tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82030638255049522172024-03-05T19:25:18.296-08:00Out and About Oregon BirdsMy blog about my birding adventures (mostly around Oregon but not always), mixed in with some dogs, maybe sailing and other topics.Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-11742574333686069142019-09-08T11:21:00.001-07:002019-09-08T11:27:52.830-07:00Labor Day in Harney and Lake Counties<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Over Labor Day weekend I went down into Harney and Lake counties to explore some rarely birded areas. Below is a map of areas visited. I left Portland Thursday at noon and headed straight for Jackman Park CG up on the north loop of Steens Mtn.</div>
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Friday morning I drove in the access road to Nye's Place. Not a bad road, my Subaru had no issues getting to the trailhead above Grove Creek. I pulled off the road at that point and walked the remaining road down to Nye's Place, driving down might need a higher clearance vehicle. The walk is worth it, there were lots of birds flying around in the bushes. Vast majority were Dark-eyed Juncos, White-crowned Sparrows and Green-tailed Towhees.</div>
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Below is the view going down road to the cabins at Nye's Place. Beautiful aspen woods.</div>
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The meadow at Nye's Place. I was surprised I could not find any Red-naped Sapsuckers remaining n the area. In spring they are very common. A Common Poorwill was in the woods trying to relax for the day.</div>
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I walked out to take in the Blitzen Gorge, A number of first-year sparrows and Green-tailed Towhees were in the area. </div>
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Hiking down to the meadows around Little Fish Creek proved productive. Some water was in area over by that darker brush in photo below.</div>
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A Song Sparrow typical of Steens Mtn.</div>
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Lots of these butterflies were around.</div>
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I also birded Grove Creek, it was later in day and only saw N Flickers, House Wrens, White-crowned and Vesper Sparrows.</div>
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Green-tailed Towhee was also common in all areas.</div>
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Friday night I spent at South Steens CG, the next morning I went out to bird to Mud Creek. You need to cross Indian Creek first. I took my shoes and socks off and enjoyed the refreshing crossing</div>
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The same crossing in spring. Now that I know the creek bottom is smooth pebbles with no hidden holes, I might be more tempted to try it in spring.</div>
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A flock of California Quail were down in the creek bottoms, also Warbling Vireo and a MacGillivray's Warbler.</div>
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Looking back at Indian Creek after crossing and birding along the stream edges.</div>
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After Indian Creek you cross up and through some juniper, passing a dried spring, and enter Ankle Creek drainage. Ankle Creek was dry but the grassy meadow was stocked full of sparrows. A large flock of White-crowned, Chipping and Vesper Sparrows were in the grass Mostly first-year birds as far as I could tell.</div>
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Black line through eye, gray rump, lack of streaking, brown head with black streaks and a gray middle stripe. Hatch-year Chipping Sparrow.</div>
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Leaving Ankle Creek you walk up an open area full of blooming brush, no hummingbirds detected. Another walk through the junipers leaves you up above Mud Creek. the photo below shows the walk down to the meadow. Mud Creek was flowing nicely.</div>
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The willows had House Wren, WC Sparrows, Yellow-rumped Warbler and Warbling Vireos.</div>
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Eventually you get to a spot where the road crosses Mud Creek. Many Cedar Waxwings and Robins were eating berries. An Olive-sided Flycatcher made a brief appearance.<br />
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I left Fields and headed over to the Guano Valley. I drove up the 12 mile dirt road to Shirk Ranch. It is an abandoned ranch that is slowly falling apart in the desert.</div>
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About a mile north of Shirk is a small patch f grass at the mouth of Guano Creek, I set up my tent for the night. At the crack of dawn I stuck my head out to get ready for the day's birding. I flushed up 5 Short-eared Owls that then flew about like moths. I had to duck my head from having them hit me. Of course by the time I remembered I had a camera, most had left. I waited around and sure enough one returned.</div>
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The Shirk Lake and ranch area had a family of Loggerhead Shrikes.<br />
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I was hoping Shirk Lake had water, it did. I was hoping Shirk Lake would be like the ponds near Adel, they were not. Too many cattle were in area for me to go out close to lake. I asked the BLM, cattle should be out of here by mid-Sept.</div>
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I did flush a Red-shouldered Hawk up out of yard near the ranch.<br />
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For all of you amazed at the diverse habitats Red-breasted Nuthatch can use, there is one in this isolated juniper up above Guano Lake.<br />
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This bluff had a few nests in it, Golden Eagle and Prairie Falcon were in area. I flushed a Golden Eagle up out of the brush as I walked by, one huge bird when it is right next to you. I took a peek at what it had killed and eaten, coyote.</div>
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Sagebrush Sparrows were common in the dry drainage.</div>
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I went with Vesper Sparrow on the next three.<br />
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Brewer Sparrow, not sure on age. Plumage looked fresh so was going with hatch-year.<br />
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The creek was dry, and often the easiest place to hike, but there are pools. Sparrows were everywhere at these spots, Supposedly a rare fish survives here. All I saw were big beetles swimming around. and frogs.</div>
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My destination was Clover Swale, a grouse lek is nearby. I was hoping to find Juniper Titmouse, none there this time. Warbling Vireo, Sage Thrasher, Rock Wren, Turkey Vulture and the sparrow flocks of Vesper, Brewer White-crowned and Sage.<br />
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Sunday afternoon I went into Lakeview and then up into the Fremont NF. Forest Road 28 is closed up where I wanted to go, so it required a long loop back to Paisley then up FR 29 to FR 2901 and a camp spot near MP 23. In the morning, I recorded the following, I also heard wolf howls.<br />
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I happened to pick a very birdy camp spot. I managed to pish in a curious young Northern Goshawk,<br />
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A Sharp-shinned Hawk was also in area. It was being chased by Steller's Jays and at times all would stand together on the road. Sharpies are indeed jay sized birds.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharp-shinned Hawk 1</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Northern Flicker 5</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Canada Jay 3</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mountain Chickadee 6</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Red-breasted Nuthatch 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brown Creeper 2</span><br />
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Leaving Newport at 6 am.<br />
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The calm seas were a repeat of my Westport trip from two weeks ago. Many birds were seen sitting on the surface, waiting for the winds to kick up so they could move around. This South Polar Skua was one of them. Long-tailed Jaeger were the most common skua seen.<br />
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I was sure we had spotted some Sperm Whale out in deep water, but Russ figured out they were Baird's Beaked Whales. They are much smaller than more typical whales. It is only the third time I have seen these hard-to-find mysteries of the ocean. They like to dive in very deep water, down to 3,300 feet. They can stay underwater for more than an hour. This was a group of about 5 out in 6,600 feet of 68 degree water.<br />
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The back of this one is scared from teeth marks of other Baird's or perhaps a few encounters with Orca.<br />
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Very special encounter.<br />
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We picked up our skua slam when this Pomarine Jaeger flew by exhibiting excellent spoonage in the tail feathers.<br />
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We were out at the second chum spot, still way offshore, I think 49 miles, when Russ calmly called out a Hawaiian Petrel had arrived at the slick. It provided great views as it flew around the slick, it wandered about as a Storm-Petrel rather than a Pterodroma, providing great views.<br />
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At first look a Hawaiian Petrel might appear as a white-bellied shearwater, but a look at the long narrow wings and longer tail will quickly get you to a Pterodroma.<br />
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The following is taken from Steve N. G. Howell's book "Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North America a Photographic Guide" (2012) .<br />
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In 2002 the AOU split the Dark-rumped Petrel into two species, the Hawaiian Petrel and the Galapagos Petrel. It seems the data used is confusing and there may be more than simply just two species involved in this group. The Hawaiian breed from Apr-Oct. They show up off west coast as nonbreeding visitors during the summer, peaking in July and August.<br />
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I was hoping to find some differences between this bird and a Galapagos Petrel. I am having a tough time! A Galapagos would be broader winged and have a cowl on the head that extends diagonally across head and neck. Hawaiian are supposed to have a small notch behind the cowl. Galapagos might have a broader dark trailing edge on underwing. Considering each island in Hawaii might have its own version of Dark-rumped Petrel, and each with slight differences in plumage it certainly is a confusing identification. The fact that the bird was off Oregon, leans to Hawaiian Petrel, though location does not seem to be a strong point when talking about pelagic birds.<br />
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Take a look at this paper : <a href="https://www.birdpop.org/docs/pubs/Pyle_et_al_2011_Notes_on_Petrels_of_the_Dark-rumped_Petrel_Complex.pdf" target="_blank">Dark-rumped Petrel</a><br />
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Nice view of the aerodynamics Pterodroma possess. A perfect wind foil. This bird is designed to fly with very little effort.<br />
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Narrow wing margins point to Hawaiian rather than Galapagos Petrel.<br />
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White faced bird coming right at you. This white blaze on forehead can be seen from great distance. I might have seen this bird earlier in trip, all I saw was a grayish backed petrel way out at the horizon, I never saw face well so did not see the blaze on bird,<br />
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Seems Galapagos might have dirtier flanks, the flanks were perfectly clean on this bird.<br />
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Dark cowl bleeding into gray back is a Dark-rumped Petrel trait.<br />
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The white mottling on uppertail coverts is exposed feather bases<br />
