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Subject: Red-breasted Nuthatch - Tucker
From: Jenny Michaels <jemichaels(AT)ieee.org>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 8:49am
I was really surprised to see a Red-breasted Nuthatch in the backyard this
morning. My last sighting of one was on April 14th. Jenny Michaels,
Tucker, GA
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Subject: FOTS Rose Breasted Grosbeak
From: Shawn Heifert <shawnheifert(AT)HOTMAIL.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 9:17am
I had a single female rose-reasted grosbeak this morning at the safflower
feeder. FOTS.
Shawn Heifert
Richmond Hill, GA
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Subject: Event: Pettit Preserve
From: Courtney DuBois <c_dubois(AT)mindspring.com>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 10:12am
Anyone planning to attend the Audubon Society's bird walk at the Etowah Indian
Mounds in Cartersville on Saturday morning?
If you are in the Cartersville/Bartow county on Saturday, the The Margaret &
Luke Pettit Environmental Preserve (near HWY 113 & HWY 61) is open for guests.
The Pettit Preserve is rarely open to the general public. The preserve has 60
acres, a lake, streams and hiking trails.
The hours are 10AM - 2PM. The directions are available on the Pettit Preserve
web site http://www.pettitpreserve.com/index.html
If you going to be in Cartersvlle birding, stop by the Pettit Preserve. I don't
know what birds you can expect to find, but it may be fun!
Note: At noon, the new hiking trail and swinging bridge will be dedicated.
Courtney DuBois
Cartersville
Bartow County
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Subject: Nashville Warbler continues; State Botanical
Garden, Athens
From: Joel McNeal <j.mcneal(AT)YAHOO.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 2:12pm
Hi GA birders.
The NASHVILLE WARBLER heard by James Neves and myself
at the State Botanical Garden on Wednesday was heard
again this morning by Karla O'Grady, Bill O'Grady, and
I. It is best heard from across the river on the
orange trail a couple hundred yards upriver of its
junction with the purple trail. It never came into
view, but it did sound like it approached relatively
close to the river's edge at one point. A
Yellow-breasted Chat was skulking on the east side of
the lower powerline cut and, later, singing from the
west side.
Good birding,
Joel McNeal
Winterville (Athens-Clarke Co.), GA
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Subject: Standing Boy WMA
From: Ted Theus <VTT(AT)PSSTF.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 3:01pm
3 hours at Standing Boy WMA this morning produced the following:
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Black-throated Blue Warbler (male)
Kentucky Warbler (6)
Worm-eating Warbler (3)
Prothonotary Warbler
LA Waterthrush (5)
Orange-crowned Warbler
Black & White Warbler
Northern Parula (5)
Yellow-Breasted Chat (5)
Common Yellow throat (4)
Yellow Rumped Warbler (only one!)
Pine Warbler (4)
Ruby Crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (10+)
Red-eyed Vireo (5)
White-eyed Vireo (8+)
Unidentified Thrush (probably Swaison's)
Wood Thrush (2)
Great Crested Flycatcher=20
Turkey (2)
Gray Catbird (2)
Scarlet Tananger
Summer Tanager (2)
Rose Breasted Grosebeak=20
Broadwinged Hawk=20
Blue Grosebeak (7+)
Indigo Bunting (12+)
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Felt like missed a few things including a possible Swainson's Warbler.
So far all the snakes I have seen are non-venomous but beware as certain
areas down near river are very brushy and no doubt contain Cottonmouths,
Copperheads and Rattlers. =20
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Ted Theus, Muscogee and Harris Cos.
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Ted Theus
Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker, & Ford, P.C.
Synovus Centre
1111 Bay Avenue, 3rd Floor
Columbus, GA 31901
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Subject: Standing Boy addendum
From: Ted Theus <VTT(AT)PSSTF.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 3:05pm
oops, forgot Hooded Warber (10) and Palm Warbler (15+)=20
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Ted Theus--Muscogee
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Subject: 4-letter code converter
From: Steve Holzman <steve_holzman(AT)YAHOO.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 4:44pm
Hello,
Many birders like to record their sightings using 4 letter banding codes.
