- RBA
* Alberta (Canada)
* Calgary, AB
* August 15, 2005
* ABCA0508.15
- Birds mentioned
Peregrine Falcon
Semipalmated Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
LITTLE STINT
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Orange-crowned Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Mourning Warbler
- Transcript
Hotline: City of Calgary and Calgary Field Naturalists' Society's Bird Alert
Number: (403) 221-4519
To Report: (403) 221-4519
Coverage: Southern Alberta
Compiler: Terry Korolyk (CFNS & IBS)
Transcriber: Lenora Flynn (lendic@shaw.ca)
Welcome to the City of Calgary and CFNS Bird Alert. This Bird Alert was recorded on
Monday, August 15 at 9:55 a.m. To report a bird sighting, leave a message after the
recording, or to bypass the recorded message, press the pound key on your touch tone
phone. To speak to a naturalist, please phone 221-4500 during office hours.
A juvenile LITTLE STINT was observed east of Irricana on Friday, August 12. The
bird was studied by Terry Korolyk through an 80mm spotting scope with a 32X wide
angle eyepiece at distances as close as 10-20 yards between 2:00 - 2:30 pm. Terry
could not obtain a picture of the bird. Several other observers visited the site on
Saturday, August 13, but they did not relocate the bird. This might be Alberta's
first record of the species if documented. The bird was on the mudflats at the
slough which is on the south side of Twp Rd 273 approximately 1/2 km east of Hwy 9.
Other shorebirds reported by Terry over the weekend included 2 juvenile RUDDY
TURNSTONES seen in the afternoon of Saturday, August 13 at Clear Lake, 15 kms east
of Stavely on Twp Rd 142. The birds were on a sandy peninsula seen off a track that
runs eastward from a N/S road that runs down the west flank about halfway down the
west side of the lake. On Friday, August 12, Terry Korolyk observed a WESTERN
SANDPIPER at the Cattleland Feedlots Slough in the N/E corner of the Hwys 817-564
junction north of Strathmore. Large numbers of shorebirds were east of Calgary on
August 12. At Cattleland August 12, Terry reported 500 STILT SANDPIPERS, 1000
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS and 8 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS. At the Twp Rd 273 slough he
observed another 200 STILT SANDPIPERS and 6 juvenile SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS in a
flock of 200 mostly LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS. On Sunday, August 14, Andrew Slater
reported 300 STILT SANDPIPERS were at Cattleland. Andrew also reported on August 14
an immature PEREGRINE FALCON was pursuing shorebirds at the sloughs at the first
four-way road junction on Hwy 817 north of Strathmore.
Migrating warblers reported recently included a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER seen by Milt
& Elaine Spitzer, Walter & Lois Zwick and Jean Dunn on August 13 at
Wyndham-Carseland PP. Banders at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary banded a TOWNSEND'S
WARBLER on Aug 12 and then banded a MOURNING WARBLER on August 14. Carol Coulter in
Calgary Southview had an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER in her yard on Wednesday, August 10.
The next scheduled update of the Bird Alert is Thursday, August 18.
BIRD STUDY GROUP - Meet the 1st Wednesday of the month, September - May at 7:30 pm,
Room 211, BioSciences Bldg, University of Calgary. The next meeting will be on
September 7. Three Calgary birders will show-and-tell about their recent
international birding adventures: Ken Havard visited Queensland Australia with a
group of Calgary birders, and Brooke Clibbon & Eric Tull will discuss their Thailand
experience.
BIRD TRIPS
Tue Aug 16, 6:30pm: Confluence Park for Black-crowned Night-Herons, etc. Meet
parking lot at Beddington Tr and Beddington Blvd NE. Leader, M. Coughlin, 275-9651.
Thu Aug 18, 8am: Autumn Birds, Beaverdam Flats Park. Meet S parking lot (Lynnview Rd
& 62 Av SE). N from Glenmore Tr at 18 St SE, then follow left. Leader, John
Cartwright, 265-2980.
Sat Aug 20, 8am: Migrating Warblers, etc. Meet parking lot, Hull's Woods, FCPP, S
end of Bow Bottom Tr SE. Leaders, Dick/Lenore Flynn, 271-1269.
Sun Aug 21, 8am: Birding Wyndham/Carseland Prov. Park. Meet Anderson LRT, (Macleod
Tr) S of pedestrian overpass for car pooling. Leader, Jan Roseneder, 286-5920.
Tue Aug 23, 6:30pm: Birding Mallard Point FCPP. Meet parking lot E end of Canyon
Meadows Dr. Leader, Jim Washbrook, 271- 0923.
Sat Aug 27, 9am: Birding Weaselhead. Meet parking lot, 37 St & 66 Av SW. Leader,
Bruce Barnetson, 246-1329.
Inglewood Bird Sanctuary is a City of Calgary natural area. Staff offer
information, courses and field trips relating to natural history. For information,
call (403) 221-4500.
Calgary Field Naturalists' Society promotes the observation, study and conservation
of the native habitat through lectures, field trips and collection of scientific
data. CFNS publishes a monthly newsletter. For membership or event information,
email cfns@cfns.fanweb.ca or visit the website at www.cfns.fanweb.ca.
A Birdfinding Guide to the Calgary Region, ed. Joan F. McDonald (CFNS, 1993) is out
of print. Copies are no longer available from CFNS.
