[obol] Flicker Intergrade photos wanted

[Sherry Hagen]

I just uploaded a Northern Flicker photo I took this moring of a 
intergrade.

http://home.pacifier.com/~birder/flicker.html


Sherry Hagen
Vancouver, WA
birder at iinet.com

----- Original Message ----- 
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Subject: [obol] Flicker Intergrade photos wanted


> Birders,
> I am collecting photographs of Northern Flicker intergrades (mixed
> Yellow-shafted x Red-shafted parentage). I welcome any pictures you can
> capture where the diagnostic features of the bird are visible.
>
> Please send them by email, no larger than 1 Mb per message (a few pix each
> message at 100-300 Kb each), along with photographer, date and location. I
> will not get back to you right away after sending them, but I will give
> each photographer credit when the final product is compiled.
>
> Thanks!
> Steve Shunk
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>> 1. Hybrid Flicker (michel Kleinbaum)
>> 2. Re: Slate-colored junco (Nancy Brown)
>> 3. Columbia County report (Bobbett Pierce)
>> 4. Sisters Snow Geese (Steve Shunk)
>> 5. Re: Falcated Duck? (Steve Engel)
>> 6. Winter-time fun (Dennis P. Vroman)
>> 7. Powell Butte (Mult.) N. Shrike (Tom McNamara)
>> 8. Springfield Pine Siskins (Kim Boddie)
>> 9. Lane Co. Northern Shrikes (Dan Heyerly)
>> 10. Short-eared Owls, Vancouver Lake, WA (Jim Johnson)
>> 11. Falcated Duck -- yes! (Linda Fink)
>> 12. Local RBA: Long-tailed duck (Jim Harleman and Kathy McNeill)
>> 13. Re: Falcated Duck? (Barbara & John Woodhouse)
>> 14. Burrowing Owl Gone After Sunset (Cindy Ashy)
>> 15. Clarification on geese, swan IDs (Bobbett Pierce)
>> 16. Clark County Long-tailed Duck (Wilson Cady)
>> 17. Thanksgiving day seabird flight & comments on numbers
>> (david tracy)
>> 18. Siskins,etc. (Lars and Gail Norgren)
>> 19. Re: Winter-time fun (Dennis P. Vroman)
>> 20. Split the Kinglets? (Dennis P. Vroman)
>> 21. Lane Co. Coast BULLOCK'S ORIOLE, 12/1/06 (Diane Pettey)
>> 22. Re: Split the Kinglets? (Larry Mcqueen)
>> 23. Kinglets (Alan Contreras)
>> 24. Pine Grosbeak (maybe), NW Portland (Wink Gross)
>> 25. Winter bird songs (Lars and Gail Norgren)
>> 26. What is the "easiest" bird you have not seen in OR? (Hannah Fritz)
>> 27. Re: What is the "easiest" bird you have not seen in OR?
>> (Wink Gross)
>> 28. Re: What is the "easiest" bird you have not seen in OR?
>> (Phil Pickering)
>> 29. Eugene siskin (Alan Contreras)
>> 30. Re: Split the Kinglets? (Dennis P. Vroman)
>> 31. easiest Oregon bird (Alan Contreras)
>> 32. Lane Raptor Route #1 - 11/26/2006 (Anne & Dan Heyerly)
>> 33. Siskins seen (Dennis P. Vroman)
>> 34. Saturday morning, Eugene (Brandon Green)
>> 35. Subject: Re: What is the "easiest" bird you have not seen in
>> OR? (Brandon Green)
>> 36. WTS & TW (mimz)
>> 37. RBA LAWRENCE's GOLDFINCH jackson Co (Alan Contreras)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:16:33 -0800
>> From: "michel Kleinbaum" <mklittletree at comcast.net>
>> Subject: [obol] Hybrid Flicker
>> To: <obol at lists.orst.edu>
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>> An odd looking Flicker just flew off from under our suet cake.
>> very gray, even on underparts, especially the sides but with a buff face,
>> whiskers stripe black on top and red below , "V" nape patch was red with
>> center missing. Pale salmon shafts. Michel Kleinbaum   S. Salem
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>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:01:18 -0800
>> From: Nancy Brown <brownnancy at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [obol] Slate-colored junco
>> To: <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
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>> I live in NE Portland too, and quite frequently have RED WINGED
>> BLACKBIRDS on my feeders. I live across the street from the Rose City
>> Golf Course and I think the proximity of the reed-filled ponds over there
>> helps. I heard one last week but haven't had them in the yard since late
>> summer. I love their song and always enjoy having them in my yard.
>>
>> Nancy Brown
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>>> From: obol-request at lists.oregonstate.edu> Subject: obol Digest, Vol 38,
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>>> field guides for Belize (Ron Halvorson)> 2. Slate-colored junco (Lisa
>>> Ladd-Wilson)> 3. Amberglen Park (Cliff & Joanne Weber)> 4. Trumpeter
>>> Swan whereabouts, Polk County (Joel Geier)> 5. Correction on Trumpeter
>>> Swan directions (Joel Geier)> 6. Tillamook West Raptor run (Barbara &
>>> John Woodhouse)> 7. townsend's war
>>>
>> bler in oregon city (shawn morgan)> 8. Re: Springfield Pine Siskins
>> (Larry Mcqueen)> 9. Re: Springfield Pine Siskins (pamela johnston)> 10.
>> Evening Grosbeak/Varied Thrushes in my yard (Eugene)> (Matt Peterson)>
>> 11. Nov. 30--Newport Burrowing Owl Still Present at Wellness> Center
>> (Range Bayer)> 12. Re: Birds not seen at my feeders this season>
>> (rawieland at comcast.net)> 13. Re: Springfield Pine Siskins (Tom Crabtree)>
>> 14. Snowy Owl in Newport (Range Bayer)> 15. Re: Springfield Pine Siskins
>> (Larry Mcqueen)> 16. Slate-colored Junco Portland Airport (David Helzer)>
>> 17. Lane Co. Coast Sightings/Raptor Runs (GYRFALCON) 11/30/06> (Diane
>> Pettey)> 18. Note to Junco watchers (Floyd Schrock)> 19. Re: Note to
>> Junco watchers (Lars and Gail Norgren)> 20. Force Lake, Multnomah County
>> 11-30-06 9:40 am to 11:00 am.> (Norman Edelen)> 21. Re: Note to Junco
>> watchers (Tim Rodenkirk)> 22. Coos Birds 11/30/06 (Tim Rodenkirk)> 23.
>> Re: Slate-colored junco (Brandon Green)> 24. Fwd: This mornings birds
>> (Judith Hansen)> 25. Lane Coast Sighting - BAND-TAILED PIGEON, 12/01/06
>> (Diane Pettey)> 26. Lane Co. Coast Sightings - ADDENDUM for 11/30/06
>> (Diane Pettey)> 27. Pine Siskin (michel Kleinbaum)> 28. Vancouver, BC RBA
>> for November 30, 2006 (Wayne C. Weber)> 29. From the CBC Regional Editor:
>> spam filters (Mike Patterson)> 30. Newport Burrowing Owl & Aggressive
>> Crows & No Snowy Owl Darn> It! (Cindy Ashy)> 31. Red/Yellow Shafted N.
>> Flicker (James Hannan)> > >
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>> Message: 1> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:08:36 -0800> From: "Ron Halvorson"
>> <ronhalvy at clearwire.net>> Subject: [obol] Info requested for bird field
>> guides for Belize> To: "Oregon Birders" <obol at lists.orst.edu>>
>> Message-ID: <EPEDINJAGHLLIKNIPIGLAEDHCDAA.ronhalvy at clearwire.net>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > I'm not going to Belize
>> but a friend is, who asked if I could find out any> recommended field
>> guides/references for this part of the world. If you have> any info, feel
>> free to reply personally. Also, any info for plant field> guides would be
>> helpful as well.> > Thanks, Ron> > > > > ------------------------------>
>> > Message: 2> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:11:01 -0800> From: Lisa
>> Ladd-Wilson <ladwil at comcast.net>> Subject: [obol] Slate-colored junco>
>> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu> Message-ID:
>> <f71077fe298ed844662d02e2c4a00f41 at comcast.net>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed> > Howdy:> This is the first year I've
>> seen a SLATE-COLORED JUNCO feeding in my > backyard. No white wing bars.>
>> > Another recent backyard first: A RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. They're all over
>> > the slough pond several miles from here, of course, but I've never had
>> > one in my yard before.> > It's always exciting to add another bird to
>> the Backyard List!> > Lisa> NE Portland> > > >
>> ------------------------------> > Message: 3> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
>> 13:40:49 -0800> From: "Cliff & Joanne Weber" <WeberHome at att.net>> Subject
>>  : [obol] Amberglen Park> To: "OBOL" <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>>
>> Message-ID: <20061130214111.9DCE8150A3E at smtp4.oregonstate.edu>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > OBOL, hello!> > Ever on
>> the look-out for nifty micro urban wetlands and birding sites, I>
>> followed D.Max Smith's lead to a little park near Tanasbourne in
>> Hillsboro> (see RE: The Importance of Posting + Hillsboro Birds). There
>> was a pretty> good sized herd of about maybe 100 American Wigeons grazing
>> on the park's> manicured grass, along with about maybe six or seven times
>> that number of> Cackling Geese; and a curious little flock of about ten
>> totally white> Chinese Geese.> > The little park, and it's bridged pond,
>> is really cool except for one> teensy, ittsy bittsy little glitch. After
>> circling the park twice, each time> careful to observe the parking signs,
>> and the duck crossing signs; it became> increasingly clear to me; after
>> reading the numerous Trespassing signs> posted at appropriate intervals;
>> that it's totally private property> including the sidewalks so you not
>> only can't walk in the park, but you> can't even walk around it. The
>> park, and it's sidewalks, are designated for> the Amberglen business
>> community; in the same vein as Nike's tennis courts> and work-out gyms.