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Bi-colored legs are not that rare on pelagic species. Hawaiian Petrel have black on parts of their feet and legs, but mostly they are pink.<br />
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I think we saw more Buller's Shearwater than Sooty Shearwater. Here is a flock of 11 or so we spotted on the way back in to port.<br />
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Can you spot the Pink-footed Shearwater? Obviously larger, darker bird.<br />
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Thanks much to Oregon Pelagic Tours for the trip. Tim, Russ and Jim for the guide work, and crew of Enterprise for getting us out and back safely.Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-74438810941845928612019-08-11T08:02:00.000-07:002019-08-11T08:17:37.467-07:00Westport Seabird trip 8-10-19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With no wind, the birds we saw all were happy to stay on the water for great views. I think this trip was the first Buller's Shearwater of the season for Westport. It flew in from the stern and gave everyone great looks, later we saw this one hanging on the water with a Pink-footed Shearwater.</div>
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Once well offshore we simply wandered around the dead calm seas looking for flocks of birds on the water. With the mill-pond ocean, the flocks were easy to spot from a great distance.<br />
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Usually my looks at Long-tailed Jaeger are of a flying bird passing by the boat, rarely can you sneak up on them sitting on the ocean. Yesterday we had a flock of Long-tailed (4-5 birds) on the water right near the boat. Crazy fun views on stunningly beautiful birds.<br />
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Long-tailed flying away showing off the darker flight feathers.<br />
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The bird-of-the-day for me were the Scripps's Murrelets we saw. One we caught sight of right next to the boat, with in a few feet, just sitting on the surface. I was on the other side of boat and got good views through the binoculars but missed a photo.<br />
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These two popped up while we were looking at an Arctic Tern sitting on a log, we skipped the tern and motored closer to the Scripps's. They stayed right on the surface and near the boat for the entire time we were in area.<br />
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Usually my view of a Scripps's is a rocket of a bird passing by the boat and gone before you can even call it out, not today.<br />
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I was impressed by their beautiful necks and low profile in the water. For such tiny birds they are very elegant.<br />
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The calm seas and cooperative birds allowed us to pick out a few Short-tailed Shearwaters in the Sooty flocks.<br />
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Other than that, no Leach's Storm-Petrels but a decent supply of Fork-tailed. All the other normal stuff in good supply. A blast of a trip on a perfect day. Thanks to Bruce, Kelly, Bill, Phil and Chris.<br />
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<br />Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-35901506053320387812019-06-13T22:47:00.002-07:002019-06-14T06:54:39.920-07:00Harney-Lake County 2019It has been awhile since any new blogs from me, lots of pelagic trips and adventures, but I have been a bit lazy documenting them all. Plus my pal, Huck, is up around 14 yrs. old, so I have been keeping the adventures a bit toned down recently. I did go to some fun new areas in Harney and Lake counties this year, well worthy of a blog report.<br />
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Below is map of areas covered. Color coded by the day.<br />
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First stop was Summer Lake. This Western Willet was feeding near the road. I have yet to see an Eastern Willet in Oregon. Eastern are smaller, bills are heavier, stockier, and not as finely pointed. Eastern have shorter legs, and a bit darker in plumage, and calls are slightly different.<br />
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Looking south on Beatys Butte Road, road to Shirk Lake off to right. Shirk Lake and the mouth of the Guano Creek looks like an interesting migrant trap, I need to get there end of May , early June. </div>
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Info on Shirk Lake: <a href="https://www.birdingoregon.com/birding-sites.html" target="_blank">Birding Shirk Lake</a></div>
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Loggerhead Shrike were common all along Beatys Butte Rd</div>
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After birding around the interchange and trying to get down road to Shirk and bailing on that idea twice, I headed off in opposite direction to see if any trees were at Spalding Reservoir. No trees, but a nice spot.</div>
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Ebird list for the reservoir.</div>
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Friday morning brought clouds and iffy weather. The Pueblos were enveloped in thick clouds and a harsh wind. I knew the weather would clear by mid-day so I goofed around Fields in the morning then headed up Arizona Creek at noon. (green markers)</div>
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After a windy hike, I made it up to the ridge where I have seen Gray-headed Junco before. I got up o on a rock outcrop, sat and had lunch. I was hoping some juncos would come by in the blustery conditions. None did, nor did I hear one, maybe, I heard one short song, but could not confirm or find bird.</div>
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View of area while eating lunch.</div>
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I left as a small snow shower past by the ridge. Now I have to go back to confirm the juncos still are indeed there.</div>
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The next day I headed up Domingo Pass Road. Orange markers on map. I wanted to work my way south to an area above Willow Creek, Google Maps calls the area Willow Creek Pockets. I was told many years ago that it was a good spot for birds, but have never tried to get there,</div>
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Domingo Pass Rd is in great shape, a fork in the road puts you on a less than perfect road but perfectly fine for any SUV. Right past this tree (Poplar?), I ran into a water pool, I was a tad afraid to attempt, fortunately I spied a white pickup coming up road behind me. They stopped and chatted, very nice folks, I told them I was waiting for them to go first, they had no trouble with water so I continued on following them. We got another two miles or so south before we hit a bog that neither vehicle would cross. So I stopped and hiked my way south. </div>
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I had to be more careful with my towhee calls, a few Spotted Towhees were mixed in with all the Green-tailed.</div>
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Fields of flowers were common. The bitterbrush was also in bloom.</div>
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Song Sparrow, southeastern Oregon version. I found a few Fox Sparrows but they proved to be very shy.</div>
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Lots of varieties of moths and butterflies were seen. With my luck, this is an invasive pest, but they were everywhere.</div>
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There is a nice road that works its way uphill along the edge of the stream. It is on the south side so sun is behind your back.</div>
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The upper end of road goes into a beautiful woods, I was surprised not to find any Red-naped Sapsuckers. A similar woods high on the Steens would have any number of them. No Long-eared Owls spotted as well, another surprise, I always manage to stumble across a few up in these woods in the Pueblos.</div>
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It was hard to spot, but there was an old cabin in the woods. Inside was rather unpleasant. A few bunks and an old mattress. I was trying to come up with a slogan for this AirBnB, I came up with "Stay with us, you'll never be alone on one of our mattresses".</div>
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The book on the shelf was a Readers Digest short story collection.</div>
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Surprised to see beaver action up there.</div>
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Saturday night I had my required power meal at Frenchglen then headed up to South Steens Campground. </div>
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Sunday morning I spent a short time at Riddle Brother's Ranch. Looks like another good migrant trap. Two vultures focused in on a tired birder.</div>
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My favorite duck, Blue-winged Teal.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I left the Cabin Lake Blinds (lots of Pinyon Jays and a thunderstorm) , I saw this Ferruginous Hawk. Nice way to enter southeastern Oregon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Favorite bird seen was this very pink Franklin's Gull. Photo does not show just how pink it was, beautiful bird.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made it down to Goose Lake State Park for the night. I wanted to go up Kelly Creek Road, but it appears to be blocked by houses now, not sure. In any case, Tree Swallows were out in force, even the common birds are worth a nice look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They graded the once horrible road to Arizona Creek so they could put up fencing around the fire. This is a shot of where the road crosses the creek. Some trees survived others did not. The trees at right were packed with siskins and one Red-breasted Nuthatch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I got back to Fields, it was like The Wizard of Oz, right before the tornado hits, folks running around getting things secure, shutting off gas pumps. I got gas right before everything shut down. I was inside having a burger as the storm went by. Burns was clobbered, Fields missed the full force.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the storm I headed to South Steens Campground. Saturday dawned as a misty, foggy day up on the mountain. I walked down the side road to Indian Creek to look for migrants and more Fox Sparrows. It was too misty and cool for any great birding. Indian Creek is a short walk and even shorter drive if road is dry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a Fox Sparrow singing over there, could not get close enough for good audio and no visual. I was expecting Slate-colored down in this area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still MacGillivray's, Wilson, Yellow-rump, Yellow Warblers were all singing despite the gloom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nye's Place consists of a meadow and two small cabins used by hikers. This one is rather run down</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had lunch here, I was hoping for a migrant trap. Wilson's Warblers and Yellow Warbler were here. The brush patch held a Sharpie, so all birds were quiet. I did hear one Fox Sparrow sing after Sharpie left, but could not locate or hear again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fun trip despite the early weather issues and muddy roads. Thanks for the visit</span>.Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-22655461027497186492018-05-20T09:33:00.000-07:002018-05-21T09:35:44.293-07:00Westport Pelagic May 19, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the way out we encountered large groups of Sooty Shearwater, for the second time this year we flushed up a Manx Shearwater, it avoided my camera once again. Sotty Shearwater are easier to capture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another cool thing we saw was a Salmon Shark. It swam up to the boat, I thought it was a small shark based on dorsal fin, but when we looked under the water we saw the massive body of the shark, very fun. Need to figure out how to use a gopro or some such thing for some underwater shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to Bill, Scott and Mike, and thanks to Phil, Chris and Monte Ca</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">rlo for getting us out to the birds.