From j.courson at mchsi.com Fri Sep 2 10:56:29 2005 From: j.courson at mchsi.com ([email protected]) Date: Fri Sep 2 10:56:32 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] Fwd: [LIBNEWS-L] Hurrican Katrina family, right here, right now Message-ID: <090220051556.23744.4318762D000B9C1600005CC0219791336302019C9D9A010CD20 [email protected]>
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For the last two days, a very large, brown praying mantis watched our hummingbirds come and go, feed and fight, from within 12 inches of our hummingbird feeder. At first I thought it was coincidental that the praying mantis was so close and seemed so observant, but then I saw some pictures of a praying mantis eating a hummer that it caught. Consequently, we relocated the insect. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing? I've noticed several large, brown praying mantises this year. The address of the website where the pics are located: http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/backyardbirds/hummingbirds/mantis -hummer.aspx?sc=birdwireJul2005 Cathe in Mahomet [email protected]
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I have never seen a brown praying mantis. Nor have I seen one eating a hummingbird other than the picture. A friend from Chicago told me about a brown mantis that she had seen earlier this season. She had never seen one. Does anyone know if these are something new or just something that we haven't been noticing before? Moving the hummingbird feeder sounds like a prudent thing to do.
Charlene Anchor
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For the last two days, a very large, brown praying mantis watched our hummingbirds come and go, feed and fight, from within 12 inches of our hummingbird feeder. At first I thought it was coincidental that the praying mantis was so close and seemed so observant, but then I saw some pictures of a praying mantis eating a hummer that it caught. Consequently, we relocated the insect. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing? I?ve noticed several large, brown praying mantises this year. The address of the website where the pics are located: http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/backyardbirds/hummingbirds/manti s-hummer.aspx?sc=birdwireJul2005 Cathe in Mahomet [email protected] ______Birdnotes mailing list [email protected] https://mail.prairienet.org/mailman/listinfo/birdnotes ------next part ------An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.prairienet.org/pipermail/birdnotes/attachments/20050904/57 385b4b/attachment.htm From charleneanchor at msn.com Tue Sep 6 09:18:45 2005 From: charleneanchor at msn.com (charlene anchor) Date: Tue Sep 6 09:14:10 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] Brown mantis Message-ID:
For any who are interested, I received several messages from others saying they have previously seen the brown mantis. One person has caught and released them up to 6 1/2" in length....that's about twice the size of the hummingbird! Charlene Anchor ------next part ------An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.prairienet.org/pipermail/birdnotes/attachments/20050906/de 3ccdaa/attachment.htm From jbchato at uiuc.edu Wed Sep 7 11:01:32 2005 From: jbchato at uiuc.edu (John & Beth Chato) Date: Wed Sep 7 13:08:28 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] yard birds Message-ID:
All, I have just forced myself inside to begin work, but i thought you might like to know what was in my yard this morning: 1 red-tailed hawk harrassed by 4 crows and 2 jays, 6 mourning doves, 12 nighthawks going over, 2 rt hummingbirds, 1 downy wood pecker, 1 least flycatcher, 3 red-eyed vireos,1 red-breasted nuthatch, 2 Carolina wrens, 10 robins, 1 catbird, 12 starlings,1 chestnut-sided warbler, 6 or more cardinals, 6 or more house finches, 10 goldfinches, 12 house sparrows. Yesterday I had some additional species: Swainson's thrush, rose breasted grosbeak, and Canada warbler. I have lots in the way of bird food- thistle and safflower seed feeders, and a hummingbird feeder- but also lots of natural food. Cardinal flower and trumpet vine for the hummers, a huge pokeweed plant and a black cherry tree for the berry eaters. I try and beat the cardinals and catbirds to the raspberries. The big attraction is water. I have a mister over my bird bath which sprays on overhanging bushes and this is irresistable to the whole gang and brings them down low where I can see them.
Beth Chato John C. Chato 714 W. Vermont Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 217-344-6803 From smithsje at egix.net Wed Sep 7 22:40:10 2005 From: smithsje at egix.net (Jim & Eleanor Smith) Date: Wed Sep 7 21:46:30 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] results of the season's bird houses. Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hello, Bird,
We had a total of 156 nest boxes. Of that number, 151 had eggs laid.
