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(Rare filter 100): exact count tally as hike. Not an unusual number. — Broke the filter at 1.75 miles. — — flock of at least 50-60 birds seen fly off between trees at about top of this hike, 4:10p (45.02218, -123.99887) more than half of which GCKI but also many CBCH, and at least 4 TOWA and 3 YRWA and 4 RCKI in this flock ; this is my first CBCH/GCKI flock I’ve been able to see fly and get some kind of real count of today, and this is after I had only est logged 10-15 of each . The real number was about twice that. recorded GCKI in this flock. ; — — most flocks I didn’t note bc didn’t know would hit filters for CBCH and GCKI, but you can hear both their vocals in plenty on all the recordings I made in this area today under RECR and Myrtle WA and some others too. Lots of CBCH/GCKI throughout, and usually I only logged 5-10 of each per flock, since I wasn’t seeing flocks fly across paths to count them, so prob if I hiked this trail during morning hours could easily double and maybe even triple this number logged this afternoon. Note: there are point counts regularly with 10-15-20-30 GCKI on them, just at one stationary spot. Surely it is easy to imagine there could be hundreds total among dozen(s) flocks on a 3 mile trail. Also Note: Lincoln’s current high count is 385 GCKI on 6-mile: https://ebird.org/checklist/S42487355 My number isn’t even half of that, for about 3-mile. Tho mine was for afternoon birds (quieter, less active/visible) and I didn’t get to see most of the flocks well, so I really believe this trail could easily have 400 GCKI on it, if lucky enough to have more active visible flocks. 12 flocks of 20 birds would be 240 — and there were more than a dozen flocks, and many of these winter GCKI flocks when really able to count them out have more than 20 birds in them. There really are lots of GCKI, CBCH, PAWR in habitats like this, way more than most people report. (And in summer add SWTH, WIWA, and maybe a few others to that list.)
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