[obol] Re: Coos/Curry Coastal Sooty Grouse
- From: "Wayne Hoffman" <whoffman@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>, <timrodenkirk@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:34:14 -0700
Interesting -
Several times in the 1970s I found Ruffed Grouse on Bayocean Spit, always in
a area of beachgrass with scattered shore pines near the north end of the
spit.
Wayne
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Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 7:32 PM
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Subject: [obol] Re: Coos/Curry Coastal Sooty Grouse
I have seen Sooty Grouse in the dune grass at Bayocean Spit. There are
dense stands of Sitka Spruce and doug fir nearby, as I recall.
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Alan Contreras
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
Eugene, Oregon
On Oct 9, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Tim Rodenkirk wrote:
A few days back Knute Andersson sent me a photo of a SOOTY GROUSE he took
about a mile from the coast where he lives SW of Langlois in Curry. I
thought wow, how crazy, this is a species we normally see MILES inland and
mostly at higher elevations.
This evening, on my way out of the north spit of Coos bay where I was
working, sitting on the sand road just 1/4 mile from the beach, was a juvie
SOOTY GROUSE- wow! My work partner stopped the truck and asked what it was
because it was just sitting in the road. I would expect maybe a Ruffed in
this habitat in Coos maybe every 10 yrs. or so but a Sooty- wow! It is not
like there is a mountainous area just next to the coast like many areas on
the north coast, it is miles (like 15) to the closest suitable breeding
habitat?
Incredible! First in my 15+ years of birding the coast in Coos?
Many pipits on the south end of the north spit but still no Laplands. Slow
year for them so far.
Merry migration!
Tim R
Coos Bay
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