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Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

sallyls — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:43:07 GMT

Hi gang! Just moving the maproom up on the forum list! Too fantastic to let it slide down...

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

Bville — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:46:25 GMT

sallyls:
....Red Shoulder Hawks floating around in the winds. Also on 44 around 41st Street and Sheridan there was a hawk on one side in the air, and a hawk on the other side of 44 in the air. I could only tell the hawk outline. Too high up for me to see where the red was....

Hi, Sallyls. Thanks for checking. I did see these entries; but I won't put them on the Google Map since it is limited to redtails. One of Workaholic's sightings was of redshouldered hawks; and the other was of hawks flying (phooey) too high to be eyeballed as to type, and I really couldn't cite them as being redtails. But sooner or later, Workaholic is going to hit the jackpot--maybe even at Langenheim Park?

Edit: Sallyls, Just saw your other post. I think we've been putting our other redtail sightings on the Raptor Rap thread. I'll doublecheck....

....OK, I just did only a brief search. Many of the non-KJRH sightings seem to be on Raptor Rap. However, there are others on the observation thread operative at the time, and a few on the Map Room. I can't recall exactly how we did this posting in the "off season," that is, when the KJRH activity was slow (no nest business). What do you all think, that is, about where to post sightings of non-KJRH hawks, including the Langenheims and others? Raptor Rap? Or......?

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

sallyls — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:36:57 GMT

catgirl:
KJRH Webmaster:
Hey all someone just posted several pics of another hawks' nest in our UGC content area: http://www.kjrh.com/ugc/cat/animals/default.aspx Might want to drop them a line and see where it is...

I took a look at the photos - and then looked online to see if could make an ID - as is not a RedTail. My un-expert opinion is that it is a redshouldered hawk. So maybe south Tulsa where there are still some wetlands areas.

It is not a Red shoulder, good guess though from the rusty front-it is either a Cooper's hawk or Sharp Shinned hawk. I've never seen one on a nest before! Cool. I left a post and invited the poster to post over here on the raptor rap thread. Was that right, or should I have told them to post it here? I'm still not sure where the forum wants local sightings posted, here or the raptor rap thread.

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

sallyls — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:23:48 GMT

Bville-I copied this from the rap thread as I wasn't sure if you might havemissed it in the other discussions going on there. Workaholic on 4-6:

OK, other sightings today. 36th Street North above Mingo Creek near Mingo Road around 230pm a pair of I think, Red Shoulder Hawks floating around in the winds. Also on 44 around 41st Street and Sheridan there was a hawk on one side in the air, and a hawk on the other side of 44 in the air. I could only tell the hawk outline. Too high up for me to see where the red was. All of a sudden, after a long drought of no sightings, I am seeing Hawks everywhere. RC

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

catgirl — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:04:11 GMT

KJRH Webmaster:
Hey all someone just posted several pics of another hawks' nest in our UGC content area: http://www.kjrh.com/ugc/cat/animals/default.aspx Might want to drop them a line and see where it is...

I took a look at the photos - and then looked online to see if could make an ID - as is not a RedTail. My un-expert opinion is that it is a redshouldered hawk. So maybe south Tulsa where there are still some wetlands areas.

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

KJRH Webmaster — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:45:38 GMT

Hey all someone just posted several pics of another hawks' nest in our UGC content area:

http://www.kjrh.com/ugc/cat/animals/default.aspx

Might want to drop them a line and see where it is...

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

bobdmac — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:05:57 GMT

Bville, I've gotta say, I love your maps. They give us a much broader perspective of Kay and Jay's lives.

I hope we can recruit more members of the Tulsa ground crew to help keep track of the other hawks as well. It would be a fantastic resource.

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

Bville — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:37:18 GMT

Thanks, Sallyls, I appreciate your thoughtfulness! And I'll just go ahead and re-post this map here from the new thread. It was so closely tied to recent events, that I put it over there. But this is the place for a more accessible reference.

This displays the vacant lot where Catgirl has frequently sighted and photographed Kay and/or Jay--most notably, of course, during their trysts of March 8. Kay was recently caught there on camera on April 3. Thanks to Catgirl for helping approximate the location.
(Red markers denote many of the KJRH hawk sightings over the last year.)
Vacant lot and KJRH Tower

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

sallyls — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:21:16 GMT

Bville-just wanted to make sure this great thread didn't drop of the first page! :)

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

sallyls — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:09:20 GMT

Wow Bville-today's technology is a bit scary, those shots are so clear! The NYC redtails have nested on the SIDE of builidings, on ledges, cornices, behind the statue on the cathedral, and on an air conditioner jutting our from a window, so who knows where they might be nesting! They could be in one of those large trees in the park, too, though certainly someone would probably have noticed a large stick nest in the crotch of a tree by now I would think...but perhaps not. Now would be the time to spot a nest in a tree with all the leaves off.

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

Catbird — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:37:44 GMT

Bvile: These are great photos. Thank you...I don't see any obvious cubbyholes for a redtail's nest on the bank roof, but I don't have a hawk's eye for such things. Makes me dizzy just to look at the arial shots.

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

Bville — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:38:43 GMT

Regarding Catbird's question about the nesting "terrain" on the top of Spirit Bank: I looked at a site called Live Search Maps-- http://maps.live.com/
I played around there a bit. I don't know that any of these views are any better/closer than on Google or Yahoo Maps' views, but here they are, for what they're worth. Here also is a nice clear photo of Langenheim Park and vicinity.

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Spirit Bank at bottom left, Joe Creek runs bottom to the upper right, Langenheim Park at top
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Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

Bville — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:03:40 GMT

Wonderful, KC. Will get your new sightings (this and the Langenheim) onto the Map today.

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

sallyls — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:35:09 GMT

Beautiful birds kaction! I hope Bixby is far from kjrh, because in the first shot that bird has a light chest and prominent "eyebrows" like Jay! Maybe its his Dad!

Re: The Map Room: Maps and Map Info

kcactionphoto — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:00:26 GMT

Oh wise and gracious Master of the Maps, I have a new sighting for you. I spotted a breeding pair on the south side of the river bridge on Memorial in Bixby today. They circled for quite a while out over the river and towards Eagle Rock to the west.