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I know this is not an Oregon bird, but it is definitely of regional
interest. I therefore cut and pasted the following message posted to
Tweeters by Wayne Weber.

Dan Heyerly, Eugene

 

Birders,

 

Two extremely rare gulls have been reported yesterday, Nov. 10: an adult

IVORY GULL near Abbotsford, BC, and a ROSS'S GULL at Tachick Lake near

Vanderhoof. The IVORY GULL was photographed. Several birders have looked for

the Ivory Gull this morning, but have been unable to relocate it so far.

 

I am including the details from last night's Vancouver RBA, thanks to Mark

Wynja. I will be forwarding the entire RBA message to the usual places later

today, but don't have time right now.

 

This message may be forwarded to any other E-mail groups if you wish.

 

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An IVORY GULL was found on the Matsqui Flats just east of the Hwy 11 

(Abbotsford-Mission Hwy) in a large flock of gulls and crows on a 

farm field. (to get there, take Hwy 1 east, head north on Hwy 11, 

turn left on Harris Rd., right on Riverside, follow Riverside under 

Hwy 11 and turn right on to Page Rd. The flock was on the south side 

of Page about 200 metres east of the intersection with Sim Rd.

 

Out of town, an adult ROSS'S GULL was found on Tachick Lake, southwest 

of Vanderhoof. The gull was viewed from the Tachick Lake Resort (to 

get there, follow signs to the Kenney Dam via Kenney Dam Rd. Shortly 

after the road turns to gravel, watch for the sign to Tachick Lake 

Resort which is on Tachick Lake Rd).

 

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Wayne C. Weber

Delta, BC

contopus AT telus.net

 

 


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I used Phil Pickering's "Boiler Bay" posting as a template.  Tubenoses were 
feeding and were flying in both directions.  Some species were only noted as 
present and not counted.


7:15 - 9:45:  overcast turning mostly sunny, wind S 5-20, 10+ ft swells

50+ Red-throated Loons
3000+ Pacific Loons
50+ Common Loons
1 Red-necked Grebes
15 Western Grebes
200 Northern Fulmars (25% light/intermediate phase)
5 Sooty Shearwaters
15 Short-tailed Shearwaters  (most close enough to see dark cap & light 
throat/chest)
30 Sooty/Short-tailed Shearwaters
10 Brown Pelicans
* Double-crested Cormorant
* Brandt's Cormorant
* Pelagic Cormorant
* White-winged Scoter
* Surf Scoter
1 Harlequin Duck
1 Bufflehead
1 Long-tailed Duck
2 Greater Scaup
10 Red-breasted Mergansers
1 Peregrine Falcon
15 Bonaparte's Gulls
* Mew Gulls
* California Gulls
* Herring Gulls
* Western Gulls
* Glaucous-winged Gulls
25 Black-legged Kittiwake
* Common Murres
2 Pigeon Guillemots
6 Marbled Murrelets
15 Rhinoceros Auklets
7 Black Turnstones
2 Black Oystercatchers

1 Gray Whale

Good birding,
Russ Namitz
Coos Bay


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BlankOBOL:

I am new to Digital Photo & Birding, and would like to get some
info from you all.

For a new SLR, I am looking at the Canon Rebel XTI, if you have one of
these you started with, let me know of the good & bad ideas of this camera.

Now if anyone knows of and good birding areas around
Estacada, OR, please let me know of them.

Thanks much for any and all help.

George Redmond  
Estacada, OR.  97023


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6:45-8:45 (11/11):
overcast turning partly sunny, wind S 5-20, 10+ ft swells

500 Red-throated Loons
2500 Pacific Loons
70 Common Loons
5 Red-necked Grebes
20 Western Grebes
250 Northern Fulmars (minor S movement, several on the water)
2 Sooty Shearwaters
30 Sooty/Short-tailed
300 Brown Pelicans (S)
1 Double-crested Cormorant
40 Brandt's Cormorants
5 Pelagic Cormorants
160 Black Scoters (S, most in first 1/2 hour)
200 White-winged Scoters
400 Surf Scoters
8 Red-breasted Mergansers
2 small shorebird sp. (probably Red Phalaropes)
25 Bonaparte's Gulls
20 Mew Gulls
80 California Gulls
10 Herring Gulls
100 Western Gulls (most N)
50 Glaucous-winged Gulls
5 Heermann's Gulls
2 Black-legged Kittiwakes
500 Common Murres (S)
4 Pigeon Guillemots
6 Ancient Murrelets
15 Rhinoceros Auklets
1 Snow Bunting (flying S over the waves 200 yards out)

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Hollo OBOL,
  A follow up  to Bob's E-vite, is an invitation to drop by booth 48  
and say hello to my sweetie Linda and me during Wild Arts.

Hope to put some faces to names!
Best,
Vern

Vern DiPietro
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> This is just a quick e-vite to attend Portland Audubon Society�s  
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> authors present include John Rakestraw (Birding Oregon), Martyn  
> Stewart (Birdsongs of the Pacific Northwest), Chris Santella (50  
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This is just a quick e-vite to attend Portland Audubon Society's Wild Arts
Festival, Nov. 17 and 18 at Montgomery Park.  Bird authors present include
John Rakestraw (Birding Oregon), Martyn Stewart (Birdsongs of the Pacific
Northwest), Chris Santella (50 Places to go Birding Before You Die) and of
course the irrepressible Harry Nehls.  For further details, including
information on exact times of author appearances, please follow the link to
our Wild Arts Festival homepage,
http://www.audubonportland.org/fundraising_events/waf/ .  (And note that at
the bottom of the WAF homepage there is a link to a downloadable two-for-one
admission coupon.)

 

 Bob Wilson

 




 

 
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Nominations For Alan's Predict the New Species Game

This was a really fun diversion even with my limited
knowledge of birds.

#1: Ruby-throated Hummingbird (coming soon to a feeder
near you!)
#2: Black-tailed Gull
#3: Great Black-backed Gull
#4: Wood Stork
#5: American Oystercatcher (Pacific frazari
subspecies)

I tried to pick species that were not only reasonable
vagrant possibilities but also ones that would easily
be noticed and not lost in a flock of look-a-likes. 

