Bird Club

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Photo Courtesy of Doren Burrell

(at his feeder)

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Photo by Mike Bohl

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Whooping Crane (10/17/11)

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Leucistic Goldfinch

Photo by Mike Bohl

The Handlan Chapter of the Brooks Bird Club meets on the third Monday of each month, at 6:30 p.m. at the South Charleston Public Library .

Russ is beginning his famous Spring Hill Cemetery Walks, starting Sunday, April 21 for four Sundays. Meet at the Cemetery office parking area at 8:00am.
On the April 21st Cemetery Walk, an Oranged-Crowned Warbler was sighted!

On the May 12th Cemetery Walk, a May Warbler was sighted!
Also sighted on that May 12th walk was a Wilson's Warbler.

The Handlan Chapter of the Brooks Bird Club will have a Migratory Week Bird Count from May 4 through May 12. This will replace the former Century Count

Doren Burrell spoke to the Pocahontas Nature Club about bird migration at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) classroom in Green Bank, WV, on March 16.

There was a nice write-up on the lecture in the Pocahontas Times.

Nesting Red-shouldered Hawk by Doren Burrell

Check out the Flora identified in Shrewsberry Hollow during the April 20, 2013, Osbra Eye Spring Nature Walk at Kanawha State Forest

Macauley Library of Natural Sounds

Susan Olcott of the WV DNR reports that the Macauley Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell lab has now digitized all their sounds – they are available free to listen. Downloads are charged. This is a great resource for birders.

Check out a website on Birdwatching contacts throughout the world, in case you would like to go birdwatching with a local wherever you are. Go to birdingpal.org.

Northern Goshawk

Here is an amazing "Must See" video of Chris Packham putting a northern goshawk through its paces in the lab

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gn1yd

Check out the Flora identified in Polly Hollow during the September, 2012 Fall Flora hike of the Margaret Denison Fall Nature Walk at Kanawha State Forest

Awesome Owl

Here is video of an owl flying directly at the camera.

http://www.dogwork.com/owfo8/

Click photo to see information about John Smith

The Handlan Chapter of the Brooks Bird Club participated in celebration of Earth Day at the Clay Center.

SEE THE REPORT ON THE NEW RIVER GORGE NATIONAL RIVER 2009 PEREGRINE FALCON RESTORATION PROJECT

Master Naturalist

Check out all the activities

Some photos on the current Master Naturalist program in Kanawha county

Future information about Master Naturalists Classes, etc, will now be found at the new Master Naturalist website: mnofwv.org/home

Did you know that WV has 38% of the world's Cerulean Warblers?
WV has more Red-eyed Vireos than Robins.
Our state only has 20 Ospreys.

Terry Bronson brought to our attention that Partners in Flight maintains a database of population estimates of bird species in the US and Canada, including state estimates.
Many of these are very rough estimates, but they should give
good relative totals for most species. Data are derived primarily
from US government Breeding Bird Surveys.

The Partners in Flight web site is http://rmbo.org/pif_db/laped/default.aspx.

Click here for all the population estimate data for West Virginia.

At our January 14th meeting Martha Hopper presented part of a video by Dr. Douglas Tallamy on "Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens"

Click picture for more information on this subject.

8th Winter Eagle Survey

The 8th Winter Eagle Survey was held in southern WV on Sat., Jan. 12, 2013.

Click on the photo for Survey Results.

Also, check out the wonderful article about the survey by Rick Steelhammer in the Charleston Gazette

6th Early Spring Eagle Survey
March 9, 2013

Area covered - Mouth of Bluestone River to Sandstone Falls plus Indian Creek between Forest Hill and Greenville.

Bald Eagles - 10(3 adults, 7 immatures)
Golden Eagle - 1 immature
5/9 sites reported eagles

Temp was 32-65 degrees, 0-12% cloud cover, 0-6 mph winds and no
precipitation.

Jim Phillips
Summers County
Pipestem, WV

Bird Migration Forecast

e-Bird announces a new collaboration between NOAA and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to provide this newest eBird’s feature: the Bird Migration Forecast (BirdCast).

Bird Migration

Kitty Bailey recently posted on the listserve this great article on Bird Migration.

The Bird walk at Coonskin Park on Sunday, March 25, 2012, was very successful. Click here for the list of birds seen.

Here is an article that had been published in a bird journal about the eminent WV birder, George Hall.

Indices listing all the bird photographs and flower photos on this website submitted by our members have been added for your convenience.

Here are the bird details of the 2009 Handlan Century Count

Learn about the Point Count Program in West Virginia

Check out some links about bird feeding.

The Alice Knight Memorial

Spring 2011 wildflower photos

Check out some fascinating Hummingbird photos.

The Brooks Bird Club held the 2009 Foray in Randolph County, June 13-21.

Check out some nice Red Tailed Hawk photos

by Ron McLaughlin

Check out some more great photos by

Doren Burrell