>> D_mn! It's so close to home too. I was left feeling just> about as moody
>> and disappointed-looking as the water-logged Red Tail Hawk> perched on a
>> street light at the corner of Amberglen Parkway and NW Gibbs> Dr. (sigh)>
>> > Anyway, crying and whining aside, I'm grateful to D.Max Smith for
>> posting> this little park because although we can't bird it on foot, we
>> can still> bird it by car; and possibly from a sidewalk on the west side
>> of Amberglen> Pkwy. The park's terrain is irregular, and some portions
>> are elevated a bit,> making it difficult to see the whole area from
>> Amberglen Pkwy; and I didn't> look for parking over there, so I can't
>> promise you'll find a convenient> place to leave your car.> > Now that we
>> know Amberglen Park is there, we'll check on it now and then and> see
>> what's what. You just never know about micro sites. They attract some>
>> pritt-tee interesting birds sometimes and can be quite surprising. I
>> would> have to say that the Snipes and Scaups that D.Max Smith reported
>> are> certainly interesting birds; and that's so ironic because we've
>> sometimes> spent hours at major wetlands and never seen even one Snipe,
>> yet D.Max found> three at Amberglen.> > Cliff & Joanne Weber> Beaverton>
>> > > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 4> Date: Thu, 30 Nov
>> 2006 13:58:43 -0800> From: Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org>> Subject:
>> [obol] Trumpeter Swan whereabouts, Polk County> To: Oregon Birders OnLine
>> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>, MidValley> Birds
>> <list at midvalleybirding.org>> Message-ID:
>> <1164923923.4403.27.camel at localhost.localdomain>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain> > Hello folks,> > After getting word that some birders are
>> heading to the mid-Willamette> Valley looking for TRUMPETER SWANS this
>> weekend, I figured I'd better> find out where the usual Airlie-area flock
>> is hanging out.> > Becky and I detoured along Simpson Rd. on the way back
>> from Monmouth> around noon today, and there saw 22 swans a-swimming on a
>> field that> seasonally floods as a backwater of the Luckiamute River.
>> From the calls> I could hear, at least some were Trumpeters. From general
>> size, shape> and postures including neck-bobbing, I'd guess that most or
>> all were> Trumpeters, though they were too far off to say for certain.> >
>> Simpson Rd. is just south of Helmick State Park, which is west of Hwy>
>> 99W about four miles s. of Monmouth (DeLorme p. 53 B7). Take the Helmick>
>> SP turnoff, go south 1/2 mile past the park entrance, turn left (west)>
>> onto Simpson Rd. and go about a mile, watching the north side of the>
>> road until you see a large flood pond. > > This spot often gets good
>> numbers of both Tundra and Trumpeter Swans> during December, along with
>> hordes of shovelers, pi ntails etc. Since the> swans are far off the 
>> road,
>> you will need a good scope to have any hope> of satisfying looks.> >
>> Another place worth checking is the Maple Grove area (nw side of the>
>> intersection of Airlie and Maple Grove roads, a few miles north of>
>> Airlie). This used to be a regular spot for the Trumpeter flock, 6 or 7>
>> years back. > > I have not seen Trumpeters anywhere else in the
>> Airlie-Suver area this> season, except the one sighting on the pond on De
>> Armond Rd. That pond> seems to draw them on first arrival in November,
>> but I have seldom seen> any there later in the winter. In late December
>> they start to turn up in> soggy grass fields along Airlie/Suver Rd. and
>> south along the Corvallis-> Independence Hwy.> > Happy swan watching,>
>> Joel> > P.S. If anyone wants to bone up on swan ID, the Trumpeter Swan
>> Society> has good identification tips at
>> http://www.trumpeterswansociety.org/.> > --> Joel Geier> North of
>> Corvallis, Oregon> > > > ------------------------------>
>>
>>> Message: 5> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:08:50 -0800> From: Joel Geier
>>> <joel.geier at peak.org>> Subject: [obol] Correction on Trumpeter Swan
>>> directions> To: Oregon Birders OnLine <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>,
>>> MidValley> Birds <list at midvalleybirding.org>> Message-ID:
>>> <1164924530.4403.31.camel at localhost.localdomain>> Content-Type:
>>> text/plain> > Sorry, I got left and right mixed up. Those directions
>>> should read:> > Simpson Rd. is just south of Helmick State Park, which
>>> is west of Hwy> 99W about four miles s. of Monmouth (DeLorme p. 53 B7).
>>> Take the Helmick> SP turnoff, go south 1/2 mile past the park entrance,
>>> turn RIGHT (west)> onto Simpson Rd. and go about a mile, watching the
>>> north side of the> road until you see a large flood pond. > > --> Joel
>>> Geier> North of Corvallis, Oregon> > > >
>>> ------------------------------> > Message: 6> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
>>> 14:30:18 -0800> From: Barbara & John Woodhouse <jbw at pacifier.com>>
>>> Subject: [obol] Tillamook West Raptor run> To: obol at lists.
>>>
>> oregonstate.edu> Message-ID: <a05111b5dc19509dba9fa@[66.43.13.14]>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"> > Run by
>> Michelle Simper> > Temperature mid 30's Miles 45.5 Time 4hrs 50 mins.> >
>> Red-tail Hawks 26> A.Kestrel 3> N.Harrier 5> Bald Eagle A. 4>
>> Red-shouldered Hawk 1> White Tailed Kites 8> Peregrine Falcon 2> Sharpie
>> 1> Barnn Owl 1> > > Total===51> > Michelle was unable to do 2 of her
>> roads as they are still flooded > and deep mud. Which may account for the
>> drop in White Tailed Kites> > > ------------------------------> >
>> Message: 7> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:59:46 -0800 (PST)> From: shawn
>> morgan <micmorganicus at yahoo.com>> Subject: [obol] townsend's warbler in
>> oregon city> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu> Message-ID:
>> <566988.71178.qm at web53901.mail.yahoo.com>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> charset=iso-8859-1> > I was getting out of my car near the hospital when
>> i> saw a flash of yellow in the nearby Douglas Fir. It> was a Townsend's
>> Warbler in with a
>> flock of> Black-capped Chickadees, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and at> least
>> Golden-crowned Kinglet. Very nice.> > Shawn Morgan> Oregon City> > > >
>> ------------------------------> > Message: 8> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
>> 15:39:13 -0800> From: "Larry Mcqueen" <larmcqueen at msn.com>> Subject: Re:
>> [obol] Springfield Pine Siskins> To: "'Alan Reid'" <areid at nu-world.com>,
>> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>,> "'George Grier'" <ggrier at efn.org>>
>> Message-ID: <BAY109-DAV9B1575D1B529D64FF2B3ADEDB0 at phx.gbl>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > Birds not seen at my feeders this
>> season:> > Pine Grosbeak> White-winged Crossbill> Redpoll> Pine Siskin> >
>> Larry McQueen> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 9> Date:
>> Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:57:08 -0800> From: "pamela johnston"
>> <pamelaj at spiritone.com>> Subject: Re: [obol] Springfield Pine Siskins>
>> To: "obol" <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <000801c714db$409fdb40$b16cf204 at yourw5st28y9a3>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>> Same here, except for one (1) Pine Siskin, a flyover.> > Pamela
>>>> Johnston> outside McMinnville, Yamhill Co.> > "Birds not seen at my
>>>> feeders this season:> > Pine Grosbeak> White-winged Crossbill>
>>>> Redpoll> Pine Siskin"> > Larry McQueen> > > > >
>>>> ------------------------------> > Message: 10> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
>>>> 15:58:10 -0800 (PST)> From: Matt Peterson <mbp1111 at yahoo.com>>
>>>> Subject: [obol] Evening Grosbeak/Varied Thrushes in my yard (Eugene)>
>>>> To: OBOL <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>>>> <755070.6599.qm at web31907.mail.mud.yahoo.com>> Content-Type:
>>>> text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1> > > The rain and slightly warmer
>>>> weather has brought out the birds in my> yard today--I live in the
>>>> River Road area of Eugene. The most exciting> bird was an EVENING
>>>> GROSBEAK, a first for my yard in the five months> I've lived here.
>>>> There have also been at least three VARIED THRUSHES,> two N.
