RED SLOUGH FIELD TRIP by Susan Walker
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It took over 40 e-mails to set up our overnight and to answer questions and sort out attendees. Then at
the last moment, there was a virtual flurry of e-mails when snow flurries were predicted for Stillwater
and points south on our scheduled spring overnight field trip to Red Slough. We lost four attendees who
decided not to brave the weather. But, come Friday afternoon at 3 PM, the following ten intrepid souls
braved the rain, hail, and dire predictions: Jim & Suz Cowley, Kay Enmeier, Michael Harvey, Ryan Helmer,
Les & Patty Imboden, Iris McPherson, and Lucy & Susan Walker. Two others, Bob & Peggy McCormick,
drove down on Saturday.
We Friday ten met in the parking lot opposite the Municipal Building on Lewis to carpool to OSU’s
Kiamichi Forestry Research Station near Red Slough, our accommodations for the weekend. After re-
arranging the luggage and distributing passengers in the pouring rain and hail, our caravan of three
cars was off to a very soggy start. I think each of us was wondering what we’d gotten into. At times it
was more like motor boating than motoring as we made our way nearly 300 miles southeast in heavy
rain and wind to the Station, 2.5 miles east of Idabel in southeastern OK. But, the farther south we got,
the less rain we encountered. At about six o’clock, the sky began to lighten and we were actually able to
see our mountainous and piney surroundings. Things were looking up. We ate dinner at a Mexican
restaurant in Hugo, which helped perk us up, also, and arrived at the snug Station about 9 PM.
our station contact, Dennis Wilson, Research Specialist, Fisheries and Wildlife Biology, gave us a grand
tour of this grand facility. There were ample bunk beds and cots, a large meeting room with kitchen,
plenty of hot water and showers, and even a washer and dryer.
The Station itself sat on 160 acres with two ponds, several different experimental pine forests, and an
exotic bamboo forest. The bamboo trees were three-stories high, many with very large trunks, perhaps
6-inches in diameter. The wind made them groan, whistle, and sing as they rubbed against one another.
Saturday morning, Les whipped up pancakes for all. After breakfast, we made ourselves a pb&j
sandwich or two and tucked some fruit, chips, and cookies into our lunch bags, as well, to sustain us for
a morning of birding.
At 7:30AM, Berlin Heck, retired National Wildlife Refuge manager and superb bird photographer, arrived.
He had volunteered to be our guide for the morning.
The first thing Berlin did was move us to the edge of one of the Station’s pine forests and call in two
brown-headed nuthatches, a life bird for some of us. Berlin also pointed out fish crows calling nasally
from nearby trees. I scrawled a hasty note to Bob & Peggy telling them where we’d be, and we then
caravanned to Red Slough.
With a few short exceptions, we stayed in the cars at the Slough because it was brutally cold and windy.
Suz had on so many layers she looked like a barrel-chested lumberjack (see photo below).
From our cars we saw mostly the larger birds: scads of coots, blue and green-winged teal, pintails,
widgeon, many shovelers, ring-billed ducks, merganzers, mallards, gadwall, wood ducks, Canada geese,
pied billed grebes, snowy & great egrets, great & little blue herons (one group of little blues with an
immature just beginning to turn). Also double-crested & neotropical cormorants, flocks of greater &
lesser yellowlegs, meadowlarks, and red-winged blackbirds; also Savannah, swamp, & white-crowned
sparrows. Berlin used his i-pod to call the king rail and it returned the call as did a Virginia rail, so while
we didn’t actually see these birds, we knew they were there. We saw white-tailed deer, and some of us
also caught a glimpse of a river otter.
At noon we called it quits and returned to the Station. There the group snacked, took naps, or walked
the ponds. The McCormicks arrived about 2 PM, having driven for six hours and through a blizzard! After
getting them set up, we took off for an afternoon at nearby Little River National Wildlife Refuge.
It was cold, grey, and off-and-on rainy, but we all enjoyed walking the trails after a morning in vehicles.
We saw few birds, but had fun identifying fungi (shelf fungus, puffballs), flowers (wild iris, wild phlox;
toadflax, dewberry, buttercups, violets), trees (the state’s largest Cherrybark Red Oak, Carolina
Basswood, Black Cherry, and Overcup Oak among 8 other Champion Trees), and rocks (many quartz-
streaked and at one place a goldmine of rocks containing shell fossils).
