[obol] Re: [birding] NAMC: Provisional tallies for Marion County on 21 Sep 2014
- From: Joel Geier <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx>
- To: MidValley Birds <birding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 17:43:55 -0700
P.S. One interesting thing I noticed is that, of the total 78 Savannah
Sparrows that were found in Marion County, more than 2/3 of them (55)
were found by Nicholas Martens and Maureen Leong-Kee on a circuit of
Pintail Marsh at Ankeny NWR.
This perhaps illustrates how grass-loving sparrows have gotten packed
into the small patches of habitat that still remain, at the end of this
year's prolonged dry season of dusty, disked-up fields.
A similar pattern was seen in Benton Co. where 35 of 45 Savannah
Sparrows were around the Philomath sewage treatment ponds. In Polk
County, only 11 Savannah Sparrows were found.
--
Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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