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3 Jul White River Lawrence Co [Amy Kearns ] 3 Jul Goose Pond FWA evening July 2 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 2 Jul Lafayette W Atlas Blk, 7/2/09 [Ed Hopkins ] 2 Jul IU XC course mowing update ["B.G. Sloan" ] 2 Jul Gibson Co Common Loon [Amy Kearns ] 2 Jul Re: Goosepond - spoonbill: yes!! oddity at end ["B.G. Sloan" ] 2 Jul Goosepond - spoonbill: yes!! oddity at end ["prlowell AT joink.com" ] 2 Jul Nest Attempt 3 [Vicky Foltz ] 2 Jul IU XC course, 7/2 - Western Meadowlark song(?), kamikaze Tree Swallow [Bernie Sloan ] 2 Jul Goose Pond FWA morning July 2 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 1 Jul Virginia Rails at Goose Pond FWA July 1 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 1 Jul Putnam Co Blk & Wh Warb Sedge Wrens [Brad Jackson ] 1 Jul IU XC course - Henslow's Sparrow, Bald Eagle, lots of youngsters [Bernie Sloan ] 1 Jul Re: Ants in Bluebird boxes [Landon Neumann ] 1 Jul Barn Swallows feeding young in mid-air ["B.G. Sloan" ] 1 Jul Ants in Bluebird Boxes [Judith Ferrell ] 1 Jul July 1 birds [Dan Stoltzfus ] 1 Jul Goose Pond Spoonbill ["Feaster, Brad" ] 1 Jul Around Gibson Lake [Y Harris ] 1 Jul Goose Pond FWA Roseate Spoonbill June 30 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 1 Jul White Pelicans at Goose Pond GP8 [Steve Gifford ] 30 Jun Cane Ridge in Gibson County [Y Harris ] 30 Jun Goose Pond Roseate Spoonbill ["Feaster, Brad" ] 30 Jun Loggerhead Shrike [David Crouch ] 30 Jun Pigeon River FWA [] 30 Jun Central NW IN, 6/28/09 ["Hopkins, Edward M" ] 29 Jun Common Moorhen and Am. Bittern at Patoka River NWR [Steve Gifford ] 29 Jun Re: Fewer bluebirds this year? ["B.G. Sloan" ] 29 Jun Potato Creek State Park Question [Landon Neumann ] 29 Jun McCool Basin 6/29 Spotties [John Kendall ] 29 Jun House Wren saga [Russell Allison ] 29 Jun Re: Fewer bluebirds this year? ["prlowell AT joink.com" ] 29 Jun Loggerhead shrikes - Lawrence Co. ["Castrale, John" ] 29 Jun Fewer bluebirds this year? ["B.G. Sloan" ] 29 Jun baby wood duck duckling and house wren fledging [wilmajeanharder ] 28 Jun Addendum (non-avian) to the butterfly route ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 28 Jun Eagle Marsh - Fort Wayne [Philip Wixom ] 28 Jun IBET upcoming AOU supplement (NO SIGHTINGS) ["Michael L. P. Retter" ] 28 Jun upcoming AOU supplement (NO SIGHTINGS) ["Michael L. P. Retter" ] 28 Jun Stillwater, North Fork ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 28 Jun Trumpeter Swan, WTH Wetland- Vigo County [Jim Sullivan ] 28 Jun Goose Pond FWA June 27 '09 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 28 Jun Hawthorn Mine, Greene-Sullivan State Forest, Goose Pond/Beehunter ["Wilkins, Vern W" ] 27 Jun Muscatatuck NWR [David Crouch ] 27 Jun NW Ind 27Jun09 ["Kenneth J. Brock" ] 27 Jun Newton County, 6/27 a.m. [Robert Hughes ] 27 Jun Goose Pond [Christine Hedge ] 26 Jun Lk. Lemon - 6/26 - COTE [Jim Hengeveld ] 26 Jun Alder Flycatcher in Putnam County [Brad Jackson ] 26 Jun Goose Pond FWA June 25 morning [Lee Sterrenburg ] 26 Jun Salamonie Reservoir [] 26 Jun Goose Pond 20 Jun [Jeff McCoy ] 26 Jun House Wrens, Pine Siskin report, butterflies, spoonbill video, [Don Gorney ] 25 Jun Re: Goose Pond News Coverage ["B.G. Sloan" ] 25 Jun Goose Pond News Coverage [Don Gorney ] 25 Jun Fox 59 - Roseate Spoonbill [Chad Williams ] 25 Jun Twin Swamps, Hovey Lake, Beehunter Marsh 6/24 ["Wilkins, Vern W" ] 25 Jun Goose Pond Fulvous Pair [David Crouch ] 25 Jun Indian Springs BBA BWWA AMRE PIWA [Amy Kearns ] 25 Jun Newton Co: Blue Grosbeak [Jed Hertz ] 25 Jun Another Black-bellied Whistling-Duck report June 23 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 25 Jun Both Whistling-Duck Species GPFWA June 24 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 24 Jun Hooded warbler nest [Dan Stoltzfus ] 24 Jun Goose Pond Black-bellied Whistling Ducks ["Feaster, Brad" ] 24 Jun Perry Co BWHA RSHA PIWA [Amy Kearns ] 24 Jun Last spring in Arctic may cause breeding failure ["Hopkins, Edward M" ] 24 Jun Dunes SP 6/24/09: probable Mississippi Kite [Brad Bumgardner ] 23 Jun BBS routes - Spencer & Newberry [Jim Hengeveld ] 23 Jun Eagle Marsh, Ft Wayne [] 23 Jun Red-breasted Nuthatch,porter county [jeanette girton ] 23 Jun Fox Island [] 23 Jun (No Sightings) IAS Fall Event- Call for Presenters [Brad Bumgardner ] 23 Jun Lake County Tricolored Heron - Yes [marty jones ] 22 Jun Goose Pond FWA June 21 '09 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 22 Jun Eagle Creek Park Sunday June 21, 2008 [John Ulmer ] 22 Jun Tippecanoe Indiana Breeding BIrd Atlas Blocks, 6/20-21 ["Hopkins, Edward M" ] Subject: White River Lawrence Co From: Amy Kearns <greenpertplus AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:51:39 -0400 Noah & I canoed the White River from Lawrenceport to Hwy 37 in Bedford this afternoon (about 12 miles). It was a great float - the weather was perfect! We had lots of singing Prothonotary Warblers, a HUGE colony of Cliff Swallows (about 100 nests under the Buddha bridge? I think), a Black-billed Cuckoo and tons of Kingfishers and Rough-winged Swallows. We also saw 4 Great Blue Heron nests in a single Sycamore Tree. The nests were in good repair so I suspect they were from this year. There were no birds around or on the nests. Canada Goose 12 Wood Duck 60 lots of lots of ducklings, some only a few days old Great Blue Heron 7 Green Heron 1 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 15 Bald Eagle 1 adult Red-tailed Hawk 6 - 3 juvs begging loudly and totally unafraid of us. 1 adult hunting Wood Ducks Spotted Sandpiper 2 possibly breeding? Mourning Dove 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 5 Black-billed Cuckoo 1 our FOY Chimney Swift 10 Belted Kingfisher 18 Red-headed Woodpecker 6 - 2 fledglings Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 10 Acadian Flycatcher 13 Eastern Phoebe 6 Great Crested Flycatcher 8 Eastern Kingbird 10 Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 4 Red-eyed Vireo 15 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 6 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 25 Bank Swallow 2 Cliff Swallow 80 Barn Swallow 5 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 11 White-breasted Nuthatch 5 Carolina Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5 Eastern Bluebird 3 Wood Thrush 3 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 1 Cedar Waxwing 20 Northern Parula 6 Yellow-throated Warbler 15 Prairie Warbler 1 Prothonotary Warbler 19 Kentucky Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 10 Yellow-breasted Chat 2 Summer Tanager 3 Scarlet Tanager 2 Eastern Towhee 2 Field Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 3 Blue Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 25 Dickcissel 5 Red-winged Blackbird 16 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 7 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 Baltimore Oriole 2 American Goldfinch 5 House Sparrow 10 Amy Kearns Mitchell ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond FWA evening July 2 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:09:07 -0400 Yesterday evening (Thursday July 2 2009) Marty Jones and I made a foray into Main Pool West at Goose Pond FWA in Greene County. We were trying to find and photograph the possible Mottled Ducks in the south end of MPW. Marty carried a camera and I carried a scope. We managed to get good looks at a Mallard flock. No Mottled Duck candidates were with the Mallards during this attempt. We next did a wading excursion inside Unit GP7. We ended by scanning the wetlands of Unit GP8. After Marty departed I checked out some Units along CR 1400 W through late dusk. Weather: pleasant, temperature upper 70s F at the start, gentle NNW breeze, occasional gusts to around 10 mph, skies partly cloudy. GOOSE POND FWA MAIN POOL WEST, wearing hip boots, wading eastward from the small DNR parking lot at the south end on State Road 59, south of the double ditches and north of the Brewer Ditch bridge at CR 400 S. Mike Clay joined us briefly: FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCK 2 flew with the Mallards, fine views with the sun at our backs Mallard 26 Blue-winged Teal 2 GREEN-WINGED TEAL 2 a pair, flying the Mallards Double-crested Cormorant 19 roosting in trees Shortly before sunset we returned to MPW to get Marty’s vehicle. The 2 Fulvous Whistling-Ducks flew northward to the the double ditches. They landed out of sight in smartweed, perhaps 300 yards east of SR 59 and 100 yards south of the double ditches corridor. Great Egret note: The pattern of what the Great Egrets do in the evening seems to be somewhat variable. By sunset yesterday a sizeable number of Great Egrets settled down to roost in trees in the SE end of Main Pool West, near the D-c Cormorant roost. Earlier in the evening the Roseate Spoonbill was in the same general vicinity. The two evenings before on June 30 all the Great Egrets I could find flew north for the night to 1000 Island Woods (134 Great Egrets tallied going to roost on that occasion). Yesterday evening on a calmer night (by sunset time) a large Great Egret contingent appeared ready to spend the night inside Main Pool West. GPFWA UNIT GP7 along the west side of State Road 59; wearing hip boots, starting from the south levee of GP7 we waded to the far north end of the Unit; we stopped at the deep, non-crossable ditch that divides Units GP7 from Unit GP16, due west of the double ditches: Wood Duck 7 included a female with 5 small chicks Mallard 8 Blue-winged Teal 10 in one flock Northern Bobwhite 22 included a covey of 1 adult female with 17 small flying young on the south levee. The small Bobwhites were less than half grown. My first Northern Bobwhite family group with young this summer. LEAST BITTERN 1 adult male LITTLE BLUE HERON 1 a white first summer bird molting to adult; by the pattern of dark blue markings the same individual that Cloyce Hedge and I saw the evening before in Main Pool West CATTLE EGRET 25 most flying eastward toward Main Pool West Green Heron 1 ROSEATE SPOONBILL 1 observed at 7:41 PM; ID looks at a flying pink bird of the Spoonbill size and shape, flying well to the east over the SE end of Main Pool West, over a mile away but seen up high in the air and also against dark trees, with good evening sunlight shining directly on the bird Killdeer 10 BLACK-NECKED STILT 3 a pair in GP7, the male doing extensive distraction displays, plus 1 flying to the north in GP16 Eastern Kingbird 2 a pair Red-winged Blackbird many included a nest with 1 egg in it Orchard Oriole 2 GPFWA UNIT GP8: Northern Bobwhite 2 a pair AMERIAN WHITE PELICAN 22 already reported earlier in the day from this Unit; earlier the day Marty also got a photo showing 22 Pelicans in the air at once Killdeer 8 BLACK-NECKED STILT 1 CASPIAN TERN 4 alternate plumage adults, resting and later flying together After Marty departed I continued by myself: GPFWA UNIT GP11N, along CR 25 S: Purple Martin 68 post breeding flock perched on power wires and foraging over the GP11N wetland; new GPFWA high count for the species by a wide margin GPFWA UNIT GP10S, at 9:34 PM: BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON 3 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON 1 All four Night-Herons were flying together in a group, going on late dusk in overcast skies, seen with binocular views only. Possibly all were juveniles. The Yellow-crowned Night-Heron was noticeably darker bodied, had obviously longer trailing legs and feet projecting beyond the tail, and its calls were higher pitched, shorter and more terse than those of the accompanying Black-crowned Night-Herons. Both species were calling at the same time. Over DOWNTOWN LINTON, GREENE COUNTY, at night, where I went to get gas: Common Nighthawk 2 Thanks much to Marty for coming along on the rare duck photography venture. --Lee Sterrenburg, Bloomington, & Marty Jones, Terre Haute ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Lafayette W Atlas Blk, 7/2/09 From: Ed Hopkins <birder4in AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:47:33 -0400 I had stopped by the PU Forestry & Nat Resources Farm (former Hort Apple Orchard) two other times after finding Henslow's Sparrow and Blue Grosbeak singing almost two weeks ago to no avail until today. The HESP was singing, again. He, eventually, flew down into the grass, and I lost track of him. The BLGR has been a no show. I have been looking for Wild Turkey poults so that I could get the species into the Confirmed category. Today, I saw two hens or maybe older poults. But, they quickly ducked into high grass and, eventually, into heavy brush. The species is still stuck in the Probable category. While I was wondering around, I found a pair of agitated Indigo Buntings. The female was carrying around an insect for their young. Therefore, I put INBU into the Confirmed category for the block. ==== Ed Hopkins W Lafayette, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: IU XC course mowing update From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:59:58 -0700 While Indiana University regularly mows the running trails of its cross country course, IU hasn't mowed the bulk of the 50-acre XC course in 14 months. I'd estimate the unmowed area at about 45 acres. In addition to this, there is an adjacent area of about 30 acres of IU-owned grassland that hasn't been mowed in at least five years, making a total of about 70-75 acres of unmowed grasses in various stages of succession. I first became interested in IU’s mowing policies in early 2008, after reading about the National Audubon Society’s list of the top ten common bird species in decline. The Eastern Meadowlark was #6 on that list, with a 72% population decline since 1967. My previous experience with the IU XC course indicated that a few Eastern Meadowlarks would attempt to nest there in the spring, with subsequent mowing destroying the nests. Meadowlarks would then be uncommon or nonexistent on the XC course for the rest of the season. In February 2008 I contacted IU about modifying its mowing policies to increase nesting habitat for Eastern Meadowlarks and other grassland birds on the XC course. After a shaky start (IU mowed the entire XC course in early May of 2008) IU has been very responsive about mowing only those areas that need to be mowed for cross country running. How has this change in mowing policy affected Eastern Meadowlarks on the XC course? Meadowlarks were few and far between on the XC course prior to May 2008. Today they are common. I am guessing I have located at least eight nest sites so far this year, and there are probably more. The other day I counted at least 25 Eastern Meadowlarks on a casual morning walk along the running trails. I could probably get a higher count if I actually cut through the unmowed areas and tried to flush the birds. IU should be commended on its willingness to change its mowing policies. The net result is a “greener” part of the IU campus that requires fewer tax dollars to maintain, results in fewer carbon emissions due to reduced fuel consumption, and provides increased breeding habitat for grassland birds. Bernie Sloan Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Gibson Co Common Loon From: Amy Kearns <greenpertplus AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 20:08:15 -0400 While counting Least Terns over in Gibson County today, John Castrale, Chuck Mills and I had a basic plumaged COMMON LOON at the Gibson power plant ash ponds. There are photos of tern nests and chicks and stilt nests from today in my flickr. There's also a mystery roadkilled bird I could use some help IDing. http://www.flickr.com/photos/37627358 AT N07/ Amy Kearns Mitchell ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Re: Goosepond - spoonbill: yes!! oddity