Back at the Station, Iris and Kay set up dominoes for pre-dinner games of Chickenfoot, and we all got
ready for dinner at David Beard’s Catfish & Seafood Restaurant, just down the road.
Sunday morning dawned gloriously sunny and temperate, putting all in a more cheerful frame of mind.
Jim pulled the brown-headed nuthatch’s squeaky-toy call onto his computer and took the computer to
the pines, so we got another look at the BHNH.
our guide for the morning, David Arbour, ODWC Biologist's Aide at Red and Grassy Sloughs, arrived, and
off we went to Red Slough for another morning of birding. This splendid morning we saw most of what
we’d seen the morning before and in addition ruddy ducks, anhinga, sora, common moorhen, black-
crowned night heron, four American bitterns, purple martin; rough-winged, tree, barn, and cliff swallows;
loggerhead shrike, Wilson’s snipe (flock), common yellowthroat, brown thrasher, chipping sparrow, song
sparrow, blue-gray gnatcatcher, as well as all the “usual suspects.”
Butterflies were just emerging. I saw a monarch, several sulphurs, and two pearl crescents. Patty
Imboden appeared at one point holding a large, blind, diamond-backed water snake. We decided to let
nature take its course, and she released it after all got a look. We also saw a nutria and a pretty good
sized male alligator warming in the sun.
After a wonderful morning of birding, we returned to the Station, cleaned and packed up, and then left
for home. We decided not to caravan, thus Lucy and I redistributed the luggage we’d carried, and before
getting on I-40 and the Muscogee Turnpike, drove north through the beautiful Ouachita National Forest
and Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area.
The group says thank-you to Les Imboden and Susan Walker for arranging the field trip, to Iris
McPherson for her delicious molasses cookies, to Kay Enmeier for her healthy “everything” muffins, to
Patty Imboden for her chocolate pan cake, to Les Imboden for his breakfast pancakes, and to Susan &
Lucy Walker for lunch and snack foods. Last but certainly not least we’d like to thank Dennis Wilson for
the generous use of the OSU Kiamichi Forestry Research Station, and thank volunteers Berlin Heck and
David Arbour for their excellent guided trips through Red Slough.
To view more photos of the Red Slough trip, go to the website gallery. Michael Harvey and Jim Cowley
took some superb photos of the birds as well as the one below of the group.
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FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK by Susan Walker
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What a line up. Our 2009-2010 programs place an emphasis on the family and will entertain and
educate children and adults alike. Most will have something attractive to families, and we’re hoping that
parents begin bringing their children to our Thur night programs.
In addition to our October Nature Day and June Nature Camp educational programs, we also have two
exciting overnight field trips planned—a fall trip to Cheyenne Bottoms/Quivira National Wildlife Refuges
and a spring trip to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in search of the black-capped vireo.
Potluck, Birdathon, & Bluebirds
Our fall opener is going to be a lively evening. After dinner, elections, and BIRDATHON awards, OSU
professor Jennifer Grindstaff will deliver a presentation on some of her research using bluebirds as
models for studying maternal effects in birds. This presentation will be followed by the distribution of
bluebird box kits. Families and individuals will then each have the opportunity to assemble their own
bluebird box.
Feeding Wild Birds
In October, Deborah and Ron Early, from Tulsa’s Wild Bird Unlimited store will present a a program on
“Feeding Wild Birds.” Attendees will learn about different types of bird feeders, what foods birds species
like, and what and when to feed wild birds. Each family/individual will receive a kit to make a simple
black-oil sunflower feeder to take home.
Owls in Literature
In November we have scheduled an exciting program presented by Tim O’Connell called “Owls in
Literature” . . . think Harry Potter and Kathryn Lasky’s now 15-book series "Guardians of Ga'Hoole," in
which accurately depicted owls play the central characters. After O’Connell’s presentation, children and
their families will have the opportunity to dissect an owl pellet and identify the owl’s food source, using a
bone chart.
Christmas Bird Counts
For the past several years, our December program has been a time to inform and organize the
Christmas Bird Counts and their participants. Jim Ownby and Tim O’Connell will help newcomers find a
Stillwater CBC team to count with, and team leaders will map out their count territories. Then in the
week before Christmas teams will count in prescribed circles in Stillwater, and, under John Couch’s
leadership, at Sooner Lake.
