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Notes from the 2008 Great Backyard Bird Count McDonald's birdologists assist in parking lot starling count. Russell Guy Perkins remembers John Robert Potts story about owl's ability to rotate his head; an eagle over Columbia Western Bypass (but not yet reported in GBBC). Pewee offers skunk count. Doing checklist with grandkids can be a learning experience. Still no ospreys, owls, or eagles reported from Adair County. Sue Stivers tells how to attract nuthatches. To Post your bird count checklist this morning. Click Here By Ed Waggener They don't make owls like they used to have at Coburg. Russell Guy Perkins said he learned about the owls from the late John Robert Potts who told this story at the Coburg store, and it was passed on to Mr. Perkins. "I'd been told owls could turn their heads clean around," Mr. Potts related. "And I wouldn't have believed it until I saw it with my own eyes. "I saw one the other day up on a post. He started turning his head around and just didn't stop. He turned it and turned in whole circles. I couldn't stop watching him until noon. By that time that owl had twisted his head around so many times it just fell off and killed him." Mr. Potts had also been in storms, and had two reports from a tornado. "It come up a sound like a freight train," Russell Guy remembers people telling the John Robert Potts story. "I got in the ditch and hung on to a little hick'ry nut tree about four inches around. I head a church organ flying overhead playing The Old Rugged Cross and then the tornado got hold of me and commenced to swing me around and around that tree while I held on for dear life. When it was over, I had skinned every bit of the bark off that tree." Russell Guy says a good education could be gotten at the Coburg Store and also at Cave's Store in the Mt. Carmel community. Pewee is too busy to count birds A.L. Sinclair is too busy recycling to help on the Great Backyard Bird Count, but he has offered this wildlife census. "Do you know how many skunks were on the road between here and Campbellsville last Sunday?" he asked. "Twenty seven." I counted them on the way to way to Wal-Mart last Sunday. It's a shame that A.L. can't help on the bird count. He did count the starlings behind IGA, this morning, but said he was "too busy" recycling to count birds. Please, will somebody do a Checklist and dedicate it to Pewee. A.L. does so much good. He's got the Recycling Center up to six inmate workers. Right now, they are sorting 50 pallets they got from the ADD district in Russell County. He's got a pallet of unused plastic bed pans from there, which will be recycled, he says. Two sightings of eaglesSo far, no eagles have been turned in for Adair County for the Great Backyard Bird Count, but Tommy Giles says he saw on just last Sunday, and in a well known place. "I was over by the new bridge on the bypass," he said, "and I saw a big bird and thought it was the biggest hawk I'd ever seen." He watched it a while, and determined it was an eagle. "It was flying over the silo on the Henson Farm," he said. We hope someone spots that eagle to report it in the GBBC. Sightings that are reported are supposed to be for specific days, February 15, 16, 17, and 18. This sighting was five days early and can't be counted until someone sees it again. But 10 years ago, Tommy says he and his brother Clifford Giles were fishing at the Eli Slew at Fairview. "Clifford had a white on the line, and something swooped down and tried to take it off the hook. It was an eagle." He says that it was an almost frightening experience, but one he fondly remembers now. "It was a sight I'll never forget," he said. Billy Joe Fudge has reported an eagle below the KY 55 bridge below Green River Dam on KY 55 between Columbia and Campbellsville. Hope someone reports that one, thought it should be counted for Taylor County. The hawk over the downtown Columbia Does anybody know where the hawk which can be so frequently seen giving aerial shows over Downtown Columbia really live. The amateur birdologists at McDonald's say he nests in the courthouse steeple. Hope someone will check it out. A good parent or grandparent GBBC experience A grand experience I'd like to enjoy, but can't because our boys are in Ashland this weekend, would be to do a Great Backyard Bird Count checklist with the grandchildren. We hope as many will do this as find it possible. It would be a great learning experience. Not only can the grandchildren tell us about the birds, but they know how to run the computers to make the reports, as well. Still no owls or ospreys reported from Adair County When I last checked, there had been no owls or ospreys reported from Adair County, and we know they are here. If anyone sees one, let us know. Thanks to everybody helping The wonderful response to the GBBC from Adair County comes from a lot of help. Sue Stivers, Executive Director of the Columbia-Adair County Chamber of Commerce, notified all members to help, and that seems to have been a big factor. Kelli Bonifer notified many of the homemakers who have email. Phil Hanna at LWC enrolled the biology department members at LWC, to name just a few of the organizations helping. In the long run, the count can be a big benefit to Adair County, not only for the environment and the enjoyment people are getting from the experience, but it can add economic benefits as well. Sue Stivers noted that the more species and the greater numbers we find here, the more likely tourists will be come for the nature trails here."First of all," she said, "we want the count to be accurate and honest, But we also want it to be complete. She's had people show interest in coming to Columbia just to see the nuthatches he has had in her backyard." "I've seen as many as 25-30 of the little birds on trees in my backyard," she said. "You know nuthatches--they are the birds which walk down tree trunks head first as well as climb up. I feed them black suet, and when I ran out, I was in Somerset to buy some. I told the clerk about them and he said, 'I've been trying to attract nuthatches forever, and I never have'" Mrs. Stivers related. "He said he wanted to come see them sometime, and I told him to come right on, that nuthatches were just a few of the many attractions Columbia has to offer." Call Sue Stivers at (270) 384-6020, at the Columbia-Adair County Chamber of Commerce to find out more about her successes with the birds. E-mail or call us with your GBBC experiences If you have a story about making a checklist, please email it using a Contact/Submit button, or call us at (270) 250-2730. We especially want stories of children's experiences. Photos will be appreciated, too. This story was posted on 2008-02-17 07:59:22
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