ALBirders, I thought it best to reply to the entire listserv on this subject as so many people expressed interest. I'm sorry about not responding earlier but I...
Jackie Hight called that our friend Gordon Lee Hight died this afternoon. No arrangements have been made at this time. Tommy Pratt Prattville, Alabama ...
To All: Gordon's services will be graveside at Myrtle Hill Cemetery Rome, Georgia on Friday 08-06-04 at 11:00. The family request memorial be sent to St....
Yesterday brought a Pileated woodpecker, b/w,M hooded, Parula and a Cerulean in the yard; today only Parula and hooded and fledging red bellied. I rode out...
jjoa@...
Aug 6, 2004 11:51 pm
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Please pardon an off topic post. The Dauphin Island Property Owners Association is currently conducting what may very well be the most important election in...
I just bought a pair of Olympus 8x25 compacts over the internet and the focus knob is a little too stiff. Does anyone know of a way to safely reduce the...
After reading Lucy's post this morning my wife and I searched our neighborhood for warblers, but without any luck. We did find 2 Mississippi Kites, a...
Hello Alabama Birding Friends! Yesterday, Rick & Susan Remy, Stan and I made a large loop through the central western part of the state looking for Kites, Wood...
Birders99@...
Aug 10, 2004 1:40 am
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Here is a link to an article featuring statements by several far North biologists to the effect that shorebird breeding has been very poor this spring and...
Jud wrote: "Here is a link to an article featuring statements by several far North biologists to the effect that shorebird breeding has been very poor this ...
Monkpiper@...
Aug 10, 2004 10:00 pm
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In a message dated 8/10/2004 5:01:29 PM Central Standard Time, Monkpiper@... writes: Almost 9000 shorebirds -- how many of them were juveniles??? ... I...
Hi y'all, Lunch hour birding at the Mama Rosa Ponds, and the Okaloosa Landfill ponds revealed that fall migration is definitely underway. Numbers of migrant...
Monkpiper@...
Aug 11, 2004 7:34 pm
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My wife Carrie and I have spent another fruitless hour trying to locate a bird that is calling from the treetops in our neighborhood. We started hearing this...
... Young Great Horned Owls have all sorts of weird screeches and calls. This sounds like it might be the answer. There exists a owl web page that has a lot...
Shirley Wayland and I spent two hours this morning in 55 degree air, no humidity and a gentle northerly breeze(AUGUST ?!?!) along the TVA Wetlands Trails. We...
TNbarredowl@...
Aug 13, 2004 1:58 pm
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Two trips to Dauphin Island having produced fewer migrants than Lucy Duncan has in her yard, Carrie and I decided to check on Ft Morgan today. Walking out to...
Barbara Byrd gave me a call this morning to report 3 Gray Kingbirds near Penalver Park (just W of Gulf Breeze Motel on Cadillac). I went to enjoy and found 2,...
Actually it was more like three golds, but more on that in a minute. This morning's cool temperatures belied the fact that it is the middle of August and the...
Carrie and I drove through the Foley Sod Farms saturday afternoon. There weren't a lot of birds, but what was there was interesting. Best birds were Upland...
Good evening everyone- I need to beg everyone's forgiveness and correct an error concerning the directions I posted in last night's message about the kites....
Greg Harber gave one of his Swallow-tails the Gold today - but there were other judges out there. And I might have voted a 16-way tie. Pat Johnson was...
Yesterday I took a very short stroll through the shell mounds at Dauphin Island with my daughter who puts me on a very short leash when it comes to my birding....
I took my kids fishing today, on Dauphin Island, as it was their last free day before school resumes tomorrow. It was a miserable day for fishing. We had a...
I took my wife and my camera back to Dauphin Island this morning to take pictures of the Gray Kingbirds. The only problem was I forgot to inform the Kingbirds...
Oops. A correction on my post. I should have said Swallow-tails and 84 others. I double-counted some birds. Still, a great day! Even despite the chiggers. ...
Speaking of cottonmouths. I was trying to bird with a few work associates at the shell mounds this past spring. It was May and the migration was essentially...
ALBirders, The season is winding down in Tuskegee NF. Very few birds are vocal now and most breeding birds have begun to disperse or have departed entirely....
Birders, A Roseate Spoonbill has been spotted today near Alabaster by Ted Vodde. He photographed the bird and suspects the hurricane chased it up here. ...
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