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Hotline: Georgia Rare Bird Alert
Number: 770-493-8862
To Report: 770-493-8862 or lambertsewell@mindspring.com
Coverage: Statewide
Compiled: October 7, 2006 (10:08 pm)
Compiler: Jeff Sewell
Transcribed: October 8, 2006 (10:00 am)
Transcriber: Lois Stacey
Birds reported:
Ross's Goose
Peregrine Falcon
Nashville Warbler
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Least Flycatcher
Jenny Michaels reported from Henderson Park in Tucker in Dekalb County 2
empids that were possibly Yellow-bellied Flycatchers in the mimosa trees at
the soccer field parking lot. Henderson Park is located on Livesey Dr.,
from the intersection of Chamblee-Tucker Rd go to Livesey Dr. and turn left
and follow it to the park. Go left into the park and drive around behind
the soccer fields to the parking lot on the right, the mimosas are directly
across the road.
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=7630
Georgann Schmalz reported a Peregrine Falcon from Dawson's Forest. She also
reported Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers which are starting to arrive.
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=7432
Dan Vickers reported from Carter's Lake in Murray County that he relocated 2
Nashville Warblers found the other day by Josh Spence and also lots of other
warblers on the Hidden Pond Trail.
Ken Blankenship reported from Johnson's Ferry South and Cochran Shoals a
Winter Wren and Sedge Wren as well as warblers.
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=7323
Ken also reported the day before from Johnson's Ferry South a Marsh Wren.
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=7127
Melanie Nyc reported a few days ago that she has a Ross's Goose coming to
the pond in her subdivision off Taylor Rd. in Gwinnett County. For
directions to this bird please call her at 770-682-7683.
Dale Hardy reported a Least Flycatcher from the Newman's Wetland Center of
the Clayton County Water Authority south of Jonesboro in Clayton County. To
get there go south from Atlanta on I75 and exit at the US19/41 exit. Go 8.2
miles to Freeman Rd and turn left. Go another 2 miles and cross the creek
and the Wetlands Center will be on the right. This was not relocated later
in the day.
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610&L=gabo-l&F=&S=&P=6150
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@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