It’s all About Birds
We’re working on a joint effort between PCAS and the Stillwater School system for January’s program. If
we are successful, it will be a real treat: the GM Sutton Avian Research Center’s educational program “It’
s all About Birds.” This exciting, presentation involves live, trained birds that fly down to the stage right
over the audience, and sometimes perform with participating audience members.
Because of the nature of this program, it will be held in the Stillwater High School auditorium during the
day, unlike our usual evening programs at the Stillwater Public Library. A special section of seats will be
reserved for PCAS members and their families. This program is in demand across OK and is only
tentatively scheduled for 2010, but if we don’t succeed in getting it here in 2010, we’ll definitely be on
the 2011 schedule.
Oklahoma Butterflies
In February our program will be Butterflies of Oklahoma. We hope to get butterfly expert John Fischer —
Tulsa Audubon, Nature Conservancy — as our presenter. After the program participants will create a
butterfly mobile.
Nature Journaling
Susie Ruby of Oxley’s Redbud Valley will present March’s hand’s-on program on nature journaling. I
participated in Susie’s program at the Woodward Lesser Prairie-Chicken Festival and knew that you
members would love it. All participants will create the covers for their own nature journals.
Wichita Mountain Field Trip: In Search of the Black-capped Vireo
Spring of 2010 promises another exciting spring field trip, this one to the Wichita Mountain Wildlife
Refuge in search of the black capped vireo. We will have a professional lead us in the field.
Research Reports
April will see reports from Adrian Monroe and Jay Burtka who received 2009 PCAS research scholarships.
Bird & Breakfast
May is our Bird & Breakfast at Pecan Springs Quail Preserve, 8:30 to 3. Great breakfast, bird walk, tree
and plant walk, fishing; many will camp overnight
Nature Camp
Again in 2010 our popular Nature Camp will run for two weeks.
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IN MY YARD by Joyce Konigmacher
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The last several days of April, and the first two weeks of May provided some incredible bird-watching
opportunities for quite a few people in mid-OK. Postings on the OKBIRD listserver were fast and furious.
Observation reports rolled in to the PCAS website.
Were more people watching, or were there actually more species to report?
Personally, I saw at least two species that I have NEVER seen before, in 50 years of bird-watching, and
both of them were at feeders in my own yard! I had to consult four different field guides, in order to
make identifications that I could feel positive about.
Two pairs of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks visited my sunflower feeders. All four birds hung around for the
first two weeks of May, and my last viewing was of one of the females, on May 19th. A Black-headed
Grosbeak hung around for about a week. A small flock of Indigo Buntings feasted on white millet which I
had tossed onto my front sidewalk. There were more Ruby-throated hummingbirds than I have ever
seen during any spring migration period. Usually they are extremely territorial, but during a period of
about a week and a half in the first part of May—sometimes there were two or three on the same
feeder, both males and females.
Elaine Stebler’s feeders were visited by Lazuli Buntings and Indigo Buntings. Susan Walker, our web-
mistress, had some rarely-seen feathered friends at her feeders too: A Mourning Warbler, a pair of
Summer Tanagers, and a pair of Baltimore Orioles, the latter gathering on orange slices, which she had
hung on a wire clothes hanger. A PCAS member, named Cheryl, who lives in Lincoln County, was thrilled
to report Painted Buntings in her yard.
All of this was most exciting, and certainly provided a lot of interest during some really BORING weather
conditions. Cloudy, chilly and wet weather is what mid-OK experienced for at least fourteen or fifteen
days in a row. The kind of weather that makes you just wanna stay in bed and read, or simply pull the
covers over your head and go back to sleep. I was itching to do some yard-work, but the soil was too
wet to work with or walk on. So, we all had to stand inside of our houses, sighing, and staring longingly
out of the windows, as days got longer, and the tomato seedlings whimpered to be planted. Those of us
who did stare outside, were bountifully rewarded with the vast variety of bird species that visited our
feeders.