- End transcript
* Alberta (Canada)
* Calgary, AB
* August 15, 2005
* ABCA0508.15
- Birds mentioned
Peregrine Falcon
Semipalmated Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
LITTLE STINT
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Orange-crowned Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Mourning Warbler
- Transcript
Hotline: City of Calgary and Calgary Field Naturalists' Society's Bird Alert
Number: (403) 221-4519
To Report: (403) 221-4519
Coverage: Southern Alberta
Compiler: Terry Korolyk (CFNS & IBS)
Transcriber: Lenora Flynn (lendic@shaw.ca)
Welcome to the City of Calgary and CFNS Bird Alert. This Bird Alert was recorded on
Monday, August 15 at 9:55 a.m. To report a bird sighting, leave a message after the
recording, or to bypass the recorded message, press the pound key on your touch tone
phone. To speak to a naturalist, please phone 221-4500 during office hours.
A juvenile LITTLE STINT was observed east of Irricana on Friday, August 12. The
bird was studied by Terry Korolyk through an 80mm spotting scope with a 32X wide
angle eyepiece at distances as close as 10-20 yards between 2:00 - 2:30 pm. Terry
could not obtain a picture of the bird. Several other observers visited the site on
Saturday, August 13, but they did not relocate the bird. This might be Alberta's
first record of the species if documented. The bird was on the mudflats at the
slough which is on the south side of Twp Rd 273 approximately 1/2 km east of Hwy 9.
Other shorebirds reported by Terry over the weekend included 2 juvenile RUDDY
TURNSTONES seen in the afternoon of Saturday, August 13 at Clear Lake, 15 kms east
of Stavely on Twp Rd 142. The birds were on a sandy peninsula seen off a track that
runs eastward from a N/S road that runs down the west flank about halfway down the
west side of the lake. On Friday, August 12, Terry Korolyk observed a WESTERN
SANDPIPER at the Cattleland Feedlots Slough in the N/E corner of the Hwys 817-564
junction north of Strathmore. Large numbers of shorebirds were east of Calgary on
August 12. At Cattleland August 12, Terry reported 500 STILT SANDPIPERS, 1000
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS and 8 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS. At the Twp Rd 273 slough he
observed another 200 STILT SANDPIPERS and 6 juvenile SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS in a
flock of 200 mostly LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS. On Sunday, August 14, Andrew Slater
reported 300 STILT SANDPIPERS were at Cattleland. Andrew also reported on August 14
an immature PEREGRINE FALCON was pursuing shorebirds at the sloughs at the first
four-way road junction on Hwy 817 north of Strathmore.
Migrating warblers reported recently included a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER seen by Milt
& Elaine Spitzer, Walter & Lois Zwick and Jean Dunn on August 13 at
Wyndham-Carseland PP. Banders at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary banded a TOWNSEND'S
WARBLER on Aug 12 and then banded a MOURNING WARBLER on August 14. Carol Coulter in
Calgary Southview had an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER in her yard on Wednesday, August 10.
The next scheduled update of the Bird Alert is Thursday, August 18.
BIRD STUDY GROUP - Meet the 1st Wednesday of the month, September - May at 7:30 pm,
Room 211, BioSciences Bldg, University of Calgary. The next meeting will be on
September 7. Three Calgary birders will show-and-tell about their recent
international birding adventures: Ken Havard visited Queensland Australia with a
group of Calgary birders, and Brooke Clibbon & Eric Tull will discuss their Thailand
experience.
BIRD TRIPS
Tue Aug 16, 6:30pm: Confluence Park for Black-crowned Night-Herons, etc. Meet
parking lot at Beddington Tr and Beddington Blvd NE. Leader, M. Coughlin, 275-9651.
Thu Aug 18, 8am: Autumn Birds, Beaverdam Flats Park. Meet S parking lot (Lynnview Rd
& 62 Av SE). N from Glenmore Tr at 18 St SE, then follow left. Leader, John
Cartwright, 265-2980.
Sat Aug 20, 8am: Migrating Warblers, etc. Meet parking lot, Hull's Woods, FCPP, S
end of Bow Bottom Tr SE. Leaders, Dick/Lenore Flynn, 271-1269.
Sun Aug 21, 8am: Birding Wyndham/Carseland Prov. Park. Meet Anderson LRT, (Macleod
Tr) S of pedestrian overpass for car pooling. Leader, Jan Roseneder, 286-5920.
Tue Aug 23, 6:30pm: Birding Mallard Point FCPP. Meet parking lot E end of Canyon
Meadows Dr. Leader, Jim Washbrook, 271- 0923.
Sat Aug 27, 9am: Birding Weaselhead. Meet parking lot, 37 St & 66 Av SW. Leader,
Bruce Barnetson, 246-1329.
Inglewood Bird Sanctuary is a City of Calgary natural area. Staff offer
information, courses and field trips relating to natural history. For information,
call (403) 221-4500.
Calgary Field Naturalists' Society promotes the observation, study and conservation
of the native habitat through lectures, field trips and collection of scientific
data. CFNS publishes a monthly newsletter. For membership or event information,
email cfns@cfns.fanweb.ca or visit the website at www.cfns.fanweb.ca.
A Birdfinding Guide to the Calgary Region, ed. Joan F. McDonald (CFNS, 1993) is out
of print. Copies are no longer available from CFNS.
- End transcript