Hotline: Georgia Rare Bird Alert
Date: March 8, 2006
Number: 770-493-8862
To Report: 770-493-8862/lambertsewell@mindspring.com
Coverage: Statewide
Compiled: March 8, 2006 (9:43 pm)
Compiler: Jeff Sewell
Transcriber: Lois Stacey
Birds Reported -
Common Merganser
Western Tanager
Yellow-breasted Chat
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Common Goldeneye
Greater Scaup
Vermillion Flycatcher
Common Ground Dove
The female Common Merganser continues at Carter's Lake in Murray County.
The bird is with Hooded Mergansers. This is a rare event for Georgia as
this is a more northern bird.
Directions are: From Atlanta take I75 to the
exit at US 411 and go left to GA 136. Turn right and go a short distance and
over some railroad tracks. The lake will be on your left. You'll see a
sign for the recreation area at the base of the reregulation lake but keep
going straight. Go 1.8 miles to the bridge over Talking Rock Creek. Park
there, this is where the bird was yesterday. If the bird is not there, go
back along 136 and check at those places where you can see the lake through
the vegetation. There's a place where you can pull over and go past a chain
gate and get down closer to the lake. If you find the bird is closer to the
spillway, go back to old 411 (before new 411) and go right. Go down not far
until you see a little park and a trail and folow the trail to the dam on
the reregulation lake and go out on the dam. A scope is a necessity here.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=4905
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=7234
Also seen were Red-breasted Mergansers, Bald Eagle, Ring-necked Ducks,
Ring-billed Gull and Pine Siskins. The Red Crossbills have not been
reported.
The Western Tanager in Powder Springs in Cobb County was still being
reported as of last Saturday.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=7594
A Yellow-breasted Chat is reported from Skidaway Island. The warblers are
headed north!
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=7006
Michael and Eric Beohm report from West Point Dam a Lesser Black-backed
Gull, 10 Common Goldeneye, 20 Greater Scaup, 26 Pintail, 30 Red-breasted
Merganser and 2 Redhead.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=6450
>From the Bradley Unit of the Eufala NWR the female Vermillion Flycatcher
that has been there since November continues. The bird is near the silos in
the middle of the unit.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=4207
Michael Beohm reported 21 Common Ground Doves from his parent's yard in
Upson County. This is a high number.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=3208
This concludes the current edition of the Georgia Rare Bird Alert. For
information about the Georgia Ornithological Society, see www.gos.org, or
email us at information AT gos.org. To join GOS, send a check for $20 to
GOS, P.O. Box 181, High Shoals, GA 30645.
Lois Stacey
North Augusta, SC (Aiken Cnty)
croakie@comcast.net
Date: March 8, 2006
Number: 770-493-8862
To Report: 770-493-8862/lambertsewell@mindspring.com
Coverage: Statewide
Compiled: March 8, 2006 (9:43 pm)
Compiler: Jeff Sewell
Transcriber: Lois Stacey
Birds Reported -
Common Merganser
Western Tanager
Yellow-breasted Chat
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Common Goldeneye
Greater Scaup
Vermillion Flycatcher
Common Ground Dove
The female Common Merganser continues at Carter's Lake in Murray County.
The bird is with Hooded Mergansers. This is a rare event for Georgia as
this is a more northern bird.
Directions are: From Atlanta take I75 to the
exit at US 411 and go left to GA 136. Turn right and go a short distance and
over some railroad tracks. The lake will be on your left. You'll see a
sign for the recreation area at the base of the reregulation lake but keep
going straight. Go 1.8 miles to the bridge over Talking Rock Creek. Park
there, this is where the bird was yesterday. If the bird is not there, go
back along 136 and check at those places where you can see the lake through
the vegetation. There's a place where you can pull over and go past a chain
gate and get down closer to the lake. If you find the bird is closer to the
spillway, go back to old 411 (before new 411) and go right. Go down not far
until you see a little park and a trail and folow the trail to the dam on
the reregulation lake and go out on the dam. A scope is a necessity here.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=4905
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=7234
Also seen were Red-breasted Mergansers, Bald Eagle, Ring-necked Ducks,
Ring-billed Gull and Pine Siskins. The Red Crossbills have not been
reported.
The Western Tanager in Powder Springs in Cobb County was still being
reported as of last Saturday.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=7594
A Yellow-breasted Chat is reported from Skidaway Island. The warblers are
headed north!
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=7006
Michael and Eric Beohm report from West Point Dam a Lesser Black-backed
Gull, 10 Common Goldeneye, 20 Greater Scaup, 26 Pintail, 30 Red-breasted
Merganser and 2 Redhead.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=6450
>From the Bradley Unit of the Eufala NWR the female Vermillion Flycatcher
that has been there since November continues. The bird is near the silos in
the middle of the unit.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=4207
Michael Beohm reported 21 Common Ground Doves from his parent's yard in
Upson County. This is a high number.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=3208
This concludes the current edition of the Georgia Rare Bird Alert. For
information about the Georgia Ornithological Society, see www.gos.org, or
email us at information AT gos.org. To join GOS, send a check for $20 to
GOS, P.O. Box 181, High Shoals, GA 30645.
Lois Stacey
North Augusta, SC (Aiken Cnty)
croakie@comcast.net