Kestrel: 5 eggs...... 4 fledged Carolina Chickadee...... 10 eggs...... 3 " Bluebird 355 eggs...... 209 " House sparrow 313 ...... 0 " House wren 31 5 " Tree Swallow 436...... 296 "
I did not do a good job of monitoring house wren nests in August. House sparrows caused the most eggs to be lost, especially early in the season.. Best regards.
Jim & Eleanor Smith [email protected] 2005-09-07
From ebaughjason at yahoo.com Sat Sep 10 19:30:57 2005 From: ebaughjason at yahoo.com (Jason Ebaugh) Date: Sat Sep 10 19:31:01 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] Waterthrush question Message-ID: <[email protected]>
At crystal lake park, I saw what loked to me like a Louisiana Water Thrush. What makes me think that is its eyestripe was pretty bold white.
I am wondering, is it likely to see a LWT now, or, all things being equal, is it probably a Northern?
Thanks Jason
Jason Ebaugh [email protected] Urbana, Champaign County
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About 12 birders joined me on a beautiful September morning hike through Busey Woods this morning. The most common migrant today was definitely Monarch Butterfly (I'm guessing we had several hundred), but we also had a number of cooperative warblers (10 species). The list included the following: Chestnut-sided 3 Bay-breasted 6 Redstart 14 Blue-winged 1 Black-n-white 2 Magnolia 3 Black-throated Green 3 Nashville 2 Wilson's 1 Ovenbird 2
Greg Lambeth From ebaughjason at yahoo.com Tue Sep 13 08:26:50 2005 From: ebaughjason at yahoo.com (Jason Ebaugh) Date: Tue Sep 13 08:26:52 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] Busey Hairies Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I saw a pair of Hairy Woodpeckers at Busey Woods Monday evening.
Then a Downy popped in. It was a very good opportunity to compare the sounds of the two species.
I've never seen Hairy Woodpeckers at Busey before.
Jason Ebaugh [email protected] Urbana, Champaign County
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Birdntoers, I made my first real bird outting in a while (3 or 4 weeks) this morning before my meetings today. I got there at 7:30am and stayed until 9:00am. It was slow at first, giving only about 8 species of birds until I finally got a warbler. After that the day was well worth it (not like it wasn't good enough to get out birding again).
Complete list: Canada Goose Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird (1 f) Belted Kingfisher (1) Downy Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee (2) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (1) Blue Jay American Crow White-breasted Nuthatch (2) Carolina Wren (1) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1) American Robin Swainson's Thrush (many calling) Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing European Starling POSSIBLE Orange-crowned Warbler (fleeting glimpses, really early) Chestnut-sided Warbler (1 f) Magnolia Warbler (1) POSSIBLE Yellow-rumped Warbler (call note only) Black and White Warbler (2 f) American Redstart (3 f/j) Ovenbird (1) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (call note only) Common Grackle
Questions, comments, gripes, feel free to email me.
Bryan Guarente Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Assistant Champaign, IL
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Hey, This afternoon, I went to the Forestry division since the cold front passed through last night. I wasn't disappointed when I showed up to the forestry division (SW of Race and Windsor). The first bird I saw was a Blue-winged Warbler... the second bird, a Blue-winged warbler. Pretty weird in my mind to be able to do that. Either way, I stood not far from the entrance and was delighted by many species while standing in one location.
List of species from 75 yards into the forestry division: 2 Blue-winged Warblers (unknown sex) 1 Bay-breasted Warbler (1m) 2 "Baypolls" (unidentified bay-breasted/blackpoll warblers, but I was leaning toward Bay) 2 Chestnut Sided Warblers (1m, 1f) 1 Tennessee Warbler (1m) 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak (1m, 1 unknown [heard only]) 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo (adult) 2 Carolina Chickadees Blue Jays (multiple) 45+ Common Nighthawks (migrants over head) 2 Unknown warblers (too fleeting of glimpses to ID, and too many other things going on to chase these down) 3 Downy Woodpeckers tons of American Robins (adults and juvs) 1 Red-headed Woodpecker (adult) American Goldfinch (1 flyby) House Wren (2+ angry unsexed birds) Mourning Doves 1 Unidentified catharus Thrush (flyby) 1 Red-tailed Hawk
That was all I saw from one location. I added more robins and such with a walkthrough, but nothing else of migrating interest.