>>>> FLICKERS, a FOX SPARROW, and the first AM. GOLDFINCHES in a few>
>>>> weeks. Lots of HOUSE FINCHES, SCRUB J
>> AYS, DARK-EYED JUNCOS, BC> CHICKADEES, SONG SPARROWS, and a few ROBINS. >
>> > Earlier this week, a COOPERS HAWK was hanging out in yard. > > Matt>
>> Eugene, OR > > > > >
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>> ------------------------------> > Message: 11> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
>> 16:03:11 -0800 (PST)> From: Range Bayer <rbayer at orednet.org>> Subject:
>> [obol] Nov. 30--Newport Burrowing Owl Still Present at> Wellness Center>
>> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu> Cc: Patty Sorensen
>> <pdsorensen at comcast.net>, Range Bayer> <rbayer at orednet.org>> Message-ID:>
>> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0611301539450.27808-100000 at lab.oregonvos.net>>
>> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII> > > Hi,> > Today (Nov. 30), I
>> have received reports and/or photographs of the> Newport Burrowing Owl at
>> the Sports Therapy & Wellness Center (see> directions below) from Chuck
>> Philo, Roy Lo
>> we, Betty Bahn, and Judy Butts.> It seems to be mostly near the Wellness
>> Center sign.> > Cheers,> > Range Bayer> ---------- Forwarded message
>> ----------> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:32:14 -0800 (PST)> From: Range
>> Bayer <rbayer at orednet.org>> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu> Cc: Patty
>> Sorensen <pdsorensen at comcast.net>, Range Bayer <rbayer at orednet.org>>
>> Subject: [obol] Newport Burrowing Owl on SW 10th Street Near Les Schwab>
>> > Hi,> > On Saturday, Nov. 25, Patty Sorensen saw and photographed a
>> BURROWING> OWL under the large arched sign that lists the businesses at
>> the> Sports Therapy and Wellness Center (111 SW 10th Street), which is
>> just> north of the Les Schwab store (1155 SW Coast Highway) in Newport.
>> The> Les Schwab Store is along HWY 101 (Coast Highway) just north of the>
>> Yaquina Bay Bridge. She heard about it while standing in line at the>
>> Craft Warehouse in Newport and an employee at the health club in the>
>> Center were talking about it.> > Patty emailed me about it on Nov. 2
>> 8, and at 4:35 PM today (Nov. 29),> I went to see if I could find it. 
>> From
>> HWY 101, I turned onto the> one-way (northward) SW 10th Street between
>> Les Schwab and the brown> Rickert Art Center and parked along the street
>> behind the Art Center.> I stepped out of the car and observed the
>> BURROWING OWL perched on a> curb adjacent to a narrow, nonpaved area with
>> a short cypress-like> tree between the parking area and the sidewalk
>> along the SW 10th. It> was at the edge of the Sports Therapy and Wellness
>> Center parking lot> about 10 feet from SW 10th Street. It was about 20-40
>> ft north of a> pile of tires behind a blue and white, Les Schwab
>> semi-trailer. This> was closer to the tires than when Patty saw it under
>> the nearby> arched business sign, another 20 ft or so farther north. The
>> owl was> very tame and was about 5 ft from a parked vehicle.> > This
>> seems like a very improbable place for a Burrowing Owl because of> all
>> the pavement and human activity, but there it was! Perhaps the
>>> pile of tires gives it ample shelter????> > Cheers,> > Range Bayer,
>>> Newport> > > > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 12> Date:
>>> Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:09:25 +0000> From: rawieland at comcast.net> Subject:
>>> Re: [obol] Birds not seen at my feeders this season> To:
>>> obol at lists.oregonstate.edu> Message-ID:>
>>> <120120060009.25097.456F72B50004DA3C0000620922092246270B020E040A07990E9
>>> D at comcast.net>> > > (Written with tongue in cheek)...> > Boy those are
>>> short lists. If I listed the birds not seen at my feeder it would be
>>> much longer.> > Rainer Wieland> Portland, OR> > >
>>> ------------------------------> > Message: 13> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
>>> 16:39:21 -0800> From: "Tom Crabtree" <tc at empnet.com>> Subject: Re:
>>> [obol] Springfield Pine Siskins> To: "'Larry Mcqueen'"
>>> <larmcqueen at msn.com>, "'Alan Reid'"> <areid at nu-world.com>,
>>> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>, "'George Grier'"> <ggrier at efn.org>>
>>> Message-ID: <20061201003922.EFA36148406 at smtp5.oregonstate.edu>>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="u
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>> s-ascii"> > Hey Larry, I've not seen 10 times the number of each of those
>> that you> haven't seen. In addition to your list, I haven't seen> > Hoary
>> Redpoll> Snow Bunting> Brambling> Rosy Finch> > Tom Crabtree> >
>> -----Original Message-----> From: obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> [mailto:obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Mcqueen>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:39 PM> To: 'Alan Reid';
>> obol at lists.oregonstate.edu; 'George Grier'> Subject: Re: [obol]
>> Springfield Pine Siskins> > Birds not seen at my feeders this season:> >
>> Pine Grosbeak> White-winged Crossbill> Redpoll> Pine Siskin> > Larry
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>> ------------------------------> > Message: 14> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
>> 17:00:50 -0800 (PST)> From: Range Bayer <rbayer at orednet.o
>> rg>> Subject: [obol] Snowy Owl in Newport> To: 
>> obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Cc: Range Bayer <rbayer at orednet.org>> Message-ID:>
>> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0611301658370.30735-100000 at lab.oregonvos.net>>
>> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII> > > Hi,> > Terry Morse saw a
>> heavily spotted SNOWY OWL on the beach about 20-30> yards south of the
>> stairs going down to the ocean beach from the Shilo Inn> (536 SW
>> Elizabeth Street) in Newport at 2:30 and 4:30 today, Nov. 30.> > Cheers,>
>> > Range Bayer, Newport> > > > ------------------------------> > Message:
>> 15> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:58:56 -0800> From: "Larry Mcqueen"
>> <larmcqueen at msn.com>> Subject: Re: [obol] Springfield Pine Siskins> To:
>> "'Tom Crabtree'" <tc at empnet.com>, "'Alan Reid'"> <areid at nu-world.com>,
>> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>, "'George Grier'"> <ggrier at efn.org>>
>> Message-ID: <BAY109-DAV32A13FD548C03A4398ADBDEDA0 at phx.gbl>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > Yea, well, I didn't want to brag.> >
>> Larry> > -----Original Mes
>> sage-----> From: obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> [mailto:obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Crabtree>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:39 PM> To: 'Larry Mcqueen'; 'Alan
>> Reid'; obol at lists.oregonstate.edu; 'George Grier'> Subject: Re: [obol]
>> Springfield Pine Siskins> > Hey Larry, I've not seen 10 times the number
>> of each of those that you> haven't seen. In addition to your list, I
>> haven't seen> > Hoary Redpoll> Snow Bunting> Brambling> Rosy Finch> > Tom
>> Crabtree> > -----Original Message-----> From:
>> obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> [mailto:obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Mcqueen>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:39 PM> To: 'Alan Reid';
>> obol at lists.oregonstate.edu; 'George Grier'> Subject: Re: [obol]
>> Springfield Pine Siskins> > Birds not seen at my feeders this season:> >
>> Pine Grosbeak> White-winged Crossbill> Redpoll> Pine Siskin> > Larry
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>> ------------------------------> > Message: 16> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
>> 18:00:52 -0800> From: David Helzer <aphelocoma at spiritone.com>> Subject:
>> [obol] Slate-colored Junco Portland Airport> To: OBOL
>> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <3f28d950ffb86d545965e8d1b23f6a98 at spiritone.com>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed> > Wednesday Nov 29 there was
>> a female SLATE-COLORED JUNCO on the Portland > Airport airfield hanging
>> out with:> > HARRIS'S SPARROW> OREGON JUNCOS> LINCOLN'S SPARROWS>
>> SAVANNAH SPARROWS> WC SPARROWS> GC SPARROWS> > > Dave Helzer> Portland,
>> Oregon> aphelocoma at spirito
>> ne.com> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 17> Date: Thu, 
>> 30
>> Nov 2006 19:31:41 -0800> From: "Diane Pettey" <surfbird at harborside.com>>
>> Subject: [obol] Lane Co. Coast Sightings/Raptor Runs (GYRFALCON)>
>> 11/30/06> To: "obol" <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <015501c714f9$3883ea50$08de6ed8 at yourfsyly0jtwn>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > Greetings OBOLers,> While doing our
>> Raptor Run on S. Jetty Road, Florence, I watched a juvenile gray-morph
>> GYRFALCON cross the deflation plain, flying north to south. While being
>> harassed briefly by a Northern Harrier, then a White-tailed Kite, it
>> banked, swooped and finally beat feet for Coos County (south). *Heads up
>> Tim and Russ!*> > Other birds found by us and two visiting birders; Jason
>> Horn from Pennsylvania and Jay Lehman from Ohio (both came to OR to see
>> the Falcated Duck):> > S. Jetty Road, Siuslaw River, Florence:> > Bald
>> Eagle (1 adult)> Peregrine Falcons (2)> Red-shouldered Hawk> White-tailed
>> K
>> ites (2)> Northern Harriers (3, two females, one male)> > On our Hwy 126
>> run, from Hwy 101 in Florence to Milepost 10 on Hwy 126:> White-tailed
>> Kites (3)> Red-tailed Hawk > > Also observed on the very flooded
>> deflation plain were nine TUNDRA SWANS and an immature NORTHERN SHRIKE.>
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>> 18> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:06:34 -0800> From: "Floyd Schrock"
>> <fschrock at macnet.com>> Subject: [obol] Note to Junco watchers> To:
>> "Oregon Birders" <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>,>
>> <YamhillBirders at yahoogroups.com>> Message-ID:
>> <000a01c714fe$1a929050$0b01a8c0 at desktop>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";> reply-type=original> > In Feb. 2004
>> I sent a note to OBOL about Dark-eyed Juncos apparently finding > food
>> items in or on the clumps of moss on a Vine Maple growing in my yard. >
>> Today there were several Juncos working over the moss clumps again, and I
>> > still have not determined what it is they are finding there. This is
>> just a > reminder to others who might be interested in working on the
>> question -- > what are YOUR Juncos doing to the moss in your
>> neighborhood? Tim R. > identified the moss on my tree as Orthotrichum
>> consimile. Along with other > wondering, I wonder if Juncos ever pick on
>> other mosses. A photo from today > is at http://empids.blogspot.com/.> >
>> =====================> Floyd Schrock> McMinnville, Oregon USA>
>> fschrock at macnet.com > > > > ------------------------------> > Message:
>> 19> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:20:10 -0800> From: Lars and Gail Norgren
>> <gnorgren at earthlink.net>> Subject: Re: [obol] Note to Junco watchers> To:
>> "Floyd Schrock" <fschrock at macnet.com>> Cc: obol
>> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <9cb9a61fd0a0d669271fabaa49d817e8 at earthlink.net>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed> > I meant to post this when
>> the feeder question first> arose. Last winter I observed juncos feeding
>> in the branches> of a large Oregon White Oak at the jct of Chalmers Lane
>> and> Evers Road between Roy and Verboort(Wash CO). THere were up> to
>> twenty of them, spread about like kinglets on roughly the same> plane,
>> maybe 3m high.I presumed they were eating something in> the lichens,
>> rather than moss. Probably both classes of epiphyte> were on the branches
>> in question. I assumed they were finding> some kind(s) of arthropods.
