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:03:21 -0500
4. Re: Pileateds at Fontanelle
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:50:26 -0500
5. Re: Listserver Etiquette
drintoul@ksu.edu
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:29:44 -0500 (CDT)
6. Fw: Re: Pileateds at Fontanelle
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:32:48 -0500
7. Eastern Kingbirds
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Wed, 08 Sep 1999 09:18:48 -0500
8. Re: Eastern Kingbirds
Jan Johnson <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:05:27 -0500 (CDT)
9. RE: Eastern Kingbirds
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:07:59 -0500
10. RE: burrowing owl shirts
"Susan J. Herrick" <th41814@mail.navix.net>
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:32:08 -0500
11. SEWR migration data collection
"Dave Rintoul" <drintoul@ksu.edu>
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:57:40 -0500
12. FW: Action Needed: EMERGENCY Virus Information (fwd)
Jan Johnson <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:14:25 -0500 (CDT)
13. Nebraska Birdline for 9/10/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:20:46 -0500
14. Re: FW: Action Needed: EMERGENCY Virus Information (fwd)
"Robert I. Price" <price@rip.physics.unk.edu>
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:09:30 +0100
15. Seward County birds
"Gubanyi,Joe" <jgubanyi@seward.cune.edu>
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:26:48 -0500
16. F.Y.I. VirusFaq online
"Robert I. Price" <price@rip.physics.unk.edu>
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:16:48 +0100
17. [NeBirds] 9/11 small marvels
marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:06:57 -0500
18. Bird searching
lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:48:46 -0500 (CDT)
19. Re:Viruses (and birds)
NevaLCP@aol.com
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:53:56 EDT
20. east. RWB report/se Wash Co
"Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net>
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:44:40 -0500
21. Re:Viruses (and birds)
"Robert I. Price" <price@rip.physics.unk.edu>
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:12:57 +0100
22.
"Wanda Hoge" <jacana@swnebr.net>
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:29:17 -0000
23. HNA Second week
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:34:21 -0500
24. VirusFaq
paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:04:38 -0500
25. HNA Second week
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:00:26 -0500
26. unsubscribe Nebirds
Janet Ronald whitaker <ronjanw@juno.com>
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:55:57 -0400
27. Hitchcock Hawks
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:24:48 -0500
28. Hitchcock Hawk Watch
cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:56:59 CDT
29. RE: Hitchcock Hawk Watch
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:23:10 -0500
30. RE: Hitchcock Hawks
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:28:36 -0500
31. Nebraska Birdline for 9/14/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:22:13 -0500
32. Hitchcock weekend
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:16:58 -0500
33. Standing Bear Lake Sightings
NRATZLAFF@aol.com
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:05:15 EDT
34. unsubscribe Nebirds
borris <borris@cornhusker.net>
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:12:41 -0500
35.
"Wanda Hoge" <jacana@swnebr.net>
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:02:17 -0000
36. east. RWB report/se Wash. Co.
"Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net>
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:33:00 -0500
37. Birds Sun am
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:25:52 -0500
38. Fw: Name Sandhill Crane, Help
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:09:44 -0500
39. Saturday birding at Waubonise
Moni J Usasz <musasz@juno.com>
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:17:13 -0500
40. Re: Saturday birding at Waubonise
paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 16:02:55 -0500
41. Hawks at Hawk Ridge,MN
"Susan J. Herrick" <th41814@mail.navix.net>
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:34:20 -0500
42. Polish Herons in Phelps Co.
marshwren@nctc.net (Harding and Randolph)
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:14:59 -0500
43. Nebraska Birdline for 9/19/99
"Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com>
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:15:04 -0500
44. Red-bellied Woodpecker
"Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com>
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:49:03 -0600
45. Re: Red-bellied Woodpecker
"Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net>
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:01:33 -0500
46. RE: Saturday birding at Waubonise and HNA Flash!
Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:49:05 -0500
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [Ne Birds] Funk Lagoon 9/7/99 Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:10:20 -0500 Hi Nebraska Birders, Tuesday, September 7, Robin and I took a days vacation since it is Robin's birthday. In Buffalo County, we saw a Savannah Sparrow topping a grass stalk near our mailbox three and a half miles south of Gibbon. In Phelps County, at Funk Lagoon, we saw twenty American White Pelicans, a Black-crowned Night-Heron, thirteen Great Egrets, fourteen Wood Ducks, about 550 Blue-winged Teal, about 25 Northern Pintail, more than one Green-winged Teal, three Redheads, one female Ruddy Duck, an immature Northern Harrier, four Soras, an American Avocet in basic plumage, about five Greater Yellowlegs, more than one Lesser Yellowlegs, nine Stilt Sandpipers, about 35 Black Terns, three Marsh Wrens, and a Lincoln's Sparrow. Around the outside of Funk Lagoon we saw three Swainson's Hawks. In the sandhills area in northwestern Kearney County we saw a Loggerhead Shrike. All the ducks except for the redheads were on one large piece of open water. This piece of open water is not visible from the road. Good views are only a ten yard walk from your car. But there are only three access points and you have to know where they are. We got a good view of a Sora today. We watched it and heard it vocalizing. We learned a Sora sound that was new to us. Did you know that Soras can make a squeaky double click vocalization? Every time that we heard this sound we saw the Sora open its bill. good birding and goodbye, Lanny
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding)
Subject: Listserver Etiquette
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:27:51 -0500
Hi NeBirders,
Dr. Price, Robin and I have been discussing a list of guidelines that people
can consult to avoid offendng fellow subsribers. Because of the differences
in computers, computer programs and what people find acceptable, some
things sent to our NeBirds list are not received by all subscribers in as
acceptable a manner as others. For example, because of the differences
between Macs and PCs, the PCs subscribed to the list need to have one
particular setting set to avoid sending messages to those on the list with
Macs where that the message is repeated in http (readable by computers
but not by people).
Other state bird chat lists have already gone through this process.
Appended to the bottom of this message is a message about listserver
etiquette posted to Iowa Birds in early June. We are going to come
up with guidelines not rules. We may borrow some from this message
that was sent to Iowa's Birds. Tell us what you think.
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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The following is a nice, concise synopsis of listserve etiquette that was
recently shared with list owners. While we really haven't had any
problems on IA-BIRD, it is probably good to remind ourselves from
time to time of some simple "Netiquette" rules that make this a great
place to be.
Email Program Settings Suggestions:
* Turn off features (like VCards) that create attachments.
* Avoid sending HTML-formatted messages to lists.
* Send replies either to the sender or the list, but not both.
* Make sure the time is set properly on your computer.
Writing and Layout Suggestions:
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* Insert blank lines between paragraphs.
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* Surround URLs with angle brackets.
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* Send welcome or congratulation messages via private email.
* Respect other people's news.
* Civility is always worthwhile.
Thanks for helping to keep mailing lists useful and pleasant
places!
