[obol] Thanks for info on Owls and Snowy Plover
- From: Sandy Ayer <sandyayer74@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ted Goshulak <tgosh@xxxxxx>, Martin Bowman <pict@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul Friesen <prfriese@xxxxxxxxx>, "R. Martin Guidry" <guidryrm@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:13:54 -0600
Thanks to the half-dozen or so Oregon coast birders who responded to my RFI
on owls and Snowy Plover. I think I'll save the owls for another year.
Thanks especially to Dave Lauten for the very precise directions he gave to
the Sitcoos dune site. That I got lost for about 20 minutes along the way
was my fault--and it turned out to be providential: I arrived at the north
spit a little after 7:30, but visibility was down to about 10 meters in the
fog ("Oh. no," I thought, "I'll never see one at this rate!") and scoping
into the nesting area drew nothing but shells and driftwood. Then the fog
lifted (the providential part) and I happened to look toward the beach. I
noticed a juvenile bird that I at first took to be a larger plover, such as
a Black-bellied, but then I saw the thin black bill, dark eye-line, and
shoulder patch (as well as a green band). Then I looked at the wrack line,
as Dave and others had suggested, and all of a sudden Snowies, both adults
and juveniles, were scurrying everywhere (boy, can those birds move!) . I
must've seen about two dozen, both adults and juveniles.
Thanks again to you all. This was a lifer for me, and a species I'd missed
in both Texas and Louisiana.
Sandy
H. D. Sandy Ayer
115 Strandell Cresc. SW
Calgary, AB
T3H 1K8
sandyayer74@xxxxxxxxx
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