>> Lars Norgren MANNING OREGON> On Nov 30, 2006, at 8:06 PM, Floyd Schrock
>> wrote:> > > In Feb. 2004 I sent a note to OBOL about Dark-eyed Juncos
>> apparently > > finding> > food items in or on the clumps of moss on a
>> Vine Maple growing in my > > yard.> > Today there were several Juncos
>> working over the moss clumps again, > > and I> > still have not
>> determined what it is they are finding there. This is > > just a> >
>> reminder to others who might be i nterested in working on the question > 
>>  >
>> --> > what are YOUR Juncos doing to the moss in your neighborhood? Tim
>> R.> > identified the moss on my tree as Orthotrichum consimile. Along
>> with > > other> > wondering, I wonder if Juncos ever pick on other
>> mosses. A photo from > > today> > is at http://empids.blogspot.com/.> >>
>> > =====================> > Floyd Schrock> > McMinnville, Oregon USA> >
>> fschrock at macnet.com> >> >
>> _______________________________________________> > obol mailing list> >
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>> ------------------------------> > Message: 20> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
>> 21:28:50 -0800> From: "Norman Edelen" <piscivore at comcast.net>> Subject:
>> [obol] Force Lake, Multnomah County 11-30-06 9:40 am to 11:00> am.> To:
>> "Oregon Birding" <obol at lists.orst.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <005301c71509$9bd8e3c0$67401418 at Norman>> Content-Type: text/pla
>> in; charset="iso-8859-1"> > Hello OBOL,> > Today I stopped by Force Lake,
>> the little lake behind the Multnomah County > Expo Center.> > Birds
>> seen:> > Canada Goose> Mallard> Northern Shoveler> Canvasback>
>> Bufflehead> Hooded Merganser> Common Merganser> Double-crested Cormorant>
>> Great Blue Heron> Great Egret> (unidentified gulls overhead)> Downy
>> Woodpecker> Western Scrub-Jay> Bushtit> American Robin> Varied Thrush>
>> Fox Sparrow> Song Sparrow> Lincoln's Sparrow> > The three sparrow species
>> were across the street in the dead and dry teasel. > Pishing brought the
>> Lincoln's Sparrow up about knee high for some good clear > views of it,
>> although it was skittish.> > Norm Edelen> > Portland, Oregon>
>> ________________________________> > A Proud Member of> The North American
>> Native Fishes Association> Over 30 years of conservation efforts, public>
>> education, and aquarium study of our native fishes.> www.nanfa.org> >
>> Lake Baikal Endemics Rock!> _________________________________> > > > > >
>> ------------------------------> > Message: 21> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006
>> 08:51:26 -0800 (PST)> From: Tim Rodenkirk <garbledmodwit at yahoo.com>>
>> Subject: Re: [obol] Note to Junco watchers> To: Floyd Schrock
>> <fschrock at macnet.com>, Oregon Birders> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>,
>> YamhillBirders at yahoogroups.com> Message-ID:
>> <354584.83132.qm at web34209.mail.mud.yahoo.com>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> charset=iso-8859-1> > Floyd,> > Looking at your photo I'd call the
>> dominate moss> Orthotrichum lyelii. Orthotrichum consimile is much>
>> smaller, usually forming a small clump about the size> of a penny with
>> capsules often protruding. Both are> common on hardwoods particularly
>> alder and vine maple.> O. lyelii may be the most common moss on young>
>> roadside alders in Oregon. As for what they are> finding in the moss I'd
>> suspect some small insects?> > Happy botanizing all,> Tim R> Coos Bay>
>> --- Floyd Schrock <fschrock at macnet.com> wrote:> > > In Feb. 2004 I sent a
>> note to OBOL about Dark-eyed> > Junco s apparently finding > > food items
>> in or on the clumps of moss on a Vine> > Maple growing in my yard. > >
>> Today there were several Juncos working over the> > moss clumps again,
>> and I > > still have not determined what it is they are> > finding there.
>> This is just a > > reminder to others who might be interested in> >
>> working on the question -- > > what are YOUR Juncos doing to the moss in
>> your> > neighborhood? Tim R. > > identified the moss on my tree as
>> Orthotrichum> > consimile. Along with other > > wondering, I wonder if
>> Juncos ever pick on other> > mosses. A photo from today > > is at
>> http://empids.blogspot.com/.> > > > =====================> > Floyd
>> Schrock> > McMinnville, Oregon USA> > fschrock at macnet.com > > > >
>> _______________________________________________> > obol mailing list> >
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>> ______________
>> ______________________________________________________________________> 
>> Do
>> you Yahoo!?> Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.>
>> http://new.mail.yahoo.com> > > ------------------------------> > Message:
>> 22> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 09:05:29 -0800 (PST)> From: Tim Rodenkirk
>> <garbledmodwit at yahoo.com>> Subject: [obol] Coos Birds 11/30/06> To:
>> obol at lists.oregonstate.edu> Message-ID:
>> <574015.52216.qm at web34208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> charset=iso-8859-1> > N. Spit, Coos Bay, late PM, cloudy, 48F:> many
>> ducks on the pond out there including:> 2 female REDHEADS> 1 immature
>> male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE (first seen over a> month ago then it
>> disappeared)> > There were also a couple COMMON GOLDENYES, as well as>
>> hundreds of Ring-necked Ducks, Bufflehead, and Ruddy> Ducks with a
>> smattering of shovelers, canvasback,> scaup, etc. Also a couple
>> BONAPARTE'S GULLS and lots> of Eared Grebes (8 on 11/29). Virginia Rails
>> were> calling too.> > Happy Birding all,> Tim R> Coos Bay> > > >
>> _________________________________________________________________________
>> ___________> Do you Yahoo!?> Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo!