</span>Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-26631266429572670442018-05-13T14:56:00.001-07:002018-05-13T20:07:38.282-07:00Fox Sparrow hunt in Wasco<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Saturday 5-12-18 I wandered out to Wasco County to see what I could find in the Mt Hood Nat Forest. I was hoping to find some Fox Sparrows. I started out at Fivemile Butte. The shrubs on the top are great for the sparrows. This is a photo from last October just to give you an idea of the habitat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I quickly found four Fox Sparrows, all singing from the top of their own pine tree. The large bills, no wing bars, spotted inverted Vs on the underside, head and back gray-brown and location all led to Thick-billed Fox Sparrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have loaded Raven onto my computer (the free version) I took this spectrogram from the above bird, see video below. I can't figure out how, if possible , to load what I see play in Raven onto a blog. What I had to do was to go to a website that strips the video down to an audio file, then you load it into Raven and you can see the spectrogram. All rather cool, the website strips it for free, but then offers ads to you, I just closed the site every time I used it and ignored all the ads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another Thick-billed, the associated spectrogram and original video.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks for the visit! Pelagic next week then Lake and Harney County!</span>Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-21147904038284874912018-05-05T21:01:00.000-07:002018-05-06T08:03:34.749-07:00Skipanon River and Clatsop County 5/5/18<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought I would throw together a quick blog about the Skipanon River. This area was once accessed from King Ave, that road is blocked. I am not sure, I think this is state land leased to Port of Astoria. That might be wrong. In any case, I go out there and other folks go on walks out there. No signs say it is closed. Hunters use it in winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been pointed out and I agree, this area is not a park and not managed for public access. The area out to the bare sand is mostly owned by Port of Astoria, area from sand out to bay is state land, some areas are leased to LNG site organizers. And note, I did mark one homeless camp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This winter I have tried to pay more attention to all the Anseriformes in Oregon during the winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anseriformes includes ducks, geese and swans. Oregon has seen 50 different species as of Feb of 2018 (OBA checklist, if I can count correctly).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have tried to throw together some fun facts about these birds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most geese and swan mate for life, while most male ducks leave the nesting area soon after eggs are laid and does not help rear the ducklings. Most ducks find new mates each year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One theory as to why geese and swans mate for life is the males are better able to fight off predators, thus the males stick around. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You never know if you are looking at a family group, but these snow geese were hanging out together on Svenson Island in Columbia County. The darker birds appeared to be first-winter geese. I would not be surprised if the adult goose, the one actually looking out for danger, is a parent. I watched them for about 15 minutes, the younger geese rarely took notice of me. It takes longer for a goose than a duck to sexually mature, and it is very common to spot family groups moving about large geese flocks. BTW ducks and geese have 2.5 times better eye sight than we do, that is why they spot you so easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deschutes River State Recreation Area is a nice spot to get close to wild geese. I tried to find pairs of mated geese wandering around in the flock. Not sure if this was a pair or not, but they were hanging out together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have not posted much recently, not that I have not been birding. I was hoping 5 pelagic trips this fall would provide some exciting reports, but no such luck. My efforts to get a great photo of a Buller's Shearwater was a disaster, proof in the photo below. This one was on a Newport pelagic in early October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I did see a few South Polar Skuas, and lots of jaegers to study. I could not get over the size of the claws on this skua. Nasty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Humpback Whales put on a great show on all the trips out of Westport and Newport.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main reason for this report is to point out a great spot to bird in Tillamook. Kilchis Point Reserve. See map below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Great Egret was poking around the wetlands at the reserve on Sat Oct 28th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a nice trail through the woods which ends at a view point along the bay. It was high tide this morning, lots of ducks were just offshore. Northern Pintail and Mallard. For shorebirds, perhaps best to visit when tide is a tad lower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Large flocks of peeps were flying around just out of range but these four Greater Yellowlegs were working the shoreline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">View of the high tide mark. Low tide has all this water gone and mudflats out in front of you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Looking out to Bayocean Spit. For the ducks, you might want to pack a scope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is about a mile walk from car to viewing area along bay. Fox Sparrows were the main bird seen here on Saturday. There just has to be something good hiding in here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dogs are welcome. Huck loves this trail. Lots of informational signs are placed along the walk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Always a reliable group of Least Sandpipers live out on the beach for the winter, nothing rare spotted on Saturday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yesterday (Sunday 10-29-17) I did my annual late fall hike in the area north of FR 44 in the Mt Hood forest. I go there in search of American Three-toed Woodpeckers, Black-backed Woodpeckers and Northern Pygmy-Owls and to see if any lingering summer birds are around. Failed on all efforts on Sunday, but enough other birds to keep it fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This old clear-cut (see star above) is a reliable spot for calling in Northern Pygmy-Owls. I usually can whistle in what I assume are a young family. I have had up to three at the same time, I was very disappointed to have zero responses the entire day. Only birds I could find here yesterday were two Golden-crowned Sparrows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That is it. Check out Kilchis Reserve next time you visit Tillamook. Great spot. Thanks for the visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I went down to Lake county this last weekend to bird the Fremont National Forest and Summer Lake Wildlife Area. All points mentioned here are marked in blue stars, the red balloons are points I hit on last years trip or are general road interchanges and locations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My plan was to hit Fremont NF on Saturday then go to Summer Lake on Sunday then back home. I decided to drive down FR 28, birding as I go. FR 28 leaves Silver Lake as East Bay Rd, it is the road just before you enter the town of Silver Lake. The nice thing is FR 28 is paved the entire way. So you can drive down the spine of the Fremont on a nice paved road. My plan was to leave FR 28 at FR 3315 and cut down to Paisley and up to Summer Lake, a nice loop. On Friday I left Portland at 5:30 pm, at 11:30 I camped at a side road for the night and did a short bird hike in the morning. I then went to East Bay CG at Thompson Reservoir on Saturday morning. I went there looking for shorebirds, nothing but good numbers of Spotted Sandpiper were found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once again I grabbed Tess, one of my daughter's dog sitting clients, for the trip. This is a typical shoreline that Tess is sniffing, I was thinking Willets or other long-legged birds would like this spot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">East Bay Campground and boat launch is on left. The campground was almost full but as I drove over 70 miles in the forest I saw one car and a pair of hikers. The only other people I saw were the campers at the campgrounds.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Eastbay Campground, Lake, Oregon, US</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jul 29, 2017 8:00 AM - 9:20 AM</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1.0 mile(s)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: walked along shore in both directions, did not look in woods for song birds.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Canada Goose 40</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mallard 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Bufflehead 6</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ruddy Duck 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">duck sp. 30 other side of lake. looked mostly large mallard type</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Eared Grebe 8</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Grebe 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Double-crested Cormorant 15</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">American White Pelican 25</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Turkey Vulture 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Osprey 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Bald Eagle 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-tailed Hawk 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sandhill Crane 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Wilson's Snipe 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Spotted Sandpiper 8</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ring-billed Gull 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">California Gull 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Caspian Tern 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Forster's Tern 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hairy Woodpecker 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Wood-Pewee 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tree Swallow 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mountain Chickadee 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-breasted Nuthatch 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chipping Sparrow 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dark-eyed Junco 10</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hanan Trail starts where FR 28 crosses the Sycan River. It ends over at Coffeepot Spring on FR 3315.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lots of water was flowing in the area from the springs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a beautiful trail to bird along. If any warblers nest along here, they were quiet or gone, just a few Butterbutts noted. I was hoping to encounter hummingbirds, but only hummer seen was at a brief stop on drive from reservoir to trail, a Calliope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Up near the headwaters of the Sycan. These waters make it to the Pacific, just over that hill is the Great Basin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dragonflies ( or Damselflies?) and butterflies were everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dogs had plenty of water and areas to explore, but the intense sun at 7200 feet in elevation had them mostly hanging in the shade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Red-tailed Hawk was fascinated by the three of us. It kept an eye on us, perhaps we were the only human-canine pack it had ever encountered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As always, the White-crowned Sparrows at this elevation proved to be oriantha. I note eBird no longer has this subspecies as a rare bird in this area</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A big breakfast was about to be enjoyed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a beautiful bird hike, next time I might camp at the trailhead and hit this spot in the early morning rather than 10:40 am.