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Subject: One Man Show
From: Dennis Braddy <dmbraddy(AT)MAC.COM>
Date: 3 May 2008 8:53am
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The Arkansas Birder New Guest Photos album currently features the
exceptional work of Larry Jernigan. After viewing those photos I'm
sure you'll want to see more at http://www.larryjernigan.com.
Dennis Braddy
Little Rock, AR
http://www.arkansasbirder.net
"Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end." - Stephen
Hawking
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Subject: Black-billed Cuckoo in Gillam Park
From: Dennis Braddy <dmbraddy(AT)MAC.COM>
Date: 3 May 2008 9:15am
Dan Scheiman and Bill Shepherd report a Black-billed Cuckoo in Gillam
Park right now. From the parking lot inside the park walk down the
trail past the swinging gate several yards and take the right fork.
Approximately 300 feet along the trail there is a down oak tree on the
right side. The cuckoo is in the trees above that.
Dennis Braddy
Little Rock, AR
http://www.arkansasbirder.net
"Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end." - Stephen
Hawking
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Subject: Holla Bend
From: Kenny Nichols <greykingbird(AT)GMAIL.COM>
Date: 3 May 2008 3:04pm
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LaDonna and I birded Holla Bend and the surrounding area this morning. We
had 4 Upland Sanpipers at the sod farms south of Dardanelle. And, in a small
roadside puddle closer to the refuge we had several hundred shorebirds that
included both yellowlegs, Dunlin, LB Dowitcher, Solitary, Pectoral, Least
and White-rumped Sandpipers and 137 Wilson's Phalaropes. They were all being
harassed by two different PEREGRINE FALCONS. On the refuge we had 3 Painted
Buntings, a Merlin, several hundred Bobolinks, another 110 Wilson's
Phalaropes, and a single SWAINSON'S HAWK.
Good birding!
Kenny NIchols
Dardanelle, AR
greykingbird(AT)gmail.com
kingbird(AT)centurytel.net
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Subject: Lee and Phillips Cos.
From: Nick Anich <nicka29(AT)YAHOO.COM>
Date: 3 May 2008 5:03pm
I haven't been primarily birding lately, but I have
been finding a few good birds while I've been outside.
Highlights at the north end of St. Francis National
Forest today were:
Blackburnian Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Veery
Worm-eating Warbler
2 days ago, I had a Common Loon in a flooded field, a
first for me.
On the eastern levee of White River NWR, the flood
seems to have pushed all sorts of critters up onto the
levee. I saw a herd of about 100 deer, a bear, an
alligator and a timber rattler all in the same day.
Bobolinks on the levee in full force as well. The
swamp rabbits seem not to be affected by the flood,
but there are quite a few armadillo carcasses down
there and a few dead deer as well.
Nick Anich
The middle of nowhere, eastern Arkansas.
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Subject: DOBC Field Trip
From: "J. O. and Sally Jo Gibson" <sjogibson(AT)ALLTEL.NET>
Date: 3 May 2008 6:01pm
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Today eight DOBC members birded Newton County in the area around the Ponca
bridge, Elk Education Center and the Boxley Mill Pond. The temperature
ranged from 40 to 50 degrees. While shivering, the following species were
documented from 7:30 AM till 10 AM.
