Date:         Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:02:25 -0500
Reply-To:     Mark McShane <eagleeyed@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Mark McShane <eagleeyed@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      GA RBA, 1/30/2012

- RBA

* Georgia
* Georgia Statewide
* January 30, 2012
* GAGA1201.30

- Birds Reported

Snow Goose
ROSS'S GOOSE
SNOW BUNTING
AMERICAN TREE SPARROW (possible)

(Review and Provisional species are listed in upper case in the Birds
Reported section, all species are capitalized in the Transcript section)

- Transcript

hotline:     Georgia Rare Bird Alert
date:        February 1, 2012
number:      770-493-8862
to report:   770-493-8862 or lambertsewell AT att.net
coverage:    Statewide
compiled:    January 30, 2012 (6:28 PM)
compiler:    Jeff Sewell
transcriber: Mark McShane

On 1/28 a dark morph SNOW GOOSE was seen at the farm ponds on Braswell
Church Road in Walton County. Another SNOW GOOSE was observed at Panola
Mountain State Park in Rockdale County on 1/28 as well.
1/28 Walton County:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R14034
1/28 Rockdale County:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R14312

Two ROSS'S GEESE were found at the Mashburn Road Pond just north of GA Hwy
136 in Gordon County on 1/29. The geese were also relocated on 1/30.
1/29:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R14883
1/30:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R15817

The SNOW BUNTING first found on the north tip of Tybee Island in Chatham
County on 1/11, and fairly consistently relocated since, was seen and
reported on 1/22 and 1/29 as well.
Original post by the finder:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R5840
GPS:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R6322
Photos (and in flight too):
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R7026
Video:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R8993
1/22:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R12060
1/29:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R14651

An AMERICAN TREE SPARROW was reported on 1/29 from Quitman County, the
bird was not described in the report and was not photographed during the
session.
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1201&L=gabo-l&P=R15452

Giff Beaton's book "Birding Georgia"
(http://www.gos.org/publications/publications.html#bg) and Ken
Blankenship's web site "Wings Over Georgia" (http://www.wingsoverga.com/)
contain directions to some of these sites and to many other great birding
locations in Georgia.

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. Detailed membership information is
available at http://www.gos.org/membership/membership.html To join GOS at
the annual individual membership level, send a check or money order for
$25 to:

Georgia Ornithological Society
108 W. 8th St.
Louisville, GA 30434

- End transcript

Mark McShane
Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia
http://www.gos.org

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