For those that don't know, tonight might be a good night for Aurora Borealis here in Illinois. Way after dark, go outside away from lights of towns and look north, and hopefully with some luck, you might see the Northern Lights. While your out there, keep your ears peeled too. Chicago had a great night last night for nocturnal migrants. If your ears are tuned well enough to it, then you might be able to add some good birds.
Bryan Guarente Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Assistant Champaign, IL
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Birders,
Outside my Apartment in West Champaign.
Finally saw the Ruby Throated Hummingbird that my neighbor has been telling me about.
It was visiting the red-orange trumpets of a viny honeysuckle.
Also saw several night hawks traveling north.
Monarch Butterflies around too.
Jim
-- James Hoyt "The Prairie Ant" Champaign Co. Audubon Co-steward Parkland College Prairies. Monitor Urbana Park District Natural Areas. Champaign County Master Gardener Allerton Allies Prairie Rivers Network
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From charleneanchor at msn.com Mon Sep 19 10:29:01 2005 From: charleneanchor at msn.com (charlene anchor) Date: Mon Sep 19 10:24:05 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] Mahomet Message-ID:
Two NORTHERN HARRIERS flying low over the dried soybeans on the north edge of the Conservation Area on 9/16 - one adult and one immature. On 9/3 an OSPREY was sitting on a powerline pole in the cornfields just north of the soybeans. Watched for at least 10 minutes. It didn't move except to stretch it's wings and look around. Then it took off and landed on the next western power line pole.
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2 Pelicans at Starved Rock on an island in the Illinois River. Pierce Lake (Rockford) 40-50 Vultures orbiting around the lake...5 or 6 Cormorants in the trees (all on Saturday). Osprey over the Illinois River at I-39 Sunday evening...100+ Monarchs in the backyard Monday morning. ------next part ------An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.prairienet.org/pipermail/birdnotes/attachments/20050919/32 c3974c/attachment.htm From jwhoyt at prairienet.org Mon Sep 19 14:16:03 2005 From: jwhoyt at prairienet.org ([email protected]) Date: Mon Sep 19 14:16:06 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] [Fwd: more on the Red-headed Woodpecker] Message-ID: <[email protected]>
MG's
For those gardeners who enjoy birds here is a friendly hint as to why we need to be careful about not being to neat.
Leave a few snags in those woodlots!
Jim :)
Here is a good website about Red Headed Woodpeckers. See http://www.wnrmag.com/stories/2005/aug05/red.htm
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Test. There is no need to respond to this email.
Bryan Guarente Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Assistant Champaign, IL
______Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com From dafekt1ve at yahoo.com Wed Sep 21 19:51:54 2005 From: dafekt1ve at yahoo.com (Bryan Guarente) Date: Wed Sep 21 19:51:56 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] Forestry Division 09/21/05 Evening Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Birdnoters, This afternoon after a long day of proctoring exams, I went to the forestry divison (SW of Race and Windsor, west of Meadowbrook park) to get some warblers and other things that may be coming through. It was a pretty good day. Not too much was hopping, but I pulled out some pretty good stuff with some pishing. Complete list of species: (I think) Cooper's Hawk (1) American Robin Swainson's Thrush (3 IDed) catharus thrush (unIDed) Mourning Dove Gray Catbird House Wren (2+) American Redstart (1 m, 4 f/j) Golden-winged Warbler (1 m) Nashville Warbler (1 f, 2 j) Black-and-white Warbler (1 m) Bay-breasted Warbler (1 fall m) POSSIBLE Mourning Warbler (1 f, discussion below) Ovenbird (3) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (3 f) Northern Cardinal White-throated Sparrow (2+) American Goldfinch Common Grackle European Starling
Discussion for Mourning Warbler: I noted a bird that was low in the brush with a female and a juvenile nashville warbler. The bird had a complete thin eyering (white) with a UNIFORMLY gray head and throat (pale). I remember the bird being completely yellow even on the underside. I "think" that the bird had a pink beak, but I am not quite sure about that. My first inclination for this bird was Mourning Warbler (instantaneously), but after more inspection, I wasn't sure. I did not note the leg color. For clarification, the bird did have short undertail coverts (rules out Connecticut Warbler [unfortunately]). MacGillivray's was ruled out by the complete eyering. The part that bothers me the most was the close association with nashville warblers, which makes me think that my ID is wrong. The Nashville Warblers then took off and the thrid bird was not seen again. It was low in some mustard or some other yellow plant much like what I think mustard looks like, but I am not a plant person by any means. It was located on the main entrance trail about 50 feet west from the intersection of the main trails, thus on the north side of the hemlock grove and south of the soybean/corn field along the fenceline.
