[obol] Re: Dearth of Townsend's Warblers this winter
- From: Dan Gleason <dan-gleason@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "joel.geier@xxxxxxxx" <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:00:29 -0700
We have 5-6 still visiting our suet and feeding area every day, as has been the
case through the winter.
Dan Gleason
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 28, 2015, at 8:37 PM, Joel Geier <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Working through local sightings in the process of compiling the
> Corvallis-area field notes, once again (for the third month in a row)
> I'm struck by the very low number of reports for Townsend's Warblers.
>
> This time I even poked around in eBird's compiler-unfriendly interface,
> just to check if I was missing something there.
>
> Despite that Benton & Linn Co. (the coverage area for the Corvallis
> field notes) have several of the most prolific eBird report generators
> in the state, I found only two more reports of Townsend's Warblers (both
> of single birds) than I'd previously heard about by old-fashioned
> dial-up telephone reporting, for the past 40 days. One of those birds
> was in a neighborhood where I found three Townsend's Warblers myself,
> earlier in the winter.
>
> I didn't poke around too much at wider scales, because the eBird
> interface for viewing data on any aggregated scale is maddening (as
> recent OBOL discussions of suggestions for workarounds have made
> abundantly clear).
>
> But so far as we can trust the purple-shaded maps (don't even get me
> started on those ;-), the regional picture from eBird appears to be
> similar.
>
> I don't think anyone on OBOL has commented on Townsend's Warbler
> non-abundance in the Willamette Valley this winter or spring, but maybe
> I overlooked something. It would certainly be interesting to hear
> whether and where birders have been finding Townsend's Warblers.
>
> Good birding,
> Joel
>
> --
> Joel Geier
> Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
>
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