Hi All -
Iris and I went for a drive east of Moscow this afternoon out to Deary and back. It was snowing heavy, wet snow when we got to Deary. North of Deary there was still a foot or more of snow in places (I'm sure there is much more up higher). [On a side note, from a high point in Moscow on Thursday, we could see lots of patches of snow on the Palouse hills surrounding Moscow, pretty unusual for early April.] Also noted a lot of standing water in fields and creeks running pretty full out east of Moscow.
Just east of Troy a Turkey Vulture flew over. I checked Spring Valley Res. which is still fast frozen but there are a dozen or so Canada Geese on the grassy areas waiting for it to thaw. The Deary Sewage Ponds were busy - list below. (Pied-billed Grebe was interesting at this location, clearly a migrant.)
Location: Deary Sewage Ponds
Observation date: 4/4/08
Notes: East ponds counted from church and west church from highway. Wet snow falling at time but good visibility.
Number of species: 12
Canada Goose X
Wood Duck 5
Mallard 4
Bufflehead 36
Common Goldeneye 11
Barrow's Goldeneye 1
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Killdeer 1
Black-billed Magpie X
Common Raven 3
Pine Siskin X
Evening Grosbeak 15 fly overs
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
North of Deary I did a traveling count along Mica Mountain Rd. looping back on Deer Rd. and had 3 Savannah Sparrows among others. After checking out the old Avon Cemetery just to the west I did another traveling count the Ailor Cutoff Rd. back to the highway (ID-3). Results are below.
Charles.
Location: Ailor Rd.
Observation date: 4/4/08
Notes: Road follows Big Bear Ck. in part. Lots of standing water. Snipe was calling.
Number of species: 11
Canada Goose 30
Mallard 4
Hooded Merganser 1
Wilson's Snipe 1
Black-billed Magpie 6
American Robin X
European Starling X
Savannah Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 18
Western Meadowlark 2
Brewer's Blackbird 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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Charles Swift
Moscow, ID
chaetura@gmail.com
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