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11 May Update to Earlier Post [Canyon Wren ] 11 May Monroe County weekend birds [Cathy ] 11 May Re: LBDO, UPSA pics [Liz Day ] 11 May Greene Co. May Day count highlights [Mike Clarke ] 11 May Spring Count (Lake Co.) - Glaucous Gull, Clay-colored Sp., Moorhens [Michael Topp ] 11 May May Count - St. Joe County (Potato Creek) [JOHN CASSADY ] 11 May Greene Co. MDC - 5/10 [Jim Hengeveld ] 11 May Gibson Co. Pacific Loon - No? [Gary Bowman ] 11 May More Allen Co. May Day count [] 11 May Allen County May Day Count- May 10 [Rodger Rang ] 11 May Lk. Lemon - siskins, Surf Scoter [Jim Hengeveld ] 11 May Riddle Point 5/10 [Robert Kissel ] 11 May Re: Question about Wild Turkey in Indianapolis ["B.G. Sloan" ] 11 May Fort Harrison SP May 11 - Rain! [Don Gorney ] 11 May BIG MAY COUNT & NEW STATE RECORD [Canyon Wren ] 11 May Beehunter area ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 11 May Pacific Loon [Gary Bowman ] 11 May Dubois County May Day Count [Theresa Schwinghammer ] 11 May Muscatatuck NWR 100 species 10 MAY [Gary Dorman ] 10 May Griffy Lake, 5/10 - 3 FOYs ["B.G. Sloan" ] 10 May Re: Osprey in Mishawaka [Brian Miller ] 10 May Bev. Shores portion of May Count ["Kenneth J. Brock" ] 10 May Long-billed Dowitcher at Wakarusa [Dan Stoltzfus ] 10 May Dunes S.P. 5/10/08- Foredune Portion [Brad Bumgardner ] 10 May McCool Basin & Big May Day highlights LBDO, KEWA [John Kendall ] 10 May Laughing Gulls - Eagle Creek [Kirk Roth ] 10 May Re: Osprey in Mishawaka [Timothy Martin ] 10 May LBDO, UPSA pics [Ray Troyer ] 9 May Goose Pond- Willet [Greg Page ] 10 May Potato Creek/Kingsbury 5/9/08 [Jim Spier ] 9 May Starkey Park, Boone Co. [Roger and Michelle Hedge ] 9 May Clear Creek Trail, 5/9 - 48 species, 1 FOY ["B.G. Sloan" ] 9 May Eastern Marion County ["Mark C. Rhodes" ] 9 May Fox Island- May 9 AM [Rodger Rang ] 9 May Osprey in Mishawaka [Lindsay Klein ] 9 May Columbus area 5/9/2008 [Bill Moats Jr ] 9 May Red-winged Blackbird aggression ["B.G. Sloan" ] 9 May Vets Memorial Park Indianapolis [Tom & Bonnie ] 9 May Lebanon Sod Farm, Boone County [Larry Peavler ] 9 May Wrens have fledged [Terri Greene ] 9 May LAUGHING GULL/Lake Monroe 5/9 [Scott Evans ] 9 May Lk. Lemon -- 5/6 - 5/8 [Jim Hengeveld ] 9 May Long Beach Oven Bird [D Holmes ] 9 May Franke Park Golden-winged Warbler, Caspian Tern [REBECCA BROWN ] 9 May shorebirds at Celery Bog ["Michael L. P. Retter" ] 9 May Mount Comfort Airport, Hancock Co. - UPSA, BOBO, GRSP [Don Gorney ] 9 May SW Monroe Co Yard Birds [Terri Greene ] 9 May Fairfax ["Whitehead, Donald R." ] 8 May Kingsbury FWA Willets [Robert Huguenard ] 8 May Hillenbrand FWA grasslands May 7 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 8 May Goose Pond FWA Shorebirds May 7 [Lee Sterrenburg ] 8 May Whip-poor-will in Elkhart Co. [Dan Stoltzfus ] Subject: Update to Earlier Post From: Canyon Wren <canyonwren AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:07:01 -0500 Hi All, As I stated in my earlier post today, I asked Ken Brock for confirmation regarding Barred Owl records. Ken responded stating that the Owl Surveys done by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore were, indeed, single party counts. Therefore, my team's count this week-end will constitute a count in the top ten, but not a new state record. Even so, we were thrilled to have that many Barred Owls. Thanks, Ken, for clarifying the owl data for me. Good Birding! Lynea Lynea Hinchman Michigan City, Indiana Heart of the Indiana Dunes CanyonWrenatComcastdotnet "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived though its first material expression be destroyed. A vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again." William Beebe Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Monroe County weekend birds From: Cathy <cmeyer AT KIVA.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:03:40 -0400 I helped a group of 8 birders visiting form northern Indiana find birds in the area yesterday and today. Tomorrow they are meeting Lee Sterrenberg to see Goose Pond.Yesterday we had a beautiful day, in contrast to today's rain. I believe the group is up to about130 for their trip and they were happy to see, or at least hear, some of our local birds. I think their reactions make me reconsider some of the birds I take for granted here and appreciate them more. A few highlights: Sat. 5/10 Flatwoods Park - Bobwhite, 2 singing Willow Flycatchers, White-crowned Sparrows, nice variety of warblers in the woods Upper Woodall Rd. - 2 singing Grasshopper Sparrows (1 perched on a fence in full view), a dozen bobolinks in the grape vines, 2 Blue Grosbeak males (nice looks), Red-headed Woodpecker (far to the west calling loudly from the top of a big dead tree) Bryant's Creek Rd. - 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, lots of warblers - including Ovenbird, Worm-eating, Kentucky (good looks), Hooded, Blue-winged, Parula, Louisiana Waterthrush, Yellow, Yellow-throated, Cerulean, Redstart, Scarlet Tanager, Gray-cheeked Thrush Lake Griffy - White-eyed Vireos building a nest over the parking lot, Scarlet and Summer Tanagers, pr. Blue-winged Teal, more Sun. 5/11 Riddle Point - 3 Common Loons, D. C.Cormorant, Spotted Sandpiper, nice variety of warblers, including Blackpoll, Cape May, lots of Yellow-rumped, and Palm, Cliff Swallows on a wire Little Africa - Prothonotary, Yellow-throated, and Prairie Warblers, Northern Waterthrush Brummet's Creek Rd. - 5 Lesser Yellowlegs Stillwater - Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Northern Waterthrush. Least Flycatcher, Redstart Paynetown - Cattle Egret in the primitive campground (we watched it gobble up a big nightcrawler) Monroe dam- Ruddy Duck Fairfax - 2 Caspian Terns, 2 Forster's Terns, 2 Laughing Gulls in alternate plumage, 1 Herring Gull, Spotted Sandpiper Cathy Meyer Bloomington Cathy Meyer Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Re: LBDO, UPSA pics From: Liz Day <lizday44 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:44:06 -0700 > http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2344970620101565606kxywXG The wide pale edges to the back feathers cause me to wonder if perhaps this particular bird might be a short-billed. Any thoughts? Liz Day Indianapolis Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Greene Co. May Day count highlights From: Mike Clarke <redeyegravy AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:28:36 -0400 On Saturday, Jim Mitchell and I worked the Greene Co. side of the Greene-Sullivan State Forest for the Big May Day count. In the evening, we poached on other's areas in Goose Pond and Beehunter Marsh where we added most of the evening-species mentioned in Jim Hengeveld's report for our personal day-list. We finished the day with 133 species, 107 in our assigned area. Highlights included: 1 Common Loon, 5 Ring-necked Ducks, 2 Black-crowned Night Herons, 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 5 Barred Owls, 1 Common Nighthawk, 4 CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOWS, 8 Eastern Wood Pewee, 4 Veery, 12 Swainson's Thrush, 9 Wood Thrush, 24 warbler species (including 1 Golden-winged and 2 Pine), 4 Summer Tanagers, and 9 sparrow species (including 2 Grasshopper, 2 Savannah and 2 Swamp). -Mike Clarke and Jim Mitchell Bloomington Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Spring Count (Lake Co.) - Glaucous Gull, Clay-colored Sp., Moorhens From: Michael Topp <mtopp7927 AT AOL.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 20:59:28 -0400 I covered Parts of Lake County for the Spring Count - 5/10 Highlights were Glaucous Gull, Bald Eagle, Clay-colored Sparrow Moorhens and some tardy ducks. * Photos I will post later. Highlights: MILLER BEACH: 1-Common Loon 3-Horned Grebes 3-Red-breasted Mergansers 1-BALD EAGLE (Juv. bird feeding on the beach.) 1-Osprey 1-Peregrine Falcon 13-Spotted Sandpipers (Together at the breakwall) 8- Sanderlings 27-Dunlin (Including a flock of 24 flybys.) 1-GLAUCOUS GULL (Juv. bird ) * 5-Caspian Terns 1-Forster's Tern 1-Horned Lark 1-Brown Thrasher 1-Field Sparrow GARY (Area) : 1-GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Male) 2-Blue-winged Teal 2-N.PINTAILS (Pair) 1-N.SHOVELER (Male) 3-Hooded Mergansers 1-Great creasted F.C. 3-E.Kingbirds 5-Marsh Wrens 1-E.Bluebird 1-Wood Thrush 2-Swainson's Thrush 1-Veery 10-Palm Warblers 4-Yellow Warblers 3-Y.R.Warblers 3-C.Yellowthroats 1-Indigo Bunting 3-Swamp Sparrows 11-White-throated Sparrows 2-Savhanna Sparrows CLINE AVE. MARSH AREA - (HIGHLAND) 1-Pied-billed Grebe 29-D.C.Cormorants 58-G.B.Herons 6-Great Egrets 17-B.C.Nightherons 4-Green Herons 12-Wood Ducks 2-Blue-winged Teal 3-Hooded Mergansers 2-Turkey Vultures 1-Virgina Rail 6-Soras 7-COMMON MOORHENS (all were seen.) 1-Lesser Yellowlegs 5-Spotted Sandpipers 6-Solitary Sandpipers 1-Belted Kingfisher 4-Red-headed Woodpeckers 2-Red-bellied Woodpeckers 1-E.Phoebe 1-Great-creasted F.C. 2-E.Kingbirds 3-Warbling Vireos 2-R.E.Vireos 12-Marsh Wrens 1-Swainson's Thush 1-Blue-winged Warbler 2-Tennessee Warblers 2-Nashville Warblers 1-Northern Parula 9-Yellow Warblers 2-Magnolia Warblers 10-Y.R.Warblers 1-Black-throated Green Warbler 12-Palm Warblers 1-Black and White Warbler 1-A.Redstart 1-Ovenbird 2-N.Waterthrush 9-C.Yelowthroats 1-Wilson's Warbler 1-Indigo Bunting 2-E.Towhees 1-Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2-Chipping Sparrows 1-CLAY-COLORED SPARROW 1-Lincoln's Sparrow 5-Swamp Sparrows 11-White-throated Sparrows 9-White-crowned Sparrows 2-RUSTY BLACKBIRDS (Feeding on cracked corn in my yard.) 5-Baltimore Orioles (At my feeder) 2- Monk Parakeets (Cline Ave. nest) My wife had 5 at the Post office site. Michael Topp Highland IN. Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: May Count - St. Joe County (Potato Creek) From: JOHN CASSADY <jcassady AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 17:07:52 -0600 Wendy and Kelly Cassady once again joined me for our annual May Count at Potato Creek. Late migration was evident - Yellow-rumpeds and Palms were still around in numbers, but few other warblers, and almost no flycatchers (it has been years since we have missed Willow). However it was a beautiful day to bird, and we did have some nice highlights - including: BROAD-WINGED HAWK, PINE WARBLER (female on the ground!), YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, FORSTER'S TERN, and our "bird of the day" - BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. 