[obol] winter Chipping Sparrows in Oregon

[Moore, Randy]

Roy and OBOL,
I second that motion.  I just did the the Airlie/Albany count and saw at least 12 chipping sparrows- and there were probably 3 times that many- in orchards with junco flocks. They kept flushing up and down with the approach of cars or people or just because they felt like it, and the 300+ juncos they were feeding with made it kind of difficult to get a good count.  But I'm pretty sure that in the American Bottom area (just north of Albany) there are probably 100's- they were in every orchard junco flock I looked at.
 
happy new year,
randy
corvallis

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From: Roy Gerig [mailto:roygerig at hotmail.com]
Sent: Sat 12/30/2006 6:56 PM
To: obol at lists.orst.edu
Subject: [obol] west Salem winter Chipping Sparrows 12/29/06



Teresa and I drove out to BSNWR this morning, and we saw 8-9 CHIPPING
SPARROWS with some Golden-crowned sparrows, bushtits, and chickadees along
the edge of a filbert orchart beside Farmer Road, east of the refuge.  I
have seen CHSP there before in winter.  Conventional wisdom might hold that
CHSP do not winter in Oregon, but I have seen them 20+ times in winter in
the greater Salem area, and without exception they have always been
associated with filbert orchards.

Otherwise we saw 2 ACORN WOODPECKERS at the edge of the same orchard, a
NORTHERN SHRIKE further down the road (west), and a PEREGRINE FALCON on the
refuge.  A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was a mile north of the refuge along Livermore,
and 20 WESTERN MEADOWLARKS were a mile north of the refuge along Livermore.

Roy Gerig, Salem OR

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