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:03:21 -0500 Subject: Pileateds at Fontanelle From: Moni J Usasz <musasz@juno.com> Haven't heard anything about the pair who had taken up residence last spring. Did they fledge. I'm sure there's someone out there who would be willing to update us. We've been doing very little birding of late - since mid-August my spirit has been willing but my school load has been too much. We did get to Schramm on Sunday late AM - only notables were a very cooperative black-throated green warbler and a not so cooperative yellow-throated vireo. Took an early morning walk on Monday at Epworth entrance of Wilderness Park and were inundated by black-capped chickadees and blue jays and very little else. Saw no vireos and warblers. Maybe we needed those lucky NOU burrowing owl t-shirts to help us with our search. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Re: Pileateds at Fontanelle Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:50:26 -0500 Moni: Reports I received for NBR Seasonal Report indicated that the Pileateds on North Stream Trail did indeed fledge 2 young. Neat news! Thanks to observers who sent in the info. First known nesting this century! Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Moni J Usasz <musasz@juno.com> > To: nebirds@rip.physics.unk.edu > Subject: Pileateds at Fontanelle > Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 7:03 PM > > Haven't heard anything about the pair who had taken up residence last > spring. Did they fledge. I'm sure there's someone out there who would > be willing to update us. > > We've been doing very little birding of late - since mid-August my spirit > has been willing but my school load has been too much. We did get to > Schramm on Sunday late AM - only notables were a very cooperative > black-throated green warbler and a not so cooperative yellow-throated > vireo. Took an early morning walk on Monday at Epworth entrance of > Wilderness Park and were inundated by black-capped chickadees and blue > jays and very little else. Saw no vireos and warblers. Maybe we needed > those lucky NOU burrowing owl t-shirts to help us with our search. > > ___________________________________________________________________ > Get the Internet just the way you want it. > Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! > Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
From: drintoul@ksu.edu Subject: Re: Listserver Etiquette Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:29:44 -0500 (CDT) Greetings Etiquette is good, but is sometimes not obvious in this new medium. Guidelines definitely help to maintain order, but are not a total cure, mostly because not everybody reads them, understands them, remembers them or can find them when they are most needed. But your guidelines are a good start. As you may know, the BirdChat list has recently gone through a paroxysm of guideline writing. BirdChat is the original birding listserv, dating back to the mid-Jurassic period of the Internet (about 1990), so some of that institutional memory was dumped to generate guidelines that cover a multitude of sins. If you want to take a look at them, they live at <http://www.ksu.edu/audubon/chatguidelines.html> This is an extensive (but well-intentioned) set of guidelines, and you might find some useful ideas there. Feel free to use anything there that might be helpful on the NEBirds list. Cheers Dave -- Dave Rintoul, Ph.D. mailto:drintoul@ksu.edu Biology Division - KSU ICBM: 39.18N, 96.34W Manhattan KS 66506-4901 VOX: 785-532-6663 http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~drintoul/ FAX: 785-532-6653 "When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve." M. Decker (1999)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:32:48 -0500 Subject: Fw: Re: Pileateds at Fontanelle From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> Moni and others, We received a note today from Craig Hensley at Fontenelle Forest saying that 4 Pileated Woodpeckers were seen on Aug. 30th in the Forest (no specific area given, but we presume in the same general area where they nested). Babs & Loren Padelford Bellevue, NE lpdlfrd@juno.com --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> To: <nebirds@rip.physics.unk.edu> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:50:26 -0500 Subject: Re: Pileateds at Fontanelle Message-ID: <199909080041.TAA00668@news.heartland.net> Moni: Reports I received for NBR Seasonal Report indicated that the Pileateds on North Stream Trail did indeed fledge 2 young. Neat news! Thanks to observers who sent in the info. First known nesting this century! Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Moni J Usasz <musasz@juno.com> > To: nebirds@rip.physics.unk.edu > Subject: Pileateds at Fontanelle > Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 7:03 PM > > Haven't heard anything about the pair who had taken up residence last > spring. Did they fledge. I'm sure there's someone out there who would > be willing to update us. > > We've been doing very little birding of late - since mid-August my spirit > has been willing but my school load has been too much. We did get to > Schramm on Sunday late AM - only notables were a very cooperative > black-throated green warbler and a not so cooperative yellow-throated > vireo. Took an early morning walk on Monday at Epworth entrance of > Wilderness Park and were inundated by black-capped chickadees and blue > jays and very little else. Saw no vireos and warblers. Maybe we needed > those lucky NOU burrowing owl t-shirts to help us with our search. > > ___________________________________________________________________ > Get the Internet just the way you want it. > Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! > Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: Eastern Kingbirds Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 09:18:48 -0500 Hi Nebirders, I forgot to include this in my message yesterday. So here it is now. For the past chunk of time (perhaps a month), we saw around a hundred Eastern Kingbirds just driving to work (about sixteen miles). On longer trips we saw as many as a thousand. Yesterday, during our birding trip to Funk Lagoon we saw a total of five Eastern Kingbirds. On September 5 we didn't see many Eastern Kingbirds either. Lanny Lanny Randolph southcentral Nebraska 50370 24th rd Gibbon, Ne. 68840 308-468-5057 Marshwren@nctc.net (home) RandolphL@UNK.edu (work)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:05:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jan Johnson <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Subject: Re: Eastern Kingbirds
The kingbirds have disappeared from ne NE too. Last Sunday I saw a total
of 3 but have not seen any since.
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Jan Johnson ___ Children are a message
Wakefield Community Schools <*,*> we send to a time we
Wakefield, NE 68784 ['-'] will not see.
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From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Subject: RE: Eastern Kingbirds
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:07:59 -0500
Jan and all,
I saw several migrating south past Hitchcock last weekend. I suppose that
the big movements of kingbirds, like those of other passerine species, take
place at night. Thus, the birds appear to have simply vanished.
I'm going to try some observations at Hitchcock in a week or two with night
vision equipment that has 800 meter+ effective resolution distance and an
infra-red illuminator that has a 500 meter range. I don't know whether this
will allow me to see any migrating passerines though. I know little of the
dynamics of songbird migration at night and have no idea how high the
passing flocks would fly...
Mark O
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Johnson [mailto:jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 12:05 PM
To: NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu
Subject: Re: Eastern Kingbirds
The kingbirds have disappeared from ne NE too. Last Sunday I saw a total
of 3 but have not seen any since.
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Jan Johnson ___ Children are a message
Wakefield Community Schools <*,*> we send to a time we
Wakefield, NE 68784 ['-'] will not see.
jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us _"_"_
From: "Susan J. Herrick" <th41814@mail.navix.net> Subject: RE: burrowing owl shirts Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:32:08 -0500 -----Original Message----- From: Paseka, Janis [SMTP:paseka@tvsonline.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 10:27 AM To: NeBirds Subject: burrowing owl shirts NEBirders: This is your last chance (really - I plan to place the order this week) to order a 100th anniversary commemorative NOU T-shirt. They are 100% cotton and feature the famous George Miksch Sutton burrowing owl. They're available in M, L, XL and XXL in natural, sage green, or stone-washed blue for $10. You may pick them up at the fall meeting in Halsey, or we can make other arrangements to get them to you. An added bonus is the reputation these shirts are getting for their reputed ability to enhance one's odds of finding a given bird. Certain NOU members have even been known to refer to them as their 'lucky' shirts. Of course we all know that 'luck' is merely a superstition, and the NOU makes no guarantees as to the quality of your birding experiences while wearing these shirts! Janis Paseka paseka@tvsonline.net
From: "Dave Rintoul" <drintoul@ksu.edu> Subject: SEWR migration data collection Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:57:40 -0500 If you see a banded sedge wren.... -----Original Message----- From: Steve Johnson [mailto:sjohnson@bio.umass.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 3:52 PM Subject: SEWR migration data collection Dear Birder, First let me apologize for sending you a form letter. The purpose of this letter is to contact and involve anyone interested in helping me collect data on the site fidelity and migration patters of Sedge Wrens. I'm a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts studying the patterns (or lack there of) of this species' migration with Dr. Don Kroodsma. Anyone within the over-wintering and breeding ranges of Sedge Wrens who would like to participate in my study is more than welcome. Over the course of the 1999 breeding season I color-banded 87 Sedge Wrens on their breeding grounds. The number of banded Sedge Wrens should (hopefully!) increase as I band additional birds on their over wintering grounds this year, and continue to band birds through out their range for the next 3-4 years. I realize the chances of spotting one of these banded birds is extremely slim, however, even a few sightings would provide invaluable data on this species. It has become apparent that the most effective way to locate these birds again is through the help of volunteers. Obviously the more binoculars trained on the habitats of Sedge Wrens the better. If you would like to search for Sedge Wrens in your area, or if you have happened to spot a banded bird or if you would like more information on my research, please contact me via e-mail, telephone or mail. My e-mail address is: sjohnson@umass.bio.edu My office address is: Steve Johnson Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Morrill Science Center University of Massachusetts Box 5810 Amherst, MA 01003-5810 My office phone # is: (413) 545-0068 My home phone # is: (413) 323-5748 I also wish to apologize to the MANY birders who have offered directions and information on Sedge Wrens over the last year. I was not able to contact everyone I had hoped to during my field seasons this year, I was looking forward to meeting so many of you. I greatly appreciate your help and involvement and will do my best to follow up more of your leads over the next year. Please feel free to pass this letter onto anyone whom you feel may wish to participate. Thank you for your time and help. - Steve Johnson
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:14:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jan Johnson <jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us>
Subject: FW: Action Needed: EMERGENCY Virus Information (fwd)
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me about a new, dangerous virus that her company warned her about. Please
read it so you will not become infected!
