Hope this is of help. http://www.ebird.org/content/news/migrationclips.html ... From: Eddie Chapman To: Eaglechat@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 19,...
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Matt Goff
gwark_ak
Oct 2, 2006 12:02 am
I have attached a photo of a kittiwake that I saw this morning. At the time I took the photo, I was thinking it was a Black-legged Kittiwake (I've been seeing...
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Matthew Brooks
glacierbirder
Oct 2, 2006 5:08 am
Hey Matt (and everyone else!)-- It certainly superficially looks like a Red-legged Kittiwake. However, Black-legged Kittiwakes can occasionally have reddish or...
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss@...
Oct 4, 2006 10:34 pm
Hi All, If any of you have any interest in helping out a couple of high school aged boys with a science fair project please let me know. They have an interest...
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macphail
akbirder
Oct 5, 2006 11:00 pm
A couple of hours today in the Lake District produced a small but interesting list of birds. Nothing outstanding, but it's always nice to see something a bit...
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macphail
akbirder
Oct 5, 2006 11:04 pm
I forgot the most interesting observation from the lake district - 4 goats on Thunder Mtn. this morning....
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macphail
akbirder
Oct 7, 2006 11:13 pm
The numbers are up in my yard as well. High today, nine. But I've only myself to blame as they are fed peanuts. However, the resident Merlin must be...
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macphail
akbirder
Oct 11, 2006 11:55 pm
Quite a population of Mallards on the pond, a couple of Am. Wigeon and at least two Coots this afternoon. Also a spiffy new bench has been erected overlooking...
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bwright1208
Oct 12, 2006 1:02 am
Hello, Its time to start the season's first Audubon public meeting. This is Juneau Audubon's annual meeting, so we will entice you to DIPAC hatchery at 7pm...
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Steve Zimmerman
callorhinus
Oct 12, 2006 1:31 am
Hi, Brenda. Wish I could be there but we do not get back to Juneau until 10/15. Best wishes. Steve ... From: bwright1208 <bewright@...> Date: Wednesday,...
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Pat Bock
raptors1rule
Oct 12, 2006 3:01 am
what date?...
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Steve Lewis
red_goshawk
Oct 12, 2006 4:35 pm
Brenda, Sorry I missed the meeting. I just got back into town from the North American Ornithological Conference in Veracruz Mx on Tuesday night. I didn't...
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macphail
akbirder
Oct 12, 2006 5:39 pm
So, we'll see you tonight? ... From: Steve Lewis To: Eaglechat@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:28 AM Subject: Re: [Eaglechat] Juneau Audubon...
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michelle_kissling@...
michelle_kis...
Oct 12, 2006 6:28 pm
Hi all, Please see the attachment for information about banded Thayer's and Glaucous Gulls. Thanks! Michelle ... "Anderson, Cindy" <cindy.anderson@m ...
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Brenda Wright
bwright1208
Oct 12, 2006 8:48 pm
The Audubon meeting is today October 12th at DIPAC...
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Paul Suchanek
paulms99824
Oct 13, 2006 1:25 am
As previously reported, there has been a pied-billed grebe hanging out at Moose Lake. There has also been another hanging out in the north basin of Twin Lakes...
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Matt Goff
gwark_ak
Oct 15, 2006 1:07 am
I'm not much with raptors (having not seen too many of them other than Bald Eagles). I got a pretty good look at a raptor today and my best guess is that it...
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Steve Lewis
red_goshawk
Oct 15, 2006 3:17 am
Hey Matt, My guess would be an immature red-tail, but not a Harlan's. Harlan's are dark underneath, which this bird is not. Immatures don't have the red tail...
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Matt Goff
gwark_ak
Oct 15, 2006 4:50 am
The main reason I had ruled out an immature Red-tail (not Harlan's) was the distinctly white throat. Sibley's depicts even the light western juvenile as...
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Lauire Craig
annielauriec...
Oct 15, 2006 8:27 pm
We've had a lovely pair of swans paddling across Mendenhall Lake this morning. At first I just assumed the white spots were bergy bits -- chunks of iceberg....
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss@...
Oct 16, 2006 3:24 am
This time had a great visual in the full sunlight. I unknowingly flushed the grumpy bird out of a spruce while walking the northern terminus of the breadline...
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Paul Suchanek
paulms99824
Oct 16, 2006 6:14 am
I hiked up Thunder Mountain today to look for late migrant hawks and saw 7 harriers migrate by along with a dark-phase rough-legged hawk and another dark buteo...
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Gordon Tans
tansgo
Oct 17, 2006 3:56 am
Gwen, for the benefit of a non-Juneaunian, can you give directions to the northern terminus of the breadline bluff trail? I plan to be there in a month. ...
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss@...
Oct 17, 2006 6:59 am
Sure, Its "out the road" past Tee harbor. Look for Cohen drive. Then go about another mile, to a brand new parking lot and still unlabeled interpretive sign,...
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Beth Peluso
bpeluso
Oct 17, 2006 4:16 pm
I also had barred owls at the end of the road on N. Douglas when I was doing surveys this spring and summer. Haven't been out there lately. Beth Peluso ... ...
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Bradley J. Fluetsch, ...
bfluetsch
Oct 17, 2006 5:26 pm
Five swans just flew down Gastineau Channel towards town....
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss
Oct 21, 2006 2:30 am
There's been a nice roadside waterfowl viewing at the Pioneer marsh and Twin Lakes. The pied-billed grebes seem to have snuck off (?), but there were 4 Am....
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Robert Armstrong
boba562001
Oct 22, 2006 7:02 am
Thanks Gwen, Pioneer Marsh is a very special place. I enjoy seeing the wigeons steal food from the coots when they bring it to the surface. I have heard a...
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss
Oct 22, 2006 11:16 pm
Ha! I did observe the coots being snippy with the widgeons; I guess they have their reasons! Seems like a new trail would be OK if it were built not to cut...
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss
Oct 22, 2006 11:27 pm
Also 6 am. tree sparrows, and the usual fall birds. Columbus was one of history's greatest....jerks! Check out: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1011-27.htm...
