<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/159695762@N07/54340802394/in/dateposted-public/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/159695762@N07/54340802394/in/dateposted-public/</a><div>Bob OBrien Portland</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM Robert O'Brien <<a href="mailto:baro@pdx.edu">baro@pdx.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I replied to Rob and Jim offline. As they surmised, my presence at Kelly Bar on the Noatak was indeed to find and photograph the Siberian Tit. (I don't accept the name change to Gray-headed Chickadee). The trip was successful and quite adventurous. My Tot photo appeared in the hard copy version of North American birds but has been replaced in the current World Birds online.<div>If anyone is interested in these details drop me an email separately <a href="mailto:baro@pdx.edu" target="_blank">baro@pdx.edu</a> and I'll send what I set separately.</div><div>The sad upshot is that soon after my trip, the birds disappeared from that site and soon the entire Noatak Drainage.</div><div>eBird shows a few scattered reports from Northern Alaska in 2016-17. But no reports at all in the last 5 years. Puzzling. My trip was in about 1980-85.</div><div>I don't believe there are any theories to explain their disappearance. If anyone knows of such theories let us know.</div><div>Bob OBrien Portland.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM Rob Faucett via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I’ve been up there 2-3 times in the past year and seen nothing close. And I’m familiar with the bird. <br>
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> On Feb 20, 2025, at 1:24 PM, Jim Elder via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> This post from Bob O'Brien caught my attention (I would have responded directly but Tweeters digest doesn't show email addresses any more).<br>
> You've been to the Kelley River? Do tell. Some years ago there were reports of Siberian Tits (aka Gray-headed Chickadees) in that area. Were you looking for them? Did you see them? Anyone have any idea if they are still there? I'd love to hear more about your experience there. Considered trying to go there a few years ago but was overruled by other members of the party but still would like to go there some day.<br>
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> I don't have a lot of experience with them. But I have seen them hovering like a kestrel, when searching for prey at dusk, but still quite light.<br>
> This was at the Kelley River mouth on the Noatak River, north of Kotzebue, Alaska. One hovered, moved a short distance and then hovered again.<br>
> Quite spectacular. Bob OBrien Portland<br>
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