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Subject: Eagle highway
From: whitehea(AT)INDIANA.EDU
Date: 1 Feb 2002 11:08am
I birded for a short time this morning at both Paynetown and Cutright.
Interesting conditions - 36 degrees with a very strong WNW wind
generating marvelous conditions to put raptors in the air. In a period
of 20 minutes at the marina at Paynetown I had 9 eagles go directly
overhead heading west. They originated in the vicinity of Middle Fork
(to the E), rode the wind and updrafts off of Shawnee Bluffs along the
ridges on the south side of the lake, came right over Paynetown, and
then some headed to the ridges on the S side of the lake, some rode
the ridges along the N shore. Of the eagles that went over my head
(all quite low, 8 were Bald Eagles and 1 was an imm Golden Eagle). I
saw an additional Bald Eagle over Middle Fork when I was at Cutright.
The highlights of the morning:
Common Merganser - 4
Common Goldeneye - 2
Bald Eagle - 9 (2 adults, 1 subadult, 2 juv., 2 BI, 2BII)
Golden Eagle - 1 (imm)
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Turkey Vulture - 8
Co. Grackle -
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Subject: Re: ADMIN: IN-BIRD will be moving to a new home
From: Bill Murphy <billmurphy8(AT)home.com>
Date: 1 Feb 2002 11:21am
Phil,
Try contacting www.orchard.org, the Orchard School here in
Indianapolis. They got a large grant to purchase computer
equipment for the sole purpose of using it for enviromental
matters. They're hosting the Amos W. Butler Audubon Society web
page, for example. Gave us 2 gigabytes of space, and they have
their own T-1 line.
I'd give you the contact's name, but it's at work, and I moved
yesterday and things are mostly in boxes.
Good luck, and thanks for sharing this information.
All the best,
--Bill Murphy, Castleton, Indianapolis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Kelly" <phil(AT)PJKELLY.NET>
To: <IN-BIRD(AT)LIST.AUDUBON.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:21 PM
Subject: [IN-BIRD] ADMIN: IN-BIRD will be moving to a new home
> Hello IN-BIRDers,
>
> The folks at National Audubon Society got a very nasty surprise
late last week.
>
> The company that currently provides them with listserv service
(the
> computers and software that make this list function) decided to
> unilaterally increase their prices for ALL of the lists that
NAS
> runs. This company raised their prices last year and NAS
absorbed the
> charges, which were $25 per month, per list. The new price
schedule that
> the company will be implementing on February 1 is incredible!
>
> From the NAS Listowner's notice:
> >>>>>>>>begin quote<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> "Effective FEBRUARY 1, 2002, the price for your service will
increase from
> $25/month per list to $50-200/month per list, depending on the
number of
> participants for each of your lists. The new pricing matrix is
as follows:
>
> Participants Per List
> 1-100 $50.00 Max. size 128KB, Maximum of 25 messages per day
>
> 101-200 $100.00 Max. size 128KB, Max. msg 25 per day
>
> 201-500 $200.00 Max. size 64KB, Max. msg 25 per day"
> >>>>>>>>>>end of quote<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> As you can see, IN-BIRD would now cost NAS $200 per month (we
have 396
> subscribers). Consequently NAS can't afford to continue to
provide this
> type of service and they have asked all listowners to find new
homes for
> all their lists. The timing is unfortunate, since NAS won't
even have a
> board meeting until March, so the department heads are forced
to act now,
> before their entire budgets are consumed.
>
> The NAS department heads have been trying to find alternatives
to help out
> the list owners and are also somewhat dismayed over what has
occurred. The
> person in charge of the budget that has been covering IN-BIRD
costs has
> contacted me several times over the past few days with
assistance in
> finding IN-BIRD a new home. She has also assured me that this
issue will
> come up at the NAS board meeting in March.
>
> I am pursuing a move of the list, INCLUDING ALL THE ARCHIVES to
a new
> home. Hopefully this will be accomplished with minimal of
interruption to
> each of you.
>
> Regardless, there will be a new set of email addresses to POST
and
> SUBSCRIBE, and a new URL to view the archives. I will try to
automatically
> re-subscribe each of you at the new location and will send out
a
> notification via this list when the new location has been
determined and is
> functional.
>
> Stay tuned for updates. Please contact me directly if you have
suggestions
> regarding this move.
>
> Good Birding!
