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Re: Evening Grosbeak
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Re: Evening Grosbeak
- From: "Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:51:45 -0400
- In-reply-to: <NFBBIJMIGLJCKAOFNJNMKEJLCAAA.denns@ils.unc.edu>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Yes, it's very early - I don't know of any previous September reports for
the Triangle area (I assume your sighting was on 9/29?). The usual early
arrival date is around November 10. The earliest fall report is
10/17/1977, but there is also a puzzling report of a male on 7/26/1978
(seen by an experienced observer).
A quick scan of rare bird alerts didn't turn up any other reports, so
this could be a rogue individual. :-) I've hearing reports of cone crop
failures up north this year, so we could be in for a winter finch
invasion.
> I had my first ever evening grosbeak in my yard 10 days ago. Not knowing a
> whole lot about migration schedules for birds, and knowing that evening
> grosbeaks are fairly common here in the winter, I didn't think anything of
> it. But when I mentioned it to my dad this weekend, he was very surprised
> and said he didn't think he'd ever seen an evening grosbeak in northern
> Chatham County this early in the season. So I was wondering if a) this is
> early for evening grosbeaks to show up and b) if anybody else in the
> triangle has seen any yet. I only saw the one male, and I haven't seen him
> since --
>
> Sheila Denn
> on the Chatham/Orange county line
>
> *********************
> Sheila O. Denn
> Doctoral Student
> UNC-CH SILS
> *********************
>
>
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Charles W. "Will" Cook w 919-660-7423
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook cwcook@duke.edu
Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Box 90340, Durham, NC 27708