All Today,I saw the female Red-bellied Woodpecker near the intersection of 20 Avenue East and Macdonald Street. It was very vocal and feeding upon peanuts....
Hello everyone: While my wife and I were out and about in balmy -3 C (better than -30) temperatures we came across a male Mountain bluebird flitting from post...
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tsb2001
tsb2001@...
Feb 3, 2002 10:46 pm
Dan This bird is probably one of the two reported by Dr, Robert Johanson on January 05. during the Pike Lake CBC. Isn't it amazing that this bird apparently...
Hi folks, My sister is going to western Africa, Sierra Leone to be exact, and has been unable to locate a bird book for that area. She leaves in 2 weeks for a...
Dear Harv I sympathise with your sister's problem. I spent some time in Nigeria (which shares many of the same birds as Sierra Leone) in 1980 and had to make...
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Sandy Ayer
hdayer@...
Feb 4, 2002 3:04 pm
Harv, She could also try calling the ABA bookstore (cf. ABA website) in Colorado Springs or doing a search on www.bookfinder.com The latter covers both new and...
Hi Ken, Thanks for the help. I really didn't have any idea what books would be useful. The biggest problem is that she leaves in 2 weeks and I don't know if...
I spent two pleasant hours on Saturday 02-Feb looking for this rare bird at the east end of Wascana Lake as reported by someone on this group a few days ago,...
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tsb2001
tsb2001@...
Feb 5, 2002 4:44 am
JK The bird was in a backyard of the house (on the north side) at the intersection of McDonald St. and 20 Th Ave. It was difficult to find that day,unless...
Thanks Bob. I'll do that next time. How does one reply privately in this list? I think this is going out to the whole group which is OK but it doesn't need...
Dear Harv Just to clarify: abebooks.com is a sort of clearing house where you can review the stocks of many different bookshops. There's always a chance that...
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Sandy Ayer
hdayer@...
Feb 5, 2002 7:07 pm
Hi Harv, The site I mentioned in my previous e-mail to the list, www.bookfinder.com includes abebooks in the hundreds of sites it indexes, but I still think...
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trevor.herriot@...
Feb 5, 2002 9:49 pm
Hello Saskbird Folk: We took the family cross-country skiing to Moose Mountain on the weekend. On the ski trails near the golf course and driving the roads and...
Hi Group, Just back from a long voyage home from Melville. Called for train 303 at 0325---won't bore you with the in between details for once---arrived in...
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tsb2001
tsb2001@...
Feb 5, 2002 11:21 pm
Guy You didn't mention that you were here on a very chilly late afternoon. Seeing the bird after 4:00 p.m. is proving to be very difficult if not impossible !...
Dear Harv I've now found the title of the latest book. "Birds of Western Africa" by Nick Borrow and someone whose name I cannot read! It is published in the...
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Martin Bailey
cmbb@...
Feb 6, 2002 7:18 pm
Can't remember if we have reported that between Weyburn and 35 miles north, we have only been seeing male snowy owls all winter. This fits in with the theory...
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Martin Bailey
cmbb@...
Feb 7, 2002 1:07 pm
Bob, An interesting take on gooses (Geese is old English.) Martin ... biodiversity inevitably messy. A study on geese just published in the Proceedings of the...
Heh Martin, that was an interesting article on geese(being an old Englishman). I am a layman with no scientific qualifications and sometimes some of these...
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Martin Bailey
cmbb@...
Feb 7, 2002 7:21 pm
... From: "micknsharon" <micknsharon@...> To: <Saskbirds@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:23 AM Subject: [Saskbirds] Heavy...
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I'm back from my trip to Saskatoon (attended the Industrial Safety Seminar, then had a meeting right after that and into today...) Long week!!! Great to be...
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Martin Bailey
cmbb@...
Feb 8, 2002 2:43 am
... I have no idea. All that I can say, by way of example, is that by sight there is a Trail's Flycatcher. It only becomes a Willow or Alder flycatcher when...
... Trail's ... sings out. ... Yes, now there's another thing that I cant get on with the songs, but identifying birds by their song is something I have always...
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Liis Veelma
lveelma@...
Feb 8, 2002 4:44 am
Hello! If I remember correctly, there were at least two changes that were anticipated that did not happen...so you can change the American Magpie back to...
... that were ... Magpie back ... updates at the ... Thanks for that, but as far as I could make out, the split did take place and they decided to keep the...
Hello everyone, I just subscribed to this list. Reading back over the messages I did not see either Merlin or S E Owl on the Sask Bird list for 2002. I...
Hi Dale, Welcome to Saskbirds! What a way to start ... by adding 2 new birds to our 2002 list. Thanks and I hope we hear lots from you. I have included the ...
Harv's note yesterday made me realise I am already a long way behind with this years list. Some birds seem much easier to find than others. One bird that is...
Hello everyone: Grey morph Gyrfalcon at bottom of 4th Avenue and 19th. St. This is only 1/2 block from where I saw it last, and today it was there at 4:35p...
