Subject: [Tweeters] Cle Elum CBC Results
Date: Dec 18 10:48:15 2012
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at frontier.com
I wish we?d had Sunday?s weather on Monday, but except for gusty winds
occasionally hitting about 30 m.p.h, conditions weren?t all that bad (by Cle
Elum CBC standards), since temperatures were above freezing and there was
only a little snow falling in the afternoon. We did get a good layer of
fresh snow that came down Sunday evening, and that limited access to some
places. However, it was the wind that really kept the total number of birds
down.
Highlights:
Trumpeter Swan At least 3 on Hansen Rd. Ponds (9
there Sunday)
RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER 1 heard up the Teanaway Rd. (1 seen there
Sunday)
Northern Shrike Two sheltering inside a barn!
(Total seen: 3)
Common Raven High Count of 270
Red-breasted Nuthatch Low Count of 26
American Robin Low Count of 1
BOHEMIAN WAXWING 114 on Burke Rd.
GRAY-CROWNED ROSY-FINCH Very active flock of ~250 in Hidden Valley
Common Redpoll 220 up the Teanaway, 5 on Iron Horse
Trail
We mostly couldn't get into areas burned by the Taylor Bridge Fire and the
Table Mountain Fire Complex. Where we were able to bird those areas, the
loss of brush seemed to greatly reduce bird numbers. No Black-backed
Woodpeckers were found, and we had a low count for Hairy Woodpeckers (1
bird), so no indication yet of those birds moving into the burned sites.
Total Species seen on the count was 68. Scott Downes' HOARY REDPOLL on
Sunday up the Teanaway, and Tom Mansfield's NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL spotted there
while he searched for the Hoary later on Sunday bring the Count Week total
to 70. Those numbers are pretty typical for the Cle Elum count.
Total Birds seen were only 3234, which is our third-lowest total out of 8
years.
The Red-naped Sapsucker, Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, and Hoary Redpoll were new
birds for the count. Our cumulative species total is now 99 species.
Many thanks to the fifteen people who helped with this count!
== Michael Hobbs
== www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
== BirdMarymoor at frontier.com