Subject: [Tweeters] yep, fewer shrikes
Date: Dec 8 23:04:45 2005
From: Paul Webster - paul.webster at comcast.net


Last Friday, December 2, Barbara, Sam Woods, and I birded our way through
Kittitas County from Ellensburg to Vantage, then north to Quincy, west to
Wenatchee, and north to Daroga State Park before it got dark. We didn't see
a single Northern Shrike or a Rough-legged Hawk all day. (The next day we
were on the Waterville Plateau with a WOS fieldtrip led by Kraig Kemper, and
we saw 18+ Northern Shrikes and 18+ Rough-legged Hawks, but this is really
prime habitat for these birds.) So I'd guess there are far fewer of both
species in the area we birded on Friday than we would have expected.

Paul Webster
Seattle
paul.websterATcomcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marv Breece" <mbreece at earthlink.net>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:33 AM
Subject: Fw: [Tweeters] yep, fewer shrikes


> On November 20 of this year I had Northern Shrikes in 3 locations:
>
> 1 on Dry Slough Road on Fir Island in Skagit County
> 1 on Pioneer Hwy in Skagit County barely north of the Snohomish County
> Line
> 1 at Big Ditch in Snohomish County
>
> But that represents nearly all the Northern Shrikes I have seen this
> season
> in western Washington. I saw the Big Ditch bird again a week later (I
> assume it was the same bird) and 1 more at Port Susan in Snohomish County
> on
> October 2. That's it.
>
> Marv Breece
> Seattle, WA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Bletsch" <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
> To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 7:39 AM
> Subject: [Tweeters] yep, fewer shrikes
>
>
>> Dear Tweeters,
>>
>> Ken Knittle mentions that he is seeing fewer shrikes
>> this winter so far. I am having the same experience.
>> The only Northern Shrike sightings I have so far are
>> two occurrences, probably of the same bird, on
>> Cockreham Island in November--this despite lots of
>> hours out in good habitat.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Yours truly,
>>
>> Gary Bletsch
>>
>> near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington
>>
>> garybletsch at yahoo.com
>>
>>
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