>> Mail beta.> http://new.mail.yahoo.com> > >
>> ------------------------------> > Message: 23> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006
>> 09:19:16 -0800 (PST)> From: Brandon Green <bjgreen34 at yahoo.com>> Subject:
>> Re: [obol] Slate-colored junco> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Message-ID: <20061201171916.75489.qmail at web60824.mail.yahoo.com>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > > I've seen about two or
>> three Slate-Colored Juncos in my yard over the past 9 months. In
>> contrast, they were the only juncos that I ever saw back in the Midwest.>
>> > Still waiting (impatiently) for Pine Siskins to visit my thistle
>> feeders...> > Brandon> Eugene> > -----> > > Subject: Slate-colored junco>
>> From: Lisa Ladd-Wilson <ladwil AT comcast.net>> > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
>> 13:11:01 -0800> > Howdy:> This is the first year I've seen a
>> SLATE-COLORED JUNCO f
>> eeding in my > backyard. No white wing bars.> > Another recent backyard
>> first: A RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. They're all over > the slough pond several
>> miles from here, of course, but I've never had > one in my yard before.>
>> > It's always exciting to add another bird to the Backyard List!> > Lisa>
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>> 24> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 09:26:51 -0800> From: Judith Hansen
>> <judie310hansen at comcast.net>> Subject: [obol] Fwd: This mornings birds>
>> To: Obol <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <488026C0-E116-4A1B-986E-66630DFCF50E at comcast.net>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed> > A friend of
>> mine who lives in Eugene regularly birds around Delta > Ponds and sent me
>> this report - Judie Hansen, Eugene> > >> > In addition to t he usual
>> heron, mallards, Canada geese, grebes, > > robins, jays, and assorted
>> small birds I can not as yet identify, > > there were probably 100 double
>> crested cormorants hanging around > > the southern-most Delta pond, near
>> the northwest corner of the > > Valley River Center parking lot when I
>> took my morning walk. At > > one point they were swarming around like a
>> flock of starlings. > > Quite a sight.> >> > > >
>> ------------------------------> > Message: 25> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006
>> 09:58:21 -0800> From: "Diane Pettey" <surfbird at harborside.com>> Subject:
>> [obol] Lane Coast Sighting - BAND-TAILED PIGEON, 12/01/06> To: "obol"
>> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <008901c71572$4ccd81a0$18de6ed8 at yourfsyly0jtwn>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > Greetings OBOLers,> A BAND-TAILED
>> PIGEON dropped in to our front yard and is presently feeding on cracked
>> corn we put out for the Mt. Quail. The pigeon is a juvenile.> regards,>
>> Diane Pettey> Heceta Beach, OR (north of
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>> 26> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:03:37 -0800> From: "Diane Pettey"
>> <surfbird at harborside.com>> Subject: [obol] Lane Co. Coast Sightings -
>> ADDENDUM for 11/30/06> To: "obol" <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>>
>> Message-ID: <00a301c71573$06c75ea0$18de6ed8 at yourfsyly0jtwn>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > Of interest to the
>> dove-lovers in OBOL-land...> On Rhododendron Drive power lines (in
>> Florence), we estimated the MOURNING DOVE population to be over 75. > >
>> On the North Jetty of the Siuslaw river, a flock of BLACK TURNSTONES
>> (60-ish) and SURFBIRDS (15) were present. No Rock Sandpipers yet.>
>> regards,> Diane Pettey> Heceta Beach, OR (north of Florence)>
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>> 27> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:27:30 -0800> From: "michel Kleinbaum"
>> <mklittletree at comcast.net>> Subject: [obol] Pine Siskin> To:
>> <obol at lists.orst.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <003801c71576$6296e950$658fab43 at michel1927>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> charset="iso-8859-1"> > A Pine Siskin showed up at our feeder yesterday,
>> first of the season.> This is the 4th seen here since May 2005. 3 visited
>> our feeder in two visits last February.> A White-throated Sparrow has bee
>> seen daily since last Thursday.> Michel Kleinbaum S. Salem>
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>> 28> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:55:46 -0800> From: "W
>> ayne C. Weber" <contopus at telus.net>> Subject: [obol] Vancouver, BC RBA 
>> for
>> November 30, 2006> To: "BIRDWEST" <BIRDWEST at listserv.arizona.edu>> Cc:
>> OBOL <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <046901c7157a$5252cce0$6500a8c0 at bc.hsia.telus.net>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > This is Wayne Weber with the
>> Vancouver Natural History Society's> Rare Bird Alert for Thursday,
>> November 30, sponsored in part by> Wild Birds Unlimited, with stores in
>> Vancouver and North Vancouver.> > The RBA telephone number is (604)
>> 737-3074.> > > RARE BIRD ALERT for a WESTERN SCRUB-JAY in North Surrey.>
>> > Out-of-town RARE BIRD ALERTS for a LESSER BLACK-BACKED> GULL at
>> Penticton in the B.C. Interior and a FALCATED DUCK near> Eugene, Oregon.
>> The BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER in Nakusp, BC> was last reported on November
>> 25, and the TROPICAL KINGBIRD> in Seattle, WA on November 24.> > >
>> Sightings for Thursday, November 30> > On the White Rock waterfront,
>> sightings included 11 EARED GREBES,> 25 0 HORNED GREBES, and 2 WESTERN
>> MEADOWLARKS.> > Six PINE GROSBEAKS were seen in Vancouver near the
>> intersection of> Angus Drive and 33rd Avenue.> > Three more PINE
>> GROSBEAKS were seen flying over 21st Avenue at 153A> Street in South
>> Surrey.> > Out of town, an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was seen and>
>> photographed along the Okanagan Lake beach at Penticton in the> Okanagan
>> Valley. This may be the same bird seen previously at Vernon.> > Also, the
>> FALCATED DUCK was still being seen regularly at the Coburg> exit from
>> Interstate 5 near Eugene, OR. For updates on this bird, check the> OBOL
>> E-mail group or phone the Portland RBA at (503) 292-0661.> > > Sightings
>> for Wednesday, November 29> > A WESTERN SCRUB-JAY was reported for the
>> second day in the> 13100 block of 107A Avenue in Surrey, but was not
>> reported until> Thursday.> > In Delta, the GYRFALCON was relocated on a
>> telephone pole along> 112th Street south of Highway 10. Three SHORT-EARED
>> OWLS> were seen along 36th Avenue wes
>> t of 72nd Street, and a SNOWY OWL> was seen along the Roberts Bank coal
>> port jetty, also in Delta.> > Two COMMON REDPOLLS were seen on the west
>> side of the> Maplewood Conservation Area in North Vancouver.> > >
>> Sightings for Tuesday, November 28> > A WESTERN SCRUB-JAY was reported in
>> the 13100 block of 107A> Avenue in Surrey.> > Another SNOWY OWL was
>> reported along 33A Avenue near 41st Street in> West Delta.> > A PINE
>> GROSBEAK was seen near Hillside Baptist Church in the Lynn> Valley
>> district of North Vancouver.> > Four ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRDS were attending a
>> feeder in the 14900> block of 24th Avenue in South Surrey.> > In White
>> Rock, a SNOW BUNTING was seen at 15425 Columbia.> > A SHORT-EARED OWL and
>> 3 MOURNING DOVES were seen along> 180th Street south of Highway 10 in the
>> Cloverdale area of Surrey.> > > Sightings for Monday, November 27> > Five
>> PINE GROSBEAKS were seen near the intersection of 116th> Street and 96th
>> Avenue in North Delta.> > At the foot of 72nd Street on Bound
>> ary Bay in Delta, sightings included> 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS, 8 WESTERN
>> MEADOWLARKS, a late> LEAST SANDPIPER, and an equally late RED KNOT.> >
>> Six TRUMPETER SWANS were seen in an unusual location, off the> Dundarave
>> pier in West Vancouver.> > A male ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD was reported from
>> the 3800 block of> Trinity Street in North Burnaby.> > Four PINE
>> GROSBEAKS were seen near the intersection of 154th> Street and 20A Avenue
>> in South Surrey.> > > Sightings for Sunday, November 26> > Four PINE
>> GROSBEAKS were seen in South Surrey near the intersection> of 128th
>> Street and 18th Avenue.> > > Sightings for Saturday, November 25> > In
>> Delta, along the Boundary Bay dyke east of 72nd Street, an AMERICAN>
>> BITTERN was flushed from the north side of the dyke, and a SNOWY OWL> was
>> seen outside the dyke on logs. Also seen in the area were an immature>
>> NORTHERN SHRIKE, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS, 2 WESTERN> MEADOWLARKS, 8
>> YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, a> LAPLAND LONGSPUR, and 5 EURASIAN WIGEON. At
>> the foot of
>>> 96th Street, 15 BRANT were a bit unusual.> > At Point Roberts,
>>> Washington, an EARED GREBE, 2 MARBLED> MURRELETS, and 75 LONG-TAILED
>>> DUCKS were noted.> > At the Roberts Bank coal port jetty in Delta, a
>>> MARBLED GODWIT was> seen near the base, and 23 BLACK TURNSTONES farther
>>> out.> > At Brunswick Point, near the west end of River Road in Delta,>
>>> 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS and 12 WESTERN SANDPIPERS were> reported.> > In
>>> Blaine, WA, the SNOWY OWL was still present on the marina> breakwater.>
>>> > At Sea Island in Richmond, a male AMERICAN KESTREL and an> immature
>>> NORTHERN SHRIKE were seen near the junction of> Ferguson and McDonald
>>> Roads.> > > Sightings for Friday, November 24th> > In the 10300 block
>>> of 208th Street in Langley, sightings included> a GREAT HORNED OWL, a
>>> EURASIAN WIGEON, a EURASIAN> GREEN-WINGED TEAL, and a WHITE-THROATED
>>> SPARROW.> > The SNOWY OWL was seen again on the marina breakwater at>
>>> Blaine, WA.> > > Sightings for Thursday, November 23> > A GYRFALCON was
>>> reported from
>> an unspecified locality on the north side of> Boundary Bay in Delta. This
>> bird covers a wide area, at least from 88th> Street> east to 112th. Also,
>> an immature GLAUCOUS GULL was seen in a gull flock> near the intersection
>> of Highway 10 and 72nd Street in Delta.> > The BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER was
>> still present at Nakusp in the BC> Interior, where it has been seen
>> almost daily by several observers.> > In Seattle, WA, the TROPICAL
>> KINGBIRD which has been present since> November 16 was seen again just
>> south of Magnuson Park. For updates on> this bird, check the TWEETERS
>> E-mail group.> > > Sightings for Wednesday, November 22> > A SNOWY OWL
>> was seen outside the dike at Brunswick Point,> beyond the west end of
>> River Road in Delta.> > PINE GROSBEAKS were reported from two more
>> localities.> Three females were seen in the 1200 block of Durant Drive
>> in> Coquitlam, and 2 were seen in the Lynn Valley district of North>
>> Vancouver.> > Out of town, the adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was> se
>> en again at the mouth of Vernon Creek in Okanagan Landing,> near Vernon. 