at end From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:24:34 -0700 Lowell Anderson asks about White-winged Doves. Brock's entry for White-winged Dove, dated 6/30/06, notes: "The White-winged Dove is currently Occasional (9) in spring and Accidental (10) in fall; however, this status will almost certainly change rapidly...In conjunction with a regional incursion into the Midwest, Indiana currently has eight White-winged Dove records. Five of these were recorded in 2001 or later, suggesting that additional reports are at hand." Bernie Sloan --- On Thu, 7/2/09, prlowell AT joink.comSubject: Goosepond - spoonbill: yes!! oddity at end From: "prlowell AT joink.com" <prlowell@JOINK.COM> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:01:06 -0400 Arrived at Goose Pond at 9 a.m., and within 5 minutes had seen the spoonbill, north of the parking lots on SR59 for Pond 7 and the Ponds on east side. Saw him at about 40 feet from me in ditch, and he flew off with about 20 egrets. Saw him again at about 11:45, landing in long grass on south side of Pond 7 with egrets. I left at noon. Other sightings, en route and at the pond, plus oddity at end: BARN SWALLOW - lots EASTERN MEADOWLARK - many KILLDEER - many RED WINGED BLACK BIRD - hundreds EASTERN KINGBIRD - several CHIMNEY SWIFT - several - pond 10 HENSLOW'S SPARROW - near T intersection south of Pond 10 MOURNING DOVES - lots DICKCISSEL - many GREEN (-backed) HERON - several AMERICAN BITTERN - heard several - 10 and 9 GREAT BLUE HERON - everywhere BLACK CROWNED NIGHT HERON - 10 LEAST BITTERN - 10, landed 50 ft away INDIGO BUNTING - many KING RAIL - heard several BOB WHITE - heard many, saw 2 ORCHARD ORIOLE - several BLUE GROSBEAK ~ a dozen, most I've ever seen in one day COMMON MOORHEN - heard three, with Greg Page's help MINK - near the moorhen, and probably giving her/it fits! YELLOW CROWNED NIGHT HERON - pond 9 YELLOW WARBLER - several COMMON YELLOWTHROAT - many SEDGE WREN - heard north of road near intersection with SR59 PURPLE MARTIN - a few GREAT EGRET - many CATTLE EGRET - a few TREE SWALLOW - many Then, on the way south from Crawfordsville to Linton, on SR59 at CR1100 South in Clay County, near the bridge, at 55-60 mph, there was a dove on the shoulder of the road. I paid no attention until it flew, and it had very pronounced LARGE WHITE WING PATCHES! Size - about mourning dove sized, maybe a bit smaller. Small head, like mourning dove. Didn't hear it vocalize, and too much traffic to stop. My first order of business when I pulled into the office of Goose Pond was to check my field guide, and the only thing it could have been, as far as I could tell, was a white-winged dove. Again, what is he doing up here? Piggy back ride on Pinky? Are white-winged doves kept as cage birds? Are they used in racing or competition? Could we have another vagrant from distant points south? Any ideas? Lowell Anderson ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Nest Attempt 3 From: Vicky Foltz <vfoltz AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:51:33 -0500 I live on 2 acres near the city. I have two bluebird boxes in the back yard. This year, our pair nested early with two eggs, that fledged two young. The next nest was built with only one egg that never hatched. I removed the next. A new nest has been built and two eggs were there when I checked yesterday, which means the first egg was probably laid 6/30 as I had checked two days before and nada. We are very excited! Additionally I saw a very young orieole at the jelly feeder yesterday, that is a first time for me. Vicky Foltz Ft. Wayne, IN Allen County ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: IU XC course, 7/2 - Western Meadowlark song(?), kamikaze Tree Swallow From: Bernie Sloan <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:46:10 -0700 This morning on the IU cross country course I watched a meadowlark singing a Western Meadowlark song. I've never heard that song before on the XC course. I'm not crazy enough to claim that it actually WAS a Western Meadowlark. :-) Brock reports that there have been ZERO summer Western Meadowlark records in the last 20 years for the southern tier of Indiana. And I couldn't tell an Eastern from a Western by sight if my life depended on it. Can Eastern Meadowlarks occasionally sound like Westerns? I just wanted to mention this as it struck me as being rather odd. I very much doubt it was a Western, but it sure sounded like one. At least I SAW the bird, so I can rule out a starling mimicking a Western Meadowlark (there IS a starling on the XC course that sings Eastern Meadowlark songs more often than the meadowlarks do). I also had at least a half-dozen near collisions with a Tree Swallow skimming over the grass about knee-high (my knees, not the swallow's knees). A couple of times it zipped by less than a foot from my legs. I figure maybe I was stirring up insects in the grass as I walked? Bernie Sloan Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond FWA morning July 2 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:55:41 -0400 This morning (July 2 2009) at Goose Pond FWA I did a quick check of Units GP7, GP16, and Main Pool West from the parking lot at the double ditches along State Road 59 before heading home. The results: Mallard 13 Blue-winged Teal 2 pair in MPW Northern Bobwhite 2 Pied-billed Grebe 1 calling in GP16 AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN 22 flying over GP8 at 6:41 AM Great Blue Heron 31 GREAT EGRET 68+ flew over in a flock at 6:34 AM, landing in Main Pool West Cattle Egret 2 Main Pool West Common Moorhen 1 calling in GP16 The flock of 68 Great Egrets flew overhead coming from 1000 Island Woods and heading SE into the lower end of Main Pool West. I tracked them as the flew. As they came in for a landing I realized another 20-30 more Great Egrets were landing ahead of them that I had previously missed. By then they were combining together and far away, and I could not do a recount. I did not find the Roseate Spoonbill with the the Great Egrets. --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Virginia Rails at Goose Pond FWA July 1 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:53:59 -0400 This morning through early afternoon (July 1 2009) I birded at Goose Pond FWA in Greene County. Locales covered in the morning were brief stops at Units GP8 and GP9, followed by a long three-hour plus hike inside Unit GP16. In the evening I joined Cloyce Hedge for a vigil at Main Pool West from parking lots along State Road 59. Totals for several species were higher during the evening watch with Cloyce than I managed to turn up morning. In such cases I’ve used the evening totals. In the evening Cloyce did see the Roseate Spoonbill for an Indiana lifer. Highlights on the day included 2 FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCKS, 2 broods of MALLARDS, 19 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 1 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 22 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, 4 LEAST BITTERNS, 40 CATTLE EGRETS, 1 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, 1 ROSEATE SPOONBILL, 15 BLACK-NECKED STILTS, my first 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER of the fall migration, 3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and 3 WILSON’S SNIPE. My count on GREAT BLUE HERONS departing early from 1000 Islands Woods was 51. The big surprise of the day was finding 2 more Indiana State Endangered VIRGINIA RAILS. Goose Pond FWA may be altering the breeding season demography for Virginia Rail in southern Indiana. As reported earlier, yesterday evening I flushed 1 juvenile Virginia Rail during a walk in Unit GP10S. This morning 1 Virginia Rail was doing persistent tick-it calls in Unit GP9 from 7:00-7:07 AM, and another 1 Virginia Rail was doing persistent tick-it calls inside Unit GP16 from 9:48-9:59 AM. Ken Brock’s ebook Brock’s Birds of Indiana at the time of publication in 2006 assigned Virginia Rail in the southern tier in summer season an Abundance Code of 9, Occasional, meaning 3-5 records in the past 20 years. Yesterday evening and this morning Goose Pond FWA produced 3 Virginia Rails in less than 16 hours! This is quite a departure from previous norms for the species. Weather was unseasonably cool. A Northwest front with temperatures ranging from 56 F early AM up to 68 F at 1:00 PM; winds clam to around 7 mph, gusting occasionally to 12 mph; skies cloudy early, partial clearing after 10:00 AM. Evening temperature started out at around 70 F, with NNW winds gusting to around 13 mph, mostly cloudy. GOOSE POND FWA UNIT GP8, starting at 6:30 AM, mostly looking down into the wetland from the parking lot at the intersection of CR 1400 W and CR 275 S: Mallard 14 included 1 adult female with 11 very tiny down chicks, perhaps only a day or two old AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN 22 evening total American Kestrel 1 Killdeer 12 high count in view at one time BLACK-NECKED STILT 7 5 in the main wetland impoundment, 2 in a macro swale in the far northeast grassland corner near CR 200 Tree Swallow 82 number counted on one scope sweep In the evening with Cloyce the 22 American White Pelicans flew out of GP8 and into the west end of GP7. Later they flew into GP16 and eventually they settled down back down into the west end of GP7. In the morning the Pelicans did not fly into GP8 until 8:30 AM. They were not there when I first visited at 6:30 AM. Thanks to Steve Gifford for finding the Pelican flock yesterday. By this evening the Pelican flock was up to 22 birds, and possibly 23. GPFWA UNIT GP9, 6:55-7:15 AM, from the east levee on CR 1400 W: Northern Bobwhite 2 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON 1 adult flying towards Greene-Sullivan SF, my first of the year at GPFWA VIRGINIA RAIL 1 doing tick-it calls 7:00-7:07 AM, in cattails on the right front (northeast) side Chimney Swift 4 GPFWA UNIT GP16, a long hike in hip boots 9:30 AM – 12:35 PM. Entering from the north parking lot on CR 200 S. I got as far south as on a line about 100-200 yards past CR 275 S. This means that I waded some 3/4ths of a mile one way going south; the return trip was not all in water. The upper west end of GP16 may currently have the best looking shorebird habitat on the property. FULVOUS WHISTLING DUCK 2 seen the morning and also again in the evening after Cloyce departed Canada Goose 24 evening Wood Duck 2 advanced juveniles that looked like they could fly Mallard 38 included 1 adult female with 9 downy chicks Blue-winged Teal 19 I counted groups of 8 and 11 flying together and ignored scattered singles and pairs when doing my total GREEN-WINGED TEAL 1 male, flying with the group of 11 Blue-winged Teal Northern Bobwhite 10 Pied-billed Grebe 4 including 1 adult with 1 tiny downy chick riding on its back, something I very seldom see with this species in Indiana Double-crested Cormorant 1 AMERICAN BITTERN 2 LEAST BITTERN 4 1 adult male, 1 juvenile with heavy breast streaking and white downy tufts still on the head, 2 unaged either adult female or juvenile VIRGINIA RAIL 1 tick-it calls from a cattail stand near the north channel 8:48-9:59 AM COMMON MOORHEN 3 all heard only, 2 in the far southeast end after Cloyce departed Killdeer 28+ post breeding flocks BLACK-NECKED STILT 8 the high count in view at one time, very extensive disturbance calling and behavior SOLITARY SANDPIPER 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS 3 high count with Cloyce in the evening from the highway, tops my 2 while walking inside the Unit in the morning WILSON’S SNIPE 3 2 of them flushed in close proximity, southwest corner of the wetland Chimney Swift 30 Tree Swallow 130 Barn Swallow 6 Field Sparrow 8 Grasshopper Sparrow 4 Eastern Meadowlark 7 Orchard Oriole 1 GPFWA UNIT GP7. I went there after Brad Feaster informed me that Jim Campbell had seen the Roseate Spoonbill in that Unit. I parked in the lot across SR 59 from the double ditches: ROSEATE SPOONBILL 1 flew from the east end to the west end of GP7 at 1:07 PM Thank to Jim Campbell for locating and reporting the Roseate Spoonbill today. MAIN POOL WEST, with Cloyce Hedge, 6:20-8:15 PM. Mainly from the parking lot at the double ditches. I stayed for another half hour after Cloyce departed: Wood Duck 3 Double-crested Cormorant 23 22 perched in trees & 1 flying LITTLE BLUE HERON 1 blotchy plumage, first summer bird molting to adult CATTLE EGRET 40 all flew into Main Pool West coming from the west American Coot 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 after Cloyce left Tree Swallow 90 We saw a good number of Great Egrets but did not do a tally. We saw more than 50 by the time I departed. I discounted the evening Blue-winged Teal in Main Pool West as possible repeats from GP16 across the highway in the morning. Lee Sterrenburg, Bloomington, & Cloyce Hedge, Lebanon ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Putnam Co Blk & Wh Warb Sedge Wrens From: Brad Jackson <jacksonbk1 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:26:31 -0700 Hello Everyone:
Tuesday June 30th was another fine day of birding in Putnam County.
Clinton Falls Atlas Area:
List for 30 June (0445 to 0945)
Northern Bobwhite 1
[Bald Eagle nest now empty; two juv were as late as June 8th]
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Killdeer 8
Mourning Dove 31
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-headed Woodpecker 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 8
Acadian Flycatcher 5
Willow Flycatcher 2
Eastern Phoebe 5
Great Crested Flycatcher 6
Eastern Kingbird 9
White-eyed Vireo 1
Yellow-throated Vireo 2
Warbling Vireo 6
Red-eyed Vireo 5
Blue Jay 6? (mobbing a hawk)
American Crow 12? (some mobbing a hawk)
Horned Lark 3
Purple Martin 16
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5
Bank Swallow 7 at gravel pit
Barn Swallow 12
Carolina Chickadee 12
Tufted Titmouse 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 6
Carolina Wren 4
House Wren 11
Sedge Wren 2 in field along CR 150 across from gravel pit
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
Eastern Bluebird 11
Wood Thrush 6
American Robin 30
Gray Catbird 27
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 5
European Starling 57
Cedar Waxwing 15
Blue-winged Warbler 1 (had six here 0n 6 June)
Northern Parula 4
Yellow Warbler 4
Yellow-throated Warbler 5
Black-and-White Warbler 1 (singing and gathering food at CR 50N bridge over
Little Walnut Creek)- great looks in full sunlight!!
American Redstart 1 (had 5 here on 6 June)
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 (today = call notes only; Little Walnut Cr)
Kentucky Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 4
Yellow-breasted Chat 5 (especially at gravel pit)
Summer Tanager 1 (today = call only)
Scarlet Tanager 3
Eastern Towhee 6 (seem common here compared to other blocks)
Chipping Sparrow 15
Field Sparrow 4
Vesper Sparrow 4 (down from 8 on 6 June)
Savannah Sparrow 5 (some in same field as Sedge Wrens)
Song Sparrow 26
Northern Cardinal 15
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 7 (seem to be in every block this year)
Blue Grosbeak 3 (two at gravel pit)
Indigo Bunting 31
Red-winged Blackbird 81
Eastern Meadowlark 11
Common Grackle 105
Brown-headed Cowbird 33 (baby fed by Warbling Vireo)
Orchard Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 8 (beautiful yellow baby w/huge bill being fed by male)
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 26
House Sparrow 72
Other good birds from elsewhere in Putnam County
Russellville Atlas Area:
Cerulean Warbler 2 (both on June 9th & June 30th)
Blue Grosbeak 2 (both on June 8th & June 30th)
Great Crested Flycatcher (June 24th) after a dust bath in the gravel road,
began tugging at a dead, very flat raccoon...except for the still-fluffy tail.
