{"id":2399,"date":"2017-12-27T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2017-12-27T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T15:07:05","slug":"cbc-2017-tawas-and-oscoda-circles-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"CBC 2017 Tawas and Oscoda Circles Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How Fast Can You Count?<\/h2>\n<p>A very casual report of the AVA Christmas\u00a0 Bird Counts by Sue Duncan<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2400\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0011-e1514387019250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2400\" src=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0011-e1514387019250-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0011-e1514387019250-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0011-e1514387019250.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">G\u2019s Restaurant in Oscoda was a perfect place to compare notes and recharge before setting out for a few more bird sightings.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The two Christmas Bird counts done in Iosco County for 2017 were so different, and yet so alike!<\/p>\n<p>They were alike because both had great participation; 18 or more members for both, good food at breakfast and lunch with exciting conversation and really wonderful bird finds in both areas. What fun and stimulating days!\u00a0 (That\u2019s a BIG reason to \u201clike\u201d\u00a0 the CBC adventure for me! )<\/p>\n<p>They were different too:\u00a0 the weather! Lots of new snow and pretty chilly on on Saturday, December 16 in Tawas and then balmy 41 degrees and sunshine (some) on Tuesday,\u00a0 December 19 \u00a0in Oscoda.\u00a0 Bird finds usually duplicate each other to some extent, but there are also differences!\u00a0 Like lots of hawks on one, lots of starlings on the other! You\u2019ll have to wait for the official tally to find out all the contrasts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The really exciting bird finds included a Snowy Owl in each count, Brown Creepers -2 (a first for a count, we rarely see two together on counts) No Redheaded ducks!\u00a0 No Cedar Waxwings, Bohemian or not. \u00a0But a number of Ruffed-grouse and a lot of leaf-birds were spotted. Most unusual and surprising?\u00a0 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks!\u00a0 All four people on that team swear to it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0012-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2401\" src=\"http:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0012-web-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0012-web-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0012-web.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you were lucky enough to go on one of the counts, what did you see that thrilled, amazed or puzzled you?\u00a0 Maybe you expected to find a species that wasn\u2019t around this year.\u00a0\u00a0 What was it?\u00a0 Let\u2019s continue this group \u2018conversation\u2019 by watching for the official report coming to this website and by discussing it all again at the January meeting in 2018!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How Fast Can You Count? A very casual report of the AVA Christmas\u00a0 Bird Counts by Sue Duncan The two Christmas Bird counts done in Iosco County for 2017 were so different, and yet so alike! They were alike &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/?p=2399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ausablevalleyaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}