From ccas at prairienet.org Sat Oct 1 16:18:10 2005
From: ccas at prairienet.org ()
Date: Sat Oct 1 16:18:11 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Check out the CCAS website
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Hi all,
Check out the CCAS website for the latest information and events. See
pictures of the raptors that will be at our next member's meeting on Oct.
6, download a flyer for the Prairie School Project workshop coming up on
Oct. 7-8, purchase birding items online from Eagle Optics (CCAS receives a
portion of the profits), check times and dates for upcoming field trips
and events, and much more!
The website is a great way to get the word out about our events,
especially to those who are not yet members. Spread the word, and invite
friends to CCAS activities!
Happy Birding!
CCAS Webmaster
Pam
From dafekt1ve at yahoo.com Tue Oct 4 09:54:40 2005
From: dafekt1ve at yahoo.com (Bryan Guarente)
Date: Tue Oct 4 09:54:42 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Crystal Lake Morning
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Birdnoters,
This morning ended up being a really good morning for numbers of
warblers, but the diversity was not great. I was at the wooden bridge
over the creek at 7:45am, and the birds were hopping from then until I
left at 8:50am. The majority of warblers were Black-throated Green
Warblers of all ages and sexes.
Warblers seen included:
Black-throated Green Warblers (at least 15)
Magnolia Warbler (1 female-type)
Nashville Warbler (1)
Black-and-white Warbler (1 male 1 female)
Ovenbird (4+)
Golden-winged Warbler (1 male)
American Redstart (1 adult male, 2+ female-type)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (1 female)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (1 female)
Other birds seen:
Swainson's Thrush (3)
White-breasted Nuthatch (2)
Brown Creeper (10+, they were everywhere... just like BTNW)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (8+)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (5+)
White-throated Sparrow (5)
American Robins
Northern Flicker (4, all yellow-shafted)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (2)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (3)
Downy Woodpecker (1)
European Starlings
Carolina Wren (1)
Scarlet Tanager (1 juvenile)
Common Grackles
Bryan Guarente
Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Assistant
Champaign, IL
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From vaiden at isgs.uiuc.edu Tue Oct 4 10:48:40 2005
From: vaiden at isgs.uiuc.edu (Vaiden, Robert)
Date: Tue Oct 4 10:48:42 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Birds
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I was at Goose Lake Prairie late last week (Gentians were just starting
to bloom). I saw (winging overhead and appearing somewhat odd in
contrast to the waving prairie grasses) flocks of Pelicans...I counted
as many as 63 on Friday. There are ponds out on Goose Lake Prairie,
and, of course, the Illinois River is nearby. Quite a sight! There
were also a few Palm Warblers out on the prairie.
Around home...still an occasional Hummer and Redstart.
Bob
From bernies at uillinois.edu Tue Oct 4 12:07:53 2005
From: bernies at uillinois.edu (Sloan, Bernie)
Date: Tue Oct 4 12:07:57 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Hummers and mantises
Message-ID: <>
I was looking through the Birdnotes archives last night and ran across a
thread from early September that discussed hummers and mantises.
Just wanted to mention that this was also a topic on the
BLOOMINGTON-BIRDS (Bloomington, Indiana) list at about that same time.
The original topic had to do with hummers and large garden spiders (the
person had a seen a hummer get caught in a garden spider's web...it
eventually escaped). One of the list members wrote the following:
"I have seen a chinese mantid catch and kill a hummer before so I assume
the spider might try. I would guess though that unless it was a huge
garden spider, and they do get large, it would not attempt to catch the
hummer but cut it free."
Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL 61820-5752
Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax: (217) 265-0454
E-mail:
From charleneanchor at msn.com Wed Oct 5 09:19:30 2005
From: charleneanchor at msn.com (charlene anchor)
Date: Wed Oct 5 09:14:24 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Further hummers and their problems
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I've been occasionally reading the bird listserves of some of the southern states since the hurricanes. (The listserves have been used as a way to try and find birders, keep in contact with each other, and inform people of the damage during the storms.)
