[birding] RE: list Digest, Vol 35, Issue 4

Mon Feb 9 09:16:00 PST 2009

I've had a couple of lesser goldfinches porking down my suet! Not tons but
some!

 Kathy Frieze

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Today's Topics:

   1. Where are the goldfinches? (Joel Geier)
   2. Re: Where are the goldfinches? (Hendrik Herlyn)
   3. Re: Where are the goldfinches? (Mark Nikas)
   4. Re: Where are the goldfinches? (Jeff Fleischer)
   5. Pyrrhuloxia Information Update (M & R Campbell)
   6. Mystery bird revealed (Hendrik Herlyn)
   7. Re: Where are the goldfinches? (Joel Geier)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:52:01 -0800
From: Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org>
Subject: [birding] Where are the goldfinches?
To: MidValley Birds <list at midvalleybirding.org>
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Hi again everybody
,
One weird thing this week is that, despite covering practically every
corner of E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area on foot, I haven't seen any
goldfinches -- either Lesser or American. Has anyone else noticed low
goldfinch numbers this year?

Happy birding,
Joel

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Camp Adair area north of Corvallis

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Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 16:12:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Hendrik Herlyn <hhactitis at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [birding] Where are the goldfinches?
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I haven't found any Americans yet this year (although I haven't been looking
very hard). There are a few Lesser Gs hanging around my S. Corvallis
neighborhood, and I have also seen several in Willamette Park.

Hendrik

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Hendrik G. Herlyn

2445 SW Leonard Street, Apt. 5

Corvallis, OR 97333

USA

E-Mail: hhactitis at yahoo.com

--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org> wrote:
From: Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org>
Subject: [birding] Where are the goldfinches?
To: "MidValley Birds" <list at midvalleybirding.org>
Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:52 PM

Hi again everybody
,
One weird thing this week is that, despite covering practically every
corner of E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area on foot, I haven't seen any
goldfinches -- either Lesser or American. Has anyone else noticed low
goldfinch numbers this year?

Happy birding,
Joel

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Camp Adair area north of Corvallis

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 16:37:09 -0800
From: "Mark Nikas" <marknikas at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [birding] Where are the goldfinches?
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The Brownsville CBC had no American Goldfinches for only the 2nd time ever.

Mark Nikas

  From: Hendrik Herlyn
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  Subject: Re: [birding] Where are the goldfinches?

        I haven't found any Americans yet this year (although I haven't been

looking very hard). There are a few Lesser Gs hanging around my S. Corvallis

neighborhood, and I have also seen several in Willamette Park.

        Hendrik

        _________________________________
        Hendrik G. Herlyn
        2445 SW Leonard Street, Apt. 5
        Corvallis, OR 97333
        USA
        E-Mail: hhactitis at yahoo.com

        --- On Sun, 2/8/09, Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org> wrote:

          From: Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org>
          Subject: [birding] Where are the goldfinches?
          To: "MidValley Birds" <list at midvalleybirding.org>
          Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:52 PM

Hi again everybody,One weird thing this week is that, despite covering 
practically everycorner of E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area on foot, I haven't seen

anygoldfinches -- either Lesser or American. Has anyone else noticed 
lowgoldfinch numbers this year?Happy birding,Joel--Joel GeierCamp Adair area

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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:04:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Fleischer <raptorrunner97321 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [birding] Where are the goldfinches?
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Hi Everyone,

Just to add to this, I usually feed around 30 to 50 Lesser Goldfinches
around this time of year.  I have had no more than a dozen and no American
Goldfinches.  I guess that saves on the food bill but I would rather be
feeding birds :)

Jeff Fleischer
Albany

--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org> wrote:

> From: Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org>
> Subject: [birding] Where are the goldfinches?
> To: "MidValley Birds" <list at midvalleybirding.org>
> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:52 PM
> Hi again everybody
> ,
> One weird thing this week is that, despite covering
> practically every
> corner of E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area on foot, I haven't
> seen any
> goldfinches -- either Lesser or American. Has anyone else
> noticed low
> goldfinch numbers this year?
> 
> Happy birding,
> Joel
> 
> --
> Joel Geier
> Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
> 
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 21:25:23 -0800
From: "M & R Campbell" <campbell at peak.org>
Subject: [birding] Pyrrhuloxia Information Update
To: "Midvalley birding" <list at midvalleybirding.org>,	"obol"
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My information is, apparently, that I don't have much information.  If I
remember right, I last noticed the Pyrrhuloxia the morning of January 25,
two weeks ago.  I haven't been looking for it specifically, and, as far as I
know, few birders have been hunting the area, so it might still be hanging
around somewhere.  I haven't seen the Palm Warbler for about as long, but
that bird is good at hiding.

As for other birds unseen, I found my first AMERICAN GOLDFINCH of this year
on January 30, and I've been keeping an eye out for them.  I haven't seen a
Lesser yet this year.

In compensation, maybe, I got a new yard bird this morning when three SNOW
GEESE flew over in a flock of Cacklers. 

Randy Campbell

Peoria 
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 00:52:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Hendrik Herlyn <hhactitis at yahoo.com>
Subject: [birding] Mystery bird revealed
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Hello all,

I received 15 responses today to my impromptu mystery bird quiz. Eleven of
you correctly identified the bird as a BRAMBLING. Other guesses (one each)
were White-throated Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Rustic Bunting, and
Dotterel.

No, this was not one of the 11 Oregon records of Brambling. I digiscoped
this adult male Brambling in winter plumage with my very mediocre little
digicam in my back yard in Greifswald, Germany, on March 28, 2006. The big
double orange wingbars should have been a valuable clue! Here's a link to a
more conventional shot of the same bird:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30243804&l=45a72&id=1383356632

Congratulations to all who got it right, and thanks for participating.

Hendrik

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Hendrik G. Herlyn

2445 SW Leonard Street, Apt. 5

Corvallis, OR 97333

USA

E-Mail: hhactitis at yahoo.com

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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:04:18 -0800
From: Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org>
Subject: Re: [birding] Where are the goldfinches?
To: MidValley Birds <list at midvalleybirding.org>
Cc: Will Wright <Will.Wright at monroe.k12.or.us>
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Hi all,

Thanks to Will, Hendrik, Jeff, Mark, and Randy for replies on this
question.

It sounds like Lesser Goldfinches are still around their usual haunts
though in somewhat reduced numbers in some places, while American
Goldfinch numbers are greatly reduced from recent winters. A check of
reports on www.birdnotes.net shows a similar pattern -- there are more
counts showing Lessers than counts showing Americans, in western/central
Oregon.

Ordinarily there should be one or two flocks of 100 or more American
Goldfinches on E.E. Wilson Wildlife area, and similarly big flocks at
Luckiamute State Natural Area. I've only seen 2 or 3 in these places
since the start of the year. Since these birds can be nomadic in winter,
I wonder where they've gone to this year. I didn't see any particularly
big flocks in California's central valley a couple of weeks ago. 

Happy birding,
Joel

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Camp Adair area

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