Reporting these (without the common names) goes against the guidelines of
GABO-L. I've written a spreadsheet that allows you to type in your codes in one
column and the spreadsheet will put the appropriate common name in the other
column. You can then type in the number of birds seen in a third column and
then cute and paste the list into a GABO-L message (as PLAIN TEXT). Don't
bother with this if you are not that computer savvy, or have no problem just
typing out the common names. But if you are avoiding posting your lists to the
listserv because you don't like typing out the full common name, use this handy
spreadsheet and it'll only take you a few seconds to convert the codes to common
names.
http://www.coastalgeorgiabirding.org/banding_codes_converter.xls
if you don't have Microsoft Word, the spreadsheet will also work in the free
office suite (Open Office) available below.
http://download.openoffice.org/
Feel free to email me if you need help.
Good luck,
Steve Holzman
North High Shoals, GA
Oconee County,
USA
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Subject: Behavior & recent birds in Ware Co. & Okefenokee
Swamp
From: Sheila Willis <swillis(AT)WAYXCABLE.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 5:35pm
Hey folks,
Hope you are fine. Here is an update for South Georgia for the Waycross area
as well as for the Okefenokee Swamp.
Waycross, Ware Co.
Note, my Red Mulberries are ripening quite well this week at home, so there
is lots of bird action in them. What a show!! The NORTHERN CARDINALs seem to
drop a good bit though.
BARRED OWL: I went looking in my backyard today (4/25) around 3:45 p.m. to
see if I could still see the one that has been nesting in the adjacent Water
Oak. I couldn't see any tail feathers sticking out of the cavity as I
usually do, and so I then looked around to see if any young were perching
nearby. I glanced across the lot & WOW!! A beautiful adult was sitting in
broad daylight in a Sycamore tree blinking its eyes. How pretty was that,
with its brown patterns and the fresh green leaves & white trunk of the
Sycamore!! I wish I had a camera!!
RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER: On 4/24 A pretty male came to my pine tree that they
feed on regularly & while attempting to find bugs in the bark, it had an
"itch attack". It made all sorts of contortions to relieve itself. At one
point it just stretched its right wing out & held it in the sun for a while.
CAROLINA WREN: Today (4/25) while talking to my father who also lives in
Waycross, I could hear one calling loudly & nonstop right over the phone!!
What vocal cords!!
HERMIT THRUSH: On 4/24 & 25 I saw one at my bird bath. I usually have one
that stays for the winter, but I think it has already left & this one is a
migrant. The tail color didn't seem to be as bright.
GRAY CATBIRD: they've been doing some interesting things lately in my
backyard. On 4/17 & 18 one kept repeatedly flying & clinging to the screen
over my bathroom window at different times during the day. I could hear the
noise of it coming to the window. It isn't flying into the window, just
coming to it & grabbing hold of the screen. There is a big Red Mulberry tree
next to it with ripening fruit but it has lots of branches to sit on. The
window has no reflection that I can tell. I didn't notice any bugs on the
window, as I often do for my other locations, but perhaps the bird ate it
just before I got there.
Today (4/25) I saw another Gray Catbird get upset at the birdbath. I always
have my hose coming through some trees & then draping down near the bath. My
father had left the hose touching on the edge when he finished filling it up
for me. A catbird came & stood along the rim. It would occasionally spread
its tail feathers. Then it would hop on the hose at different times, go back
to the rim, then back onto the hose, etc. Then stand nearby on the rim &
keep cocking its head towards the hose. I wonder if it somehow thought this
was a snake. I went out & moved the hose away so the bird could get a
bath/drink peacefully. It later returned to take a bath. Another one showed
up too & they had a series of short fights.
Laura S. Walker State Park, s. of Waycross, Ware Co.
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD: Nancy Boyne said she noted their return to the
park on 3/15. And on 4/21 Joe & Judy Wallace had one hover in their face &
then fight with another.
Okefenokee Swamp:
COMMON LOON: On 4/23 Sallie Gentry, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
Ranger, and others saw and heard one swimming in Seagrove Lake at the
Eastern Entrance to the refuge near Folkston, Charlton Co. from around 10
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This is a rare migrant for the swamp and was watched from
the Owl's Roost Tower that is in Chesser Prairie.
KING RAIL: On 4/23 Sallie Gentry & Helen Petre saw a bird in the "second
opening going out the boardwalk" in Chesser Prairie at the Eastern Entrance
to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near Folkston, Charlton Co. It
was sitting & calling from the top of a small shrub/tree ~10' high, then it
flew down into the shrubs of the swamp prairie (flooded grasslands). This
was seen after the above sighting. This species is a year-round, breeding
resident of the Okefenokee Swamp.
