[obol] Corvallis CBC results
- From: "Marcia F. Cutler" <marciafcutler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mid-Valley Birders <birding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 21:11:00 -0800
The Corvallis CBC was held on Saturday, December 21, 2013 under pleasant
conditions – dry, with temperatures in the 40’s. and only small patches of
fog. However, there was a lingering impact from the 8-inch snowfall followed
by a week of frigid weather earlier in the month. The total number of species
seen was 123, which is about average, but lower than many recent counts. Teams
reported frozen water at many of the shallower ponds and sloughs and counters
reported working harder than usual to come up with sparrows and finches.
Several teams reported remarkably few Killdeer in their area.
No rarities were found. Good birds for this count include:
Mountain Quail
Lewis’s Woodpecker
Trumpeter Swan
Cinnamon Teal
Redhead
Virginia Rail
Least Sandpiper
Thayer’s Gull
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Swamp Sparrow
Lapland Longspur (on property not open to the public)
Evening Grosbeak
Like many other counts that have been held this year, no Pine Siskins were seen
(reported from 40 of 51 counts). Other notable misses include:
Northern Shrike (seen in 45 counts)
Ring-billed Gulls (39 counts)
Also –
Golden Eagle
Prairie Falcon
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Mew Gulls
Marcia F. Cutler
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