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Subject: Harpy Eagles Nest - Up Dated Status.
From: "pauloboute" <pauloboute(AT)uol.com.br>
Date: 14 May 2008 3:46am
Hello!
Well, after a good number of days away from Internet connection. I'm back, ready
to inform the status of the Harpy Eagle Nest at Serra das Araras at the State
of Mato Grosso - Brazil.
Well, the nest is well built, giving great evidence the Harpy Eagles are having
serious plans to start a new family.
But, despite of going to the nest tree twice: Morning and afternoon, we could
not find any of the parents.
I didn't use the play back either.
Making a short story: "Close but, no cigar..." :-( / :-)
I'm returning there , next week, with the hope to bring you some more
news...hopefully, better ones!
Yours,
Paulo Boute.
www.boute-expeditions.com
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Subject: RE: Birding Boston
From: "Wayne Weber" <contopus(AT)telus.net>
Date: 14 May 2008 10:22am
Herbert (and anyone else who may be interested),
For a brief (12 pages) but very useful account of birding possibilities in
the Boston area, I would recommend you purchase a copy of "A Birder's Guide
to Metropolitan Areas of North America" (Paul Lehman, editor), published by
the American Birding Association in 2001. This book covers 33 of the largest
cities in the USA and Canada. For purchase information, check the ABA Sales
website at http://www.abasales.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=19_20 .
If you need more information, you can obtain a copy of "A Birder's Guide to
Eastern Massachusetts", also published by the ABA. I'm not sure if this book
is still in print.
Wayne C. Weber
Delta, BC
contopusa(AT)telus.net
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From: National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line)
[mailto:BIRDCHAT(AT)LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bird Uganda Safaris
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Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Birding Boston
Dear Members,
Is there any one with good information about birding around Boston. I will
be there IN early June and would like to go birding there.
Thanks
Herbert
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Subject: Meeting Bill Thompson, favorite field guide (links)
From: Devorah Bennu <birdologist(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 14 May 2008 10:39am
Hello everyone,
I am meeting Bill Thompson III tomorrow afternoon, thanks to an invitation from
Houghton Mifflin publishers. I am interested to know what sorts of questions you
would like to ask him if you were coming with me (please post them in the
comments section at this link so I am certain of reading them before I meet
him);
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/05/i_am_meeting_bill_thompson_tom.php
I also am interested to know a little about your field guide use, so I would
really appreciate your thoughts on the matter;
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/05/which_bird_field_guide_do_you.php
of course, I am also interested in anything else you wish to say about bird
field guides, too, but that blog entry covers my basic questions for you at this
time.
GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC
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Subject: Wow - many birds today
From: "Carol Anderson" <mayancarol(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 14 May 2008 1:59pm
After a week of a mild heatwave and no rain, the temps dropped, the sky
clouded over and suddenly it was very birdy here at Lago Atitlan. I would
say there is alot of courtship going on and some interesting displays I
haven't seen before. There is the first time I saw the flame-colored crown
patch on a Tropical Kingbird who was tussling with 3 others. I had to run
and get Howell and Webb to make sure I wasn't hallucinating as I'd forgotten
all about this. A Common Ground Dove was on the ground with a beautiful
rufous wing over his head. I thought this was kind of like the Kildeer's
broken wing thing, and then I thought maybe he was shading himself and then
he hopped off. Courtship??? A beautiful female Magnificent Hummingbird has
been gracing my feeders for the last few days - she is so much more
beautiful than the books portray and so large that she hovers while she
feeds. A Rufous Sabrewing was less successful at the feeders but he hung
around in the clavel bush and put on a show. The Slender Sheartails come in
so quietly and the female is so teeny - but she keeps track of the
Azure-crowns and makes her move at the right time. The Azure-crowns think
they own the feeders but it isn't true.
Also the Inca Doves are suddenly present in numbers and it's so beautiful to
watch them sitting on a branch and then they alight and a huge rufous flash
of the underwing - what a color!!!
