LIVE: Red-tailed Hawk Nest

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Harry

I received an email from Cornell Lab about a Red-tailed hawk nest with a live feed. Some of you may already have visited the feed. I’m pasting information below in case you are not on the mailing list. I have visited the feed and it works even on my slow satellite connection, so you may have better luck if you have true high speed access. It does work and is complete with sound. Enjoy – Harry

“A new nest camera high above a Cornell University athletic field is streaming crystal-clear views of a Red-tailed Hawk nest via the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s All About Birds website. The new camera stream puts viewers 80 feet off the ground and right beside the nest, where they can watch the hawks arrive, see them taking turns incubating the eggs, and compare notes on the two birds—the male has a more golden-tawny face and is slightly smaller than the female, who has been nicknamed “Big Red” for her alma mater.”

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UPCOMING BIRD FESTIVALS

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Admin

NEBRASKA’S CRANE FESTIVAL – RIVERS AND WILDLIFE CELEBRATION – March 15 – 18, 2012, Kearney, Nebraska Half a million cranes, plus speakers, workshops, birding trips, and family-friendly activities make Nebraska’s crane festival a must-visit. The Rivers and Wildlife Celebration is the na-tion’s longest running nature and wildlife festival. Register at Audubon Nebraska, P.O. Box 117, Denton, NE 68339, Fax # 402/797-2304, call 402/797-2301.

DUBOIS GROUSE DAYS -  April 27-28, 2012, Dubois, Idaho, featured the Greater Sage-Grouse of eastern Idaho. http://www.grousedays.org/

UTE MOUNTAIN/MESA VERDE BIRDING FESTIVAL – May 9-13, 2012 For more information please contact: Cortez (Colorado) Cultural Center, Phone: 970-565-1151, Fax: 970-565-4075, info@cortezculturalcenter.org. The Lucy’s Warbler Tour is a featured part of the Birding Festival.

14TH ANNUAL GREAT SALT LAKE BIRD FESTIVAL – May 17-21, 2012, Salt Lake City, Utah, register on line at http://www.greatsaltlakebirdfest.com or call 801-451-3286.

SPRING WINGS BIRDING AND OUTDOOR FESTIVAL – May 18-20, 2012, Fallon Nevada, contact US FISH AND WILD-LIFE SERVICE, Contact Person: Susan Sawyer, Phone Number: 775-423-5128 ext. 228, Website: http://www.springwings.org

WINGS ACROSS THE BIG SKY – Audubon’s annual Bird Festival, June 8 – 10, 2012, Kalispell, Montana, Co-hosted with Flat-head Audubon Society. The festival will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn and Conference Center in Kalispell. Questions? Contact Larissa Berry; 406-443-3949

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AUDUBON CENTER AT GARDEN CREEK

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Admin

Upcoming Events

  1. Thursdays 12:00—1:00—Brown Bag Birding bring a lunch and watch the birds! Binoculars and bird books available to use as well as tables, chairs and warm indoor space provided. ACGC – 101 Garden Creek Rd., Casper, WY
  2. Thursdays 7:00—Healthy Children Healthy Planet Discussion Course, meeting in the Sun-rise Shopping Center.  Wanda Peters will be organizing another course called Choices for Sustainability, starting date undetermined.
  3. Monday, March 5 1:00?3:00—Spring Break—Birds and Beaks for 4th—6th graders.
  4. Tuesday, March 6 10:00—11:30—Birds and Beaks for K?3rd graders.
  5. Tuesday, March 20 12:00—1:00—Chapter Chat conference call with other Wyoming chapters and Audubon staff.
  6. Saturday, March 31—Project Wild/Project Learn-ing Tree Early Childhood Workshop for teachers, day care providers and anyone who works with young children. All day.
  7. Saturday, April 21—An Audubon Center Earth Day workday.
  8. June 23—24—Statewide Bio?Blitz in Pinedale, WY.
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BIRD ID CLASSES

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Admin

Bird ID Classes offered jointly by Murie and Audubon Wyoming will be starting in April and going through June.

  1. Thursday, April 19, 6:30PM—general bird ID, binocular and field guide use.
  2. Thursday, April 26, 6:30PM—Waterfowl, Saturday
  3. Saturday, April 28—Field trip.
  4. Thursday, May 10, 6:30PM—EKW State Park Birds
  5. Saturday, May 12—Field trip to EKWSP.
  6. Thursday, June 7, 6:30 PM—Casper Mountain Birds,
  7. Saturday, June 9—Field trip to Casper Mtn.
  8. June—Raptor Class—date to be announced.