I predict we'll see at least 2-4 new hummer species in
the next decade....so I wanted to pick one and the
fiesty little rudy-throated has already been
documented in Washington, California, Idaho, and
British Columbia.....plus these guys love
feeders....and the males would be relatively easy to
identify and quickly document with a digital camera.

I know the conventional wisdom on oystercatchers is
that they don't wander much but some recent banding
records for the eastern populations do show them
dispersing quite far. I'm on the look out for at least
a hybrid.

I also considered Black Vulture (probably should have
picked this one but I like gulls too much and I'm
convinced they're already here but just haven't been
noticed yet), Red-footed Booby, Masked Booby, Purple
Gallinule, Black-tailed Godwit (the range maps don't
show it anywhere near here but it's a shorebird so I
think anything could happen - and it would be easly
mistaken for another godwit), Yellow-crowned Night
Heron, and American Woodcock (a long shot but I think
an interesting one). 

The new species I most want to find is Ivory Gull and
I almost put it in there just for fun (yes, I know the
low odds of one actually ending up here but on the
other hand it would be easily noticed if one made it
here - and since they're disappearing faster than
polar bears, I'd really like to see this species get
some serious US press coverage).

Questions:

Do new subspecies count, such as the subspecies of
Larus canus other than Mew Gull (since they're likely
here right under our noses if we could actually
identify them)?

What would the records committee do with a BLOY x AMOY
hybrid that looked more like a AMOY, i.e. if a bird
showed a hint of being a hybrid would it be
disqualified?

How many people would even know to look for Little
Egrets in Oregon? If you were looking, could you
actually tell the difference between Little Egrets and
Snowy Egrets?

Cindy Ashy

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I birded Ankeny NWR today (Saturday 11-10) with Mark Aron, Jacob Tennessen, and 
Michael Molk, arriving there about 1030. Highlights were: 


Overlook on Ankeny Hill Rd.:
Rough-legged hawk - dark form 

Eagle Marsh:
Glaucous-winged gull - 1 adult
Belted kingfisher - caught and ate a large frog

Pintail Marsh:
Sandhill Crane - 1 adult, 1 first winter, together
Cinnamon teal - 5 bright males
Gadwall - at least 3 pair
Greater Yellowlegs - 1

Jamie Simmons
Corvallis

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Hello,
Today was a beautiful day at Ridgefield, contrary to all the
doom and gloom in the weather forecast. I was not as
fortunate as previous visitors, as I did not see the NORTHERN
SHRIKE or the WHITE-TAILED KITE. In any case, there was
great opportunity for photographs:

GREAT EGRET - There were at least 14 Great Egrets, all amassed
on the last stretch of the auto tour route. Several of them seemed
quite young, but hunting extremely well. One young Egret approached
our vehicle and devoured a vole, about 8 feet from us. Their
head sway before striking is quite comical:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddavalos//
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddavalos//

RED-TAILED HAWK: This young Red-Tailed Hawk was completely
fearless as several cars parked about 10 feet from it. It casually
walked about the grass for quite some time, stopping to devour
some small insect and continued on its way.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddavalos//

NORTHERN HARRIER:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddavalos//

Full list in taxonomic order:

Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Bufflehead
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Wilson's Snipe
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird

Cheers,
Damian
Portland, OR

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OBOL,

This afternoon at about 4 Annet and I were walking the dog in Mt. Tabor park 
(SE Portland) and heard the Great Horned Owl that we've heard every once in a 
while since Dec.'06. I had my binos w/ me and as I was trying to pinpoint where 
the hooting was coming from we heard an answering call, quite close, from 
another Great Horned. I was able to get my first visual of a Tabor Great Horned 
(the first one) but was unable to spot the second. 


I believe this is the first instance of two Great Horneds in Tabor at the same 
time. It'll be interesting to monitor whether both stick around and, if so, if 
there will be breeding. 


For interested locals, the area we saw and heard them was in the vicinity of 
the cinder cone. The one we saw was high in a fir just southeast of the 
basketball court. The other was perhaps 80-100 yards southwest of it, on the 
north slope of the valley. 


Earlier in the day, I'd been out to Sauvie Island. Beautiful weather of course 
but no exceptional birds. The sight and sound of several thousand Canada geese 
whirling, though, is never going to get old with me ----conjures Aldo Leopold's 
phrase: "goose music". 


cheers,
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I'm interested in buying the two-volume 1903 edition of Coues, Key To North
American Birds.  Either the original or the Arno reprint.  Anyone have a set
to sell?

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I got to the top of Mary's Peak with about 30 minutes of sunlight left earlier 
today. Lots of Western Bluebirds, with one female-type CASSIN'S FINCH mixed in. 
The Cassin's was in the rocky slope on the south side just off the top. 
Otherwise it was pretty slow up there, yet I enjoyed getting my tree lifer 
Noble Fir. 

 
Stefan Schlick
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Stopped by Fernhill Wetlands this morning. The immature BONAPARTE'S GULL is 
still patrolling the main pond. Other good birds include 4 SNOW GEESE in the 
pond across from the parking lot and a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK near the NE corner 
of the main pond. The bright white-stripe WHITE-THROATED SPARROW was again 
along Geiger Rd, this time about 100yds west of the slough crossing. The bird 
was seen on both the north (perched up on the tallest blackberry bush) and the 
south side of the road. I didn't find any Black-crowned Night-herons. 

 
The pond just south of the intersection SR47 & Springhill Rd (south of Forest 
Grove) held 3 female-type Cinnamon/Blue-winged Teal. I'm almost positive that 
they are Cinnamon. 

 
An EARED GREBE (dam), both the Common and the PACIFIC LOON (scoped from Rec 
Area C) continue at Hagg Lake. A male EURASIAN WIGEON was visible from Rec Area 
C as well. The scoters seem to have moved on. 

