[obol] [COBOL] Antone CBC rescheduled to December 21st

[Marilyn Miller]

How could anyone ever, ever be goose weary?  The perfect day would include
counting a hundred thousand of those beautiful, gorgeous geese!

Marilyn Miller
Bend, Oregon 
new email: goosemiller at msn.com as of 5-1-06

 
 
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: cobol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu
[mailto:cobol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Joel Geier
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 1:29 PM
To: Central Oregon Birders; Oregon Birders OnLine
Subject: [COBOL] Antone CBC rescheduled to December 21st

Hello folks,

This is to inform you of a change in the Christmas Bird Count schedule:

The date for this year's Antone Winter Bird Count is being changed to
Friday, December 21st. 

The date that was originally planned for this count (as published in
Oregon Birds and on Mike Patterson's web site) turns out not to work for
most of the people who have volunteered in recent years, so we'll go
with the 21st instead.

Please contact me ahead of time, if you're interested in participating
(by phone at 541 745-5020 or by e-mail at joel.geier at peak.org). This
count takes place in a rugged and thinly populated part of Oregon, so we
need to work out teams and meeting places in advance.

The Antone count circle is located in the canyonlands midway between
Mitchell and John Day. It includes a stretch of the South Fork John Day
River where this runs through John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
(the "banana belt" for this count), as well as more windswept, higher-
elevation areas on the north side of the Ochoco Mountains.

In the eight years of the Antone count, it has regularly been one of the
most productive counts in Oregon for CANYON WRENS, NORTHERN SHRIKES, and
MOUNTAIN QUAIL (a high count of 56 Mountain Quail made this the top CBC
on the continent one year, though we did get skunked once). Multiple
GOLDEN EAGLES and BALD EAGLES are expected, and COMMON REDPOLLS and
ROSY-FINCHES have occurred on occasion. 

In most years the count is entirely GOOSE-FREE, so doing this count is
almost like a vacation for weary goose counters from the Willamette
Valley. STARLINGS are rare, and HOUSE SPARROWS and EURASIAN COLLARED-
DOVES have never been recorded.

Please contact me if you're interested in volunteering and/or would like
more information on lodging possibilities, typical weather, etc.

Good birding,
Joel

P.S. This might be the only CBC circle in Oregon east of the Cascades in
which a Procellariforme (tubenose) has been recorded. OK, so that's a
fossil record! You can find out more about this and other fossil fauna
of the region, during our countdown in the fantastic (and warm) new
Thomas Condon Paleontology Center and Museum.

--
Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis

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