35 Canada Goose 3 Mute Swan 11 Mallard 5 Wild Turkey 1 Pied-billed Grebe 8 Double-crested Cormorant 3 Great Blue Heron 1 Green Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Osprey 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Sandhill Crane 1 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 American Woodcock 1 Ring-billed Gull 4 Forster's Tern 4 Rock Pigeon 1 Mourning Dove 1 Black-billed Cuckoo 1 Barred Owl 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Acadian Flycatcher 4 Least Flycatcher 2 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 Eastern Kingbird 9 White-eyed Vireo 10 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 5 Warbling Vireo 7 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 15 American Crow 11 Tree Swallow 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 8 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 10 House Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 13 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Eastern Bluebird 5 Veery 5 Swainson's Thrush 7 Wood Thrush 18 American Robin 27 Gray Catbird 1 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 6 Blue-winged Warbler 4 Tennessee Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler 46 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Magnolia Warbler 17 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Black-throated Green Warbler 3 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Pine Warbler 9 Palm Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 2 American Redstart 7 Ovenbird 6 Northern Waterthrush 1 Louisiana Waterthrush 24 Common Yellowthroat 5 Hooded Warbler 2 Yellow-breasted Chat 5 Scarlet Tanager 12 Eastern Towhee 6 Chipping Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 14 Song Sparrow 3 Swamp Sparrow 13 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 29 Northern Cardinal 12 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 6 Indigo Bunting 38 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 11 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Orchard Oriole 17 Baltimore Oriole 2 House Finch 16 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow Total species reported: 100 Wendy, John & Kelly Cassady jcassady AT verizon.net To view our gallery of "digiscoped" bird photos, go to the following link: http://www.jkcassady.com Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Greene Co. MDC - 5/10 From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 17:54:28 -0400 Susan & I participated in the Greene Co. May Day Count yesterday. We spent the majority of the day in Hillenbrand FWA in the northwest section of the county, the first time we had birded this area. After Hillenbrand, we covered the Linton Conservation Club (no. of Linton) before ending up in the Goose Pond area, where we looked for birds that were seen by Lee Sterrenburg's group, by Mike Clarke & Jim Mitchell, by Don Whitehead's group, and by the group of Stephen Nawrocki, Roger Sweets, Ryan Sanderson, and Ryan Hamilton. We finished the day with 137 species, 111 of those in "our" area. Highlights in our area included 2 Hooded Mergansers, 2 Ospreys, Virginia Rail, Sora, 12 Bell's Vireos, 3 Sedge Wrens, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, good numbers of the expected thrush species, 22 warbler species, 27 Henslow's Sparrows, and 2 Pine Siskins. At Goose Pond, we added both bitterns, BC Night-Heron, Great Egret, King Rail, Semi. Plover, BN Stilt, Dunlin, WESTERN SANDPIPER (a beautiful bird in alt. plumage), Least Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, SB Dowitcher, 2 Wilson's Phalaropes, and Black Tern. The following list includes the count of birds from our area, the first number for Hillenbrand birds and then additions from outside of that FWA. -Canada Goose - 9 + 12 -Hooded Merganser - 2 -Wild Turkey - 5 -No. Bobwhite - 16 -Green Heron - 1 -Gr. Blue Heron - 2 -Turkey Vulture - 17 + 4 -Osprey - 2 -Cooper's Hawk - 1 -Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 -Red-t. Hawk - 3 + 4 -Virginia Rail - 1 -Sora - 2 -Killdeer - 3 + 4 -Gr. Yellowlegs - 1 -Am. Woodcock - 4 -Mourning Dove - 17 + 10 -Gr. Horned Owl - 2 -Barred Owl - 4 + 1 -Com. Nighthawk - 1 -Whip-poor-will - 3 -Chimney Swift - 0 + 2 (+ 25 in Linton) -Ruby-thr. Hummingbird - 0 + 2 -Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 + 1 -Red-bel. Woodpecker - 9 + 5 -Downy Woodpecker - 2 + 1 -Pileated Woodpecker - 4 -E. Wood-Pewee - 5 -Acadian Flycatcher - 3 -Least Flycatcher - 1 -E. Phoebe - 6 + 1 -Gr. Crested Flycatcher - 9 + 3 -E. Kingbird - 10 + 3 -White-e. Vireo - 22 + 11 -Yellow-thr. Vireo - 3 + 1 -Bell's Vireo - 12 -Blue-headed Vireo - 1 -Red-e. Vireo - 28 + 9 -Warbling Vireo - 4 + 1 -Blue Jay - 6 + 5 -Am. Crow - 22 + 4 -Tree Swallow - 4 -Purple Martin - 6 + 2 -Cliff Swallow - 1 -No. Rough-w. Swallow - 4 + 2 -Barn Swallow - 4 + 7 -Car. Chickadee - 8 -Tufted Titmouse - 24 + 4 -White-br. Nuthatch - 5 + 1 -House Wren - 8 + 2 -Carolina Wren - 16 + 10 -Sedge Wren - 3 -Ruby-cr. Kinglet - 1 -Blue-gr. Gnatcatcher - 25 + 5 -E. Bluebird - 2 + 2 -Wood Thrush - 15 + 5 -Veery - 7 + 2 -Gray-ch. Thrush - 3 -Swainson's Thrush - 22 + 6 -Am. Robin - 8 + 30 -Gray Catbird - 16 + 5 -No. Mockingbird - 1 + 1 -Brown Thrasher - 6 + 3 -Eur. Starling - 6 + 110 -Prothonotary Warbler - 4 -Tennessee Warbler - 15 -Nashville Warbler - 1 -No. Parula - 5 + 2 -Chestnut-s. Warbler - 3 -Magnolia Warbler - 2 -Yellow-rumped Warbler - 34 + 3 -Blackburnian Warbler - 0 + 1 -Black-thr. Green Warbler - 3 -Yellow-thr. Warbler - 1 -Prairie Warbler - 8 + 4 -Pine Warbler - 1 -Palm Warbler - 10 + 4 -Yellow Warbler - 11 + 4 -Kentucky Warbler - 19 + 1 -Canada Warbler - 1 -Ovenbird - 6 -Louisiana Waterthrush - 0 + 1 -Northern Waterthrush - 2 -Com. Yellowthroat - 76 + 9 -Yellow-br. Chat - 20 + 3 -Am. Redstart - 11 -Summer Tanager - 8 + 1 -Scarlet Tanager - 9 + 1 -E. Towhee - 21 + 3 -Field Sparrow - 34 + 9 -Chipping Sparrow - 9 + 2 -Henslow's Sparrow - 27 -Song Sparrow 10 + 11 -White-thr. Sparrow - 5 -White-cr. Sparrow - 14 -Rose-br. Grosbeak - 10 + 4 -No. Cardinal - 42 + 10 -Dickcissel - 2 -Blue Grosbeak - 7 + 5 -Indigo Bunting - 72 + 17 -Bobolink - 7 -E. Meadowlark - 10 + 5 -Red-w. Blackbird - 57 + 58 -Com. Grackle - 5 + 20 -Brown-h. Cowbird - 22 + 2 -Orchard Oriole - 10 -Baltimore Oriole - 16 + 4 -Pine Siskin - 0 + 2 -Am. Goldfinch - 16 + 16 -House Sparrow - 6 + 15 Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Gibson Co. Pacific Loon - No? From: Gary Bowman <otus44 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:31:41 -0400 We checked the strip mine pit where the loon was seen yesterday and this morning. The wind was howling and the rain was coming down so I am not surprised that we didn't see the loon. It was probably trying to stay out of the wind along the edge to the pit somewhere. This is a large, narrow, two section pit possibly 1/2 mile or more long so it could have been hidden from view. I can't imagine that the bird has left in these weather conditions. If you try for it, the pit is about 2 miles east of Mackey in the southeast corner of Gibson County. Go east from the blinker light at SR57 on CR700S nearly two miles to a cemetery on the north side of the road at a jog in the road. Continue a little farther to a stop sign at an intersection and then coninue a short distance to the pit. It is on the right side of the road. Good luck. Gary Bowman Vincennes Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: More Allen Co. May Day count From: Jhawillet AT AOL.COM Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 14:20:02 EDT Ryan Smith and I birded Fox Island for the Allen Co. May Day count yesterday morning. Doug Rood and Marisa Windell joined us for afternoon in northwest Allen Co., and I quickly surveyed the Woodburn sewage ponds in the evening. Our party total for the day was 115 species, but there was nothing unexpected among them. We had 78 species at Fox Island, which is decidedly subpar for a May Day count, including 21 warblers. New for the year was Philadelphia Vireo. Ed and Cynthia Powers, a second Fox Is. party for the morning, added several additional species in the park, including the first Blackpoll Warbler of the year. Although a few migrant species were in fair numbers, most were quite low. Missed entirely at Fox Is. were Blue-headed and Yellow-throated Vireos, Veery, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Black and White Warbler, and Lincoln's Sparrow. Some other species--many flycatchers including E. Wood Pewee, both cuckoos, Canada, Mourning, and Connecticut Warblers--have not yet been reported in northeast Indiana in this late spring migration. In the afternoon we found a few shorebirds--several Spotted Sandpipers, 1 Greater and 9 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Least Sandpipers, 2 Dunlin, 3 Wilson's Snipe, but again the shorebird variety has not reached us yet. New for the year was Bobolink, present in our assigned area in one of the three locations where they have been found in the recent past. They are just starting to come in. I had assumed that there were no late-lingering ducks around, but we found Blue-winged and Green-winged Teal, a pair of Ring-necked Ducks, 4 Lesser Scaup, and a pair of Ruddy Ducks in one location. A glorious day to be out and a good party total in spite of the big gaps on our list. Jim Haw **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Allen County May Day Count- May 10 From: Rodger Rang <rrang AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 13:00:21 -0400 Jerry Brown, Sandy Schacht, Sister Mary Joan and I participated in Saturday's Big May Day Count, covering the north central section of Allen County from Franke Park northward into the Cedar Creek area. We tallied 99 species- average at best- in mostly low numbers, with no lingering waterfowl, very few shorebirds, virtually no grassland species, and no new arrivals. We found only 21 warblers, the best probably being the continuing male Golden-winged (singing) at Franke and two Louisiana Waterthrushes (singing) at Bicentennial Woods and off Chapman Road. We did have a few lingering early migrants: one each of Red-breasted Nuthatch, Winter Wren, and Purple Finch (singing) at Franke, but overall, the list was fairly unexciting. Best highlight was the weather- mostly sunny with a refreshing light north breeze, a stark contrast to this morning's dark skies and consistent rain. I'm happy to stay inside today. Rodger Rang Fort Wayne Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Lk. Lemon - siskins, Surf Scoter From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 12:19:24 -0400 There are currently 24 PINE SISKINs at our feeders. A fem/imm SURF SCOTER was at the east end of the lake at ~11 am. There are 2 E. WOOD-PEWEES in our yard. ........Jim & Susan ******************** Jim & Susan Hengeveld East Lake Lemon Observatory Southshore Drive Unionville, IN 47468 Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Riddle Point 5/10 From: Robert Kissel <bluesdoc AT BLUEMARBLE.