[obol] Late Lazuli Buntings

[MARCIA CUTLER]

Back in the days when I was just beginning to be a bird watcher, I placed my 
first feeder ever up outside my house in Eugene (yes, I lived there 
1989-93).  The first bird that I saw at that feeder sat there for at least 
15 minutes chowing down on the mixed seed.  It's a good thing it sat there 
so long because it really stumped me.  A drab, light brown bird, the only 
markings I could see were some lighter buffy wing bars.  Poring through my 
Audubon Western Field Guide, I kept on trying to match pictures with the 
bird until I finally came across a picture of a female Lazuli Bunting. 
Bingo!  This was on November 8, 1992.  I next saw this bird (presumably) on 
March 31, 1993.  It was the only Lazuli Bunting I ever saw at my feeders and 
in my yard in Eugene.

Marcia F. Cutler
Corvallis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Rodenkirk" <garbledmodwit at yahoo.com>
To: <jgeier at attglobal.net>; "Oregon Birders OnLine" 
<obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:00 AM
Subject: [obol] Late Lazuli Buntings


> Hi Joel,
>
> This may be the latest early fall record, but there
> are three documented early winter records, see Oregon
> Birds 30(1): 26 for an article entiltled "A winter
> record of Lazuli Bunting in western Oregon" written by
> yours truly.  The male I found was near Coquille on 24
> December 2002.  This is an extremely tough bird to get
> a late date on in many counties though, as they become
> very difficult to find after about mid-August in my
> experience.
>
> Merry migration!
> Tim R
> Coos Bay
> --- Joel Geier <jgeier at attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> Sorry! Looks like I sent my note on Coffin Butte
>> today to the wrong
>> list. That was supposed to go to the local
>> mid-valley birding list,
>> along with the heads-up postscript on the female
>> Lazuli Bunting reported
>> by Rainer Wieland from Finley NWR yesterday.
>>
>> Since Rainer's report was on OBOL, my note was
>> superfluous for this
>> list. But, just in case anyone is curious, Rainer
>> did send some details
>> on the Lazuli Bunting sighting which rule out female
>> Indigo Bunting
>> (wing bars and lack of streaking on breast). The
>> date of his sighting
>> (25 September) is notable as two days later than the
>> record late date
>> for Oregon, according to /Birds of Oregon: A General
>> Reference/.
>>
>> Good birding,
>> Joel
>>
>> --
>> Joel Geier
>> jgeier at attglobal.net
>>
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