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Alaska 2008
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Road Trip Reports Thanksgiving day was
an interesting birding day for Brian Muzny.
While the rest of us were catching up on family news and stuffing
our faces with my family's specialties, Brian went out for a birding hike
near my brother's home east of Perkins, OK. He came back with a
good bird list: Vesper Sparrow, E. Bluebird, Red-tailed Hawk, Crow,
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Chickadee, Blue Jay, Harris's Sparrow, Smith's
Longspur, Merlin, Cedar Waxwing, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse,
Bewick's Wren, Junco and Purple Finch.
December 1, the
first day of winter atlasing, found me and my good birding friends, Max
Fuller & Nealand Hill headed for Blaine county where I have three
plots. We found one female
Purple Finch along the nature trail below Canton Lake dam in with a very
large flock of Robins & Cedar Waxwings.
Another surprising find was a small group of Rusty Blackbirds in a
marsh just east of the town of Canton. Mountain Bluebirds were found on a
fence just outside the Roman Nose State Park east entrance. On December 2, Kim
Wiar and I worked two plots in Logan county, near the town of Crescent,
OK, where we encountered a total of eight Purple Finches. All the
sightings of the finches were found along with large feeding flocks of
robins, waxwings, Yellow-rumped Warblers, etc., and were observed feeding
on cedar berries and/or the seed pods of ash trees. |