Hi Tweets,

Kyle Hamish Elliott writes:

>Here are the results for the January Raptor Count, organized by the
>Vancouver Natural History Society and the Burke Mountain Naturalists.
>
>Many thanks to all who participated.

Thank you for posting the results. Tantalising results, but it's a pity that
there's so many unsurveyed areas; it would certainly be useful to get a
fairly complete total or even a useful baseline for each species for the
checklist area. A more complete inventory would give a better idea of the
impacts area-wide of, say, the massive acreage being lost to those vast new
greenhouses in South Delta, or human non-nature-related usage of the
Boundary Bay foreshore, and might serve to signal trouble in the wintering
populations that mhght be missed in the more piecemeal surveys.

>Swainson's Thrush 2 (she tells me they were definitely Swainson's, no red
>tail and didn't bob tail; but as I don't know (xxxxxxx) very well, I'm not
>sure how experienced she is)

I'm not sure that doubting the credibility of someone's skills in public is
the best of manners, Kyle; I'm sure there are more tactful ways to handle
your reservations about the validity of someone's sightings.

>NOHA 5 f, 2 m
>RTHA 14 (2 dark phase)
>RLHA 3 imm, 1 ad f
>BAEA 38 ad, 6 imm
>PEFA 1
>MERL 1
>SEOW 3
>BNOW 1

Also, as a courtesy to those birders, particularly to beginners and others
who may not have had exposure to and are unfamiliar with four-letter codes,
you might provide a guide to the species they signify in your next posting
of the raptor surveys? Thanks!

Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery and change;
mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)