Field trips start times will be determined when classes meet.

Check the Casper Star Tribune and Casper Journal and for more details as they become available, as well as checking back here.  Questions – call ACGC – 307-473-1987.

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FIELD TRIPS IN MARCH & APRIL, 2012

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Admin

Saturday, March 10. Meet at 1:30 PM at the Audubon Center at Garden Creek for a bird trip to Gray Reef and other interesting spots. We should have the start of the duck migration, and the first Mountain Bluebirds. We should be back by 5:00. Call Stacey Scott at 262-0055 for more details.

Saturday April 14. Meet at 5:30 AM at the east side Safeway parking lot to go to the Hat Six Sage Grouse Lek. While the number of birds is reduced at this lek, it is still a wonderful show. In addition to this lek, Murie counts several leks on the Two-Bar ranch. For more details about this field trip, or if you are interested in counting grouse on those leks, call Stacey Scott at 262-0055.

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MARCH GENERAL MEETING

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Admin

CLOUD FORESTS OF ECUADOR: EXPLORING THE BIOLOGICAL FRONTIER

Certified Wildlife Biologist, Sarah Bucklin, will be our guest speaker for the March monthly meeting. Sarah recently joined University of Wyoming botany and entomol-ogy researchers on a two-week expedition to the cloud for-ests of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, South Amer-ica. The high elevation Andean cloud forest is an endan-gered habitat known for its rich abundance of moths and but-terflies in addition to many other invertebrate and tropical plant species.

Based at the remote research station of Yanayacu, the UW group hiked 6 to 10 hours most days, often in raingear, with average humidity of 94 percent. The biodiversity of the re-gion was extraordinary with many spectacular sightings in-cluding butterflies, hummingbirds, mega-insects, fireflies,glow worms, orchids, and bromeliads. The Ancient Inca Trail will receive special attention as it proved to be a brilliant encounter and remarkable journey into the cradle of life.

All are welcome on this venture to the biological frontier and exploration of Ecuador’s phenomenal high elevation tropical rainforests–the cloud forests. The program is Friday March 9, 2012 at 7 PM at the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Building, 2211 King Blvd.

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12-09-2011

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Admin

Stacy Scott – west of Casper, WY – I had an adult male Redpoll in with some Pine Siskins at my feeder this afternoon.  The Redpoll I had 2 weeks ago was either a female or an immature bird, so this one is a different bird.

 Yard sightings - Robin, Pine Siskins, American Goldfinches, House Finches, Juncos (I now have over 20, and all 3 winter varieties), house sparrows, Black-capped Chickadees, Mountain Chickadee, Song Sparrow, Townsend Solitaires, Downy Woodpecker and Magpies.  As far as I can tell, there are only 3 eagles around here.  One adult Golden and two adult Balds.  I have seen a Prairie Falcon twice, which is more often than I have seen a Rough-legged Hawk.  There is a Red-tailed Hawk, but I don’t see it every day.

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12-09-2011

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Admin

Ann & Wil Hines birding at Edness Kimball Wilkins State Park outside of Casper, WY.  We had Magpie, Northern Flicker Common Goldeneye Mallards BUT the ones that really surprised us was TWO BROWN THRASHERS that were on the ice on the northern side of the river.  I first spotted one that went into the bushes along the river.  It flew up river and was followed by the second thrasher.

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Casper Birding Dec. 4, 2011

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Admin

A visit to the area west of the Natrona County International Airport - there were an unusual number of both snow buntings  (in excess of 50) and Lapland Longspurs (in excess of 20).    Many lark  buntings along with at least 7 rough-legged hawks and 3 common ravens and one adult golden eagle were the remainder of the list.  One small group of 15 contained 3 horned larks and 12 Lapland longspurs.  A drive through Reshaw Park in Evansville WY - there was one adult northern shrike,  one adult male Barrow’s goldeneye, many mallards and common goldeneye and a few bufflehead.  Chris Michelson – Casper, WY

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Wyoming Christmas Bird Counts – 2011-12

