Audrey and Courtney, with Maureen and Nick, and hopefully others too, will be
looking for the Gyrfalcon, again, today (Saturday) till midday.
Please, again, post onto OBOL, or contact us, ASAP, if you are out today and
find it!
I looked at old OBOL records from March 2017 and looks like that Gyrfalcon was
seen here
Feb. 25 to Mar. 1,
then disappeared until refound here March 13 and 14,
so, it was still here all along! but a lot of misses.
Also found a note, that the only April Gyrfalcon ebird records in Oregon, are
both from this area: Halsey and Tangent.
So if any Gyrfalcon might stick around a while, may as well be this one.
Here is some helpful info I was given, may it be of help to us today!
I would suggest that you spend your time looking in the Irish Bend Loop and
Nixon-Cartney loop off of Peoria Rd and then swing through the Lake Creek Rd
Malpass Rd areas. As we discussed, these birds have very large territories
and they are food source driven. I have to say that I did not see too many
waterfowl in my drive around the whole area today so it could very well be
that the food source is on the Benton County side and the bird was just
resting until it was time to hunt. Make sure you check all those tall trees
along the river ... methodically scanning those trees <<
On Mar 1, 2019, at 2:45 PM, Courtney Kelly Jett <ckjannabirds@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Audrey and Courtney will be looking for the Gyrfalcon from 3pm-sunset (if
need be) today (Friday).
Since Gyrfalcon is a hidden (protected) species on eBird, we won’t be able to
see ebird reports posted if someone else refinds it.
Please post to OBOL if refound or contact me directly - it would be a life
bird for me! Would really love (so much) to see it.
Thank you for helping!
Courtney
347-556-0619
P.S. We saw Bruce Pratt’s continuing female Rose-breasted Grosbeak in
Corvallis 7:37-8:10am this morning with Bruce, Nick, and Maureen. Thanks
Bruce!
Courtney Kelly Jett, Bend, Oregon
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On Mar 1, 2019, at 12:32 PM, Jeff Fleischer (Redacted sender
"raptorrunner97321" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone,
Doing a raptor survey today and am looking at a smoky gray colored/ brown
GYRFALCON through my scope👍. Location is on Irish Bend Loop west of Peoria
Rd. Take the north potion of the loop and where the road turns south the
bird is at the top of a for tree to the NW of the corner. Currently
preening. Gonna need a scope to see it clearly, too far for binocs. Good
luck chasing it!!
Jeff Fleischer
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