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Jan Johnson ___ Children are a message
Wakefield Community Schools <*,*> we send to a time we
Wakefield, NE 68784 ['-'] will not see.
jjohnson@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us _"_"_
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:08:57 -0500
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Subject: FW: Action Needed: EMERGENCY Virus Information
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:20:46 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 9/10/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * September 10, 1999 * NEST9909.10 - Birds Mentioned Ibis sp. Upland Sandpiper Lazuli Bunting Golden Eagle Cassin's Kingbird Ferruginous Hawk Burrowing Owl Sabine's Gull Common Tern Olive-sided Flycatcher Great Egret Snowy Egret MacGillivray's Warbler Ruddy Turnstone Cinnamon Teal Short-billed Dowitcher Red-necked Phalarope American White Pelican Black-crowned Night-Heron Sora American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Stilt Sandpiper Black Tern Marsh Wren Lincoln's Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Red-breasted Nuthatch Nashville Warbler Tennessee Warbler Black-and-White Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Scarlet Tanager Black-throated Green Warbler Pileated Woodpecker Osprey Cooper's Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk Broad-winged Hawk - Transcript Tape Number: 402-292-5325 Compilers: Babs & Loren Padelford Transcriber: Loren Padelford (lpdlfrd@juno.com) Welcome to an update of the Nebraska Birdline, sponsored by the Audubon Society of Omaha, for Friday, September 10th. In western Nebraska in Kimball County on the 4th, 14 IBIS (sp.), an UPLAND SANDPIPER & 8 LAZULI BUNTINGS were seen at Oliver Reservoir. On the 2nd, an immature GOLDEN EAGLE was also seen at Oliver Reservoir. On the 2nd, 11 CASSIN'S KINGBIRDS were found in southwest Kimball County. On the 4th in Scotts Bluff County, a FERRUGINOUS HAWK & 11 BURROWING OWLS were seen. On the 3rd, a juvenile SABINE'S GULL, a COMMON TERN & an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER were found at Lake Minatare. On the 3rd, a GREAT EGRET, a SNOWY EGRET & a MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER were seen at Winters Creek Lake. On the 3rd & 4th, a juvenile RUDDY TURNSTONE was spotted east of the Gering sewage lagoons. Also on the 3rd, 2 CINNAMON TEAL, a SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER & a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE were found at the Scottsbluff sewage lagoons. In central Nebraska in Phelps County on the 7th, the following species were seen at Funk Lagoon: 20 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, 13 GREAT EGRETS, 4 SORAS, an AMERICAN AVOCET, 5 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 9 STILT SANDPIPERS, 35 BLACK TERNS, 3 MARSH WRENS & a LINCOLN'S SPARROW. On the 7th in Buffalo County, a SAVANNAH SPARROW was seen 3.5 miles south of Gibbon. In eastern Nebraska in Sarpy County on the 9th the following species were found in Fontenelle Forest: a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, a NASHVILLE WARBLER, a TENNESSEE WARBLER, a BLACK-AND- WHITE WARBLER, 2 YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS & a female SCARLET TANAGER. On the 5th, a BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER was spotted in Schramm State Park. On August 30th, 4 PILEATED WOODPECKERS were seen in the area of the new pond south of the Wetlands Center in Fontenelle Forest. In Iowa north of Crescent on the 8th, 2 OSPREYS, a COOPER'S HAWK, 2 SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS & 7 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS were seen at Hitchcock Nature Area. On Saturday the 18th, ASO will sponsor a field trip to Waubonsie State Park in southwest Iowa. Meet at 7:30 am in the southeast corner of Southroads parking lot. 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
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:09:30 +0100 From: "Robert I. Price" <price@rip.physics.unk.edu> Subject: Re: FW: Action Needed: EMERGENCY Virus Information (fwd) >My daughter works at Gateway Computers and she forwarded this message to >me about a new, dangerous virus that her company warned her about. Please >read it so you will not become infected! > Jan Johnson I humbly apologize for not doing my job. I have failed to make sure each and every one of you understands why warnings such as the one Jan sent are a complete waste of time, energy, and bandwidth. Bob Rankin & Patrick Crispen have been producing the Internet Tourbus for many years. http://www.TOURBUS.com There is a wealth of information in their Tourbus archives. I will extract some of their material and try to make sure Every subscriber is aware of why they should NEVER send a virus warning to ANYBODY again as long as they shall live. amen In the meantime, if you feel the urge to inform us of some impending doom due to viruses, Y2K, et cetera. Reconsider, and *please* restrain yourself. RIP * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Do not try the patience of wizards . . . * * for their ways are strange and mysterious. * * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * Dr. Robert I. Price H: (308)234-5961 * * Department of Physics O: (308)865-8282 * * University of Nebraska at price@rip.physics.unk.edu * * Kearney, Nebraska 68849-1160 http://rip.physics.unk.edu * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:26:48 -0500 From: "Gubanyi,Joe" <jgubanyi@seward.cune.edu> Subject: Seward County birds On Thursday, September 9, 1 mile west of Seward, 95 snow geese were seen high overhead flying south. On the same day, the following birds were seen at Straight Water WMA south of Tamara: double-crested cormorant - great egrets - 11 great blue herons - 6 immature little blue heron - 1 snow goose - 1 blue-winged teal - 50+ American coots - 2 common snipe - 1 im. black tern - 1 On Saturday, September 11, the following birds were seen: At North Basin WMA near Utica: brown-headed cowbirds ~ 500 (in milo fields just east of WMA; (I looked for shiny cowbird, but to no avail) yellow-headed blackbirds - 10 marsh wrens - 2 bobolinks (fall plumage) - 30 (one flock of 25) n. harrier - 1 bank swallows - 25 barn swallows - 35 At Spike Rush WMA (in York County) great egrets - 3 great blue herons - 5 American bitterns - 2 white-faced ibis (or if you prefer, dark ibis) - 3 n. harrier - 1 Virginia rail - 1 marsh wrens - 8 savannah sparrow - 5 I am frustrated! There is no migrant shorebird habitat in Seward County. Joseph Gubanyi Concordia University Seward, NE 68434 (402) 643-7316 jgubanyi@seward.cune.edu
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:16:48 +0100
From: "Robert I. Price" <price@rip.physics.unk.edu>
Subject: F.Y.I. VirusFaq online
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and what you should know about them. If anybody ever sends