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 11:53:55 -0400 In walking my dogs early evening at Riddle Point (w end of Lake Lemon), I had a Spotted Sandpiper land on a log near the camp. Otherwise, Riddle Point and the lake seemed pretty quiet, beyond 3 Common Loons mid-lake and the expected Canada Geese. Bluebirds were feeding young at the box at the camp (prior years occupied by Tree Swallows). Bob Kissel NE Monroe County Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Re: Question about Wild Turkey in Indianapolis From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 08:46:35 -0700   I wanted to thank Steve Backs for taking the time to address the "urban wild turkey" issue. It's always good to hear from the experts.   Steve mentions two potential reasons for the presence of tukeys in urban areas:   1. They may be released "pen-raised" turkeys that look like wild turkeys. 2. With urban sprawl, our communities are moving into areas that were once more rural and wooded. I'd like to offer another potential reason: there are a heck of a lot more wild turkeys than there used to be. I saw one estimate that said there were only 1300 wild turkeys in Indiana as recently as 1969. Turkey numbers have increased about a hundredfold since then. In one document published by the Purdue extension service they estimated that there 125,000 turkeys in Indiana in 2005. These turkeys have to have someplace to go, and in some cases they might be slowly expanding their territories into urban/suburban areas, much as was the case with whitetailed deer. Bernie Sloan Bloomington --- On Thu, 5/8/08, Castrale, John wrote: From: Castrale, John Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Question about Wild Turkey in Indianapolis To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008, 10:10 AM Steve Backs asked me to post this to IN-Bird. John Castrale I apologize for not responding sooner to your request about wild turkeys around urban areas in Indiana but things have been a little hectic around here. The whole issue of urban "wild" turkeys is something wild turkeys biologists are a little perplexed in addressing. Unfortunately, none of the scenarios is good for true wild turkeys nor those folks who appreciate seeing wild critters. First, several urban areas around the state have a chronic history of releases of "pen-reared" turkeys that are the wild looking type. Examples: Carmel area, Greenwood, Geist Reservoir, several communities in NC Indiana. By experience we are often suspect of the origin of "wild" turkeys that show up in some urban settings. In some cases, these birds may have been hatched from real wild turkey eggs, that were illegally removed from wild nests under the perception the nest had been abandoned and these were hatched in an incubator, the hatched chicks become imprinted to humans and their habitations. Once the birds begin to get some size and become a problem to keep the folks turn them lose. Please note all the associated activities of this latter scenario are illegal. Second, as urban sprawl has moved into areas that were once more rural and wooded we have seen a greater frequency of wild turkeys becoming more acclimated to humans. Generally, backyard bird feeders become the mechanism for this acclimation during periods of winter stress when birds lose some of the inherent wildness because of their need to find food resources. Each subsequent generation of birds who frequent these feeding sources becomes more acclimated. Before you know you have semi-domesticated wild birds. Finally, we did make one wild turkey release at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis against our biological recommendations. The question was not so much will they survive but what if they survive. We are not sure of the true status of these birds because we know we have had some subsequent releases of pen-reared birds in the general area as well. From a biological perspective, none of the situations discussed above is good for the long term future of true wild turkey flocks in Indiana because of potential disease concerns from contact with contaminated fowl, genetic pollution, and the unfortunate nuisance complaints that eventually occur. It does take very long for a turkey walking on the roof of a car to cause several hundred dollars of scratching damage, roosting on antennas, satellite dishes, and gutters along with accumulated feces around homes and lawn furniture, flogged windows or humans especially children, scratched up flower gardens or vegetable gardens, broken car windshields, etc before the perception of natural beauty goes to beast! Bottom-line, wild turkey biologists strongly discourage any feeding of any wild turkeys and consider any turkeys in an urban setting to be of either suspect origin and potentially contaminated as carriers of diseases that pose a potential threat to true wild turkey flocks. When asked to address the nuisance complaints regarding such turkeys, trap and transplanting such birds to someplace else is not an option for primarily the reasons discussed. Steven E. Backs Wildlife Research Biologist Wild Turkey Project Leader -----Original Message----- From: Castrale, John Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:28 AM To: Backs, Steve Subject: FW: [IN-BIRD-L] Question about Wild Turkey in Indianapolis fyi -----Original Message----- From: Bird discussion list for Indiana [mailto:IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:21 PM To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: [IN-BIRD-L] Question about Wild Turkey in Indianapolis Ellie Baker asked: "Has anyone else seen a turkey in the city [Indianapolis]? We do live on Little Crooked Creek, so it could have come via that corridor. But it does not make much sense." I checked the Christmas Bird Counts (Indianapolis and Indianapolis NW) since about 1990. There were Wild Turkeys reported in just one count (1999-2000), and even then only two birds. And I couldn't find any sightings in the IN-BIRD-L archives. So it looks like they aren't common in Indy. But urban Wild Turkeys aren't unheard of. When I was observing a flock of turkeys in my old Urbana, IL neighborhood I did a lot of background reading and found quite a few examples. Several Chicago suburbs had turkeys, as did Boston, Pittsburgh, Hartford CT, and Minneapolis. Turkeys have even been spotted in Manhattan! Bernie Sloan Bloomington Eleanor Baker wrote: About 10 minutes ago, a neighbor called to report a very large, irredescient bird strolling in her back yead. I rushed down and indeed it was a male turkey. Location: North Willow Park at Brewster and Cinnebar, one block south of Tulane (which goes into College Park). About 1/2 mile north of 86th Street. Has anyone else seen a turkey in the city? We do live on Little Crooked Creek, so it could have come via that corridor. But it does not make much sense. Ellie Baker Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Fort Harrison SP May 11 - Rain! From: Don Gorney <dongorney AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 08:37:43 -0700 The most amazing sighting on May 11 at Fort Harrison State Park, Indianapolis, was a birdwatcher for the bird hike despite the downpour. The regulars all stayed home but one high school student came out for the hike. Since there was heavy rain at 8am I delayed the hike an hour so we birded in the drizzle and moderate rain. Only 56 species were found. Seven warbler species, a few flycatchers, and one cuckoo were the highlights. The entire list: Canada Goose 29 Mallard 8 Great Blue Heron 10 Cooper's Hawk 1 Killdeer 3 Mourning Dove 6 Cuckoo sp 1 seen in flight as I got out of my car Chimney Swift 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 2 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6 Barn Swallow 6 Carolina Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 7 Swainson's Thrush 1 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 32 Gray Catbird 5 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 17 Cedar Waxwing 2 Tennessee Warbler 3 Nashville Warbler 2 Northern Parula 1 Yellow Warbler 6 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 4 Wilson's Warbler 1 Summer Tanager 1 Scarlet Tanager 2 Chipping Sparrow 9 Field Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 5 White-crowned Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 11 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 7 Red-winged Blackbird 8 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 7 Brown-headed Cowbird 20 Orchard Oriole 3 Baltimore Oriole 5 American Goldfinch 12 House Sparrow 2 A bird hike will be held each Sunday in May at Fort Harrison. Meet at 8am at Delaware Lake parking lot. Don Gorney Indianapolis, IN dongorney AT yahoo.com www.dongorney.com Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: BIG MAY COUNT & NEW STATE RECORD From: Canyon Wren <canyonwren AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 09:36:42 -0500 Hi Birders, While I won't have time to report all of my sightings until later today or Monday (due to Mother's Day activities), there is one record that worthy of SPECIAL MENTION. BARRED OWLS: While I seek confirmation of this record from Dr. Kenneth J. Brock, it appears that a new state record was set. My team, comprised of Dr. Jack Swelstad, Dr. Jason Swelstad and myself, were fortunate enough to have observed a new STATE HIGH SINGLE PARTY SPRING COUNT for Barred Owls. This is based upon data published in "Brock's Birds of Indiana." Our tally of Barred Owls for the day was SEVEN. If I have intrepreted the data in "Brock's Birds of Indiana" correctly, the previous high spring single party count was six. These owls were all observed in Porter County; four in Indiana Dunes State Park and three in the Heron Rookery unit of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. My team is thrilled with this record. OTHER BIG MAY HIGHLIGHTS: We had a Turkey flush from within four feet of us in the Heron Rookery. This is a first for this species in that location. An Osprey was an exciting addition to our Big May Count list. Both it and a Common Loon were observed by Jack and Jason from the foot bridge near Wilson Shelter in the state park while I was conveniently back at the porta-pot near the Wilson