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11 May Panhandle this past weekend [Mark/Mary Peterson ] 11 May Re: Mother's Day birds/Tulsa, OK [RENANNE BAKER ] 11 May Mother's Day birds/Tulsa, OK [Cyndie Browning ] 11 May Tulsa Weekend [Bill Carrell ] 11 May Lake Arcadia birding ADD ON SURPRISE [Jane Cunningham ] 10 May Birding the Spavinaw area, 5-10-08 [Jeri McMahon ] 10 May INAS News, May 2008 ["David H. Dyer" ] 10 May Re: Painted Bunting at my feeder [gs Troop ] 10 May FW: orioles [Richard Sarchet ] 10 May Hackberry Flat 5/10/08 [ml2x ] 10 May Tulsa [ml2x ] 10 May Recorder goofed! [Evelyn ] 10 May S. Jenkins. [Richard Gunn ] 10 May lots of Baltimore Orioles ["mike. brewer" ] 10 May Re: Lake Arcadia birding THE BEGINNING [Jane Cunningham ] 10 May Black Terns [Bill Carrell ] 10 May GLAS outing [Evelyn ] 10 May Re: help ["mike. brewer" ] 10 May Re: help [selmanranch ] 10 May Lake Arcadia birding (missed) ["mike. brewer" ] 10 May Re: help ["mike. brewer" ] 10 May help [selmanranch ] 10 May Fw: ratsnake pics [BOB NANCY LAVAL ] 9 May Re: Outing to Lake Arcadia, OK ["mike. brewer" ] 9 May Fort Gibson WMA / Waterfowl Refuge ["David H. Dyer" ] 9 May Baby bird nests - banner year [Mary Lane ] 9 May Re: Mockingbird Performance [Mary Lane ] 9 May Pathfinder Parkway on 5-9-2008 [Mark/Mary Peterson ] 9 May Re: Painted Bunting at my feeder [Mary Lane ] 9 May Tulsa Friday [Bill Carrell ] 9 May Norman backyard [matthew jung ] 9 May Re: Mockingbird Performance [John Hansen ] 9 May Re: Cerulean Warbler and others [Josie Driskill ] 9 May Mockingbird Performance [Phil Floyd ] 9 May Re: Arbuckle-Simpson Nature Festival [John Shackford ] 9 May Outing to Lake Arcadia, OK [Jane Cunningham ] 9 May OKC sightings [Jim Bates ] 8 May Cerulean Warbler and others [Jana Singletary ] 8 May Tulsa Area [Terry Mitchell ] 8 May Red Slough today [David Arbour ] 8 May Re: Tulsa Area ["S. Tramel" ] 8 May Tulsa Area [Bob Germany ] 8 May acadian flycatchers and redstarts [Doug Wood ] 8 May Tulsa Thursday after big storm [Bruce Nixon ] 8 May Nickel Preserve, Tulsa Audubon field trip, May 17 [Cyndie Browning ] 8 May Pathfinder Parkway and Adams Ranch on 5-8-08 [Mark/Mary Peterson ] 8 May birds with missing colors ["Curtis, Tom" ] 8 May Red-breasted grosbeaks ["W. Ed Saunders" ] 7 May Tulsa Area [Terry Mitchell ] 7 May Tulsa Area [Terry Mitchell ] 7 May White-Rumped Sandpipers, etc. [Bill Carrell ] 7 May Hummingbird Migration & Baltimore Orioles ["mike. brewer" ] Subject: Panhandle this past weekend From: Mark/Mary Peterson <m_mpeterson AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:02:50 -0500 Hello All, Mary and I went out to the Panhandle this weekend. We spent the night at Salt Plains State Park and then started out when it got light on Saturday Morning. I heard a wood thrush and a blackpoll warbler on the auto loop and saw a few herons. The sandpiper trail had little and the wind was strong. It got even stronger as we got into the panhandle and it was very dry out there. The wind was 20-40 mph from early afternoon until well after sundown. It was almost calm for the first couple hours this morning, quite a contrast from Saturday. The following are some of the highlights: Western Grebe-2 on Lake Etling Sora-1 in the creek at Black Mesa State Park White-winged Dove-1 in the corral by the house at Hoot Owl Ranch Burrowing Owl-1 in the prairie dog town south of Black Mesa State Park Common Poorwill-1 about a mile north of Black Mesa State Park Black-chinned Hummingbird-4 at the feeders at the general store in Kenton, 1 at the trumpet vines at Black Mesa State Park Lewis's Woodpecker-1 first seen by Mary on a power pole near the Keyes sewage ponds-this pond and the one in Boise City were almost dry Vermilion Flycatcher-1 female at Black Mesa State Park Western Wood-Pewee-1 at Black Mesa State Park and 1 at Hoot Owl Ranch Say's Phoebe-3 at Black Mesa State Park Cassin's Kingbird-a few around Black Mesa State Park Scrub Jay-2 south of Kenton Bushtit-1 south of Kenton Chestnut-sided Warbler-1 at Hoot Owl Ranch Audubon's Warbler-Several between Black Mesa State Park and Kenton Canyon Towhee-3 at Black Mesa State Park Lark Bunting-hundreds in scattered flocks west of Guymon Black-throated Sparrow-2 near the Easter Pageant place Rose-breasted Grosbeak-1 at Esther's feeder in Keyes Hawks were few and far between on the Panhandle, probably because of the drought. Lake Etling had as much water as I have seen there in a few years. Mark Peterson Bartlesville _________________________________________________________________ Get Free (PRODUCT) RED™ Emoticons, Winks and Display Pics. http://joinred.spaces.live.com?ocid=TXT_HMTG_prodredemoticons_052008 Subject: Re: Mother's Day birds/Tulsa, OK From: RENANNE BAKER <rabbit12 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 15:53:25 -0700 While watching the Cedar Waxwings decimating the mulberries, and trying to catch them at the "pass the berry" game, I was thrilled to see a PAIR of Downy Woodpeckers side by side on a broken branch of the mulberry tree. Paps was preening and spreading his wings as if sunning himself,trying to get moms attention,while she was looking the other way totally ignoring him. He soon got tired and started eating bugs and berries. She went about her business, but they were soon back on the same branch stump,again side bt side. I'll be watching for the little ones soon! Nan Baker Little City,Ok Marshall county What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone, But what is woven into the hearts and lives of others. Subject: Mother's Day birds/Tulsa, OK From: Cyndie Browning <buteoswainsoni AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 15:39:02 -0700 Hello, Oklahoma ~ Eleven years ago today, my friend Blaine invited me out on my first "serious" birding walk in Minnesota. Of all the birds we saw that day, 10 were lifers, but the 3 that stand out in my memory to this day are the Cerulean Warbler (because Blaine missed it!), Red-headed Woodpecker, and the flock of Cedar Waxwings passing berries up and down a branch as they perched overhead. Those Waxwings took my breath away, and they've been my 2nd favorite bird ever since. (Green Jay, that I got on my 50th birthday in south Texas, is the 1st.) So today while everyone else was gettin' ready to celebrate Mother's Day, I drove up to the 31st & Riverside bike trail to find some birds. I also found George Kamp, and a little while later, we were joined by Terry Mitchell, Bill Carrell, Mary Jackson, and eventually, Tom Curtis. (I've listed below the birds I saw/heard in their company.) We found a Chestnut-sided Warbler that gave us some really kick-ass looks as he absolutely refused to fly off!! George caught a glimpse of what he thought might be a Magnolia Warbler, but he wasn't sure. Bless his heart, he hurried all the way back to his car in the parking lot to check his field guide, then hurried back to confirm that's what he saw, and then not too long later, we all got a good look at the bird. (Thanks, George, and I'm sure glad it was YOU who hustled out to your car and back; I'm not sure _I_ would've made the trip if it'd been ME who wanted to check my field guide.) I laughed, too, because there was at least one Northern Parula calling above us in the same trees, but who hasn't seen a Parula?? so all