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| Subject | From | Time |
| Spotted Sandpiper | nuthatch3@aol.com | 8:42am |
| FOTS Rose-breasted Grosbeak in S Cobb Co | Pamela Moore | 8:48am |
| First Indigo Bunting for the yard in Cherokee Co | Parrie Pinyan | 10:02am |
| Kennesaw Sunday 4/20 | Giff Beaton | 11:51am |
| AAS Dawson Forest | Georgann Schmalz | 4:49pm |
| Fwd: eBird Report - Fulton County, GA, US , 4/20/08 | Johnnie Greene | 5:57pm |
| Standing Boy WMA - 4/20 | Walt Chambers | 7:36pm |
| Oxbow Meadows - Bobolinks, Soras, but no kites
yet... | Walt Chambers | 7:42pm |
| Hooded Merganser | Marion Dobbs | 7:58pm |
| Great Egrets | Zelia Lebeau | 8:52pm |
| What's green, noisy, has wheels, and feeds birds... | James Brooks | 9:05pm |
| Standing Boy WMA - Directions, distances, & general
info | Walt Chambers | 10:02pm |
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Subject: Spotted Sandpiper
From: "nuthatch3(AT)aol.com" <nuthatch3@AOL.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 8:42am
FOTS Spotted Sandpiper in the wetlands yesterday at the Chattahoochee
Nature Center (Roswell, GA). Also FOTS at CNC were Red-eyed Vireo, Yellow-
breasted Chat, and Green Heron. Saw a small group of 11 Black Vultures
around 6:55 pm last night. They were trying to get the last heating of the
day but just couldn't. They ended up heading down to find a roost spot for
the night. I will have to say that we have many Osprey along this part of
the river this year. I'm hoping that some year in the future, Bald Eagles
will begin to nest close by too.
This am at home, FOTS Scarlet Tanager (Male) working some of the trees
behind my apartment.
Have a great day and don't forget to look up for migrating raptors......
Stacy Zarpentine
Roswell GA
North Fulton County
USA
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Subject: FOTS Rose-breasted Grosbeak in S Cobb Co
From: Pamela Moore <auntpie(AT)BELLSOUTH.NET>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 8:48am
This morning we saw our FOTS Rose-breasted Grosbeak, a male, at the
safflower feeder.
Pam Moore
Smyrna, south Cobb County
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Subject: First Indigo Bunting for the yard in Cherokee Co
From: Parrie Pinyan <pjnkodi(AT)MINDSPRING.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 10:02am
The first Indigo Bunting of the season made his cherry, bright presentation
in the yard this morning.
They seem to like the short, late winter grass that I leave by the walkway
(don't mow) for them.
Parrie Pinyan
Cherokee County
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Subject: Kennesaw Sunday 4/20
From: Giff Beaton <giffbeaton(AT)MINDSPRING.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 11:51am
GABbers- Kennesaw Mountain was excellent today, with so much song we
couldn't pick everything out. We had 20 species of warblers, including 2
Golden-winged, 10 Black-throated Green, 12 Blackburnian, 7 Blackpoll, and 6
Cerulean Warblers. Lots of tanagers, grosbeaks, and buntings too.
Giff Beaton
Marietta GA
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Subject: AAS Dawson Forest
From: Georgann Schmalz <georgannschmalz(AT)ALLTEL.NET>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 4:49pm
Another Atlanta Audubon field trip was held at Dawson Forest WMA Atlanta
Tract (Dawson County) this morning with 21 people and 67 species of birds.
The list is similar to yesterday with a Wild Turkey, Scarlet Tanager,
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, four vireos, Yellow-billed Cuckoo and 16 species of
warblers including numerous Prairies, Hoodeds, Ovenbirds, Northern Parulas,
Black-and-Whites, Yellow-throateds, and Common Yellowthroats. In fewer
numbers were Blue-winged, Worm-eating, Yellow-breasted Chat, Black-throated
Blue, and Palms. We were almost duped by a Mourning Warbler song being sung
by a Kentucky Warbler. It reminded me of the time during a DNR Birding
Bootcamp that we had a Kentucky repeatedly singing a Hooded Warbler song.
Do Kentucky Warblers have an identity problem?
Next field trips at Dawson Forest are 22, 23, and 24 April.
Later,
Georgann
Georgann Schmalz
Ornithologist, Birding Adventures, Inc.
Dawsonville, GA Dawson County
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Subject: Fwd: eBird Report - Fulton County, GA, US , 4/20/08
From: Johnnie Greene <johnniegreene(AT)ADELPHIA.NET>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 5:57pm
Location: Leita Thompson Memorial Park in Roswell.