Shelter parking lot. Our total species for the day was in the 100 species range. We had 24 warbler species for the count; 5 vireo species missing Philly; 4 flycatcher species missing, among others, Eastern Wood-Pewee which may not have arrived this far north yet. We delighted to watch a mother Wood Duck with 14 chicks. Another welcome speices: three Hooded Mergs, at least one was a female that flew in low over the footbridge. A singleton Red-breasted Nuthatch put in an appearance as we finished our Trails 2-10 loop back at Wilson Shelter. We added a second Pine Warbler to the state park tally when we heard both the one counted by Ken Brock near the former Green Tower site and a second one from across the street. We were also successful in observing the Yellow-throated Warbler in the Heron Rookery, the only reliable place for this species in the entire Dunes area. That's about it for now. An update will follow later. Happy Mother's Day and Good Birding! Lynea Lynea Hinchman Michigan City, Indiana Heart of the Indiana Dunes CanyonWrenatComcastdotnet "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived though its first material expression be destroyed. A vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again." William Beebe Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Beehunter area From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 10:17:09 -0400 Yesterday John Eakin, Betsy, and I were one team as part of the Greene Co Big May Count - we worked Beehunter and areas E to the White River and S to Lyons - started at Beehunter at 6:00 AM (very foggy then) and finished at 4 PM - we recorded 106 species for the day. The highlights were: Am. Wigeon - 1 No. Shoveler - 3 Hooded Merganser - 1 Wild Turkey - 1 No. Bobwhite - 23 Am. Bittern - 1 Great Egret - 4 Green Heron - 1 Black-cr. Night-heron - 1 Bald Eagle - 1 No. Harrier - 1 Red-sh. Hawk - 1 Peregrine Falcon - 1 King Rail - 2 Va. Rail - 4 Sora - 6 Solitary Sandpiper - 2 Spotted Sandpiper - 2 Greater Yellowlegs - 8 Lesser Yellowlegs - 42 Least Sandpiper - 4 Wilson's Snipe - 1 Willow Flycatcher - 4 Bell's Vireo - 3 Sedge Wren - 2 Marsh Wren - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Cape May Warbler - 1 Wilson's Warbler - 1 No. Waterthrush - 4 Savannah Sparrow - 7 Grasshopper Sparrow - 1 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Dickcissel - 34 Bobolink - 120 (all in one field complex along 750 between 100S and Baseline Rd) Don Whitehead Bloomington whitehea AT indiana.edu Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Pacific Loon From: Gary Bowman <otus44 AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 10:02:51 -0400 Ben Fritz found yesterday and Chuck Mills confirmed this morning a basic plumage Pacific Loon in far southeast Gibson County. The bird was seen east of Mackey off the Mackey-Spurgeon Rd. Go east from Mackey to a cemetery on the north side of the road. Continue to the first strip mine pit on the right (south) side of the road. Gary Bowman Vincennes Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Dubois County May Day Count From: Theresa Schwinghammer <tatms AT PSCI.NET> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 09:10:44 -0400 Hello Everyone, Russ Mumford and I did the May Day count yesterday for Dubois County. This was our 13th year doing the count together. We missed one year since I have started taking more birding trips. We had a great time birding, which we always do, and ended up with a nice total of 120 species. It could have been a record breaking count if all of the species that we had seen on Friday would have still been present on Saturday, but isn't that the way it always seems to go? Sometimes I think birding the day before a count is only torturing myself. However, I would not have missed birding the day before for nothing!! We witnessed some great bird movement and got a couple of nice bird records for the county! Russ, now in his 80's, me in my 40's, we DO make a great team! The laughs are endless as well as the education! There is never a dull moment! Theresia Schwinghammer tatms AT psci.net Dubois County Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Muscatatuck NWR 100 species 10 MAY From: Gary Dorman <cowboybirder AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 04:08:04 -0700 Becky and I along with my parents spent a wonderful day birding the refuge. Heavy fog early. Temps. 48-68. Overall a delightful day to be out. * - denotes probably undercounted Canada Goose - 74 Wood Duck - 28 including 2 broods of 19 young total Blue-winged Teal - 2 Lesser Scaup - 1 male on M4 actively feeding, apparently healthy Wild Turkey - 9 Great Blue Heron - 14* Great Egret - 1 Green Heron - 2 Turkey Vulture - 10 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 American Coot - 1 Killdeer - 1 American Woodcock - 2 peenting approx. 4:45AM Rock Pigeon - 1 Mourning Dove - 8 Great Horned Owl - 1 calling 4:39AM Common Nighthawk - 1 Chimney Swift - 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Woodpeckers Red-headed - 3 Red-bellied - 2 Downy - 3 Hairy - 1 Northern Fkicker - 1 Pileated - 4 Eastern Wood -Pewee - 1 Least Flycatcher - 5 Eastern Phoebe - 7 Great-crested Flycatcher - 4 Eastern Kingbird - 5 Vireos White-eyed - 21* Yellow-throated - 2 Blue-headed - 1 Warbling - 5 Red-eyed - 22 Blue Jay - 5 American Crow - 5 Tree Swallow - 49 Barn Swallow - 3 Carolina Chickadee - 4 Tufted Titmouse - 10 White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Carolina Wren - 8 House Wren - 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 Eastern Bluebird - 3 Swainson's Thrush - 4 Hermit Thrush - 1 Wood Thrush - 21 American Robin - 10 Gray Catbird - 39* Brown Thrasher - 4 Eiropean Starling - 13 Cedar Waxwing - 21 in 3 flocks Warblers Blue-winged - 1 Nashville - 4 Northern Parula - 4 Yellow - 38* Chestnut-sided - 1 Magnolia - 4 Black-throated Blue - 1 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) - 4 Black-throated Green - 2 Blackburnian - 1 Prairie - 2 Palm - 5 Black-and-white - 4 American Redstart - 10 Prothonotary - 9 Ovenbird - 1 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Kentucky - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 40* Hooded -1 Bob Thompson's bird walk group saw another bird for a total of 2 Yellow-breasted Chat - 11 Summer Tanager - 4 Scarlet Tanager - 3 Eastern Towhee - 12* Sparrows Chipping - 1 Field - 25* Henslow's - 2 Song - 6 Lincoln's - 1 Swamp - 2 White-throated - 18 White-crowned - 3 Northern Cardinal - 36* Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 Indigo Bunting - 45* Red-winged Blackbird - 36 Eastern Meadowlark - 1 Common Grackle - 8 Brown-headed Cowbird - 12* Orchard Oriole - 5 Baltimore Oriole - 12 House Finch - 1 American Goldfinch - 22 House Sparrow - 1 3 houses from refuge near west entrance Gary Dorman II New Albany, Floyd Co.,IN --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Griffy Lake, 5/10 - 3 FOYs From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 16:30:59 -0700 Spent a little time at Griffy Lake this afternoon. Very nice day!! I had three first-of-year birds while I was there: * Hermit Thrush * Gray-cheeked Thrush * Acadian Flycatcher That makes 137 species for me for Monroe County for 2008. In addition to birds, I spotted a Rough Green Snake, which is an Indiana "species of concern" and is supposed to be uncommon in Indiana. First time I'd ever seen one! Bernie Sloan Bloomington ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Re: Osprey in Mishawaka From: Brian Miller <vireo AT MICHIANA.ORG> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:14:13 -0400 There is an active Osprey nesting platform at St. Mary's College. The platform can be observed from across the St. Joe River, near the intersection of Riverside Dr. and Lathrop. Two new platforms have been constructed at St. Patrick's County Park and on the golf course at South Bend Country Club, but I do not know if any Ospreys have been observed at these sites this spring. Potato Creek State Park also has two platforms, at opposite ends of Lake Worster and both have been productive for several years. Brian Miller South Bend -----Original Message----- From: Bird discussion list for Indiana [mailto:IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU]On Behalf Of Timothy Martin Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:12 AM To: IN-BIRD-L AT LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: [IN-BIRD-L] Osprey in Mishawaka I was watching the Notre Dame Baseball team last night and an osprey flew right over the field. Wonder if it was the same one? This is the fist time I have seen an osprey in this area. This probably means if I would have been in my yard and looked up at the right time, I would now have an osprey on my yard list! Tim Martin On May 9, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Lindsay Klein wrote: > I was down at Merrifield Park in Mishawaka this afternoon (Fri 5/9) > around 5 > PM when I saw an Osprey fly over, following the river headed north/ > east. I > am not sure if this is a common sighting, but I have never seen one > in the > area before. It was awesome! Anyone else seen any? > > Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives > & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1418 - Release Date: 5/6/2008 5:17 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1418 - Release Date: 5/6/2008 5:17 PM Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Bev. Shores portion of May Count From: "Kenneth J. Brock" <kj.brock AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 17:32:05 -0500 Today (Saturday 10 May 08) Jeff McCoy and I covered Beverly Shores, plus a few other stops, on the Indiana May Count. After some owling and railing (avian in nature) we conducted a brief lakewatch at the Dunes SP green tower site. There was almost no longshore flight. The day¹s noteworthy observations included two scoter species, Least Bittern, Broad-winged Hawk, both cuckoos, and 25 warblers. HIGHLIGHTS DUNES S.P. Lakewatch (We were joined by Brad Bumgardner) WHITE-WINGED SCOTER (2- swimming off shore) Double-crested Cormorants (89- in two large flocks) Our best bird came as we were leaving the park. Jeff noted a cuckoo flying over as we drove onto U.S. 12. As it landed in a nearby tree we quickly stopped and ticked off BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. Pine Warbler (1- on territory) BEVERLY SHORES (Jeff and I were mostly in separate parties ) SURF SCOTER (9- a flock that contained 4 males) Common Loon (4) Horned Grebe (1- off the ³L²) LEAST BITTERN (1- Bev. Dr. near Montana