Finally pulled off a hunk of fluff from the end of the tail, and flew away with
it (nest-lining I assume)!!
Greencastle Atlas Area:
Cerulean Warbler 1 (8 June & 19 June)
Blue Grosbeak 1 (along cause-way to Houck (iron) Bridge) 8 June & 19 June
Eminence Atlas Area:
Blue Grosbeak 3 (two of them June 9th and June 20th)
Cloverdale Atlas Area:
Prairie Warbler 5 on 5 June, but only 1 still singing on 29 June
Reelsville Atlas Area:
Hooded Warbler in woods near intersection of CR660 S and CR660 W (June 19th &
June 28th)
Brad Jackson
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Subject: IU XC course - Henslow's Sparrow, Bald Eagle, lots of youngstersFrom: Bernie Sloan <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:38:16 -0700 The Indiana University cross country course has been pretty quiet lately...the
usual summer doldrums. But there have been a few interesting birds.
Highlights from the last couple of days:
* Henslow's Sparrow - BIGBY species #164 for 2009.
* Bald Eagle - Early Tuesday AM flyover, moving from north to south, heading
towards College Mall. First XC course eagle since May.
* Red-headed Woodpecker - First XC course RHWO since May.
* Blue Grosbeak - First XC course BLGR since mid-June.
* Barn Swallow - In addition to adults feeding young in mid-flight (see earlier
posting) I happened across four juvenile Barn Swallows sitting side-by-side on
an XC course directional sign. Their perch was at my eye-level, and they let me
get as close as a foot away from them! They didn't show any fear. They seemed
mildly curious about me, but not nervous. Eventually three of them flew off
one-by-one to resume foraging. The fourth waited until I was about 30 feet away
before it took flight. It was a really cool experience!
* Eastern Bluebird - Yesterday (Tuesday) morning I counted 12-15 juvenile
bluebirds. It was very encouraging to see them, especially since bluebirds have
seemed scarce on the XC course this year, compared to past years. Maybe there
will be increased numbers of bluebirds next year!
* Red-tailed Hawk - I heard at least two juveniles doing what BNA describes as
"hunger calls" back in the woods at the north end of the XC course. In this
same area was a VERY cranky adult Red-tail that screamed at me every time I got
close to where the youngsters were calling. The adult twice swooped over me
about ten feet above my head. Closest I've ever been to a Red-tail! :-)
Bernie Sloan
Bloomington
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Subject: Re: Ants in Bluebird boxesFrom: Landon Neumann <coryneumann AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:23:00 -0400 I had ants in one ofmy nesting boxes this year. Wet nests attract ants. Also ants like to lay their eggs on bird's nests inside boxes. If young are still inside some of your nesting boxes you need to get rid of the ants. The ants will eat the young inside. How I got rid of them is by using 5% Sevin dust. Use 1/4 teaspoon on the bottom of the nest in the box. You can find it at farm stores. Right now I have two nesting boxes with baby House Wrens in them and another nesting box that has House Wrens incubating. My lone male subadult Purple Martin is trying to attract a female. Landon Neumann Logansport Cass County ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Barn Swallows feeding young in mid-air From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:51:45 -0700 I've been observing something pretty cool the past couple of days over the IU
XC course: adult Barn Swallows feeding their young mid-flight. At first I
thought the birds were fighting.
The swallows will be foraging like usual, when the parent will give a
distinctive call. The birds will then fly towards each other and swoop up into
the air. At the peak height of this "swoop" they will touch beaks. with the
parent apparently giving the youngster a tasty morsel. BNA Online describes it
as follows: "At first juveniles are usually fed while perched, but eventually
they begin taking food from their parents in flight, flying to meet incoming
adult, and food is transferred in midair."
It's a very interesting thing to watch.
Bernie Sloan
Bloomington
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Subject: Ants in Bluebird BoxesFrom: Judith Ferrell <jferrellwhales AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:58:32 -0700 I am monitoring bluebird boxes at Boot Lake and I've discovered ants in 6-8 boxes (generally after fledging but not always). I have found small red/brown ones and large black ones and in 2-3 boxes have found them carrying around white masses which I assume are eggs. Is any one else observing this? In past years, I've found them toward the end of summer in a box or two, but nothing like this. My only thought is that we've had so much rain this spring that they are moving up. Thanks, Judy Ferrell ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: July 1 birds From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:48:14 EDT In our Wed. AM Bird Walk we visited Shanklin Park in Goshen and then Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Facility Location: Shanklin Park Observation date: 7/1/09 Notes: Dan S., Gary Kiester, Don Beyerler, Elaine Harley, Mary Martin, Alan, Rebecca Martin, Melissa Kinsey Number of species: 34 Mallard 15 Great Blue Heron 2 Mourning Dove 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Chimney Swift 15 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 8 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 American Crow 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 35 Barn Swallow 4 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 House Wren 5 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 8 Gray Catbird 4 Yellow Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 Chipping Sparrow 8 Song Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 7 Indigo Bunting 2 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 Baltimore Oriole 3 House Finch 7 American Goldfinch 8 At Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Facility we found these: Location: Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Facility( Observation date: 7/1/09 Notes: 70 deg., cloudy. Elaine Harley, Don Beyerler, Gary Kiester, Dan Stoltzfus. There was a female Blue-winged Teal with one duckling, 3 adult Wood Ducks and no ducklings (Did Snapping Turtle clean up on ducklings?), f. Mallard with 7 ducklings. Number of species: 26 Canada Goose 55 Wood Duck 3 f. (No ducklings) Mallard 12 Blue-winged Teal 2 ( A duckling staying very close to female) Killdeer 28 Spotted Sandpiper 9 Adults Ring-billed Gull 1 BLACK TERN 5 Mourning Dove 12 Chimney Swift 15 Eastern Kingbird 1 Tree Swallow 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6 Bank Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 12 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 6 Gray Catbird 1 European Starling 12 Cedar Waxwing 26 (Hawking insects with the Swallows and Terns) Savannah Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird 8 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 American Goldfinch 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(_http://ebird.org_ (http://ebird.org) ) Dan Stoltzfus Elkhart county **************Dell Laptops: Huge Savings on Popular Laptops – Deals starting at $399(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222883570x1201497211/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Faltfarm.mediaplex.com%2Fad%2Fck%2F12309%2D81939%2D1629%2D0) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? 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Terns continue on the Goose Pond FWA property with 5 BLACK TERNS spotted on this outing. Wading inside Goose Pond Unit GP10S turned up 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS and 1 LEAST BITTERN. A new year high count (for me) of 134 GREAT EGRETS flew to evening roosts in 1000 Island Woods. As far as I know the last reported sighting of the Roseate Spoonbill was early in the morning of Sunday June 21 by Dan Kaiser and Ray Troyer. Time birding: 5:15 – 9:15 PM Weather: A mild West-Northwest front with winds 3-8 mph occasionally gusting over 10 mph; skies cloudy circa 60% at the start and over 95% cloudy at the finish; temperature 80 F at the start and down to 69 F at the finish. Light sprinkles soon after I ended. For Herons and Egrets totals are mostly birds seen flying to roost in the evening at Unit GP10S. GOOSE POND FWA MAIN POOL WEST, a watch from 5:15-5:45 PM, at the small southern DNR parking lot on State Road 59 south of the double ditches and north of the Brewer Ditch bridge at CR 400 S: Canada Goose 4 Wood Duck 1 Mallard 6 Blue-winged Teal 2 Northern Bobwhite 2 Double-crested Cormorant 21 perched in trees CATTLE EGRET 5 BLACK TERN 5 foraging flock in alternate plumage, in the direction of the Least Tern Island and the east channel Tree Swallow 10 Dickcissel 2 Eastern Meadowlark 3 GPFWA UNIT GP16, mostly at a brief stop at the parking lot on CR 200 S: Canada Goose 32 along SR 59 Northern Bobwhite 3 COMMON MOORHEN 1 heard from SR 59 Black-necked Stilt 1 Grasshopper Sparrow 2 Dickcissel 3 Eastern Meadowlark 1 GPFWA UNIT GP10S, 6:05-9:05 PM, a long hike wading in hip boots (which were necessary), entering from the north parking lot on CR 1400 W: Canada Goose 6 Wood Duck 5 Mallard 29 Northern Bobwhite 7 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Bald Eagle 1 adult perched at edge of 1000 Island Woods AMERICAN BITTERN 2 Least Bittern 1 heard calling Great Blue Heron 38 GREAT EGRET 134 All coming in over the GPFWA property (mostly from Main Pool West) and going to evening roosts in 1000 Island Woods. The evening flight started at 6:10 PM and except for about 7 stragglers was done by 7:15 PM. CATTLE EGRET 14 flock came from the south, from the direction of GP7 & GP8 Green Heron 3 ROSEATE SPOONBILL 1 see note below on flight path VIRGINIA RAIL 1 flushed up close and gave a side view flying off, very dark juvenal plumage and a good view of the all black bill. My first ever definitive view of a juvenal plumaged Virginia Rail on the GPFWA property. COMMON MOORHEN 1 heard calling Killdeer 6 Black-necked Stilt 1 seen flying distantly LESSER YELLOWLEGS 1 seen flying & later heard calling; likely the same bird both times Purple Martin 1 Tree Swallow 5 Barn Swallow 6 Brown Thrasher 1 Song Sparrow 3 Grasshopper Sparrow 5 Blue Grosbeak 1 Dickcissel 8 Eastern Meadowlark 9 Roseate Spoonbill note: At 6:54-6:55 PM the Roseate Spoonbill arrived from the direction of Main Pool West. It was flying in loose association with a flock of 21 Great Egrets. When the Great Egrets went into 1000 Island Woods the Spoonbill veered off, flew to Goose Pond Unit GP10N, circled over the Unit, and then landed out in the middle of it. With all the cattails now proliferating in GP10N it is quite possible the Spoonbill could not be seen from the levees after it put down. For those who have not yet seen the Spoonbill, and if it follows this same evening flight path, a strategy for seeing it might be to conduct an evening watch on the levee of Main Pool West near the check in stand on SR 59. Try to catch the Spoonbill flying past. Look for the Spoonbill among the evening flights of Great Egrets. I was far out in GP10S when I saw the Spoonbill and I was standing in water just below my knees in a swale. The Spoonbill would have been a very distant flying view if seen from CR 1400 W. GPFWA MAIN POOL EAST, driving by after sunset: BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON 2 1 adult & 1 unaged OVER DOWNTOWN LINTON, GREENE COUNTY, after sunset: Common Nighthawk 3 --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: White Pelicans at Goose Pond GP8 From: Steve Gifford <4giffords AT INSIGHTBB.COM> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:01:17 -0400 Mel Ludato who was with me today spotted 16 White Pelicans in the GP8 block of Goose Pond. They were not visible from the main road between the east and west main pools. We parked in the GP8 lot on the west side of the pool and could see them from the parking area. To get a closer look we walked south along the treeline and then east along the dike to a great viewing area. Pictures are at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_gifford/ Good luck! ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Cane Ridge in Gibson County From: Y Harris <jyharris1 AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:10:36 -0400 Cane Ridge was active this evening. After an absence, the GREAT EGRETS were back. I counted 12 at one time from the viewing stand but I'm sure there were more. BLACK-NECKED STILTS were also active (and noisy) flying back and forth across the road. The LEAST TERNS were flying in and out and it looked as if there were young. On the road around Gibson Lake on the way to Cane Ridge, the two young BALD EAGLES were in the area of the nest. 5 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS wee along in one of the lakes after not being seen for several weeks. BARN SWALLOWS and TREE SWALLOWS were lines up on the utility lines. Pictures have been posted on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jyharris Yvonne Harris ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond Roseate Spoonbill From: "Feaster, Brad" <BFeaster AT DNR.IN.GOV> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:06:16 -0400 Lee Sterrenburg just called to report that the spoonbill has been rediscovered. While in GP10S, Lee saw it flying with a group of Great Egrets from the direction of Main Pool West. The egrets went into Thousand Islands. the spoonbill broke off and landed in the approximate middle of GP10N. This all took place at about 6:55PM Brad Feaster Certified Wildlife Biologist Property Manager; Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area R.R.#1 Box 431 Linton, IN 47441 Office Tx (812)659-9901 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Loggerhead Shrike From: David Crouch <david AT PROGRADE.NET> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:27:01 -0400 I searched for Loggerhead in the area recently reported by John
Castrale without success this morning but was treated to quite a
Loggerhead show around noon in Orange county. After seeing many nice
field and wooded edge species East of Mitchell but missing on the
Shrike I decided to visit the Orange county spot that had yielded
Loggerhead last year. I did so somewhat reluctantly as I had checked
this area earlier in the spring and noted that corn had been planted
in the small field that had housed the Shrikes last year. However, an
overgrown fence row and Amish farms across the way still remain. As I
approached the fencerow I noted several birds perched on a power line
so I stopped, raised my binocs and the bird closest to me was an adult
Loggerhead Shrike. I viewed the Shrike from 50 yards for about two
minutes before it plunged to the fencerow area opposite my position.
Within a short period it reappeared on the barbed wire fence with prey
in it's bill which it skewered onto a barb and the proceeded to
apportion. I was able to get the scope on it for really close views.
The prey item was very dark, long and thin and I thought probably a
vole. The Shrike removed a piece and then flew 100 ft. down the
fencerow and into a bushy tree. It took four trips to deliver all of
the prey and then it rested for a while in the top of an adjacent
small tree. My scope could not penetrate into the tree to get a look
at a nest and the breeze was strong enough that I was unable to hear
any vocalizations coming from the apparent nest tree. The Shrike
eventually flew across the road into an Amish style bean field where
it perched on a weed stem. I eventually lost sight of the bird and
waited another 10 minutes but it did not return to the fencerow. I am
pretty certain that the bird that flew into the "nest tree" was the
same that emerged each time. The location is Orange County road 100N,
about .4 miles East of Orange County road 500E. Turn North off of SR56
onto 500E to 100N. This is approximately five miles East of Paoli.
Other birds of interest seen on the trip include a male Scarlet
Tanager, two adult Northern Bobwhite on a road, quite a few Cliff
Swallows around two White River bridges and a Blue Grosbeak pair.