Observation date: 4/20/08
Notes: Allison and I started at Mountain Park Elementary school and walked
the trail down and around the ponds at Leita Thompson Memorial park from 7:20 -
9:30 AM. Sunny, 51 - 60.9 degrees.
Number of species: 29
> Wild Turkey 2
> Cooper's Hawk 1
> Barred Owl 1
> Belted Kingfisher 1
> Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
> Downy Woodpecker 1
> Eastern Phoebe 1
> Red-eyed Vireo 5
> White-breasted Nuthatch 2
> Brown-headed Nuthatch 1
> Carolina Wren 4
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 7
> Swainson's Thrush 1
> Wood Thrush 3
> Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
> Pine Warbler 2
> Black-and-white Warbler 1
> Scarlet Tanager 1
> Eastern Towhee 1
> Chipping Sparrow 1
> Song Sparrow 1
> Northern Cardinal 10
> American Goldfinch 14
>
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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Johnnie Greene
Canton, Cherokee County, GA
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Subject: Standing Boy WMA - 4/20
From: Walt Chambers <Walter.Frank.Chambers(AT)STUDENT.MERCER.EDU>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 7:36pm
I was joined today by Jerry Johns of Columbus and we ultimately had a pretty
good day. We had to really look - unlike at KMT today (per Giff.. "so much
song we couldn't pick everything out"), alot of what we observed was silent,
and we did not have many tanagers, rose-breasts, etc today either. That being
said, we did tally 81 spp. including 21 spp. of warbler.
Warblers -
Blue-winged Warbler - 1
Orange-crowned Warbler - 3
Northern Parula - 13
Yellow Warbler - 2
Cape May Warbler - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 50
Yellow-throated Warbler - 2
Pine Warbler - 15
Prairie Warbler - 5
Palm Warbler - 60+
Black-and-white Warbler - 3
Prothonotary Warbler - 8
Worm-eating Warbler - 2
Swainson's Warbler - 2
Ovenbird - 2
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Louisiana Waterthrush - 3
Kentucky Warbler - 15
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Hooded Warbler - 18
Yellow-breasted Chat - 12
also noted...
American Bittern - 1 "Oonk-a-loonking" from a reed bed by the river
Acadian Flycatcher - 1 fots
Sedge Wren - 3
Walt Chambers
Columbus
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Subject: Oxbow Meadows - Bobolinks, Soras, but no kites
yet...
From: Walt Chambers <Walter.Frank.Chambers(AT)STUDENT.MERCER.EDU>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 7:42pm
After birding SBWMA this morning I tried OM quickly, despite being late in the
day and wind starting to pick up. I parked at the north application field by
the wetland area and had a few things...
Bald Eagle - 1 adult
Solitary Sandpiper - 1 (the pond seems to have TOO much water right now!)
Sora - 4-5 calling from the wetland
Bobolink - about 10-20, but many more are on the way!
I scanned for Mississippi Kites...none today, but I imagine they'll be at OM
within the week.
Walt Chambers
Columbus
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Subject: Hooded Merganser
From: Marion Dobbs <catbird500(AT)COMCAST.NET>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 7:58pm
I was at Arrowhead Environmental Center in northern Floyd Co. this afternoon
searching for dragonflies. There were some of those, too, but the the most
interesting sighting was of a female HOODED MERGANSER with two chicks. Dan
Roper reported breeders at this location last year, and I was sorry never to
see them, but it was a thrill to do so today.
Also at the water were WOOD DUCK, GREAT EGRET, GREEN HERON, SPOTTED
SANDPIPER.
Marion Dobbs
Rome (Floyd Co) GA
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Subject: Great Egrets
From: Zelia Lebeau <lebeau(AT)mindspring.com>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 8:52pm
I was driving along the Chattahoochee River in Roswell this morning and I saw 4
Great Egrets and 3 Great Blue Herons in the pond at the intersection of Willeo
Rd, Lower Roswell Rd and Timber Ridge. On the return trip, the numbers had
changed to 6 Great Egrets and 1 Great Blue Heron.
Zelia Lebeau
Cobb Co.
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Subject: What's green, noisy, has wheels, and feeds birds...
From: James Brooks <jrbamc(AT)JUNO.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 9:05pm
04/20/2008: What's green, noisy, has wheels, and feeds birds...
A Northern Mockingbird and an Eastern Phoebe followed me around
the yard late this afternoon, pouncing on any insects put to
flight or revealed by the riding lawn mower. I have not seen a
Phoebe for a few weeks, but this one appeared out of the trees
on my passes along the back yard treeline, at times swooping just
over my head and close to the mower, grabbing bugs. The Mocker is
a bit more patient, trailing along as I did the front yesterday,
the back tonight. Any of those big green or brown katydids was
jumped on as quick as they appeared out of the grass. Once the
Mocker landed about ten feet away, so I stopped to watch, and he/
she ran up to within about 3 feet, grabbed a moth and flew off.