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From: marshwren@nctc.net (Randolph and Harding) Subject: [NeBirds] 9/11 small marvels Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:06:57 -0500 Hi Nebraska birders, Saturday, September 11 in Buffalo County, three and a half miles southeast of Gibbon, Robin and I saw seventeen Black-billed magpies and about 3000 Common Grackles fly through, around and over our yard. The large flock of grackles and the small flock of magpies did not come through at the same time. In Kearney County in the sandhills between the Platte River Valley and the Rainwater Basin south of Gibbon we saw a Loggerhead Shrike, at least one Bell's Vireo, about twenty Clay-colored Sparrows, a Savannah Sparrow and a female Blue Grosbeak. At Gleason WPA we saw three Greater Prairie-Chickens, about 25 Clay-colored Sparrows and a Lincoln's Sparrow. A mile south of Gleason WPA we saw a Cooper's Hawk. Still in Kearney County a half mile south of Wilcox and just west of highway 44 we saw a Swainson's Hawk. At Sacramento/Wilcox SWMA we saw another Cooper's Hawk. In Phelps County at Funk Lagoon, we saw about 25 Pied-billed Grebes with about fifteen in one group actively diving (counted fifteen on the surface at one time), 52 American White Pelicans, a Great Egret, ten Cattle Egrets, an immature Black-crowned Night-Heron, a dark ibis species, a Greater White-fronted Goose, about 45 Northern Pintails, a Ruddy Duck, yet another Cooper's Hawk, two more Swainson's Hawks, two Sora, a Black Tern, about 2000 Red-winged Blackbirds, about 2000 Yellow-headed Blackbirds. Back at home, Robin saw an Orange-crowned Warbler. Most of the Common Grackles that swept through our yard today had short tails. There was no doubt what species we were dealing with here, just from the noise of the flock. So why the short tails? They were almost all adults, very few brown ones. Is this the way that they molt or something? Besides the flock of Yellow-headed Blackbirds and the flock of Red-winged Blackbirds at Funk Lagoon we also saw a larger flock of unidentified blackbirds off in the distance. I understand a big storm swept through Funk Lagoon about two hours after we left there. Robin just now commented to me that we were both wearing our lucky NOU T-shirts, and sure enough, we were. But, we all know that is just a superstition. 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: lizprints@webtv.net (elizabeth allen) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:48:46 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Bird searching Took a trip north on I 299 from Omaha. Went to the Missouri River Access WMA . This is at the Whiting exit , the next one after Onawa where Lewis and Clark Park is located . Last spring I was there and there were literally thousands of ducks and geese spread out among all the little lakes in the area. Tonight we had great blue heron, gadwall, woody, pied bill grebe, cormorant. We left the MO River Access and went to the Lewis and Clark park area. On the marsh side of the road across from Blue Lake there were thousands of yellow headed blackbirds settling down in the marsh grass. They were still coming in when it got too difficult to identify them. Other than 2 blue herons an a pied bill grebe the lake was visibly empty as were most of the ponds/lakes at the WMA. The woods were also extremely quiet. Betty Allen Omaha, NE
From: NevaLCP@aol.com Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:53:56 EDT Subject: Re:Viruses (and birds) For the record, while the majority of these "impending doom, send to everyone you know" notices are complete bunk, the ExploreZip virus is very real. You can check it out at S<A HREF="http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html">ymantec AntiVirus research Center </A> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html <A HREF="http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.explore.zip.html"> </A>This is my favorite virus information site. A good place to check on suspected Virus and Urban Legend Hoaxes is <A HREF="http://urbanlegends.about.com/index.htm?COB=home&PID=2733">Urban Legends and Folklore - Home Page</A> http://urbanlegends.about.com/index.htm?COB=home&PID=2733 And just so this has something about avians, the air over Memorial Stadium was full of swallows during the first half of the game yesterday. Some would swoop in quite low at times. They were mostly Barn Swallows. I think the ones with unforked tails were Rough-wings. I couldn't pick up any field marks for other species. Neva Pruess Lincoln, NE
From: "Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net> Subject: east. RWB report/se Wash Co Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:44:40 -0500 Hello. I made a very quick paced to the eastern Rainwater Basin (which is once again starting to become very dry in much of the region) on Sat 11 Sept and birded a little bit in southeast washington county on sunday 12 sept. Below is what I found. Joel Jorgensen. -------- 11 Sept eRWB 18 Great Egrets 28 Cattle Egrets 5 Black-crowned Night-herons thousands of ducks 18 Am Avocets 31 Greater Yellowlegs 13 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Spotted Sandpiper 10 Semipalmated Sandpipers 73 Least Sandpipers 3 Baird's Sandpipers 3 Pectoral Sandpipers 66 Stilt Sandpipers 52 Long-billed Dowitchers 7 Common Snipe 11 Wilson's Phalaropes 1 Eastern Kingbird (perhaps the last one for the year) 2 Bank Swallows alot of Savannah Sparrows (100++) 12 Sept, southeast Washington Co 2 Eastern Pheobe 4 Empids 1 Blue-headed Vireo 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8 Nashville Warblers 2 Tennessee Warblers 2 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Magnolia Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 American Redstart 2 Scarlet Tanagers 5 Indigo Buntings 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks 4 Eastern Towhees
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:12:57 +0100 From: "Robert I. Price" <price@rip.physics.unk.edu> Subject: Re:Viruses (and birds) >For the record, while the majority of these "impending doom, send to everyone >you know" notices are complete bunk, the ExploreZip virus is very real. In view of the fact that this was sent though NeBirds I really must respond. For the record: I am a computer geek of the First Order. I don't program computers using Fortran, Basic, Assembly or any other wimpy high level programing language. I prefer the 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A, B,C,D,E and F (actually 0s and 1s) of machine code. I know about viruses, and I know they are real. But what good does it do to tell someone to watch out for a file named Worm.ExploreZip why not tell them about Satan.666Zip or God.Loves.YouZip? If we have discussed the fact that I will be sending you a clean file named Worm.ExploreZip you should treat it the same way you treat ANY file set to you. *With a great deal of caution!* If you don't you may get bit and catch a virus. So, please read http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/ and browse http://www.TOURBUS.com/ and don't broadcast virus warning messages throughout the InterNet. >And just so this has something about avians I just received this announcement from birdcenter.com I hope this would be of interest to people on this list. <snip> >Accipiter News by birdcenter.com > >Welcome to birdcenter.com's first news letter, the "Accipiter". Just click >here to get your copy- http://www.birdcenter.com/accipiterframe.htm - We >thank you for your patience. Considering that this is our first news letter, >we will be adding more content and interesting features for wild birder's >every month, like birding stories, tips, and more. We will eventually be >adding a discussion site also to allow visitors to share ideas and advice >for birding. So, with the help of all of our visitors, we will be able to >make this a truly interactive news letter. So please, if you have anything >of interest that should be included on our future news letter, please let us >know and submit them. > >Thank you > >Birdcenter.com </snip> RIP
From: "Wanda Hoge" <jacana@swnebr.net> Subject: Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:29:17 -0000 Today over the lake and on the lake we saw l00s of Gulls mostly Franklin with some Ringbilled Also had 4 Forester's Terns. Some barn Swallows yet and Turkey Vulture's Glen and Wanda Alma
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Subject: HNA Second week
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:34:21 -0500
> Greetings,
>
> The Hitchcock Nature Area (HNA) is located in the Loess Hills on the
Iowa side of the Iowa-Nebraska border overlooking the Missouri River Valley
to the west. The watch is easily accessible from the intersection of
Interstate Highways 680 and 29; take Iowa 988 into the town of Crescent,
Iowa. From Crescent, take Route 183 north to HNA. Some counting has been
done at HNA since 1992. This year, counting of raptors, vultures and other
migrants is being done on a part-time basis during the September 1-December
15 period. There are three watchpoints at HNA; most counting, however, has
been done from the deck of the park's lodge. HNA will remain an undercounted
site until staffing improves or a higher vantage point is created.