Dave Crouch
Seymour
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Subject: Pigeon River FWAFrom: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:57:57 EDT Sandy Schacht and I ended June by recording 73 species on a cool, cloudy, windy day at Pigeon River FWA and vicinity. Highlights were: Immature Hooded Merganser 1, Fawn River Fish Hatchery, Orland, Steuben Co. Least Bittern 1, in flight at area D marsh, Lagrange Co. Osprey 4, including an adult and two nestlings at the Curtis Creek nest Sandhill Crane, 2 family groups, one with one juv., one with two juvs., both in Steuben Co. Other species of some note: Green Heron 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Ruby-thr. Hummingbird 1 E. Wood Pewee Acadian Flycatcher E. Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 E. Kingbird Vireo: White-eyed 2, Yellow-throated 2, Warbling, Red-eyed Marsh Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Veery Wood thrush 2 Warbler: Yellow, Chestnut-sided 1, Am. Redstart 3, Ovenbird 1, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded 3 Scarlet Tanager 4 Vesper Sparrow 1 Grasshopper Sparrow 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3 Baltimore Oriole 1 Jim Haw **************It's raining cats and dogs -- Come to PawNation, a place where pets rule! (http://www.pawnation.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000008) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Central NW IN, 6/28/09 From: "Hopkins, Edward M" <hopkinse AT PURDUE.EDU> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:01 -0400 I was driving S in mid-afternoon, Sunday, and made two stops, Mulvey Pond & Pine Creek GHA. At PCGHA, I had an adult SNGO. This may be part of the fallout from the slow start of summer in the arctic. Tree Swallows migrants are already gathering around the marsh. The wet summer is still producing MALL ducklings with three young broods. The hot weather is drying up the ponds. There is a minor fish kill, but a 4th year BAEA caught & ate a small, live fish At Mulvey Pond, I saw a COMO in the SW corner of the pond. Mulvey Pond Tippecanoe CR500N and US231, 1 mi N of Montmorenci Canada Goose,79 Wood Duck,5 Mallard,2 Great Blue Heron,4 Turkey Vulture,1 Red-tailed Hawk,2 Common Moorhen,1 Killdeer,2 Chimney Swift,4 Cedar Waxwing,1 Red-winged Blackbird,7 Eastern Meadowlark,1 Orchard Oriole,1 Pine Creek Gamebird Hab. Area Benton CR200N E of CR850E Snow Goose,1, adult Canada Goose,18 Mallard,109, w/ 3 broods Great Blue Heron,38 Turkey Vulture,1 Bald Eagle,1 fourth year Red-tailed Hawk,1 Killdeer,82, w/ one brood Yellow-billed Cuckoo,1 Willow Flycatcher,1 Eastern Kingbird,1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow,1 Tree Swallow,64 Barn Swallow,1 Cliff Swallow,1 American Robin,3 Cedar Waxwing,1 Yellow Warbler,3 Common Yellowthroat,1 Field Sparrow,1 Song Sparrow,5 Northern Cardinal,2 Red-winged Blackbird,7 Common Grackle,5 Orchard Oriole,1 American Goldfinch,1 ======== Ed Hopkins West Lafayette, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? 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Please let me know if you would like specific directions to each. ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Re: Fewer bluebirds this year? From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:53:15 -0700 I just wanted to thank everyone for their responses... Sounds like most people in the state have seen average-to-above-average numbers of bluebirds this year. It just must be a down year for bluebirds in the two square miles of Monroe County that I bird regularly. Bernie Sloan Bloomington --- On Mon, 6/29/09, B.G. SloanSubject: Potato Creek State Park Question From: Landon Neumann <coryneumann AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:03:51 -0400 I am going to be at Potato Creek State Park from Thursday to Sunday. Where are the best trails or places to bird in the park? Where are the Osprey nests? Landon Neumann Logansport Cass County ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: McCool Basin 6/29 Spotties From: John Kendall <jeffro595 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:38:38 -0400 While finally "pulling the plug" today in anticipation of drying the basin out for vegetation control next week, I noted good Mallard and Spotted Sandpiper production this spring: Mallard-26 (22 nearly full grown juv's) Blue-winged Teal-1 molting male + female Great Egret-1 Great Blue Heron-1 Spotted Sandpiper-6 2 adults, 4 juv's John Kendall Valparaiso ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: House Wren saga From: Russell Allison <grounds11 AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:07:26 -0400 For the first time in 30 years a House Wren decided to use the Wren
House I so carefully built for them. I watched for several days as sticks
were carried to the house. Some of the sticks were dropped and some were too
long to fit. It looked like a real chore. This went on with a lone bird
doing the work. A few days went by with no activity around the house.
Then one day I had (2) birds in the area around the house and much
singing. This went on for a few weeks with trips by both birds in and out of
the house. Then only one bird was seen most of the time, with more singing.
After a few more weeks both birds were carrying insects to the house at
a furious pace. Then noises started coming from the house. Very impatient
noises. In the past week I could see (2) gaping mouths at the entry way.
This a.m. Barbara watched as one of the Adults was calling to them to
go for it ,and some time later they left the nest. They were heard in the
neighbors yard most of the day.
While sitting in our back yard at 4:00pm one of the young flew in low
and landed near us on our Pine Tree. He looked at us like we were the
weirdest creatures he had ever seen. And we probably were. A short time
later he was seen on the ground looking for anything that looked like food.
He approached a male House Sparrow with its mouth open and was not helped
much. The last I saw of him was he had made it up the steps of our deck and
was chirping for his mom.
This seems like a very rough way to start life on your own and I hope
it ends well for the (2) new birds. He has to find his own food, He has to
find out who is friend or foe, He has to learn how to fly, and today we had
25 mph winds. And unlike today's kids he had no cell phone.
Good birding
Russ Allison, West Lafayette
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Subject: Re: Fewer bluebirds this year?From: "prlowell AT joink.com" <prlowell@JOINK.COM> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:54:27 -0400 In Montgomery County, just as many as in the past, and probably a few more than has been the case previously. The pair in the next lot just fledged three, and are rebuilding the nest right now. Lowell Anderson On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:25 AM, B.G. SloanSubject: Loggerhead shrikes - Lawrence Co. From: "Castrale, John" <JCastrale AT DNR.IN.GOV> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:21:21 -0400 I checked out the site where Amy Kearns and I had a single shrike earlier in the month. On Friday, June 26, I immediately noted a shrike flying away from me as I approached the location along Bluebird Pie Road. It flew west across a heavily grazed pasture south of the county road and landed on a barbed wire fenceline. I scanned the fence and noted 2 other shrikes; likely 1 adult and 2 younger birds, based on plumage coloration. John Castrale ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Fewer bluebirds this year? From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:25:11 -0700 Just wondering what others' experiences have been with Eastern Bluebirds so far this year? I was walking the IU cross country course this morning and saw a male/female pair, a flock of four flying over the XC course from west to east, and three juvenile bluebirds sitting next to each other atop an XC course directional sign (it was encouaging to see the juveniles). These sightings made me realize that I'm seeing a lot fewer bluebirds on the XC course this year compared to previous years, when they were pretty common. I'm curious to know what others' experience has been. Thanks, Bernie Sloan Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: baby wood duck duckling and house wren fledging From: wilmajeanharder <wilmajeanharder AT JUNO.COM> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:21:45 -0400 This morning I saw two interesting "parent - child" things happening. The House Wrens were coaxing their offspring out of the house, which was all very exciting to all involved. Also, a Wood Duck duckling has been hanging out in the canal in front of my house all alone for about a week now, but today there was a female adult Wood Duck with it. The duckling seemed very wary of her, as she seemed to try to coax it to follow, and it sort of followed at a great distance. If she'd turn around to look at it, it would quickly go the other way. I think the adult has now left it behind. I've been watching the duckling all week and am relieved every day to see it's not been eaten by a snapping turtle or heron or whatever else might come it's way... Wilma Harder Goshen "Life is good. Live it gently and with fire and always with hope." ---Charlie Murphy ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Addendum (non-avian) to the butterfly route From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:11:06 -0400 I forgot to mention that we had two remarkable herps on McGowan Rd on Saturday's butterfly count. The first was by far the most remarkable - a freshly shed 3 ft Timber Rattlesnake - beautiful coloration - only 3 rattles. I have never seen one in this area before. We also had a sunning Pilot Blacksnake at North Fork. Wonderful additions to the day! Don Whitehead Bloomington whitehea AT indiana.edu ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Eagle Marsh - Fort Wayne From: Philip Wixom <a28n28 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:13:45 -0400 Hello all, Went to Eagle Marsh in Fort Wayne on Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. Saw a few Dickcissels and heard a bunch more. A lot of Bank Swallows (I think anyway) up by the barn. Probably over a hundred of them. Also saw a Spotted Sandpiper off the main entrance and a juvenile Spotted Sandpiper back along the ditch by the railroad tracks. Pictures are at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chinesevacation/ Good Day, Phil ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: IBET upcoming AOU supplement (NO SIGHTINGS) From: "Michael L. P. Retter" <mlretter AT yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
Hello, all.
For those who may be interested, I just posted some of the changes expected in
the upcoming AOU supplement (and therefore, our checklists) on my webpage,
http://www.xenospiza.com/
Just go to the right column and scroll down to "Miscellanea".
Good birding,
Michael L. P. Retter
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Subject: upcoming AOU supplement (NO SIGHTINGS)From: "Michael L. P. Retter" <mlretter AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:39:49 -0700 Hello, all.
For those who may be interested, I just posted some of the changes expected in
the upcoming AOU supplement (and therefore, our checklists) on my webpage,
http://www.xenospiza.com/
Just go to the right column and scroll down to "Miscellanea".
Good birding,
Michael L. P. Retter
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W. Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., IN
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cell: 309.824.7317
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Subject: Stillwater, North ForkFrom: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:38:20 -0400 Yesterday morning Betsy, Bob Dodd, Sue Murphy and I participated in the
Butterfly Count and worked from Kent Rd, past Stillwater to North Fork
Refuge. Although we concentrated on leps, we occasionally strayed and
got a few birds - the highlights:
Great Blue Heron - 8
Bald Eagle - 5 (3 adults, 2 Basic I)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird - 3
Acadian Flycatcher - 9
Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
White-eyed Vireo - 5
Yellow-thr. Vireo - 3
Warbling Vireo - 3
Wood Thrush - 8
No. Parula - 7
Yellow-thr. Warbler - 4
Am. Redstart - 3
Prothonotary Warbler - 5
Ovenbird - 1
Kentucky Warbler - 9
Hooded Warbler - 1
Yellow-br. Chat - 3
This morning - a new yard bird - a Black-billed Cuckoo calling from the yard
just to the north of us - called for about 5 minutes!
Don Whitehead
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Subject: Trumpeter Swan, WTH Wetland- Vigo CountyFrom: Jim Sullivan <jb.sullivan AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:43:18 -0400 A trumpeter swan was in view unti 12:15 from Dewy Point at the West Terre Haute Wetland (the new Wabashiki State Fish and Wildlife Area). Solid black bill... No yellow patch. Very large swan, Swam to the east out of sight. It could not be relocated by walking the levee. ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond FWA June 27 '09 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:11:15 -0400 Yesterday morning (June 27 2009) I birded at Goose Pond FWA in Greene County with Leland Shaum and a contingent from Elkhart and Lagrange Counties. Members of the group were Gary Chupp, Ray Helmuth, Howard Kauffman, LeRoy Miller, Marcas Miller, Neal Miller, Perry Miller, Timothy Schrock, Dorcas Shaum, Eunice Shaum, Sharon Shaum, Thaddeus Shaum, and Ray Yoder. They were talented group at spotting, hearing, and calling birds. We had a good time and we had nice views of numerous target birds. Birders we ran into along the way included Michael Topp, Cloyce Hedge, Tom Hulvershorn, and Lou Anne Barriger, and at the end I ran into Jim Sullivan. Time in the field with the group: 6:50 AM – 11:45 AM, I stayed another hour. Weather: clear, calm, humid and warming up, temperature range about 71 F to 86 F. Birds of note on the day were 4 FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCKS, 1 HOODED MERGANSER, 8 LEAST BITTERNS, and 11 CATTLE EGRETS, plus 1 CASPIAN TERN that showed up in Main Pool West as I was about depart for Bloomington. It now seems possible that there are at least 6 Fulvous Whistling- Ducks on the Goose Pond FWA property. Our party saw a 2 Fulvous Whistling-Ducks flying in GP16 and on a return stop we saw 3 FUWDs flying over GP16. Shortly after we departed for Units along CR 1400 W Cloyce Hedge called to report that he and Tom Hulvershorn had just seen 5 Fulvous Whistling-Ducks in the air at the same time over GP16. Congrats to Cloyce and Tom for getting a new property high count for Fulvous Whistling-Duck. Earlier our party was down in the far southeast end Main Pool West near the Least Tern island where we watched 1 Fulvous Whistling-Duck flying away eastward over the tree line of Black Creek and heading toward Units GP1 or GP2 along CR 1100 W. This could well have been a sixth bird. We searched for the Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks throughout the morning but did not locate them, including looking at Beehunter Marsh. It is somewhat curious that the visiting Fulvous Whistling-Ducks have been relatively easy to see flying over a wide area, whereas the Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks (if they are still on the property) have mostly proven to be elusive and difficult to find. Some selected results from the day: FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCK 4 1 in the SE corner of Main Pool West & a maximum of 3 in view at one time in Unit GP16 Wood Duck 11 6 in Beehunter Marsh Unit BH4 included 1 adult female with 3 downy chicks Blue-winged Teal 3 HOODED MERGANSER 1 female flying from GP16 into Main Pool West Northern Bobwhite 24 included 3 flushed in GP6E and scope views of 1 perched in GP16 Pied-billed Grebe 7 included 1 downy stripe faced juvenile in GP16 Double-crested Cormorant 3 Main Pool West LEAST BITTERN 8 4 GP16, 2 flying together in GP9, 1 BH5S, and 1 Main Pool West near the double ditches after the group departed