our attentions were focused on what ELSE was in there, like the Chestnut-sided and Magnolia Warblers. There seemed to be lots of Redstarts, males and females, but I'm not sure if that was because there WERE a lot of them, or if the two we kept seeing just moved around so fast that we were constantly seein' the same two birds. I got a kick outa watchin' a little Wilson's Warbler male preening in the shade. Their black toupées always surprise me; it just doesn't look like it should go on that bird! And we all got great looks at a Tennessee Warbler, probably a female, Bill Carrell thought. I like being able to study a bird as we did this one, to take in the details of the bird's gray head, in the thin line of yellow above its eyes, the particular shade of chartreuse green on its back. A really late Brown Creeper flew in and landed on a tree near where George was standing, and I was so startled to see it that at first all I could do was point and say, "Brown, uh, Nutha---no, wait.... no, yes, it's a Brown Creeper!!!!" I don't know why that bird was so late, but I've got witnesses since we all saw it. Before he left, Terry mentioned that he'd heard another Vermilion Flycatcher had been seen in the past week down at the Bixby sod farms, so when I left 31st Street, that's where I headed. If there's a Vermilion down there, I missed it, but I jumped for joy when I found at least _60_ Bobolinks on the west side of 129th East Avenue (in the Dickcissel fields) between 141st and 151st Streets. I guess Bobolinks are my 3rd favorite bird, and I had at one time today 15 male Bobolinks on both sides of the road in front of my car as I sat watching them. I had thought I'd heard them singing from 141st Street, but all I'd seen until that moment were Dickcissels, so I was thrilled to my sox when I finally spotted the Bobolinks, and then once I found 'em, I couldn't believe how many there were, males and females both. They were all over that field north of the white fence and opposite the red barn across the street, and then as I continued driving south, I found Upland Sandpipers south of the white fence, and saw 3 Blue Grosbeaks, too. That 225 for my yearlist. You guys who are determined to stay ahead of me this year, you'd better hustle because I haven't done my BBS routes yet and I'm startin' to catch up with ya! ~;-) Cyndie Browning Buteoswainsoni AT yahoo.com www.myspace.com/gr8auntieokie www.adimview.com Tulsa, OK 31st & Riverside bike trail 1 Wood Duck 2 Mallard 3 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (YB = Yearbird!) 4 Mourning Dove 5 Chimney Swift 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker 7 Downy Woodpecker 8 Least Flycatcher (YB) 9 Great Crested Flycatcher 10 Blue Jay 11 White-eyed Vireo 12 Blue-headed Vireo 13 Red-eyed Vireo 14 Warbling Vireo 15 Cedar Waxwing 16 Swainson's Thrush 17 American Robin 18 Gray Catbird 19 Northern Mockingbird 20 European Starling 21 Brown Creeper (LATE!!) 22 Carolina Wren 23 House Wren 24 Cliff Swallow 25 Carolina Chickadee 26 Tennessee Warbler 27 Northern Parula 28 Yellow Warbler 29 Chestnut-sided Warbler (YB) 30 Magnolia Warbler (YB) 31 American Redstart (YB) 32 Common Yellowthroat 33 Wilson's Warbler (YB) 34 White-throated Sparrow 35 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 36 Northern Cardinal 37 Orchard Oriole 38 Common Grackle 39 Brown-headed Cowbird 40 American Goldfinch 41 House Sparrow Bixby sod farms 42 Canada Goose 43 Turkey Vulture 44 Mississippi Kite 45 Red-tailed Hawk 46 Upland Sandpiper (#4) 47 Lesser Yellowlegs (#12) 48 Long-billed Dowitcher (#4) 49 Semipalmated Sandpiper (#25) 50 Western Sandpiper (YB) (#3) 51 Baird's Sandpiper (YB) (#1) 52 Wilson's Phalarope (#30) 53 Killdeer Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker 54 Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher 55 Western Kingbird 56 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 57 Eastern Kingbird 58 American Crow 59 Bell's Vireo 60 Loggerhead Shrike 61 Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling Carolina Wren 62 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 63 Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Carolina Chickadee Northern Parula 64 Lark Sparrow 65 Dickcissel Northern Cardinal 66 Blue Grosbeak (YB) (#3) 67 Red-winged Blackbird 68 Eastern Meadowlark 69 Great-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird 70 Bobolink (#60) House Sparrow Brenda Carroll's backyard 71 Eastern Wood-Pewee 72 House Finch 73 Chipping Sparrow 74 Indigo Bunting (YB) Tulsa County 75 Great Blue Heron Subject: Tulsa Weekend From: Bill Carrell <okdragonhunter AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 14:03:31 -0700 Subject: Lake Arcadia birding ADD ON SURPRISE From: Jane Cunningham <hanenhark AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 09:24:03 -0500 Forgot to mention that on the way out of the Lake Arcadia area, we saw a Roadrunner actually perched in a tree about 6 feet up. Now wasn't that a bit strange....and a big treat for the people from New York state. Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: Jane Cunningham To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 5:10 PM Subject: Re: Lake Arcadia birding THE BEGINNING Accompanied by 3 visitors from New York - Huntington Audubon Society. Arcadia gave us Painted and Indigo Buntings, and a Swainsons who was watching us watch him, Tufted Titmouse....amongst the other more common residents. Didn't see any bald eagles. Birded by the water tower. Then we went to the North end of Lake Overholser which is very full....it gave use various Herons and some nice Terns, (other common species were seen), but it was very windy so we then went to Rose Lake. On the way to Rose Lake (along 50th), we saw Eastern and Western Kingbirds. Blue-Winged Teal, Greater Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper, and when there we saw White Pelicans, and various Warblers, B. Orioles, and some nice standard OK Hawks. Believe it or not this list gave the people from New York some lifers. It was a very pleasant and successful outing. Jane Cunningham ----- Original Message ----- From: mike. brewer To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:24 AM Subject: Lake Arcadia birding (missed) Well ... Heck! I was very tired from yesterday's work (fun therapy), so I overslept and missed the Lake Arcadia birding trip and the chance to meet many of the birders in person. Bummer ! Better luck next time? Guess I'll head down to the Arbuckles, the wildflowers are in a massive full bloom! Then I'll go over to Travertine at Sulphur and bird a little. My regrets to Jane and Friends. I'll be there sooner or later. it is time to change some habits and get back into the early morning groove. My recovery has proceeding amazing well !!! ... Many thanks to the members of this list for inspiring me to get off the porch and go out places to enjoy and work at nature endeavors ... which I have always loved! Best Wishes to everyone, "Keep in Touch With Your Dreams" Mike Brewer Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Subject: Birding the Spavinaw area, 5-10-08 From: Jeri McMahon <okiebirder AT ALLEGIANCE.TV> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 22:20:54 -0500 Our Audubon group ventured up to Spavinaw State Park early this morning for