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jul 29, 2017 10:40 AM - 2:20 PM</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Protocol: Traveling</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3.5 mile(s)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: sunny slight breeze,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">22 species (+1 other taxa)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Turkey Vulture 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-tailed Hawk 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Williamson's Sapsucker 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hairy Woodpecker 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Northern Flicker 6</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Wood-Pewee 15</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dusky Flycatcher 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pacific-slope/Cordilleran Flycatcher (Western Flycatcher) 1</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Clark's Nutcracker 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mountain Chickadee 25</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-breasted Nuthatch 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pygmy Nuthatch 7</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brown Creeper 2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only other time I was closer to a goshawk was at a family house near the Mianus Gorge in New York. A goshawk rushed down on me while I had my then 2 year-old daughter on my shoulders. We ducked just in time before it roared over us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I saw this lone bird out on the marsh. In person, I could not really see if it was walking on the grass or wading, I thought it was big, maybe bigger than the 40 Greater Yellowlegs I had just seen. And it had a curved bill. Funny thing is if a Killdeer or some such beast was standing next to it, I would have skipped it as another Wilson's Phalarope. But nothing was there for scale and I misjudged the size. I was toast from that moment on. It is an obvious Wilson's Phalarope once you reset your brain and forget about all the mistakes you made in initial notes. Beats me why I saw a curved bill, bright sun, distortion, whatever. I did not believe the photos when I saw them. I have done that before with young cowbirds, see it once , easy id,, come back later and in a different set of conditions, brain freeze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lots of great birds in a beautiful area of the state. I urge everyone to wander the Fremont Nat Forest, certainly try birding the Hanan trail. Well worth th</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e effo</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rt.</span></div>
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Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-51906641560114043802017-07-04T08:28:00.000-07:002017-10-16T21:14:25.221-07:00Crook County July 1-2 2017<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last weekend I headed out to do my BBS for the year. I did this same trip last year except I did the Clover Creek BBS. I am alternating BBS's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">each year </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">due to the remoteness of the routes. This year it is the Crooked River BBS's turn. As I did last year, I spent time in the Maury Mountains, part of the Ochoco National Forest. I left Portland Friday at 6 pm, I found a camp spot at about 10:30 pm (red tent on map).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Saturday morning I birded up the road I camped on and did a general loop through the area, blue line on map. Klootchman Creek was still a small stream. MacGillivray's Warblers were along the stream, based on the family groups it seems to be a great breeding spot for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A view looking out towards the SE and Lake County.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My ebird list for the loop:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Klootchman Ck Loop, Crook, Oregon, US</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: Camped up 150 from 16, hiked up 150 to 1750, down 1750 to turn on ridge (old clearcut landing) then cut through woods down to old logging road then down to 16 back over to 150 and up to car</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Common Nighthawk 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Common Poorwill 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hairy Woodpecker 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dusky Flycatcher 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cassin's Vireo 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Gray Jay 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Steller's Jay 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Common Raven 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mountain Chickadee 11</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-breasted Nuthatch 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hermit Thrush 7</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">American Robin 9</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">MacGillivray's Warbler 9</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Yellow-rumped Warbler 11</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Townsend's Warbler 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chipping Sparrow 16</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dark-eyed Junco 11</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Tanager 15</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cassin's Finch 6</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red Crossbill 5</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My next stop was just down FR 16 from my camp, I saw an old grass covered logging road and decided to hike up (yellow line on map) to a spring that was about 1 mi away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hairy Woodpeckers, and as this photo shows, Williamson's Sapsuckers are the expected woodpeckers up here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A pleasant surprise was a group of Pygmy Nuthatches working their way around a pine tree. I tried to see if any were juveniles (brown washed upperparts), but could not really tell what mix was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, Huck came with me. Tess joined us as well, my daughter dog-sits her. But Tess gets to go with Huck on our adventures. Some dogs are sniffers (Huck hikes with nose to ground), others like Tess are lookers (hike with head up looking everywhere). Lookers need to have an eye kept on them. They will see a badger, skunk or deer just as easily as you do. So Huck can pass right by some quiet deer out in a meadow unless he smells them, Tess will see them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both of the dogs are grazers of grass. Huck has yet to grow back his rump from a fur cut to keep him cool in summer of 2016. An older dog problem it seems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sniffers like Huck can find water anywhere. Tess knows to follow him when he runs down into a ditch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the top of the hike was a nice cool forest with a spring. Townsend's Solitaires were singing in the trees nearby, wonderful sound for the morning.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jul 1, 2017 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Wood-Pewee 4</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Gray Jay 3</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mountain Chickadee 7</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-breasted Nuthatch 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pygmy Nuthatch 7 Mobbing flock</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Townsend's Solitaire 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hermit Thrush 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Yellow-rumped Warbler 7</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chipping Sparrow 6</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dark-eyed Junco 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Tanager 6</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cassin's Finch 8</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red Crossbill 5</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After two great bird hikes, I wanted to let the dogs cool off, so I drove down to Antelope Reservoir and let them swim at the boat launch. This Spotted Sandpiper was along the nearby shoreline. Some Tree Swallows chased away a Northern Goshawk that cruised through the boat launch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In breeding plumage, Spotted and Common Sandpiper are much different. In basic plumage they are very similar. I try to train my eye to check out the wing stripe on every Spotted I see, one of these years I might see a wing stripe that extends to the flanks, a Common Sandpiper trait. You can see this stripe fades out on the secondaries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After giving the dogs a nice swim, and one more hike in woods (purple line), I camped at Double Cabin Campground. The next morning I started the BBS at 5 am (green line on map). It is mostly a drive through sagebrush and hay fields. One stop had me right next to Ferruginous Hawk. It was being nagged at by a young Red-tailed Hawk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I entered my BBS results in ebird in groups of 10. The last one is in Deschutes County, the rest are in Crook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is another pond next to the one above. I am looking back to the parking area. There is a shaded picnic area there and an outhouse. Note, in the midday sun, my car is the only one at the site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am looking out across the upper five ponds. That is gravel in front of me. I cut in-between the pond in front of me and looped back to car. There is tall grass off to right that borders the river. Off to the left is a field that had singing Savannah Sparrows</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It seems to be a great area for viewing shorebirds, main attraction is there are no shrubs blocking your view. And with all the paths, an infinite number of loops are available depending on how much time you have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took off for Harney County on Wednesday, I stopped briefly at Headquarters and Benson Pond, not much seen except the Catbird at Headquarters. I wanted to get to Fields for the night. When I visited the oasis the next morning, the Western Screech-owl was out of its nest and blending in well with the bark of the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Based on lots of rufous in the tail and no white lip above the bill, and even primary width, I was thinking it was a Broad-tailed. But the ID was in debate. It was too small of a hummer. I skipped the fact that not all Calliope Hummingbirds have the white lip and these primaries are actually getting slightly broader as they go out the wing, not even, And the tail seems all dark and center tail feather is spade shaped. So it is a Calliope Hummingbird. Calliope and Broad-tailed can be very similar birds. I moved up the Hummingbird Learning Curve a few steps, will crash back down my next visit to east-side of state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Thursday afternoon i went up to Carlson Creek to see what was up this creek along the east-side of Steens Mountain. A fire had swept through area a few years ago. Lots of orioles and in a flat area up the trail, numerous Lark Sparrow and Brewer's Sparrow were singing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Saturday I took off at 6 am for a bird hike to the Big Indian Gorge. A view back across the plains toward the campground, the area was full of singing Western Meadowlarks and Vesper Sparrows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hit the sleeping bag at about 8 pm. Long, tiring day was well worth the effort. In the morning, the drive down the south road was full of singing birds. Cassin's Finch were at a normal spot along road. No Long-eared Owls detected, a big miss for me.</span></div>
