Jack and BC/Wash/Ida Birders,

Correct, Jack, I should have said "southern interior". Pardon my
parochialism! I was momentarily forgetting Prince George, and I should
know better. During the brief year (1963-1964) that I lived in Prince
George, not knowing if there were any other birders in town, I
attempted a rudimentary Christmas Bird Count myself (I think it was
Dec. 26, 1963). I don't have my results handy, but as I recall, I
tallied only 6 species and 125 individuals-- of which 90 were Common
Redpolls. Despite having been a birder for 4 years at that point, I
saw my first-ever Common Redpolls in P.G.
I would have been flabbergasted in 1963 to learn that it was
possible to find 51 species on a CBC in Prince George. Congratulations
to your CBC team on an impressive effort, and some pretty good birds.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bowling <jbowling at direct.ca>
To: bcintbird at egroups.com <bcintbird at egroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 7:48 AM
Subject: [bcintbird] Re: REDPOLL BONANZA


>** Wayne W. wrote -
>
><snip>
>> I have noticed that this count circle often leads the B.C. interior
in
>> counts of Common Redpolls, Pine Siskins, and/or American
Goldfinches.
>> It has tallied more than 1000 Common Redpolls at least once
>> previously.
><snip>
>
>I take it you mean the southern interior, Wayne?
>
>Here are some redpoll CBC totals for Prince George:
>
>1989 - 64; 1990 - 1034; 1991 - 4; 1992 - 96; 1993 - 3762; 1994 - 142;
>1995; 903; 1996 - 464; 1997 - 93; 1998 - 1837; 1999 - 3344.
>
>Note the marked irruptive pattern. 1989 was the first "official"
count
>for PG but there were higher counts in previous years.
>--
>Jack Bowling
>Prince George, BC
>mailto:jbowling at direct.ca
>
>