Second Annual All Womens' Birding Bust

2nd ANNUAL ALL WOMENS` BIRDING BUST
20 April2002

From all reports, everyone who participated in Georgia`s Second AnnualAll  Womens` Birding Bust had a great time.  Some of us were a littlemore  exhausted than others, racing down to the coast from the North Georgiamountains.   Others had a less strenuous but still thoroughly enjoyableand successful  day birding in more local areas. 
 
There were a total of 28 participants and a combined 189 species seen orheard throughout the state.  Participating teams are listed below withtheir birding sites.  The winning total was 160 species closely followedby 144 and 134.  A combined list of all species appears at the endof  the participants` list below.
 
But the real success of the AWBB is not the total number of species nor miles traveled, but instead the satisfaction of sharing our birding passion with each other and everyone we encountered along the way.  Some of thecomments I received were:

“My teammate Mary has neverbeen birding before...she is more the backyard enthusiast but she had ablast!  She is still talking about seeing her first Scarlet and Summer tanagers!”said Julia Elliott

Wendy West remarked, “Seeing all those AWBB teams at Kennesaw on Sat. (fourteams in all) made me think of one of my favorite reality TV shows-- "theAmazing Race."

 “It was a wonderful experience and I hope just the beginning of Gaggle`s(team name) participation.  I really enjoyed myself and felt I hadmade  a giant step in birding identification,” wrote Carol Vanderschaaf.

Kathleen Krzastek  “Thank you so much for organizing it. And pleaseforward on thanks to who ever is responsible for the T-shirts.”  (ArtistDeb Zaremba and Karen Theodorou organizer.)

AWBB participants for 2002

Theresa Hartz, Lisa Hurt, Georgann Schmalz, EJ Williams  Dawson Forest,Kennesaw, E.L. Huie, Macon area, I-16, Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island. Total 160 Species

Karen Theodorou, Deb Zaremba, Traci Brown, Michelle Sheppard  Pine Log WMA, Kennesaw, E.L. Huie, I-16, Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island  Total 144 species

Jackie Heyda, Leslie Curran, Jane Shero  The Greenway, Kennesaw Mountain,Macon area,  I-16, Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island Total 134 species

Dot Freeman, Anne Mursch, Betty Belanger Union, Towns and Fannin countiesincluding Suches to Lake Wingfield Scot, Blairville, Ivy Log Gap Rd, YoungHarris, Lake Chatuge Rec Area, (Chattahoochee Nat`l Forest), Meek`s Parkin Blairsville, Lake Blue Ridge Marina, Brasstown Bald. Total 87 species.

Kathleen Krzastek, Parrie Pinyon, Annette Burdges, Diane Schellack Lisa Peavy.   Cochran Shoals, Chattahoochee River, Kennesaw Mountain, Newman`s Wetland Center, E.L.Huie, Shamrock Lake, Piedmont Wildlife Refuge Total 82 species.

Wendy West Kennesaw Mtn. Sweetwater Creek State Park, E.L. Huie, BlalockLake, Newman Wetlands, Kennesaw Mountain, Pine Log WMA, South PeachtreeCreek  Nature Preserve, and Emory Lullwater. Total 69 species.

Julia Elliott, Mary Mellom Atlanta area  Total 57 species

Ginny Wood, Marie Lasalle  Pine Log WMA, Cartersville and Sod farms Total 28 species plus many warblers, wrens, and swallows.

Carol Vanderschaaf, Toni Whistler  Atlanta Area

Marian Gordon, Molly Mitchell  Cohutta Wilderness

Georgia`s Second Annual All Womens` Birding Bust

Total species list for 20 April 2002 

Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Ross’s Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
Mallard
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Mississippi Kite
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Wild Turkey
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Wilson’s Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Common Snipe
Laughing Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Royal Tern
Forster’s Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Dove
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chuck-will’s-widow
Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Swainson’s Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Swainson’s Warbler
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Bobolink
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Pine Siskin
House Sparrow

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Georgann Schmalz
Ornithologist,President     Birding Adventures, Inc.
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