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Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-2595419417253400932017-05-22T18:48:00.000-07:002017-05-22T21:03:41.460-07:00Westport Pelagic May 20, 2017<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I went on my third pelagic trip of the year last Saturday (5/20/17) out of Westport, WA (<a href="http://westportseabirds.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>Westport Seabirds</b></span></a>). It was by far the most pleasant trip of the year. On and off sunny skies and a gentle breeze set the stage for a great trip. Albatross usually show up by 8:30 am on these trips, nothing magical about that time, just leave at 6 am cruise off shore and you hit their home at 8:30. On Saturday, 8:30 came and went, finally we spotted a Black-footed. My streak of always seeing an albatross continues. At one spot we had a Laysan Albatross fly by, it did not stop at our chum, apparently it had a place to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is separated from other black and white albatross by the smaller size, the black back that extends down the back a bit (forming a white U), and..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a variable smudgy underwing and a pink bill with a nice blue tip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of my favorite beasts is the Northern Right Whale Dolphin. they have a beautiful white patch on their underside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And, like whom they are named after, the Northern Right Whale, they lack a dorsal fin</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At one point I spotted some high dorsal fins in the water, I thought small Orca, but they seemed a tad small. Risso's Dolphin is the other option.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their backs and bodies become scarred from their fellow dolphin's teeth or from the squid that they feast upon. The older they get, the paler they get. That is an older one in front.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to the boat, the crew, Phil and Chris, and the spotters, Bill, Bruce, Scott and Mike. Will post ebird results once they are done. Thanks for the visit. Ochocos next weekend then Malheur in 9 days!</span></div>
<br />Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-33774006962178059552017-05-09T08:57:00.001-07:002017-05-09T08:57:48.472-07:00A Fun Day Shorebirding<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am in a rut when it comes to blogs, I keep showing reports of same areas, same birds. Will try to spice it up a bit in weeks to come. But in spring I do have a routine I do as to areas to visit. Sauvie Island has been flooded, I was hoping to describe a great loop I do around island, but the whole are is under water, perhaps a canoe trip instead this weekend to see if any shorebirds are hidden out on all those islands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any hoot, the first weekend in May is always one of the best weekends for spring shorebird migration. My spot to visit is the beaches of Clatsop county. I headed down Saturday, May 6th. Tempting to go to Lincoln County to see the Bar-tailed Godwits, but I saw one up in Washington and had not seen any reports of activity in Clatsop. I found a total of 16 different species of shorebirds last Saturday, not bad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes when Long-billed Dowitcher flush they can flash very white underwings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One feature Long-billed always have are white lesser wing coverts, you can see the white patch on front part of very inner wing. Look at Sibley, he shows this as well in his drawings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Same bird. Short-billed have more uniform patterned underwings, the lesser coverts are not white, you can see the overall even pattern here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some views of the river mouth, lots of flats available for birds. Not sure if this area is as productive as it was in the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll try to find a new area to blog about, but I need to visit Wasco once more time this spring, so suffer on a bit longer. I have a great idea for a Steens Mtn area with no ebird reports that looks great to explore, so that will be at end of month/early June.</span></div>
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Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-80476559452689746632017-04-30T18:32:00.001-07:002017-04-30T18:35:30.843-07:00Another Visit to Western Wasco<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mother Nature is taking her sweet time this year compared to last year in Wasco County. Last year I was out there on April 23rd, the oaks had leaves on them and the wildflowers were out in full force. This year, with the harsher winter, the oaks have buds but no leaves and the wildflowers are still working on their bouquets. I revisited Smock Prairie to see what was around the reservoir. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the way out to Smock, I saw this Peregrine Falcon near the pond on the north side of White River Crossing, a nice birdy spot BTW. The extra white in cheek made me think it was a Tundra. It was a beautiful bird. The belly view was right in the sun, so no photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The prairie was covered in green, just no Gray Flycatchers or Nashville Warblers in the oaks as of yet. Western Bluebirds, and a few Chipping Sparrows have arrived.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">White River Wildlife Management Area--Smock Prairie, Wasco, Oregon, US</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Apr 29, 2017 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Protocol: Traveling</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2.83 mile(s)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: oaks have not leafed out yet, last yr they were out by the 23rd</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">36 species</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Canada Goose 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mallard 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Turkey Vulture 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cooper's Hawk 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-tailed Hawk 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Eurasian Collared-Dove 3</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mourning Dove 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Great Horned Owl 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Vaux's Swift 15</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Lewis's Woodpecker 8</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Downy Woodpecker 1</span><br style="background-color: white; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1.0 mile(s)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: most birds were on road to meadow, shrubs at meadow yet to leaf out</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mountain Chickadee 4</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a stop for lunch up a logging road (I wanted to get to a Fox Sparrow spot, but road was as washed out as I remembered and did not have time to walk), I went up to a meadow I know at north end of FR 27. A good spot to nab Ruffed Grouse. No empids or tanagers found there yet. Still a lovely place to wander with a few springs in the area. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Camp Solitaire, Wasco, Oregon, US</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Apr 29, 2017 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">0.75 mile(s)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: no empids yet</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mountain Chickadee 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-breasted Nuthatch 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">American Robin 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Yellow-rumped Warbler 7</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Black-throated Gray Warbler 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Townsend's Warbler 2</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">As a general update, I have been doing a few pelagics the past few months. I had a blurry Parakeet Auklet on one in March and Leach's Storm-Petrels and nice views of Ancient Murrelets on a pelagic last weekend.</span></div>
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Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-1005545176013363022017-02-25T22:31:00.000-08:002017-05-22T21:04:39.540-07:00Smock Prairie 2-25-17<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took advantage of the nice sunny day and headed over to my favorite part of Wasco County, the White River Wildlife Management Area (WRWMA). Funny thing was, I was thinking it would be great to spot a Gyrfalcon or some odd predator while I was over there. The Gyr decided to show up in the Willamette Valley, but I got my share of predators.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted to explore the Smock Prairie portion of the WRWMA. It is south of where I usually go, but the area north of FR 27 is closed this winter. So I looked around at the map and noticed this gem of an area. Below is a map of where I went, I walked the yellow path counter-clockwise today, about 9 miles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the way to Smock Prairie, I went by way of the White River Crossing. No car should try this route this winter. Not until the snow is gone and road is dry. Only a good four-wheel drive should attempt this, and probably only when snow is frozen, not in the afternoon. I made it, but I was thinking it was a bad idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lewis's Woodpeckers never cooperate with my camera. I saw about 2 dozen today, none let me get very close or stayed put very long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The open ground on the prairie was very damp in most places. American Robins were out in the sun enjoying the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is looking back toward where you park. Spring birding along this road could be very interesting.</span><br />
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Lots of meadows to scan for bluebirds.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a small wetland area here, I am going to check this spot out come spring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was ice on this ditch, it was cracking down the center. Every time it cracked it sounded like a tree was coming down on Huck and myself, it would give me a start every time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I did find a few mixed flocks of birds. I scanned every bird I could for something rare, I was really hoping to stumble across some Redpolls mixed in with these birds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I never tire of Mountain Chickadees, one of my favorites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At one point I was walking through a small woods. I was walking on pine needles and not making a sound, Huck was behind me. I came within three paces of stepping on the tail of a Mountain Lion. It was stretched out on the pine needles, relaxing in a sunny spot. It must have been sleeping in the sun. I startled it just as much as it startled me. It jumped up and landed just like a startled house cat. Its front shoulders were down, head close to the ground, hips and tail up in the air. It was about 8 feet in front of me when we saw each other. It landed about 15 feet from me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was huge, 9-10 feet from head to tail tip, I thought it weighed 200 lbs. Three feet at the shoulder. At that point I heard Huck barking, He got up in front of me, at the same time the cat sprinted away. It went back the same way I had come, I do not know how it got past Huck, either dodged him or jumped over him. I think it went on the other side of a tree to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I like exploring new areas in February so I can return in spring. I will certainly bird this area when the Gray Flycatchers and Nashville Warblers return. I am interested in seeing what these wetland areas are like come spring and what birds will be there. It should be great for woodpeckers as well. If you bird out Smock Road way, stop and walk in the road a bit, you will need the same parking pass as Sauvie or Fern Ridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My eBird list for the day ( and the only one I could find for this spot) on the WRWMA:</span><br />
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Snow on ground in places, muddy in others. Wind 5-10 mph, stronger if afternoon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">24 species</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Golden Eagle 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-tailed Hawk 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; 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We started out searching the marina. The Westport Marina is worth a visit even if not going on a pelagic. If you want to see the boat we use, it is Monte Carlo on Dock 10.<br />
