Thank you very much for your much appreciated field reports, Michael.
I look forward to reading them each week and have for many years!
Happy New Year!
Dan Reiff, PhD

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> On Dec 28, 2023, at 5:29 PM, birdmarymoor <birdmarymoor at frontier.com> wrote:

>

> Tweets - The rain was minimal, just a moderate amount of mizzle and occasional and very brief bursts of drizzle, and all that let up about half-way through the walk. Temps were, again, unseasonably warm (45-55 degrees!) It was pretty birdy early on, but then we faced long stretches of nothing much.

>

> Highlights:

> Greater White-fronted Goose - Three below the weir, possibly the same birds as last week

> Cackling Goose - A couple of dozen vs. a couple of thousand last week

> American Wigeon - Four far below the weir

> Cooper's Hawk - One at the Pea Patch, mobbed by crows. A second sighting, probably a 2nd bird, high above the windmill

> Hairy Woodpecker - One

> Bushtit - Only one >!<

> Varied Thrush - One heard across the slough from the Lake Platform

>

> So, overall a pretty quiet day except for the waterfowl - three species of goose and nine species of duck, total

>

> Misses today were limited to just Lincoln's Sparrow, a species that has declined in occurrence notably in the last few years, but which has barely declined in abundance - that is to say, we used to get one or two and now often get none.

>

> For the day, a not-too-bad 54 species.

>

> Happy New Year everyone

>

> = Michael Hobbs

> = birdmarymoor at gmail.com

> = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm

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