Subject: [Tweeters] Cle Elum CBC results
Date: Dec 18 18:36:46 2005
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at verizon.net


Oh - for highlights, I'd also meant to add:
5 Northern Shrike
7 American Dipper

= Michael

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From: "Michael Hobbs" <birdmarymoor at verizon.net>
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Subject: [Tweeters] Cle Elum CBC results


> Tweets - I don't have the final tallies yet, as I left without one of the
> tally sheets, but last Thursday we had a pretty successful trial run of my
> proposed Cle Elum CBC, and we've decided to make it official next year.
>
> We had 18 people (14 from western Washington, 3 from Cle Elum, and 1 from
> Yakima) participating in the count, plus we had two feeder reports.
>
> I'd divided people into 5 groups each doing a different sector: Cle
> Elum-Swauk Prairie, Hidden Valley-Liberty; Teanaway, South Cle Elum-Upper
> Peoh Point Rd, and the Southeast sector which included SR-10, Elk Heights,
> and more sites southeast of Cle Elum.
>
> Despite very cold temperatures on the count day (and for the week+ leading
> up to the count day), the weather was otherwise quite nice. There was
> about 6-8 inches of old snow on the ground, but the roads were cleared or
> at least plowed for the most part. We had sun at the higher elevations
> with fog or clouds below, and little wind.
>
> In all, we managed 63 species - not a huge number, but I think the
> extended cold had a lot to do with that. We missed a bunch of species
> that I've had in Cle Elum in the winter; I've not heard of *any* sightings
> of the specialty birds (Bohemian Waxwing, Pine Grosbeak, Common Redpoll)
> that sometimes turn up there. I'm sure in future years we will have a
> higher count.
>
> We managed somewhere around 3300 total birds.
>
> Highlights included:
> 165 Wild Turkey
> 27 Rough Legged Hawk
> 1 unidentified large falcon up the Teanaway
> 2 White-headed Woodpecker at Swauk Cemetary
> 1 WESTERN SCRUB-JAY towards the west end of Lambert Rd. at a feeder
> 7 Bushtit north of Elk Heights
>
> Owling yielded:
> 1 Western Screech-Owl
> 2 Great Horned Owl
> 1 Northern Saw-whet Owl
>
> All in all, I think everyone had a good time and thought it was a good
> count.
>
> == Michael Hobbs
> == Kirkland, WA
> == http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
> == birdmarymoor at verizon.net
>
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