I cannot conclusively say I had a Mourning Warbler, but I think that was what I saw. If others find a Mourning Warbler in the forestry sometime in the next few days, could you please contact me offline with more information. I will likely go searching for this bird again tomorrow morning if others would like to join me. I will be getting over there at about 7:15am.
Bryan Guarente Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Assistant Champaign, IL
______Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com From dafekt1ve at yahoo.com Thu Sep 22 09:23:58 2005 From: dafekt1ve at yahoo.com (Bryan Guarente) Date: Thu Sep 22 09:24:05 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] "Oporornis" Warbler still present... Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Birdnoters, This morning, after a heck of a lot of searching, I finally got about a two second view of the POSSIBLE Mourning Warbler reported yesterday at the UofI Forestry Division (SW of Race and Windsor). I am absolutely conviced it is either a Mourning or Connecticut after today's short viewing. HOWEVER, after today's look, I am not sure this bird is not a Connecticut.
Today, I noted a lack of contrast between the nape of the neck and the back, which makes me lean more toward Connecticut. Mourning would show more of a contrast in the head pattern to the mantle color. The eye-ring of this bird was bold to me, which is making me think that I underestimated the undertail covert length yesterday. I saw the bird fly a few times today, but only for split second views. When in flight, I never noted an excessively long look ing tail, but that probably doesn't say much. I did not get a good look today at undertail coverts, but plan on going back this afternoon to hunt this bird down again.
Another thing that makes me unsure of this bird being a Mourning Warbler is the lack of hopping. BUT HOLD ON. This is inferred. I watched plants move, knowing that the bird was in this certain patch of brush. The bird did not shake the plants very often at all. I would expect Mourning Warbler to be jumping around through the plants, while Connecticut would be expected to walk through the brush possibly even on the ground, and presumably not disturbing the plants like it would were it to be hopping back and forth on them.
WARNING: this bird is VERY SKULKY. It took me over an hour to find the bird, then it took me over a half an hour to see it for a whopping two seconds. This makes for a grand total of about 4 seconds that I have seen the bird. I am hesitant to call this bird either Connecticut or Mourning, because of the short views, but I am positive this bird is not a Nashville Warbler now.
Best bet for finding this bird: check the corner of the fenceline closest to the fallow field, then walk west along the fenceline checking the fenceline throughout.
Bryan Guarente Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Assistant Champaign, IL
______Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com From vaiden at isgs.uiuc.edu Thu Sep 22 13:40:24 2005 From: vaiden at isgs.uiuc.edu (Vaiden, Robert) Date: Thu Sep 22 13:40:26 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] RE:backyard Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Some birds making their way through the backyard...
Redstarts... Magnolia Warblers...(several) Yellow warbler with bluish head...Nashville? Vireo with 2 yellow wingbars, yellowish breast, white eye ring...but not "spectacles"
And Monarchs...a walk through my backyard produces "clouds" of Monarchs as you walk by some areas...I've had as many as 30 fluttering around me. It's an amazing feeling...like walking into "Fantasia" or "Bambi"...can't claim to have thousands, but there's at least a couple of hundred Monarchs scattered about the yard.
Bob From charleneanchor at msn.com Fri Sep 23 09:14:02 2005 From: charleneanchor at msn.com (charlene anchor) Date: Fri Sep 23 09:09:04 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] RE:backyard Message-ID:
I've been seeing great numbers of Monarchs as well. Certainly good to see them after last summer's small numbers. Hope they'll be ok this year on their wintering grounds. With our changing weather one never knows what will happen.