1. American Crow
2. American Goldfinch
3. Baltimore Oriole
4. Black Vulture
5. Blue Grosbeak
6. Brown-Headed Cowbird
7. Cardinal
8. Carolina Chickadee
9. Carolina Wren
10. Catbird
11. Chat
12. Chimney Swift
13. Chipping Sparrow
14. Common Yellowthroat
15. Downy Woodpecker
16. Eastern Kingbird
17. Eastern Phoebe
18. Great Blue Heron
19. Green Heron
20. Hooded Warbler
21. House Sparrow
22. Indigo Bunting
23. Kentucky Warbler
24. Killdeer
25. Lincoln's Sparrow
26. Louisiana Waterthrush
27. Mockingbird
28. Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
29. Orchard Oriole
30. Ovenbird
31. Parula
32. Pileated Woodpecker
33. Pine Siskin
34. Purple Finch
35. Red-Bellied Woodpecker
36. Red-Eyed Vireo
37. Red-Tailed Hawk
38. Red-Winged Blackbird
39. Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
40. Scarlet Tanager
41. Solitary Sandpiper
42. Tree Swallow
43. Tufted Titmouse
44. Turkey Vulture
45. White-Breasted Nuthatch
46. White-Eyed Vireo
47. Wood Duck
48. Yellow Warbler
49. Yellow-Throated Warbler
Sally Jo Gibson
512 Yorkshire Cove
Harrison, AR 72601
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
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Subject: Re: All this water and ongoing IBWO searches
From: Allan Mueller <akcmueller(AT)GMAIL.COM>
Date: 3 May 2008 6:13pm
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The IBWO searches this year were hampered by the high water, but they did go
on. We had to skip some areas we wanted to search because 1. it was not
possible to get to sites early in the morning or to stay late in the evening
because of increased travel time caused by high water, or 2. the high water
made trips too dangerous. We searched spots we could get to, not the best,
but the best that could be done under the circumstances.
Allan Mueller
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Jim Dixon <jamesdixonlr(AT)att.net> wrote:
> My family and I went to Memphis today and I an opportunity to see that a
> lot of the area near rivers is still covered in water. I got to thinking
> about the ivory-bill searches. From what I've read, much of it is done by
> people living in the swamp for weeks and working by kayak. Have these
> searches been able to proceed this year?
>
> --
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> Jim Dixon
> Little Rock, AR
> www.jamesdixon.us
>
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Allan Mueller
20 Moseley Lane
Conway, AR 72032
501-327-8952
Be sincere, even if you don't mean it...
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Subject: Yard Birds
From: "J. O. and Sally Jo Gibson" <sjogibson(AT)ALLTEL.NET>
Date: 3 May 2008 6:20pm
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The following is the list of birds I have documented in our yard for the
past four days, April 30-May 3.
1. American Crow
2. American Goldfinch
3. Baltimore Oriole
4. Black & White Warbler
5. Blue Grosbeak
6. Blue Jay
7. Brown-Headed Cowbird
8. Cardinal
9. Carolina Chickadee
10. Carolina Wren
11. Common Grackle
12. Chipping Sparrow
13. Downy Woodpecker
14. Eastern Bluebird
15. Eastern Towhee
16. House Finch
17. House Wren
18. Indigo Bunting (14 today, a mix of male/females)
19. Lincoln's Sparrow
20. Mourning Dove
21. Northern Bobwhite (the covey of 11 birds is still here, sometimes seen
3 times a day)
22. Pine Siskin
23. Red-Bellied Woodpecker
24. Robin
25. Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
26. Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
27. Swainson's Thrush
28. White-Breasted Nuthatch
29. White-Crowned Sparrow
30. White-Throated Sparrow
31. Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Sally Jo Gibson
512 Yorkshire Cove
Harrison, AR 72601
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
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Subject: Addendum to Yard List
From: "J. O. and Sally Jo Gibson" <sjogibson(AT)ALLTEL.NET>
Date: 3 May 2008 7:41pm
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Nos. 32 & 33:
Flicker and Catbird
Sally Jo Gibson
512 Yorkshire Cove
Harrison, AR 72601
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Subject: Bell, with company
From: Herschel Raney <herschel.raney(AT)CONWAYCORP.NET>
Date: 3 May 2008 9:07pm
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Indeed, blustery and cool as many have said. I arrived at Bell early and
as usual in the past month encountered both birds and a few birders.
