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Re: Will's CH checklist
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Re: Will's CH checklist
- From: Joshua Stuart Rose <jsr6@duke.edu>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:42:23 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990912194718.007422dc@mail.datasys.net>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Barbara Passmore wrote:
>
> >I tried the URL that Josh provided, and got an error message. Is it me?
> >
>
> I got it okay by deleting the period at the end.
Sorry about that extra period. It's a constant struggle between proper
English the way Mrs. Kinder taught me to write in ninth grade, ending
sentences with appropriate punctuation no matter what, and typing web
addresses, which depend on not having periods in the wrong place.
Oh, well. If anyone continues having trouble, try surfing to the
checklist via Will's main page at http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/, (don't
include that comma!) clicking on "Chapel Hill Bird Club", then on "CHBC
Checklist". Note that you need Adobe Acrobat reader or some other
software that can translate .pdf files, this may also cause some error
messages...
Took a short walk today along the Will Suitt Railroad. Not enough time to
reach the end, but the mud flats near Will Suitt Road are long, long
gone! Chances are so are the rest of Falls Lake's mudflats, the water
looked fairly high. Maybe the shortage of shorebirds at Sandhills Turf
Farm was due to the abundance of shorebird habitat elsewhere, and the
turf farm will start getting some action now that all the inland mud
flats are covered by water again. No landbird action so far as I could
tell, but I was more focused on herps and bugs today anyway. Leppers be
warned: hundreds of skippers along the railroad bed! For the Oders,
several Meadowhawks, I think Blue-faced (although their faces were all
green as far as I could tell). And for the herpers, lots of Cricket
Frogs, a Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) and a juvenile skink,
plus a long-empty box turtle carapace. Also had a close encounter with a
big Praying Mantis.
Highlight of the day was probably a spectacular caterpillar: bright
orange, with big black eyespots behind the head, and a few pairs of small
blue spots down the back. When disturbed, its front end swelled up to
further resemble a snake's head, and - this is the best part - it had two
little antennalike projections behind its head that poked out briefly and
retracted back out of sight again, almost like the critter was mimicking
a snake's forked tongue! Well, *I* was impressed, anyway... anyone know
what lep this beastie plans to metamorphose into?
Good bugging,
Josh
Joshua S. Rose
Duke University
Department of Zoology
jsr6@acpub.duke.edu
http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/