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Hi All: First off I'm refraining from putting this on the rare bird alert as there are individuals out there that get upset, when they cannot know a location of a bird, due to the fact that the property owners do not wish birders to come. Their theory is that if we cannot know where the bird is do not put it on the rare bird alert. Therefore leave the Dickcissel and Indigo Bunting off of the rare bird alert. Leave it to say that these two birds are in Liverpool. The Indigo Bunting for the record is a male still showing blue down the middle of the chest. The Dickcissel is a very dull bird in comparison to others that I have seen. Credit for these two birds goes to Dorothy Poole. The one that can be posted on the alert is the Barrows Goldeneye. This bird also found by Dorothy is at the mouth of the Mersey River. If you park overlooking the entrance inside of the Bridge at Liverpool behind the hardware store and legion or pool hall and look upriver you should find this bird. It is a male traveling with common goldeneyes. The Greater Yellowlegs was on the shoreline on the road down to the West Berlin Wharf. Of note were 10 yellow-rumped warblers going down to Andrew's Head. There is activity at Andrew's Head which cannot be passing environmental permits. There is the intent to put houses along the wetland and a road has been put out over the wetlands there without a permit. They actually put the road through another persons property and said the property line had been changed and that they were doing this legally. Anyhow, this is going to court to get a resolution. The long and short is that locals would give the wetland property to the Nature Conservancy to protect it, but since the road has been put through this cannot now happen. They proposed allowing a road in that would not affect the wetlands and would be better for houses and still have waterfront access, but the parties in question would not agree to such. They went ahead and put the road over the wetland area anyhow. The people in the area will be organizing to try and stop this developer. This is something that groups might want to look into as a worthy cause. I realize that this is happening in a lot of areas. For those that have birded Andrew's Head this is a good spot for shorebirds and various rarities. Of note they are trying to do a similar thing in Rose Bay. They apparently plan on putting a boom in to contain ground from going into the saltwater marsh area and to fill in and put a house right beside the road. This hopefully will not transpire either and DNR and the Dept of Environment are keeping an eye on this. Anyhow, enough of that for now. James R. Hirtle Dublin Shore _________________________________________________________________ Download now! Visit http://www.telusmobility.com/msnxbox/ to enter and see how cool it is to get Messenger with you on your cell phone. http://www.telusmobility.com/msnxbox/
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