02/13/03

Folks:

Kent and I were the lone birders today and we got 23. Not bad but not the record I was hoping for. Fortunately, we checked the ponds at the start of the walk and saw the Mallard and the Snowy Egret. Thye were both gone at the end of the walk. We also saw a Cormorant fly over, probably a Double Crested.

Alan
From Jon Feenstra:

You probably had all these birds, but walking to & from lunch I had:
Cedar Waxwings, Starlings, Mourning Doves, Yellow-Rumps, RC Kinglets, some
Band-Taileds, and a Black Phoebe.

Any cormorant seen around here would be Double-Crested. Pelagic and
Brandt's are strictly coastal.

Jon

02/18/03

Jon:

Yeah, we saw the Egret and the two Mallards. Only got 19 total though, including your Starlings.
Couldn't believe we didn't see a House Sparrow. But, come to think of it, Kent, Bill, and I saw a sparrow slinking around in the bushes in the park -- we were trying to see if it was a White-Crowned. We didn't see it well enough to determine what kind of sparrow it was but it was a sparrow, so we got 20. I'll put it down as Sparrow, sp.

Alan

02/26/03

Jon, Kent, Glenn, and I trudged around campus in blustery, cold conditions and flushed out 27 species, one short of the record. If we had gotten a good ID on that elusive sparrow in tournament Park, we would have tied the record. With a Scrub Jay, we would have broken the record. With the Snowy Egret we would have smashed the record. But alas, that sparrow was a hard nut to crack and neither the Snowy or a Scrub Jay felt like coming out today. To Jon & Kent: Glenn & I did see the Mallards on the way back.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda -- we did get close though.

Alan