Fall 1999
So far this is shaping up as a fairly typical fall. 1st weekend was way
above average, but the second week has brought us back to normality. Once
again, however, we did manage a triple digit day in the first half of
September. Unusually high counts so far for Osprey (the record should fall),
Red-tail (what's with these early -moving imms.?), Coopers, and Swainson's.
Sharpies, Broad-wings, and American Kestrels are a bit slow. We have
coverage today, but then maybe not again until "prime time" begins next
weekend.
As to the rarer stuff, no Merlins yet but two Peregrines already! Lots of
interesting other migrants besides raptors and vultures. Very poor
warblering, however, and no start to the annual massive Blue Jay movement
yet. I'll have a full "dicky bird" report at the end of the month.
Our hours are way up, but it has been more or less all from the Lodge.
Hopefully, this will change...
9/6 and 9/9= no counter
Species 9/7 9/8 9/10 9/11 9/12 YTD
Turkey Vulture 6 9 22 48 14 190
Osprey 1 2 2 13 4 25
Northern Harrier 0 1 0 0 1 4
Sharp-sh. Hawk 1 2 2 30 17 53
Cooper's Hawk 0 1 0 12 7 26
Swainson's Hawk 0 0 0 2 2 14*
Broad-wing.Hawk 0 8 0 21 9 41
Red-tailed Hawk 0 3 1 11 23 45**
Amer. Kestrel 1 3 1 0 6 28
Merlin 0 0 0 0 0 0
Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0 0 1 2
unid. raptor 0 0 0 1 6 9
Totals 4/9 7/29 5/28 7/138 10/90 10/440
*Indicates 1 dark morph individual.
** Indicates 1 dark morph (indeterminate) individual
Total Hours: 4.0 3.75 3.5 8.75 8.5 42.8
Max Obs: 1 3 1 3 6
Points manned: 1 1 1 2 1
H.Temp: 85+ 80 85 75 73
Wind: SSE NNW Calm Var. WNW
Skies: Clear Clear Clear PC PC
> Best wishes,
> Mark Orsag
> morsag@doane.edu
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:04:38 -0500 From: paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis) Subject: VirusFaq Please send a copy of your VirusFaq.
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu>
Subject: HNA Second week
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:00:26 -0500
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Orsag
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 9:34 AM
To: 'Nebirds@rip.physics.unk.edu'
Cc: 'BIRDHAWK@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU'
Subject: HNA Second week
Greetings,
The Hitchcock Nature Area (HNA) is located in the Loess Hills on the
Iowa side of the Iowa-Nebraska border overlooking the Missouri River Valley
to the west. The watch is easily accessible from the intersection of
Interstate Highways 680 and 29; take Iowa 988 into the town of Crescent,
Iowa. From Crescent, take Route 183 north to HNA. Some counting has been
done at HNA since 1992. This year, counting of raptors, vultures and other
migrants is being done on a part-time basis during the September 1-December
15 period. There are three watchpoints at HNA; most counting, however, has
been done from the deck of the park's lodge. HNA will remain an undercounted
site until staffing improves or a higher vantage point is created.
Fall 1999
So far this is shaping up as a fairly typical fall. 1st weekend was way
above average, but the second week has brought us back to normality. Once
again, however, we did manage a triple digit day in the first half of
September. Unusually high counts so far for Osprey (the record should fall),
Red-tail (what's with these early -moving imms.?), Coopers, and Swainson's.
Sharpies, Broad-wings, and American Kestrels are a bit slow. We have
coverage today, but then maybe not again until "prime time" begins next
weekend.
As to the rarer stuff, no Merlins yet but two Peregrines already! Lots of
interesting other migrants besides raptors and vultures. Very poor
warblering, however, and no start to the annual massive Blue Jay movement
yet. I'll have a full "dicky bird" report at the end of the month.
Our hours are way up, but it has been more or less all from the Lodge.
Hopefully, this will change...
9/6 and 9/9= no counter
Species 9/7 9/8 9/10 9/11 9/12 YTD
Turkey Vulture 6 9 22 48 14 190
Osprey 1 2 2 13 4 25
Northern Harrier 0 1 0 0 1 4
Sharp-sh. Hawk 1 2 2 30 17 53
Cooper's Hawk 0 1 0 12 7 26
Swainson's Hawk 0 0 0 2 2 14*
Broad-wing.Hawk 0 8 0 21 9 41
Red-tailed Hawk 0 3 1 11 23 45**
Amer. Kestrel 1 3 1 0 6 28
Merlin 0 0 0 0 0 0
Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0 0 1 2
unid. raptor 0 0 0 1 6 9
Totals 4/9 7/29 5/28 7/138 10/90 10/440
*Indicates 1 dark morph individual.
