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crookedknife 
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 10:17 pm |
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The CBC gets underway soon, who's counting this year? I've signed up for 2 different counts one on the 15th and another on 1/5/13. Southeast Utah. Anyone else?
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johnhens
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Posted on: Dec. 12 2012, 6:16 pm |
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I am doing 1 or 2 routes in NE IL (West of Chicago).
Post highlights of your results if you don't mind.
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WisMike
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Posted on: Dec. 12 2012, 7:28 pm |
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Supposed to be helping with one in SE Wisconsin on Saturday. The nice winter finch irruption seems to have slowed as of late, but hoping we get some interesting birds this year nonetheless. However, rain is forecast so I don't know how it'll turn out.
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johnhens
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Posted on: Dec. 17 2012, 8:46 am |
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Did the CBC yesterday. 39 species including a blue heron, bluebirds, kingfisher, a blue and snow goose, red headed woodpeckers (rare around here), brown thrasher.
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WisMike
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Posted on: Dec. 17 2012, 9:54 am |
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Lucky you. Ours was on Saturday, when it rained all day. Made it a terrible for finding birds. Rain, of course, is unusual this late in winter. Add to that the fact that because of the warm weather, there is almost no ice anywhere and so the waterfowl were not concentrated in certain spots as they normally would be at this time.
Did have a couple trumpeter swans but nothing else too spectacular. No unusual finches. Did have a hermit thrush on the way home within the count circle, which is notable for Wisconsin in winter, but not totally unusual.
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crookedknife
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Posted on: Dec. 17 2012, 12:54 pm |
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Did a count on Sat. We had more birders than birds. A storm the night before seemed to clear them out of the higher elevations. Very low numbers of raven, juniper titmouse, junco and western scrub jay. On the bright side, after the count I went up to Canyonlands NP and got a lifer, a small flock of gray-crowned Rosy-finches. So, a good day.
39 species! Amazing - we didn't see even half that many individual birds all day.
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johnhens
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Posted on: Dec. 19 2012, 7:03 am |
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The birders I spoke to who birded Saturday said the day was similar-rainy, windy and no birds.
I will add seeing a Barnacle goose in my area was an unexpected surprise and bonus. Wasn't sure if we could count it, we are going to.
Mike we had the same discussion about the waterfowl here. And "ag" birds, longspurs, snow buntings, horned larks were not seen.
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crookedknife
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Posted on: Jan. 06 2013, 11:00 pm |
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On Sat. 1/5 we did a CBC in a wetlands preserve on the Colorado River. We saw 26 species in our group and 66 overall (12 groups in the 15 mile count circle.)
Highlights from the wetlands included several raptors - Red-tails, kestrel, harrier, sharpies, Cooper's and a rough-legged hawk.
A juvenile N. shrike and a white-throated sparrow were also seen. The white-throat was a bit out of it's range here in Utah but they were seen last year as well. Many robins, junco, song and white-crowned sparrows as well as about 140 Canada geese were counted too.
When we started at 8:30am it was about zero degrees, give or take, with snow on the ground but sunny. Turned out to be a great day for birding.
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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Edward Hoagland
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