[birding] RE: list Digest, Vol 43, Issue 11
Kathy Frieze
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Love the chicken vs Cougar story! We have two Buffs as well!
Kathy Frieze
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: RE: Steller's Jay imitates Blue Jay (Joel Geier)
2. Re: Sunset Park Boardwalk (willwright26 at q.com)
3. Re: [obol] Greater white fronted geese, Benton Co (Darrel Faxon)
4. Apologies to Howard (M & R Campbell)
5. soaring owl (Steve Seibel)
6. yard (rich armstrong)
7. Chicken evades cougar (Joel Geier)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:31:09 -0700
From: Joel Geier <clearwater at peak.org>
Subject: Re: [birding] RE: Steller's Jay imitates Blue Jay
To: MidValley Birds <list at midvalleybirding.org>
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Hi all,
Just to toss out another possibility -- suppose that one of our Pacific
NW Steller's Jays vagrated to, say, Idaho, where it could encounter Blue
Jays, and then found its way back.
I'll admit, that seems less likely than the idea that Michael Dossett
hinted at in his initial posting (where he mentioned that the light was
too dim to get a good look at the Steller's Jay's plumage to see if it
might be one of the inland subspecies). That still seems like a good
possibility to try to check out. If anyone wants to try, here's a page
that gives some tips on what to look for:
http://www.idahobirds.net/identification/stja2004.html
However, Don Boucher also makes a good point regarding the variation of
Steller's Jay calls. Just to add one more:
This morning two STELLER'S JAYS were perched atop some tall Douglas-firs
on Tampico Ridge behind our place, and were making rattling calls that
reminded me of a Clark's Nutcracker. This was right next to several
Red-breasted Nuthatches that were going crazy, as if they'd found a
Northern Pygmy-Owl. I looked hard but couldn't spot an owl.
Happy birding,
Joel
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Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:30:34 -0700
From: <willwright26 at q.com>
Subject: [birding] Re: Sunset Park Boardwalk
To: "MidValley Birds" <list at midvalleybirding.org>
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Stopped in at the Sunset Park Boardwalk at 5 pm, right after the heavy
rainclouds dispersed, and bright sun broke through.
A flock of about 40 Brewers Blackbirds were making a lot of noise from the
crown of a tall tree over the parking lot. Lots of Juncos were on the
ground. In the cyclone fence between boardwalk and baseball field was a
Black Phoebe, obvious because of the conspicuous call. Several American
Goldfinches and four Western Bluebirds were nearby, and a few Yellow-rumped
Warblers were in the trees. A Kingfisher was calling from somewhere around
the pond which was crowded with Mallards.
---Will
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:30:27 -0700
From: "Darrel Faxon" <5hats at peak.org>
Subject: [birding] Re: [obol] Greater white fronted geese, Benton Co
To: "Karan & Jim Fairchild" <alderspr at peak.org>,
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Karan,
No doubt the same which passed over Thornton Creek, Lincoln County a bit
earlier. My house is directly under one of the main flyways, one which
turns southeast at Siletz Bay and makes a direct line for Mary's Peak. The
geese have been going over here for the past two days. Yesterday they were
flying abnormally high, almost out of the distance of human sight.
Darrel
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Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:05 AM
Subject: [obol] Greater white fronted geese, Benton Co
> Hi Obol-
>
> Flock after flock are passing high overhead this morning, heading south.
> We are on the eastern edge of the Coast Range.
>
> Karan Fairchild
> 6 mi SW of Philomath
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:58:06 -0700
From: "M & R Campbell" <campbell at peak.org>
Subject: [birding] Apologies to Howard
To: "Midvalley birding" <list at midvalleybirding.org>, "obol"
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It's been pointed out to me that the juvenile Goshawk I found at Snag Boat
Bend last Saturday was just where Howard Bruner had reported having heard a
juvenile Goshawk (on 10/11). I only vaguely remembered his post (to the
mid-valley list) because what most impressed me about it was that someone
might have the temerity to ID a Goshawk in such an unlikely location on the
basis of a mewing call--even someone like Howard, who has spent a lot of
time up in the Cascades. So I promptly forgot almost all the information
in his post, and I wasn't looking for a Goshawk when I confirmed Howard's
ID. Howard is evidently a much better birder than I am, but that is not a
huge revelation to me. If I had heard a mewing call, I would have looked
around for a cat.
Randy Campbell
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:06:36 -0700
From: Steve Seibel <sseibel999 at gmail.com>
Subject: [birding] soaring owl
To: Mid-Valley Birders <list at midvalleybirding.org>
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Hi all-- back on the 20th of October I saw a Short-eared owl soaring like a
hawk for many minutes in the late afternoon at the Prairie Overlook at
Finley NWR. The wingspan was just a little shorter than that of the male
Northern Harrier that was interacting with it at times. I've seen this
species hunt in the late afternoon before but have never witnessed such a
long period of uninterrupted soaring flight in this or any other owl-- it
was clearly climbing in thermal updrafts. Its meandering flight was
conducted at a wide variety of altitudes ranging from many hundreds of feet
in the air to just 10-20 feet above the ground.
Steve Seibel, Corvallis
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:50:03 -0700
From: "rich armstrong" <richarmstrong at comcast.net>
Subject: [birding] yard
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1. yesterday nanette had a late HOUSE WREN in our yard.
2. today we had a DOWNY WOODPECKER - surprisingly only the 3rd time we have
seen 1 from the yard in 4 years.
3. also today our 1st TOWNSEND'S WARBLER - we usually have a couple all
winter coming to our suet.
Rich Armstrong
541-753-1978
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:31:09 -0700
From: Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org>
Subject: [birding] Chicken evades cougar
To: MidValley Birds <list at midvalleybirding.org>
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Hi folks,
Don't know how she did it, but one of our hens just came back from the
dead.
A bit earlier today I found a pullet that this hen had hatched out, on
its own for the first time ever. Then we saw feathers and some tracks of
a COUGAR that must have come over an electric fence into our neighbors'
horse exercise area, where the hen and pullet had been hanging out.
Around the same time, our sheep came barreling from the back yard around
to the front, just after Becky had seen them heading to the back yard
and I went out to chase them away from our garden.
Now the hen just reappeared on her own and seems OK, though missing a
few feathers off the back. I'm guessing that the cougar nearly nabbed
the hen but missed when I came out of the house to chase the sheep
(though I didn't see it), or else maybe it got zapped by the fence and
that spooked it. One track where the cougar landed in the sand had the
claws extended (right by the feathers) and is sort of smeared sideways
as if the cougar was sliding, while the rest had the claws pulled in.
So, score one for the ever-wily Buff Orpington hen. Her name is Buffy,
so if any of you were fans of that series, you might enjoy the
back-from-the-dead idea. We really did think that she was a goner --
what chance does a chicken stand against a cougar?
Just to mention an actual wild bird in all of this, a GOLDEN-CROWNED
SPARROW was giving alarm notes the whole time we were out there.
Happy birding,
Joel
--
Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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