Hi all, Chazz Hesselein just called this morning at 10:30 to report there are 6 BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS at the Blakeley Island Mud Lakes Site in Mobile...
This morning at 10:30 am I found at least six Black-bellied Whistling Ducks at the Blakeley Dredge site. I left very soon thereafter but the ducks were still...
Hi All- I went to Vulcan Trail this morning to check on the Cooperıs Hawks. One of the adults was at the nest tending to some very rambunctious nestlings...
Good Morning Albirders After a shortage of Ruby-throated hummingbirds around our place, the last three days have shown a marked increase in the population....
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Jun 2, 2008 1:47 pm
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AL Birders: Now that we're past the spring reporting season (March-May), here's my quarterly reminder about submitting bird records. I have anything posted to...
My oldest daughter and her husband have been living in Puerto Rico for the last 2 years. They are relocating back to the states in June. Carrie and I have...
Hi all, I found a breeding plumage ROSEATE TERN at the "cut" down Ft. Pickens Rd about 8 a.m. today. It was associating with about 50 Black Terns. It had bands...
Just a note to announce the following recent Alabama Bird Records Committee (ABRC) activities: 1.? Betsy Tetlow (Pensacola, FL) was elected to fill the most...
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Jun 4, 2008 10:18 pm
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I had an opportunity, while leading a birding recreational activity for a professional society I belong to, to visit the Blakeley Island Port Authority...
Bob and I biked and hoofed it out to the cut again this afternoon looking for the Roseate Tern he found this morning. Alas, it was not to be found. We did get...
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Jun 5, 2008 9:51 am
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I will be out of the office starting 06/05/2008 and will not return until 06/09/2008. I will have no access to my emails while I am gone. If you need...
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Jun 5, 2008 3:01 pm
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Bob and I had no luck again today looking for the Roseate Tern he found on Wed. June 4. The shorebirds are thinning out and we had only 7 spp there....
Hi All- A busy work week kept me from visiting Vulcan Trail until this evening, when I stopped about 6:30 to check on the progress of the young in the nest....
Thursday I had an opportunity to do a bit of birding on the west end of Dauphin Island. Some of the birds I saw included many Black Terns (wearing anything...
Chazz, Typically the small numbers of non-breeding shorebirds you find in Alabama in the summer are first-year birds. Some first-year (nearly one year old)...
This morning my wife, Martha (bad foot and all), and I braved the heat to look for Red Knots on Dauphin Island. A short walk on Pelican Island didn't reveal...
Chazz, You are 2/3 correct! First, it was HOT!! Second, there was a surf scoter...but, where you miss was there were TWO, a male and female! We went back to...
Howdy Folks, U.S. Representatives Ron Kind (D-WI) and Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) have introduced bipartisan legislation to better fund efforts to protect migratory...
Hello, My name is Ivan and I'm a Masters Student at UFMG, in Brazil. In my dissertation I'll try to reconstruct some intra-genus phylogeny inside the...
Hey All- I have a request from my friend Sandra Allinson at the Alabama Wildlife Center. As you can see from her message below, Sandra has a two-week old...
Argentina Birdwatching is preparing a couple of tours for this season Additional info at: http://www.argentinabirdwatching.com/ 1. Birding Northwestern...
I just noticed a Mississippi Kite exhibiting territorial behavior right over my house. First, three kites flew in from the northeast and disappeared behind...
Last summer, I found male and female Tree Swallows along with a juvenile at a shallow pond in White Hall. Two weeks ago, when running a Breeding Bird Survey...
I will be out of the office starting 06/13/2008 and will not return until 06/23/2008. I will have no access to my emails while I am gone. If you need...
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Jun 15, 2008 3:03 am
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A retired teacher found Yellow-crowned Night Herons nesting on her street in the Central Park area. BAS members were invited, so Maureen Schaeffer and I went...
Hi all, Just when I thought not much would happen until July migrants start trickling in, I found a silent Black-whiskered Vireo, barbatulus race (S. Fl) on my...
Piggybacking on Bob's theme, on Friday June 13 I heard a singing CERULEAN WARBLER in a small (~10 acre) wooded lot smack dab between a county road and busy AL...
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Jun 16, 2008 4:50 pm
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It has been too hot for me to take picture for a couple of weeks now. The Eastern Bluebirds had one brood to fledged already. The second brood should be...
Hi all, Mad dogs and Englishmen (and gung-ho birders) go out in the noonday sun. Well not exactly. I arrived at the Ft. Pickens closed gate at about 7 a.m.,...
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