Date sent:        Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:38:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:             "Dave B. Sing" <dbs@supera.hg.med.umich.edu>
Subject:          Chelsea Meadows
To:               birders@umich.edu

   Recent birds around Chelsea; 6 sandhills, flying over going south to 
 north, loudly, sunday eve.~8pm; great crested flycatcher, wih the others in
 the beach school woods, sat and sunday; screech owl, whinnying for each of
 the past few nights in town; dead blue-wing warbler, dex-chelsea@freer;
 greater yellowlegs, field pond steinbach south of dex-chelsea; immature
 cooper's hawk, with captured starling, tree in the high school yard along
 washington st, 8:45am this morning.  Flickers, horned larks, savannah, song,
 field, grasshopper, chipping sparrows, e. and W. meadowlark, bobwhite,
 barn and tree swallows, e. bluebirds, indigoes, yellowthroats, grackles,
 red-wings, robins, catbirds, new subdivision east of freer@washington.
 
 DBS Chelsea
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Date sent:        Fri, 6 Feb 1998 09:44:20 -0500 (EST)
From:             "Dave B. Sing" <dbs@supera.hg.med.umich.edu>
Subject:          Chelsea Meadows
To:               birders@umich.edu

  Howdy.  Surveyed Chelsea Meadows, the old field/new development east
  of
 Freer rd. (just north and east of the new high school) yesterday p.m.
 Horned larks, song sparrow, great blue(!), red-tail, kestrel pair;
 flicker on an open patch of ground, digging madly. Many bluebirds, in
 various groups of 2 to 6+. Red-headed woodpecker at forest edge at the
 very furthest eastern spur of the development - a fine wet woods with
 lots of big trees and thick undergrowth, adjacent to some old field
 with fair hedgerows still supporting some big hickory and oak.  The
 other surprise was a persistant e. meadowlark call which I ignored
 because of the season and a pod of starlings in the general
 direction... then the singer appeared on a shrub, belting out. I had
 no idea that they might sing in winter (though seen occasionally in
 similar habitat).  Despite the brisk wind and leaden skies the avian
 day there seemed more like April than early February...
  The majority of this land is still a fine old field with wet spots
  and
 occasional large trees, with aforementioned adjacent lands. However,
 the rest is being climaxed (developed) steadily, and several homes in
 various states of completion dot the area, while the new high school
 looms to the south.  Of course these 'Meadows' will be lawns in the
 blink of an eye...
     And did I mention crows? There seems to be an upswing in their
     numbers,
 every row and stand and patch has at least a few, and much of the
 snowfree open farmland where geese aren't has a group, and they seem
 to be heading east in the morning and back west at night (from my
 place in Chelsea). Country birds, roosting in the Waterloo forest
 instead of A2? Thoughts?
   Siskins, at the Waterloo Geology Center, dusk yesterday.  No owls
   heard
 shortly afterward in that stretch of woods.  DBS Chelsea