 
Stefan Schlick
Hillsboro, OR
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Hello All,
The Chukar has all but vanished from southeastern Washington. This is the 
Grande Ronde River Canyon, Wallula Gap, Snake River Canyon ( Clarkston-Lyons 
Ferry) and northern Hells Canyon. Being an introduced species no doubt is not 
helping. This is a species that seems to spring back over time and will again 
providing there are no more long wet springs. Wet weather hammers the chicks 
and these birds do not double clutch once the first brood has hatched and are 
lost. I guess I am much more worried about our native birds and their 
population issues. 

Later Mike  

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College Place, WA  99324
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Many of our customers are chukar hunters. They have all reported that numbers 
are far below those of last year. One hunter, a wildlife bio, told me that 
heavy spring rains in SE Oregon caused widespread nest abandonment. This 
coincides with the fact that a pair of Avocets on the property abandoned their 
nest just after Memorial Day, when rains caused the nest to become waterlogged. 

 
I've also noticed a precipitous drop in the black tailed Jack population; seems 
I haven't hit one on the road all summer, nor have I seen them congregating in 
my yard at sunrise and sunset. 

 
Yellow Headed Blackbirds seemed absent this summer as well.
 
Bridget
 
Crane, Oregon

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Subject: [obol] Chukar numbers down?



My barber, Pete Peterson, who has a pretty good handle on the status of
gamebirds in Oregon, returned from hunting in Malheur County and along the
Columbia recently.  He reports that hunters were leaving all of the rimrock
areas because they could find no chukars anywhere.  Pete himself could not
find chukars despite hiking in to areas where they are usually abundant
along the Owyhee.

He wonders if they can be affected by West Nile Virus or if some other
factor has slammed the population.  He also reports that California Quail
numbers were way down in these areas.

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Columbia Estuary Report - 11/10/2007

A flock of at least 45 SNOW BUNTINGS was on the beach and fore dunes
just north of the Sunset Access this morning.

I spent an hour watching the ocean from Ecola Point under very sunny
skies and a light breeze from the north.  All of the tubenoses sort
of appeared at once, first 2 BULLER'S SHEARWATERS lazily following
each other around with almost no flapping.  A single gray phase 
NORTHERN FULMAR came in quite close and I saw other single birds
throughout the morning including two light phase birds.

The group of shearwaters was in a fairly tight group kind of far out.
They kept disappearing behind waves, but I never saw any underwing
flash.  


Greater Scaup                       2
Surf Scoter                        12
White-winged Scoter                 4
Red-throated Loon                 200
Pacific Loon                      500
Western Grebe                     120
Northern Fulmar                     6
Buller's Shearwater                 2 [1] 
Short-tailed Shearwater            12 [2] 
Brown Pelican                      16 [3] 
Double-crested Cormorant            2
Pelagic Cormorant                   1
Red-tailed Hawk                     1
Peregrine Falcon                    1 [4] 
Red Phalarope                       1 [5] 
Mew Gull
California Gull [6] 
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake              1
Common Murre                       20
Ancient Murrelet                    1 [7] 

Footnotes:

[1]  flying together; not in any particular direction
[2]  probably this species; 
[3]  mostly in 1's and 2's; largests a group of 10
[4]  chasing RTHA
[5]  south bound
[6]  large numbers; no attempt made of keep count
[7]  flying north

Total number of species seen: 22

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6:45-10:15 (11/10):
overcast turning mostly sunny, wind NW 5-15, 8-10 ft swells

Loons clumpy 50-200/min south for most of the duration,
funneling 300-600/min between 8-8:30. Still many moving
when I left.

3000+ Red-throated Loons
25000+ Pacific Loons
100+ Common Loons
33 Red-necked Grebes (S)
50 Western Grebes
2000+ Northern Fulmars (S, densest in first hour, ~15% light)
2 Buller's Shearwaters
1 MANX SHEARWATER (S in loon stream 400 yards out)
30+ Short-tailed Shearwaters (S, probably low)
600+ Sooty Shearwaters (S)
2 storm-petrel sp. (dark-looking singles S 1+ mile out)
800 Brown Pelicans (small groups S)
150 Brandt's Cormorants (most S)
4 Pelagic Cormorants
6 Canada Geese
4 Brant
1 American Wigeon
25 Black Scoters
1 Harlequin Duck
1 Long-tailed Duck
1000+ White-winged Scoters (S)
4000+ Surf Scoters (S)
20 Red-breasted Mergansers
1 Peregrine Falcon
1 Pomarine Jaeger
80 Bonaparte's Gulls
80 Mew Gulls
600 California Gulls (S, most adults)
400 Herring Gulls (S, most adults)
4+ Thayer's Gulls
200 Western Gulls (most S)
400 Glaucous-winged Gulls (S, most adults)
30 Heermann's Gulls
7 Black-legged Kittiwakes
15000+ Common Murres (S, densest in first hour)
2 Pigeon Guillemots
80 Marbled Murrelets (most S)
175 Ancient Murrelets (most in small groups S)
100 Rhinoceros Auklets (S)

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My barber, Pete Peterson, who has a pretty good handle on the status of
gamebirds in Oregon, returned from hunting in Malheur County and along the
Columbia recently.  He reports that hunters were leaving all of the rimrock
areas because they could find no chukars anywhere.  Pete himself could not
find chukars despite hiking in to areas where they are usually abundant
along the Owyhee.

He wonders if they can be affected by West Nile Virus or if some other
factor has slammed the population.  He also reports that California Quail
numbers were way down in these areas.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON

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Mike Patterson called this morning to report seeing 2 BULLER'S 
SHEARWATERS and other shearwaters off of Ecola Pt. Near Cannon Beach, 
Clatsop Co..

David

David C. Bailey
Seaside, Oregon
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Obol,
   There was a large CACKLING/CANADA GOOSE flock at the junction of High
Pass Rd and Washburn Ln today.  On the edge of the flock was a single G
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE and 2 juvenile SNOW GEESE.
   I checked for the Ruff without success.  The area is great for
shorebirds.  I found only two Dowitchers and 2 Least Sandpipers.  There were
also maybe 25 WILSON'S SNIPE.  There was lots of habitat that was
unaccessible.
   A large AM PIPIT flock in the area failed to produce any longspurs or
larks.

