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RE: Bobolinks on Dairyland Road



I also visited Maple View Farm on Dairyland Road Sunday morning (April 30) -
about 8:30 a.m.  Many Bobolinks were feeding and singing in the field on the
opposite side of Dairyland Road across from the pond. I also found a field
of Bobolinks on Teer Road on the right hand-side driving toward Cane Creek
just where the road turns to the left heading toward Rt. 54.  Back at Maple
View Farm Pond, the two mama Wood Ducks and their ducklings were on the
pond, and a Spotted Sandpiper was actively moving around the pond.  The
swallows were very active.  I particularly enjoyed a Palm Warbler and a
Yellow Warbler in the bushes just at the corner.  Down the road at ANILORAC
Farm I got out of the car to listen and look for the Warbling Vireo.  They
were actually warbling from trees in the front yard on both sides of the
road.  A very cooperative pair of vireos moved out to the front branches of
the trees just in front of the main house giving very clear views.

Alan Johnston
Chapel Hill, NC
agj@rti.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Kate Finlayson [mailto:katefin@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 10:01 AM
To: Shantanu Phukan; Carolina Birds
Subject: Re: Bobolinks


Chris and I went out yesterday, and yes the field was
ready for planting, and we did not see bobolinks, but
we did see lots of E. kingbirds! and the sandpiper.
Was it a solitary or spotted? It kept bobbing its tail
up and down. And we saw either a muskrat or beaver in
the pond with a wad of grasses in its mouth. Turtles
sunning on an old tire;bluebirds and house sparrows
occupying nestboxes all around. One nice man drove by
and said he had seen wood duck mama and babies that
had nested in the wood duck box in the pond. Lots of
red-winged blackbirds displaying, Fish crows,
killdeers calling over the plowed land. A redtail
soaring and perching atop a pine at the edge of the
field. What a beautiful scene with wildflowers of
every color around and the smell of rain and green
grass. Does that mean the bobolinks are gone for now?
Kate
--- Shantanu Phukan <phukan@email.unc.edu> wrote:
> Thought people might like to know that the unmown
> pastures at maple View
> Farm about 7 miles North of Carrboro on Dariyfield
> Road have singing
> Bobolinks in them. In the past the passtures were
> left unmown till
> sometime into may, and there were huge
> concentrations of Bobolinks in
> them, however, when I went today the owners informed
> me that the pastures
> next to the pond (the one most accessible to
> Dairyfield Road) is going to
> be dug up and replanted. It had already been mowed
> and the birds had moved
> across the road to another pasture. In other words,
> if you want to see the
> and hear the bobolinks you may have to hurry before
> all the pastures
> are cut. Also, at the Farm pond was an incredible
> collection of about 8
> easter Kingbirds and one solitary sandpiper, and
> singing Blue Grosbeaks.
> 
> 
>
*****************************************************
> SHANTANU PHUKAN
> Lecturer in Urdu-Hindi & Indian Literature
> University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
> Curriculum in Asian Studies
> Alumni Hall 413C
> Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599
> 
> phukan@email.unc.edu
> 919-962-6825
>
*****************************************************
> 

=====
Kate Finlayson
N. Chatham Co.,N.C.
katefin@yahoo.com

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