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A large, and I do mean large , flock of Marbled Godwits winter in the marina. They roost there at high tide. We saw them from the mouth of the marina (see map). Dunlin are in front.<br />
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A Peregrine Falcon on a nearby tower kept the godwits nervous.</div>
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The marina provides easy views of many birds. Western Grebe.</div>
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Eared Grebe are not common in the marina.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dunlin 30</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">American Robin 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">European Starling 20</span><br />
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After the marina we went to Neddie Rose Drive to look for Rock Pipers (see map). They were easy to spot from the nice viewing deck. Note the smaller bird in the group.</div>
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The Surfbird is the larger one on the rock. The Rock Sandpiper is the smaller one on the right. When the flock flew it was easy to spot two small Rock Sandpipers.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Grebe 12</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pelagic Cormorant 8</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Black Turnstone 10</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Surfbird 15</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rock Sandpiper 2 Smaller bird next to Surfbird</span><br />
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We worked our way out to the south jetty. At one stop we spotted a distant group of gulls, not sure who noticed the bird first. Perhaps we all did at once, but there was an obviously dark-backed gull we wanted to check out. We parked at Westhaven St Park and checked out the small flock sitting on beach at what birders call Halfmoon Bay.</div>
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I was having a tough time seeing the eye with my binoculars in the rain. I could see the straw colored bill, it was not school bus yellow. The bill looked long and straight edged. I wanted to get closer, fortunately others had scopes and we quickly realized we were looking at a Slaty-backed Gull. It had pale eye and very fine brownish streaks on its head. It had bright pink legs. The bird was huge compared to the various versions of mostly Western Gulls near it.</div>
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After alerting other birders in the area the gang checked out the ocean beaches, lots of Sanderlings and a few Black-bellied Plover.</div>
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We then went down to Tokeland (see map). There was a report of a Long-billed Curlew and a Whimbrel along the shore. The tide had gone out some more and we could not locate those birds. We did get a brief look at a Palm Warbler that was hiding along Emerson Ave and area. A Willet was in mud at the Tokeland Harbor.</div>
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If you have a free weekend check out Westport and Tokeland this winter. Thanks to Bruce, Bill and Gene for the tour!</div>
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Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-14105934829134610212016-11-07T06:59:00.000-08:002016-11-07T08:15:40.223-08:00Cottonwood Canyon State Park<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today (Sunday, 11-6-2016) was my first visit to Cottonwood Canyon State Park. It was a perfect choice for a sunny November hike. I went in search of any stray migrants that might be hiding in this beautiful state park. Below is a map of some of the points mentioned in this report. The park is 132 miles from my SW Portland home, it took my 2 hours and 10 minutes to get there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The John Day River cuts through the canyon. I walked out the Lost Corral Road. This road is on the Gilliam County side of the river, the other side is in Sherman County. The first section of the road is closed to hunting, after about 2 miles you enter the hunting area. I saw some pheasant hunters heading out on my way back, other than them and three horseback riders, I had the place to myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And here it is, I pished and "Screech-owl" whistled many times, each time Ruby-crowned Kinglets, juncos, and sparrows all popped up to chew me out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The place was loaded with Ruby-crowned Kinglets, I could have found three times as many if I had pished all the willows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wing-bars make this a hatch-year Hermit Thrush. I am hoping to stumble across a Gray-cheeked in Oregon one of these times. When I first saw this one, all I saw was what seemed like a partial eye ring and an all gray thrush. Then I saw the contrasting flanks/wing , spot pattern and tail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Update: Nels just pointed out that the lower left ewe has a radio collar, good spotting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I looked for, but did not see any raptors in the canyon. I did see Kestrel and a Prairie Falcon on the drive down 206, but no raptors was a surprise to me. After the canyon I drove down Starvation Road to a river access point. I was looking for sparrows, larks or longspurs. I did see a Lark Sparrow, and a few of these Western Meadowlarks.</span></div>
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font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: mostly sunny 40ish in the morning, up to 58 degrees by afternoon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">25 species (+1 other taxa)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Canada Goose 4</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; 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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only storm-birds I saw today were Red Phalaropes. I tried for Red-necked, none seen or heard. Red Phalaropes make a "quit" sound or a high-pitched "kit" , Red-neckeds make a lower "kit" sound. Listening to the Sanderlings and Red Phalaropes flying around was good practice.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Parking Lot A to River Beach, Clatsop, Oregon, US</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Oct 16, 2016 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Protocol: Traveling</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3.75 mile(s)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: over cast, some periods of rain, some periods of strong breeze</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">36 species (+3 other taxa)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cackling Goose (Aleutian) 160 flocks of 40 or so arriving from high over the ocean, dropped in elevation and passed over area.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">American Wigeon 15</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mallard 60</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Green-winged Teal 350 large flocks arriving from the north</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Surf Scoter 75</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">White-winged Scoter 85</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Common Loon 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Double-crested Cormorant 35</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brown Pelican 225</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Northern Harrier 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Bald Eagle 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Black-bellied Plover 8</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Semipalmated Plover 40 on beach at base of jetty</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sanderling 200</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; 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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I went back out to Deschutes River State Recreation Area, a spot I hit this past February. I wanted to see if any fall migrants were in the canyon. I think I missed the peak migration, I should have gone out there two weeks ago. I am hoping this post encourages more birders to try this area next spring and fall. The woodlands and brushy areas along the Deschutes seem like a natural spot for migrants to visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These Mallards were doing a rather odd trick. The Deschutes was a roaring river, the ducks had somehow grasped the rocks on the river bottom. They stuck their heads under water and just held it there. They could have been nibbling on food attached to the rock in front of them, or they were filtering something out of the water. How can that drake in the middle hang on in that torrent? Any ideas?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The woods where Gordon Canyon empties into the Deschutes River</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These shrubs along the river trail had American Robins, Black-capped Chickadees, Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Yellow-rumped Warblers</span>.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Deschutes River St Pk (Sherman side), Sherman, Oregon, US</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Oct 2, 2016 7:50 AM - 2:50 PM</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Protocol: Traveling</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">8.0 mile(s)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; 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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of August I birded up to Elk Cove on the north side of Mt Hood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sabine's Gull and an Albacore in same photo on the Sept 3rd pelagic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A large Humpback Whale popped up right in front of us on the showery Sept 17th pelagic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to darken up this shot of Mt Adams, I think that is a lenticular cloud over the mountain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along FR 27 I was hoping to find thrushes and Fox Sparrows. I found one Fox Sparrow and this Swainson's Thrush up high in the Tygh Ck area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fog never burned off the beach at Ft Stevens St Park in Clatsop County on 8/20/16. That kept the temps at a nice 55-60 degrees. Far better than the near 100 degrees in the valley. Low tide was at 8:30 am, my plan was to check out the mud flats at Parking Lot B rather than hit the low tide at the beach. The problem was the very low tide had any peeps too far out in the bay and covered by the fog. I did see little groups of Marsh Wrens, a Virginia Rail, a few Purple Martin and some Common Yellowthroats, like the one below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Discouraged by the lack of peeps, I went back to Pk Lot B and walked up the beach to Pk Lot C, hit the river beach, then walked the road back to Pk Lot B. A 5.5 mile loop including wandering the mud flats. Total peeps: one Semipalmated Plover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started at 8 am, by now it was 11:30. I decided to check out the mudflats again now that the tide had risen. This is a great place to bird with tide maybe 2-3 feet above mean low and rising. That leaves a narrow strip of mud along the bay with shorebirds close to see. If you stand quietly at the last area of mud, the shorebirds will come into you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A flock of 15 dowitchers were on the flats. Most were Short-billed Dowitchers. I thought this big fat one was a Long-billed Dowitcher. It was larger and was not as brightly patterned. The fog made it tough to really see the color on the bird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has the grapefruit body shape of a Long-billed and lacks the bright pattern of a Short-billed. To me the grapefruit body is only reliable while the bird is feeding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I should add I did not see the feet. It never moved, as you can see the sand was soft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sanderlings running on the beach. Fat, round, and note the thick bill that tapers to a blunt tip. I rushed on a photo on-line of a Sanderling, thinking Baird's; but not a real challenge when seen live and next to each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to find a Common Ringed Plover. None here, funny how peeps look up beach toward the dunes while resting. I guess foxes come out of the grass rather than the ocean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birding at its best on the river beach. If you go, try high tide. Walk down the middle of the beach. Birds will be in dry sand and feeding in surf. Walk very slowly, They will stay put as long as you are quiet. Watch in front of you, those blobs of seagrass will have peeps hiding next to them. I stop to stretch like a runner every so often, amazing how it works. It relaxes the birds to see you are not stalking them. Stretch like you are about to run a 100 yd dash.