-- 
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Eugene, Oregon
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Hi Wilson:  Can you send me a photograph of the bird?
Marilyn Miller



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Subject: [obol] Leucistic Cackling Goose

        Today my wife called me to let me know that there was a white
goose in a large flock of Cackling Geese at the Steigerwald Lake NWR in
Clark County. When I checked it out the bird was a leucistic CACKLING
GOOSE with a pure white body and a neck and head of a lovely rusty brown
color. I photographed the bird and will compare the photos to a similar
bird that was here last year. A second Cackling Goose with white wings
was in the flock, we did not see it fly so I can't say whether it was
only the primaries or the complete wings that where white.

Wilson Cady
Washougal, WA
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Friday 9 Nov 2007
Seaside Cove: Seaside: Clatsop Co.

I saw a ROCK SANDPIPER again at The Cove foraging with the SURFBIRDS and 
BLACK TURNSTONES.

David

David C. Bailey
Seaside, Oregon
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     Friday, there was an Osprey perched in a dead tree in the center of
the Parcourse running trail, where I've often seen the few of them that
stay over for the whole year, instead of migrating south.

     In a small pond next to the science center, there were 6 Hooded
Mergansers, which were very calm and tolerated a close approach.  At any
time, 5 of them had their tails raised and one did not, with this
shifting from bird to bird.  There were the usual Mallards nearby, which
in this pond, dive regularly for food, not an ordinary thing for them.

     On the large pond on the Canoe Canal, 2 Bufflehead drakes were busy
diving, as were 2 Pied-billed Grebes.  I went to many likely places in
the park and found only 4 wigeons, none of them were the Eurasian
species.

     Pictures of many of these birds are on my Flickr Photo Album, at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ AT N00/

Steve McDonald   

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Don Schrouder and I tried for the YB LOON yesterday. We were there from 
     10:30 - 11:30 and walked the trail to the back end of  the lake. 
Lots of
DC CORMORANTS and COMMON MERGANSERS, a few HOODED MERGANSERS, PB GREBES. 
No YB LOON.

Stefan Schlick wrote:
 > Did anybody try for the Yellow-billed Loon at Ollalla Lake?
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Stefan Schlick
 > Hillsboro, OR

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Last night while loading bird seed into my pickup at
the Bi-Mart in Coos Bay, two BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT
HERONS flew over.  One squawked or I would have missed
them.

Also, saw my first NORTHERN SHRIKE of the fall back on
11/6 out on the north spit of Coos Bay.

I found out from Jack Thomas last night that the long
time BC Night-heron roost in Myrtle Point (a huge
deodar cedar) was cut down this past year.  I'm sure
they could still be roosting elsewhere, but who knows
where?

Merry happy,
Tim R
Coos Bay

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I ran the Youngs Bay Route today under cloudy skies with
intermittant drizzle.  

Youngs Bay Route: 2.5 hrs; 65mi

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Bald Eagle                          6
Red-shouldered Hawk                 1 [1] 
Red-tailed Hawk                     4
American Kestrel                    3
Peregrine Falcon                    1
Northern Shrike                     1 [2] 

Footnotes:

[1]  across the river from Netul Landing, Ft Clatsop
[2]  Astoria Airport

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Went up to try and refind some of Tim Rodenkirk's good birds.  I stopped in 
Eden Valley and heard a CLARK'S NUTCRACKER and then saw a GRAY JAY imitating 
the nutcracker.  I think they were different birds, but can't be sure.

I then solicited a SPOTTED OWL a little ways down the road.  I also heard 3 
NORTHERN PYGMY OWLS.  I hiked the path up to Mt Bolivar.  There was a couple 
hundred American Robins at the trailhead.  At the top were 3 grayish-yellow 
RED CROSSBILLS.  Totally worth it.

Back at the trailhead, I started to drive away and a CLARK'S NUTCRACKER flew 
in front of the truck.  And then another.  It turned out there were 35+ 
birds feeding fairly quietly with American Robins & Northern Flickers.  Very 
nice.

Back down in Eden Valley, I checked the Chestnut-backed Chickadee flocks for 
MOUNTAIN CHICKADEES and finally found 1 in the third flock I searched.

Good birding,
Russ Namitz
Coos Bay


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Hello all from MerryLynn,
I ran down to the Walmart site - north entrance to the parking lot/bridge 
over Stone Creek around 11 this morning and pished in two Bewick's Wrens. 
After a couple minutes the Black-throated Blue Warbler appeared and I tried 
for a photo but this bird stays in foliage so I didn't get anything. It is a 
female with the distinctive white square on primaries, olive-green back and 
buffy/yellow underparts with the white line above the eye so easy to ID.
Picked up Mike for quick lunch and back down to look for the bird - of 
course it never appeared for him! But it is still around. We will look for 
it tomorrow am but supposed to be a weather change with rain so no promises.
Later, ML

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Tom,
I once saw a TV show where a researcher challenged squirrels to learn how to 
get to the food. 


Using jungle jim's, rope, swing, poles etc... the researcher continued to add 
obstacles to be conquered. The sqjuirrel mastered over 30 steps needed to reach 
the food. 


The message for folks with bird feeders was to either be ready to share, or 
have a blockage that prevents the squirrel from reaching the source in a 
complete spherical dimension. 


I had a feeder that had a complete flat bottom mounted on a pole. They could 
climb up the pole but the flat bottom prevented the small pine squirrel from 
gaining access to the feeder. It was centered so far from trees and fences they 
could not reach it. But, they tried over and over. 


Clint Brumitt
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  Subject: [obol] squirrels


 These squirrels are so inventive. The one that visits my backyard feeders has 
found that he/she can dangle from a branch upside down using only two back feet 
and stretch his body to get at sunflowers. 