St) BROAD-WINGED HAWK (1- we rarely get this on on the may count) Virginia Rail (11) Sora (13) YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO (1) Barred Owl (1) Least Flycatcher (5) Great-crested Flycatcher (5) White-eyed Vireo (1) Blue-headed Vireo (3) Yellow-throated Vireo (14) Warbling Vireo (1) Red-eyed Vireo (4) Red-breasted Nuthatch (1) Sedge Wren (1) Marsh Wren (1) Gray-cheeked Thrush (1) Blue-winged Warbler (6) Golden-winged Warbler (4) Orange-crowned Warbler (2) Tennessee Warbler (7) Nashville Warbler (22) Northern Parula (5) Yellow Warbler (96) Chestnut-sided Warbler (5) Magnolia Warbler (6) Cape May Warbler (6) Black-throated Blue Warbler (1 male) Yellow-rumped Warbler (74) Black-throated Green Warbler (7) Blackburnian Warbler (4) Prairie Warbler (1) Palm Warbler (14) Bay-breasted Warbler (1 male) Cerulean Warbler (1) Black and white Warbler (6) American Redstart (17) Prothonotary Warbler (1) Ovenbird (11) N. Waterthrush (17) Com. Yellowthroat (52) Scarlet Tanager (2) Lincoln¹s Sparrow (2) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (6) Indigo Bunting (6) Purple Finch (1) PORT OF INDIANA Double-crested Cormorant (30) Black-crowned Night-Heron (1 ad) We also visited McCool Basin in late afternoon, but were unable to improve on John Kendall¹s list. Ken Brock Chesterton, IN Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Long-billed Dowitcher at Wakarusa From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 18:19:59 EDT Dr. Dan Kraght brought some staff persons from his medical clinic to the Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Facility as part of their annual birding outing. I met them there and we spent some time studying a few interesting birds there. Following is a report on our findings: Location: Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Facili Observation date: 5/9/08 Notes: The Dowitcher allowed us to examine it carefully. The rufous neck and sides had dark rufous streaking and the scapulars were dark centered with some rufous spots and with feather edges that were white. It was first seen on the grass bank and then it moved down to the bit of mud at the edge of the water. Lymen Hugg was with us and photographed it. I then called Leland Shaum who got good photos and felt they confirm the ID as Long-billed Dowitcher. Howard Kauffman came with him and also ID'd it as a Long-billed Dowitcher rather than a Short-billed Dowitcher. The Gray-cheeked Thrush also was patient and was photographed. Number of species: 40 Canada Goose 50 Mute Swan 2 Blue-winged Teal 2 Ruddy Duck 1 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 2 Spotted Sandpiper 14 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Long-billed Dowitcher 1 ( first for the site) Ring-billed Gull 260 Many incubating eggs. I did not disturb them to count eggs. Black Tern 1 Chimney Swift 7 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Purple Martin 15 Tree Swallow 20 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4 Barn Swallow 10 House Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 (another first for the site perched just outside the fence) American Robin 12 Gray Catbird 2 Brown Thrasher 1 Yellow Warbler 6 Yellow-rumped Warbler 12 Palm Warbler 2 Savannah Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 5 White-throated Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Red-winged Blackbird 14 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 5 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(_http://ebird.org_ (http://ebird.org) ) Dan Stoltzfus Goshen Elkhart County **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Dunes S.P. 5/10/08- Foredune Portion From: Brad Bumgardner <bumgbj01 AT HOTMAIL.COM> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 17:18:25 -0500 Greetings, Today I covered the high dunes of Trail 9 from Beach House Blowout, east to Big Blowout, south through the Pinery, back to the Nature Center, then sections of Trails 4, 7, and 8 while doing Mt. Tom and back. Roughly 5 miles of rugged dune walking. Times (4am-11:45am; 2pm-3:15pm). I was rewarded with 99 species for the day (missed House Sparrow!). It did have the feel of early migration, with yellow rumps and palms dominating still. Managed 20 warblers for the day. Still not many flycatchers and thrushes around. Ran into many birders on the trail, most unknown, but met up with Lynea Hynchman, Randy Pals, Patrick Krueger, John Kendall, Ken Brock, Jeff McCoy, and James Cole throughout the morning. My complete list: (Note: Ken and Lynea, I will separate any overlap in separate lists) Canada Goose 4 TUNDRA SWAN 1 Wood Duck 1 Mallard 4 Red-breasted Merganser 2 Common Loon 1 (heard yodeling from behind the high dunes!) Pied-billed Grebe 1 Horned Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 29 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 3 Osprey 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 American Kestrel 3 (all blowout birds) Virginia Rail 3 (Cowles Bog, predawn) Sora 3 (Cowles Bog predawn) Solitary Sandpiper 1 American Woodcock 2 (Cowles Bog predawn) Ring-billed Gull 20 Herring Gull 5 Caspian Tern 5 Forster's Tern 1 Mourning Dove 6 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Great Horned Owl 1 (flushed in The Pinery) Barred Owl 2 Whip-poor-will 3 Chimney Swift 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 8 Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Downy Woodpecker 3 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 (checked nest with James) Great-crested Flycatcher 1 Least Flycatcher 2 Eastern Phoebe 5 White-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 9 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 3 Red-eyed Vireo 8 Blue Jay 48 American Crow 4 Tree Swallow 12 N. Rough-winged Swallow 6 Barn Swallow 8 Black-capped Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 7 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 10 House Wren 10 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 11 Eastern Bluebird 3 Veery 2 Wood Thrush 4 American Robin 27 Gray Catbird 19 European Starling 9 Blue-winged Warbler 3 Golden-winged Warbler 1 (across from campground on main park road, Kendall got photos) Tennessee Warbler 15 Nashville Warbler 12 Northern Parula 3 Yellow Warbler 9 Magnolia Warbler 1 Cape May Warbler 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler 29 Black-throated Green Warbler 7 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Prairie Warbler 3 (2 in beach house blowout, 1 in small blowout west of Beach house) Palm Warbler 17 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Cerulean Warbler 4 Black-and-white Warbler 2 American Redstart 30 Ovenbird 8 Northern Waterthrush 1 Common Yellowthroat 6 SUMMER TANAGER 4 (3m, 1f: including territorial pair on Mt Tom) Scarlet Tanager 10 Eastern Towhee 11 Chipping Sparrow 23 Field Sparrow 7 Song Sparrow 4 Swamp Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 65 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 14 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 5 Indigo Bunting 3 Red-winged Blackbird 18 Common Grackle 9 Brown-headed Cowbird 12 Baltimore Oriole 3 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 17 Brad Bumgardner Chesterton, IN _________________________________________________________________ Make Windows Vista more reliable and secure with Windows Vista Service Pack 1. http://www.windowsvista.com/SP1?WT.mc_id=hotmailvistasp1banner Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: McCool Basin & Big May Day highlights LBDO, KEWA From: John Kendall <jeffro595 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 14:24:45 -0400 I covered McCool Basin for the big May Day and hit a couple of areas from the car. Highlights were the 240 shorebirds at McCool (a new record for site, as were 83 Least SP), a Long-Billed Dowitcher just south of McCool at the cornfield puddle on 450W, and heard, located and photographed a singing male KENTUCKY WARBLER between Waverly and Mineral Springs roards. I also got word of a singing Golden-winged Warbler from Brad Bumgardner at Dunes SP, including decent looks and a photo. I will post photos later. John Kendall Valparaiso Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Laughing Gulls - Eagle Creek From: Kirk Roth <kirkleeroth AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 14:04:40 -0400 Two breeding plumage Laughing Gulls were seen from the marina this morning. They moved north and I could not relocate them later in the morning. Good warblers today. Along the trail north of the marina I saw a Golden-winged, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Parula and Redstart, among the abundant Palms and Yellow-rumped. Someone had a Brewster's on the same trail. I also had a Wilson's on the trail between the recycling building and the Earth Discovery Center. -Kirk Roth Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Re: Osprey in Mishawaka From: Timothy Martin <georgeaquinas AT MAC.COM> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 07:11:48 -0400 I was watching the Notre Dame Baseball team last night and an osprey flew right over the field. Wonder if it was the same one? This is the fist time I have seen an osprey in this area. This probably means if I would have been in my yard and looked up at the right time, I would now have an osprey on my yard list! Tim Martin On May 9, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Lindsay Klein wrote: > I was down at Merrifield Park in Mishawaka this afternoon (Fri 5/9) > around 5 > PM when I saw an Osprey fly over, following the river headed north/ > east. I > am not sure if this is a common sighting, but I have never seen one > in the > area before. It was awesome! Anyone else seen any? > > Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives > & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: LBDO, UPSA pics From: Ray Troyer <raytroyer AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 04:19:38 +0000 Dan Stoltzfus told me about the Upland Sandpipers in a pasture at the N.E. corner of 200 south and 850 west in Lagrange County and the Long-billed Dowitcher at the Wakarusa Waist Water Treatment Facility (locked entrance) in Elkhart County. I was able to find and photograph both. You can view them on webshots. http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2344970620101565606kxywXG -- Ray Troyer Goshen Elkhart County raytroyer AT comcast.net Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Goose Pond- Willet From: Greg Page <gregpage1465 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 19:14:32 -0700 I saw 1 Willet at Goose Pond 10S, he flapped his wings and I got a good look. I spent the morning and part of the afternoon (until it started raining) at Goose Pond and Beehunter Marsh. GOOSE POND 10S Black-necked Stilt 7 Willet 1 Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Dunlin Blue-winged Teal Grasshopper Sparrow GOOSE POND 9 Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal Short-billed Dowitcher Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs BEEHUNTER MARSH 5E Sora Virginia Rail King Rail Wilson's Snipe BEEHUNTER MARSH 5S Bald Eagle GOOSE POND 5N Northern Bobwhite Henslow's Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Sedge Wren Common Yellowthroat GOOSE POND 5S Northern Bobwhite Bell's Vireo Henslow's Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Common Yellowthroat GOOSE POND 12 Black-necked Stilt 2 Northern Shoveler male & female Blue-winged Teal Wood Duck Bell's Vireo Yellow-breasted Chat Palm Warbler Common Yellowthroat Baltimore Oriole GREENE/SULLIVAN SF- SCOTT LAKE Northern Parula Greg Page Indianapolis --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Potato Creek/Kingsbury 5/9/08 From: Jim Spier <Spier6565 AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 01:50:35 +0000 I spent the day at Potato Creek S.P (Trail 4) and Kingsbury FWA. Ended up with 95 species including 16 warblers. Among the highlights: Potato Creek: Hooded Warbler (1) N. Parula (1) Cerulean Warbler (1) BT Green Warbler (4) Blackburnian Warbler (1) Blue-winged Warbler (6) Tennessee Warbler (1) Black-and-white Warbler (1) Chestnut-sided Warbler (3) Ovenbird (2) YB Chat (1) Yellow-throated Vireo (5) BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO (1) Scarlet Tanager (2) Wood Thrush (3) Grey-cheeked Thrush (1) Red-shouldered Hawk (1) Osprey (3) Kingsbury: Caspian Tern (2) Forster's Tern (5) Least Sandpiper Semi-palmated Sandpiper L. Yellowlegs (5) Sandhill Crane (3) Great Egret (10) C. Moorhen (1) Blue-winged Teal (1) Pierce Road: Dunlin (6) SB Dowitcher (3) Jim Spier South Bend Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Starkey Park, Boone Co. From: Roger and Michelle Hedge <randmhedge AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 21:45:45 -0500 Tom Hulvershorn, Steve Housefield, and I tallied 25 warblers today (May 9), all but one species was found at Starkey Park in Zionsville. My impression was that many birds were not singing, maybe due to cool temps and overcast skies. However, we had great looks at Mourning, Canada, Prothonotary, and female Black-throated Blue Warbler, among others. Starkey Park: Canada Goose - 5 Great Blue Heron - 8 Green Heron - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Killdeer - 1 Chimney Swift - 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 5 Northern Flicker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 Eastern Phoebe - 2 Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 White-eyed Vireo - 3 Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 Warbling Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 2 Blue Jay - 13 American Crow - 5 Tree Swallow - 5 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 6 Barn Swallow - 4 Carolina Chickadee - 8 Tufted Titmouse - 4 White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 Carolina Wren - 3 House Wren - 13 Winter Wren - 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 14 Swainson's Thrush - 5 Wood Thrush - 10 American Robin - 4 Gray Catbird - 18 European Starling - 5 Blue-winged Warbler - 2 Tennessee Warbler - 5 Nashville Warbler - 1 Northern Parula - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 16 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 fem. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 Blackburnian Warbler - 2 Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 Palm Warbler - 1 Black-and-white Warbler - 4 American Redstart - 13 Prothonotary Warbler - 1 Ovenbird - 6 Northern waterthrush - 1 Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 Kentucky Warbler - 1 Mourning Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 2 Wilson's Warbler - 1 Canada Warbler - 1 Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 Scarlet Tanager - 1 Chipping Sparrow - 1 Song Sparrow - 3 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 White-throated Sparrow - 2 Northern Cardinal - 34 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 10 Indigo Bunting - 9 Common Grackle - 3 Brown-headed Cowbird - 14 Orchard Oriole - 1 Baltimore Oriole - 3 American Goldfinch - 10 House Sparrow - 1 A brief stop in the rain at nearby wetlands produced: Canada Goose - 2 Great Blue Heron - 1 Green Heron - 1 Sora - 1 Chimney Swift - 7 Tree Swallow - 12 Barn Swallow - 4 Yellow Warbler - 2 Common Yellowthroat - 1 Song Sparrow - 2 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Red-winged Blackbird - 2 Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 Roger Hedge Lebanon, IN Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Clear Creek Trail, 5/9 - 48 species, 1 FOY From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 18:32:46 -0700 This afternoon we took an abbreviated stroll along Bloomington's Clear Creek Trail. We walked about half the length of the trail and back, from the Tapp Road trailhead. Walk lasted about one hour. Cloudy, light rain (and we forgot our umbrellas!), temps in mid 50s. Saw/heard 48 species (1 FOY), which surprised me considering the short duration of the walk. One high point was a first-of-year Eastern Kingbird, trying to hawk insects by the Tapp Road trailhead. That was species #134 for 2008 for me for Monroe County. Another high point was the Red-winged Blackbird aggression I reported in an earlier posting today. And one final highlight was a group of 8-10 male Indigo Buntings. Their blue colors are really vivid, even on a dark gray day!! Here's the list: Wild Turkey - heard Turkey Vulture - 6 Black Vulture - 1 Canada Goose - 10 Great Blue Heron - 3 Killdeer - 2 Eastern Meadowlark - 3 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Northern Flicker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Carolina Chickadee - 10 Tufted Titmouse - 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 Northern Cardinal - many Blue Jay - 1 Baltimore Oriole - 2 Scarlet Tanager - 1 Carolina Wren - 5 Tree Swallow - 3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 25 Eastern Kingbird - 1 (FOY) American Robin - 10-12 Wood Thrush - 2 Gray Catbird - 4 Brown Thrasher - 2 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - several White-eyed Vireo - 2 Prairie Warbler - 1 Yellow Warbler - 1 Pine Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 5 Indigo Bunting - 8-10 White-throated Sparrow - 2-3 White-crowned Sparrow - 1 Song Sparrow - many Eastern Towhee - 3 House Finch - several American Goldfinch - 10 Mourning Dove - 5 Red-winged Blackbird - many American Crow - 2 Common Grackle - 8-10 European Starling - 10-12 Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 Bernie Sloan Bloomington ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Eastern Marion County From: "Mark C. Rhodes" <arzelfowl AT MSN.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 21:11:05 -0400 Spent the morning, into the early afternoon, birding Fort Harrison and Ruster Park on the eastside of Marion County. In 6 hours I ended up with 109 species. High points would be making it to 30 warblers. Included are my first ever Black-throated Blue at Fort Harrison, my first ever Mourning Warbler and a second Hooded Warbler, this spring, at Ruster Park. The shorebirds continue at the flooded field with 7 species there today. Sure looks good for a Wilson's Phalarope. Let's hope tomorrow is dry and sunny. Take are all, Mark Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Fox Island- May 9 AM From: Rodger Rang <rrang AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 20:14:57 -0400 I tallied 83 species- many in good numbers- this morning at Fox Island County Park, noting a number of personal FOS birds but few if any not already reported for NE Indiana. The chorus was decent, lasting throughout my stay (7:30 to 12:00) due to the cool, cloudy weather. Highlights were the lingering of a few early migrants, the arrival of ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS (6) and my first 20-warbler outing this spring. (Ryan- We missed the reported chat at the gun club, but I picked up Wilson's to get me to 20.) Best stuff (larger numbers are estimates): Chimney Swift- 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird- 1 (Ryan Smith also had one at feeder) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker- 1f Pileated Woodpecker- 1 Acadian Flycatcher- 6, my FOS Least Flycatcher- 10+ Great Crested Flycatcher- 4 Vireos- White-eyed (4), Blue-headed (1), Yellow-throated (1, my FOS), Warbling (6), and Red-eyed (10+) Brown Creeper- 2 House Wren- 10+ Winter Wren- 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet- 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet- 3 BG Gnatcatcher- 10+ E. Bluebird- 1 flyover in NE quad Veery (3), Gray-cheeked (2), Swainson's (5), and Wood (10+) Thrushes Gray Catbird (20+) Brown Thrasher- 2 Warblers- Tennessee- 7 Nashville -10+ N. Parula- 2 Yellow- 10+ Chestnut-sided- 3, my FOS Magnolia- 4, my FOS Cape May- 1f, my FOS Yellow-rumped- 20+ Black-throated Green- 3 Yellow-throated- 2 Pine- 1 Palm- 1 Black&White- 1 American Redstart- 5, my FOS Ovenbird- 6 Northern Waterthrush- 9 Kentucky- 1 Common Yellowthroat- 10+ Hooded- 2 Wilson's- 1, my FOS Scarlet Tanager- 4 Swamp Sparrow- 1 White-throated Sparrow- 50+ Rose-breasted Grosbeak- 20+ including 1pr copulating (a new C-list bird!) Indigo Bunting- 20+ Baltimore Oriole- 15+ Fox Island May Day counters be forewarned! Even with the cool temps, cloudy skies, and light breeze, the mosquitoes were mildly annoying. If it's nicer weather tomorrow, you may need your bug jackets! Rodger Rang Fort Wayne Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Osprey in Mishawaka From: Lindsay Klein <lindsayrochelle AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 20:08:50 -0400 I was down at Merrifield Park in Mishawaka this afternoon (Fri 5/9) around 5 PM when I saw an Osprey fly over, following the river headed north/east. I am not sure if this is a common sighting, but I have never seen one in the area before. It was awesome! Anyone else seen any? Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Columbus area 5/9/2008 From: Bill Moats Jr <bmoatsjr AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 22:58:41 +0000 I stopped by the flooded field behind Hobby Lobby this evening, located on the SE side of town. Highlights noted. Great Egret 2 Snowy Egret 1, lifer for me Canada Goose 4 Wood Duck 2 Mallard 7, includes 1 female with approx. 