Around the time Birdnotes posted about the hummers, a similar discussion was taking place down south. Large spiders down there do entrap the hummingbirds and will kill them. One person was able to free a hummer and clean off the webs. Other times they are found trapped and dead. There are many more hummingbirds down there than we see up here since they congregate and feed-up before migration. (Also, I believe LA has had 7 different species recorded.) Folks were talking about seeing around 80 hummingbirds feeding in their yards!! (more than one person had 40 feeders going - 5 1/2 quarts of sugar water!!) The result of this is that Shrikes have learned that they can find an easy meal and will "monitor" the feeders. Hummingbirds are found impaled on tree thorns as a result. It sounds like our southern population is very concerned and attached to their large hummingbird population. More than one person continued to feed during the hurricanes. One person had to evacuate and leave her 40 feeders....she was very worried about that, having to leave the birds unfed since the nectar sources, obviously, were lost.
Charlene Anchor
----- Original Message -----
From: Sloan, Bernie
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 12:09 PM
To:
Subject: [Birdnotes] Hummers and mantises
I was looking through the Birdnotes archives last night and ran across a
thread from early September that discussed hummers and mantises.
Just wanted to mention that this was also a topic on the
BLOOMINGTON-BIRDS (Bloomington, Indiana) list at about that same time.
The original topic had to do with hummers and large garden spiders (the
person had a seen a hummer get caught in a garden spider's web...it
eventually escaped). One of the list members wrote the following:
"I have seen a chinese mantid catch and kill a hummer before so I assume
the spider might try. I would guess though that unless it was a huge
garden spider, and they do get large, it would not attempt to catch the
hummer but cut it free."
Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL 61820-5752
Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax: (217) 265-0454
E-mail:
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From bpalmore at egix.net Wed Oct 5 10:26:24 2005
From: bpalmore at egix.net (Bland Palmore)
Date: Wed Oct 5 10:28:27 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Turkey news
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Turkeys in back yard today on Brighton, Urbana. Anyone else spotted them
around town?
From spunksk8tr at hotmail.com Wed Oct 5 17:29:59 2005
From: spunksk8tr at hotmail.com (Mary McLeod)
Date: Wed Oct 5 17:30:06 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Turkey news
In-Reply-To: <>
Message-ID: <>
Two weeks ago, the four of them spent a few days pecking and meandering up
and down East Burkwood Court.
Mary McLeod
>From: Bland Palmore <>
>To:
>Subject: [Birdnotes] Turkey news
>Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:26:24 -0500
>Turkeys in back yard today on Brighton, Urbana. Anyone else spotted them
>around town?
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From rdigges at excite.com Thu Oct 6 10:53:52 2005
From: rdigges at excite.com (Roger)
Date: Thu Oct 6 10:53:57 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] White-throated sparrow
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Heard my first singing White-throated Sparrow while walking in my southeast Urbana neighborhood this morning. He sounded a little rusty, but nice to hear him.
Roger Digges
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From gh4444 at insightbb.com Fri Oct 7 08:30:49 2005
From: gh4444 at insightbb.com (g.huguet)
Date: Fri Oct 7 08:35:03 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
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8:30 am 4 turkeys just seen in backyard at 1204 E. Brighton Urbana
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From charleneanchor at msn.com Fri Oct 7 12:18:18 2005
From: charleneanchor at msn.com (charlene anchor)
Date: Fri Oct 7 12:13:09 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
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If they keep hanging around you could have them for Thanksgiving! (bad joke)
Charlene Anchor
----- Original Message -----
From: g.huguet
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 8:35 AM
To:
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
8:30 am 4 turkeys just seen in backyard at 1204 E. Brighton Urbana
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From rdigges at excite.com Sat Oct 8 07:41:52 2005
From: rdigges at excite.com (Roger)
Date: Sat Oct 8 07:41:58 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Turkeys
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My wife and I spotted the four turkeys on Evergreen Court this morning, chowing down on a neighbor's carefully sown grass seed. They seem very tame; our dogs were within 30 feet of them, and while they stayed alert, they didn't move.