a field trip. Seven of us, including our fearless leader, Jim Deming, covered many many miles on the back roads of Delaware Co. We had an excellent day, totaling 80 species. I got 10 OK year birds, so I thought that was really good. We didn't have as many warblers as we wanted, but we did see about a dozen or more. Kentucky, Am. Redstart, Wilson's, and Blackpoll were FOS birds for most of us. We saw both a male and female Blackpoll. The best bird of the day was a Gray-cheeked Thrush. We left Ft. Gibson at 6:30 a.m., and returned around 7:00 p.m. It was a long day, but so rewarding. We ate lunch at our usual time of 2:00 p.m., at a wonderful little Mexican restaurant in Jay, OK. We birded some more in the afternoon, and finally left the area around 5:30. There was a huge storm in Spavinaw in the late afternoon, but fortunately we missed the whole thing. We came through there afterwards, and we could see that there had been a lot of rain and wind everywhere. We lucked out! Jeri McMahon Ft. Gibson, OK okiebirder AT allegiance.tv Subject: INAS News, May 2008 From: "David H. Dyer" <mtndd AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:51:06 -0700 Indian Nations Audubon Society www.IndianNationsAudubon.org Chapter Meeting Announcement May 15, 2008; Thursday, 7:00 p.m. Chris Wilson Director, Nickel Preserve, The Nature Conservancy “Restoring open woodland & savanna landscapes in the Ozarks” Muskogee Public Library Dinner – 5:30 p.m., My Place Bar-B-Q, 2021 Gibson Street, Muskogee, OK Thought for the day... “Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.” – Coleman Cox Indian Nations Audubon News Page 1: www.IndianNationsAudubon.org “The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw” by Bruce Barcott MAPS Bird Banding & Field Trips scheduled “Hackberry Flat WMA” report by David Dyer Rare & Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers Discovered in Myanmar DNA Tests may combine some bird species, separate other species “Birds of Sequoyah State Park” by David Dyer “Spring Creek Birds” by Don Varner New bird species discovered in 2008 in Indonesia President’s Notes now online “Endangered Gray Bats”, in northeastern Oklahoma, by Vicki Hatfield Birding Tales by Bill Clark Birding cartoons by Anna Gawrys featured on Birding Tales page Page 2: www.IndianNationsAudubon.org/NewsArchives “Once Was Martha” by Berlin Heck, essay on the extinct Passenger Pigeon Videos of Yellow-billed Cuckoo & Blackburnian Warbler Bird Cinema! Habitat web page; it’s all about habitat! Birding Pals Christmas Bird Counts “The Lake Atoka Forest – A Unique Wilderness In Peril” by David Dyer National Audubon Society: 10 ways to help birds and the environment Full Moon dates and names listed for 2007 USFWS won’t list disappearing Cerulean Warbler as “Threatened” MAPS Bird Banding Rare bird, Hawaiian Petrel, found thriving on Lanai Conservation & Habitat Lake Atoka: www.SaveLakeAtoka.com Coal & Atoka Counties Obtain designation of the Lake Atoka Forest as a park & protected area. Spring Creek: www.SpringCreekOK.org Cherokee County Obtain designation of Spring Creek as a “benchmark/reference” stream due to pristine quality. Save The Illinois River: www.IllinoisRiver.org Cherokee County Dedicated to educating, engaging, and empowering Oklahomans to protect and preserve the Illinois River, its tributaries, and Lake Tenkiller Subject: Re: Painted Bunting at my feeder From: gs Troop <buckskinhawk AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:49:29 -0500 I had a friend who is a relatively new birder to Oklahoma. She had never seen a painted bunting. She came over and of course he didn't show. I guess he was shy. Yesterday he overcame his shyness and made three visits while we sat at the dinning table eating bunt cake. He is becoming a regular and is singing on the willows around my pond behind my barn. No mate yet! We also have the same mix of white-crowned sparrows, Harris, goldfinches, doves plus a variety of others. > Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:31:31 -0500 > From: mm_lane AT SWBELL.NET > Subject: Re: Painted Bunting at my feeder > To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU > > We had a male painted bunting checking out our feeders on Sunday 5/4 > and I about fainted. A first for us, I'm thrilled. > > We have a family of *seven* white-crowned sparrows hanging around our > back yard and feeders. Only two pairs of goldfinches, who have been > around the last couple of weeks at the thistle feeders. We had only > one Harris sparrow, who had been around for about 10 days and I > haven't seen him the last couple of days. I felt sorry to see him > alone. And we used to have much larger numbers of them in previous > years. Also a single white-wing dove, along with ~10 mourning doves > and 4-5 eurasian collared doves. > > Mary > North OKC > > > At 11:15 AM 5/6/2008, you wrote: > >We have had (at least) one pair of Painted Buntings every year since > >we moved here in '04. We haven't seen them yet this year, > >though. We're afraid that our subdivision may have become too > >"active" for them. In the past, they ate the inexpensive millet > >blend we through out for the sparrows and doves. > > > >We have also had a couple of White-crowned Sparrows around for the > >last few days, plus /dozens/ of Chipping Sparrows. > > > >We also saw our FOY Common Nighthawk yesterday. > > > >Matt & Jenny Foster > >Blanchard > > > > > >RENANNE BAKER wrote: > >>OK. I keep *_hoping_* they will come to my feeder. I have had a a > >>pair of WHITE CROWNED sparrows still feeding,along with the female cardinals. > >>I hear the PB'sin the trees,but so far,none at the feeder. > >>I use Scott's song bird mix,with fruit and nuts and seeds. > >>Nan Baker > >>Marshall county > >> > >> > >>What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone, But what is > >>woven into the hearts and lives of others. > >> > >> > > > >-- > >The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. > >-- Carl Sagan _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live SkyDrive lets you share files with faraway friends. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_052008 Subject: FW: orioles From: Richard Sarchet <rsarchet AT COX.