[obol] RBA: Grackle sp. relocated in Astoria--Wireless Rd.
- From: David Bailey <davidcbaileyoregon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, swalalahos_group <swalalahos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:58:21 -0700
Sunday 20 October 2013
Clatsop County
about 1330:
Lee Cain followed up on Mike Patterson's sighting this morning of a large
blackbird he saw on Wireless Rd. south of the Youngs River in Astoria.
Lee just texted, "Probable COGR [Common Grackle] on Wireless at feeder.
Mike found earlier, then I re-found at feeder. Now he is on it there again."
I spoke with Mike P. earlier on the phone and he said the grackle was a
male, but that what he saw of it looked too small for a Great-tailed
Grackle. Common Grackle is the rarer species of grackle anywhere in the
Pacific Northwest, but both have been seen on the Oregon Coast in the past
and this is a good time of year for Common Grackle as they are a later
migrant in their normal range. Either way the all-time Clatsop County list
has gained a species today.
I am avoiding grackles of all kinds while in Portland with my daughters
today....
David
Seaside, Oregon, currently at my childhood home in Alameda, Portland where
I observed a Canada Goose and an Anna's Hummingbird.
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