  Tom Escue


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Hello all from MerryLynn,
I ran down to the Walmart site - north entrance to the parking lot/bridge 
over Stone Creek around 11 this morning and pished in two Bewick's Wrens. 
After a couple minutes the Black-throated Blue Warbler appeared and I tried 
for a photo but this bird stays in foliage so I didn't get anything. It is a 
female with the distinctive white square on primaries, olive-green back and 
buffy/yellow underparts with the white line above the eye so easy to ID.
Picked up Mike for quick lunch and back down to look for the bird - of 
course it never appeared for him! But it is still around. We will look for 
it tomorrow am but supposed to be a weather change with rain so no promises.
Later, ML

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I hate you guys who own tens of acres of land.

Green with envy,
Brandon

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Subject: Yard Birds
From: Pat Waldron 

Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:26:

    When my husband and I bought 50 acres, 12 of pasture, 38 mixed 
second growth forest, 
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Here is a very interesting bird story.
Sometimes the predator is prey.

Daniel Farrar



>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 12:58 PM
> Subject: sea lion eats bald eagle
>
>
>
> Oct. 15
> Hi Susan and Howie I've neglected to write you an amazing sight my
> Bold Bluff guests witnessed on 15 October while staying at Salty's
> Cabin. An adult Bald Eagle swooped down from the bluff with legs and
> feet extended to catch a fish at the exact moment that a gigantic Sea
> Lion popped up and grabbed the eagle by its feet. The Sea Lion pulled
> the eagle under water, then popped up while the eagle cried and
> struggled. Up and down they both went, until within a mere eight
> seconds, the eagle was gone. They saw no sight of the sea lion after,
> either. If they hadn't been watching at those precise seconds that
> this drama took place, they never would have seen it (obviously)! They
> watched in horror and amazement. I'd say, "bad timing!" The poor
> eagle's mate watched from a fir on the bluff, and hung around for
> days, swooping down exactly where its mate had disappeared, crying and
> chasing off any bird (gulls) that flew near it. Think of the dramas
> taking place all the time around one, when one is busy on the
> computer, or washing dishes, or sleeping.
> Tamar Griggs, Bold Bluff Retreat, Salt Spring Island, BC
>
>
>
>
>
Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE




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Did anybody try for the Yellow-billed Loon at Ollalla Lake?
 
Thanks,
 
Stefan Schlick
Hillsboro, OR
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Folks,

    Jay Withgott, Linda Fink and others have shared some great wisdom 
about making a difference in ecology. And, I am very appreciative that 
they shared it, as we all have very busy lives. But, sometimes it is the 
very simple things that make the biggest difference whether birds find 
refuge in your yard or not, and you are in control. Even if you have 
just a deck in an apartment block, keeping hummers happy is a simple joy.

    When my husband and I bought 50 acres, 12 of pasture, 38 mixed 
second growth forest, we started from scratch, and homesteaded on the 
edge of the pasture, surrounded by trees. I remember thinking, why don’t 
we have more birds around... and began reading how to attract them. 
Water, was easy, hedgerows, were a waiting game, as most birds do not 
prefer to in the open without some cover where they can dash to when the 
hawks arrive. Some plants grow faster than others so you need to make 
the right choices or wait. I chose berry producing plants, and not all 
natives, unfortunately, I thought all blackberries were native at the 
time.   
     A pleasant surprise was Collards! Easy to grow biennial, lasting 2 
years through the winter, providing pollen for bees, greens and salad 
for us, seeds and cover for the birds, and beautiful primrose yellow 
flowers in spring and summer. This was my quick hedgerow while I waited 
for larger plants to mature.
    I am now putting out more CRUSHED OYSTER SHELL, as it seems to be 
disappearing. OWLS?

    So far I have had 105 species, and add a few every year, rare or 
not. Some of my surprises were:
   
    BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, 11 - 88 I had the Eltzroths of Corvallis 
check this one out.
    GRAY JAY 10 -89
    CLARKS NUTCRACKER 10 - 90
    COMMON REDPOLL 11- 91
    BLACK - THROATED SPARROW 5 - 94
    PURPLE MARTIN 5 - 00
    ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK 6 - 02
    WHITE-TAILED KITE 7 - 05 ?
    BALD EAGLE 06 or 07?
    MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE 10 - 07 two, stayed here for 4 days until it 
began to rain hard.

    And, a possible CASSIN’S  FINCH, which I did not count because I was 
not 100% sure.

    Pat Waldron
    East of Scio




   

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These squirrels are so inventive. The one that visits my backyard feeders has 
found that he/she can dangle from a branch upside down using only two back feet 
and stretch his body to get at sunflowers. 


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7:15-9:15 (11/9):
continuous heavy drizzle, wind S 15-25, 8-10 ft swells
visibility < 1/2 mile, hundreds of tubenoses close in

500+ Red-throated Loons (S)
4000+ Pacific Loons (S most in first hour)
30+ Common Loons
2 Red-necked Grebes
40 Western Grebes (1 flying S)
300+ Northern Fulmars (S, 15-20% light)
1 Buller's Shearwater
2 MANX SHEARWATERS (separate birds ~1/2 hour apart moving
                           S with Sootys, both within 300 yards)
60+ Short-tailed Shearwaters (S)
800+ Sooty Shearwaters (S)
100 Brown Pelicans (feeding, N)
50 Brandt's Cormorants
3 Pelagic Cormorants
2 Black Scoters
80 White-winged Scoters
300 Surf Scoters
9 Bonaparte's Gulls
3+ Mew Gulls
500+ California Gulls (N, most adults)
3+ Herring Gulls
100+ Western Gulls (most N)
60+ Glaucous-winged Gulls (most N)
20 Heermann's Gulls
1 Black-legged Kittiwake
3000+ Common Murres (S, most in first hour)
2 Pigeon Guillemots
4 Marbled Murrelets
45 Ancient Murrelets (pairs & small groups S)
300 Rhinoceros Auklets (S)

Phil
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I'm sure you heard about the oil spill in SF Bay. Here is a short 
article about some of the immediate impact. Very distressful.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/09/MN3TT959H.DTL

For 14 years and until 2.5 years ago, I lived 2 blocks from Ocean Beach 
in SF

Jacqui

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I would rather have birds than airplanes
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It turns out that my memory was awry when recollecting the occurrence  
of red-colored geese in Canada.  While I had the location correct  
(Nunavut, not Nunivak Island as stated in Jeff's post), it was a  
flock of Ruddy Shelducks, NOT Red-breasted Geese.

