[obol] Re: Dearth of Townsend's Warblers this winter
- From: HARVEY W SCHUBOTHE <ninerharv2@xxxxxxx>
- To: "joel.geier@xxxxxxxx" <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx>, "OBOL obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:38:18 -0700
Joel
Agreed the Coast is different. Just checked our CBC numbers and our numbers
were down slightly but not tellingly. We have averaged 42 over the seventeen
counts and had 32 this year. We saw a much bigger drop in yellow rumps, only
129 when we have averaged 259.
Harv
> Subject: [obol] Re: Dearth of Townsend's Warblers this winter
> From: joel.geier@xxxxxxxx
> To: obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 22:18:30 -0700
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> Thanks all for the responses so far. There seem to have been at least
> four or five more Townsend's Warblers in the Willamette Valley than I've
> heard about previously, possibly even one or two of them in Corvallis.
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> To me, a normal winter should have thirty or more Townsend's Warblers in
> Corvallis, so there's still a big gap to fill. Reports of one or two
> here or there tend to confirm the impression that numbers were very low.
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> And thanks Harvey, but yeah, the coast is a different story than I was
> fishing for! If numbers were lower there too, that would add to the
> pattern. Good to hear that numbers on the south coast were similar to
> your past experience.
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> Good birding,
> Joel
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> Joel Geier
> Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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