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a great time at the river beach I headed toward home, jumping on to the ocean beach at Sunset. A Black Turnstone was lost in the fog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Pacific Golden-Plover was on beach as well. The bill is too big for an American. It had nice gold tones as compared to a Black-bellied. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We saw a handful of Tufted Puffin. Hatch-year Tufted Puffin have dark bills and a dark eye. The puffin develop ornamental plates in Feb-Apr and shed them in Sept. It takes three or four years to get the full adult bill and all the plates. Based on the sketches in Pyle's book, Vol II, page 788, this looks to me like a second-year or third-year bird. It has a light eye and a bill that does not look as bulbous as an adult. Please add any info or corrections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Website dedicated to these cool fish: <a href="http://oceansunfish.org/index.php" target="_blank">Ocean Sunfish</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Their shape is different than a Fork-tailed. They have longer, narrower wings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can see the line that divides the white patch. This line varies on Leach's, easy to see on some , impossible on others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Bar-tailed Godwit was known to be in the Marbled Godwit flock. We thought the tide would be too far out and the birds would not have roosted in the harbor yet. Good thing it was not a real low tide. All the godwits were in the harbor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It looked to me to be the same size as a Marbled but shorter legs, the bill looked short with binoculars, but I can see now it was very long. It looks streaked on the side, and pale gray in color. I thought it was an adult in molt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tons of Heermann's Gulls were on the jetty and in the harbor. No hatch-year birds. How many nesting failures can they endure before we see a drop in population? I was thinking maybe the nesting failures do not take such a toll on the adults as compared to raising a chick. Maybe they live longer so the species will make it through these tough periods? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to the Monte Carlo, the crew, and the guides for another great trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Westport pelagic--inshore, Grays Harbor, Washington, US</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Aug 13, 2016 6:00 AM - 6:53 AM</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Protocol: Traveling<br />7.0 mile(s)<br />Comments: Foggy for a while in morning, then clear for most of the day, overcast as we came close to shore on way back. Winds were calm then picked up as we got further out. Beaufort 2-4 later. Lead was Scott Mills, Spot 1 was Jim Danzenbacker, Spot 2 was Cara Borre. Bruce LaBar was also spotting. Boat personal and spotters were Phil and Chris Anderson.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1 Humpback Whale</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">11 species (+1 other taxa)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sooty Shearwater 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brandt's Cormorant 4</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brown Pelican 262</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-necked Phalarope 17</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Common Murre 340</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pigeon Guillemot 4</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Marbled Murrelet 4</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rhinoceros Auklet 11</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Heermann's Gull 700</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">California Gull 36</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid) 202</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Caspian Tern 1</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Westport--Offshore waters, Grays Harbor, Washington, US</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Aug 13, 2016 6:53 AM - 8:55 AM</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Protocol: eBird Pelagic Protocol</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">30.0 mile(s)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1 Humpback Whale</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">11 species (+1 other taxa)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Black-footed Albatross 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pink-footed Shearwater 34</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Buller's Shearwater 1 Our first of the year</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sooty Shearwater 245</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 5</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Parasitic Jaeger 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Common Murre 255</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cassin's Auklet 8</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rhinoceros Auklet 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tufted Puffin 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">California Gull 13</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid) 1</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Westport pelagic--Offshore Pacific County, Pacific, Washington, US</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Aug 13, 2016 8:55 AM - 9:55 AM</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Protocol: eBird Pelagic Protocol</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">15.0 mile(s)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Encountered 3 shrimp boats. One Pacific Sun Fish.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">11 species</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Black-footed Albatross 10</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Northern Fulmar 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pink-footed Shearwater 400</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Buller's Shearwater 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sooty Shearwater 100</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 20</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Scripps's Murrelet 2 spotted by Scott Mills.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cassin's Auklet 5</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rhinoceros Auklet 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sabine's Gull 6</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">California Gull 350</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Westport pelagic--Offshore Pacific County, Pacific, Washington, US</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Aug 13, 2016 9:55 AM - 12:10 PM</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Protocol: eBird Pelagic Protocol</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">35.0 mile(s)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This was a transect between Willapa and Grays Canyon in deep water to 125W. All in Pacific County. We also put out a chum at 125W. Two sun fish.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">10 species</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Black-footed Albatross 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Northern Fulmar 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sooty Shearwater 33</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 10</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Leach's Storm-Petrel 8</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Long-tailed Jaeger 1 Our first of the year</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cassin's Auklet 14</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rhinoceros Auklet 7</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">California Gull 3</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Arctic Tern 2</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Westport pelagic--Offshore Pacific County, Pacific, Washington, US</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Aug 13, 2016 12:10 PM - 1:50 PM</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Protocol: eBird Pelagic Protocol</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">25.0 mile(s)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Encountered three shrimp boats heading back. 1 sunfish.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">9 species</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Black-footed Albatross 30</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Northern Fulmar 5</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pink-footed Shearwater 535</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sooty Shearwater 89</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 18</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rhinoceros Auklet 7</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tufted Puffin 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sabine's Gull 3</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">California Gull 506</span></span><br />
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Sea Lions and 7 Steller's Sea Lions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">16 species (+1 other taxa)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sooty Shearwater 600</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brandt's Cormorant 89</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pelagic Cormorant 40</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Double-crested Cormorant 50</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brown Pelican 200</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Bar-tailed Godwit 1 in boat basin with 700 Marbled Godwits. photos</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Marbled Godwit 700</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Black Turnstone 4 on jetty</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-necked Phalarope 12</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Common Murre 515</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pigeon Guillemot 3</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rhinoceros Auklet 8</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Black-legged Kittiwake 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Heermann's Gull 1800</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mew Gull 1</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">California Gull 33</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid) 1200</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A badger came out on the flats, made sure all the avocet could fly away, then went for a swim.