The mower was running, just not moving, and I was sitting right
there, too. Bold bird, or hungry, or with nestlings to feed.
My local resident Mocker (I'm assuming this is the same one) has
been doing this for several years. I can always count on it
suddenly appearing on roof-top or the top twig of a small tree
in the yard whenever the mower roars to life.
Migrants in the yard: all week there has been a nice male Blue
Grosbeak at the feeders, a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher on Saturday, a
Palm Warbler today, a female Scarlet Tanager on Sat, and at dusk,
a Chuck Will's Widow is now calling from the remaining woods below
the bigger of the two lakes.
James Brooks
east of McDOnough (Henry Cty) GA
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Subject: Standing Boy WMA - Directions, distances, & general
info
From: Walt Chambers <Walter.Frank.Chambers(AT)STUDENT.MERCER.EDU>
Date: 20 Apr 2008 10:02pm
I have had several questions recently about SBWMA and figured I'd just throw
my comments on GABO.
Directions - There are several routes, but here's mine coming from 185.
Near the Harris/Muscogee County line on 185, get off on exit 14 (Smith Rd) and
go west - right off the exit if coming from the north, left off the exit if
coming from the south. Go 1.8 miles until you run into Whitesville Rd. Take a
left and go about 1.2 miles and turn right on Biggers Rd. Go 3.0 miles until
you run into River Rd (a fire station will be across the road and to the
left). Cross River Rd. onto Old River Rd. and go 0.9 miles and see a wooden
sign on the left for the WMA. You can park by the road or up about 150 yards
by the gate - If the latter, please don't block the drive.
Walking distances - Right now, the best thing to do is stay on the main road.
This will take you through plenty of diverse habitat without getting you lost
and/or in an uncomfortable situation. This is a huge area and the roads that
branch off of the main road may take you all over the place and the habitat is
probably not as good anyway. However, if you feel adventuresome, go ahead,
but bring a GPS, a friend, and lots of water! I have only tried some of the
offshoots for a little ways and threw in the towel. I would say that walking
from where you park to the waterfowl ponds (see map link) is approximately 3
miles in. So a you're looking at 5 to 6 miles minimum to go to the end of the
main road and back.
How to bird this place/what to expect - Well...it's all about the habitat.
The following species expectations are for spring and summer. Anyway, the
first 3/4 of a mile is upland pine/oak mix. You should get Black-and-white
and Worm-eating Warblers, vireos, tanagers, etc. The second phase of the tour
is the fairly large field of Andropogon and other grasses surrounded by second
growth. On the map on the link mentioned above you see where the road makes
what looks like an "A". You can walk around the apex of the "A" (there is a
small shelter there as a reference point) and bird along the hardwoods by the
river. You should get Yellow-throated and Prairie Warblers, Chats, Blue
Grosbeak, Indigo Buntings, Orchard Oriole, Sedge Wren (in the boggy part of
the field near a row of about 8 False Chestnut trees and only in non-summer
months). Phase 3 starts the bottomland forest. You should get Swainson's,
Prothonotarys, and Louisiana Waterthrush. Keep in mind that you will still
have stretches of second growth to your right that will have Prairies, Chats,
and the like along the way. You will eventually see an open area to your left
that looks like a big patch of juncus. There is a path to the left off the
main road that takes you around this ephemeral wetland with willow thickets
and young sweet gums and back into established forest before returning to the
main trail. Be sure that if you take this path to keep to the right.
Once back on the main road, you can continue (I honestly don't know how far -
a fraction of a mile??) before you run into a "T". You can go right for about
60 yards and then left or take a left for about 200 yards to a game plot and
turn right and walk along the game plot - Either of these options will have
you walking along the waterfowl ponds. There are several paths that cross in
between them that allow you to scan the water. This area is really a wooded
swamp and may have Wood Ducks or other waterfowl in appropriate times of the
year. You can get waders (I had Wood Stork and White Ibis last year) in the
late summer. By the way, you can get Hooded and Kentucky Warblers anywhere on
your walk! At this point, you can turn around and head back to the car!
Other comments - I mentioned some of the breeding species above. What about
where to find the migrants? Well...they could be anywhere, I'm afraid. No
real strategy. Also, with respect to migrants, fall is going to be better. It
is always better anywhere in the Chattahoochee Valley region in the fall.
There are several reasons and/or theories for this but I'm a bit tired right
now to discuss it.
I hope this is helpful and not TOO confusing. If you need clarifications, let
me know!
Walt Chambers
Columbus
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