Nice group of species Dan. Too bad you couldn't make it for Sparrow Day. The group would have enjoyed you being there with us.
Roger Mayhorn Compton Mt----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Kendrick" <kendridge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Roger Mayhorn" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "BCBC Listserve" <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [bcbirdclub] Sparrow Day Event
Sorry to have missed all of you at sparrow day. While I wasn't truly birding today, I did see a Canyon Wren at Zion NP. A Crissal Thrasher in my yard. At our Reservior, my best birds were Great Egret, Belted Kingfisher, Coopers Hawk, American Wigeon, Canvasback, Western Grebe. Dan KendrickSent from my iPhone On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:20 PM, "Roger Mayhorn" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Yesterday, Nov 3, 13 birders gathered at the home of David and Susan Raines to enjoy their annual Sparrow Day celebration. With the morning starting out with 29° and heavy frost, the fire David had going in the fire pit was welcome, as was the warm coffee, sausage balls and pumpkin muffins Susan provided. The birding started early with David hearing the call of a Great Horned Owl near dawn before other birders arrived. David also scared up a Great Blue Heron from the small creek that runs along his property. It was probably the same Great Blue that flew up from the creek just downstream as Lynda and I arrived.We found 44 species for the day. Some of the other highlights of the day were the four hawk species that were seen circling overhead or zipping past the bird feeders in the yard (complete list below). While birding a back field lined with autumn olive bushes and willows the group found a first of the season Fox Sparrow and a Winter Wren. A Belted Kingfisher went chattering across the blue, fall sky and Blue Jays, Crows and Pileated Woodpeckers could be heard in the surrounding woods. A Red-breasted Nuthatch in the company of a small flock of Chickadees spent several minutes gathering seeds from pine cones and hiding them in the crevices of the bark of nearby tulip poplars. An adult Yellow-bellied Sapsucker fed in a tree along the stream edge just in front of the Raines' home, and Purple Finches and Pine Siskins were coming to the feeders or working the trees nearby. A Brown Thrasher made trips to the sunflower seed feeder. A Northern Mockingbird spent much of its time feeding from the heavily fruited dogwood trees and the rest of its time trying to keep other birds away. Six sparrow species were present, but the numbers were down to what they had been just before the foot of snow that fell last week.Those birders present for the day were Don & Dawn Carrier, Peggy Herbert, Tom Hunter, John & Sherry Kelly, Fred & Janice Martin, Roger & Lynda Mayhorn, David & Susan Raines, Ed & Mary Talbott and Dave Worley. More Sparrow Day photos are located at http://www.pbase.com/mayhorn/sparrow_day_2012Roger Mayhorn Compton Mt 44 species Turkey Vulture 22 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 juv Cooper's Hawk 1 juv Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Mourning Dove 10 Great Horned Owl 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Downy Woodpecker 1m Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 adult Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Phoebe 4 Blue Jay 9 American Crow 10 Common Raven 2 Carolina Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 12 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 6 Winter Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 8 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 27 Cedar Waxwing 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler 5 Eastern Towhee 3m Chipping Sparrow 5 Field Sparrow 2 Fox Sparrow 1 (FOS) Song Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinal 9 (4m, 5f) Red-winged Blackbird 2m Common Grackle 1 Purple Finch 6 House Finch 5 (1m, 4f) Pine Siskin 4 Purple Pine Siskin 1 (species endemic only to the Raines property :) American Goldfinch 7 <2012_11_3 Sparrow Day_rs 1097.jpg>
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