[birding] Rough-legged hawks...

[Steve Seibel]

I appreciate the Rough-legged hawk posts.  I haven't had any recent
sightings myself, except for one possible that I couldn't be sure of.  Steve
Seibel

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:00 PM, <birding-request at midvalleybirding.org>wrote:

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>   1. Rough-leg hawk and Cliff Swallows at Baskett Slough (Molly Monroe)
>   2. everyone is hungry (Amber Beck)
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> From: Molly Monroe <monroemolly at hotmail.com>
> To: <birding at midvalleybirding.org>
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:32:59 -0700
> Subject: [birding] Rough-leg hawk and Cliff Swallows at Baskett Slough
>  There was a RL hawk hovering to the west of Baskett Butte earlier, first
> I've seen there in awhile so must be from the south moving up. The tree
> swallows were joined by a group of 30 cliff swallows huddling on the wire at
> the narrows. After the rain stopped it was interesting watching the tree
> swallows picking bugs off the surface of the water, they were all puffed out
> and barely flapping their wings, looking cold and hungry!
> Molly~
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> From: Amber Beck <ambernbob at centurytel.net>
> To: birding at midvalleybirding.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:30:25 -0700
> Subject: [birding] everyone is hungry
> It seemed like today everyone was hungry.  We regularly have quite a
> variety of birds at our feeder but  they usually spread out their visits
> through out the day.  They all seem to take shifts.  This evening was an
> execption, after a long cold day filled with snow, heavy rain, and wind the
> birds were all at the feeder at the same time.  I rarely see such a crowd of
> mixed birds at one time.  Within a 30 min period we had the following:
>
> Evening Grosbeaks
> Purple finch
> House finch
> American goldfinch
> Lesser Goldfinch
> Juncos
> Black Capped Chickadees
> Chestnut backed Chickadees
> Pine Siskins
> Red Breasted Nuthatches
> Towhees
> Song sparrows
>
>
> Many of these were all there at the same time with the little birds trying
> to hold their own against the larger ones.  We had a lot of snow that fell
> today even if it didn't stick ( it did stick a few short miles away)  so
> that must have had something to do with it.  I've got to go refill all the
> feeders in the  morning!
>
> The Calif. ground squirrels are up and about, there seems to be some
> defining of territory between them and the grey squirrels.
>
> We still only have male Rufus Hummers.
>
> There are now too many newts to count.
>
> Despite the cold and wet winter like weather of last few days the animals
> are still trying to proceed as if it's really spring!
>
> Amber Beck
> Scio//Lebanon area
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