[birding] Corvallis Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

[joel]

Hi Rich & All,

Nice find! 

Michael Dossett and ... (sorry I'm blanking on her name just now,
visiting from New Jersey if I remember right) found a Blue-Gray
Gnatcatcher on Coffin Butte a couple of years back. That's the only
Benton Co. record that's come to my attention in the past 10 years or
so.

Cheers
Joel

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 17:25 -0700, Rich Hoyer wrote:
> Friday, May 15
> 
> I just returned from a jog up the Dixon Creek trail in northern  
> Corvallis where I found a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER. It was calling on its  
> own, but I pished and whistled to get a visual on it in case my ears  
> were fooling me. Incidentally, a Western Screech-Owl started calling  
> back almost instantaneously. The gnatcatcher popped into sight within  
> a few seconds, so I was able to continue on my jog. Blue-gray  
> Gnatcatcher was unrecorded in Benton County as of 1999 (that's the  
> latest edition of Birds of Benton County I have). Does anyone know of  
> records since then?
> 
> The trail begins as a very wide sidewalk on the east side of the  
> Timberhill Athletic Center, and where the pavement ends, the trail  
> crosses Dixon Creek over a nice bridge. The bird was about 750 yards  
> up the trail beyond the end of the paved portion. The first part of  
> the trail is rather wet and muddy in a couple of spots but soon turns  
> to very nice gravel and then is tarp-lined. Beyond that it becomes  
> dirt. The trail crosses the the first side creek, then a smaller wet  
> ditch, and then the gnatcatcher was calling about 20 yards above this  
> second ditch and about 30 yards off to the east.
> 
> I created a Google map with a blue marker where the bird was.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/pvl5zc
> 
> 
> Good Birding,
> 
> Rich
> ---
> Rich Hoyer
> Tucson, Arizona
> 
> Senior Leader for WINGS
> http://wingsbirds.com
> ---
> 
> _______________________________________________
> list mailing list
> list at midvalleybirding.org
> http://midvalleybirding.org/mailman/listinfo/list
> http://oregonbirdwatch.org/pipermail/obol/