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Upcoming PVAS Meeting! 

This month's meeting will be on Thursday, 19 January 2023, at the Marshall Public Library from 7-8:45pm.  Please bring up to 10 bird images you have made on a flash drive; each person will have time to explain their bird or travel images.  Share with us what you have been doing.  We will also briefly talk about a project PVAS will help fund at Camas NWR, for two years.

Christmas Bird Count Report

Nine of us in seven parties found 73 species on Saturday,12-17.  

It was a cold, clear and calm day, and many still waters were frozen.  There were seven of us in nine parties, plus three feeder watchers.  

Some of the highlights were 2 Ross’ Geese, 1 Cackling Goose, 14 Trumpeter and 7  Tundra Swans, 7 Gray Partridges, 1 Sharp-tailed Grouse, 104 Wild Turkeys, 1 Ferruginous Hawk, 2 Virginia Rails,  1 Northern Pigmy Owl, 1 Steller’s Jay, 11 Woodhouse’s Scrub Jays (formerly Western), 71 Pinyon Jays, 191 Black-billed Magpies, 2 Pacific Wrens (formerly Winter), 2 American Dippers, 5 Western Bluebirds, 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, both a Spotted and an Eastern Towhee, 11 Cassie’s Finches, and 60 Lesser Goldfinches!  

Thanks everyone for a great count, and Happy Solstice and Holidays!

-Chuck Trost