[Birdtalk] Cassin's Finch Weirdness

[Colby Neuman]

Kris and others,

The Salt Lake CBC surprisingly missed Cassin's Finch this year as well.
Unfortunately, my parents house in Olympus Cove is outside the count circle
because they've had between 2-5 Cassin's Finches coming for about the last
three weeks.  They had one or two coming in October with about a three week
hiatus in early to mid November.  I don't have ebird data from past years
(trying to be diligent this year so I can start examining past data), but I
seem to mostly remember Cassin's Finches showing up during migration at the
their house.

Colby

On Dec 17, 2007 8:46 PM, Stephen Peterson <cllslp at msn.com> wrote:

>
> I have had a couple of male and female Cassin's Finches that have been
> hanging around my feeders and
> birdbath for the past two months here in Logan. I first saw them the end
> of October. They do not make a regular appearance
> everyday, but show up maybe once or twice a week, and only for a short
> duration. I saw a single male just yesterday afternoon.
> He stopped by just to get a drink and then took off.
>
> Stephen
> ----------------------------------------
> > From: kristinpurdy at comcast.net
> > To: birdtalk at utahbirds.org
> > Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:45:21 -0700
> > Subject: [Birdtalk] Cassin's Finch Weirdness
> >
> > Wasatch Audubon didn't record Cassin's Finches on our bird count on
> > Saturday, so it was a welcome surprise to Jack Rensel to find six under
> his
> > feeder in Ogden, Weber County, yesterday morning. He lives in the count
> > circle and hasn't seen them in his yard for six weeks to two months.
> >
> > I conveniently arranged some yard birding around lunchtime by locking
> myself
> > out of the house and then waiting for my husband to come home and rescue
> me.
> > I was killing time in the yard and aimed my binocs at a finch in
> treetops
> > not visible from inside. It was the first male Cassin's Finch I've seen
> in
> > the yard since early November. Another was across the street in my
> > neighbor's hawthorne with a swarm of robins and House Finches. How weird
> is
> > that? I wouldn't have seen these birds had my keys been in my pocket
> where
> > they were supposed to be before I locked the door. Now, that's a
> > lemons-to-lemondade scenario!
> >
> > The coincidence of neither Jack nor I hosting this species in a couple
> > months and then both of us seeing them in our yards in successive days
> is
> > too much. Has anyone else seen Cassin's Finches after their extended
> > absence?
> >
> > Today was another two-Merlin day also; one bird was perched precariously
> in
> > a treetop in my neighborhood, tail bobbing like a kestrel as it failed
> to
> > curl those long toes around a skinny branch; the other was on the same
> old
> > power pole across from the Denny's on South Harrison Blvd about 1/10
> mile
> > north of the Harrison-US-89 intersection. That's the third time in about
> > three weeks for a Merlin on that same pole.
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
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