Subject: [Tweeters] yep, fewer shrikes
Date: Dec 10 11:59:31 2005
From: Paul Webster - paul.webster at comcast.net


Hi Michael,

You and MaryFrances birded a different area of Kittitas County than we did.
Your results in the Cle Elum area seem comparable to our experience on the
Waterville Plateau -- perhaps this year the birds are concentrated at higher
elevations.

On 12/2 we started birding around Ellensburg, took the Old Highway to
Vantage and then were around the Columbia the rest of the day. We didn't see
Rough-legs and Northern Shrikes in the Columbia Basin where I remember them
from past winters, though it's still early and more of these birds could
still show up there.

Paul Webster
Seattle
paul.websterATcomcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hobbs" <birdmarymoor at verizon.net>
To: "Paul Webster" <paul.webster at comcast.net>; "Marv Breece"
<mbreece at earthlink.net>; "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] yep, fewer shrikes


> Conversely, MaryFrances Mathis and I scouted the Cle Elum CBC circle on
> Tuesday, and found 2 Northern Shrike and about 8 Rough-legged Hawks. One
> of the shrikes was just a couple of miles up Teanaway Rd., the other was
> south of South Cle Elum (if I remember correctly). The RLHAs were
> scattered across the count circle, which is centered near the start of
> Teanaway Rd.
>
> == Michael Hobbs
> == Kirkland, WA
> == http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
> == birdmarymoor at verizon.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Webster" <paul.webster at comcast.net>
> To: "Marv Breece" <mbreece at earthlink.net>; "tweeters"
> <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] yep, fewer shrikes
>
>
>> 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
>
>