Charlene Anchor
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Some birds making their way through the backyard...
Redstarts... Magnolia Warblers...(several) Yellow warbler with bluish head...Nashville? Vireo with 2 yellow wingbars, yellowish breast, white eye ring...but not "spectacles"
And Monarchs...a walk through my backyard produces "clouds" of Monarchs as you walk by some areas...I've had as many as 30 fluttering around me. It's an amazing feeling...like walking into "Fantasia" or "Bambi"...can't claim to have thousands, but there's at least a couple of hundred Monarchs scattered about the yard.
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Was at the Conservation Area in Mahomet Saturday morning, not to bird but to do some things. About half way I decided to take a break. Sat down alongside the creek because I saw an EASTERN PHOEBE and thought I'd watch it for awhile. I didn't expect to see and hear a YELLOW- BREASTED CHAT up in the top of a small tree. Looked like it had just taken a bath - was preening wet breast feathers. It was only doing a two-note call and its breast didn't look as bright as an adult. But that was hard to tell since the feathers were wet. I was hoping it was an immature born there as it was in the same area where I had seen them in the summer.
Most unexpected was the YELLOW WARBLER which walked into the creek and took a bath. Never saw one this late! Other "light bathers" (only stayed in the water a brief time) were AMERICAN REDSTART, MAGNOLIA WARBLER and OVENBIRD. Most enthusiastic were the COMMON YELLOWTHROATS. Adult females and immatures were bathing vigorously while an adult, nearby-male never entered the water. One adult female seemed to be "competing" with a LINCOLN SPARROW for the same space in the creek. I didn't understand that since there was enough water for everyone. But they would chase each other away and then return immediately. Others seen while sitting there were: BLUEBJAY, HOUSE WREN, GRAY CATBIRD, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, FIELD SPARROW, INDIGO BUNTING, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, NASHVILLE WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, EMPI FLYCATCHER, AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, and PHILADELPHIA VIREO. Two RED-HEADED VIREOS were on the same branch together near the water. One dropped down into the water and stayed only a second. I couldn't tell if it was catching something or if it was taking a vireo bath. The whole scene turned out to be an enjoyable interlude.
On my way back to the car I saw a PALM WARBLER.
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Charlene Anchor ------next part ------An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.prairienet.org/pipermail/birdnotes/attachments/20050925/9f a6ff7d/attachment.htm From rkanter at uiuc.edu Mon Sep 26 11:32:40 2005 From: rkanter at uiuc.edu (Rob Kanter) Date: Mon Sep 26 11:32:43 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] Busey Woods, Sunday afternoon Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I was disappointed to have missed the morning Busey walk yesterday, so went out in the afternoon despite the rain. There were many more birds around than I identified, but at least there were the following:
American redstart (many) Nashville warbler (1) Magnolia warbler (1) Ovenbird (many) Swainson?s thrush (pretty sure)* Veery (I think) Black and white warbler (3) Yellow-rumped warbler (2) Brown creeper (1) Red-eyed vireo (1)
*I'm not very good with thrushes under any conditions (I can't distinguish shades of brown, olive and red well), and it was quite dark in the thrushiest part of the woods along Country Club Road.
Rob Kanter [email protected] From spendelo at uiuc.edu Mon Sep 26 17:46:41 2005 From: spendelo at uiuc.edu ([email protected]) Date: Mon Sep 26 17:46:44 2005 Subject: [Birdnotes] Black-throated Blue Warbler Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hi everyone, A male Black-throated Blue Warbler was present about ten minutes ago in the bushes between the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab (MRL) and Loomis (on the east side of Goodwin between Green and Springfield). I was standing in the breezeway in front of MRL locking my bike to the south railing (right next to the plastic lawn chairs and table) when I saw it hop out of the bushes directly below me. It stayed in view for 2 - 3 min, foraging on the ground, flycatching, and even hopping along on the concrete less than ten feet away from me. Wow!
Jacob Spendelow Champaign
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