** Indicates 1 dark morph (indeterminate) individual
Total Hours: 4.0 3.75 3.5 8.75 8.5 42.8
Max Obs: 1 3 1 3 6
Points manned: 1 1 1 2 1
H.Temp: 85+ 80 85 75 73
Wind: SSE NNW Calm Var. WNW
Skies: Clear Clear Clear PC PC
> Best wishes,
> Mark Orsag
> morsag@doane.edu
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:55:57 -0400 Subject: unsubscribe Nebirds From: Janet Ronald whitaker <ronjanw@juno.com>
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Hitchcock Hawks Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:24:48 -0500 Just wanted to thank Mark for his interesting posts on hawk-counting progress. Keep up the good work, and I (along with the rest of us) will follow the thickening plot as fall continues! Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
From: cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:56:59 CDT Subject: Hitchcock Hawk Watch Birders, This is not a report of sightings for today. Just wanted to mention that it was very windy and few birds were moving. Craig Hensley and I spent several hours observing roughly from 10:00 to 3:00. One interesting note was to watch a Broadwing Hawk soar past us while it was having lunch, or maybe late breakfast. It had what looked like some kind of rodent in its talons and while soaring continued to pull pieces of red meat off and eat it. I have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time! Neat to see. Good Birding. Clem Klaphake Bellevue, NE
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: RE: Hitchcock Hawk Watch Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:23:10 -0500 Clem, This is definitely one for the behavior section (i.e. "packing a lunch" section of the year end report. We've already had more than our share of dramas this season. The Padelfords witnessed quite a Coopers vs. Broad-wing duel, I have seen Chimney Swifts vs. a Sharp-shinned Hawk, two immature Red-tails sparring over a young squirrel, and a Swainson's hunting monarchs. Mark O -----Original Message----- From: cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu [mailto:cnk@scholars.bellevue.edu] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 7:57 PM To: nebirds@rip.physics.unk.edu Subject: Hitchcock Hawk Watch Birders, This is not a report of sightings for today. Just wanted to mention that it was very windy and few birds were moving. Craig Hensley and I spent several hours observing roughly from 10:00 to 3:00. One interesting note was to watch a Broadwing Hawk soar past us while it was having lunch, or maybe late breakfast. It had what looked like some kind of rodent in its talons and while soaring continued to pull pieces of red meat off and eat it. I have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time! Neat to see. Good Birding. Clem Klaphake Bellevue, NE
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: RE: Hitchcock Hawks Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:28:36 -0500 Ross and all, Thanks, Ross. It has indeed been a tangled web/mixed bag so far! Hope to see you up there! Mark O -----Original Message----- From: Ross Silcock [mailto:silcock@sidney.heartland.net] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 6:25 PM To: NEBIRDS Subject: Hitchcock Hawks Just wanted to thank Mark for his interesting posts on hawk-counting progress. Keep up the good work, and I (along with the rest of us) will follow the thickening plot as fall continues! Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:22:13 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 9/14/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * September 14, 1999 * NEST9909.14 - Birds Mentioned Greater Prairie-Chicken Clay-Colored Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Cooper's Hawk Loggerhead Shrike Bell's Vireo Savannah Sparrow Blue Grosbeak Pied-billed Grebe American White Pelican Black-crowned Night-Heron Ibis (dark) Sora Black Tern Yellow-headed Blackbird Black-billed Magpie Orange-crowned Warbler Great Egret Cattle Egret American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Franklin's Gull Forster's Tern American Bittern Virginia Rail Marsh Wren Savannah Sparrow Snow Goose Double-crested Cormorant Little Blue Heron Eastern Phoebe Blue-headed Vireo Ruby-crowned Kinglet Nashville Warbler Tennessee Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Magnolia Warbler Wilson's Warbler American Redstart Scarlet Tanager - Transcript Tape Number: 402 292-5325 Compilers: Babs & Loren Padelford Transcriber: Babs Padelford (lpdlfrd@juno.com) Welcome to an update of the Nebraska Birdline, sponsored by the Audubon Society of Omaha, for Tuesday, September 14th. In central Nebraska in Kearney County on the 11th, 3 GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKENS, 25 CLAY- COLORED SPARROWS & a LINCOLN'S SPARROW were found at Gleason WPA. A COOPER'S HAWK was spotted a mile south of Gleason. In the sandhills area between the Platte River Valley & the Rainwater Basin south of Gibbon, a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, a BELL'S VIREO, 20 CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, a SAVANNAH SPARROW & a BLUE GROSBEAK were seen. In Phelps County on the 11th, the following species were seen at Funk Lagoon: 25 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 52 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, a dark IBIS, a COOPER'S HAWK, 2 SORAS, a BLACK TERN & 2,000 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS. In Buffalo County on the 11th, 17 BLACK- BILLED MAGPIES & an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER were seen 3.5 miles south of Gibbon. In the eastern Rainwater Basin on the 11th, the following species were seen: 18 GREAT EGRETS, 28 CATTLE EGRETS, 5 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, 18 AMERICAN AVOCETS, 31 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 13 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 10 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 73 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 3 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 3 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 66 STILT SANDPIPERS, 52 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 7 COMMON SNIPE & 11 WILSON'S PHALAROPES. In Harlan County on the 12th, several hundred FRANKLIN'S GULLS & 4 FORSTER'S TERNS were seen at Harlan Reservoir. In eastern Nebraska in York County on the 11th the following species were found at Spikerush WMA: 3 GREAT EGRETS, 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, 3 dark IBIS, a VIRGINIA RAIL, 8 MARSH WRENS & 5 SAVANNAH SPARROWS. In Seward County on the 11th, 2 MARSH WRENS & 30 BOBOLINKS were found at North Lake Basin WMA north of Utica. On the 9th, 95 SNOW GEESE were seen 1 mile west of Seward. Also on the 9th, a DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT, 11 GREAT EGRETS, an immature LITTLE BLUE HERON & a COMMON SNIPE were seen at Straight Water WMA south of Tamara. In southeast Washington County on the 12th, 2 EASTERN PHOEBES, a BLUE-HEADED VIREO, 2 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, 8 NASHVILLE WARBLERS, 2 TENNESSEE WARBLERS, 2 ORANGE- CROWNED WARBLERS, a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, a MAGNOLIA WARBLER, a WILSON'S WARBLER, an AMERICAN REDSTART & 2 SCARLET TANAGERS were seen. On Saturday the 18th, ASO will sponsor a field trip to Waubonsie State Park in southwest Iowa. Meet at 7:30 am in the southeast corner of Southroads parking lot. 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: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: Hitchcock weekend Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:16:58 -0500 Hi all, Just a quick update on how things are going at the hawkwatch so far. Though I don't have the data for Monday yet, I can say that our total count stands somewhere around 450-475 raptors and vultures so far. That is a bit slow given our increased coverage this season, but we have already recorded 10 different species (three better than last year at this time). We have also seen a wide-range of other interesting migrants including White Pelican, Caspian Tern, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Summer Tanager and many more. This weekend generally marks the start of the main movement of raptors and our delayed radios should finally be in place. Looking at the forecast, it is hard to make prediction as to what might be the best day, but my "gut feeling" is that it will be Saturday. Take that for what its worth... Hope to see people out there. We should have coverage late Friday afternoon and more or less all day on Saturday and Sunday barring inclement weather. There is big raptor movement to the north and east of us at Hawk Ridge and our big Blue Jay flights should be coming soon... Mark O
From: NRATZLAFF@aol.com
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:05:15 EDT
Subject: Standing Bear Lake Sightings
A walk around Standing Bear Lake (northwest Omaha) yesterday (9/14/99)
afternoon was pretty uneventful until I scanned the lake itself. It revealed:
23 Cattle Egrets
1 Great Egret
1 Ring-billed Gull
A raft of about 150 waterfowl including:
About 100 Blue-winged Teal
25 Pied-billed Grebes
5 other grebes that were different and spent most of the time
with their
heads tucked which I think were Eared Grebes.
4 American Coots
Had a Red-breasted Nuthatch in my yard this morning.
