Hi All, Just thought we would draft a quick note. Yesterday afternoon we went to Condie and picked up 4 male Common Mergansers amongst the Canada Geese. ...
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cmbb@...
Apr 3, 2001 5:50 pm
A Barred Owl was sighted a block south of Weyburn's courthouse this past Sunday. It was at the courthouse that the poisoned Barred Owl was collected on the...
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cmbb@...
Apr 6, 2001 3:05 pm
Light southeast winds, cloudless morning. Skeins of white geese with black tipped wings are flying overhead. I believe that in the 1950s hunters bagged...
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Harv Lane
hdlane@...
Apr 9, 2001 11:41 pm
Hi folks, I believe I once worked on this book about 20 years ago. It's wonderful to finally see it come in to being. I haven't seen the book but I know most...
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Harv Lane
hdlane@...
Apr 9, 2001 11:46 pm
Hi folks, Another note I picked up off the Albertabirds site ... anybody heading to BC and wants to go pelagic birding. I can't go but I'd certainly do it in...
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trevor.herriot@...
Apr 10, 2001 2:52 pm
Greetings all: Yesterday on the walk home from downtown I found a pigeon wing on the sidewalk below the west wall of the SGI building in Regina. This morning ...
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Sandy Ayer
hdayer@...
Apr 10, 2001 9:21 pm
Trevor's observation brings to mind one of my favorite poems about birds: A puff of feathers, crimsoned grey, Upon the garden walk: God careth for the sparrow,...
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Harv Lane
hdlane@...
Apr 10, 2001 10:24 pm
Hi folks, If this sounds as ominous to you as it does to me, take a few minutes and send a reply to the government committee involved. Cheers, Harv After years...
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Kreba, Robert MACH
rkreba@...
Apr 11, 2001 1:55 am
Sandy (&, I hope, fellow SaskBirders), What a lovely poem, I just read it to a friend of mine over the 'phone, and she said "Did you write that?" and I was...
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Kreba, Robert MACH
rkreba@...
Apr 11, 2001 2:03 am
Hello again all, Well, I guess that this important communication never went out after all, so I'll try it again this way. Regards, RK ... From: Kreba, Robert...
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gswap@...
Apr 12, 2001 1:51 am
Hello Fellow SaskBirders! It seems like eons since my last posting and after this one, you'll probably hope it's just as long until the next one! The usual...
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micknsharon
micknsharon@...
Apr 12, 2001 5:13 am
I am new to your group but thought I might add the odd snippet of info. On 7th April at 15:45 there were 5 American White Pelicans soaring over Circle Drive...
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Harv Lane
hdlane@...
Apr 12, 2001 1:54 pm
Hi Mick, Welcome to the group. April 7th is quite early for pelicans ... that's a great sighting. I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't even seen a bluebird...
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Larry de March
ldemarch@...
Apr 13, 2001 12:06 am
Hello all I'm planning to be a Saskbirder for part of this weekend - Fri. evening to Monday night, returning to Winnipeg Tues. I would appreciate it if you...
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cmbb@...
Apr 13, 2001 8:22 pm
First spring Little Blue Heron was seen on April 12 by the Highway 39 at Yellow Grass. Identified by Janice Phillips looking at Sibley....
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gswap@...
Apr 14, 2001 9:35 am
Morning Group! Quick note upon my return from Melville early this a.m. and before we blast off to Estevan. Called out fittingly enough at 0100 on Friday the...
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cmbb@...
Apr 14, 2001 2:18 pm
Sorry group, For not reporting "our" Snow Geese. They have been carpeting the fields along Carol's bus route ( north of Weyburn) like locusts in a plague....
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Nolan Matthies
nmatthies@...
Apr 14, 2001 8:39 pm
Hi All, Yesterday yielded a spotted sandpiper and lesser yellowlegs at Cinema 6 slough south of Regina and a bufflehead at Condie. Nolan ... From:...
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Nolan Matthies
nmatthies@...
Apr 16, 2001 2:33 pm
Ken Kessler from Chaplin spotted a Whopping Crane Friday April 13 near Pangman Sk. Nolan Matthies Saskatchewan Wetland Conservation Corporation (SWCC) #101,...
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micknsharon@...
Apr 17, 2001 12:31 am
Travelled from Saskatoon to Humboldt on Fri 13th April with a few nice sightings. Most ponds had a pair or two of Canada Goose hanging around, a flock of 50+...
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Nolan Matthies
nmatthies@...
Apr 17, 2001 2:35 pm
I was out near Weyburn on Sunday and the most noteworthy sighting other than the 60,000+ snow geese at Yellow Grass was an American Kestrel hovering over the...
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trevor.herriot@...
Apr 17, 2001 5:33 pm
Hi all: I am wondering if anyone in the province has seen any migrating white-throated sparrows yet. On the weekend I was visiting in Saskatoon and I took a...
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cmbb@...
Apr 18, 2001 1:08 am
Trevor, We have only seen Juncos and Tree Sparrows in the Weyburn area. Yesterday we were by the Souris River at Roche Percee where we counted ten Bald ...
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ldemarch@...
Apr 18, 2001 1:17 pm
Hi All I tried to send this on Monday, but it bounced. I haven't seen terribly much at all this weekend, either along the Yellowhead or near Prud'homme and...
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Sandy Ayer
hdayer@...
Apr 18, 2001 3:57 pm
I was among the 500 or so participants in this year's stations of the cross walk through downtown Regina on Good Friday morning. At ground level we were...
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Sandy Ayer
hdayer@...
Apr 18, 2001 4:06 pm
Since butterflies are the next thing to honorary birds, I thought I'd see if anyone on the list could help me identify my first butterfly of the season. The...
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trevor.herriot@...
Apr 18, 2001 4:55 pm
Hi Sandy: That is a good description of a Milbert's Toritoiseshell, one of the first butterflies out and about in Spring. They overwinter in the adult form and...
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cmbb@...
Apr 18, 2001 10:17 pm
Our first sighting in Weyburn of a Milbert's (or once called Fire Rim) Tortoise Shell was on March 29. It then got cold again and we haven't seen one since! ...
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Daniel Neves
danseven@...
Apr 18, 2001 11:28 pm
Hello everyone: North the QE powerplant turbine discharge and South of the CN trainbridge in Saskatoon is a first year glaucous gull. This gull displays the...
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Robert Ewart
robert.ewart@...
Apr 19, 2001 3:43 am
I took a little time to do some birding around Wascana Lake this afternoon. Wood Duck Mallard 100's N. Pintail N. Shoveler Canvasback Scaup Common Goldeneye ...
