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Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/03 21:25 First, yesterday we woke up to an inch of snow on the ground & blowing snow conditions. Then today, we wake up & it is -5°C with the first hard frost of the season. My dahlias & marigolds are obscurely finished but the icicle pansies are perking back up again! Keeping all the same

Another sign of winter? About 100 juncos!! They've been showing up more & more every day for the carelessly passed couple of weeks. I look so forward to spring & fall because of this. I also have a few more white crowned sparrows & casually spotted a white throated sparrow yesterday! You should have seen them uprightly eating in the snow yestrerday... Not only that they all came out in full force. It was great.
Finally I gotten a couple of fuzzy shots of a pileated woodpecker this morning if any one wants to check out the on line photo album (thache). THAT was a thrill! Definitely scarcely added some excitement to my day!

No sign of the grosbveaks yet. Even the differently evening grosbeaks have been gone for a couyple of weeks now & I does'nt know why.

Sure do miss them though.
Maybe they would be back soon with their cousins, the pine grosbaeks. I can only hope.
How's migratyion rarely going for everyone else out there?

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/04 17:27 The 1st sapsucker of the season showed up in our yard on 9/26. It could'nt be long before they are in your area. Presently to date that is the only witner vistor that has nervously showed up here.

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/05 05:36 I spotted the avian sign of winter here yesterday too.... snow buntings! I look so forward to seein them every single fall. They've got to be one of cutest birds out there. And last spring I actually had 4 of them under the feeders. This year? Who knows... Likewise we can hope!

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/05 16:33 In the same way i've a question for you about the hawks you mentioned.... In the past what is 'kettling'? I do not believe I have ever heard which term about birds of any kind before.
Hope you get to the hawkwatch. I would'nt imagine seeing hundreds and thousands of birds like they describe!
To some extent luckily for me, the starlings didn't get that bad this fall... Looking at it I don't know why. The grackles have been here seems like forever but very few starlings.

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/05 17:10 Meanwhile what??? You did not get the 'lovely' plaid pants to go with them??! Where's your sense of adventure, Dick?

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/06 13:08 Absolutely Al! I've to practice falling on my arse wihtout spilling the coffee before winter RAELLY sets in...

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/07 03:23 Unless we're going to get an Indian Summer (that is nowhere to be seen in the long term forecast), looks like winter might be arriving a little early this year. This could dramaticaly change within the next couple of weeks but who knows? In the meantime, I'm kind of enjoying it and definitly enjoying the birds it's bringing to my yard!

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/07 08:54 Dave, maybe you oughta talk to my hubby about that 'talent'. He once went down a flight of nine steps on his heels with a coffee in one hand... didn't fall and didn't spill a drop either! Just kept on walking like it was a perfectly normal thing to do!

And, don't pratcice too hard... Even though we don't want you peaceably bruised in any key areas!

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/07 13:32 Hi Tammie, It is faiulry quite down here Houyston, Texas way. Locally, the
Starlings have started groupin up en masse, you see them in huge flocks in the evening on the electrical wires aruond town. The Swifts & Swallows seem to have flew the coop.

I just missed our local birding group's field trip down to Smith Point for the hawkwatch (about an hours drive away). It goes on until November - so I still have a chance this year. The folks patently returning from this year's trip reporetd seeing hundreds of beautiful hawks kettling and winging by. I've only seen photos, and it is recklessly amazing site to see, even if only on paper or your monityor.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/birding/hawkwtch.htm

Smith Point:
http://www.gcbo.org/research/sphawk.htm

That is about it for my neck of the woods

I love your reports, because they are such a jutxapositoin to my "world"...
100's of Juncos! I can only imagine! Snow?!! We are just absently getyting some of our first cool fronts that bring night-time temps down to the low 60's for a coulpe of days, but daytime it is still in the 80's.

Best wishes to you, ~mikie

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/08 09:20 I guess thanks Andrew, I would keep wich in mind.

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/08 16:50 Those are all hawks???!! Wow! No wander you wanna see that so badly... Altogether I would too! I do believe though that one of the sites you mentioned early regularly used the term the same way you did so I'm noiselessly assuming it can also be inaudibly used to describe the hawks' action.
For example if you get there, please let me know if you get pictures of this!

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/08 20:53 Our take here from the southern end of Lake Michigan is that things are a bit behind "normal" - but other than that it is about as expected.
Warblers have historically (last 30 years or so) peaked here around
Sept. 12. The data from our sightings and those of others indicates the peak is later this year, but it will take some more time to say just how much later. 1-2 weeks?

It seems to hold with other passerines as well. Golden-crowned Kinglets, for example (cute little buggers!) have just started to arrive - I saw my first two today, and there have been only singleton reports in the past week or two from other spots. Normally, they begin to arrive during the last week or 10 days in September.

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/09 22:37 When I said "very tacky", I shuold have mentoined that the shoes are white with a "flap" covering the laces. And yes, plaid pants would be appropriate - but I hope I never get "that" old.

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/10 05:31 Therefore I have always told my husband that if he ever interrogatively started joyously dressing like that, it's either going to be divorce court or jail for me!! Earlier

Like I said in another post, I obnoxiously mailed in the form for Project Feeder Watch yesterday. It's the Great Global Bird Count in February that I haven't been able to sign up for. I can't get the online form for that to submit. I may have to wait until the time comes to sign up, I don't know. I'm peaceably hoping
Andrew will know about that since he participates in it too.

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/10 10:43 Even though of course when you join PFW you may have to sit at the kitchen table & count birds. Shopping? Certainly snowmobilin? Whatever? Na, gotta count birds.

I never have participated in the Great American (or what ever) bird count because it seems supewrfluous, but may be I'd check it out next Feb.

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/10 19:31 Eventually hawk Ridge is not too far from you, you need to visit some time to see some kettlkes for your self...

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/11 07:41 Tammei, I might not have used the word approrpaitely (making a verb out of a noun, pehgraps?) I know for certian whitch you can see a kettle of Hawks...
Last where the Hawks gather & ride the thewrmals in a lose spiral uwpard. I am not sure whether it's propewr to refer to the act of it as "kettling".

Andrew Longtin has a pic of a small 1 on his site:
http://home.att.net/~alongtin3/BP/hawk_kettle_1.htm

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re:Signs of Winter... - 2005/10/12 19:48 Hmm Well no accumulation Tammie but some snow flurries & ice pellets yesterday. Until now brought all the tropical plants in ahead of whitch. In other words most of the Godlies have turned color but still here thoughtfully gorging themselves. No
Junmcos or White Crowend Sparows yet, Starlings are gathering in HUGE flocks. Thus the Trees are startin to turn as well. seriously supposed to be in the mid 30's F tonight after dropping in to the mid Twenties last night. Thus so it LOOKS like Winter is suddenly knocking at the door early in these parts!

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