Listening between punches of the wind and searching like the birds for
wind shadows, I was joined by Hartman and Hartman and her fine group
from north central Arkansas Audubon for a whirl around the loop and the
back beaver ponds. Warblers early were good and then about noon when the
wind backed off a bit the warblers all fired up. Very few butterflies in
the cool. And two snakes. One of which was a 2 foot (plus) Cottonmouth
who had just struck a large Bullfrog. The frog was not getting the good
end of the meeting. The snake made one attempt to hoist the monster Rana
out of the water but we left them still looking eye to eye. This will be
one snAke when they work it out. The singing by Northern Waterthrushes
early were overwhelming and the Tennessee Warblers appear to be peaking
with some very odd song variants among them. Bay-breasted Warblers were
singing as well as both of the noon Golden-winged Warblers. No
Yellow-rumps left at Bell but a few calling at my house along with my
now annual pass-through of a Black-billed Cuckoo.
Birds (full list for the group and Rd Mt):
Canada Goose (Lake Conway)
Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Little Blue Heron (three adults)
Cattle Egret (Rd Mt)
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite (outside Bell, arrived yesterday in the area)
Red-shouldered Hawk
Lesser Yellowlegs
Eurasian Collared Dove (Conway)
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Cuckoo (Rd Mt)
Great Horned Owl
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Bell road)
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo (everywhere early)
Warbling Vireo (frequent songster, shale side)
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Gray-cheeked Thrush (4 or 5, singing early)
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird (Rd Mt)
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Golden-winged Warbler (2, both singing and one stunning male hammering a
caterpillar on a limb)
Tennessee Warbler (wow, unstoppable calling)
Nashville Warbler (decreasing)
Northern Parula
Chestnut-sided Warbler (many calling males)
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Rd Mt only, vanishing)
Blackburnian Warbler (high calling, wind-blown male)
Pine Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler (few singing)
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler (many)
Northern Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler (3 calling and perched)
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark (Rd MT)
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
American Goldfinch
Herschel Raney
(Bob & Joyce Hartmann, Valerie & Jerry Goodman,
Glenn & Virginia Reynolds, Sid & Mickey Roberts, Lewis & Geneva Lackey)
Conway AR
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Subject: Today's birds
From: Joyce & Harlan Shedell <jhshed(AT)CENTURYTEL.NET>
Date: 3 May 2008 9:29pm
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Had to get my birding fix this afternoon, so drove over to the Charlie Craig
Fish Hatchery at Centerton.
Here is a list of what I saw:
CENTERTON FISH HATCHERY
Barn swallows-many
Blue-wing teal-15
Bob White Quail-2
Brown thrasher1
Canada goose and lots of babies
Dowitchers-24 (long bill??)
Goldfinch-many
Great blue heron
Hairy Woodpecker-2 (looks like nesting in a dead tree stump)
Killdeer-6 (did not see any babies, but did see a nest)
Lesser yellowlegs-1
Mallard-4
Mockingbirds-3
N. Cardinal -3
Northern Sholver-12
Purple martins-many
Robin-4
Semipalmated plover-4
Sora-1
Spotted sandpiper-many
White crowned sparrow-7
White throated sparrow-4
Wilson Phalarope-1
Yellow warbler-1
Yellow-rumped warbler-6
IN THE YARD TODAY:
Baltimore oriole
Barn swallow
Blue jay
Carolina chickadee
Cow bird
Downy woodpecker
Goldfinch
House finch
Indigo bunting
Mourning dove
N. Cardinal
N. parula
Purple martin
Red bellied woodpecker
Red winged blackbird
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Ruby-throated hummingbird-many (they are drinking about a cup of nectar a
day)
Tufted titmouse
White breasted nuthatch
BETWEEN HERE & THERE:
Blue grosbeak
Dickcissel
E. Kingbird
Scissor-tailed flycatcher
Joyce Shedell
Highfill, Arkansas
Benton county,
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Subject: Re: Black-billed Cuckoo in Gillam Park
From: Dennis Braddy <dmbraddy(AT)MAC.COM>
Date: 3 May 2008 10:50pm
Karen Holliday, Doris and Dottie Boyles, Dale and Craig Provost, David
Ray, and I did a reasonably thorough search for the Black-billed
Cuckoo at Gillam Park this forenoon. No luck.
Dennis Braddy
Little Rock, AR
http://www.arkansasbirder.net
"Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end." - Stephen
Hawking
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