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Admin
  1. Dec. 17 – Murie Audubon Society – meet at the Audubon Center at Garden Creek, 101 Garden Creek Rd. at 7:30 am – contact Stacey Scott – hustace@gmail.com
  2. Dec. 17 – The Evanston WY/UT CBC - those interested should meet 7:00 am at the Hornet’s Nest Gas Station, 8 miles north of Evanston on Rt 89.  The Evanston circle holds the all-time record count for Greater Sage-Grouse, 698 in 1986.  Contact – Tim Gorman - wyogoob@ALLWEST.NET
  3. Dec. 17 - Green River CBC - meet at McDonald’s on Uinta Drive at  7am – Contact Fred & Fern Linton flinton@wyoming.com
  4. Dec. 17 – Kane CBC - Meet at Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area’s Visitor Center in Lovell at 6:30. Reconvene at 4:30 pm for potluck chili dinner and tally results. For more information, please contact Neil or Jennifer Miller, 307-568-9346.
  5. Dec. 17 - Laramie CBC - Meet at Coal Creek Coffee at 7:30 am to pick up data sheets. You must get your assigned route from Deb Paulsen either before or at Coal Creek on Dec. 17th.  Feeder watchers also needed.  Re-convene at 12 noon at The Grounds on 3rd St. at Fremont to pick up more routes, or turn in data sheets, and talk about what was spotted.  Chili supper at 4pm to turn in your final data sheets.  Call Deb Paulsen (742-5623, debp@uwyo.edu) for more information or to pick your routes early.
  6. Dec. 17 – Kane CBC  – Contact Suzanne Morstad – 307-568-2128 – smorstad@tctwest.net or Jennifer Miller- 307-568-9346 – njmiller@tctwest.net
  7. Dec. 17 – Sheridan CBC – Contact Helen Moriarity – 307-750-2225 – hiedi@vcn.com
  8. Dec. 18 – Guernsey – Ft. Laramie CBC. The compiler/coordinator is Jane Dorn, 307-640-4002, from Lingle. Meet at 8 a.m. at Ft. Laramie (the town, not the historic fort) Post Office or at 9:30 a.m. at the main entrance to Guernsey State Park. Pack your lunch and plan to spend all day if you can. There will be an opportunity to do some hiking in the park.  There will be a few of us coming up (or down in elevation!) from Cheyenne.  Anyone interested in carpooling, please call Barb Gorges, 634-0463 (287-4952 cell).
  9. Dec. 18 – Sundance CBC - we meet at the east side Conoco at 7:30 for route assignments.   A chili dinner will be offered at the end of the day.  Contact information:  Jen or Jean at 307-283-2467, or jgwindsong@rangeweb.net,  ravenssong@rangeweb.net
  10. Dec. 18 – Riverton CBC.  Meet at McDonalds on West Main at 7:30 a.m.  We’ll canvas Riverton in the morning with four teams, meet again at McDonald’s at 11:30 and head out to do the rural areas.  Everyone welcome.  Counters needed.  Call Bob at 307-851-0662 or Wanda at 307-856-6690.
  11. Dec. 18 - Jackson WY CBC.  Susan Marsh is the compiler.  Contact for more info - Susan Patla – susan_patla@HOTMAIL.COM  
  12. Dec. 18 – Buffalo CBC – Contact Deane Bjerke – 307-684-2798 – dbjerke@bresnan.net
  13. Dec. 24 – Cody CBC – Route maps and directions will be distributed ahead of time. To participate, please contact Susan Ahalt (307-527-7027) or Joyce Cicco (307-527-5030). Potluck dinner and tally results begin at 6 pm in the basement community meeting room of Big Horn Federal Savings & Loan, 1701 Stampede Avenue, Cody. In case of bad weather, the count will take place on December 31.
  14. Dec. 28 – Clark CBC – Meet at Edelweiss Inn at 7:30 am for route maps, instructions and coffee. Participants will bird the west side of the count circle in the morning, reassemble at Edelweiss at noon for lunch and a river walk, bird the east side of the count circle, and reconvene at Edelweiss at 4:30 for a potluck dinner and tally. For more information, please contact Mary “Lefty” Klein, 307-645-3223.
  15. Dec. 28 – Gillette CBC – Contact Dustin Downey – ddowney@audubon.org – 307-756-3941, cell – 504-453-4124
  16. Dec. 31 - Cheyenne CBC – meet at the downtown post office at 7:30 a.m.  Contact Greg Johnson gjohnson@west-inc.com
  17. Dec. 31 – Story/Bighorn CBC- Contact Jean Daly – 307-674-9728

2012

  1. Jan. 1 – Bates Hole – contact Charles Scott – charlesscott@wyoming.com
  2. Jan. 1 – The Alta WY/Driggs ID CBC.  Contact me if you would like more info - susan_patla@HOTMAIL.COM.  We do a potluck at 5:30 pm at the Teton Regional Land Trust Office.  Susan Patla  307 413-1222
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