I think that a couple of factors created this abundance of sightings. For one thing, we had several late
freezes, which destroyed a lot of the naturally-occurring food supply. The primary foliage on my mulberry
trees was devastated by one of the first late freezes. By the time the secondary foliage appeared—
along with blossoms—our area was blasted by high-winds, low temperatures (again) and roof-damaging
hail. Twice, I had to hastily fashion some protective covering for my budding peonies, using tomato
cages, construction-grade trash bags, and clothes-pins.
Secondly, we experienced an extended period of poor weather conditions for migration. The week
preceding and the week after the May full-moon . . . it was continuously cloudy and/or rainy, and winds
were primarily from the north. If you were a bird, would you want to be flying into constant strong
headwinds? Heck no, you would rather stop, eat and rest for a while. Fatten up, and proceed north at
your leisure.
Here’s hoping for bad weather next May!
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PECAN SPRINGS QUAIL PRESERVE BIRD & BREAKFAST by Les Imboden
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With our annual Bird & Breakfast you have at least a 50/50 chance. If the birds don't cooperate you still
have a sure thing with the breakfast. And the odds paid off for us.
Pat Jaynes, Lynn Malley, Helen Jordan, and Freddy Miller joined hosts Les & Pat Imboden at Pecan
Springs Quail Preserve for one heck of a social hour and a bang-up breakfast. From there the sledding
was a bit tougher.
Les passed out a list of the 42 species he and Patty had seen on their property in the past couple of
days, but with winds around 30 MPH, the little guys were not so cooperative Saturday morning.
Even the Painted Bunting who had just shown up at 7:00 that morning never showed his painted face
again. Nor the Baltimore Oriole that had just appeared late the evening before.
But the Canada Geese helped make up for what was missing. Just as the group arrived, there was a
pair wandering around the yard as if they lived there. Which they sort of do.
And a trio of Little Blues entertained the group with antics in the tippy tops of a stand of huge pecans.
And there were all the usual suspects. But in the main, the arriving migrants were nowhere to be found
in all that wind.
Hope we have better luck next year!
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REPORT ON TEAL RIDGE WETLANDS ACQUISITION
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As many of you know, in April, local developer/wildlife artist Thomas Blaylock most generously offered to
give PCAS Teal Ridge Wetland, a 23-acre wetland located at Walnut Street and 19th Avenue in Stillwater.
PCAS is looking into the legal and managerial aspects of acquiring this property, which is presently being
managed by Alan Stacey, ODWC, and administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Services and
through the Payne County Conservation Foundation and the Teal Ridge Workgroup.
We are also investigating the possibility of jointly building a classroom/Audubon building on one of the
sites adjacent to the wetlands.
There is much to consider, thus Jeff Kuhn, PCC Foundation; David Hungerford, NRCS District
Conservationist; Les Imboden, PCAS Treasurer, and Susan Walker, PCAS President have formed a
committee to find answers to relevant questions as soon as possible. We thank Tom Blaylock and will
keep you PCAS members updated on this exciting offer.
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BUCERIAS, MEXICO, WITH THE IMBODENS, FEB 2009, by Les Imboden
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There we were, lazing on the roof of a rented Mexican villa, watching a turkey vulture slowly glide
overhead. Then we realized the vulture had a broad white band in its tail. “Uh, guys! This is no
buzzard!”
Not by a long shot. Once we realized what we had, we saw these Great Black Hawks regularly soaring
over the city, likely more because of the good thermals than the good hunting.
So, later we are birding a lagoon and see a whole kettle of black hawks. At least they didn’t have red
faces. But it just didn’t make sense. There were too many of them. Okay, they got us again! It was a
kettle of black vultures.
Chances are you would not think of Puerto Vallarta for a birding trip, but these tourist destinations can
fool you. (It wouldn’t quit fooling us.) We were there for the usual reasons, but we took lots of
opportunities to use the binoculars, and with good results. The Banderas Bay area has a variety of
habitats and with no more than a taxi and a decent bird book you can easily up your life list by 40
species in a week of vacation.
Everyone loves to get to see the usual tropical seaside favorites. The Blue-footed Booby (we rescued an
injured one), the Magnificent Frigatebird, the Roseate Spoonbill. The usual suspects. And you are always
going to see a few species of hummingbirds you have never seen before. For us they were the
Cinnamon and Blue-throated. But, those are just what you expect to see when you are in the tropics.
