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From: "Christine Dubois"
To: <Hummer at isomedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: Bird count
> Hi, Michael--
>
> Could you do a fall bird count at the farm? There are a lot of birds in
> the corn maze!
>
> Thanks! --Chris

Tweets - the weather hasn't been very good for days, now, but I've been
meaning to get over to the South 47 Farm (NW corner of 124th Ave. and SR-202
between Redmond and Woodinville), having been asked to do a quick bird
survey there. Well, this afternoon, the weather cleared a bit so off I
went.

The South 47 is, as you might guess, 47 acres of farmland. It is set up for
what you might call boutique farming, with many different farmers trying to
raise relatively high-value crops such as cut flowers, herbs, berries, etc.,
It also hosts a Pea Patch garden, and a corn maze and pumpkin patch. There
is one field, at the north end, which the tenant farmer seems to enjoy
plowing, but which he doesn't ever seem to get around to planting.

In about an hour walking around the farm today, I had 23 species, including
some worth noting:

Canada Goose About 100
Cackling Goose Perhaps 8 (most Aleutian?)
Greater White-fronted Goose 2, adult and juvenile
Red-tailed Hawk Beautiful "Sibley" flying overhead
Northern Harrier Caused commotion amongst ROPI
Peregrine Falcon Flyby - full crop?
American Pipit 60-100 on that overplowed field

These were my first CACKLING GOOSE since the AOU split them from CANADA
GOOSE.

There were 5 species of sparrow: Song, White-crowned, Golden-crowned,
Lincoln's, and Savannah

BTW - I've seen MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE at my house just about every day since I
first reported them a week ago.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
== http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
== hummer at isomedia.com

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