Roger Digges
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From charleneanchor at msn.com Sat Oct 8 19:34:18 2005
From: charleneanchor at msn.com (charlene anchor)
Date: Sat Oct 8 19:29:10 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Fw: Mahomet Conservation Area
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----- Original Message -----
From: charlene anchor
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 7:32 PM
To:
Subject: Mahomet Conservation Area
This morning, besides all the usual regulars, seen were: Yellow-rumped Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, White-throated Sparrow, Winter Wren, Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Meadowlark (eating and singing in the corn stubble), Palm Warbler (many in the prairie), Blue-headed Vireo, Dark-eyed Junco and White-crowned Sparrow.
Keeping the birds and me company were 1000's of Starlings and 100's of cross-country runners.
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From jbchato at uiuc.edu Mon Oct 10 11:20:06 2005
From: jbchato at uiuc.edu (John & Beth Chato)
Date: Mon Oct 10 11:20:11 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
Message-ID: <>
Monday, October 10.
I accidently got the latest news on south east Urbana's wandering turkey
family. They are now in Yankee Ridge Subdivision, roosting in a large tree
on Sherwin Circle and eating weed seeds in a vacant lot. An unknown
lady, meaning to call a friend, dialled my number by mistake and said,
"the turkeys are back!" I said what turkeys, where? and got the scoop. It
would be fun to take a map and pinpoint all the sightings. I think these are
the same group of three young plus the mother which were first seen in
Wheatfield Park. Now they are all the same size.
John C. Chato
714 W. Vermont Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
217-344-6803
From bpalmore at egix.net Mon Oct 10 11:43:27 2005
From: bpalmore at egix.net (Bland Palmore)
Date: Mon Oct 10 11:43:30 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Turkey tracking
Message-ID: <>
First seen on Brighton (901) end of Sept. On Brighton (1202A) Oct. 5;
Evergreen Court; Oct. 8; Yankee Ridge subdivision Oct. 10.
(Brighton is in Sunnycreat area)
From bpalmore at egix.net Mon Oct 10 15:39:56 2005
From: bpalmore at egix.net (Bland Palmore)
Date: Mon Oct 10 15:39:58 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] forgot a Turkey sighting
Message-ID: <>
October 7, 1204 E. Brighton.
From rdigges at excite.com Mon Oct 10 20:28:00 2005
From: rdigges at excite.com (Roger)
Date: Mon Oct 10 20:28:09 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
Message-ID: <>
Seen at west end of East Evergreen Court on October 8th.
Roger Digges
--- On Mon 10/10, John & Beth Chato < > wrote:
From: John & Beth Chato [mailto:
To:
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:20:06 -0500
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
Monday, October 10.<br>I accidently got the latest news on south east Urbana's wandering turkey <br>family. They are now in Yankee Ridge Subdivision, roosting in a large tree <br>on Sherwin Circle and eating weed seeds in a vacant lot. An unknown <br>lady, meaning to call a friend, dialled my number by mistake and said, <br>"the turkeys are back!" I said what turkeys, where? and got the scoop. It <br>would be fun to take a map and pinpoint all the sightings. I think these are <br>the same group of three young plus the mother which were first seen in <br>Wheatfield Park. Now they are all the same size.<br>John C. Chato<br>714 W. Vermont Ave.<br>Urbana, IL 61801<br>217-344-6803<br>______<br>Birdnotes mailing list<br><br>
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From bernies at uillinois.edu Mon Oct 10 20:55:27 2005
From: bernies at uillinois.edu (Sloan, Bernie)
Date: Mon Oct 10 20:55:28 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
Message-ID: <>
As someone who lives in the neighborhood, I am so very disappointed that
I recently have been pretty much out of town during the turkey
sightings! :-(
I was near St. Louis (end of last week), in Bloomington, IN (the
weekend), Chicago (last night and most of today), briefly in Urbana
(Sunday AM and tonight), and I am heading to Peoria for the rest of the
week.
But I have been liberally lacing my back yard with bird feed (when I am
home) in hopes of sighting the turkeys...
The one thing I find myself wondering about is why there haven't been
sightings reported in Meadowbrook Park? Lots of people go through
Meadowbrook, and there are lots of food sources there...just curious.
Bernie Sloan
-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto: On Behalf Of John & Beth
Chato
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:20 AM
To: Birdnotes
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
Monday, October 10.