12 ducklings Red-tailed Hawk 1 Semipalmated Plover 6 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 mixture of swallows: Barn, NRWS, Tree, and Bank While looking for mud flats on the east side of Columbus, I also spotted at least 12 Bobolinks along 500E., in an overgrown field. Bill Moats Columbus, IN Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Red-winged Blackbird aggression From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:55:42 -0700 The Red-winged Blackbirds seemed especially aggressive today along Bloomington's Clear Creek Trail. At one point a pair of Canada Geese were grazing in a grassy meadow and one apparently got too close to a Red-wing's nest. The male blackbird began violently attacking the goose's head and neck. The goose looked confused and panicked. He began to walk away from the blackbird rapidly (or at least as rapidly as a goose can walk). In a way, it was sort of refreshing to to see an animal as aggressive as a goose looking sheepish and meek while being harrassed by a much smaller bird. Then I saw a couple of blackbirds "escorting" a Great Blue Heron who had flown over the edge of another grassy area. Next I saw a blackbird vigorously attacking a crow as it flew over this same area. The blackbird repeatedly made contact with the crow. As the crow landed in a tree the blackbird hit him pretty hard. In the final incident, a blackbird was relentlessly pursuing what looked to be a cowbird. The cowbird would dive into the grass to get away, and the blackbird would follow. They did this a couple times. The next time, the blackbird hit the grass particularly hard as the cowbird sought refuge there. The blackbird came up out of the grass 5-10 seconds later. I watched for maybe a minute after that and never saw the cowbird. Could the blackbird have killed it? Bernie Sloan Bloomington ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Vets Memorial Park Indianapolis From: Tom & Bonnie <persim AT SBCGLOBAL.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:50:40 -0700 Action still on the slow side at this park but had a few sightings today around 12:30pm: Warblers: Yellow-rumped 6 Palm 2 Tennessee 4 Bay Breasted 1 female Common Yellowthroat 2 also 10 Cedar Waxwings, 2 female Grosbeaks, 6 White-throated Sparrows Tom Pericak, Indianapolis Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Lebanon Sod Farm, Boone County From: Larry Peavler <lpeavler AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 17:09:20 -0400 There is one pond here that has a few birds. Semipalmated Plover 4 Killdeer 4 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Least Sandpiper 5 Dunlin 1 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Bank Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 5 Larry Peavler Indianapolis, IN. Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Wrens have fledged From: Terri Greene <tgreene AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:50:13 -0400 I came into the house earlier this afternoon (2:30ish) to find several of my cats pressed against the windows. The Carolina Wrens nesting on my porch were fledging. At least 3 fledglings; 2 adults assisting with the fledge. All were out and away from the nest by 3pm. Cloudy; began raining not long after they fledged. Temp in upper 50s. Glad I took off from work today! Terri Greene SW Monroe Co Observation date: 5/9/08 Carolina Wren 5 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: LAUGHING GULL/Lake Monroe 5/9 From: Scott Evans <scottev12 AT COMCAST.NET> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 19:31:43 +0000 There was a nice variety of gulls hanging out at the marina at Cutright SRA on Lake Monroe today. There were four varieties of gull: Bonaparte's, Herring, Ring-billed and a breeding plumage adult LAUGHING GULL. There was also one CASPIAN TERN hanging out as well. I took really bad pictures for documentations sake, the red bill and white-eye ring are obvious. Scott Evans Monroe Co. Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Lk. Lemon -- 5/6 - 5/8 From: Jim Hengeveld <jhengeve AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 14:43:59 -0400 Just catching up on birds that we've seen around our house the past few days. The most exciting species was an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER that foraged briefly adjacent to the inlet just east of our house on Tuesday, May 6. Also, on the same day, a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON called twice shortly after dark. The flycatcher was our 253rd yard bird There were 2 FORSTER'S TERNS and 2 CASPIAN TERNS at the east end of Lk. Lemon on Wednesday. Yesterday (5/8), there were 2 PINE SISKINS in our yard, one of them singing vigorously. A VEERY was in the low, wet area east of the house and warblers heard from the yard included PROTHONOTARY, TENNESSEE, PRAIRIE, YELLOW, NO. WATERTHRUSH, and COM. YELLOWTHROAT. .........Jim & Susan ******************** Jim & Susan Hengeveld East Lake Lemon Observatory Southshore Drive Unionville, IN 47468 Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Long Beach Oven Bird From: D Holmes <dcreeden AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 14:28:53 -0400 Long Beach backyard 1 Adult Oven Bird FOY New - juvenile Swamp Sparrow D Holmes Long Beach on Lake Michigan east of Michigan City Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Franke Park Golden-winged Warbler, Caspian Tern From: REBECCA BROWN <bbrown8628 AT MSN.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 12:39:10 -0500 Another good day but no real huge flock. I hope some of todays birds stay to be counted tomorrow! Blue-winged Teal 1 Caspian Tern 2 Least Flycatcher 3 Barn Swallow 2 N. Rough-winged Swallow 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 Swainsons Thrush 2 Brown Thrasher 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 4 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Golden-winged Warbler 1 (frog pond) Tennessee Warbler 3 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Northern Parula Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 5 Magnolia Warbler 3 Cape May Warbler 1 Myrtle Warbler 6 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Black and White Warbler 4 American Redstart 8 Nashville Warbler 7 Ovenbird 2 Northern Waterthrush 3 Hooded Warbler 1 Indigo Bunting 2 Chipping Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 20 Rose-breasted Groabeak 4 Baltimore Oriole 2 Jerry Brown, Allen County Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: shorebirds at Celery Bog From: "Michael L. P. Retter" <mlretter AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 10:28:30 -0700 Sorry for the late report. These birds were seen on Tuesday. Location: Celery Bog, Tippecanoe Co. Observation date: 5/6/08 Notes: All on S side of Lindberg Number of species: 9 Sora 1 Semipalmated Plover 2 Killdeer 5 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Solitary Sandpiper 10 Lesser Yellowlegs 5 Least Sandpiper 6 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 Dunlin 1 Michael L. P. Retter --------------------------------- Tour Leader, Tropical Birding & Birding America 800.348.5941 http://www.tropicalbirding.com/ http://birding-america.com/ W. Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., IN mlretter AT yahoo.com home: 309.277.7136 cell: 309.824.7317 http://retter.xenospiza.com/ ----------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Mount Comfort Airport, Hancock Co. - UPSA, BOBO, GRSP From: Don Gorney <dongorney AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:41:28 -0700 After doing a bird survey on private ground in Greenfield, Hancock County on 9 May I stopped by Mount Comfort Airport (600W, a few miles north of I-70) to check for Upland Sandpiper. I found one Upland and a large number of Bobolinks. The Upland Sandpiper was seen from the end of the paved access road (road ends in fencing) on one of the blue lights along the runway. The Bobolinks were seen along the paved road between 600W and the T intersection (road going to the hangars/buildings). They were actively singing, flying between the ground and fence, and perching on the fencing. Highlights from my 15 minute visit: UPLAND SANDPIPER 1, perched on runway light Eastern Kingbird 2 Horned Lark 3 Savannah Sparrow 13 GRASSHOPPER SPARROW 3 BOBOLINK 26+, Probably more but I counted 26 in one sweep, all in flight are perched on fencing. I assume a number of birds were hidden in the grass. A highlight from the surveys I did in Greenfield was a Red-breasted Nuthatch. Don Gorney Indianapolis, IN dongorney AT yahoo.com www.dongorney.com Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: SW Monroe Co Yard Birds From: Terri Greene <tgreene AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 12:12:22 -0400 New yard birds: Common Yellowthroat (FOS) and the female Orchard Oriole feeding at the hummer feeders. Below are a few highlights from the week and last weekend's list. Terri Greene SW Monroe Co +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Observation date: 5/8/08 Common Yellowthroat 1 (male) Orchard Oriole 1 (female) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Observation date: 5/6/08 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 (Lee Phillips Rd) Whip-poor-will 1 (Heard around 5:20am and around 6am. May have been more than one bird . . . or it was on the move.) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Observation date: 5/4/08 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3 Orchard Oriole 2 (1 male, 1 female) Baltimore Oriole 2 (2 males) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Observation date: 5/3/08 Canada Goose 2 Wood Duck 1 Green Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Mourning Dove 12 Whip-poor-will 1 (Heard SW of house around 9:15 pm) Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 1 Tree Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 2 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 2 Eastern Towhee 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 7 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 25 Orchard Oriole 1 Baltimore Oriole 2 Purple Finch 1 House Finch 3 American Goldfinch 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Fairfax From: "Whitehead, Donald R." <whitehea AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 11:16:59 -0400 I made a brief stop at Fairfax this morning - water levels now rising again, so more of the parking lot (entirely above water two days ago) is now flooded. The highlights: Canada Goose - 24 Mallard - 4 Double-cr. Cormorant - 1 Osprey - 1 Turkey Vulture - 6 Great Blue Heron - 2 Ring-billed Gull = 6 Killdeer - 4 Spotted Sandpiper - 4 Significan swallow flight - all species except Purple Martin - dominated by Barn Swallows, then Tree Swallows, then No. Rough-winged Swallow, then Cliff Swallow, and at least 20 Bank Swallows. Brown Thrasher - 4 Gray Catbird - 2 E. Kingbird - 2 Least Flycatcher - 1 Acadian Flycatcher - 1 Warbling Vireo - 2 Yellow-thr. Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 4 White-eyed Vireo - 1 No. Parula - 2 Yellow Warbler - 2 Prothonotary Warbler - 1 Yellow-thr. Warbler - 2 Prairie Warbler - 1 Kentucky Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 2 Yellow-br. Chat - 1 Orchard Oriole - 2 Baltimore Oriole - 4 Wiesler - 2 (male and female - molting into alternate plumage) Don Whitehead Bloomington whitehea AT indiana.edu Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Kingsbury FWA Willets From: Robert Huguenard <roberthuguenard AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 20:59:17 -0700 Hi,     Brigid and I were at Kingsbury briefly this evening about 5:30 local time. We were trying to determine if the 15 large shorebirds we were looking at were Willets, when a 16th flew in showing us great views of it's wing pattern.(by the time we checked out the other end of the marsh and came back, about 20 min., they were gone. In all the shorebird action was outstanding, I wish we had more time. Others seen were Leasts, Pecs, Lesser Yellowlegs crawling all over the place. We had 4 Semi-Palmated Plovers, 1 Stilt Sandpiper, two Spotted Sandpipers  and 100 + Dunlin including a flock of 75 that flew in just as we were leaving. Last, but not least were 3 Short Billed Dowitchers in nearly the same spot as I had Long Billed Dowitchers a couple of weeks ago.     We also noted that a pair of Mockingbirds have returned to the same brush pile as last year, west of the archery range a few hundred yards.     Pierce road is heating up a little with 4 Dunlin, ~ 30 Least Sandpipers, 8 Pectoral Sandpipers and 3 Lesser Yellowlegs seen in a quick look. The water level continues to recede making for improving habitat.     I put a couple of digiscoped pics of the Willets and Stilt on my Flickr page if you are interested:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/41782619 AT N00/ Bob and Brigid ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Hillenbrand FWA grasslands May 7 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 23:23:31 -0400 Yesterday afternoon (May 7, 2008) after we finished with shorebirds at Goose Pond FWA James Cole, Chip O’leary, and I drove to the grasslands of Hillenbrand FWA in western Greene County. We scouted briefly for upcoming Sassafras Audubon Society trip there on Saturday, June 7. The SAS trip to Hillenbrand FWA on June 7 will do a Rapid Assessment of obligate grassland birds in this very under birded DNR property. We want to ascertain if Hillenbrand might be a potential nominee for status as an Indiana Important Bird Area. The initial results yesterday were quite encouraging. On a brief drive though and making only two stops out of the car we tallied 11 singing HENSLOW’S SPARROWS in the Hillenbrand grasslands before a thunderstorm hit. Please come and help with our IBA assessment trip to Hillenbrand on Saturday June 7. An announcement for the trip is on line on the SAS Leaflet Calendar page: http://www.sassafrasaudubon.org/calendar.html James Cole has also written an article about our upcoming Hillenbrand grasslands trip. The article will be posted when the entire SAS Leaflet issue goes on line, presumably sometime during the next week or so (can be accessed from the calendar URL above). If you're a SAS member you already have a hard copy of James' article. Here are the results of our brief two-stop visit yesterday at mid- afternoon: Wild Turkey 4 Northern Bobwhite 6 Eastern Kingbird 1 Tree Swallow 1 Gray Catbird 2 Brown Thrasher 1 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 2 Prairie Warbler 3 Prothonotary Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 5 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 7 Grasshopper Sparrow 4 HENSLOW'S SPARROW 11 Blue Grosbeak 1 Dickcissel 4 Thanks much to Chip for coming along and finding several of the good birds. --Lee Sterrenburg, James Cole, & Chip O’leary Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Goose Pond FWA Shorebirds May 7 From: Lee Sterrenburg <sterren AT INDIANA.EDU> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 23:16:57 -0400 Yesterday morning (May 7, 2008) James Cole, Brad Feaster, Bob Russell, and I met for shorebird management discussions and tours at Goose Pond FWA in Greene County. Chip O’leary joined us partway though the morning. Brad gave us a tour of the new Goose Pond Main Pool East and Main Pool West wetland units. We then briefly looked for shorebirds in Goose Pond unit GP9 until a big thunderstorm front hit. Shorebirds encountered during the morning included 1 male WILSON’S PHALAROPE in Main Pool West, 20 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 11 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 15 DUNLINS, 3 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, and our first 1 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER and 1 STILT SANDPIPER of the spring. Some of us stopped by to see the GLOSSY IBIS in Goose Pond Unit GP10S found by John Eakin and Don Whitehead after Don called and reported the bird. It is encouraging that 2 different Wilson’s Phalaropes were found on the Goose Pond property the same day. Don and John relocated the female in GP9 and we found a male in Main Pool West. Now we need to get the two of them together . . . Weather: overcast, south winds, falling temperatures, heavy rain off and on much of the day starting from mid-late morning onwards. Selected results: GOOSE POND FWA UNIT MAIN POOL EAST: Northern Bobwhite 3 Great Blue Heron 7 Green Heron 1 Bald Eagle 1 adult Killdeer 10 Spotted Sandpiper 6 included a male doing courtship displays Solitary Sandpiper 2 Greater Yellowlegs 7 Lesser Yellowlegs 18 Least Sandpiper 20 Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 our FOY Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Great Horned Owl 1 flushed & seen flying Willow Flycatcher 2 our FOY Eastern Kingbird 1 Bell’s Vireo 1 singing near the ruined metal bridge at the north end of CR 1200 W House Wren 4 Blackpoll Warbler 1 singing in Black Creek riparian tree line Grasshopper Sparrow 1 Dickcissel 4 Orchard Oriole 1 GOOSE POND FWA UNIT MAIN POOL WEST: Wood Duck 3 Blue-winged Teal 1 Northern Bobwhite 5 Semipalmated Plover 4 Killdeer 4 Spotted Sandpiper 5 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 19 Least Sandpiper 29 Dunlin 2 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER 3 detailed scope studies and soft whistled tu tu tu calls heard WILSON’S PHALAROPE 1 male Bell’s Vireo 1 Savannah Sparrow 2 Henslow’s Sparrow 4 near the tern island at the south end of CR 1200 W Dickcissel 4 GOOSE POND UNIT 6E, along CR 1200 W, south of the bridge over Brewer Ditch. Henslow’s Sparrow 2 Dickcissel 8 GOOSE POND FWA UNIT GP11S: Semipalmated Plover 13 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 GOOSE POND FWA UNIT GP9 (visit terminated by thunderstorm shortly after we began) Semipalmated Plover 3 BLACK-NECKED STILT 2 on a drive by after lunch Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Least Sandpiper 8 Pectoral Sandpiper 11 Dunlin 13 Stilt Sandpiper 1 found by Bob Russell Our FOY Wilson’s Snipe 2 Savannah Sparrow 2 GOOSE POND FWA UNIT GP4, along CR 300 S: Blue Grosbeak 1 GOOSE POND FWA BEEHUNTER MARSH UNITS BH5S and BH5E: Before heading to the shorebird meeting I scouted in the early morning along the Beehunter Marsh farmhouse driveway in advance of this Saturday’s Greene County Big May Day Count. A huge overflight of LESSER YELLOWLEGS occurred from 5:57-6:10 AM. It was still too dark to see birds up against the low, heavy clouds. Sunrise was at 6:43 AM. It would have been fascinating to get a count. The sky overhead was full of the calls of departing or passing Lesser Yellowlegs for 13 minutes. By the time I could see birds up against the sky only two more passing flocks flew by, with a total of 37 individuals. By sunrise only 1 Lesser Yellowlegs was left calling on the ground in the nearby wetlands. Early AM results at Beehunter Marsh: Wood Duck 1 Mallard 12 Blue-winged Teal 1 Northern Bobwhite 3 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Great Blue Heron 4 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON 2 my FOY Bald Eagle 2 1 first basic, 1 adult Red-tailed Hawk 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 38 Wilson’s Snipe 5 2 winnowing Sora 6 Tree Swallow 3 SEDGE WREN 1 singing European Starling 1 Song Sparrow 4 Red-winged Blackbird 16 Eastern Meadowlark 3 Based on the directions of calls in the dark I suspect there could have been 4 Black-crowned Night-Herons present. However, to be safe I only counted one seen flying plus another calling in the distance at the same time. --Lee Sterrenburg, James Cole, Brad Feaster, Chip O’leary, & Bob Russell Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html Subject: Whip-poor-will in Elkhart Co. From: Dan Stoltzfus <DanHSt AT AOL.COM> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 22:46:27 EDT Today, May 8, Gary Chupp and his son were birding in a farmer's woodlot near CR35 and CR34 and flushed a Whip-poor-will which fled deeper into the woodlot. They searched and found it sitting in typical horizontal fashion on a branch about 20 feet above the ground. Gary observed the tail when it flushed and it had the white in the corners of the tail. It remained sitting on the limb while Gary studied its features and then he called Leland Shaum to come and photograph it. Leland and I went immediately to the farm and Gary led us to the site and Leland got very good pictures of it. Whip-poor-wills are rarely found in Elkhart County. Gary had also seen a Summer Tanager in the woods, another exceptional find, as well as 2 Baltimore Orioles and these warblers: Black-and white Nashville Northern Parula Tennessee Yellow Dan Stoltzfus Goshen **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) Need to read an older IN-BIRD-L Posting? Try the permanent archives & search interface at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/in-bird-l.html