We never in our lives expected to find the two that took our breath away. A picture does not do justice
to the Squirrel Cuckoo. In flight its pendant of a tail is like that of the Resplendent Quetzal, flowing
behind it like a wedding dress train. You just can’t see how it can navigate among the trees like it does,
dragging that huge, fragile-looking tail behind it. And when it rains it pours. While we were chasing the
cuckoo, we saw the most spectacularly colored bird of the trip. The orange-breasted bunting. At first I
just knew we had found a dacnis or cotinga. Never mind that we were out of their range. The colors
were similar. But with a little study, the bunting was easily sorted out. It is an incredible combination of
yellow and blue that just makes your eyes hurt to look at it.
Puerto Vallarta lies at the southern end of Banderas Bay. We were in Bucerias, on the northern end
where it’s a bit less developed. It is not quite the shopping mecca Puerto Vallarta is, but we saw 65
species of birds there between cervezas, and that’s not bad for casual birding.
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QUARTERLY QUIZ TO MAKE YOU A WIZ by Jerry Wilhm
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RHYME TIME
by Jerry Wilhm
Identify the pairs of rhyming birds from the clues below. For example, an “irregularly moving”
Thanksgiving bird would be a JERKY TURKEY. See answers at end of newsletter articles.
1. “Happy” crested bird
2. “Not heavy” small hawk
3. “Physically-weak” small game bird
4. “Pallid,” small wading bird
5. “Mentally dull” large, glossy, black bird
6. “Sickly” graceful, white, long-necked waterbird
7. “Unsuccessful or conceited” tall wading bird
8. “Black” Old World bird with beautiful song
9. “Slow-witted” common sea beach bird
10. “Debatable” black rail
11. “Smelly” nocturnal bird of prey
12. “Mature” slender-billed game bird
12. “Debatable” black rail
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2009 BIRDATHON REPORTS
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Team name — The Easterners
Team members — Erica Miller, John Frink, Freddy Miller
Where birded — Stillwater
Best sightings — Blue-winged teal, northern shoveler, ruddy duck
No. of species seen — 73
Amt. of funds raised — $540.15
Team name — Team Gray Jays
Team members — Susan Walker, Dean Bloodgood, Robert Leigh
Where birded — Stillwater, Sooner Lake, Pawnee
Best sightings — Buntings (lazuli, indigo, painted) and blue grosbeaks, Baltimore orioles, summer
tanager
No. of species seen — 80
Amt. of funds raised — $317.00
Team name — Unnamed
Team members — Helen Jordan, Helen Miller, Thea Pratt, Pat Jaynes
Where birded — Stillwater
Best sightings — Common snipe
No. of species seen — 81
Amt. of funds raised — $1890.35
Team name — Ed Glover Memorial Birdathon
Team members — Susan Walker
Where birded — On paper (used Ed’s 2008 list)
Best sightings — Ed’s least tern sighting at Boomer Lake
No. of species seen — 85
Amt. of funds raised — $707.35
*Several teams had not reported at print date.
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A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME by Susan Walker
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Strange Behavior?
My desk looks out ceiling-to-floor windows to my deck and some of our feeders. One day in mid-March,
something caught my eye. I looked up to see a fox squirrel wrestling with a goldfinch. What the? I
walked to the window and the squirrel ran off. There sat the bedraggled goldfinch on the deck beside
five of his primary feathers, some of his underfeathers blowing away in the wind.
Strange behavior? Sort of because there was plenty of seeds for food, but I learned that squirrels
are omnivorous to a degree. They will eat insects, birds' eggs, and nestling birds when they get the
chance. However, they are less omnivorous than certain other rodents, such as rats and mice, which can
and do eat almost anything.
Bluebird House THANK-YOU.
Last spring, my daughter, Lucy Walker, cut and pre-drilled 30 North American Bluebird Society (NABS)
specific, rough cedar, bluebird boxes with lumber donated by Lowe’s of Stillwater. Lu Skillerin
generously donated the money for the hardware. Thus PCAS has available 30 bluebird box kits for it’s
opening program in September. A big THANK YOU to Lucy, Lu, and Lowe’s!
Peregrine Falcon?
