[birding] FOR ARCHIVES: Airlie motorless birding report 17 Feb 2010

[Joel Geier]

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From: Joel Geier <joel.geier at peak.org>
Reply-to: joel.geier at peak.org
Subject: Airlie motorless birding report
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:40:38 -0800

Hi folks

Sorry, unless you just received a test message from me, it seems we have
a hang-up in e-mail finding its way to the new list server.

In the meantime, here's a report from a lunchtime bike ride up to Airlie
& back:

~100 swans at Airlie Rd x Berry Creek Rd, at least 60 of them Trumpeters
(just had bins, no scope, plus most of the Trumpeters seemed to be
hiding back in the sudangrass);

Dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK along Airlie Rd. 1/2 mile east of there,
plus 3 light morphs along De Armond/Robison Rds.

3+ HORNED LARKS SINGING, two of them in small Xmas trees just east of
the swans/sudangrass, one in ryegrass on south side of road.

Also a pair of COMMON MERGANSERS and a PIED-BILLED GREBE on the De
Armond pond.

On my way home, the upper pond at Coffin Butte landfill (Toketie Marsh) 
had a female SCAUP that might be a Greater Scaup. Fat cheeks, peak on 
head fairly far forward. Would have been nice to have another scaup 
there for comparison.

Happy birding,
Joel