Neal Ratzlaff
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:12:41 -0500 From: borris <borris@cornhusker.net> Subject: unsubscribe Nebirds
From: "Wanda Hoge" <jacana@swnebr.net> Subject: Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:02:17 -0000 They are late coming back this year but today had 60+ White Pelican's on the lake Good birding from Alma. Glen and Wanda
From: "Joel Jorgensen" <zrtac@genesisnet.net> Subject: east. RWB report/se Wash. Co. Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:33:00 -0500 Hello all. I birded the eastern RWB on saturday, 18 sept. Unfortunately for me it was that youth hunting day thingy so many of the basins that still have water were infiltrated by hunters (and fewer birds as a result). Also, things are really starting to get dry all the sudden out there. I birded southeastern washington co a little while sunday morning. below is what I found. Joel Jorgensen ------------------ 18 Sept, eRWB 3 Black-crowned Night-heron 1 plegadis Ibis 4 Sora 2 American Golden-plovers 11 American Avocets 43 Greater Yellowlegs 26 Lesser Yellowlegs 13 Semipalmated Sandpipers 41 Least Sandpipers 7 Pectoral Sandpipers 58 Stilt Sandpipers 69 Long-billed Dowitchers 4 Common Sninpes 2 Wilson's Phalarope 1 Red-necked Phalarope 19 Sept, Washinton Co. 5 Eastern Pheobes 2 Empidonax Flycatchers 9 Tree Swallows 2 Bank Swallows 1 Cliff Swallow (all the swallows were with a big flock of barns at Nathan's Lake) 2 Blue-headed Vireos 1 Philadelphia Vireo 1 Carolina Wren 6 Nashvilled Warblers 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Scarlet Tanager 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 White-throated Sparrow
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Birds Sun am Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:25:52 -0500 NeBirders: Went out this morning se Otoe Co, Rakes Creek WMA, Schilling Refuge. Pretty slow. Thought the front might cause some activity, but wrong again! Most interesting birds: Snowy Egret 4 (se Otoe Co) Great Blue Heron 36 (roosting together se Otoe Co) House Wren 2 (getting kinda late) Rough-winged Swallow 275 (two large flocks) Carolina Wren 2 Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Fw: Name Sandhill Crane, Help Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:09:44 -0500 Sandhill Crane fans: Does anyone know when the vernacular name "Sandhill Crane" first came int= o use? I'll bet Dr Johnsgard does! Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- > From: Robert Righter <rrighter@sni.net> > To: Cobirds <cobirds@lists.Colorado.EDU> > Subject: Name Sandhill Crane, Help > Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 5:38 AM > > Cobirders: > > I¹m trying to find out if anyone knows when the name "Sandhill" becam= e the accepted vernacular name for this crane species. > > This crane was discovered by someone associated with the Hudson Bay Company and was formally introduced to science by George Edwards, an Englishman, in the late 1740s. The species was reclassified by Linneaus i= n 1758 who assigned the scientific name Grus Canadensis. I just assume from that time forward the crane was vernacularly known as the Canadian Crane? Since Alexander Wilson mostly operated out of Philadelphia, his informati= on about birds came from what he himself discovered and what was available a= t Peale¹s Museum, the leading natural history museum in America at that t= ime. Peale¹s Museum received its first specimen of the Sandhill Crane in 182= 0 with the return of the Long Expedition; this was seven years after Wilson died in 1813. Previous to that date, Wilson thought that the smaller gray cranes that were often associated with the larger Whooping Cranes were ju= st the young of the Whooping Crane. Since the Long Expedition traveled throu= gh the Sandhills of Nebraska on th! > eir way to Colorado, it would be logical to summarize the Sandhill Cran= e was collected in this biome and the vernacular name Sandhill started to become the accepted common name from this time forward? > > Bob Righter > Denver, Co > rrighter@sni.net
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:17:13 -0500 Subject: Saturday birding at Waubonise From: Moni J Usasz <musasz@juno.com> Susan Herrick and I went up to Waubonsie to do a little hawk watching - were there for several hours - 9-11:30am and saw nada! Maybe Omaha Audubon saw more? We spent a little time looking at the marshy ponds along road back into Nebraska City and saw quite a few Egrets and Great Blue Herons and a lone kestrel. We did finally see some larger flying birds - a 70-80 bird flock of pelicans and quite a few vultures. As we were watching the vultures, we found what we at first thought was a hawk but given it's size and flat wings, it had to be an immature bald eagle. That was around noon. Did anyone see an immature baldie at Hitchcock earlier that morning? We're curious. I did see a probable sharp-shinned hawk flying over my backyard later that afternoon! Moni Usasz ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 16:02:55 -0500
From: paseka@tvsonline.net (Paseka, Janis)
Subject: Re: Saturday birding at Waubonise
Moni and others,
Janis and I drove down to Waubonsie Friday afternoon and camped
there that night. In the evening we checked out the heron roost south of
highway 2 with the following numbers:
Great-tailed grackle 6
Pie-billed grebe 1
Great egret 210
Snowy egret 2
Cattle egret 25
Great blue heron 10
Black-crowned night
heron 8
Yellow-crowned night
heron 1
Green heron 1
Sora 3
Common snipe 1
D. c. cormorant 46
Wood duck 40
Canada goose 6
Camping Friday night was very comfortable and we were serenaded
by a couple of barred owls for much of the night and a whip-poor-will at
dawn.
We met up with the ASO bunch after breakfast. Some of the
better birds were summer tanager, black-throated green warbler and
bay-breasted warbler. We also saw a sharp-shinned and a broad-winged
hawk while still down in the trees. Hopefully someone could supply you
with a complete list.
In late morning we retired to a ridge top to watch for hawks,
but other than one sharpie and what was probably the same flock of
pelicans that you saw with Susan, the time was mostly spent eating
lunch and comparing camp chairs.
On the way home, we did spot an osprey just north of Council
Bluffs along I-29.
Don Paseka
From: "Susan J. Herrick" <th41814@mail.navix.net> Subject: Hawks at Hawk Ridge,MN Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:34:20 -0500 An e-mail came to me from a friend in WI monitoring the Hawk Ridge results and I was happy to hear someone is seeing a lot of hawks. Friday September 17th. 46,819 birds were counted flying over Hawk Ridge, Duluth MN. This is one of the best days they have had there reports the naturalist Kim Eckert. Frank Nicoletti, and his assistants Jim Tietz and Jeff Pentel were the counters. Hawk Ridge is almost always a worth while fall trip. I've been there many times and always enjoyed the experience. Susan Herrick, Lincoln NE.
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:14:59 -0500 From: marshwren@nctc.net (Harding and Randolph) Subject: Polish Herons in Phelps Co. Nebraska birders, On Sunday, Setember 19, Richard Luehrs, Lanny Randolph and I went birding together. In Phelps County, at the Odessa Platte River bridge, we saw an Osprey. We saw another one later in the day along the Platte River at the Kearney/Phelps County line. Between the Odessa bridge and Funk Lagoon, we saw a Cooper's Hawk associated with a huge flock of blackbirds. We saw several giant flocks of blackbirds today and when we were able to identify them, they were mostly European Starlings, Brown-headed Cowbirds and Common Grackles with some Yellow-headed Blackbirds and Red-winged Blackbirds. In Phelps County, two miles east of Johnson WPA, we saw a Sharp- shinned Hawk and three Black-billed Magpies. At Johnson WPA, we bumped into the birding bubbas (Mark Urwiller, John Kozak and John Murphy). They had Bruce Eichhorst with them, a new professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. At Johnson WPA, we saw two Ruddy Ducks. We saw another pair of Ruddys later at Funk Lagoon. Somewhere between Johnson and Funk WPAs, we saw two silly Great Blue Herons perched on top of a power pole. I don't remember ever seeing such a thing before. At Funk Lagoon, we saw about six Northern Pintails, about 6000 Blue-winged Teal, about 1000 American Coots, three Great Egrets, a Sora, a Greater White-fronted Goose, another Cooper's Hawk, an immature Black-crowned Night-Heron and an American Bittern. Two miles east of Funk Lagoon, in Kearney County, we saw another Sora. Flying over downtown Kearney, we saw about 100 Chimney Swifts. I thought all the Chimney Swifts had gone since I had not seen any for a while. Two miles west of our home in Buffalo County, we saw two Savannah Sparrows. What have you been seeing? Robin Harding marshwren@nctc.net
