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John Marshall
Well-known member
Hi Michael,
Nice to have a young chap like you with us on Bird Forum, I started birding with my father when I was 7 years old, I am now 75 years old and still get out with bins and scope pretty regularly.Have fun with us.
Nice to have a young chap like you with us on Bird Forum, I started birding with my father when I was 7 years old, I am now 75 years old and still get out with bins and scope pretty regularly.Have fun with us.
k.k.stevenson1
Well-known member
It's great to have you on board.You will learn lots from this great site.All the best Ken.
IanF
Moderator
Hi Michael,
Well done in finding your way onto Bird Forum :t:
On behalf of Admin and the Moderators, welcome to the site. I hope that you like what you see. We have a great bunch of very helpful people on here always willing to share their knowledge and experience. I hope that you will too as it will be great to hear about the birding in what sounds like a pretty remote area up a mountain ?
See you around.
Well done in finding your way onto Bird Forum :t:
On behalf of Admin and the Moderators, welcome to the site. I hope that you like what you see. We have a great bunch of very helpful people on here always willing to share their knowledge and experience. I hope that you will too as it will be great to hear about the birding in what sounds like a pretty remote area up a mountain ?
See you around.
John N
Well-known member
Hi Michael. Welcome to the site. It is nice to see young people interested in birds and I am sure you will be able to teach us older ones a thing or two about the up to date birding methods. I learned a lot about computers from the younger generation. Enjoy yourself John. :t:
Michael Frankis
conehead
Hi Michael from another (but older!) Michael
Sounds a nice place to be, up a mountain near Spokane - do tell us about your birds - Lots of Mountain Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Oregon Juncos and Clark's Nutcrackers? Townsend's Solitaires? Gray Jays?
Michael
Sounds a nice place to be, up a mountain near Spokane - do tell us about your birds - Lots of Mountain Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Oregon Juncos and Clark's Nutcrackers? Townsend's Solitaires? Gray Jays?
Michael
Tony_InDevon
Bird Lover & People Photographer
Hi Michael and welcome to BF good to see you here :t:
Michael W
Mountain Chickadee
Michael F,
To answer your question, there are lots of Mountain Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Oregon Juncos, and an occasional Townsend's Solitaire. My dad has seen one Clark's Nutcracker before I was a birdwatcher. But we don't live high enough to get the Gray Jays. Our elevation is about 2,900 ft above sea level. We also have Western Bluebirds, 3 species of Swallows, MacGillivray's Warblers (during Spring Migration), and Cedar Waxwings, to name a few.
I keep month lists and year lists for our property (about 25 acres) and the total number of species is now up to 109.
Thanks everybody for the friendly welcome!
Michael
To answer your question, there are lots of Mountain Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Oregon Juncos, and an occasional Townsend's Solitaire. My dad has seen one Clark's Nutcracker before I was a birdwatcher. But we don't live high enough to get the Gray Jays. Our elevation is about 2,900 ft above sea level. We also have Western Bluebirds, 3 species of Swallows, MacGillivray's Warblers (during Spring Migration), and Cedar Waxwings, to name a few.
I keep month lists and year lists for our property (about 25 acres) and the total number of species is now up to 109.
Thanks everybody for the friendly welcome!
Michael
Michael Frankis
conehead
Hi Michael
Thanks!
Must admit, when you said you live up on a mountain, I was thinking more like 5,000'
The ones I asked about are some of the ones I saw commonly high in the Cascades on my trip 'out west' 3 years ago. 109's a good total, does that include any ponds or streams?
Michael
Thanks!
Must admit, when you said you live up on a mountain, I was thinking more like 5,000'
The ones I asked about are some of the ones I saw commonly high in the Cascades on my trip 'out west' 3 years ago. 109's a good total, does that include any ponds or streams?
Michael
Michael W
Mountain Chickadee
Michael,
There is a small pond, but nothing much in terms of waterfowl or wading birds has been there--only a Great Blue Heron and Mallard. The Mallards nested there and brought the young Mallards last year, though.
There aren't any streams. Most of the property is Ponderosa Pine or Serviceberry bushes, but there is a large field.
I've attached the complete list. I hope you can see it okay.
Thanks!
Michael:t:
There is a small pond, but nothing much in terms of waterfowl or wading birds has been there--only a Great Blue Heron and Mallard. The Mallards nested there and brought the young Mallards last year, though.
There aren't any streams. Most of the property is Ponderosa Pine or Serviceberry bushes, but there is a large field.
I've attached the complete list. I hope you can see it okay.
Thanks!
Michael:t:
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Michael Frankis
conehead
Nice list, yep, can see it thanks! I'll have to see how many of those I've not seen on my travels . . . . 21 I'm missing there.
Northern Mockingbird is a good one so far northwest - a one-off, I guess?
Is there a good cone crop (purple cones ripening next month) on the ponderosas this year?
Michael
Northern Mockingbird is a good one so far northwest - a one-off, I guess?
Is there a good cone crop (purple cones ripening next month) on the ponderosas this year?
Michael
Michael W
Mountain Chickadee
Michael
I haven't looked at the cones lately but I'm sure that a large crop is ripening. I was wrong about one thing though, most of the property is field, but there's still a lot of pines.
Also, you were right about the Northern Mockingbird being a one-off. Shortly after we moved here from California, my dad was working in our garden. He is avid birder and is the one who inspired me to become a birdwatcher. Anyway, a mockingbird flew up and started singing. He was so used to seeing them that it took him a while to realize that Mockingbirds weren't supposed to be there. It was one report of about 10 in the history of Spokane.
Thanks again for welcoming me in!
Michael o :t:
I haven't looked at the cones lately but I'm sure that a large crop is ripening. I was wrong about one thing though, most of the property is field, but there's still a lot of pines.
Also, you were right about the Northern Mockingbird being a one-off. Shortly after we moved here from California, my dad was working in our garden. He is avid birder and is the one who inspired me to become a birdwatcher. Anyway, a mockingbird flew up and started singing. He was so used to seeing them that it took him a while to realize that Mockingbirds weren't supposed to be there. It was one report of about 10 in the history of Spokane.
Thanks again for welcoming me in!
Michael o
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Michael Frankis
conehead
Hi Michael,
Thanks!
Don't forget to get your Dad in here too!
Michael
Thanks!
Don't forget to get your Dad in here too!
Michael
Chris langsdon
The Herd EiE
Hi Micheal good to see another young birder on here. Looks like a nice list there.
Good Birding
Chris
Good Birding
Chris
Welcome Michael and that is quite an impressive list you have to date. I would love to see the pigmy nuthatch. I think you will be a wonderful asset to the Bird Forum. Congratulations to you dad for getting you into the birds and we'll have to see what we can do about getting him on board as well.