Great Egret 39 Green Heron 5 CATTLE EGRET 11 8 with cows in a farm field west of Field B Common Moorhen 2 adults together in GP16 American Coot 4 including 1 sitting on a nest in Main Pool West Bald Eagle 3 1 adult BH4, 2 adults perched in 1000 Island Woods next to GP11S Black-necked Stilt 8 flying in Main Pool West, GP16, and GP7 Spotted Sandpiper 1 GP16 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 1 heard in GP11S; 1 in BH 4 seen by all Willow Flycatcher 3 Eastern Kingbird 4 one sitting on a nest in BH4 Bell’s Vireo 2 both heard, 1 seen by some Warbling Vireo 5 Blue Jay 2 BH4 along Beehunter Ditch MARSH WREN 3 singing in cattails in BH5S Cedar Waxwing 6 flock in BH4 Grasshopper Sparrow 6 scope views of 1 singing in GP16 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 heard GP11S, 1 BH4 seen well Blue Grosbeak 5 Orchard Oriole 8 included 1 adult male feeding 3 young in the south end of MPW In the mammal department we saw 5 Minks. They included a family group of 4 Minks that we watched for about 15 minutes doing dust baths, chasing, jumping on top of each other, and tumbling and rolling like kittens on CR 1200 W at the south end of Main Pool West. This was the highest one-day count of Minks I have been in on at GPFWA, and it was also by far the most sustained views of behavior I have had. --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Hawthorn Mine, Greene-Sullivan State Forest, Goose Pond/Beehunter From: "Wilkins, Vern W" <vwilkins AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:06:10 -0400 Another long, but really nice day of birding. I'll try to keep this report to some of the more interesting birds as there were certainly a lot to see at each location. Hawthorn Mine (mid-afternoon, just made a big loop around the area, and came across a couple of the main roads) Blue Grosbeak (4) Not great numbers, but given the time of the day and the little bit of time I spent there it wasn't too bad. Usually I see the birds in brushier areas with more small trees, to the east of the easternmost haul road. On this trip there were no birds in these areas, they were all in more open fields with very few trees. The far south end of the mine seemed better (825S and further south), and one was seen along 650S. Northern Bobwhite (20+) Heard pretty much everywhere and seen in the road in a few places. Killdeer (6) Orchard Oriole (6) Yellow-Breasted Chat (12+) Seen and heard everywhere. Prairie Warbler (8+) Heard everywhere, but most seemed far back from the roads and well hidden Common Yellowthroat (X) White-Eyed Vireo (2) Canada Goose (X) Mallard (X) Eastern Kingbird (10) Indigo Bunting (X) Eastern Meadowlark (X) Red-Winged Blackbird (X) South Lake (edge of Hawthorn Mine and Greene-Sullivan) Wood Thrush (4..singing at mid-day) Blue Gray Gnatcatcher (2) Blue Winged Warbler (1) Prothonotary Warbler (2) Yellow Warbler (1) Indigo Bunting (3) Eastern Kingbird (2) Eastern Wood Pewee (2) Greene-Sullivan (short hike, email me if you want more detail) I spent a lot of time hiking trails here over the winter thinking there were some great locations for Long Eared Owls, and Northern Saw-Whet owls, neither of which I found. I did manage to find some of the best owl roosting spots though. One area in particular that I've hiked several times now has never failed to produce owls, usually several. Most of the area I hiked through was predominantly Pines, and it was interesting to see so many birds more typically associated with broad-leaf forest. Barred Owl (5)! At one point I had four in view or calling. I believe two were juveniles. Two were screeching loudly and constantly, while two were doing very soft hoots and barks. At the point I ran into the four, I turned around. The group seemed to be staying within sight right along the trail, just flying a short distance ahead, and I didn't want to push them out of the area. Great Horned Owl (1) Warbling Vireo (8+) Red Eyed Vireo (6) Yellow Throated Vireo (3) White Eyed Vireo (1) Scarlet Tanager (4,including one in the road along 200S at Res.29) Summer Tanager (2, including great looks at a male catching insects while hovering, then perching and singing) Black & White Warbler (2, including one in exact same spot as Scarlet Tanager above) Prothonotary Warbler (2) Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher (3) Great Crested Flycatcher (8+) Many pairs seen and many more heard. Watched one bizarre interaction where a Great-Crested was constantly harassing a Red-Eyed Vireo. The Great Crested would chase it, then land on a branch right next to the vireo. After a minute or two of rest they would repeat the same chase and then land next to each other again. Eastern Wood Pewee (4) Wood Thrush (3) Zebra Swallowtails (3) + many other butterflies Goose Pond/Beehunter Notes for Jim and Dan: As I was pulling out from where you guys were, I saw three Egrets not too far down the ditch. I don't know how they appeared in there without us seeing them. There were also several more Great Egrets up in GP16. Jim convinced me the ticks weren't bad so I hiked a bit around GP5N/5S and then hiked the unit I was talking so much about. I confirmed which one it was, let me know if you want the exact unit. I said you usually can't easily get around the unit if you walk straight out from the ditch, but surprisingly the second ditch that crosses the trail is dry right now. The other trails through the fields are really grown up so I was glad the one along the ditch wasn't too bad. Only a couple of BC Night Herons seen in the distance, but the ditch was loaded with birds as usual. Lots of Bells Vireos, Yellow Warblers, and Willow Flycatchers, plus a few Yellow-Billed Cuckoos, Orchard Orioles, and Kingbirds. Wood Duck (6) Hooded Merganser (1, GP1, identified by profile only as I was looking into the sun and couldn't see any color whatsoever) Mallard (14) Black-Crowned Night Heron (2, GP1) much lower numbers than I usually find here, but watching where these two flew too, I think I located another roosting location Cattle Egret (3, while talking to Dan Kaiser and Jim Sullivan who I met for the first time) Great Egret (12), Great Blue Heron (X) Killdeer (8) Purple Martin (6+) (colony near Beehunter check-in station, didn't stop to count them) Barn Swallow (30+) (everywhere as usual, but I saw one group of at least thirty on a telephone wire as I was leaving Beehunter via 200S.) Tree Swallow (40+) (large flocks on wires everywhere later in the evening) Red Tailed Hawk (1,BH5) Yellow-Billed Cuckoo (6) Orchard Oriole (8) Willow Flycatcher (8) Bell's Vireo (8) Eastern Kingbird (11) Indigo Bunting (X) Yellow Warbler (10, including fledglings) Common Yellowthroat (X) Gray Catbird (X) Brown Thrasher (X) Field Sparrow (X) Song Sparrow (X) Dickcissel (12) Northern Bobwhite (X, just about everywhere again) http://vw.homelinux.net/g2/main.php/v/birds/finch/suta039.jpg.html http://vw.homelinux.net/g2/main.php/v/birds/v/bevi055.jpg.html http://vw.homelinux.net/g2/main.php/v/birds/v/bevi045.jpg.html http://vw.homelinux.net/g2/main.php/v/birds/v/bevi046.jpg.html http://vw.homelinux.net/g2/main.php/v/birds/rap/nobo020.jpg.html http://vw.homelinux.net/g2/main.php/v/birds/fly/eaki008.jpg.html http://vw.homelinux.net/g2/main.php/v/birds/or/ybcu021.jpg.htm (from earlier in the week) Vern ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Muscatatuck NWR From: David Crouch <david AT PROGRADE.NET> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:38:58 -0400 A nice summer morning at the Refuge, warm and no breeze but fairly pleasant conditions from 7:30 to 10:00 AM. I stayed North of the East / West road and South of the Visitor Center and wound up with 51 species. The highlight was my FOY visual of Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Watched that bird rummaging through Willow trees for nearly ten minutes at about 30 yards distance. A large percentage of my Warbler observations (except for Common Yellowthroat) were visual and some were really close as the Passerines were more into feeding mode rather than singing. The list: Great Blue Heron 15 Green Heron 5 Canada Goose 42 Wood Duck 83 Many of this year's class now big as mother. Turkey Vulture 1 Very little wind. Wild Turkey 2 Adult female with one small juvie. Killdeer 14 Mourning Dove 9 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Chimney Swift 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Willow Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Eastern Kingbird 3 Red-eyed Vireo 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 4 Tree Swallow 21 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Chickadee 2 Carolina Wren 3 One fledgling following an adult. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 American Robin 15 Wood Thrush 2 Gray Catbird 11 Brown Thrasher 6 At least two young. European Starling 13 Prairie Warbler 2 Prothonotary Warbler 3 American Redstart 2 A pair. Northern Parula 1 Common Yellowthroat 16 Yellow-breasted Chat 7 Summer Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 5 Indigo Bunting 12 Eastern Towhee 2 Field Sparrow 5 Chipping Sparrow 2 Carrying food. Henslow's Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 7 Red-winged Blackbird X Common Grackle X American Goldfinch 6 River Otter 4 All adult size. Cruising in remaining water in M5. W.T. Deer 2 One a spotted fawn Dave Crouch Seymour ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: NW Ind 27Jun09 From: "Kenneth J. Brock" <kj.brock AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:37:04 -0500 Today (27 June 09) Susan Bagby, John Cassady, Jeff McCoy and I birded on the lakefront before venturing to Kingsbury FWA and finishing up at Michigan City Harbor. The day’s target bird was Marbled Godwit, but we had to settle for a Least Sandpiper (our first fall migrant). We are in the summer doldrums, but appearance of the Least Sandpiper was most encouraging (better days are ahead). HIGHLIGHTS BEVERLY SHORES (Beverly Drive & Kemil Rd lot) Green Heron (9) Red-shouldered Hawk (2) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (1) Red-headed Woodpecker (6) E. Wood-Pewee (3) Willow Flycatcher (10) Great-crested Flycatcher (3) White-eyed Vireo (3) Yellow-throated Vireo (2 adults feeding 4 young in the nest) Marsh Wren (6) Veery (2) Wood Thrush (3) Gray Catbird (26) Yellow Warbler (21) Am. Redstart (10) BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER (1 male) Common Yellowthroat (23) Summer Tanager (1 male, Kemil Road lot) Swamp Sparrow (4) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (1) Indigo Bunting (7) COWLES BOG (trail east of north lot) E. Wood-Pewee (2) Willow Flycatcher (1) Yellow-throated Vireo (2 singing) Sedge Wren (1) Wood Thrush (1 singing) Scarlet Tanager (1 singing) PORTAGE LAKEFRONT PARK Osprey (1) Caspian Tern (11) Bank Swallow (60 est) GRANT & CHASE STREET WETLANDS, GARY (flooded fields west of Grant & south of I-80 & 94). Mute Swan (2 adults) Mallard (female & 8 downy chicks) Hooded Merganser (3) Great Egret (3) Black-crowned Night-Heron (2 adults) Great Egret (5) Osprey (1) Killdeer (11 plus 2 downy chicks) Eastern Kingbird (2) N. Rough-winged Swallow (3) GLEASON PARK, GARY Great Egret (4) Killdeer (20) Least Sandpiper (1- our first fall migrant) Baltimore Oriole (1 male) KINGSBURY FWA Osprey (1) Virginia Rail (1) Common Moorhen (1) Sandhill Crane (2) E. Wood-Pewee (2) Carolina Wren (1) Wood Thrush (1) Common Yellowthroat (16) PIERCE ROAD (St Joseph Co) Not only was there no water, but the fields were sufficiently dry to have been plowed. MICHIGAN CITY HARBOR Ring-billed Gull (1 juv, our first of the season) Caspian Tern (25) Barn Swallow (40 est) Ken Brock Chesterton, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Newton County, 6/27 a.m. From: Robert Hughes <rhughes.enteract AT RCN.COM> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:20:04 -0500 I spent the morning poking around northern Newton County. I checked Kankakee Sands, Conrad Savannah, LaSalle Fish & Wildlife Area, and a few places along the Kankakee River east of US 41. I did not do Willow Slough proper. The density of Dickcissels and Grasshopper Sparrows at Kankakee Sands was very impressive. I also had good numbers of Blue Grosbeaks and Henslow's Sparrows. Notable misses include Carolina Wren and White-eyed Vireo. Here's some of what I heard or saw (these numbers are actual counts, not estimates): Northern Bobwhite - 12 Upland Sandpiper - 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Cuckoo sp. - 4, flying over while driving Red-headed Woodpecker - 11 Eastern Kingbird - 13 Willow Flycatcher - 3 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 11 Warbling Vireo - 15 Bell's Vireo - 4 Sedge Wren - 3 House Wren - 47 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 Eastern Bluebird - 6 Wood Thrush - 5 Northern Mockingbird - 3 Gray Catbird - 38 Brown Thrasher - 7 Prothonotary Warbler - 2 American Redstart - 5 Common Yellowthroat - 68 Yellow-breasted Chat - 6 Scarlet Tanager - 1 Eastern Towhee - 21 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 Field Sparrow - 48 Chipping Sparrow - 19 Grasshopper Sparrow - 37 Henslow's Sparrow - 11 Vesper Sparrow - 4 Lark Sparrow - 1 Blue Grosbeak - 7 Indigo Bunting - 60 Dickcissel - 93 (actually, probably an undercount, but you get the point; they were ubiquitous) Orchard Oriole - 3 Baltimore Oriole - 2 Eastern Meadowlark - 15 The Upland Sandpiper put on quite a show for me. I heard the bird calling as it flew over my parked car on 600W just south of 400N. I did my best wolf whistle Upland Sandpiper imitation and the bird circled around, wings fluttering, and landed on a telephone wire not more than 25 feet away. It sat there for a minute or 2, staring at me the whole time. Upland Sans have become so difficult to find in the Chicago area that I was thrilled to see this bird. Robert D. Hughes Chicago, Illinois ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond From: Christine Hedge <cloyce_hedge_392 AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:21:01 -0400 Tom Hulvershorn and I birded the Goose Pond area this morning. We were joined by Lou Ann Barriger. We also met Lee Sterrenburg who was leading Leland Schaum and a group from Elkhart & LaGrange Counties. The best bird of the day for us was FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCK--we saw 5 in one flock shortly after parking along SR 59 near the north end of GP 16 (where Lee had directed us--as his group had already seen them). The birds were seen flying over the marsh several times; each time returning to land way out in the middle of the marsh. We noticed that the ducks appeared less frequently as the morning wore on (and the temperature went up). Highlights: FULVOUS WHISTLING DUCK--5 hooded merganser--1 with Lee and group common loon--1 alternate plumage pied-billed grebe--1 great egret--many green heron--1 black-necked stilt--flying over marsh GP 16 Bell's vireo--1 GP 5 North dickcissel--many orchard oriole--2 Cloyce Hedge Lebanon, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Lk. Lemon - 6/26 - COTE From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:27:55 -0400 There was an adult COMMON TERN foraging at the east end of Lk. Lemon this afternoon and evening. Last Saturday (6/20), there were 3 CASPIAN TERNS foraging in the east bay. ........Jim & Susan ******************** Jim & Susan Hengeveld East Lake Lemon Observatory Southshore Drive Unionville, IN 47468 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Alder Flycatcher in Putnam County From: Brad Jackson <jacksonbk1 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:20:59 -0700 While atlassing the Roachdale block on Wednesday, June 24th, at about 11:00 AM,
I found an Alder Flycatcher singing its wee-bee-OH song. The location was 2
miles south and 1 mile west of Roachdale. This is one mile west of CR 250E on
the north side of CR 1100N. The habitat was a grove of medium pines (species?)
which has behind it a stand of young sycamores. The bird was in the pines, but
close to the back. There is a gate with a lane leading straight back through
the pines to the sycamores. The flycatcher was along the lane, and therefore
easily heard from the road.