Shawneen Finnegan
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OBOL folks,

Many folks in Oregon know and do the Thanksgiving Day bird count, which is 
actually done on Thanksgiving Day. It's a fun count for one hour you can do 
anywhere within a 15 foot diameter circle (do my feeder area each year). If 
your not doing one now and would be interest, check the web page below. 


Enjoy, Dennis (north of Grants Pass)

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Okay, I know y'all are tired of the thread, but Lars post made me think 
maybe some of you could use some suggestions to up your yard habitat. 
So, just in case, here's what we've done: 1)hedgerows. Birds love 
hedgerows. They are passages from one area to another without having to 
cross those scary open spaces. 2)Water. Puddle on the ground is fine or 
a birdbath or a fountain or a pond. 3)Weeds. That includes not cleaning 
up your flower beds in the fall. Birds love those seed pods. 4)Lookout 
posts -- fence posts or bamboo poles or dead trees -- somewhere to sit 
if you're a raptor. (Unless you don't want raptors.) 5) No cats 
outdoors. 6)feeders if you haven't enough space for natural food sources.

Now everyone knows these things, I'm sure, but if you want to up your 
yard lists (or give birds more and safer habitat), you have to put these 
simple ideas into practice. It doesn't take much yard space to create a 
habitat bonanza for birds -- take Carol Karlen's miniature back yard 
that is full of birds in McMinnville.

I promise I'll shut up now. (But Lars, you have 40 acres for goodness 
sake!)

Linda Fink

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*Not good news for South heading loons.  58,000 gallons of bunker fuel 
are in the SF Bay. 

Oil Spill Fouls Shores in San Francisco Area 
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I digiscoped a male hybrid Woodie and Mallard today at Crystal Springs; as 
OBOLers Jeff Marks (sp? and friend) watched it too. 

This one has a bit of white Mallard neck ring in front, unlike one I had on 
Kellogg Creek last year. Photos with female Wood Duck, and male Mallard up at: 

http://home.earthlink.net/~s.berliner/


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...........Sorry...mail service deleted this part of message below, and sent 
the long extraneous part fo Bill 's message- that I had deleted-- --undeleated 

.................................geraldham AT comcast.net

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From: geraldham AT comcast.net
To: tweeters AT u.washington.edu
Subject: FW: [Tweeters] Ridgefield NWR: N SHRIKE, W-T KITE, MEADOWLARK
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:19:59 +0000
> ..................................I have, a year ago, at Julia Butler Hansen 
> Nat'l Wildlife Refuge near Cathlamet, Wash. (north side of Co;umbia 
River--half 

> way between Longview and Long Beach, Wash.),, seen this exact sort of 
behavior 

> among a group of Greater Yellowlegs there.. I thought it curious behavior at 
the 

> time, but didn't think much more about it  then.
> ................................I also am curious as to why this is done---a 
> "territorial thing" as suggested.?? If any fellow birders have any answers or 

> reasons for this behavior, I and Bill would certainly be behoven to them for 
a 

> possible answer.
> ...............................Cheers.....Gerald Hamilton
> Brush Prairie, Wash. 

