[obol] Re: Coastal Birding
- From: HARVEY W SCHUBOTHE <ninerharv2@xxxxxxx>
- To: "timrodenkirk@xxxxxxxxx" <timrodenkirk@xxxxxxxxx>, Tom Crabtree <tc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:14:39 -0700
Had the singing foxes here at Bradley Lake in Bandon for the first time
yesterday.
Harv Schubothe
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:07:26 -0700
Subject: [obol] Re: Coastal Birding
From: timrodenkirk@xxxxxxxxx
To: tc@xxxxxxxxxx
CC: obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Have heard several folks talk about the Sooty Fox sparrow singing of late. This
happens every fall, sometimes late into fall, and they sing and sing and sing.
I have heard them about everywhere I have been in Coos Bay today (and the last
week or two). Last night at our Audubon meeting I was asked about that singing
bird, what could it be? Just wanted to say it is another one of those songs
you can count on every fall (at least in Coos County) that if you know, you can
say, oh another Sooty Fox Sparrow! They normally sing up through December
here, at least when the weather is nice.
Tim Rin Coos bay where we have not seen sunlight in over three days (dense
coastal fog all frickin day)
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Tom Crabtree <tc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This morning I had the opportunity to do some birding in Lincoln City along
Siletz Bay. Among the highlights were 5 SOOTY FOX SPARROWS (singing, no less;
boy, do these birds sound different than the Thick-billed Fox Sparrows we get
in Central Oregon!); 1 BAND-TAILED PIGEON; 1 WRENTIT; 25 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS
(including at least 5 “Myrtles.” One of the birds was a very interesting
leucistic bird. The front part looked like a normal Yellow-rump. The wings,
tail and undertail looked like a Snow Bunting – very starkly marked in black
and white. I don’t recall ever seeing a leucistic warbler before. Other
highlights were 12 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS in Siletz Bay, a WRENTIT and a
PACIFIC WREN.Tom Crabtree, Bend
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