Brad Jackson
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Subject: Goose Pond FWA June 25 morningFrom: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:18:14 -0400 Yesterday morning (June 25 2008) I did some birding at Goose Pond FWA in Greene County before the TV crews arrived at mid-day. A quick drive around to various Goose Pond Units looking for flying Black Terns in the early morning and not produce any. I checked out Main Pool East, accessed from behind the Wilder Farms grain elevators and from the ruined metal bridge at the north end of CR 1200 W. Later I walked part way along the eastern levee of Main Pool West. These ventures were a follow up to Matt Bredeweg’s report of 3 Black- bellied Whistling-Ducks flying into Main Pool East on Tuesday June 23. Once again there was no sign of the Roseate Spoonbill with the Great Egrets and Cattle Egrets in the north end of Main Pool West. Weather: continued hot and very humid; clear skies with haze, temperature already up to 91 F before noon; wind variously SW and NW, mostly around 3-8 mph. A few results: GPFWA MAIN POOL EAST: FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCK 1 flew off high going east, heading in the direction of Beehunter Marsh Whistling-duck sp unidentified 1 landed in the south end in haze, not found again after it set down Bald Eagle 1 adult Willow Flycatcher 1 Bell’s Vireo 2 Blue Grosbeak 2 singing males The Fulvous Whistling-Duck that flew away eastward beyond MPE in mid morning was likely a different individual from the two Fulvous Whistling-Ducks that Dave Crouch later watched in GP16 while TV filming was going on. GPFWA MAIN POOL WEST, walking on the eastern levee in the heat: Pied-billed Grebe 5 Double-crested Cormorant 13 CATTLE EGRET 25 in trees near the double ditches Black-necked Stilt 8 American Coot 5 The Pied-billed Grebes and American Coots on the east side of Main Pool West are likely not the same birds we have been watching on the west side of MPW from parking lots along State Road 59. It is a long way to the other side. GPFWA at the DNR BARN OFFICE on State Road 59: Warbling Vireo 1 Wood Thrush 1 singing in 1000 Island Woods across the highway, first time I’ve ever heard one from there GPFWA UNIT GP12: Cooper’s Hawk 1 brown juvenile --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Salamonie Reservoir From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:46:29 EDT A long half day on a hot Friday produced 80 species at Salamonie Reservoir and Salamonie River State Forest. Although singing has noticeably dropped off, there was enough to record the majority of the area specialties. I found nothing unexpected, but it was a pleasant morning with some good birds recorded. Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Great Blue Heron Green Heron Turkey Vulture Hawk: Cooper's 2, Red-tailed, Am. Kestrel Killdeer Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Ruby-thr. Hummingbird 1 Woodpecker: Red-bellied, Downy, Hairy, N. Flicker, Pileated 1 E. Wood Pewee Acadian Flycatcher 5 Willow Flycatcher 5 E. Phoebe 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 E. Kingbird 1 Vireo: White-eyed 3, Yellow-throated 1, Warbling 3, Red-eyed Blue Jay Am. Crow Horned Lark Purple Martin Swallow: Tree, N. Rough-winged, Cliff (fledglings at dam), Barn Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-br. Nuthatch Wren: Carolina, House Blue-gray Gnatcatcher E. Bluebird Wood Thrush 2 Am. Robin Gray Catbird N. Mockingbird 1 Eur. Starling Cedar Waxwing Warbler: N. Parula 2, Yellow 6, Yellow-throated 2, Pine 2 (one on each side of main State Forest road about 100 yards west of Fire Lane 2), Cerulean 1, Ovenbird 1, Kentucky 3, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded 5, Yellow-breasted Chat 3 Summer Tanager 1 (singing from south of main State Forest road about 100 yards W of fire lane 2) Scarlet Tanager 2 E. Towhee Sparrow: Chipping, Field, Vesper 1, Grasshopper 2, Henslow's 1, Song N. Cardinal Indigo Bunting Dickcissel 2 Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Oriole: Orchard 1, Baltimore 2 House Finch Am. Goldfinch House Sparrow Jim Haw **************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the grill. (http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000006) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond 20 Jun From: Jeff McCoy <jeffmccoy AT EMBARQMAIL.COM> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:40:13 -0300 Saturday, 20 June, 2009 I spent the entire day at Goose Pond birding with Lee Sterrenburg in the early morning, Rob Ripma the rest of the morning, then Lee again all afternoon. I also ran into Jim Haw and his Ft. Wayne contingent briefly in the late morning. We covered as much area as we could given the extreme flooded conditions and many closed roads and we located most of the recently reported rarities but failed to find any new exciting birds. Regarding the probable Mottled Ducks, a possible strategy for getting a confirming photo, based on our experience on this day, would be to wade out into south Main Pool West from Hwy. 59 along the ditch where there is a slight elevation and stop frequently to scan for Mallard heads poking up out of the weeds. A very high powered lens or digiscoping set-up would be required. Here are the highlights: FULVOUS WHISTLING DUCK 4 (either these birds were following us around all day or there are more than 4 on the property; we noted 2-3 birds near the tern island in south Main Pool West in the morning, 3 birds way over in GP8 around mid-day, and at least 4 birds at various spots along Hwy. 59 in the afternoon) Mallard 90+ (mostly in large flock in south MPW) PROBABLE MOTTLED DUCK 3 (as Rob and I were watching from the tern island at the northern terminus of CR1200W at 9:15am, a deer put up the large Mallard flock in the flooded grassland in south MPW and we counted 3 smaller darker birds, one of which I was able to see well enough through my scope to note the thin white border to the speculum; later, Lee and I were wading out into south MPW around 7:30pm when we realized that the huge Mallard flock was only about 100-120 yds ahead of us and they were all at attention with their heads raised just above the weeds; but before we could get our scopes on them to scan for a possible Mottled they all took off and we found only one smaller darker bird, and it did show a thin white border to the speculum) NORTHERN PINTAIL 1 (drake among the above Mallard flock in flight in the morning) Hooded Merganser 2 (fem) Pied-billed Grebe (many; but noted one on nest in north MPW) Double-crested Cormorant 5 Least Bittern 3 (GP9, 16, & 7) Great Egret 64 LITTLE BLUE HERON (ad; GP8) CATTLE EGRET 37 (several small groups seen in early morning and again in late afternoon but this was the max. seen together roosting in northeast MPW; a short-lived high count for the property with Lee's count of 55 on the 24th) Black-crowned Night-Heron 7 (all ad.'s; GP10S) ROSEATE SPOONBILL 1 (seen almost continually from mid-morning with the Oskay's of Indianapolis to late afternoon with a couple from Colorado that detoured here to seek out this bird on a trip further eastward - two FWDU's made a low fly-over while we were watching "pinkie' and they were extremely impressed!) Common Moorhen 5 (1 heard and 1 seen in GP16, 1 heard in GP7, and 2 heard in MPW along 59) American Coot 5 (all in north MPW incl. 2 sitting on nests) Black-necked Stilt 20+ (incl. 16 seen flying together in one flock over MPW) Spotted Sandpiper 1 WILSON'S SNIPE 5 (flying over south MPW seen from bridge on CR1200W in groups of 3 and 2; this is the highest summer count for Goose Pond) Caspian Tern 4 (2 seen earlier but 4 were hunting over GP10S early evening) LEAST TERN 3 (2 flew by with a Black Tern just north of the tern island from the east at mid-morning and while I was watching one of them a pair flew by so there were probably at least 4 birds; we saw a pair flying over GP8 and GP16 throughout the afternoon) Black Tern 1 (above sighting plus several sightings later over GP16) Good birding, Jeff McCoy Columbia City, Indiana jeffmccoy AT embarqmail.com ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: House Wrens, Pine Siskin report, butterflies, spoonbill video, From: Don Gorney <dongorney AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:48:16 -0700 After a multi-year absence I finally put back a Gilbertson nest box in the back yard this spring. House Wrens quickly found it and there are now at least five House Wren nestlings in the box. A song Sparrow has been feeding its young in the yard this past week. A friend, Earl Miller, that lives near me on the NE side of Indianapolis had a PINE SISKIN at his feeder on June 22. I asked him to keep me posted about additional sightings or if he sees young. On June 23 I had a real treat when I briefly glimpsed a Zebra Swallowtail moving through my yard. I rarely see this species in the Indianapolis area. On June 24 I saw a dark butterfly enter the garage and then fly through the open window of my vehicle. It was a Mourning Cloak. After removing it from the car it continued on its way. Speaking of butterflies. Upcoming counts include Monroe County (June 27), Noble County (July 2), Goose Pond FWA (July 11), and Big Oaks NWR (July 18). I located the Roseate Spoonbill segment on Fox59's website. It is at the following link: http://www.fox59.com/video/?clipId=3904184&topVideoCatNo=96918&c=&autoStart=true&activePane=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepage&clipFormat=flv The segment is under the "videos" category on the website. If the above link does not work you can try this link and then look through the available videos for it: http://www.fox59.com/video/ Don Gorney Indianapolis, IN dongorney AT yahoo.com ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Re: Goose Pond News Coverage From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:24:44 -0700 I thought the WISH-TV segment, especially, was very well done! Bernie Sloan Bloomington --- On Thu, 6/25/09, Don GorneySubject: Goose Pond News Coverage From: Don Gorney <dongorney AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:12:18 -0700 Lee Sterrenburg gave me a heads up about the news reports to air on June 25 in the Indy market on the Goose Pond FWA Roseate Spoonbill. So, I set my DVD recorder up to record the segments. I may have gotten one newscast but I found it online anyway. The second newscast - Indy Fox 59 - I did not get because the story ran in the second 1/2 hour of an expanded newscast and I did not have my recorder running. It is also not on their website (at least yet). I thought both the Channel 8 (WISH) and Channel 59 (Fox affiliate) stories were well done and Lee Sterrenburg and Brad Feaster were excellent spokesmen. I liked the Channel 8 coverage because Jim Sullivan was given explicit credit for his photos and there is a cameo of Dave Crouch. These news stories really give a boost to Linton and to Goose Pond FWA. The spoonbill is no longer being seen but both species of whistling-ducks are around for those patient enough to catch them in flight or lucky enough to find them on the ground. Here are some news items about the spoonbill. The first link contains the newscast video segment and is worth watching. WISH-TV Channel 8, Indianapolis http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/indiana/Rare_bird_spotted_near_Bloomington_20090625 Indianapolis Star http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009906250423 Greene County Daily World http://gcdailyworld.com/story/1549421.html Don Gorney Indianapolis, IN dongorney AT yahoo.com ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Fox 59 - Roseate Spoonbill From: Chad Williams <chaderz911 AT MSN.COM> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:52:32 -0400 Just saw a nice clip on FOX 59 News about the Roseate Spoonbill at Goosepond. Lee & Brad - Good Job! Check out my Birding progress at: www.indianabirder.blogspot.com ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Twin Swamps, Hovey Lake, Beehunter Marsh 6/24 From: "Wilkins, Vern W" <vwilkins AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:23:46 -0400 I finally made a trip down south, primarily to see the Twin Swamps area. This was more a hiking trip than a birding trip, so I didn't keep track of numbers of birds seen. I visited several other Nature Conservancy properties and sections of the Ohio River while I was down there, but didn't see anything significantly different than what I listed for each of the locations below, except maybe the dozens of Turkey Vultures. I was hoping find Mississippi KItes along the river and/or Yellow-Crowned Night Herons in the swamps, but I only heard two Yellow-Crowned Night Herons at Twin Swamps. This is the second time I've made a modest attempt to find the Kites or at least been birding in areas where Kites could be expected. The first was in early June at Lincoln State Park, but so far I've been rained out on one Kite day and the temperatures were near 100 on the second and I only spent a short time around any areas they might be seen. While driving around the general Point Township area, I did notice that there were quite a few Dickcissels and I also spotted two Lark Sparrows (both in the Point Township Complex, but far apart). Both birds were on telephone wires over barren fields, with crops just starting to come up. Twin Swamps (didn't arrive until about 10:30am) Conditions were surprisingly dry but the heat wasn't too bad yet. No water until near the end of the boardwalk. Wood Duck (2) Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (two heard fairly close to the platform, but they never came within sight). Red Shouldered Hawk (1) Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Wood Pewee Great Crested Flycatcher Scarlet Tanager Hooded Warbler Kentucky Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Yellow-Breasted Chat Prairie Warbler Northern Parula Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Red-Bellied Woodpecker Red-Headed Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Yellow-Throated Vireo Red Eyed Vireo American Crow Blue Jay Tufted TItmouse Carolina Wren Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher Gray Catbird Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Common Grackle Hovey Lake Most of the above birds were seen or heard around Hovey Lake also. The only additions are included below. I stopped at several places around the lake and hiked the Rail Marsh Levee in temperatures that had to be close to a 100 at mid-afternoon. Still there were some impressive numbers for most of the birds below and the Prothonotary Warblers. DC Cormorant (1) Green Heron (1) Great Egret (12) Great Blue Heron Eastern Kingbird Willow Flycatcher Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Chimney Swift Beehunter Marsh I stopped for just a few minutes at Beehunter Marsh on the way home. I only parked at BH5, walked a bit up and down the road, and a bit around the marsh. I was there from about 7:00-8:30pm and the bird activity was impressive. Many pairs of Yellow-Billed Cuckoos, Orchard Orioles, Yellow-Breasted Chats, and Common Yellowthroats. Many other common birds seen, but I didn't keep close track of the usual stuff. There was a really impressive number of Bobwhite Quail, including many out running around on the gravel roads, some with their young. Their calls could be heard everywhere between the two small bridges on 200s, along BH5. I also drove back down the farmhouse road and scared up a Great Horned Owl that had been perched somewhere around the house. I saw several pairs of ducks flying around in the distance, but they were all too far, and light was getting too poor, for me to identify any of them. Vern Bloomington, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond Fulvous Pair From: David Crouch <david AT PROGRADE.NET> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:01:48 -0400 This morning I arrived at Goose Pond at 9:00 AM in hopes of seeing the recently re-spotted Black-bellied Whistling-Duck. No confirming sightings were made but a distinct highlight was a 50 minute long scope view of a pair of Fulvous Whistling-Duck approximately 200 yards West of SR59 in GP16 at the double ditches viewing area. This view was from 12:40 PM to 1:30PM and included some swimming, much preening and limited naptime. As it evolved I was able to share those views with a team from WISH-TV who were just South of my location doing an interview with Lee Sterrenburg. I had called and informed Lee of the Fulvous pair so when he had completed his interview he sent them my way. The scope (and binoc) views were great but it remains to be seen on tonight's early news how good the TV film views may be. This twosome has been at Goose Pond since the first Fulvous sighting and all indications are that they are a mating pair. It would obviously be incredible news if they were to successfully breed at Goose Pond. I suppose stranger things have happened. Other highlights only: Pied-billed Grebe 1 In GP9 American Coot 1 In GP9 Great Egret 27 15 in flight in MPW while 12 were feeding in GP16 Dave Crouch Seymour ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. 