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:38:04 -0500 _____ From: mike. brewer [mailto:mike.brewer AT att.net] Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 6:40 PM To: rsarchet AT cox.net Subject: Re: orioles That is interesting. I was actually mixing the sugar water for Hummers, but now it is mainly going to Orioles. I've seen little kids, at my theatre, get a 'sugar buzz' from chocolate ... so i wonder if the Orioles here at my Hummingbird feeder are getting a "sugar buzz' from the Hummer mixture? My understanding was that a 1 to 4 mixture (for Hummers) was close to the nectar received from flowers? Any more comments anyone? thanks, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Sarchet To: mike. brewer Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 6:24 PM Subject: orioles Hi Mike, The literature that came with my oriole feeder said to use a one to six mixture of sugar to water. Richard Subject: Hackberry Flat 5/10/08 From: ml2x <ml2x AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:00:16 -0500 Hello Everyone, Mary and I did our Hackberry Flat shorebird survey today from 8am to noon. The winds were SE10-15 and temps ranged from 70 to 87. We had a 3 Warbler day....LOL The shorebirds have really moved out with the 15-25 S daily winds. The water is back up but we don't know how much is left to come through. Species of Interest: 12 Black-bellied Plover 33 Snowy Plovers 7 Semipalmated Plovers 104 Black-necked Stilts 62 Am. Avocets 5 Greater Yellowlegs 0 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Spotted Sandpipers 1 Hudsonian Godwit 20 Semipalmated Sandpipers 2 Least Sandpipers 18 White-rumped Sandpiper 6 Baird's Sandpipers 2 Dunlin 20 Stilt Sandpipers 12 Long-billed Dowitchers 825 Wilson's Phalaropes 25 Unid Shorebirds Other Species Seen: 1 King Rail seen 6 others heard 1 Sora White-faced Ibis Black-crowned Night Herons Eared Grebes N. Pintails 3 drakes late Cinnamon Teal drakes 3 3 Nashville Warblers 1 Tennessee Warbler 6 Yellow Warblers 2 RC Kinglets 2 Least Flycatchers Hammsville: Cassin's Sparrows Goodest Birding, Mary and Lou Truex ml2x AT sbcglobal.net Lawton Subject: Tulsa From: ml2x <ml2x AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 18:50:59 -0500 Hello Everyone, Mary and I went to Tulsa on Thursday after skool to relieve some of our warbler envy. At Woodward Park on Thur pm we had an American Redstart, Nashville Warbler and Catbird. The real jackpot came on Fri am at 31st and Riverside Pkwy. We arrived at 6:30am and the warblers and vireo's were everywhere. We saw so many Chestnut-sided it became comical since it was only our 2nd time to see one in Oklahoma. The Wood Thrush was singing in the pole 5 area and provided a great view later in the am. Just after we had seen our trip lifer, the Philadelphia Vireo, George Kamp arrived followed by Bob Germany, Bill Carroll and Ken Williams. We had a great time finding the following species: 2 Philidelphia Vireos 1 Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo numerous 1 Yellow Throated Vireo 1 White-eyed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 2 Magnolia Warblers Chestnut-sided Warblers numerous Am Redstart numerous 1 Wilson's Warbler Yellow Warblers numerous Nashville Warbler Tennessee Warbler 1 Worm-eating Warbler N. Parula E. Wood Pewee Wood Thrush Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Bobolinks at the Bixby Sod Farms on Garnett & 141st. For the trip we had 1 lifer (Philadelphia Vireo) and 1 Ok bird (RB Grosbeak) Thanks to everyone for making it such a great trip. Goodest Birding, Mary and Lou Truex ml2x AT sbcglobal.net Lawton Subject: Recorder goofed! From: Evelyn <efhouck61 AT ATT.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 16:05:46 -0700 My apologies to John Beyer for failing to list him as the Trip Leader for our trip to George Washington Carver National Park this morning! Also, I failed to include the sighting of a Chipping Sparrow so our total count of species seen was 47. Evelyn Houck Grove, Delaware Co., OK Subject: S. Jenkins. From: Richard Gunn <rgunn1 AT COX.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 17:31:59 -0500 While doing our Spring Migation Survey this morning, John Raeside and I saw 6 Last Terns on the Canadian River off south Jenkins. Subject: lots of Baltimore Orioles From: "mike. brewer" <mike.brewer AT ATT.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 17:13:05 -0500 Hello: There are apparently a lot of Baltimore Orioles coming to, and drinking at my Hummingbird feeder. I am making the solution of sugar water 4 parts water and 1 part sugar? As I have previously mentioned, I drilled all the little feeding holes, 1/4 inch in diameter (for the Orioles). The Orioles are all adult males and females ... and seem to be paired. Here is the amazing part ... yesterday and the day before, there was an Oriole at the feeder every 3-5 minutes ... all day long ! I had been speculating that this could not be a single pair of Orioles? The same frequency is continuing today ... except now I can confirm more than one pair, as two adult pairs were seen simultaneously. One male is apparently 'driving' and chasing the female around. I wonder how many Orioles are actually present, that are coming to the feeder? I also doubt that nest building has begun at this time ... but i don't really know? If not they will start any time now as the birds are all adult and apparently paired. Any other information on Baltimore Orioles and nesting times, for south central Oklahoma, would be appreciated. PS: A few RT Hummingbirds are also visiting the feeder, but only 3-4 observations per early morning. Thanks, "Keep in Touch With Your Dreams" Mike Brewer Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Subject: Re: Lake Arcadia birding THE BEGINNING From: Jane Cunningham <hanenhark AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 17:10:27 -0500 Accompanied by 3 visitors from New York - Huntington Audubon Society. Arcadia gave us Painted and Indigo Buntings, and a Swainsons who was watching us watch him, Tufted Titmouse....amongst the other more common residents. Didn't see any bald eagles. Birded by the water tower. Then we went to the North end of Lake Overholser which is very full....it gave use various Herons and some nice Terns, (other common species were seen), but it was very windy so we then went to Rose Lake. On the way to Rose Lake (along 50th), we saw Eastern and Western Kingbirds. Blue-Winged Teal, Greater Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper, and when there we saw White Pelicans, and various Warblers, B. Orioles, and some nice standard OK Hawks. Believe it or not this list gave the people from New York some lifers. It was a very pleasant and successful outing. Jane Cunningham ----- Original Message ----- From: mike. brewer To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:24 AM Subject: Lake Arcadia birding (missed) Well ... Heck! I was very tired from yesterday's work (fun therapy), so I overslept and missed the Lake Arcadia birding trip and the chance to meet many of the birders in person. Bummer ! Better luck next time? Guess I'll head down to the Arbuckles, the wildflowers are in a massive full bloom! Then I'll go over to Travertine at Sulphur and bird a little. My regrets to Jane and Friends. I'll be there sooner or later. it is time to change some habits and get back into the early morning groove. My recovery has proceeding amazing well !!! ... Many thanks to the members of this list for inspiring me to get off the porch and go out places to enjoy and work at nature endeavors ... which I have always loved! Best Wishes to everyone, "Keep in Touch With Your Dreams" Mike Brewer Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Subject: Black Terns From: Bill Carrell <okdragonhunter AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:53:16 -0700 Subject: GLAS outing From: Evelyn <efhouck61 AT ATT.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:27:23 -0700 Nine members and 2 guests of Grand Lake Audubon Society left Grove's Wal-Mart parking lot this morning (Sat.) at 7:30 a.m. to travel to George Washing Carver National Park near Diamond, Mo.  You know about 'the hills are alive with the sound of music'; well, the trees were alive with birds!  