I was very surprised to see a female Ruby-throat. Last year I saw the last
one on May 1. Other migrants who are still here are 2 Lesser Scaup, a few
Yellow Warblers, today an Olive-sided Flycatcher and yesterday a Pacific
Slope Flycatcher.
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Carol C. Anderson
San Pedro La Laguna
Guatemala
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Subject: correction
From: "Carol Anderson" <mayancarol(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 14 May 2008 3:25pm
In my previous post I wrote that I saw a Pacific Slope Flycatcher yesterday
and I looked at my notes and all I wrote was Empidonax and that's the best I
can do for that group - I find them very difficult to ID and I don't have a
photo. I did get a photo of the Ruby-throat today. And it's still very birdy
outside so I'm going right back out. Ebird tonight!
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San Pedro La Laguna
Guatemala
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Subject: Pelagic Trip Report =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=96?=
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Maiden Double-Header Weekend
From: "Terry Hunefeld" <sdbirder(AT)fastmail.fm>
Date: 14 May 2008 7:39pm
Greetings
More than 70 seabirders spent a fun-filled weekend offshore San Diego on
May 10 and 11 on Grande, an 85 foot live-aboard boat. Leaders included
Paul Lehman, Guy McCaskie and Todd McGrath. This is their story. A
complete trip list follows this account.
Photos at http://tinyurl.com/5jee9b
The first trip of our weekend “double-header” pulled out of Point Loma
Sportfishing marina at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. Our destinations: the
9-Mile Bank and the Coronados Islands.
We were seeing Sooty Shearwaters before 8:00 a.m. and Black
Storm-petrels by 8:30. Our first Pink-footed Shearwater was seen at
8:49, followed shortly by 4 Xantus Murrelets. The rest of the morning
was filled with fulmars, murrelets, auklets, jaegers, shearwaters,
phalaropes, loons, terns, and, in Mexican waters, a BLACK-FOOTED
ALBATROSS, 19 BROWN BOOBIES and 6 ELEPHANT SEALS.
We pulled into the marina at 3:30 p.m. to drop off some of our
passengers and pick up a few more. Many of us enjoyed fresh, hot
delicious seafood dinners at the outdoor picnic tables of Point Loma
Seafoods while the crew cleaned the boat before heading out on the
“double-overnighter” portion of our double-header at 4:30 p.m.
As we approached the 9-mile bank for the second time, we were surprised
to find an ANCIENT MURRELET and, a few minutes later, an early,
close-to-shore (about ten miles west of Point Loma) SOUTH POLAR SKUA.
We arrived at the 9-mile Bank in the early evening, surrounded by dozens
of Sooty Shearwaters and clouds of HUNDREDS of BLACK STORM-PETRELS. We
stayed on the 9-mile until dark and were treated to the grand prize of
the evening: a San Diego County BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS. 3 Sabine’s
Gulls flew by at sunset, and, just before dark we were treated to
another SOUTH POLAR SKUA before heading to our bunks after a VERY full
day at sea.
We awoke Sunday morning near the Tanner Bank (about 100 miles west of
Point Loma) to find Yellow, Townsend’s and Wilson’s Warblers about the
boat along with cowbirds and doves.
We spent all Sunday in deep-water, finding rich diversity, including
RED-BILLED TROPICBIRD, Lesser Nighthawk, FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER,
Greater Yellowlegs, PINK-FOOTED SHEARWATER, 4 Townsend’s Warblers, 25
NORTHERN FULMAR, 2 Mourning Doves, 2 LAYSAN ALBATROSSES, a Common
Yellowthroat, 2 ARCTIC TERNS, an Orange-crowned Warbler, 2 Fin Whales, 4
Wilson’s Warblers, a rare Cubier Whale, Xantus’s Murrelets and a
Bullock’s Oriole.
More Sabine’s Gulls flew by at sunset. We enjoyed a great dinner (and
beers) in Grande’s spacious salon, then were treated to dozens (hundreds
by morning) of Red Phalaropes attracted to Grande’s lights before
heading to our bunks. We awoke at 4:30 a.m. Monday morning to the
beautiful lights of Point Loma, arriving at the dock at 5:00.
