http://djringer.com/birding/2006/12/19/no-robin-roost-in-taney-county/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:20:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://djringer.com/birding/2006/12/19/no-robin-roost-in-taney-county/#comment-1587 Search and Serendipity: A Birder’s Blog » Taney County CBC: Wet and slow Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:40:18 +0000 http://djringer.com/birding/?p=200#comment-1587 [...] But it wasn’t a day for exceptional sightings, and none of the other groups did too much better than we did. We finished with 77 species in the end, which is on the low side of normal. Red-shouldered Hawks seemed strangely absent, and Horned Grebes outnumbered pied-billeds 43 to 11. Ducks were scarce, and nobody had a roadrunner. The dependable vulture roost was a bust this year, and as expected, robins weren’t roosting in big numbers, as far as we could discover. [...] [...] But it wasn’t a day for exceptional sightings, and none of the other groups did too much better than we did. We finished with 77 species in the end, which is on the low side of normal. Red-shouldered Hawks seemed strangely absent, and Horned Grebes outnumbered pied-billeds 43 to 11. Ducks were scarce, and nobody had a roadrunner. The dependable vulture roost was a bust this year, and as expected, robins weren’t roosting in big numbers, as far as we could discover. [...]

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