ARBIRD-L for Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Messages are displayed in the order they were received.  Subject  From  Time   new email contact NOW   Joe Neal    6:54am   Three-mile Question   Jack and Pam    11:17am   Re: Three-mile Question   =?iso-8859-1?Q?David   2:59pm   Red Slough Bird Survey - June 17   David Arbour    5:36pm

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Subject: new email contact NOW
From: Joe Neal <jneal(AT)FS.FED.US>
Date: 17 Jun 2008 6:54am

I wanted to remind y'all that my departure from the US Forest Service is
FINAL this week. I will not be on the FS email after Thursday 6-19.
Anything that comes into that adress will disappear into the "e-ether", or
whatever...and wherever that is...

Therefore, please contact me in the following ways:

If the contact is primarily involving my role as curator for Arkansas
Audubon Society, please use joeneal(AT)uark.edu. This will be my "business"
contact.

If the contact is more of a personal nature, please use my "home" email:
joecneal(AT)att.net.

I will check & work with both of these emails on a regular basis.

JOSEPH C. NEAL, biologist (soon to be retired)
Poteau Ranger District, Ouachita NF
P.O. Box 2255 (1541 Highway 248 W)
Waldron, AR 72958
jneal(AT)fs.fed.us     479-637-4174


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Subject: Three-mile Question
From: Jack and Pam <jackstewart_us(AT)YAHOO.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 2008 11:17am

Yesterday a Prairie Warbler kept singing an all-points bulletin around our
house.   I finally gave up trying to concentrate and went for a three-mile loop
walk from our place, down to the Buffalo River, and through Erbie Campground.

The birds I recorded are listed below.  There are no birds on the list one
wouldn’t expect at this time of year near the Buffalo, but it started me
wondering where the best place might be to walk for birds in Arkansas at each
month of the year.

The criteria would be:
•  all travel on foot 
•  within a distance of three miles (continuous three miles not three separate
 miles)
•  within a two hour time period 

Anybody interested in trying to answer this question? Where can one go to get
the highest count for the month?

 It is O.K. to drive to the location, but from then on, only birds recorded on
foot (heard or seen) would count.

If I can get out of bed in time one of these mornings I’ll try the same route
at dawn.

Jack Stewart

Location:     Erbie, Newton County, AR, US
Observation date:     6/16/08
Number of species:     43

Black Vulture     X
Turkey Vulture     X
Red-shouldered Hawk     X
Mourning Dove     X
Yellow-billed Cuckoo     X
Barred Owl     X
Chimney Swift     X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     X
Red-bellied Woodpecker     X
Downy Woodpecker     X
Pileated Woodpecker     X
Acadian Flycatcher     X
Eastern Phoebe     X
White-eyed Vireo     X
Yellow-throated Vireo     X
Red-eyed Vireo     X
Blue Jay     X
American Crow     X
Fish Crow     X
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     X
Carolina Chickadee     X
Tufted Titmouse     X
White-breasted Nuthatch     X
Carolina Wren     X
Northern Parula     X
Yellow-throated Warbler     X
Prairie Warbler     X
Black-and-white Warbler     X
American Redstart     X
Ovenbird     X
Louisiana Waterthrush     X
Kentucky Warbler     X
Hooded Warbler     X
Yellow-breasted Chat     X
Summer Tanager     X
Scarlet Tanager     X
Eastern Towhee     X
Chipping Sparrow     X
Field Sparrow     X
Northern Cardinal     X
Indigo Bunting     X
Brown-headed Cowbird     X
American Goldfinch     X


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Subject: Re: Three-mile Question
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?David_Ray?= <cardcards(AT)SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Date: 17 Jun 2008 2:59pm

I think Bell Slough (Faulkner County, outside of Mayflower) would be a good 
place for the month of May.
David Ray

A bad day birding is better than a good day at work.


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Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - June 17
From: David Arbour <arbour(AT)WINDSTREAM.NET>
Date: 17 Jun 2008 5:36pm

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It was partly cloudy and warm, turning overcast and cool in the =
afternoon, on the bird survey today.  71 species were found.  Highlights =
include finding a Purple Gallinule with young in Bittern Lake.  These =
were from the nest I found a few weeks ago and have been monitoring.  I =
also found a different singing Willow Flycatcher on territory than the =
one on last weeks survey.  Both territories are in unit 26.  After =
missing them on last weeks survey, the Neotropic Cormorants have showed =
back up with two in unit 16 and one in Otter Lake.  I could not locate =
the nesting pair of Black-necked Stilts today so apparently their nest =
was predated and they left.  Too many Raccoons!  Here is a list of all =
found today:=20

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - 1 (nesting in wood duck box.)
Wood Duck - 20
Mallard - 1
Northern Pintail - 1 female
Green-winged Teal - 1 male
Ring-necked Duck - 1 male
Pied-billed Grebe - 33
Neotropic Cormorant - 3
Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Anhinga - 15
American Bittern - 4
Least Bittern - 6
Great Blue Heron - 23
Great Egret - 37
Snowy Egret - 11
Little Blue Heron - 18
Cattle Egret - 1,095
Green Heron - 9
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 3
White Ibis - 37
Turkey Vulture - 17
Mississippi Kite - 3
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Purple Gallinule - 6 (including two black, downy chicks.)
Common Moorhen - 9
Killdeer - 7
Least Tern - 4
Mourning Dove - 11
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 12
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Acadian Flycatcher - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 7
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 3
White-eyed Vireo - 4
Bell's Vireo - 4
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 4
American Crow - 11
Fish Crow - 2
Purple Martin - 3
Tree Swallow - 6
Cliff Swallow - 20
Barn Swallow - 6
Carolina Chickadee - 9
Tufted Titmouse - 4
Carolina Wren - 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4
Eastern Bluebird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 4
Pine Warbler - 2
Prothonotary Warbler - 11
Kentucky Warbler - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 11
Yellow-breasted Chat - 10
Summer Tanager - 1
Northern Cardinal - 15
Blue Grosbeak - 4
Indigo Bunting - 24
Painted Bunting - 7
Dickcissel - 32
Red-winged Blackbird - 32
Eastern Meadowlark - 1
Common Grackle - 21
Brown-headed Cowbird - 11
Orchard Oriole - 2

Odonates:

Fragile Forktail
Common Green Darner
Swamp Darner
Stillwater Clubtail
Jade Clubtail
Prince Baskettail
Common Pondhawk
Blue Dasher
Common Whitetail
Slaty Skimmer
Widow Skimmer
Golden-winged Skimmer
Blue-faced Meadowhawk
Four-spotted Pennant
Halloween Pennant
Spot-winged Glider
Black Saddlebags
Carolina Saddlebags

Herps:

Red-eared Slider
Missouri River Cooter
Southern Painted Turtle
Green Treefrog
Eastern Gray Treefrog
Blanchard's Cricket Frog
Bronze Frog
Bullfrog

Mammals:

Bobcat
Raccoon

Good birding!

David Arbour
De Queen, AR

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