Hi everyone. Remember the debate we had about this hawk? Cooper's or Sharpie? http://weaselhead.org/images/galleries/coopers_hawk_02/default.asp Well it's...
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tsb2001
tsb2001@...
Feb 2, 2002 3:29 am
Brent This is probably a female Sharp-shined Hawk ! I'm reversing myself because the head and bill structure plus the tail looks correct for that species. The...
Hi Brent, The accipiter in the second set of photos you posted is clearly not the same bird as the first link and set of photos. The second set of photos ...
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Jean Marie Moore
jmmoore@...
Feb 2, 2002 6:18 pm
Stopped in Exshaw to look for the Rosy-Finches on a trip home from the mountains on Thursday afternoon, Jan 31. Saw ca 25 at the feeders on Barrier Mtn (or...
Hello everyone. Thanks to everyone who attended today's tour of the Tsuu T'ina Nation's half of the Weaselhead. The images from the day are in the gallery...
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Andrew Slater
andrewslater@...
Feb 2, 2002 11:40 pm
Apparently the morning is the time to see Rosy Finches in Exshaw. I was there at about 9.15 am on Feb 1st, the morning after Jean. There were about a dozen...
Brent: I believe you've correctly identified both birds. Both appear to be Sharp-shinned Hawks based on the following characters in combination: The juvenile...
Has anyone been seeing Gray-cheeked (Hepburn's) Rosy-Finch (Leucosticte arctoa littoralis) among the Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches? There were two or three in...
Of the 700 -800 Gray-Crowned Rosy-Finches at Exshaw on January 27, 2002, Jim Black and I only found the Interior (Gray-crowned) Finches. We spent a lot of...
The very large flock of Rosy-Finches was in the trees and feeders on Barrier Mountain Drive in Exshaw this morning, putting on a fine display for the CFNS...
Hi everyone. I'm sooooo confused. Are these birds the same species? http://weaselhead.org/images/redpoll_to_redpoll.jpg Best regards, Brent Johner ICQ --...
Hi All , I have added a photo of the mystry hawk taken Friday Feb 1 with Brent Johner at the Weaselhead . This sure looks like the Coopers Hawk photos in my...
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Bill Walker
walkerw@...
Feb 4, 2002 9:52 pm
Walk with wife at Votier's Flats. At 2:15 a male Black-backed working a large tree about 50 m. from the east end of bridge 10. South side of middle path off...
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mike mulligan
potoo@...
Feb 4, 2002 10:44 pm
Bill I leave for TX on Thur and Wed is tied up, so I guess I have to try for the Black-b tomorrow. Thanks for letting me know and for the explicit directions. ...
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mike mulligan
potoo@...
Feb 5, 2002 3:04 am
Lil Bartel of Calgary is travelling to Sierra Leone and Guinea in a couple weeks. She is looking for A Field Guide to Birds of West Africa by Serle and ...
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Andrew Slater
andrewslater@...
Feb 6, 2002 6:26 pm
After finding no Dipper at the bend in Fish Creek above Bridge 9 this morning, I located it at 10.15 about one hundred yards below Bridge 10, in the smallest...
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Lloyd and Yolanda Ben...
ybennett@...
Feb 7, 2002 5:19 pm
A thrush found in Lethbridge since December, first thought to be a Swainson's, was identified last week by the Dolmans as a Hermit Thrush. I was able to see...
Rashly or otherwise, I have agreed to lead a CFNS outing to look for falcons east of Calgary this coming Saturday. We will in fact be looking for whatever we...
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Andrew Purvis
andrew.purvis@...
Feb 8, 2002 4:58 am
- RBA * Alberta (Canada) * Calgary, AB * February 4, 2002 * ABCA0202.04 - Birds mentioned - Transcript Hotline: City of Calgary Wildlife Information Line...
Bill, Good luck in your falcon hunting! I know that a Gyrfalcon is seen from time to time preying on ducks in the Carburn Park/Beaverdam area. I will be...
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Bill Walker
walkerw@...
Feb 9, 2002 6:36 pm
Returning at 10:15 from a run on the prairies, I turned into the lane heading for my garage in Parkland and there was a Bobcart. It jumped up on a fence,...
These are a few of the common winter birds seen by Bernard and Therese Goulet and Alan Fishkin this Saturday. Exshaw: The usual flock of Gray-crowned...
The falcon trip on Saturday turned up a very nice Prairie Falcon a few km east of the city, along Glenmore Trail, a lifer for at least one participant. We also...
Good work Bill. When do we get to see the pics? This has been an interesting winter so far. Allan ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Grant Gussie
grant.gussie@...
Feb 10, 2002 6:23 pm
I found a juvenile acciptier in Bebo Grove, Fish Creek Park, at 900AM on Sunday Feb 10. The bird was sitting in a poplar just east of the picnic tables and I...
22 participants turned out this morning for the Annual CFNS Duck Waddle beside the Bow River in Calgary from Carburn Park to Beaverdam Flats. The temperature...
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Martha_Hekman@...
Feb 11, 2002 8:01 am
I will be out of the office starting 2002/02/08 and will not return until 2002/02/20. If your request is urgent you can write to <keith robinson@...> ...
Hi, Unfortunately I never made it up for the falcon finding trip east of Calgary on saturday so I decided to look a little closer to home. I decided to look...
Hi everyone. Our winter mystery bird of the Weaselhead appears to be maturing. She is also making me insane because I chased her around for 2 hours today and ...