>> A
>> second-year ICELAND GULL was also reported> from Maude Roxby Park in
>> Kelowna.> > Near Eugene, Oregon the drake FALCATED DUCK was seen again>
>> at the ponds near Exit 199 off Interstate Highway 5, where it has> been
>> for more than a week. For updates on this bird, check the> OBOL E-mail
>> group.> > > No sightings reported for Tuesday, November 21> > > Sightings
>> for Monday, November 20> > An immature NORTHERN GOSHAWK was dining on an
>> AMERICAN> ROBIN near the parking area at the Alaksen National Wildlife
>> Area> in Delta, and at least 150 TRUMPETER SWANS were seen in> fields
>> along Westham Island Road.> > > Sightings for Sunday, November 19> > In
>> Seattle, Washington, a TROPICAL KINGBIRD was seen for the fourth> day in
>> a row at Building #11 in Magnuson Park on Lake Washington.> For further
>> details on this bird, check the TWEETERS E-mail group.> > A SNOWY OWL was
>> seen for the second day in a row on the> marina bre akwater at Blaine,
>> WA.> > A BROWN PELICAN was briefly seen flying south from Lions Bay,> and
>> probably the same bird was seen flying eastward along> the West Vancouver
>> shoreline toward the Lions Gate bridge.> > Two AMERICAN AVOCETS were seen
>> at the Serpentine River> mouth in Surrey, about 200 m east from the
>> railway trestle, at> a locality where 1-3 Avocets have wintered in
>> previous years.> This locality can be accessed from Mud Bay Park, off>
>> Colebrook Road in Surrey.> > In the Boundary Bay area of Delta, a
>> GYRFALCON was seen along> Hornby Drive near 112th Street, and a BARN
>> SWALLOW nearby. At the> foot of 72nd Street, a PALM WARBLER was seen
>> along with 20 Yellow-> rumped Warblers.> > The year-long drought of PINE
>> SISKINS has ended, with a flock of 200> seen in the 17300 block of 27A
>> Avenue in south Surrey.> > > If you have any questions about birds or
>> birding in the Vancouver> area, please call Peter at 604-736-0991, Viveka
>> at 604-531-3401,> or Larry at 604-465-1402. Thank you for calling the
>> Vancouver> Rare Bird Alert, and good birding.> > For further information
>> about birding in the Vancouver area, log> onto the Vancouver Natural
>> History Society's website at> www.naturalhistory.bc.ca/VNHS/> > > > > >
>> ------------------------------> > Message: 29> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006
>> 11:10:20 -0800> From: Mike Patterson <celata at pacifier.com>> Subject:
>> [obol] From the CBC Regional Editor: spam filters> To: Obol
>> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <45707E05.5C0EDE2E at pacifier.com>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> charset=us-ascii> > The CBC season is approaching any many of you may be
>> sending> out queries to CBC compilers or the Regional Editor. If you>
>> belong to a service that has an email address approval feature,> please
>> make sure that you pre-approve the addresses before you> send a query.> >
>> On more than one occasion this year, I have attempted to answer> queries
>> only receive a bounced message alert and instructions> on how to gain
>> approval by filling ou t an application. I get> way too many queries from
>> people to be filling out address approval> requests and will not do so. I
>> don't think any compiler running> a CBC should have to out these forms,
>> either.> > If you belong to a service with one of these filters, please>
>> be curtious and pre-approve any address to which you send a> CBC query.
>> Or be prepared to have your questions go unanswered.> > -- > Mike
>> Patterson > Astoria, OR > celata at pacifier.com> > >
>> ------------------------------> > Message: 30> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006
>> 11:18:09 -0800 (PST)> From: Cindy Ashy <tunicate89 at yahoo.com>> Subject:
>> [obol] Newport Burrowing Owl & Aggressive Crows & No Snowy> Owl Darn It!>
>> To: OBOL <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <589414.28489.qm at web51809.mail.yahoo.com>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> charset=iso-8859-1> > Hello All,> > This morning I checked all the dunes,
>> roof tops, tree tops, sign posts, and> beaches between south South Beach
>> SP and Nye Beach and could not locate our> early
>> Christmas gift from Santa's Winter Wonderland.> > In the middle of all
>> this I swung by the Wellness Center and right where> everyone has
>> reported just under the big sign was the Burrowing Owl....but not>
>> looking very happy because this over-sized crow....so big it made the owl
>> look> like a dwarf....kept harrassing the heck out of the owl....it would
>> kinda> spread out its wings and crouch down and squawk at it almost right
>> in its> face...then fly up a few feet and appear like it was going to
>> land on the owl's> head and at the last minute land just to the side of
>> the owl...and switching> sides back and forth....then a smaller crow
>> buddy landed on top of the sign and> the two crows seemed to talk back
>> and forth for a while and then the smaller> crow began to spend a lot of
>> time lining itself up with the owl just right> (this is a very tall sign
>> and the crow was standing on the top) to defecate on> the owl....the
>> feces bomb flew but barely missed and the owl looked straight up> at the
>> crow and the large crow at the bottom seemed to "fuss" at the smaller>
>> crow for missing....so the small crow looked down several times and
>> seemed to> try to line up with the owl just right again....I mean it was
>> quite obvious> what it was doing....it would move just slightly one way,
>> look down, and then> move slightly the other way....finally, it defecated
>> again, this time just> barely missing to the other side of the owl....the
>> larger crow really put up a> fuss this time and after all the squawking
>> seemed to flew away in disgust...the> little crow stayed and gave it one
>> more try but barely missed again...and then> flew away leaving the owl
>> looking really miserable.> > Cindy Ashy> > > >
>> _________________________________________________________________________
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>> ------------------------------> > Message: 31> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006
>> 11:28:10 -0800
>> (PST)> From: James Hannan <jhannan29 at yahoo.com>> Subject: [obol]
>> Red/Yellow Shafted N. Flicker> To: OBOL Postings
>> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>> Message-ID:
>> <20061201192810.21621.qmail at web30708.mail.mud.yahoo.com>> Content-Type:
>> text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > A male N. Flicker visited my suet
>> feeder and water in the Rock Creek area of NW Portland. It appeared to be
>> consistent with all the other male Red Shafted birds that frequent the
>> area with the exception of a red nape stripe and a brownish face.> >
>> James Hannan> jhannan29 at yahoo.com> > > >
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:29:23 -0500
>> From: "Bobbett Pierce" <ensatina3 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Columbia County report
>> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
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>>
>> I took the bird route to the town of St. Helens (from my home in Warren)
>> in Columbia County, about 5 miles one way.  Nothing to get excited about,
>> actually pretty slow.  Highlights: Scappoose Bay (from car) a dozen T.
>> SWANS, several dozen C. GEESE, 2 EGRETS; Millard Road field: hundreds of
>> C.
>> GEESE grazing with the cattle; Col. River waterfront: 100 GULL sp. out on
>> Sand Island, scattered WESTERN GREBES in river, a few D-C CORMORANTS on
>> pilings, a G.B. HERON resting on an osprey nest, a female C. MERGANZER;
>> overlooking Dalton Lake next to Col. River: surprising absence of ducks
>> may be due to new homes being built near this previously isolated lake --
>> hammering.  Beaver have cut a lot of trees on water's edge.  At least
>> there was a flock of G-C KINGLETS and a BROWN CREEPER nearby.  Cold and
>> foggy. Lona Pierce
>>
>>
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 15:01:45 -0800 (PST)
>> From: "Steve Shunk" <steve at paradisebirding.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Sisters Snow Geese
>> To: obol at lists.orst.edu
>> Cc: COBOL at lists.oregonstate.edu
>> Message-ID: <2995.66.82.9.73.1165014105.squirrel at www1.outlawnet.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>> Kris and I just added a new bird to our yard list, when we first heard
>> then saw a small flock of about 8 SNOW GEESE flying approximately 
>> northeast
>> a couple miles west of our house.
>>
>> It seems there are records into mid-December for the region, but I think
>> this is still pretty late. We had a single bird on the Sisters CBC one
>> year. Steve Shunk
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 15:37:51 -0800
>> From: "Steve Engel" <sengel at audubonportland.org>
>> Subject: Re: [obol] Falcated Duck?
>> To: <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Message-ID: <200612012337.kB1NbI411755 at broadway.hevanet.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250"
>>
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone has seen the Falcated Duck in the Coburg area
>> recently?  Thanks.
>>
>> Steve Engel
>> Adult Education Coordinator
>> Audubon Society of Portland
>> 5151 NW Cornell Road, Portland, OR 97210
>> EMAIL:  sengel at audubonportland.org
>> web:  www.audubonportland.org
>> PHONE:  503-292-6855 x 119 (main)  971-222-6119 (direct)
>>
>>
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>> Message: 6
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:11:31 -0800
>> From: "Dennis P. Vroman" <dpvroman at budget.net>
>> Subject: [obol] Winter-time fun
>> To: <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Message-ID: <001101c715a6$6e7cde20$4a371c40 at Warbler>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>>
>> Greeting me at our door when we got back from Grants Pass was Volume 11
>> of "Handbook of the Bird of the World."  If you have never seen any
>> Volumes of this series that is supposed to cover all the World's birds,
>> then you should attempt to find a copy to look at.
>>
>> Check web page:  http://www.hbw.com/
>>
>>
>> What a great treat to review on those not so great winter days.