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To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Indian Springs BBA BWWA AMRE PIWA From: Amy Kearns <greenpertplus AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:01:25 -0400 Highlights from my Martin county Indian Springs breeding bird atlas block (in Crane) today: 1 singing male Black-and-white Warbler Also singing Cerulean, Prairie, Blue-winged, Hooded, Pine, Prothonatory, Yellow- throated, Kentucky Warblers & Ovenbirds An agitated pair of American Redstarts up close, with another Redstart singing distantly Adult Broad-winged Hawk dive bombing an adult Red-tailed Hawk right over my Jeep A male Northern Parula singing around a beakful of bugs while searching for more bugs to add Agitated Blue Grosbeak pair, crests all raised & alarm calling, the female with a beakful of delicious bugs A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird apparently taking a bath in the dew on tree leaves. She never stopped flying, but hovered over each leaf one by one, water flying everywhere, and vocalizing the entire time. I had never seen this before and it was very interesting to watch. I forgot to mention in yesterday's post about Perry county that I saw a Blue- gray Gnatcatcher feeding a fledgling Brown-headed Cowbird nearly 3x its size. Amy Kearns Mitchell ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Newton Co: Blue Grosbeak From: Jed Hertz <jhh_60910 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:40:38 -0700 Hi all, Thurs 25-June-09: Willow Slough FWA/TNC Kankakee Sands, Newton Co; IN: 0500-1030H (1/2 W + 12 D)_Cld_73-88_W 0-5_Muskrat(2)_E Cottontail(3)_Red Squirrel_Water level up. I started early at TNC Kankakee Sands Unit L and K, then headed to Willow Slough FWA HQ, and finally the Prairie Chicken Refuge with short stops inbetween. Birds of note: Am Bittern, N. Harrier, BB Cuckoo, N. Mockingbird, Summer Tanager, Blue Grosbeak, Lark Sparrow, and W. Meadowlark. I tallied 86 species in all as follows: Anatidae 3 ¨ ¨ 33 Canada Goose ¨ ¨ ¨ 8 Wood Duck ¨ ¨ ¨ 3 Mallard ¨ Phasianidae 1 ¨ ¨ 3 Ring-necked Pheasant ¨ Melagrididae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Wild Turkey ¨ Odontophoridae 1 ¨ ¨ 2 Northern Bobwhite ¨ Phalacrocoracidae 1 ¨ ¨ 2 Double-crested Cormorant ¨ Ardeidae 3 ¨ ¨ 2 American Bittern ¨ Unit L ¨ ¨ 8 Great Blue Heron ¨ ¨ ¨ 5 Green Heron ¨ Cathartidae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Turkey Vulture ¨ Accipitridae 2 ¨ ¨ 1 Northern Harrier ¨ Male; unit L at 1010H ¨ ¨ 1 Red-tailed Hawk ¨ Gruidae 1 ¨ ¨ 2 Sandhill Crane ¨ South of CR225N in what remains of flooded field. Charadriidae 1 ¨ ¨ 16 Killdeer ¨ Mostly south of CR225N Columbidae 2 ¨ ¨ 1 *Eurasian Collared-Dove ¨ Prob; one call south of CR375S Rd. x CR500W. ¨ ¨ 19 Mourning Dove ¨ Coccyzidae 2 ¨ ¨ 1 Black-billed Cuckoo ¨ 0630H rapid "po-po" South of peninsula ¨ ¨ 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo ¨ Trochilidae 1 ¨ ¨ 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird ¨ Picidae 6 ¨ ¨ 9 Red-headed Woodpecker ¨ ¨ ¨ 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker ¨ ¨ ¨ 5 Downy Woodpecker ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Hairy Woodpecker ¨ HQ ¨ ¨ 5 Northern Flicker ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Pileated Woodpecker ¨ Druming from HQ Tyrannidae 6 ¨ ¨ 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Acadian Flycatcher ¨ Spill-way at HQ ¨ ¨ 2 Willow Flycatcher ¨ Habitat ¨ ¨ 2 Eastern Phoebe ¨ ¨ ¨ 6 Great Crested Flycatcher ¨ ¨ ¨ 7 Eastern Kingbird ¨ Vireonidae 4 ¨ ¨ 5 White-eyed Vireo ¨ ¨ ¨ 4 Yellow-throated Vireo ¨ ¨ ¨ 6 Warbling Vireo ¨ ¨ ¨ 10 Red-eyed Vireo ¨ Corvidae 2 ¨ ¨ 14 Blue Jay ¨ ¨ ¨ 5 American Crow ¨ Alaudidae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Horned Lark ¨ Hirundinidae 4 ¨ ¨ 42 Purple Martin ¨ ¨ ¨ 80 Tree Swallow ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Bank Swallow ¨ ¨ ¨ 5 Barn Swallow ¨ Paridae 1 ¨ ¨ 7 Tufted Titmouse ¨ Sittidae 1 ¨ ¨ 6 White-breasted Nuthatch ¨ Troglodytidae 2 ¨ ¨ 7 House Wren ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Sedge Wren ¨ unit L Sylviidae 1 ¨ ¨ 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ¨ Turdidae 3 ¨ ¨ 7 Eastern Bluebird ¨ some young ¨ ¨ 7 Wood Thrush ¨ ¨ ¨ 14 American Robin ¨ Mimidae 3 ¨ ¨ 15 Gray Catbird ¨ ¨ ¨ 3 Northern Mockingbird ¨ CR400W + CR200W x 500 & 550N ¨ ¨ 5 Brown Thrasher ¨ Sturnidae 1 ¨ ¨ 60 European Starling ¨ Bombycillidae 1 ¨ ¨ 9 Cedar Waxwing ¨ Parulidae 6 ¨ ¨ 1 Northern Parula ¨ ¨ ¨ 11 Yellow Warbler ¨ 2f; w/food ¨ ¨ 1 Yellow-throated Warbler ¨ 12A ¨ ¨ 4 Ovenbird ¨ ¨ ¨ 17 Common Yellowthroat ¨ ¨ ¨ 5 Yellow-breasted Chat ¨ One giving whistled clear notes in slow cadence "po po po po"; CR375S x CR500W; 12A Thraupidae 1 ¨ ¨ 2 Summer Tanager ¨ CR400W; CR375S Emberizidae 7 ¨ ¨ 6 Eastern Towhee ¨ ¨ ¨ 16 Chipping Sparrow ¨ ¨ ¨ 14 Field Sparrow ¨ one w/food ¨ ¨ 1 Vesper Sparrow ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Lark Sparrow ¨ CR200W x CR500N ¨ ¨ 18 Grasshopper Sparrow ¨ ¨ ¨ 10 Song Sparrow ¨ Cardinalidae 5 ¨ ¨ 7 Northern Cardinal ¨ ¨ ¨ 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak ¨ 1f ¨ ¨ 3 Blue Grosbeak ¨ Two at Unit L; one in 1st winter plumage at Prairie Chicken Refuge (CR200 x 550N); photo ¨ ¨ 22 Indigo Bunting ¨ ¨ ¨ 54 Dickcissel ¨ Icteridae 8 ¨ ¨ 1 Bobolink ¨ Unit L ¨ ¨ 52 Red-winged Blackbird ¨ ¨ ¨ 5 Eastern Meadowlark ¨ ¨ ¨ 1 Western Meadowlark ¨ CR400N x CR400W ¨ ¨ 32 Common Grackle ¨ ¨ ¨ 14 Brown-headed Cowbird ¨ ¨ ¨ 6 Orchard Oriole ¨ 1f ¨ ¨ 1 Baltimore Oriole ¨ Fringillidae 2 ¨ ¨ 2 House Finch ¨ HQ ¨ ¨ 31 American Goldfinch ¨ Passeridae 1 ¨ ¨ 3 House Sparrow ¨ Jed Hertz Kankakee, IL (Kankakee Co - 60 mi South of Chicago) Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhertz/ Give "ebird" a try: http://ebird.org/content/ebird ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Another Black-bellied Whistling-Duck report June 23 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:03:23 -0400 This morning I talked with Matt Bredeweg of the DNR staff at Goose Pond FWA. Matt reported that on Tuesday (June 23 2009) he observed a 3 BLACK- BELLIED WHISTLING -DUCKS flying together. He says they came from the direction of Unit GP10S or 1000 Island Woods and put down in Main Pool East. Matt also showed me cell phone photos he had taken of 2 AMERICAN COOT NESTS on the eastern side of Main Pool West on June 23. One Coot nest contained 7 eggs and one contained 4 eggs. This observation brings to 4 the number of known active American Coot nests presently in Main Pool West, in addition to the family group of 1 adult AMERICAN COOT with 3 juveniles that Matt observed in Unit GP16 on June 22. I just took a look at the USGS Indiana Breeding Bird Atlas web page for American Coot. The Atlas page is updated through the end of 2008. If I read the species map correctly, the current Indiana Breeding Bird Atlas up through the end of 2008 shows no American Coot detections for the southern tier. There is Confirmed breeding in 4 Blocks elsewhere in the state, none of the them in the southern tier. Seen in those contexts Goose Pond FWA with its 5 breeding pairs seems like a lush oasis for American Coots. --Lee Sterrenburg Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Both Whistling-Duck Species GPFWA June 24 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:03:08 -0400 Yesterday afternoon (June 24 2009) David Ayer, Chuck Mills, and I birded at Goose Pond FWA in Greene County. After David and Chuck departed at going on 5:50 PM I set up my camp chair at the parking lot across from the double ditches on State Road 59 and did a watch for water birds. From there one can see Units GP7 and GP16, GP8 distantly, Main Pool West, and in the far distance Main Pool East. It would be an especially good view if someday an observation tower were built there. I watched the evening heron and egret show until past sunset. Photographer Darryl Jones joined me for part of an hour during the evening session. The main highlight was both species of Whistling-Ducks: 2 BLACK- BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS and 4 FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCKS. Other birds of note were a new property high count of 55 CATTLE EGRETS coming in to evening roost and a foraging flock of 9 CASPIAN TERNS. We assume that very few birders in Indiana have recorded both Whistling-Duck species in the same day. Chuck and David spotted the 2 Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks as they were driving south to leave the property. They came back and got me. We observed the BBWDs together. Before I arrived Chuck briefly saw the 2 BBWDs flying at a great distance in the direction of Main Pool East. There is no way of knowing if these are the same 2 Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks that were observed in the Beehunter Marsh section of the property on June 14. They possibly could be. Despite prolonged views of the evening concentration of Great Egrets and Cattle Egrets I did not find the Roseate Spoonbill. Time: I was there 3:35-9:40 PM. Sunset for Linton was 9:18 PM. Weather: Hot out in the sun. Skies partly cloudy, very humid with an afternoon high temperature of 93 F at Linton, wind various W and NW directions mostly under 5 mph. Selected results: BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK 2 extreme SE corner of Unit GP7 at 4:41-4:45 PM, observed at 84 yards from the edge of SR 59 (distance done with a range finder); some distant photos with a point and shoot camera from farther away. FULVOUS WHISTING-DUCK 4 2 in the extreme SE end of Main Pool West near the Least Tern Island, 1 of them by Chuck only; the pair with one of them missing a flight feather or feathers in the left wing flew out of GP16 and into Main Pool West in the evening; the latter 2 by Lee only. Canada Goose 28 GP16 included 8 still in downy plumage Mallard 42 28 Main Pool West, 14 in GP7 & GP16 Mottled duck candidate sp 1 flying with Mallards, west of the Least Tern Island in Main Pool West; Black-duck looking; smaller than Mallards with which it was flying Blue-winged Teal 5 4 Main Pool West, 1 GP7 Northern Bobwhite 7 Pied-billed Grebe 2 GP7 Double-crested Cormorant 4 Main Pool West Bald Eagle 1 adult Main Pool West Least Bittern 1 adult male flying over GP16 Great Blue Heron 114 counted flying to roost in the evening Great Egret 56 number in the evening flight; 50 MPW, 6 GP16 CATTLE EGRET 55 counted coming into evening roost, Main Pool West Green Heron 5 4 Main Pool West; 1 GP16 Killdeer 10 Black-necked Stilt 14 10 GP16 & GP8, 4 Main Pool West Common Moorhen 1 calling in GP16 American Coot 3 Main Pool West CASPIAN TERN 9 a flock, all in adult alternate plumage, came from direction of GP10 at 9:08 PM, crossed Main Pool West and foraged over Main Pool East until past sunset Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 levee at south end of Main Pool West Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Brewer Ditch bridge on CR 1200 W at far south end of Main Pool West Bell’s Vireo 2 1 GP7 levee; 1 GP8 Levee Blue Grosbeak 2 It is possible that 5 Fulvous Whistling-Ducks were present. After the 2 flew away out of GP16 together and went far off into Main Pool West, 1 later flew back into GP 16 that was not the individual missing flight feathers. That bird did some moving around inside GP16 after it arrived and appeared to be staying there for the evening Evening over LINTON, GREENE COUNTY: Common Nighthawk 3 --Lee Sterrenburg, Bloomington, with David Ayer and Chuck Mills ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Hooded warbler nest From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:05:55 EDT Here is a report from yesterday (June 23 ) of birds seen and heard at the Trillium Land conservancy which is part of the Bristol priority block 8463 in Elkhart county. We were pleased to find nesting confirmation for Hooded Warbler, a bird not often seen here in summer. My e-bird report; Location: Trillium Land Conservancy, Conley Observation date: 6/23/09 Notes: Elaine Harley and I working on the Bristol 8463 Atlas block on the "Conley Property". We heard then saw Hooded Warblers, An adult male and an adult female (it had some of the black pattern on the face), and saw them fly into briars and bushes near base of a tree. After searching briefly we saw a nest with three nestlings, (maybe four - we did not want to disturb the nestlings to count them) and Elaine took some pictures. Nest was about 30 inches off the ground. Also there were two Red-eyed Vireos circling around in the area with one of them continually making a begging call. Also heard a female Wood Duck doing the alarm call and then a Cooper's Hawk flew out with prey and all the birds settled down again. Number of species: 47 Wood Duck 4 Mallard 2 Wild Turkey 1 Green Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Chimney Swift 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 4 Willow Flycatcher 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Eastern Bluebird 2 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 12 Gray Catbird 3 Cedar Waxwing 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Ovenbird 3 Common Yellowthroat 1 Hooded Warbler 5 Scarlet Tanager 1 Song Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 2 Red-winged Blackbird 16 Common Grackle 6 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 American Goldfinch 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Dan Stoltzfus Elkhart County **************Huge Savings on Popular Laptops only at Dell.com. 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To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond Black-bellied Whistling Ducks From: "Feaster, Brad" <BFeaster AT DNR.IN.GOV> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:00:44 -0400 Lee Sterrenburg just called to report that he, Chuck Mills and David Ayer saw 2 BBWD in the far south end of GP7 near HWY 59 and Brewer Ditch intersection at around 5:45 this evening. Brad Feaster Certified Wildlife Biologist Property Manager; Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area R.R.