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">duck sp. 50 distant</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chukar 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pied-billed Grebe 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Eared Grebe 8</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Double-crested Cormorant 12</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">White-faced Ibis 41</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-tailed Hawk 1</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Least Sandpiper 39</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Sandpiper 190</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ring-billed Gull 47</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">California Gull 139</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rufous Hummingbird 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Wood-Pewee 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Say's Phoebe 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ash-throated Flycatcher 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Loggerhead Shrike 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Common Raven 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Violet-green Swallow 23</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cliff Swallow 35</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">swallow sp. 100</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rock Wren 13</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brewer's Sparrow 13</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Black-throated Sparrow 18</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Lark Sparrow 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sagebrush Sparrow 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brewer's Blackbird 270</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent the afternoon down in Lakeview checking out some of the birding spots in town and getting gas. Goose Lake St Park was quiet as was Bullard Canyon, still good to see the area and the sewage ponds had good views of Leasts, Wilson Phalarope, and American Avocet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a full tank of gas, I headed up to Paisley, got a burger to go at The Homestead (great spot) and headed down Mill St to access FR 3315. Sage Sparrows and California Scrub-Jays were along the first leg of the road up from Paisley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My second badger of the trip was along FR 28 (paved). He trotted off into the woods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I pitched my tent at Lee Thomas CG. This rock structure was part of the CG. I wondered who Lee Thomas was, he was an architect that designed, among other things, the MU at Oregon State, a beautiful building. I assume the same Lee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birds seen at Lee Thomas CG:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jul 17, 2016 4:00 AM - 5:30 AM</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-breasted Sapsucker 1</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dark-eyed Junco 3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday morning I bagged my plans to bird in the Gearhart WIlderness, I calculated the time needed and decided it was better spent simply birding my way back to Paisley so I could visit Summer Lake WMA before heading home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The forest is well marked with road signs and the roads are in good shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At one of my first stops on the way back to Paisley was this woodpecker. It looked like it had its black shield. It has a small white chin, no red on breast. When I first saw it , I thought it had an all red head. But when I got close I could see it had black as well. Female Red-naped Sapsucker. Either Red-naped or Red-breasted were at all my stops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was the meadow with the above sapsucker. It is along FR 3411 where the road hits FR 28. It was full of singing birds. Lincoln Sparrow, Yellow Warbler, Common Yellow-throat and White-crowned Sparrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The subspecies of White-crowned was <i>oriantha. </i>The "Mountain" White-crowned. I have also seen them on The Steens. The upper back is gray with brown streaks. The lores are black. Elevation of this meadow is 6700 feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Very short video of its call note. It chips in the very first few seconds, loud and harsh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sorry for the drifting camera on this, very short video of its song. I posted similar video of one singing on The Steens in June of 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birds seen at this meadow:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Comments: temp 40, sunny no wind</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-naped Sapsucker 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-breasted Sapsucker 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Wood-Pewee 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dusky Flycatcher 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Empidonax sp. 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Warbling Vireo 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Common Raven 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mountain Chickadee 66</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-breasted Nuthatch 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brown Creeper 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">House Wren 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mountain Bluebird 7</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">American Robin 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Common Yellowthroat 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Yellow Warbler 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chipping Sparrow 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dark-eyed Junco 6</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">White-crowned Sparrow (oriantha) 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Lincoln's Sparrow 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Tanager 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cassin's Finch 3</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jul 17, 2016 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1.0 mile(s)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hairy Woodpecker 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Wood-Pewee 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dusky Flycatcher 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Empidonax sp. 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Steller's Jay 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Clark's Nutcracker 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mountain Chickadee 7</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-breasted Nuthatch 6</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brown Creeper 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hermit Thrush 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">American Robin 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Yellow-rumped Warbler 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hermit Warbler 1 While tracking mob of birds driving owl out of area, no visual but from maybe ten trees away heard Hermit Warbler song very similar to song in Cascades. First part two syllable, second part rising bellish quality. Realize some songs could overlap with Townsend's but I do not think this is one of them?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chipping Sparrow 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dark-eyed Junco 3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> HY Clark's Nutcracker. It was dull brown colored compared to bright pattern of an adult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Downhill from the nutcrackers was a meadow, I birded it Saturday and Sunday. Oddly enough out in the middle of the woods was an old outhouse. I figure hunters use the meadow as a large basecamp and someone decided to bring a luxury of home to the outdoors</span>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Hatch-year (HY) Mule Deer was at the meadow on Saturday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Part of forest birding is knowing when you hear a bird and when you hear a chipmunk. This little one had a higher pitched "brake squeal" of a call than the ones I hear in the Cascades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the logging roads I went down led me to this view of Summer Lake. Hwy 31 would run on the left side somewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think this is Mountain Mahogany. There was a ridge of juniper and this mahogany on the east side of the forest, right before you drop back down to the valley (6 miles from Paisley, one mile into Fremont NF.). I listened and looked for Virginia's Warblers, not much of an effort but you never know. I was also hoping to find Juniper Titmouse in the juniper stands on the east slopes of the mountains, no luck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HY Killdeer at Lakeview Sewage Ponds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HY Black-necked Stilt have a brown tinge to the feathers and lack the bright legs of an adult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I could not decide if this was a molting adult avocet or a HY bird losing its brown tinge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">White ground color,stout bill, brown checkers. HY Ring-billed Gull. The bill is usually pink at base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was trying to get a good photo of a HY White-faced Ibis. With my binoculars I saw a red eye. They get their red eye later in the year, so this is at least a second year bird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pelicans at Summer Lake mid-day Sunday. I saw a flock of about 160 Long-billed Dowitchers and a few Greater Yellowlegs, otherwise quiet on the loop drive.</span></div>
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<br />Out and About Oregon Birdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246118760595657022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203063825504952217.post-68711121059245548812016-07-10T22:40:00.000-07:002016-07-11T07:29:04.894-07:00Upper Tygh Creek and young birds<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took a look at weather radar at 5 am today and decided I would be dry if I went on a bird hike in the Badger Creek Wilderness. I have birded the lower section of Tygh Creek up into the wilderness, I wanted to avoid a repeat of the brutal hike up the steep trail. so I drove up FR 2720 to the Jordan Cutoff Trail which gives you access to the upper sections of Tygh Creek and avoids the steep climb. While this upper trail goes up and down in spots, it is really rather flat and is an easy bird hike. It is the purple section on my often posted map of the area (see below) the access trail is in red and starts at the red star. My map is getting rather cluttered, you might need to zoom in to see the trails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Early July is a great time to bird in these areas, the woods are full of birds. With all the recently fledged birds, I would say it is the busiest time of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lots of birding activity, it took me almost seven hours to bird seven miles. I would urge folks to try this very nice birding area, or just get out in your local woods and enjoy all the youngsters!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Turkey Vulture 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rufous Hummingbird 9</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Williamson's Sapsucker 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Wood-Pewee 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hammond's Flycatcher 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dusky Flycatcher 7</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cassin's Vireo 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Warbling Vireo 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mountain Chickadee 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chestnut-backed Chickadee 9</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red-breasted Nuthatch 13</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brown Creeper 9</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">House Wren 11</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pacific Wren 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Golden-crowned Kinglet 17</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Townsend's Solitaire 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hermit Thrush 7</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">MacGillivray's Warbler 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Yellow-rumped Warbler 23</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hermit Warbler 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chipping Sparrow 26</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dark-eyed Junco 43</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Western Tanager 15</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cassin's Finch 13</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Red Crossbill 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pine Siskin 32</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Evening Grosbeak 9</span><br />
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