[obol] Lincoln County Fall 2007 NAMC

[Cindy Ashy]

Lincoln County Fall 2007 NAMC Results - September 15 &
16

Thanks to our participants:

Andy Kittel, Ardis Letey, Bill Humes, Cindy Ashy,
Darrel Faxon, Janet Lamberson, Kathleen Nickerson,
Lacen Horter, Laura Faxon, Sue Humes

I'd like to extend a special thank you to Andy Kittel
and the Izaak Walton League for an escort onto private
properties providing spectacular views of Lint Slough.

Most of the numbers below are estimates, not exact
counts, but a good impression of relative numbers:

Divers That Don't Quack

Pacific Loon	 - 1 (south side of the LNG peninsula)
Western Grebe - 4
Brown Pelican - 70
Brandt's Cormorant - 7 (we did not cover Yaquina Head
or Seal Rock)
Double-crested Cormorant - 1000 (there were huge
flocks in Alsea Bay)
Pelagic Cormorant - 1 (we did not cover Yaquina Head
or Seal Rock)
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Long-legged Waders

Great Egret - 45
Great Blue Heron - 99
Green Heron -1 (Yaquina Bay/Criteser's Moorage)
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Dead Flesh Eaters

Turkey Vulture - 11
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Quackers & Honkers

Canada Goose - 320
Gadwall - 2
American Wigeon - 14
Mallard -63
Surf Scoter -120
Bufflehead - 12
Hooded Merganser - 5
Unidentified Ducks - lots (more than 1000)
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Raptors

Osprey - 1 (this bird put on a spectacular show for us
diving for fish)
Bald Eagle - 6
Northern Harrier - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (Sallys Bend)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
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Shorebirds

Black-bellied Plover - 20 (Siletz Bay/Mo's Dock)
Killdeer - 22 (Siletz Bay, Lint Slough, Alsea Bay)
Black Oystercatcher - 1 (we did not cover Yaquina Head
or Seal Rock)
Greater Yellowlegs - 10 (Boone Slough, the birder who
found these said they were distant and hard to ID -
but I trust her intuition)
Willet - 1 (Lint Slough - not 100% sure of ID but we
got long good looks at it)
Spotted Sandpiper - 18 (Siletz Bay, Lint Slough - no
spots/non-breeding plumage)
Black Turnstone - 2  (we did not cover Yaquina Head or
Seal Rock)
Western Sandpiper - 120 (HMSC, Lint Slough, Alsea Bay)
Least Sandpiper - 27 (Sallys Bend, Lint Slough)
Unidentified Peeps - 60

(there were many more shorebirds in Lincoln County a
couple of weeks before)

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Gulls

Bonaparte's Gull - 2
Heerman's Gull - 3
Mew Gull - 400
Ring-billed Gull - 2
California Gull - 700
Herring Gull (ID? - immatures) - 10
Western Gull - 300
Glaucous-winged Gull - 50
Unidentified Gulls - 2000 +  (including many flocks
seen driving down Hwy 101 and Hwy 34 that we didn't
stop to ID)

(I was disappointed in finding no terns - flocks were
seen in the weeks preceeding the count)
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Doves & Non-native Winged Rats

Rock Dove - 50
Band-tailed Pigeon - 3
Mourning Dove - 2 (one in Janet Lamberson's yard, one
at Lint Slough)
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Hummers

Anna's Hummingbird - 1 
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Dazzling Acrobats

Belted Kingfisher - 14
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Percussionists

Northern Flicker - 1
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Tweety Birds

Violet-green Swallow - 160
Barn Swallow - 30
Black-capped Chickadee - 10
Chestnut-backed Chickadee - 17
Winter Wren - 1
American Robin - 7
Wren Tit - 1
European Starling - 50
Black-throated Grey Warbler - 1 (Sallys Bend)
Savanah Sparrow - 25
Song Sparrow - 6
White-crowned Sparrow - 35
Gold-crowned Sparrow - 6
House Finch - 27
Pine Siskin - 2
American Goldfinch - 40
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Non-melodious Passerines (harmonious to some ears)

Steller's Jay - 15
American Crow - 120
Common Raven - 2 (Janet Lamberson's property)
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Goals for improvement: earlier start organizing it,
ocean watches (I think all coastal counties should
include these), inclusion of a few more sites,
inclusion of more "expert birders," more training for
new birders

Please send along any additional observations to me
via private email. Thanks.

Cindy Ashy


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