>
> --
> Phil Kelly
> phil(AT)pjkelly.net Kokomo,
Indiana, USA
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Subject: Pine Creek Gamebird Habitat Area, se. Benton
County
From: "Dunning, Barny" <bdunning(AT)FNR.PURDUE.EDU>
Date: 1 Feb 2002 3:47pm
Kristin Bondo and I made a quick trip to Pine Creek to see if any =
waterfowl or hawks were there. We had a pretty good trip. Water was =
high and completely open, although temperatures and high winds made us =
freeze. We had several flocks of Lapland Longspurs along State Route 18 =
in western White and Benton counties. Highlights at the refuge:
Canada Goose 200
Greater White-fronted Goose 5
Mallard 35
Northern Pintail 1
Rough-legged Hawk 1 dark-phase
Fox Sparrow 1
American Tree Sparrow 5
Barny
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN 47907-1159
bdunning(AT)fnr.purdue.edu
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Subject: Sandhill Cranes near "The Burned Off" *
From: murray <ccmurray(AT)WICO.NET>
Date: 1 Feb 2002 6:09pm
Feb. 1, Montgomery Co., 650 N, between 150 E & 350 E
At 3:30 pm, 93 Sandhill Cranes feeding in a field on the north side of
the road, east of the windmill. About 4 pm they all lifted off and flew
into a field north of the pump house and beyond the tree line, out of
sight. Around 4:50, 20 more flew in from the south and landed in the
same field. These must be the early arrivals; I was here on Wednesday
and didn't see any, but it is possible that they were just not in sight.
Last year the numbers here were estimated at around 3,000, so it will be
interesting to see if there is a large drop off because so many
Sandhills never left Jasper-Pulaski.
At 4:30 pm the sky was filled with ducks and geese flying in. A large
number of them landed in the flooded field north of the drainage ditch
which is north of the road. Among those that were visible were:
Mallard
No. Pintail
Am. Wigeon
Although I didn't count the ducks, the Pintails surprisingly appeared to
outnumber the Mallards.
West of the windmill, north side of road: flock of Lapland Longspurs and
the usual Horned Larks.
For anyone driving to see the area, please glance at the road
occasionally. Because of all the rain the road is now a dike.
Clint Murray
Crawfordsville IN
* The field across from the windmill is the area that I referred to last
year as "The Burn." In the future I will refer to this field by the name
it has been known by for many years and so called by the locals, "The
Burned Off."
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Subject: Speed of a Peregrine Falcon in a dive
From: Ron Weiss <chipperwoods(AT)WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Date: 1 Feb 2002 8:52pm
Dear Inbirders
Did anyone else see the Animal Channel special this evening where some
fellows tried to clock the speed of a Peregrine Falcon in a stoop from a
hot air balloon at 10,000? It was quite an impressive display.
The sky divers left the balloon first with the lure, then the falcon was
released and caught up with them. The diver's terminal velocity was 158
mph, and they calculated that the Falcon had to exceed 180 mph to catch
up with them.
The video of the falcon braking its dive so it could slow down to match
their "slow" speed was impressive!
As far as I have been able to determine (since I receive frequent
inquiries to our web page about this issue) is that no one has clocked
the stoop speed in a definitive way. Maybe someone has, but I have not
come across it. The only radar value I have seen was 112 mph, and that
bird was thought to be loafing to gain control rather than speed.
Ron
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Subject: Jasper-Pulaski and lakefront
From: ZzEdPowers(AT)AOL.COM
Date: 1 Feb 2002 10:31pm
Jeff McCoy and I visited Jasper-Pulaski State Fish and Wildlife Area and a
few Lake Michigan lakefront sites today.
J-P: From the marsh observation tower we spotted six Tundra Swans; while we
were there, another flew in to join them. Jeff spotted Greater White-fronted
Geese there and at the crane observation tower, a total of about 30; all of
them were too far away and flying too fast for me to get on them.
Indiana Dunes State Park: nothing of interest at the Nature Center feeders.
Outside the park on State Park Road, east of the park entrance, Jeff's
Sreech-Owl call brought in several Black-capped Chickadees, a few
White-breasted Nuthatches, and six Pine Siskins, and an Eastern Screech-Owl
answered at about 1:00 PM CST.
Ogden Dunes, offshore: 30 Common Goldeneye, 20 Red-breasted Merganser, 2
Common Merganser.
Long Lake, in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore: four Bufflehead, 40 Common
Goldeneye.
Jeorse Park, East Chicago: 30 Common Goldeneye, two Common Merganser.
Ed Powers
zzedpowers(AT)aol.com
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