Rain was in the forecast for later in the afternoon, but someone's clock was off and the rain along with thunder, lightning and hail arrived about 10:30 so our trip along the trails through the park was cut short! The 46 species seen in 2+ hours are listed below: Canada Goose Turkey Vulture Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Mourning Dove RT Hummingbird RH Woodpecker RB Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Peewee Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin Barn Swallow American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse WB Nuthatch Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling Golden-winged Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Summer Tanager Northern Cardinal Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel White-crowned Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole American Goldfinch House Sparrow Just after leaving Wal-Mart parking lot, we drove east just a few blocks to check on a Red-tailed Hawk nest where one of the parents was keeping watch over their babies -- one that was seen clearly. Evelyn Houck Trip recorder Grove, Delaware Co., OK n.e. corner of the state Subject: Re: help From: "mike. brewer" <mike.brewer AT ATT.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 15:10:59 -0500 Sue: Sometimes a few of my postings don't seem to get through. I just forward the same one, to send it again. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: selmanranch To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 9:49 AM Subject: Re: help well maybe I just don't make the cut sometimes. sue ----- Original Message ----- From: mike. brewer To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:08 AM Subject: Re: help Sue: I received this posting. Best Wishes, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: selmanranch To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:31 AM Subject: help I need to contact someone with bird listers as to why my posting don't get picked up but I do receive postings. Sue Buffalo Subject: Re: help From: selmanranch <selmanranch AT WILDBLUE.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 09:49:27 -0500 well maybe I just don't make the cut sometimes. sue ----- Original Message ----- From: mike. brewer To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:08 AM Subject: Re: help Sue: I received this posting. Best Wishes, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: selmanranch To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:31 AM Subject: help I need to contact someone with bird listers as to why my posting don't get picked up but I do receive postings. Sue Buffalo Subject: Lake Arcadia birding (missed) From: "mike. brewer" <mike.brewer AT ATT.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 08:24:45 -0500 Well ... Heck! I was very tired from yesterday's work (fun therapy), so I overslept and missed the Lake Arcadia birding trip and the chance to meet many of the birders in person. Bummer ! Better luck next time? Guess I'll head down to the Arbuckles, the wildflowers are in a massive full bloom! Then I'll go over to Travertine at Sulphur and bird a little. My regrets to Jane and Friends. I'll be there sooner or later. it is time to change some habits and get back into the early morning groove. My recovery has proceeding amazing well !!! ... Many thanks to the members of this list for inspiring me to get off the porch and go out places to enjoy and work at nature endeavors ... which I have always loved! Best Wishes to everyone, "Keep in Touch With Your Dreams" Mike Brewer Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Subject: Re: help From: "mike. brewer" <mike.brewer AT ATT.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 08:08:45 -0500 Sue: I received this posting. Best Wishes, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: selmanranch To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:31 AM Subject: help I need to contact someone with bird listers as to why my posting don't get picked up but I do receive postings. Sue Buffalo Subject: help From: selmanranch <selmanranch AT WILDBLUE.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 07:31:36 -0500 I need to contact someone with bird listers as to why my posting don't get picked up but I do receive postings. Sue Buffalo Subject: Fw: ratsnake pics From: BOB NANCY LAVAL <blaval AT WINDSTREAM.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 06:54:06 -0500 Gene Blackwell has some new pics. on his site for May. Really good pics of Black Rat snake and Cottonmouth. Bob LaVal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Blackwell" Subject: ratsnake pics added a few pics of the ratsnake to our May along the creek gallery, Gene & Tina Blackwell Round Bottom Ranch 51888 Long Branch Road Heavener, Okla. 74937 Working Anatolians, Estrela Mountain Dogs 918-653-4366 http://www.pbase.com/rbr_ccr/galleries Subject: Re: Outing to Lake Arcadia, OK From: "mike. brewer" <mike.brewer AT ATT.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 22:27:06 -0500 Thanks Jane: I'm planning on getting up early, being there, and having fun birding. The birds, here in my yard, have been phenomenonal ! This will be my first group birding experience in many years. My MD has told me to start birding around the state with other groups, (like an old friend of mine does). I worked very hard all day in the Rotary Rose Garden (fountain and pool plantings) so I ought to sleep well tonight. I'll set my alarm, and try to get up and going, and be there a little early (which is a miracle for me). See you and others tomorrow, if all goes as planned. Also ... I'll see if the directions work for Map Quest. (otherwise I won't know how to get there). thanks, "Keep in Touch With Your Dreams" Mike Brewer Pauls Valley, Oklahoma ----- Original Message ----- From: Jane Cunningham To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 6:08 AM Subject: Outing to Lake Arcadia, OK TOMORROW MORNING, SATURDAY THE 10TH BIRDING AT LAKE ARCADIA A fellow Audubon chapter President, Stella Miller, (from New Jersey) is visiting, and tomorrow morning, Saturday the 10th, we will meet her at the carpooling parking lot at 122nd and I-35 (on the East side) at 7AM to go birding at Lake Arcadia. Dr. Dave Elmendorf will lead. Anyone interested is welcome. Look for the silver Impala in the parking lot. We can carpool to the lake. Jane Cunningham, President Audubon Society of Central Oklahoma We may go for brunch or lunch afterwards. Mike B. and Jimmy W. hope you can make it. Subject: Fort Gibson WMA / Waterfowl Refuge From: "David H. Dyer" <mtndd AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:24:35 -0700 I did a fairly quick tour of the WMA. The road is now open all the way through. Fort Gibson Lake is at about 10' above normal. Some extensive mud flats have been created by the lowering lake level, but not a good turnout of shore birds. Some birds of interest: Northern Shoveler 3 Blue-winged Teal 9 Snowy Egret 11 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Semipalmated Plover 2 White-rumped Sandpiper 3 Caspian Tern 95 Lots of Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, Killdeer, American White Pelicans, Double-crested Cormorants - and a lone Ring-billed Gull. Subject: Baby bird nests - banner year From: Mary Lane <mm_lane AT SWBELL.