Subject: Re: E. Wash. Loggerhead Shrikes
Date: Dec 1 16:25:35 1997
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets,

Russell Rogers writes:

>Just a quick note about Shrikes this time of year. Any shrike outside of
>the breeding season should be looked at carefully in eastern WA. I have
>seen Loggerheads in Douglas County in the same field of view as Northerns
>(an exciting event for me). Loggerheads can be expected well into
>December. In fact the birds that I mentioned above were seen on December
>27th 1993, with about a foot of snow on the ground. In mild winters they
>may stay in the Columbia Basin.

Will echo RR on late-appearing Loggerheads. One snowy January in the early
1980's Mike Force and I saw a shrike--not definitively ID'ed--in Pitt
Meadows about 35 km NE of Vancouver BC that we ended up ID'ing tentatively
as a Loggerhead. Most visitations are in May, though, as overshoots.

Michael Price We aren't flying...we're falling with style!
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