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:15:04 -0500 Subject: Nebraska Birdline for 9/19/99 From: "Loren J. Padelford" <lpdlfrd@juno.com> - RBA * Nebraska * Statewide * September 19, 1999 * NEST9909.19 - Birds Mentioned Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Carolina Wren Nashville Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Wilson's Warbler Scarlet Tanager White-throated Sparrow Snowy Egret Great Blue Heron Bay-breasted Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow Eared Grebe Great Egret Cattle Egret Red-breasted Nuthatch Orange-crowned Warbler Tennessee Warbler Osprey Sharp-shinned Hawk Ruby-crowned Kinglet Cooper's Hawk Black-crowned Night-Heron dark Ibis Sora American Golden-Plover American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Northern Pintail American Bittern American White Pelican Merlin Peregrine Falcon - 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 Sunday, September 19th. In eastern Nebraska on the 19th in Washington County, 2 BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, a PHILADELPHIA VIREO, a CAROLINA WREN, 6 NASHVILLE WARBLERS, a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, a WILSON'S WARBLER, a SCARLET TANAGER & a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW were seen. On the 19th, 4 SNOWY EGRETS & 36 GREAT BLUE HERONS were seen in southeastern Otoe County. In Douglas County on the 16th in Neale Woods, a BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, a WILSON'S WARBLER, a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER & a LINCOLN'S SPARROW were seen on the Krimlofski Tract. On the 14th, 6 EARED GREBES, a GREAT EGRET & 23 CATTLE EGRETS were seen at Standing Bear Lake northwest of Omaha. In Washington County on the 14th, 2 CATTLE EGRETS were seen at Nathan's Lake north of Neale Woods. In Sarpy County on the 16th, 4 CAROLINA WRENS, a BLUE-HEADED VIREO & 6 NASHVILLE WARBLERS were found at Fontenelle Forest. On the 19th, a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH was seen at a feeder near downtown Bellevue. In Dixon County on the 17th, 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, a TENNESSEE WARBLER, 3 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS & a LINCOLN'S SPARROW were seen northwest of Wakefield. On the 18th, an OSPREY & 2 SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS were found in Ponca State Park. On the 19th, a RUBY- CROWNED KINGLET was seen northwest of Wakefield. On the 16th, a COOPER'S HAWK was spotted 5 miles north & a mile east of Wayne. In central Nebraska on the 18th in the eastern Rainwater Basin the following birds were found: 3 BLACK- CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, a dark IBIS, 4 SORAS, 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 11 AMERICAN AVOCETS, 43 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 26 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 13 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 41 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 7 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 58 STILT SANDPIPERS, 69 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 4 COMMON SNIPES, 2 WILSON'S PHALAROPES & a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. On the 19th in Phelps County, 6 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 3 GREAT EGRETS, a SORA, a COOPER'S HAWK, a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON & an AMERICAN BITTERN were found at Funk Lagoon. Also on the 19th, an OSPREY was spotted at the Odessa Platte River bridge & another was seen along the Platte at the Kearney/Phelps County line. In Harlan County on the 15th, 60 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS were seen at Harlan Reservoir. In Iowa at Hitchcock Nature Area north of Crescent on the 19th, a MERLIN & a PEREGRINE FALCON were seen. 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: "Alice Kenitz" <akenitz@prairieweb.com> Subject: Red-bellied Woodpecker Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:49:03 -0600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BF02E0.68168760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings, How far west in Nebraska has anyone seen Red-bellied Woodpeckers? I = have never seen one in Scotts Bluff County, and I don't think they have = ever been reported here. Concerning Robin's comment about the Great-blue Herons on power = poles--years ago (probably 25 or so) we had a Great-blue that would = spend the night on a power pole in our front yard. He would stand on = one leg a lot and when it got really windy, he would sit down. He = reminded us of a periscope--up & down a lot--so we nicknamed him 'Peri'. = It was quite a sight. Good birding, Alice ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BF02E0.68168760 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Greetings,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>How far west in Nebraska has anyone = seen Red-bellied Woodpeckers? I have never seen one in Scotts Bluff = County, and I don't think they have ever been reported here.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Concerning Robin's comment about the = Great-blue Herons on power poles--years ago (probably 25 or so) we had a Great-blue = that would spend the night on a power pole in our front yard. He would = stand on one leg a lot and when it got really windy, he would sit down. He = reminded us of a periscope--up & down a lot--so we nicknamed him = 'Peri'. It was quite a sight.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT><FONT size=2>Good birding, = Alice </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BF02E0.68168760--
From: "Ross Silcock" <silcock@sidney.heartland.net> Subject: Re: Red-bellied Woodpecker Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:01:33 -0500 Alice: According to published info, Red-bellied Woodpeckers occupy most of the state except the Panhandle, and have spread westward this century (20th!), but the distribution is best described by river valleys. Republican: entire valley to Colorado, first bred northeast Colorado 1960s; Platte: reached North Platte about 1950, common west to Sutherland mid-1950s, Kingsley Dam is west edge of current range; South Platte: throughout to northeast Colorado; Niobrara: west to Anderson Bridge area (near Kilgore); Loup drainage: throughout, but rare in Halsey area, uncommon in southeast Holt Co. RBWO shows up in winter on occasion west of the summer range; the only record for Scotts Bluff Co is 17 Dec 1978 to 4 Jan 1979. If anyone has differing or newer info I'd be glad to here from you! Hope this helps! Ross Ross Silcock Tabor, IA silcock@sidney.heartland.net New Zealand Land and Pelagic Trips. Next: Nov 1999 ---------- From: Alice Kenitz <akenitz@prairieweb.com> To: Nebraska Birds <NeBirds@rip.physics.unk.edu> Subject: Red-bellied Woodpecker Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 9:49 PM Greetings, How far west in Nebraska has anyone seen Red-bellied Woodpeckers? I have never seen one in Scotts Bluff County, and I don't think they have ever been reported here. Concerning Robin's comment about the Great-blue Herons on power poles--years ago (probably 25 or so) we had a Great-blue that would spend the night on a power pole in our front yard. He would stand on one leg a lot and when it got really windy, he would sit down. He reminded us of a periscope--up & down a lot--so we nicknamed him 'Peri'. It was quite a sight. Good birding, Alice
From: Mark Orsag <MOrsag@doane.edu> Subject: RE: Saturday birding at Waubonise and HNA Flash! Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:49:05 -0500 Moni, No imm. Balds yet. We don't get many until Nov., but one is certainly possible now. Sure it wasn't an Osprey? Wings flat and downcurved at tips or hunched? We just broke the season record today for OS... Very good flight today despite intermittent rain. I'll have a full report by tomorrow evening, but it looks like 204 birds of 11 raptor species. 11 is better than any day last year in terms of diversity! 1st Merlin and 3rd Peregrine of season. We had Overlook 1 and the Lodge staffed for most of the day today, and it really helped as much of what passed each watchpoint wasn't seen by the other one. Flight resumed after 4:30 with a lot of Turkey Vultures-- including two more double digit kettles like the one that swept right over Sue's head at O1 just before the rain hit. Fewer hawks-- Several kestrels, two more harriers and an Osprey. One of the kestrels and the Osprey briefly joined some spiraling vultures for a 3 species 14 bird kettle. Could be good vulture/kestrel day tomorrow, as the birds were continuing to move very late... Non-raptors provided the big highlights 4:30--6:30: hundreds of swifts and cormorants, and a new record for HItchcock-- two Great Egrets! Thanks, to Loren, Jerry, Sue, et al and most particularly to famed "Merlin spotter" Babs Padelford! Mark O -----Original Message----- From: Moni J Usasz [mailto:musasz@juno.com] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 2:17 PM To: nebirds@rip.physics.unk.edu Subject: Saturday birding at Waubonise Susan Herrick and I went up to Waubonsie to do a little hawk watching - were there for several hours - 9-11:30am and saw nada! Maybe Omaha Audubon saw more? We spent a little time looking at the marshy ponds along road back into Nebraska City and saw quite a few Egrets and Great Blue Herons and a lone kestrel. We did finally see some larger flying birds - a 70-80 bird flock of pelicans and quite a few vultures. As we were watching the vultures, we found what we at first thought was a hawk but given it's size and flat wings, it had to be an immature bald eagle. That was around noon. Did anyone see an immature baldie at Hitchcock earlier that morning? We're curious. I did see a probable sharp-shinned hawk flying over my backyard later that afternoon! Moni Usasz ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
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