Take care.
Sincerely,
Sheila Willis
Native American-Naturalist Talks & Tours
Waycross, Ware Co., GA
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Subject: red cross-bills in Woodstock, GA
From: Sue Aughey <seaughey(AT)HOTMAIL.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 5:49pm
I have had 2 sightings red cross-bills coming to my bird bath. 4/13 there
was a mixed flock of 7 birds: 2 males, 3 females and two juveniles. They
came around 2:00 pm. and stayed for 20 minutes in the tres. Today, 4/25 I
had a male and female back in my water bath. sue
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Subject: cowbirds and the mafia
From: Clark Jones <jonesc(AT)WARNELL.UGA.EDU>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 4:58pm
In response to Tim Rose's observation..
For some interesting information on cowbird behavior check out this link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070305202649.htm
It is possible that the cowbirds were hanging around to check up on the status
of their eggs.
cheers,
Clark Jones
Athens, GA
Athens-Clarke county
USA
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Subject: Rose-breasted Grossbeak at feeder
From: Fred Rodriguez <fredsbooks(AT)YAHOO.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 9:21pm
This evening at about 7:15pm a pair of Rose-breasted Grossbeaks and a pair
of Cardinals shared the feeder. A new bird for our yard. Fred and
Rebecca Rodriguez, The Falls of Cherokee, Canton, GA
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Subject: Four Letter Codes
From: Georgann Schmalz <georgannschmalz(AT)ALLTEL.NET>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 10:23pm
That is a great spreadsheet for the banding codes, Steve. Thanks for
putting it out there.
I have a short list of the most common birds and their four letter banding
codes on my website that you all can download. It's nothing fancy, but will
get you started in the four letter code jargon.
Later,
Georgann
Georgann Schmalz
Ornithologist, Birding Adventures, Inc.
Dawsonville, GA Dawson County
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Subject: Piedmont NWR & E.L. Huie 4/25/08
From: Mark McShane <EAGLEEYED(AT)BELLSOUTH.NET>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 11:40pm
Hi All,
After joining Bob Sargent's awesome bird watching tour of Robins Air Force
Base in Warner-Robins this morning I decided to bird Piedmont NWR and the
E.L. Huie ponds after lunch and on the way home!
I first birded Allison Lake, and then the Little Rock Wildlife Drive. The
highlight (along with hearing at least 3 Northern Bobwhite and seeing
maybe two of them in the big open area across from the pond) was meeting
Bird Song - Identification Made Easy (1996 - ISBN 1-896219-11-X) author
Ernie Jardine (and friend) down from Canada there! I was able to get an
autographed copy of the book from Ernie!
If you are traveling east on Round Oak Juliette Road towards the Little
Rock Wildlife Drive there is a gravel road going north just before the
Wildlife Drive. About 1.9 miles north on this gravel road from Round Oak
Juliette Road there is a Red-cockaded Woodpecker colony on the right.
Here is where I had 4+ Bachman's Sparrow singing (at about 5 in the
afternoon) and sighted two of them in the scope singing perched at close
quarters, as well as sighting three Red-cockaded Woodpecker at this spot!
I had to leave the sparrows perched and singing because I couldn't stay to
watch them anymore!
There is a creek crossing the road to ford to get to the 1.9 mile mark.
It was flat and level enough, and shallow enough so that I had no problems
crossing it with my Camry (except that I did get stuck there on the way
back for a while watching an Acadian Flycather around the stream). I am
sure that the ford conditions and water level sometimes change for the
worse.
At the E.L. Huie ponds highlights were 20+ Least Sandpiper and an Orchard
Oriole!
Good Birding All!
Mark
Mark McShane
Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia
eagleeyed AT bellsouth.net
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Subject: kite and 3 terns
From: Larry Carlile <l.carlile259(AT)COMCAST.NET>
Date: 25 Apr 2008 10:34pm
On my drive home from Fort Stewart today I saw 3 Least Terns in the
cantonment area, the first I have noticed this season. Also on Ga Hwy 144
about a mile west of the Bryan - Liberty County line I saw 1 Swallow-tailed
Kite.
Larry Carlile
213 E 52nd St
Savannah, GA 31405
912-224-1796
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