[birding] no Gnatcatcher

[rich armstrong]

i stupidly didn't get out to the place until about 8 am. in 3 1/2 hours i 
did not see or hear a gnatcatcher.
Rich Armstrong
541-753-1978
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <willwright26 at q.com>
To: "Rich Hoyer" <calliope at theriver.com>; "OBOL" <obol at oregonbirdwatch.org>; 
"Mid-Valley Birding List birding" <list at midvalleybirding.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [birding] Corvallis Blue-gray Gnatcatcher


> Doug Robinson and myself relocated Rich's gnatcatcher this morning around 
> 7:30.  Very near Rich's balloon, except on the west side of the trail.  It 
> was chasing a jay in the crown of an oak.  Not singing, but mewing.
>
> ---Will Wright
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Rich Hoyer" <calliope at theriver.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:25 PM
> To: "OBOL" <obol at oregonbirdwatch.org>; "Mid-Valley Birding List birding" 
> <list at midvalleybirding.org>
> Subject: [birding] Corvallis Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
>
>> 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
>> ---
>>
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