>                                                   geraldham AT comcast.net
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> --------------------------------------------
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> From: Bill Clemons 
> To: Tweeters 
> Subject: [Tweeters] Ridgefield NWR: N SHRIKE, W-T KITE, MEADOWLARK
> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 02:42:26 +0000
> > Today, my mother (Olive) and I birded the River "S"
> > Unit at Ridgefield NWR (~4mi W of I-5 at Exit 14 in SW
> > Washington; http://www.fws.gov/ridgefieldrefuges/ ). 
> > It was pretty foggy when we arrived around 9:30, but
> > it lifted within a couple of hours. All in all it was
> > a very nice day.
> > 
> > Highlights:
> > 
> > GREATER YELLOWLEGS Chasewas quite
> > curious.  We could hear GR YELLOWLEGS from the
> > entrance fee Kiosk, but thought it was ordinary.  When
> > we got to Long Lake we saw several, but two
> > individuals were the cause of most of the calling. 
> > While we watched there for four minutes or so, one was
> > continually flying/running after the other and
> > occasionally landing atop the back of the fleeing
> > bird, more than once dunking it under water.  It
> > seemed as though the lead bird was more pestered than
> > really threatened.  Strange.  I am assuming that the
> > chaser wanted territory to itself, and the lead bird
> > just kept hunting and eating as best it could.  The
> > chaser was wasting a Lot of energy, but just would not
> > give up the chase.
> > 
> > NORTHERN SH
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From: Bill Clemons 
To: OBOL 
Subject: [obol] Ridgefield NWR: N SHRIKE, W-T KITE, MEADOWLARK
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 02:42:14 +0000
> Today, my mother (Olive) and I birded the River "S"
> Unit at Ridgefield NWR (~4mi W of I-5 at Exit 14 in SW
> Washington; http://www.fws.gov/ridgefieldrefuges/ ). 
> It was pretty foggy when we arrived around 9:30, but
> it lifted within a couple of hours. All in all it was
> a very nice day.
> 
> Highlights:
> 
> GREATER YELLOWLEGS Chase:  This sighting was quite
> curious.  We could hear GR YELLOWLEGS from the
> entrance fee Kiosk, but thought it was ordinary.  When
> we got to Long Lake we saw several, but two
> individuals were the cause of most of the calling. 
> While we watched there for four minutes or so, one was
> continually flying/running after the other and
> occasionally landing atop the back of the fleeing
> bird, more than once dunking it under water.  It
> seemed as though the lead bird was more pestered than
> really threatened.  Strange.  I am assuming that the
> chaser wanted territory to itself, and the lead bird
> just kept hunting and eating as best it could.  The
> chaser was wasting a Lot of energy, but just would not
> give up the chase.
> 
> NORTHERN SHRIKE:  Seen atop a 25ft brushy deciduous
> tree near the SE corner of Canvasback Lake.  This is
> at the corner where the road turns E and goes along
> the S side of Rest Lake.  This is a binocular ID.  As
> I was setting up the scope on a window mount, I was
> forced to move the car due to traffic behind me.  Once
> they passed, the Shrike was gone.  I say this only
> because Roger Windemuth took a photo of a LOGERHEAD
> Shrike in late October.  I'm 95% confident this one
> was a NORTHERN SHRIKE, but would liked to have
> observed it a bit longer.
> 
> WHITE-TAILED KITE:  Seen from barely beyond the Kiwa
> Trail parking lot, this JUVENILE W-T KITE was about
> 150-200 yards E of the road, atop a deciduous tree. 
> The light was decent and I had an excellent scope view
> using the window mount. 
> 
> CANVASBACK:  Several seen in quite good light.  Males
> and females were seen, around 16 or so, split between
> Rest Lake (4) and South Big Lake (~12) (just S of Rest
> Lake).
> 
> Bill Clemons
> SW of Portland in Mtn Park
> Willclemons AT Yahoo dot com
> 
> Complete list of 51 species seen / heard:
> 
> Pied-billed Grebe
> Double-crested Cormorant
> Great Blue Heron
> Great Egret
> Greater White-fronted Goose         (only 1 seen )
> Cackling Goose                 (thousands)
> Canada Goose                   (under a hundred)
> Tundra Swan                     (shy of 2 hundred)
> Gadwall
> American Wigeon
> Mallard
> Northern Shoveler
> Northern Pintail                   (hundreds)
> Green-winged Teal
> CANVASBACK     
> Bufflehead
> HOODED MERGANSER     (1 pair on Long Lake)
> WHITE-TAILED KITE
> Bald Eagle                            (1 sub adult
> near The Blind)
> Northern Harrier                  (lots)
> Red-tailed Hawk                    (plenty, mostly
> juv.)
> American Kestrel                  (a few)
> American Coot
> SANDHILL CRANE             (heard only today)
> GREATER YELLOWLEGS     (a few on Long Lake)
> Wilson's Snipe                       (2 seen on Long
> Lake)
> Gull (Species)
> Belted Kingfisher                   (1 seen on Long
> Lake)
> Red-breasted Sapsucker          (2 seen)
> Northern Flicker
> NORTHERN SHRIKE
> Steller's Jay
> Western Scrub-Jay
> American Crow
> Black-capped Chickadee
> Bushtit
> White-breasted Nuthatch          (1 seen, 3 heard)
> Bewick's Wren                          (2 seen, 2
> heard)
> Marsh Wren                              (5 seen, 4
> heard)
> Golden-crowned Kinglet          (a few seen)
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet              (perhaps a dozen
> seen)
> American Robin
> European Starling
> Yellow-rumped Warbler
> Spotted Towhee
> Savannah Sparrow                  (2 seen on road E
> side of Rest Lake
> Song Sparrow
> LINCOLN'S SPARROW        (1 seen near pkng lot at
> Blind) 
> Golden-crowned Sparrow
> Red-winged Blackbird
> WESTERN MEADOWLARK
> Purple Finch
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OBOL:

Yard 1.
For the last 16 years I've lived in a one-bedroom, second floor apartment 
that has a small deck looking into a maple tree.  There are 120 apartments 
in this two-block complex.  I look into a courtyard with a pond and 
fountain.  Since I'm at work during daylight hours and gone most weekends, 
I've let my feeders lapse.  My best sighting here was a flock of Sandhill 
Cranes flying over.  I see a Green Heron each year.  The pond gets Canada 
Geese, Mallards and gulls.  I saw a Townsend's Warbler once.

Yard 2.
My virtual yard, the yard of my dreams, surrounds a log cabin in a pine 
forest north of Enterprise, with a view of the Wallowas.  Yard birds include 
Gyrfalcon, Snow Buntings, Gray Partridge, Pygmy Nuthatches, and a Dipper 
that comes to the water feature.  It includes an A-frame at the boundary of 
the oaks and pines overlooking Ashland, where California Towhees scuttle in 
the brush and Oak Titmice call from the trees.  White-breasted Nuthatches 
visit the feeders, and Western Bluebirds nest in the oaks.  On the west end 
of the yard is a grand old house on the bluff south of Seal Rock, above the 
tsunami zone.  The full windows overlooking the Pacific let me do seawatches 
in my slippers next to the fire.  There I'll learn the gulls in my golden 
years. Ahhh....

Yard 3.
This yard is the one I love.  The west side is the Pacific ocean, the north 
side is the Columbia River, the east side is Idaho, and the south is bounded 
by California and Nevada.  The yard has such a variety of habitats: canyons, 
rivers, lakes, mountains, fields and seacoast.  It is rather unkempt in 
places: I'm not able to keep up with maintenance.  I don't even get to all 
of it some years.  I have roommates who fuss over how to take care of the 
yard and argue a lot.  They try to make rules for each other.  They campaign 
and vote, and vote again.  Some say it should be a research plot for bird 
study, some say it's a gallery for avian beauty, some think it's a 
money-management challenge, some say it's a political arena, some just want 
to sit on the benches and enjoy the birds.  Watching from my window, I've 
begun to let all that go.  I enjoy strolling the paths and sharing this yard 
with my friends.  This weekend some of us are going up along the north side. 
We'll let you know what we see.

Paul T. Sullivan

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Today, my mother (Olive) and I birded the River "S"
Unit at Ridgefield NWR (~4mi W of I-5 at Exit 14 in SW
Washington; http://www.fws.gov/ridgefieldrefuges/ ). 
It was pretty foggy when we arrived around 9:30, but
it lifted within a couple of hours. All in all it was
a very nice day.