>>
>>
>> ...also, only 5 more Volumes to go, Dennis (north of Grants Pass)
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>> Message: 7
>> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:13:36 -0800
>> From: "Tom McNamara" <tmacport99 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Powell Butte (Mult.) N. Shrike
>> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
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>>
>>
>> Annet and I found an adult Northern Shrike up on Powell Butte this
>> afternoon.  It was just NW of the intersection of the Goldfinch &
>> Meadowland
>> trails.  Parking lot signage seems bogus (obsolete?) ---the area is on 
>> the
>>  grassy plateau on the western downslope from the old orchard. First of
>> the winter for moi. good birding, Tom
>>
>>
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>> Message: 8
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:50:44 -0800
>> From: "Kim Boddie" <kcboddie at bendnet.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Springfield Pine Siskins
>> To: "OBOL sightings" <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Message-ID: <004201c715ab$e6e02a70$d3a5b242 at kcboddie>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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>>
>> Looking at all the messages on Springfield Pine Siskins reminds me of a
>> Pine Siskin Story I heard several years ago.  I was attending an
>> Elderhostel in Nebraska to observe the Sandhill Crane migration and one
>> of our speakers was a bird bander from Omaha.  She (can't remember her
>> name) told us she banded a Pine Siskin at her home in Omaha and the bird
>> was found dead in the Eugene/Springfield area a week later.  That bird
>> covered a lot of ground, west instead of south.
>>
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>> Message: 9
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:04:19 -0800
>> From: "Dan Heyerly" <dan at heyerly.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Lane Co. Northern Shrikes
>> To: "obol" <obol at lists.orst.edu>
>> Message-ID: <000001c715ad$cc065100$6400a8c0 at Dan>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250"
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>>
>> Obolinks,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Pardon the late posting, but I should get this out there before it is too
>>  stale. Sorry this has taken so long. Some of this news is stale, but
>> some is very recent (today).
>>
>>
>>
>> Last Sunday 11/26/2006 Anne and I ran the Lane Co. Raptor Route #1, but I
>> am not giving any raptor numbers in this posting. Nothing rare or unusual
>> was discovered. This posting will deal with NORTHERN SHRIKES. We will 
>> post
>> the results of the raptor survey later this evening.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/26 we located two juv. NORTHERN SHRIKES. The first was found just
>> west of the hunters check station on K.R. Neilsen Rd. just east of Fern
>> Ridge
>> Reservoir and west of Eugene in Lane County. K.R. Neilsen Rd. turns off 
>> of
>>  and parallels W. 11th Ave. (heading west if you begin where the railroad
>>  tracks pass underneath W. 11th). The check station is located right
>> where K.R. Neilsen Rd. makes a 90-degree turn left (south). The bird was
>> hunting approx. 50 yards out in the prairie.
>>
>>
>>
>> The second juv. bird was located along Cantrell Rd. approximately 100
>> yards west of the wooded part that envelops Cantrell Rd. just west of the
>> Wildlife
>> Management Office. It was hunting along a fence line bordering a long
>> driveway that extended south of the road several hundred yards. At the
>> time we saw it the bird was close enough to the road to avoid 
>> trespassing.
>> This
>> is all private land in this area (where we saw the second bird), so get
>> permission if you leave the road.
>>
>>
>>
>> Today, 12/1/2006 I was returning to Eugene on Clear Lake Rd. and decided
>> to pull over and see if I could see the CATTLE EGRET that has previously
>> been reported in the pasture area south of the road approximately where
>> Childers
>> Rd. takes off to the south. On Sunday 11/26 Anne and I did see this bird
>> feeding INSIDE the corral which is attached to the small barn
>> approximately 100 yards south of the road (there is a Caterpillar tractor
>> parked by this little barn). It was walking around amongst the cattle 
>> that
>> were inside the corral feeding on hay. Today I did NOT see it.
>>
>>
>>
>> HOWEVER, some movement caught my eye along the fence line right next to
>> the car. A NORTHERN SHRIKE! This time an adult. Three shrikes in six 
>> days.
>> I am
>> not sure I saw one shrike all last winter!
>>
>>
>>
>> Good birding.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dan Heyerly
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 10
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:14:03 -0800
>> From: "Jim Johnson" <jt_johnson at comcast.net>
>> Subject: [obol] Short-eared Owls, Vancouver Lake, WA
>> To: "'obol'" <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Message-ID: <009901c715af$28225ff0$c1cca943 at D81WS2C1>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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>>
>> Must be a good year for SHORT-EARED OWLS around here. During a late
>> afternoon walk through state and county lands just southeast of Vancouver
>> Lake, I saw at least six Short-eareds hunting over fields east of La
>> Frambois Road. To get to the area take La Frambois Road toward Vancouver
>> Lake and park at the first pull-out/gate on the right after the first
>> cattle guard. There is a sign just off the road that says "South 
>> Vancouver
>> Lake
>> Wetland Restoration". Walk around the north end of the "restored" wetland
>> and follow the track that parallels a set of high-tension power lines.
>>
>> The owls were flying over and feeding in fields which were mowed this
>> fall, but have had some regrowth since then--the veg is still pretty
>> short. There were lots of Great Blue Herons in these fields and a few
>> Northern Harriers
>> feeding here also, so the rodent population must be pretty good. I could
>> see some owls from La Frambois Road, but they were distant. One flew high
>> overhead as I walked home on the road.
>>
>> There is also a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK hanging out just east of the owl fields
>>  toward Fruit Valley Road (near the large white petroleum tanks), and I
>> had an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER in the roadside vegetation on La Frambois
>> Road
>> near the sewage ponds.
>>
>> For those who are map literate and have respectable bandwith, this URL
>> will show you where the Short-eared Owls were feeding:
>> http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=45.66109&lon=-122.7057&size=m&u=5&dat
>> um= nad83&layer=DRG. GPS users can get the coordinates from the URL or
>> from the site.
>>
>> Jim Johnson
>> Vancouver, Washington
>> jt_johnson at comcast.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Message: 11
>> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:17:16 -0800
>> From: Linda Fink <linda at fink.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Falcated Duck -- yes!
>> To: obol <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Message-ID: <4570D41C.7020200 at fink.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>>
>> 5 of us piled into the Woodhouses trusty stationwagon and drove to
>> Coburg today to the nice RV park with its very nice managers who told us
>> exactly where to park and walk and that everyone today had seen the
>> Falcated Duck. It was, indeed, on the pond with a wonderful variety of
>> other waterfowl and also many (50?) Dowitchers. What a lovely bird is 
>> that
>> Falcated Teal/Duck. Be sure to stop at the registration office
>> first and sign in. And buy something so they want us to keep coming.
>>
>> At a quick stop at Ankeny on the way home we saw a Say's Phoebe and a
>> Red-shouldered Hawk. Also white birds -- Snow Geese, Tundra Swans, and
>> Great Egrets -- and a couple white-headed birds (Bald Eagles). A jillion
>> Dunlin were doing their aerial maneuvers, along with two flocks of
>> Dowitchers. Lots of other birds as well -- the usual.
>>
>>
>> A great day with great friends.
>>
>>
>> Linda Fink
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
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>>
>> Message: 12
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:15:21 -0800
>> From: "Jim Harleman and Kathy McNeill" <mchar5 at msn.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Local RBA: Long-tailed duck
>> To: "OBOL" <obol at lists.orst.edu>
>> Message-ID: <BAY116-DAV13C2319E92409F37FF243885D90 at phx.gbl>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>>
>> Jim Hostick and Keiko Thurston found a female LONG-TAILED DUCK just above
>> the dam at Lost Creek reservoir today.  This is a Jackson County first.
>>
>> Good birding,
>>
>>
>> Jim Harleman
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>> Message: 13
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:27:14 -0800
>> From: Barbara & John Woodhouse <jbw at pacifier.com>
>> Subject: Re: [obol] Falcated Duck?
>> To: "Steve Engel" <sengel at audubonportland.org>,
>> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Message-ID: <a05111b67c19694b76f6e@[66.43.13.14]>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
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>>
>> We saw the Falcated Duck this morning on the front pond, the people
>> in the office say he is staying around this year.
>>
>> Barbara Woodhouse
>> Tillamook
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 3:37 PM -0800 12/1/2006, Steve Engel wrote:
>>
>>> Just wondering if anyone has seen the Falcated Duck in the Coburg area
>>> recently?  Thanks.
