Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:26:00 -0400
Reply-To: Nathan Klaus <nathanklaus@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Sender: Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: Nathan Klaus <nathanklaus@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject: Fall Migrants, Monroe County
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I've been checking the weather every night to see if I can put out
herbicide the next day to restore native grasses on Panola Mountain
State Park. On Weatherunderground.com the radar lights up green every
evening after about 9 though it is clear as a bell outside. Must be
fall migrants! To confirm this Joyce and I put a scope on the moon a
couple nights ago and sure enough migrants could be seen streaming
across the face of the moon, 5-10 every minute! We birded our woods the
next two mornings and had lots of visitors:
Black throated green - 5
Northern Parula -1
Chestnut-sided Warbler-1
American Redstart - 10
Palm Warbler-1
Black and White Warbler-2
Tennessee Warbler-6
Orange-crowned Warbler-2
Pine Warbler-10
Yellow-throated Warbler-2
Common Yellowthroad-2
Swainson's Thrush-12 (one dead near our creek)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak-2
Indigo Bunting-20+
Eastern Wood Pewee-3+
Empid Flycatcher-6
Summer Tanager -6
Scarlet Tanager-2
Northern Flicker-1
Also had a Red-headed Woodpecker in our Oak Woodland, very exciting!
Years ago when I saw the giant post oaks, buried in privet and
chinaberry I thought if I can just get rid of all these exotics and open
this place up I might have Red-headed Woodpeckers. It took about 6
years, but (yippee!) they showed up!
N
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Nathan Klaus
Senior Wildlife Biologist
GA Department of Natural Resources
Nongame Conservation Section
478-994-1438 office
478-955-3330 cell
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'Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.'
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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