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:40:57 -0500 This is a remarkable year for us for baby birds in the yard. We had a family of four baby chickadees fledge from a birdhouse in the yard, and *the next day* bluebirds took over the box and built a beautiful nest. No eggs yet. A nest of baby robins in the honeysuckle next to that box. A family of baby downies in a dead branch of a maple tree - the parent downies make constant trips to the suet holes in our feeder pole nearby. Pretty exciting. Mary North OKC Subject: Re: Mockingbird Performance From: Mary Lane <mm_lane AT SWBELL.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:38:02 -0500 We have a pair of mockingbirds who have been entertaining us with their courtship dance the last couple of weeks. I don't remember ever seeing mockingbirds perform this way. They land on the lawn and stand facing each other about two feet apart, then take turns hopping up and a bit towards each other, and the other will hop back. And then the other direction. They will do this for long periods of time, occasionally flying and fluttering around each other. It looks amazingly gentle, non-aggressive, and choreographed to me, for mockingbirds. Like a minuet... Mary North OKC At 11:42 AM 5/9/2008, you wrote: >Birding Friends, > > > >In front of my office at NW 36th and Santa Fe is an overhang which >allows folks so inclined to stand outside and find protection from >wind, rain, and sun. This morning the local Mockingbird discovered >its great acoustics. All morning long the Mockingbird has sung the >calls of many different birds: Cedar Waxwings (they left a week >ago), House Sparrows (nesting in the tree he was calling from), >Western Kingbirds (they reside in the tree just to the south of the >overhang), Starlings (they keep flying to the tree where he is to >investigate), and just a little while ago he did a perfect Eastern >Phoebe (which I have not seen around here). > > > >He has been putting on such an amazing performance people keep >asking me what he is. The sounds of his calls reverberate through >the hallways. The other birds which have sung from the same tree in >which he is calling largely go unnoticed unless I point them out to >anyone standing with me outside. He cannot be ignored and demands >the attention of anyone standing there. We all have our faces turned >toward the tree to watch his magnificent trill of arias. > > > >It's a nice way to spend a Friday morning at work. The phone calls >and the paperwork can wait. Something important is happening outside. > > > >Good birding, friends, > > > >Phil > >Phil Floyd >P. O. Box 515 >17101 Edge of the Earth Rd. >Lexington, OK. 73051 >Home: 405/527-4336 >Cell: 405/226-4750 > >"Morality without compassion is arrogance." > Mickey Connolly > > Subject: Pathfinder Parkway on 5-9-2008 From: Mark/Mary Peterson <m_mpeterson AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:33:04 -0500 Hello All, Nancy Pfannenstiel and I walked the Pathfinder Parkway in Bartlesville from the high school parking lot to the small bridge just beyond Caney River and back this morning. Birds were active and included: Least Flycatcher-10+ Swainson's Thrush-20+ Pine Siskin-1 Tennessee Warbler-1 Orange-crowned Warbler-2 Nashville Warbler-2 Northern Parula-4 Yellow Warbler-2 Chestnut-sided Warbler-2 Blackburnian Warbler-1 Yelow-throated Warbler-3 Black and White Warbler-1 American Redstart-1 Prothonotary Warbler-3 Northern Waterthrush-1 Louisiana Waterthrush-1 Kentucky Warbler-1 Mourning Warbler-1 Common Yellowthroat-3 Wilson's Warbler-1 Mark Peterson Bartlesville _________________________________________________________________ Make Windows Vista more reliable and secure with Windows Vista Service Pack 1. http://www.windowsvista.com/SP1?WT.mc_id=hotmailvistasp1banner Subject: Re: Painted Bunting at my feeder From: Mary Lane <mm_lane AT SWBELL.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:31:31 -0500 We had a male painted bunting checking out our feeders on Sunday 5/4 and I about fainted. A first for us, I'm thrilled. We have a family of *seven* white-crowned sparrows hanging around our back yard and feeders. Only two pairs of goldfinches, who have been around the last couple of weeks at the thistle feeders. We had only one Harris sparrow, who had been around for about 10 days and I haven't seen him the last couple of days. I felt sorry to see him alone. And we used to have much larger numbers of them in previous years. Also a single white-wing dove, along with ~10 mourning doves and 4-5 eurasian collared doves. Mary North OKC At 11:15 AM 5/6/2008, you wrote: >We have had (at least) one pair of Painted Buntings every year since >we moved here in '04. We haven't seen them yet this year, >though. We're afraid that our subdivision may have become too >"active" for them. In the past, they ate the inexpensive millet >blend we through out for the sparrows and doves. > >We have also had a couple of White-crowned Sparrows around for the >last few days, plus /dozens/ of Chipping Sparrows. > >We also saw our FOY Common Nighthawk yesterday. > >Matt & Jenny Foster >Blanchard > > >RENANNE BAKER wrote: >>OK. I keep *_hoping_* they will come to my feeder. I have had a a >>pair of WHITE CROWNED sparrows still feeding,along with the female cardinals. >>I hear the PB'sin the trees,but so far,none at the feeder. >>I use Scott's song bird mix,with fruit and nuts and seeds. >>Nan Baker >>Marshall county >> >> >>What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone, But what is >>woven into the hearts and lives of others. >> >> > >-- >The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. >-- Carl Sagan Subject: Tulsa Friday From: Bill Carrell <okdragonhunter AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 12:23:48 -0700 Subject: Norman backyard From: matthew jung <mpjung5125 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 12:00:54 -0700 During dinner yesterday at Stephanie's home we were serenaded by the eloquent Brown Thrasher soon to be joined by the Gray Catbird and for good measure a Baltimore Oriole pitched in. Nice. Matt Jung, OKC --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Subject: Re: Mockingbird Performance From: John Hansen <majorhart AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 13:14:55 -0500 Interesting. I've noticed a number of times over the years when both Mockingbirds and Starlings would begin to imitate the Western Kingbirds - when they had not yet arrived. I am sure none were in the area at the time. They must have a calendar watch - and a great memory. John Hansen majorhart AT sbcglobal.net The Ebook Dashboard http://ebook-dashboard.com Ebook Store Site2 http://the-texas-mall.com/cbstore2 ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Floyd To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 11:42 AM Subject: Mockingbird Performance Birding Friends, In front of my office at NW 36th and Santa Fe is an overhang which allows folks so inclined to stand outside and find protection from wind, rain, and sun. This morning the local Mockingbird discovered its great acoustics. All morning long the Mockingbird has sung the calls of many different birds: Cedar Waxwings (they left a week ago), House Sparrows (nesting in the tree he was calling from), Western Kingbirds (they reside in the tree just to the south of the overhang), Starlings (they keep flying to the tree where he is to investigate), and just a little while ago he did a perfect Eastern Phoebe (which I have not seen around here). He has been putting on such an amazing performance people keep asking me what he is. The sounds of his calls reverberate through the hallways. The other birds which have sung from the same tree in which he is calling largely go unnoticed unless I point them out to anyone standing with me outside. He cannot be ignored and demands the attention of anyone standing there. We all have our faces turned toward the tree to watch his magnificent trill of arias. It's a nice way to spend a Friday morning at work. The phone calls and the paperwork can wait. Something important is happening outside. Good birding, friends, Phil Phil Floyd P. O. Box 515 17101 Edge of the Earth Rd. Lexington, OK. 73051 Home: 405/527-4336 Cell: 405/226-4750 "Morality without compassion is arrogance." Mickey Connolly Subject: Re: Cerulean Warbler and others From: Josie Driskill <AnteekBird AT AOL.