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Send e-mail to Corp of Engineers Project
Tulsa District, US Army Corps of Engineers,
Attn: Paul Balkenbush, 1645 S. 101st East Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74128

Copy & Paste in your e-mail:     Paul.E.Balkenbush@usace.army.mil.

Telling why you think the Salt Plains NWR Should Be Dredged and  Saved .
Dredging will halt the summer fish kill.  The silt will be used to enlarge the Ralstin Island Rookery,
supporting 13+Bird Species.

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SASKATCHEWCANADA 8-31
Warblers.... we have had a couple Wilson's Warblers hanging around since
Aug 23.  We had a single Canada Warbler in the mountain ash the morning
of Aug 29, and early this evening (around 6:30PM), we had 2 Blackpoll
Warblers in our backyard (and in the yard next door.)
Out at work, the 5 Barn Swallow nestlings fledged over the weekend of
Aug 28-29.   This was the second nesting of this particular pair of Barn
Swallows... a most productive pair!!  Yesterday (Aug 30), one of my
co-workers was outside having a cigarette with another co-worker when a
young Barn Swallow landed on his cap-covered head!!!   Today, they were
lining up with their parents on the eavestrough near where they nested.
Going to and from work, we are seeing a number of Hawks now.... Northern
Harriers, Swainson's and Red-tails.   This morning, I counted 17 between
11th Av NW and the compressor station (5 were within a 2 km stretch just
east of the compressor station!)  Nice!!

Cheyenne Bottoms-Labor Day/8-30: Jimmy Woodard <Jimmy.Woodard AT UNIVARUSA.COM>

 OKC Audubon will be going to Cheyenne Bottoms/Quivira NWR in central Kansas 
over Labor Day weekend. We will meet to caravan 

 at 8AM at the IHOP at I-40 and Mustang Road in Yukon this Friday morning. We 
will be leaving once everyone arrives so if you want to 

                                eat breakfast there plan to arrive earlier.

 We will go thru Salt Plains NWR on the way up for an hour or so then proceed 
to Great Bend, KS, our home for the weekend. 

 Please contact me if you plan to join our car caravan on Friday morning. My 
email at home is j.woodard AT cox.net. Cell phone is 

 405-365-5685. please bring two-way radios if you have them to keep in contact 
during the drive. 
Thanks,  Jimmy Woodard

Quivira update 29 August 2010  Barry Jones <barjones78 AT GMAIL.COM>

Migration is heating up.  Despite the wind, there was good birding around 
the Refuge this morning, 29 August.  Highlights:
First of season:  American Redstart (1) and Northern Harrier (2)
Also, as reported for yesterday, there were at least 7-8 Buff-breasted 
Sandpipers working the burned flats on the north side of the Wildlife 
Drive.  Some were mixed with Baird's Sandpipers.
A Peregrine Falcon was observed in the same area as the Buff-breasteds.
In addition, there is still at least one Mottled Duck mixed with the 
flocks of teal and other ducks.  This a.m. the Mottled was seen on the 
interior east side of the Wildlife Drive.

Duck numbers continue to increase, with upwards of 500-600 teal estimated 
around the Wildlife Drive alone.  Most were Blue-winged, but I saw at 
least 4 Green-winged.
Roads are dry and dusty.  Beware of fairly high water in the north 
spillway of Little Salt Marsh.  As of this morning there was about 4 
inches of water.  Recent rains, along with the strong south winds, have 
resulted in large amounts of water in LSM.
Barry Jones
Quivira NWR

Birders News         09/02/2010
Night movements of migrants Port O'Connor 8-23 Brush Freeman <brushfreeman AT GMAIL.COM>
  The summer tourist stuff is mostly done...The night is silent save
for a few faint hums of A/Cs in the distance.  For over an hour not a
single car has passed the front beach..... I went to the beach and sat
under a near full moon followed by a friendly dog I will just call Jim
(AMB)...Buntings and Dickcissels flew over in who knows how many
numbers, Tringas, Calidrids all low flying,  the sky was stout with
calls which dropped off suddenly around 10:30-45P...After that only
Uplands and 2 Solitary Sandpipers were heard.  HO Skimmers were
working well off in the bay...Had at least one FWWD HO...Some real
cool insects this evening (IE Slow-glo Click Beetles)   I thought I
heard a Wood Thrush 2-3 times pass over...Is that possible this
early?...I don't think I have ever heard one this early before but
maybe, and maybe I am confusing it with something else.
Brush Freeman
Field Biologist
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James Bay Shorebirds, Ontario #6 -8-23: Jean Iron <jeaniron AT SYMPATICO.CA>
This is my sixth and final report for the period 14-17 August 2010
at Longridge Point on southern James Bay. The crew returned home on 18
August. I was a volunteer surveying the endangered rufa subspecies of
the Red Knot and other shorebirds under the direction of Mark Peck of
the Royal Ontario Museum. Other crew members were Don Sutherland, Mike

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