>>>
>>> Steve Engel
>>> Adult Education Coordinator
>>> Audubon Society of Portland
>>> 5151 NW Cornell Road, Portland, OR 97210
>>> EMAIL:  sengel at audubonportland.org
>>> web:  www.audubonportland.org
>>> PHONE:  503-292-6855 x 119 (main)  971-222-6119 (direct)
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Message: 14
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:56:58 -0800 (PST)
>> From: Cindy Ashy <tunicate89 at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Burrowing Owl Gone After Sunset
>> To: OBOL <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Message-ID: <574786.43115.qm at web51805.mail.yahoo.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>>
>> Thought I'd mention that the Burrowing Owl seen below the Wellness sign
>> this morning and this afternoon was gone about an hour after
>> sunset.....maybe off hunting...seems an awfully odd daytime roost....but
>> is quite convenient to show to out of town guests :-)
>>
>> Cindy Ashy
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 15
>> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:38:34 -0500
>> From: "Bobbett Pierce" <ensatina3 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Clarification on geese, swan IDs
>> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
>> Message-ID: <BAY104-F84B24CCC5122C4BDE1F33F7D90 at phx.gbl>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
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>>
>> Sorry for my lazy identifications on the Columbia County Report.  I will
>> write out the names from now on.  C. GEESE are Cacklers, which I hear far
>> more than any other geese around here.  The flock of a couple hundred I
>> saw on Friday were a tightly packed uniform group of smallish geese
>> grazing. Not Duskies.  Sometimes we get interesting mixed flocks of all
>> colors and sizes of subspecies, which are fun to study a bit more.  The
>> dozen T. SWANS are Tundra, going by sound and what settles into Scappoose
>> Bay every winter,
>> up to 75 or so.  I hear them sometimes all night long out of my bedroom
>> window in winter and wonder when they ever sleep. To rule out a stray
>> Trumpeter or two I would have to study them with my scope, which I didn't
>>  do.  I guess that's how we miss the rarer species.  I know that
>> Trumpeters
>> are sometimes seen in the county, usually up at Trojan just south of the
>> town of Rainier, so it wouldn't be out of the question. Lona Pierce,
>> Warren
>>
>>
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>> Message: 16
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:21:00 -0800
>> From: Wilson Cady <gorgebirds at juno.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Clark County Long-tailed Duck
>> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
>> Cc: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>> Message-ID: <20061201.222233.2540.0.gorgebirds at juno.com>
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>>
>> The female LONG-TAILED DUCK at the Washougal Sewage Lagoons
>> (milepost 17.5 Highway 14) was still present on Friday, Dec. 1st, and
>> easily visible from the wide road shoulder. There were three SHORT-EARED
>> OWLS working the fields south of the highway at milepost 18.8. Watch for
>> them about halfway across the field where they occasionally perch on the
>> clumps of blackberries.
>>
>> Wilson Cady
>> Washougal, WA
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 17
>> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 23:15:22 -0800
>> From: david tracy <davect at bendnet.com>
>> Subject: [obol] Thanksgiving day seabird flight & comments on numbers
>> To: Obol <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Message-ID: <7D19DB58-A0EC-4A22-89DD-298EA76FC06F at bendnet.com>
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>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> The huge numbers I reported on the Thanksgiving flight justifiably
>> raised a few eyebrows among our more veteran, salt encrusted coastal
>> observers.  I've reconsidered the extrapolated timed-count of Loons,
>> specifically Pacific Loons and think a more appropriate number to report
>> would be in the neighborhood of 200,000 Pacific Loons.  The methodology
>> was hardly systematic, but I think it may be possible 500,000 loons flew
>> by at the high end.  But again, with no way to characterize the error,
>> especially retroactively, who knows for sure.
>>
>> One big source of the error is no doubt my lack of experience with
>> timed seabird counts.   Another problem is that timed counts are 
>> difficult
>> to perform when unfathomable numbers keep streaming by. You think, I'll
>> count X number of seconds and see how many birds fly by... then you get 
>> to
>> two and have already lost count when you see several strings of like
>> 50-100 birds passing in a few seconds.   Then
>> you take this number and apply some multiplier to get a minute or hourly
>> average.  Several times, especially when the count would pick up after a
>> squall passed, it was nearly impossible to keep in your head an estimate
>> of numbers and still get a feel for the mix of species.  This can bring
>> one to the point of frustration if your trying to be anything close to
>> accurate.  The cool thing was how impressive the number of birds was and
>> how they just kept going during the daylight hours, except for the rain
>> squalls.
>>
>> I'm now a big fan of using video to estimate count numbers by holding
>> my camera up to the scope in video mode.  I can review the numbers of 
>> birds
>> in slow motion and the camera registers the time to a tenth of a second.
>> Plus, my new still camera is much more sensitive than my
>> older miniDV video camera and the zoom combination with the scope is
>> extraordinary. I hope to be more prepared in the future should I be so
>> lucky to witness another one of the "mega-flights" that sometimes occurs
>> along our coast in the fall.  I'd also encourage any of you who might get
>> out to the headlands this time of year to be aware of how spectacular the
>> flights can be when the weather turns foul with a S-SW component to the
>> winds.
>>
>> Many thanks to Phil Pickering, Mike Patterson and David Fix for their
>> comments & helpful discussion.
>>
>> david tracy davect at bendnet.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 18
>> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 00:13:21 -0800
>> From: Lars and Gail Norgren <gnorgren at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: [obol] Siskins,etc.
>> To: obol <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>> Message-ID: <65420e79b834364830e00b1fd1dadb62 at earthlink.net>
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>>
>> The final entry of this week's Vancouver BC RBA
>> refers to the year long drought of PINE SISKINS ending with a sighting of 
>> a
>> flock of 200 birds. I have seen them in modest numbers here in nw
>> Washington
>> County since late Sept as a consequence of bird
>> counts I've made in the neighborhood. Inclement weather and increased
>> workload means that I largely ceased the transects and point counts , so
>> for about a month I detected no Siskins. Then we got a sunny day last 
>> week
>>  and I counted 150 PINE SISKINS on my usual 1 hr transect. Most were in a
>> single flock, which as with the Vancouver, BC flock strikes me as
>> unusually large. Fewer birds, but still a large flock, passed my house 
>> the
>> same day. I have not noticed any this week. PINE GROSBEAKS are prominent 
>> on
>> this week's Vancouver RBA, possibly the most mentioned species. I tried
>> for the same species on my lunch break at Wink Gross' neighborhood in the
>> West Hills of POrtland. Jeff Gilligan commented on
>> the Boreal feel to his successful trip to Larch Mountain (Mult. Co) in
>> search of PINE GROSBEAKS. What a contrast Wink's regular habitat 
>> provides!
>> I have always thought
>> of the Portland Hills as a monolith of mature Doug-firs with the all too
>> infrequent Chestnut-backed chickadee or kinglet. What I found was a very
>> birdy neighborhood, no doubt assisted by its southerly aspect and varied
>> exotic flora. AS soon as I parked the car I saw 3 BAND-TAILED PIGEON, 
>> only
>> the second time I've seen them in Portland in December in 28 yrs. I saw 
>> no
>> pine grosbeaks, so concentrated on the Hummingbirds. I saw four and heard
>> more. I presume they were all Anna's, which I have tended to take for
>> granted and ignore. A female in the heart of a Deodar(Old World cedar) 
>> sat
>> in one spot for a long while, making a constant chipping sound. It seemed
>> to have some fine fiber protruding sideways from its beak. Could it be
>> gathering nesting material? Why would it sit in one place with same for
>> several minutes at a stretch? I have yet to detect this species within 20
>> miles of my home in western Washington Co.. Greg Gillson recently brought
>> it to our attention that they have only been on the Forest Grove CBC the
>> last three years. Their mention on this week's Vancouver RBA shows that
>> they still have novelty value up there. 300 miles north of Portland or 30
>> miles west we encounter a similar biological boundary. The most 
>> intriguing
>> entry for me in BC this week was a SCRUB JAY, whose breeding range ends
>> 3km east of my house. The SCRUB
>> JAY in Sisters this week was probably my favorite posting of the
>> week. From many list members' perspective this is probably a trash bird.
>> Thank you one and all for reporting various near extra-limital
>> sightings of this fascinating species . I wonder how many have been
>> detected north of the Canadian border to date. I reiterate Bill Clemmons'
>> plea for people to post things. It doesn't have to be a Falcated Duck to
>> be newsworthy. The continued range expansion of Scrub Jays and Anna's
>> Hummingbirds should be
>> documented. Their abundance in many of Oregon's backyards does not change
>> the fact that history is in the making. From a scientific point of view
>> things like this are far more important than all the year's Asian 
>> vagrants
>> combined.  Lars Norgren MANNING OREGON
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 19
>> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 07:49:43 -0800
>> From: "Dennis P. Vroman" <dpvroman at budget.net>
>> Subject: Re: [obol] Winter-time fun
>> To: "Jeff Harding" <jeffharding at centurytel.net>
>> Cc: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
>> Message-ID: <003c01c71629$7ce19fe0$0f371c40 at Warbler>
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>>
>>
>> Jeff and Others that like Ruby-crowned Kinglet feet,
>>
>>
>> Jeff ask (hope he's OK with me sending a copy to OBOL) about the
>> illustrations of "our" Kinglets (my assumption here) in Volume 11 of HBW.
>>
>>
>> There's a couple of photos of Ruby-crowns and both should birds with
>> dark-colored feet (according to the photo captions, both were taken of
>> eastern birds).  However, the drawings of both the Golden-crowned and
>> Ruby-crowned Kinglets do show birds with yellowish feet.  There's two
>> photos of Golden-crowned birds, but the feet don't show in on and are in
>> deep shadows in the other, so you can not tell about their feet.
>>
>> So, it does appear that eastern Ruby-crowns do indeed have dark feet.
>> Just knew the western birds were special!
>>
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>
>>
>> Dennis,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I see this volume covers Regulidae - Do they have yellow feet in the
>> illustrations?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> From: obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu
>> [mailto:obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis P. Vroman
>>  Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:12 PM
>> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
>> Subject: [obol] Winter-time fun
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Greeting me at our door when we got back from Grants Pass was Volume 11
>> of "Handbook of the Bird of the World."  If you have never seen any
>> Volumes of this series that is supposed to cover all the World's birds,
>> then you should attempt to find a copy to look at.
>>
>>
>>
>> Check web page:  http://www.hbw.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> What a great treat to review on those not so great winter days.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ...also, only 5 more Volumes to go, Dennis (north of Grants Pass)
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