I accidently got the latest news on south east Urbana's wandering turkey
family. They are now in Yankee Ridge Subdivision, roosting in a large
tree
on Sherwin Circle and eating weed seeds in a vacant lot. An unknown
lady, meaning to call a friend, dialled my number by mistake and said,
"the turkeys are back!" I said what turkeys, where? and got the scoop.
It
would be fun to take a map and pinpoint all the sightings. I think these
are
the same group of three young plus the mother which were first seen in
Wheatfield Park. Now they are all the same size.
John C. Chato
714 W. Vermont Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
217-344-6803
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From bernies at uillinois.edu Mon Oct 10 23:47:47 2005
From: bernies at uillinois.edu (Sloan, Bernie)
Date: Mon Oct 10 23:47:52 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
Message-ID: <>
I asked about why there hadn't been sightings in Meadowbrook...
I received a reply off list indicating that there had been two
Meadowbrook sightings called in to the CCAS phone.
Bernie Sloan
-----Original Message-----
From: Sloan, Bernie
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 8:55 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [Birdnotes] turkeys
As someone who lives in the neighborhood, I am so very disappointed that
I recently have been pretty much out of town during the turkey
sightings! :-(
I was near St. Louis (end of last week), in Bloomington, IN (the
weekend), Chicago (last night and most of today), briefly in Urbana
(Sunday AM and tonight), and I am heading to Peoria for the rest of the
week.
But I have been liberally lacing my back yard with bird feed (when I am
home) in hopes of sighting the turkeys...
The one thing I find myself wondering about is why there haven't been
sightings reported in Meadowbrook Park? Lots of people go through
Meadowbrook, and there are lots of food sources there...just curious.
Bernie Sloan
-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto: On Behalf Of John & Beth
Chato
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:20 AM
To: Birdnotes
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
Monday, October 10.
I accidently got the latest news on south east Urbana's wandering turkey
family. They are now in Yankee Ridge Subdivision, roosting in a large
tree
on Sherwin Circle and eating weed seeds in a vacant lot. An unknown
lady, meaning to call a friend, dialled my number by mistake and said,
"the turkeys are back!" I said what turkeys, where? and got the scoop.
It
would be fun to take a map and pinpoint all the sightings. I think these
are
the same group of three young plus the mother which were first seen in
Wheatfield Park. Now they are all the same size.
John C. Chato
714 W. Vermont Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
217-344-6803
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From vaiden at isgs.uiuc.edu Tue Oct 11 08:56:54 2005
From: vaiden at isgs.uiuc.edu (Vaiden, Robert)
Date: Tue Oct 11 08:57:01 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] backyard birds
Message-ID: <>
Backyard birds this weekend...
White Throated Sparrows
Ruby Crowned Kinglets
Palm Warblers
Redstart
Goldfinches
Swaisons Thrush
Vulture
Blue Jays
Carolina Wren
...and several other unidentified li'l birds...
Cooper Hawk Monday evening...5:45...Urbana downtown-Busey Bank.
(Crow > Hawk > Pigeon situation)
Brown Creeper...Parkland courtyard.
Bob :-)
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From gh4444 at insightbb.com Tue Oct 11 10:04:47 2005
From: gh4444 at insightbb.com (g.huguet)
Date: Tue Oct 11 10:09:17 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] turkeys
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the 4 turkeys were seen this morning at 8:15 on the ball diamonds south of yankee ridge school
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From lambeth at ad.uiuc.edu Wed Oct 12 09:14:16 2005
From: lambeth at ad.uiuc.edu (Gregory S Lambeth)
Date: Wed Oct 12 09:14:18 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Chimney Swifts
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There were about 100 Chimney Swifts flying around the Lincoln Square Mall area in downtown Urbana last evening at dusk. We probably have just a few more days to enjoy these birds before they're gone for the next 6 months!
Greg
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From charleneanchor at msn.com Wed Oct 12 10:15:21 2005
From: charleneanchor at msn.com (charlene anchor)
Date: Wed Oct 12 10:10:11 2005
Subject: [Birdnotes] Chimney Swifts