Short range reflectivity radar out of Mobile early in the am shows rather significant purple martin roosts again dispersing from Dauphin Island bridge and the...
Bob and Lucy, you are probably right about the circle being herons in a rookery up in that neck of the woods--usually purple martins cluster around some...
John -- Will you give me your best estimate of the location of the cluster near Jackson. I will incorporate that information in the list of places I should fly...
RickLWest@...
Jul 4, 2005 4:38 pm
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We have added a new feature to Percevia: "Help Me Identify a Bird". You can ask our team of orinthologists to help you figure out what bird you are having...
Hi Al-Birders, After a good morning in the Pearson CE Atlas block, Stan & I decided to head further south to look for summer specialties. At the Marion Fish...
Birders99@...
Jul 4, 2005 10:42 pm
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Good Morning Albirders The last few mornings at our home in Clay, Alabama we have greeted the dawn doing some lazy man's birding. Sipping coffee and watching...
RubyThroat@...
Jul 5, 2005 10:47 am
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In the past AL and MS CBCs have been edited, along with TN CBCs, by one person, originally and for a long time by Tom Imhof from Alabama, later by Judy Toups...
Stephen J. Stedman
SSTEDMAN@...
Jul 5, 2005 3:18 pm
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Never go out your door without the binocs!!! Yesterday I did go out in the yard without the binocs only to see a bird fly off with dead oak twigs. I thought...
jjoa@...
Jul 5, 2005 8:04 pm
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Shorebirds are arriving! A trip to the Ft. Walton Beach Spray Fields today yielded 11 species. Among them were Semi-pal Plover, Willet, Marbled Godwit,...
Hi All- I had a phone message yesterday from a friend who was canoeing on the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River over the weekend. Just downstream of the ...
A Sooty Tern was in Pensacola Bay, Gulf Breeze side, at 8 am. Bob Duncan, Gulf Breeze, Santa Rosa Co., Fl. [Non-text portions of this message have been...
10:40 Wednesday morning In the wake of TS Cindi Laura Catterton just called to say that there were around 20 Sooty Terns at Project Greenshores a while ago;...
A Band-rumped Storm-Petrel spent about 3 hours in Pensacola Bay in front of our home in Gulf Breeze. Allowing liesurely looks, it was a life bird for seven...
Make that about 25 Sooty Terns near the parking lot at the Ft. Pickens entrance this morning. I had to walk quite a way into the tropical storm force winds and...
I am interested in getting the CBC 2005 dates for the following counts and would appreciate any help: Pensacola Choctawhatchee Perdido Mobile Gulf Shores Ft....
AL Birders: Debi and I went to Harpersville this afternoon to see if T.S. Cindy dropped anything interesting in her path. The sod farms, though flush with ...
While Carrie and I were on our way to batten down at Dauphin island we saw a Pied-billed Grebe alongside I-10 bridge in Mobile Bay. Is this guy an early...
There is a small flock of a half dozen or so white pelicans in Langan Park in Mobile. A co-worker first spotted them Tuesday, July 5 and I went by the park...
My daughter and I will be driving (slowly) from Nashville, TN to Lake Charles, LA later in July. We plan to take the Natchez Trace on the trip down and return...
HagieCas@...
Jul 8, 2005 3:30 pm
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Hazel, I believe I just recently read on MISSBIRD about a guide being put together for the Trace. The address I show for that is missbird@......
Jud Johnston
stkite@...
Jul 8, 2005 7:40 pm
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Hi Folks Our resident "Rain Crow" is overtly vocal today. Do you think he might be trying to tell us something? Larry Knorr NW Chilton County...
Drove to the Walter F George Dam,below Eufaula, this morning to find 7 Sooty Terns. These birds were seen from the gate at the dam as they were flying near the...
jjoa@...
Jul 12, 2005 12:18 am
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AL Birders: Debi and I went down to Miller's Ferry on the Alabama River in Wilcox County today, arriving about 9 a.m. We found a few storm waifs, though not...
Y'all did far better than I did - as did folks up in Tennessee. I decided to try fairly near but northeast of the eyewall break up - at Millers Ferry Dam near...
Fellow Albirders During the wind and rains of Hurricane Dennis, many apparent migrant birds were seen in our yard in Clay, Alabama (Jefferson County). Among...
RubyThroat@...
Jul 12, 2005 1:03 pm
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Pickwick Reservoir Hardin Co., TN Tishomingo Co., MS Lauderdale Co. AL I started this morning at Bruton Branch, where I was soon joined by Jeff Wilson and...
Hi Albirders, Yesterday afternoon, I found a dying Sooty Tern in Opelika off Route 14, Opelika Road, near the Auburn City Line. I took to it to be be ...
Some hawks, and presumably Mississippi Kites, add greenery to their nest throughout the nesting period. The Kites still sitting on the nest in the city park...
RickLWest@...
Jul 12, 2005 8:50 pm
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Paul, Dr. Dusi had a Sooty tern in Lee county a couple of storms ago. Not sure of the date.Lorna West ... From: hemlockwarbler...
jjoa@...
Jul 12, 2005 10:02 pm
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YOUR RIGHT TO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS AT RISK -- MEETING TO BE HELD FOR YOUR REGION (TX, LA, MS & AL) NEXT WEEK! You may have heard of it but you're not...