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 13:25:09 EDT wish i coulda gone. This afternoon Mary Jackson, Nancy Pfannenstiel, Lisa Riggs and I birded Washington Irving Park in Bixby. The best bird of the day was a female Cerulean Warbler, which allowed all of us to get several good looks at her. Other warblers included Tennessee, Orange-crowned, Nashville, N. Parula, Yellow Warbler (too many to count!), Yellow-throated, Black and White, American Redstart, and Common Yellowthroat. If you plan to visit the park tomorrow, you'd better go early because they were putting up tents, etc, in preparation for a chili festival which is scheduled to begin tomorrow at 4:00 P.M. **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) Subject: Mockingbird Performance From: Phil Floyd <pfloyd19 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:42:54 -0700 Subject: Re: Arbuckle-Simpson Nature Festival From: John Shackford <Johnsshack AT AOL.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:53:32 EDT To the dynamic group of naturalists, etc. who organized and ran the Arbuckle-Simpson Nature Festival Great fun, great field trips, great fellowship, great programs, and great food--what more could you ask for. Thanks for a great time. John Shackford Edmond **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) Subject: Outing to Lake Arcadia, OK From: Jane Cunningham <hanenhark AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 06:08:12 -0500 TOMORROW MORNING, SATURDAY THE 10TH BIRDING AT LAKE ARCADIA A fellow Audubon chapter President, Stella Miller, (from New Jersey) is visiting, and tomorrow morning, Saturday the 10th, we will meet her at the carpooling parking lot at 122nd and I-35 (on the East side) at 7AM to go birding at Lake Arcadia. Dr. Dave Elmendorf will lead. Anyone interested is welcome. Look for the silver Impala in the parking lot. We can carpool to the lake. Jane Cunningham, President Audubon Society of Central Oklahoma We may go for brunch or lunch afterwards. Mike B. and Jimmy W. hope you can make it. Subject: OKC sightings From: Jim Bates <jim-bates AT OUHSC.EDU> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 00:27:26 -0500 4-6-08 East side of Lake Draper Black and White warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Swainson's Thrush and heard White-eyed vireo. 4-8-06 Southwest corner of Lake Overholser(wet field area) Wilson's Phalarope, Black-Bellied Plover, Hudsonian Godwit, Marbled Godwit, Lesser Yellowlegs. Good Birding Jim Bates Subject: Cerulean Warbler and others From: Jana Singletary <jssingletary AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 19:27:12 -0700 This afternoon Mary Jackson, Nancy Pfannenstiel, Lisa Riggs and I birded Washington Irving Park in Bixby. The best bird of the day was a female Cerulean Warbler, which allowed all of us to get several good looks at her. Other warblers included Tennessee, Orange-crowned, Nashville, N. Parula, Yellow Warbler (too many to count!), Yellow-throated, Black and White, American Redstart, and Common Yellowthroat. If you plan to visit the park tomorrow, you'd better go early because they were putting up tents, etc, in preparation for a chili festival which is scheduled to begin tomorrow at 4:00 P.M. Jana Singletary Tulsa Subject: Tulsa Area From: Terry Mitchell <terry AT PECOT.COM> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 20:37:05 -0500 This morning I had a Chestnut Sided Wabler at the North Woods at Oxley. The Woodthrush was still being seen and heard at 31st and Riverside. This Afternoon at the Bixby Sod farms most every thing had cleared out. I did find 3-Hudsonion Godwits. At the 56th North Sod farms this evening I had 3-Stilt Sandpipers, 1-Dunlin, 5-White Rumped Sandpipers, 3-Semipalmated Sandpipers and 2-Bobolinks in the field across the street. Terry. Subject: Red Slough today From: David Arbour <arbour AT WINDSTREAM.NET> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 20:21:51 -0500 Here are a few notable birds seen while working at Red Slough today: Mottled Duck - 1 (still present on unit 15, hanging out with a group of male Mallards.) Neotropic Cormorant - Otter Lake Anhinga - several American Bittern - 1 Purple Gallinule - 1 (at nest in Bittern Lake) Common Moorhen - several Hudsonian Godwit - 12 Pectoral Sandpiper - 10 Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Bobolink - 1 American Alligator - 2 David Arbour De Queen, AR Visit the Red Slough Website: http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/ouachita/natural-resources/redslough/index.shtml Personal Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/sloughbirder Subject: Re: Tulsa Area From: "S. Tramel" <odysus AT AOL.COM> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 20:31:38 -0400 Bob.... is it the Germany jinx!!!! Suzie -----Original Message----- From: Bob Germany To: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDU Sent: Thu, 8 May 2008 7:23 pm Subject: Tulsa Area Greetings Birders, Today I was biking the Riverside Trail and stopped at the 31st St. trail to look for the Wood thrush that Terry Mitchell has been reporting the last couple of days. I saw an American redstart, three Wood ducks, a Yellow-crowned night heron, a Swainson's thrush, several Eastern phoebes, numerous woodpeckers and a Mississippi kite overhead. I didn't see the Wood thrush. Maybe next time. Good Birding, Bob Germany Tulsa Subject: Tulsa Area From: Bob Germany <bgerm1 AT COX.NET> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 20:23:05 -0400 Greetings Birders, Today I was biking the Riverside Trail and stopped at the 31st St. trail to look for the Wood thrush that Terry Mitchell has been reporting the last couple of days. I saw an American redstart, three Wood ducks, a Yellow-crowned night heron, a Swainson's thrush, several Eastern phoebes, numerous woodpeckers and a Mississippi kite overhead. I didn't see the Wood thrush. Maybe next time. Good Birding, Bob Germany Tulsa Subject: acadian flycatchers and redstarts From: Doug Wood <DWood AT SE.EDU> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 17:10:49 -0500 Hi All, banded Prothonotary Warblers this morning at Tishomingo NWR and heard several Acadian Flycatchers. Heard and saw about 10 American Redstarts which is most I've seen at Tishomingo. Guess they didn't like the high winds last night either... Aside: for all you okbirders that came to the Arbuckle-Simpson Nature Festival, thank you! I enjoyed meeting and birding with you and hope to bird with you more in the future. Doug. Doug Wood, Ph.D. PMB 4068 1405 N. 4th Ave. Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences Southeastern Oklahoma State University Durant, OK 74701-0609 580.745.2272 dwood AT sosu.edu Subject: Tulsa Thursday after big storm From: Bruce Nixon <brucarnix AT COX.NET> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 16:55:27 -0500 Wood Thrush- Tulsa- still at Riverside and 31st St trail near light poles #4 & 5. Thursday morning. Bixby Sod Farms. 10 AM to Noon 5/8/08 Dickcissel, Greater and Lesser Yellow Legs, Willetts, Wilson's Phalarope, Yellow headed Black Birds, Bobolinks, Eastern Kingbird, and the best for me 6 Hudsonian Godwits (West side of Garnet about one quarter mile north of 151st Street in flooded sod field)) Bruce Nixon Subject: Nickel Preserve, Tulsa Audubon field trip, May 17 From: Cyndie Browning <buteoswainsoni AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:43:13 -0700 Hello, Oklahoma ~ The Tulsa Audubon Society has a field trip planned to the Nickel Preserve (http://tulsaaudubon.org/guides/nickel-preserve.htm) in Cherokee County on Saturday, May 17th. We'll be looking for spring migrants and early summer nesting birds. We'll meet at 7:30am at the Eagle Bluff Resort parking lot on Hwy 10, about 10 miles north of Tahlequah. Please be on time so that we can organize ourselves into carpools to minimize the number of cars in the "caravan" and still get an early start. Bring plenty of water and snacks and dress appropriately, including insect spray and/or sunscreen if you need them. For more information, please call or e-mail Martin Brown (918.446.8667 or martin1420 AT sbcglobal.net). Also, if you DO plan to attend, it would be helpful if you would RSVP no later than Wednesday, May 14, to either Martin or me so that we can reach you in the event the trip is canceled due to severe weather or any other reason. Cyndie Browning Buteoswainsoni AT yahoo.com Tulsa Audubon Society Tulsa, OK Subject: Pathfinder Parkway and Adams Ranch on 5-8-08 From: Mark/Mary Peterson <m_mpeterson AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:37:03 -0500 Hello All, I walked the Pathfinder Parkway in Bartlesville this morning from the high school parking lot to the small bridge just beyond the Caney River bridge. The Caney River is very high and the small bridge is under 6-10 feet of water. A few birds were around including: Ruby-crowned kinglet-1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak-3 Swainson's Thrushes-20+ Nashville Warbler-3 Northern Parula-3 Yellow Warbler-3 Yellow-throated Warbler-2 Black and White Warbler-1 Prothonotary Warbler-2 Ovenbird-1 Louisiana Waterthrush-1 Common Yellowthroat-3 Wilson's Warbler-1 From there I went to the Adam's Ranch north of Bartlesville. The fields were extensively flooded and shorebirds were present including: Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yelowlegs Upland Sandpipers Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Stilt Sandpipers Long-billed Dowitchers Wilson's Phalaropes This area should be good for shorebirds for the next week or so. Mark Peterson Bartlesville _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live for mobile, your contacts travel with you. http://www.windowslive.com/mobile/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_mobile_052008 Subject: birds with missing colors From: "Curtis, Tom" <tom.curtis AT OKSTATE.EDU> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 09:10:54 -0500 In the past three days, I've had two birds with odd coloration in my yard (Tulsa Co.). The first was an apparent adult female goldfinch that was missing the black in the wings. The bird was in fresh plumage with bright yellow except on top of the head were it was slightly darker, and the wings and tail were all white. The second was an apparent Eurasian Collared Dove, but it was missing the collar. This latter bird has me a bit confused since it does not strike me as a typical ECD (in addition to the lack of collar). First, it is slightly larger than a Mourning Dove, but doesn't seem big enough for ECD (no direct comparisons with ECD possible) and thus could be a Turtle Dove. However, the contrast between the primaries and the rest of the wing seems to be too great. Second, it has dark grey legs, and most of the descriptions of the ECD and Turtle Doves mention reddish legs. Third, the eye is apparently black, not reddish, but this is hard to call from twenty yards. Fourth, he contrast between the head/throat/neck and the back was a bit greater than would expected from ECD. The tail seemed to be squarish, not pointed like Mourning Dove. In flight, I got a quick glimpse of the underside of the tail, and it appeared to have the broad white band expected of ECD, but it was only a brief view from an angle. Fifth, the upperside of the tail had whitish corners, but they seemed too limited for ECD. Sixth, the tail extended beyond the folded primaries about an equal distance as the primary extension. It did not seem to be one of the amelinistic variants the dove breeders fancy as the rest of the bird looked relatively normal, especially the dark primaries. Have fun, Tom Curtis Subject: Red-breasted grosbeaks From: "W. Ed Saunders" <cesaunders AT DATALINKOK.COM> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 09:04:06 -0500 The Rose-breasted Grosbeak count is up to 15 this morning. Ten males and 5 females where at the feeder, on the ground below the feeder and in the surrounding bushes. Also, had two male Baltimore Orioles at the suet feeder. They ignored the orange slice and grape jelly on their feeder. Ed Saunders Miami,Ok Subject: Tulsa Area From: Terry Mitchell <terry AT PECOT.COM> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 20:23:46 -0500 I forgot we also had a Blackburnian Warbler at Woodward Park. Terry. Subject: Tulsa Area From: Terry Mitchell <terry AT PECOT.COM> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 20:22:05 -0500 I spent the day birding with Jimmy Woodard, Jerry Vanbebber and Nancy Pfannenstiel and later at the Bixby Sod farms we were joined by Bill Carrell and Lynn Mcrill. We stayed wet most of the day. As Jo Loyd reported for me we had a Mourning Warbler at Woodward Park. At 31st and Riverside we found a Worm Eating Wabler in the pouring rain. The Woodthrush was still there and singing at 6:30 this evening. At the Bixby sod farms this afternoon there were a lot of birds. There were Bobolinks and Yellowheaded Blackbirds at several locations. We had 1-Whimbrel, 2-Dunlins, 8-Willits, 1-Stilt Sandpiper, 2-Black Bellied Plovers,1-Caspian Tern lots of Wilson Phalaropes, peeps and Yellowlegs, and we probably missed lots of stuff in the rain. I'll bet it's hopping in the the morning. Terry. Subject: White-Rumped Sandpipers, etc. From: Bill Carrell <okdragonhunter AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 14:42:45 -0700 Subject: Hummingbird Migration & Baltimore Orioles From: "mike. brewer" <mike.brewer AT ATT.NET> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:17:02 -0500 http://www.learner.org/jnorth/humm/spring2008/Highlights050808.html