There really is nothing like being at sea overnight. You get to witness
sunrise and sunset ‘out there’ where it’s all happening. No email, no
TV, no computers, no cell phones, no traffic. Just you, a couple dozen
other Seabirders, and the sea. It’s magical.
And now, the lists. A big thank you to Jon Feenstra for compiling and
entering into eBird.
San Diego to Nine Mile Bank to the islands and our return
Saturday morning 5/10/08
Pacific Loon 3
Black-footed Albatross 1
Northern Fulmar 3
Pink-footed Shearwater 7
Sooty Shearwater 75
Black Storm-Petrel 2
Brown Booby 1
Brown Pelican 100
Brandt's Cormorant 10
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Red-necked Phalarope 250
Red Phalarope 2
Western Gull 60
Least Tern 28
Pomarine Jaeger 1
Xantus's Murrelet 24
Cassin's Auklet 65
Rhinoceros Auklet 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
* * *
Islas Los Coronados
Saturday Morning 5/10/08
Brown Booby 18
Brown Pelican 800
Brandt's Cormorant 100
Double-crested Cormorant 10
Pelagic Cormorant 2
American x Black Oystercatcher (hybrid) 2
Black Oystercatcher 5
Wandering Tattler 1
Western Gull 500
House Finch 1
* * *
San Diego to the Nine Mile Bank – all San Diego County
Saturday afternoon 5/10/08
Brant 1
Pacific Loon 3
Black-footed Albatross 1
Northern Fulmar 2
Pink-footed Shearwater 7
Sooty Shearwater 105
Black-vented Shearwater 2
Leach's Storm-Petrel 2
Black Storm-Petrel 430
Red-necked Phalarope 140
Red Phalarope 5
California Gull 1
Western Gull 95
Sabine's Gull 4
Forster's Tern 3
Elegant Tern 2
South Polar Skua 2
Pomarine Jaeger 3
Xantus's Murrelet 5
Ancient Murrelet 1
Cassin's Auklet 18
Rhinoceros Auklet 1
Barn Swallow 1
* * *
Tanner & Cortez Bank
Deep Water Sunday 5/11/08
Los Angeles (LA) and Ventura (V) Counties.
Laysan Albatross 2 (LA) (V)
Black-footed Albatross 6 (LA) (V)
Northern Fulmar 25 (LA) (V)
Pink-footed Shearwater 80 (LA) (V)
Flesh-footed Shearwater 1 (LA)
Sooty Shearwater 12 (LA) (V)
Black-vented Shearwater 1 (LA)
Leach's Storm-Petrel 1 (LA)
Black Storm-Petrel 65 (LA) (V)
Red-billed Tropicbird 1 (V)
Brandt's Cormorant 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Red-necked Phalarope 115 (LA) (V)
Red Phalarope 135 (LA) (V)
California Gull 2
Western Gull 100
Sabine's Gull 17 (LA) (V)
Arctic Tern 2 (LA)
South Polar Skua 1 (LA)
Pomarine Jaeger 1 (LA)
Xantus's Murrelet 18 (LA) (V)
Cassin's Auklet 14
Rhinoceros Auklet 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 1
Mourning Dove 2
Lesser Nighthawk 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 3
Townsend's Warbler 4
Common Yellowthroat 1
Wilson's Warbler 4
Western Tanager 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Bullock's Oriole 1
W. Terry Hunefeld
Life is short.
Bird often.
http://www.SoCalBirding.com
Pelagic Seabirding Trips From San Diego to:
9-mile Bank
Los Coronados Islands
Cortes & Tanner Banks
Channel Islands
Terry
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W. Terry Hunefeld, San Diego
Life is short.
Bird often.
www.SoCalBirding.com
Pelagic Seabirding Trips From San Diego to:
9-mile Bank
Los Coronados Islands
Cortes & Tanner Banks
Channel Islands
reply to: thunefeld(AT)gmail.com
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