Hi all Julie, Mary, Susan and I headed to said lake to look for the Red-necked Grebe. It didn't oblige us again. I'd be very disappointed if I hadn't seen many...
The following are posted at the request of Gail Menk. I. On 21 Nov I listed a female Golden-crowned Kinglet near the cul-de-sac on Longleaf Road which in past...
After reading Gails latest ditty I counted the number of Golden-crowned Kinglets I have seen over the last couple of months and reached a conservative personal...
Gail Menk reports sighting a Horned Grebe at Lake Ella in Tallahassee this morning, Tuesday, 1/2/07. Ther have been several Baltimore Orioles in our yard off...
Gail Menk's horned grebe post is very interesting. I'm pretty sure I saw one on the Church's Chicken Pond last week but the light was pretty bad and I'm still ...
Here's a not-so-great picture of a marsh wren from the Leon CBC taken on Lake Jackson last Saturday. I do remember thinking it was lighter than normal. ...
Somebody noticed one at Lake Ella. Linda Most just chimed in with the report of one at the Church's Chicken pond. Could be several birds. It's like that. There...
On December 30th, Fred Bassett with the Hummer/Bird Study Group came to Tallahassee to band wintering hummingbirds. The cold weather in the past several weeks...
I have uploaded an Excel file to the FILES section of nflbirds. It has the results of Region 9's Christmas Bird Count, that was conducted Saturday, December...
Hi all I spent a very enjoyable morning watching the birds in Frans yard and saw the male Western Tanager as well as what is probably a Calliope Hummingbird. I...
Spent about three hours birding this AM. At the state park the best bird was a Brown Creeper along the interpretive trail. Also found along the trail were a...
On the January 2nd, I took the girls to St. Marks for a picnic and to test out the scope that Dean and Sally Jue sold me (Thanks so much!) The visitor center...
A gull-billed tern was desperately trying to catch something this morning at Chapman Pond, between 10:15 and 10:30am. This is my first time ever for this bird...
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Jim Stevenson
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Jan 4, 2007 4:50 pm
Gull-billed Terns aren't exactly the fish-eaters their fellow ternage are. They catch quite a few arthropods, from crayfish to dragonflies, and use their thick...
Hi all Checked a couple of places around town today highlights as follows Lake Ella 1 Horned Grebe 1 White Ibis 3 Pied-billed Grebe Church's Chicken Cess Pool ...
SOME REASSESSMENT OF THE ROSEATE SPOONBILL IN THESE PARTS AS OF DECEMBER 2006 Sightings and numbers of spoonbills in the Big Bend area were far more than the...
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Tracee Strohman
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Jan 5, 2007 12:30 am
During the midday fog today there were 5 White Ibis (3 immature) scouting the area just beyond the dam. Thankfully, the rains have washed away the scores of...
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Fran Rutkovsky
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Jan 5, 2007 4:21 am
Hi all: The male Western Tanager, first observed in my yard on Dec. 19 by Gail Menk, is coming to the feeders and hanging out with Baltimore Orioles (4 adult...
I ate lunch at Chapman Pond Wednesday and watched the tern circle the pond continuously for the 30 minutes I was there. It made numerous dives into the water...
Neat bird..was still flying around pond at 8:45 Friday morning... ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo!...
Hi all took a drive down to Gulf County early this morning to see what I could find before the weather closed in. I started off by birding from the public boat...
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Edwwjr@...
Jan 5, 2007 10:43 pm
Got to Chapman Pond about 1:55 Friday afternoon just as the rain was steady. The tern was circling the sprayer as though doing laps. I watched it fly and...
DIG ALL THOSE TURKEY VULTURES (a posting for Gail E. Menk) A posting by John Murphy of a 120-plus kettle of Turkey Vultures flying westward over Bald Point,...
I went to Chapmans's Pond in the rain yesterday at 3:30 and observed the tern circling and diving. I observed a large dark eye patch with a clean nape, dark...
This tern was seen around 10:30 this morning at Chapman Pond. It had black around the eye. Is this the Gull-billed Tern that has been reported there? ...
Begin forwarded message: ... Just back from the pond, 5 mergansers, one pied-billed grebe, 4 canada geese, a red shouldered passing by and two Forster's terns...
Gull-billed Tern would be a very unusual record at this time of year and Chapmans Pond isn't exactly the sort of habitat I would expect to see one. Gail would...
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Don Morrow
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Jan 7, 2007 12:26 am
I birded St. Marks NWR today with John Hintermister and the Alachua Audubon Society. We had over 110 species at the refuge, including thirteen species of...
Hi all a bunch of us headed to said sites this morning and despite being put through the Bataan Death March by Marvin (wink) at Leon Sinks we had a good time!...