#1 Box 431 Linton, IN 47441 Office Tx (812)659-9901 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Perry Co BWHA RSHA PIWA From: Amy Kearns <greenpertplus AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:52 -0400 While working on a couple of my Perry county BBA blocks today, Noah & I spotted an adult Broad-winged Hawk flying up from a stream, clutching a frog in its talons. I didn't know they ate amphibians! This area is good for BWHA - it was our third of the day. We saw the Broad-winged just off 66 on W Esary Rd near the town of Suphur Springs. There is a bridge there that has nesting Barn Swallows under it. These are the only Barn Swallows I have ever seen nesting under a bridge (although this is only my second year atlasing, and I can't say I spent much time under bridges before I started doing this). Also of note in the Hoosier National near Deuchars was a very noisy juvenille Red-shouldered Hawk perched on the edge of a nest about 40 feet high in a White Oak. The nest had many pine boughs woven into it. We could hear another Red-shouldered 'answering' the juvie while we were there. Hoosier National at Lake Celina & the Oriole trailhead are still good for Pine Warblers, although I didn't have as many singing today as I did earlier in June. Lake Celina also has Worm-eating Warblers and Chipping Sparrows - it is a good place to practice differentiating their songs from Pine Warblers. Amy Kearns Mitchell ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Last spring in Arctic may cause breeding failure From: "Hopkins, Edward M" <hopkinse AT PURDUE.EDU> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:46:12 -0400 Canadians report a very late spring in the Arctic. See article below: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/big-chill-in-churchill -47992231.html The recent, late-migrant shorebirds, such as recent White-rumped Sandpipers, made have really been early-returning, unsuccessful breeders. ======== Ed Hopkins West Lafayette, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Dunes SP 6/24/09: probable Mississippi Kite From: Brad Bumgardner <bumgbj01 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:56:17 -0500 Greetings, A few hikers showed up for a very hot, humid, and uncomfortable walk to Mt. Tom and back at the Dunes State Park this morning (6/24/09). No real bird activity going on in the heat, but a few notables are worth mentioning. Mississippi Kite- 1 (probable, see note*) Yellow-billed Cuckoo- 1 (my FOY!) Summer Tanager- 1 (base of Mt. Holden) Black-throated Green Warbler- 1 (singing male at base of Mt. Tom, previously reported by Tim Hill. Photo at link below) http://www.flickr.com/photos/25731905 AT N07/3657235621 *At 11:20am, we were walking back up the Nature Center walkway when a slender bird of prey appeared from above the trees, probably 100 feet up. It circled briefly before cruising away and out of sight, never flapping it's wings. Total time was probably only 4 seconds. Notable were very long, slender wings. They appeared longer than any falcon. The body was slender, and the tail was noticeably long, even more so than typical accipiters. The tail was never flared out, and had a very slim look. The complete underside was uniformly light gray to dirty white, with no obvious field marks. Not having much experience with MIKI, I feel 95% confident it was one, but not confident enough to say for certain, given the brief look. I never had a chance to get binoculars on it. Comments welcome. Brad Bumgardner Chesterton, IN _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: BBS routes - Spencer & Newberry From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:19:39 -0400 On Sunday & Monday (6/21 & 6/22), respectively, Susan & I ran the Spencer & Newberry BBS routes. The Spencer route runs north mainly through eastern Owen and western Morgan Counties while the Newberry route runs south through much of western Greene Co., ending up in NE Daviess Co. The highlight of the Spencer route was a singing ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK on a stop just north of Gosport in Owen Co. Highlights from the Newberry route included 3 EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES (1 on a stop + 2 others, including a total of 2 calling birds), 2 LARK SPARROWS just no. of and just so. of Newberry, and 2 VESPER SPARROWS in between stops just no. of Newberry. Selected species from the Spencer route: -18 No. Bobwhites -3 Am. Kestrels -5 Yellow-b. Cuckoos -7 Red-headed Woodpeckers -6 Cliff Swallows -1 Wood Thrush -7 Cedar Waxwings -4 Yellow-br. Chats -1 ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK -5 Blue Grosbeaks Spencer route: -2 Wild Turkeys - our first for this route -48 No. Bobwhites -7 Am. Kestrels -3 EUR. COLLARED-DOVES - all in Newberry in so. Greene Co. -5 Yellow-b. Cuckoos -3 Red-headed Woodpeckers -2 E. Wood-Pewees - each in postage-stamp tracts of woods -4 Willow Flycatchers -19 Cliff Swallows - at a total of 4 different stops - seem to be increasing -2 No. Rough-w. Swallows -2 Wood Thrushes -1 Cedar Waxwing -1 No. Parula -13 Yellow-br. Chats -2 LARK SPARROWS - Greene Co. -14 Grasshopper Sparrows -2 VESPER SPARROWS - Greene Co. -60 Dickcissels -12 Blue Grosbeaks Jim & Susan Hengeveld Unionville, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Eagle Marsh, Ft Wayne From: zzedpowers AT AOL.COM Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:45:26 -0400 Often when I bird Eagle Marsh, I'm on my way home from somewhere else; thus, I found myself there in the middle of a hot afternoon, which surely cut down on activity. I'm still thrilled by by the apparent range expansion by Dickcissels, The ones I counted today were in a different part of the 700 acre propery than the ones I reported a week or so ago. Wood Duck???? 3 Mallard???? 24 Pied-billed Grebe???? 2 Great Blue Heron???? 3 Great Egret???? 2 Green Heron???? 1 Red-tailed Hawk???? 1 Killdeer???? 4 Mourning Dove???? 4 Willow Flycatcher???? 1 Warbling Vireo???? 2 American Crow???? 1 Tree Swallow???? 4 House Wren???? 2 American Robin???? 7 Gray Catbird???? 1 Yellow Warbler???? 2 Common Yellowthroat???? 2 Chipping Sparrow???? 1 Song Sparrow???? 9 Northern Cardinal???? 1 Indigo Bunting???? 4 Dickcissel???? 15 Red-winged Blackbird???? 50 Common Grackle???? 2 Brown-headed Cowbird???? 3 American Goldfinch???? 2 House Sparrow???? 4 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Ed Powers Allen County ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Red-breasted Nuthatch,porter county From: jeanette girton <brennie8 AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:15:06 -0700 I just had a very noisy Red-breasted Nuthatch in my yard in Valparaiso.The bird was pretty high up in the BassWoods,but was still interested in the Pishing sound coming from the ground 50ft below it. Brendan Grube ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Fox Island From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:04:32 EDT I recorded 58 species in Fox Island County Park, Allen Co., early on a hot morning. Mosquitoes were numerous in the woods, though I have seen worse at Fox Is., and deer flies were numerous in the more open areas. The BELL'S VIREO continues on territory in the field west of the park entrance. From the east end of the east-west trail through the middle of the field, go to the point where the trail curves slightly to the left (south). At the south end of this curve, there is a wooden bird box on the north side of the trail. The Bell's was some distance to the south at this point. Otherwise the list was about what one would expect, with a few misses: Wood Duck 2 Am. Woodcock 2 Mourning Dove 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Chimney Swift 1 Ruby-thr. Hummingbird 2 Woodpecker: Red-bellied 7, Downy 15, Hairy 4, N. Flicker 1, Pileated 1 Flycatcher: E. Wood Pewee 13, Acadian 13, Willow 1 Vireo: White-eyed 1, Bell's 1, Yellow-throated 3, Warbling 5, Red-eyed 12 Blue Jay 6 N. Rough-winged Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 4 Carolina chickadee 11 Tufted Titmouse 11 White-br. Nuthatch 10 Brown Creeper 2 House Wren 33 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 16 Veery 1 Wood thrush 5 Am. Robin 29 Gray Catbird 29 Brown Thrasher 1 Cedar Waxwing 5 Northern Parula 3 Yellow Warbler 8 Yellow-throated Warbler 4 highest-ever summer count for Fox Is., ties all-time high at any season Am. Redstart 4 Prothonotary 2 one S side of dune E of entrance, one at quaking bog (new location) Kentucky 1 E end just W of tank trap Common Yellowthroat 4 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 field S of lake Scarlet Tanager 3 E. Towhee 4 Sparrow: Chipping 2, Field 6, Song 5 N. Cardinal 32 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4 Indigo Bunting 24 Red-winged Blackbird 12 Common Grackle 7 Brown-headed Cowbird 19 Baltimore Oriole 8 House Finch 1 Am. Goldfinch 25 House Sparrow 2 Jim Haw **************An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377052x1201454391/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=Jun eExcfooterNO62) ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: (No Sightings) IAS Fall Event- Call for Presenters From: Brad Bumgardner <bumgbj01 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:51:39 -0500 Greetings, With summer in high gear, it will not be long until the Indiana Audubon Fall Event in the Dunes comes October 2-4. Many great bird activities are planned throughout the entire weekend. If you haven't yet, please mark your calendar the first weekend in October. 16 miles of hiking trails in a blaze of orange, yellow, and red let unspoiled nature and authentic character revive our spirits as we search out all those things that make birding the dunes so spectacular. Programs and sessions will cover many birding related topics, with special presentations by Dr. Kenneth Brock on Saturday night. Friday night participants can view an encore presentation of "Birding the Big Year," with the great state birder and storyteller John Kendall. There are many other great programs lined up, but there are also a few slots still remaining for our Hoosier bird enthusiasts to showcase the great skill and passion that exists in Indiana. If you have that special skill that you'd be willing to share, please email me at bumgbj01 AT hotmail.com. We are really wanting to share the interests and passions that so many birders here possess. Whether it be bird photography, ID, bird feeding tips, and more, please consider offering a short program for this great weekend. Brad Bumgardner Chesterton, IN _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Lake County Tricolored Heron - Yes From: marty jones <indth33 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:07:59 -0700 I visited the Hammond Cinder Flats at 5:00 pm, Monday June 22nd and located the previously reported Tricolored Heron. This bird was first found on May 30th by Jeff McCoy. Thanks to all who posted directions. Marty Jones Terre Haute ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Goose Pond FWA June 21 '09 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:03:49 -0400 Yesterday morning (June 21 2009) Margaret Londergan and I visited Goose Pond FWA in Greene County. We were mostly doing a tour about how to bird the property. We did not spend a lot of effort on trying to hunt up the current rarities. Driving was somewhat restricted by flooding, with a part of County Road 200 S west of State Road 59 still under water. We missed the Roseate Spoonbill. Dan Kaiser and Ray Troyer reported seeing the ROSEATE SPOONBILL at 6:30 AM as it was arriving with a flock of Great Egrets. They reported that the Spoonbill and Great Egrets flew eastward over the northern part of Main Pool West, possibly heading toward Main Pool East. Given the date in June the avian surprise was 4 FORSTER’S TERNS foraging over GP7, GP16, and Main Pool West. We saw the terns along with Darel Heitkamp, Dan Kaiser, and Ray Troyer. Observed from the parking lot across from the double ditches along State Road 59. That makes four species of terns observed at GPFWA in two days: the Forster’s Terns on June 21 to go along with the Least Terns, Caspian Terns, and the Black Tern that Jeff McCoy and I observed the day before on June 20 (Jeff will post details). Time: 8:05 AM-12:40 PM Weather: skies clear to partly cloudy; temperature to the mid 80s F and very humid; winds mostly calm, with periods of W and NW breeze to about 5 mph. A few birds of note the day: FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCK 1 flew from GP16 into the south end of Main Pool West Mallard 75+ in the air in one flock over the south end of Main Pool West, observed from the double ditches parking lot; no Mottled Duck candidates seen in the group Blue-winged Teal 5 3 Main Pool West, 2 GP16 Least Bittern 1 flying over Unit GP7 Pied-billed Grebe 6 3 Main Pool West, 1 of them sitting on a nest; 3 in GP9 Double-crested Cormorant 1 GP16 Great Egret 59 included 51 individually counted on one scope scan from the bridge on CR 1200 W at the far south end of Main Pool West CATTLE EGRET 19 landed briefly in a tree in the south end of Main Pool West, observed from the double ditches parking lot Green Heron 3 2 Main Pool West, 1 GP16 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 juvenile standing in CR 100 S at Beehunter Marsh Unit BH5S American Kestrel 2 1 CR 25 S at GP11N; 1 along SR 59 at the north end of MPW Common Moorhen 1 calling in GP16 American Coot 5 Main Pool West, 2 sitting on nests, both with a mate delivering food items or additional nesting material FORSTER’S TERN 4 3 adults & 1 first summer, foraging over GP7, GP16, & Main Pool West Willow Flycatcher 3 Eastern Phoebe 2 GP11S, pair at the Black Creek Bridge Northern Mockingbird 1 GP11S at the parking lot on CR 1400 W. A pair of Northern Mockingbirds (at least) seems to be colonizing this stretch of the Black Creek riparian corridor. Blue Grosbeak 4 On the way to Goose Pond FWA we saw a bizarre looking bird perched on a power wire east of Bloomfield. It had the apparent shape and morph and feel of an Eurasian Collared-Dove. That is why I turned around and stopped to look at it. The overall pale gray color was somewhat like Eurasian Collared-Dove but it had some yellowish wash added to the pale gray. It had no black collar, and the black and white under tail pattern of Eurasian Collared-Dove was completely missing. The bill was pink, not dark, indicating perhaps some leucistic traits? The eyes also appeared to be pink. A strange bird. Also, two COMMON NIGHTHAWK reports from the day before, June 20: 3 over downtown Bloomfield in Greene County in the morning, before sunrise 2 over downtown Linton in Greene County in the evening At GOOSE POND FWA today, June 22 2009, by Matt Bredeweg of the DNR staff (as forwarded by Property Manager Brad Feaster): An adult American Coot with 3 partly grown juveniles in GP16 A Blue-winged Teal with at least 6 young in GP7 A Mallard with a "handful" of young in GP16 A single Common Moorhen in GP16 --Lee Sterrenburg and Margaret Londergan Bloomington ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. 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To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Eagle Creek Park Sunday June 21, 2008 From: John Ulmer <remlu AT TDS.NET> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:59:14 -0400 78 to 85 degrees with no breeze. 85 species were tallied for the day and the list included -- Common Loon Double Crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Green Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Coopers Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Killdeer Rock Dove Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barred Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Northern Parula Warbler Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Bird walks begin each Sunday at the Nature Center, all are welcome to join in. -- John Ulmer ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. To subscribe, send a PLAIN TEXT (not HTML) email to: listserv AT listserv.indiana.edu With a message body (not subject line!) of: subscribe IN-BIRD-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your real first and last names. To contact the listowner, send an email to in-bird-l-request AT listserv.indiana.edu **********************************************************Subject: Tippecanoe Indiana Breeding BIrd Atlas Blocks, 6/20-21 From: "Hopkins, Edward M" <hopkinse AT PURDUE.EDU> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:08:06 -0400 I covered four blocks over the weekend. For the most part, the variety was routine. In the Lafayette E Block, I had two singing Prothonotary Warblers that I was able to boost to the Probable category. They are in a seasonal swamp along Sagamore Pkwy on the W side of the Conservation Club or just W of the railroad overpass. In the Lafayette W Block, I was covering the Purdue Forestry & Natural Resources Farm (former PU Horticulture Apple Orchard). I had the following singing species: Henslow's Sparrow, 1 Grasshopper Sparrow, 1 Dickcissel, 3 Blue Grosbeak, 1 This is the only atlas block of seven that I do in Tippecanoe County that has HESP or BLGR. Other than at Prophetstown State Park, I am not aware of any HESP breeding sites in Tippecanoe County. The BLGR was singing along N Sharon Chapel Rd just NE of the entrance to the FNR Farm. ======== Ed Hopkins West Lafayette, IN ********************************************************** Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html To post to this mailing list, you must be subscribed. 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