In mid-March Les Imboden walked out his back door to fetch firewood and saw a large bird that he took
for a crow fly from the ground up into a nearby bush. Les thought that odd, so looked closer. When he
did, he saw a second large bird, that was obviously a hawk, on the ground on the opposite side of the
bush.
As he tells it, “in a couple of heartbeats” he realized the second hawk was on one of their chickens.
He shouted for Patty and started toward it. As he approached, the first bird flew from the bush across
the big pond away from him. He rehearsed the field marks aloud: “dark grey, almost black above, no
visible tail bars, size of a crow, forward set wings with pointed tips.” The angle prevented a good look at
the face, plus he needed to see about the chicken. As he approached the bush, the second hawk flew.
Though it was opposite the bush from him, Les saw enough to know it was not a falcon. It was not only
much lighter, but had broad buteo wings. His guess was that it was their first-year red-shouldered.
Les says, “We can only guess why there were two hawks at one kill. One may have taken it away from
the other. I'm afraid the chicken was minus its head by the time I got to it. And that's all they got. Just
enough to kill it without even getting a meal out of it.”
No. 1 Again: Congratulations Stillwater GBBC-ers!
Once again Stillwater had the most species (89) and the most checklists (124) in OK. Next was Tulsa
with 88 species, and OKC with 67 checklists. Thank you to Tim O’Connell, OSU students, and all who
participated.
Egotistic Summer Tanager?
Remember the summer tanager who last year wore himself out pecking at his reflection in our windows?
He’s back . . . once again pecking at his reflection.
It’s a Boy, by George!
Andy George and his wife Emily are proud parents of a baby boy, Nathan, born May 24, 4:50 PM,
weighing 9 lbs 6 oz, and measuring 21 inches long. The new family has moved to Columbia, MO, where
in August Andy will start a Ph.D. program in Biology at the University of Missouri. He will be studying
forest songbirds in the Ozarks. The specific topic is up to him. Andy reports that “right now my topic is
yet to be determined, but it will definitely have a strong conservation-emphasis.”
Famous Daughter?
A friend left Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings at the bike shop for
me, thinking I would like to read it. And I did. It’s written in a humorous (and often desperate) way by
Suzie Gilbert, a NY bird rehabber. The book names many vets, rehabbers, and wildlife people, but one in
particular caught my attention. Suzie needs ciprofloaxin and itraconazole to treat a wild turkey with
aspergillosis but finds that a month’s worth of the two prescriptions would amount to about $800. What
to do? She’d recently been to a rehabbers' convention so sifts through her notes of the contacts she
met there, and finds: “Call Erica Miller DVM TSt BR for chp itcnzle AZ 1/10 cost, will overnight.” She
remembers Dr. Erica Miller, staff veterinarian at the renowned Tri-State Bird Rescue in Delaware. Of
course we, too, know Erica. She’s Freddy Miller’s daughter.
Feeder Bird Blitz.
E-mails of unusual birds at our feeders flew in early May when the extended rain brought a “fall out” of
sorts to OK. Joyce Konigmacher had rose-breasted grosbeaks; Elaine Stebler and Les Imboden had
lazuli and indigo buntings, Dean Bloodgood had his first family of red-headed woodpeckers, I had
painted and indigo buntings, a female rose-breasted grosbeak, and, most surprising, a mourning
warbler. I still have a pair of Baltimore orioles, and a pair of summer tanagers.
Buena Vista!
After Ecuador, the Galapagos, Peru, and the local use my binocs get, it was past time to have them
cleaned. Took them to a camera store I frequent in Tulsa, and had them cleaned professionally. Cost
$25 but was well worth it. Now I’m seeing more than LBBs!
Thank you Teal Ridge Volunteers.
And all PCAS members who picked up trash at Teal Ridge this past season: Michael Harvey, Les &
Patty Imboden, Lu Skillern, Leslie & Dwayne Elmore.
Thank you Jerry & Nona Wilhm!
Thank you Jerry & Nona Wilhm for picking up the summer issue of Feathers/Pinfeathers, and addressing
and mailing it. This is a time consuming chore as anyone who has done it will know. Thank you also Jerry
for volunteering so cheerfully to head the 2009-2010 Nominations Committee. Thanks to you, our future
Board looks stellar.
Birdie says, “Good-bye.”
Good-bye for the summer. See y’all in the fall.
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