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Post by frootdog on Aug 8, 2005 18:07:49 GMT -5
Dang it! He killed my oncomming cricket comment. This is the time of year that they are comming through and nesting in the area. The clinic I work at has started to recieve quite a few babies. It is not more than usual it is just the time of year for them.
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Post by Weasel on Aug 9, 2005 8:00:03 GMT -5
I have been seeing a lot of Mississippi Kites in the Wichita Falls area. They are going nuts on the crickets in the area. Just wondering if any one else in North Texas has been seeing more than usual this year. (not crickets) Ken, Now that you mention it, I have seen an unusually large amount of Mississippi Kites hanging around. I see a group at my folks house in Southlake and about a dozen of them have been at my inlaws lake house roosting next door. Neat birds to watch hunt as they are very acrobatic. |
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Post by kenbro77 on Aug 9, 2005 14:23:32 GMT -5
They are very fun to watch. I was outside a grocery store Saturday and I thought I was on the coast watching seagulls dive for bread tossed by little kids. They were every where.
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Post by frootdog on Aug 22, 2005 0:20:14 GMT -5
Weasel, Minca and I took a Bald Eagle from Fort Worth to Lubbock on Sat. and saw numerous birds of prey. We saw lots of Red Tails, Miss. Kites, Swainson's, one lone broadwing and the coolest of all was the Ferug we saw on the wing around Post, TX. We also saw about 500 vultures. It was a pretty cool trip as far as hawk sightings go. The only downside was most of the birds were spotted in the morning on the way there. The 5 hour trip back was pretty sparse. I even got back in time to go hawking with some friends.
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Post by Weasel on Aug 22, 2005 8:04:59 GMT -5
I still have that smell of rotten fish in my nose from that Bald. That is the most un-graceful sounding bird I have ever encountered except maybe a Great Blue Heron. The bald sounds like a pig oinking!
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Post by frootdog on Aug 22, 2005 17:49:45 GMT -5
Yeah...well...that's why they use the RT cry when you see the bald in flight on TV.
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Post by jfneumann57 on Sept 4, 2005 19:52:02 GMT -5
ne one c any immatures in nc?
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Post by Weasel on Sept 6, 2005 8:23:01 GMT -5
Millions of them.......They migrate right through there headed south.
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Post by wilded on Sept 18, 2005 11:54:46 GMT -5
I saw a really nice passage female coopers yesterday out by my deer lease in Lampasas. ET:)
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Post by frootdog on Sept 18, 2005 21:35:53 GMT -5
We've seen a lot of coop's lately. A friend of mine is housing 2 passage females with reapaired wing FX's right now, but we've seen tons at the vet clinic so far this year and not one adult in the lot. All passagers.
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Post by Weasel on Sept 20, 2005 9:21:56 GMT -5
Well, I saw alot of birds this weekend! I just got back from ridge trapping in MN and let me tell you! It was early in the season and I still saw and trapped tons of birds. We caught at least 15 sharpies and could of had dozens more, but we had to start setting the nets tight so they wouldn't keep tripping them as we where there looking for a gos not shins. There where so many sharpies that they actually became a pain in the butt as five or six would come in at once. We did see a passage peregrine fly over low but we are not permitted to trap them so we simply watched it fly by. I have to say that the most interesting birds to trap this weekend where the merlins as they come into the nets at about 60+mph when making a strafing pass at the lure bird. We thought the merlins where going to go right through the darn nets they hit so hard.......They bite hard too....... I will post some pictures up sometime this week as soon as I get the chance
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