I’m actively watching scrubb jays and Anna’s hummers here after moving to Medford to be near daughter and escape hoot owl four foot snows. Expect much milder weather here.

Bill Moore
No like longer Hoot Owl
Inkom, I’d

HI Everyone,

My name is Jeff Fleischer and I am project manager for the Winter Raptor Survey Project sponsored by the East Cascades Bird Alliance based in Bend, OR.  In the past, I have posted survey route vacancies on IBLE to see if any of you might be interested in doing once a month surveys (date of your own choosing) during December through February.  November offers an additional opportunity to do a survey but is optional.

This is our 23rd survey season for this project and we have over 500 primary volunteers involved with surveying 660+ routes throughout all of OR, WA, and ID, across the northern tier of CA and UT, throughout the western portion of MT, and along the southern border of BC Canada.  Following are the ID routes that I have available for someone to take, the length of the route is in ( ):

Nampa (73)

Parma – Apple Valley (63)

Emmett South (66)

Churchill – Oakley (73)

Richfield (44)

Heyburn (41)

Rupert North (69)

Burley East – Lake Walcott (67)

Burley SW (51)

Pocatello – Inkom (42)

Grays Lake (75)

Rexburg SE (49)

Ashton (76)

Dubois (51)

If you wish to get involved by taking one of these routes, I would be grateful and will send you additional information to help get you started.  These will probably go fast so please contact me as soon as you know which route you wish to take, you might include a second choice if you have one.  These surveys are a fun way to get out during the winter months and data collected will help us understand a little more about the winter number and distribution of these great birds.  Looking forward to hearing from you, thank you 🙂