Highlights:

GREATER YELLOWLEGS Chase:  This sighting was quite
curious.  We could hear GR YELLOWLEGS from the
entrance fee Kiosk, but thought it was ordinary.  When
we got to Long Lake we saw several, but two
individuals were the cause of most of the calling. 
While we watched there for four minutes or so, one was
continually flying/running after the other and
occasionally landing atop the back of the fleeing
bird, more than once dunking it under water.  It
seemed as though the lead bird was more pestered than
really threatened.  Strange.  I am assuming that the
chaser wanted territory to itself, and the lead bird
just kept hunting and eating as best it could.  The
chaser was wasting a Lot of energy, but just would not
give up the chase.

NORTHERN SHRIKE:  Seen atop a 25ft brushy deciduous
tree near the SE corner of Canvasback Lake.  This is
at the corner where the road turns E and goes along
the S side of Rest Lake.  This is a binocular ID.  As
I was setting up the scope on a window mount, I was
forced to move the car due to traffic behind me.  Once
they passed, the Shrike was gone.  I say this only
because Roger Windemuth took a photo of a LOGERHEAD
Shrike in late October.  I'm 95% confident this one
was a NORTHERN SHRIKE, but would liked to have
observed it a bit longer.

WHITE-TAILED KITE:  Seen from barely beyond the Kiwa
Trail parking lot, this JUVENILE W-T KITE was about
150-200 yards E of the road, atop a deciduous tree. 
The light was decent and I had an excellent scope view
using the window mount. 

CANVASBACK:  Several seen in quite good light.  Males
and females were seen, around 16 or so, split between
Rest Lake (4) and South Big Lake (~12) (just S of Rest
Lake).

Bill Clemons
SW of Portland in Mtn Park
Willclemons AT Yahoo dot com

Complete list of 51 species seen / heard:

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Greater White-fronted Goose         (only 1 seen )
Cackling Goose                 (thousands)
Canada Goose                   (under a hundred)
Tundra Swan                     (shy of 2 hundred)
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail                   (hundreds)
Green-winged Teal
CANVASBACK     
Bufflehead
HOODED MERGANSER     (1 pair on Long Lake)
WHITE-TAILED KITE
Bald Eagle                            (1 sub adult
near The Blind)
Northern Harrier                  (lots)
Red-tailed Hawk                    (plenty, mostly
juv.)
American Kestrel                  (a few)
American Coot
SANDHILL CRANE             (heard only today)
GREATER YELLOWLEGS     (a few on Long Lake)
Wilson's Snipe                       (2 seen on Long
Lake)
Gull (Species)
Belted Kingfisher                   (1 seen on Long
Lake)
Red-breasted Sapsucker          (2 seen)
Northern Flicker
NORTHERN SHRIKE
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch          (1 seen, 3 heard)
Bewick's Wren                          (2 seen, 2
heard)
Marsh Wren                              (5 seen, 4
heard)
Golden-crowned Kinglet          (a few seen)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet              (perhaps a dozen
seen)
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow                  (2 seen on road E
side of Rest Lake
Song Sparrow
LINCOLN'S SPARROW        (1 seen near pkng lot at
Blind) 
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
WESTERN MEADOWLARK
Purple Finch

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A interesting collection of species have been proposed as the five most
likely next new birds for Oregon.  So far only TWO species have received top
ranking from more than one person!  There is still time to vote; I'll post
the totals Sunday evening.

Here are some species that have not occurred in Oregon. What's YOUR top 5 in
order of likelihood?

Arctic Warbler
Baird's Sparrow
BB Cuckoo
Bean Goose
Black Rail
Black Skimmer
Black Vulture
Black-tailed Gull
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown Shrike
Cassin's Sparrow
Cave Swallow
Cerulean Warbler
Chimney Swift
Common Crane
Common Greenshank
Common Pochard
Craveri's Murrelet
Dusky Thrush
Dusky Warbler
Eurasian Kestrel
Eyebrowed Thrush
Far Eastern Curlew
Field Sparrow
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Gray-tailed Tattler
Great BB Gull
Great-cr Fly
Greater Shearwater
Great-winged Petrel
Least Storm-Petrel
Lesser Frigatebird
Lesser Nighthawk
Mississippi Kite
N Sharptail Sparrow
Northern Hobby
Parkinson's Petrel
Siberian Accentor
Sky Lark
Temminck's Stint
White-eyed Vireo
Wood Stork
Xantus's Hummer
YB Magpie
YC Nightheron
Yellow-bellied Fly
Yg Vireo

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON

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LeavesWell my computer is finally working again after a new hard drive and 
fax modem.

The winter birds have arrived, FOX, GOLD-CROWN SPARROWS, flocks of 
WHITE-CROWN SPARROWS, a SONG SPARROW, LINCOLN SPARROW, SCRUB and STELLERS 
JAYS, HOUSE FINCHES, RUBY-CROWN KINGLETS, BUSH TIT'S, CEDAR WAXWINGS, 
CHESTNUT-BACKED & BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE, CALIFORNIA QUAILS, MORNING DOVES 
and EURASIAN-COLLARED DOVES, SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRDS,  HOUSE 
SPARROWS that are already house hunting and getting TRAPPED in my ever 
popular NEST-BOX TRAP.
I think the dry grass lining I've added is a extra attractent, all ready for 
them to move in.

My tame HOSP's have been molting and now have a new suit of feathers and I 
have shed feathers all over the floor!

The HOUSE SPARROWS have been observed eating spider webs !!! Not spiders 
mind you or bugs in the web, but their dirty webs!!
The CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES took a look at those webs the HOSP's were 
feeding on but didn't see anything of interest to eat there and left.
What's so tasty about dirty spider webs to a HOSP??

Another HOSP was trapped today, a female, the mate? of the male I trapped 
earlier this week.

The HOUSE FINCHES already show signs of avian pox, puffy eyes, tumors on 
their bodies, poor things !

Sheila from about to rain, Harbor OR.



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I ran the Lower Columbia Route this morning under cloudy skies
and a smoky haze presumably from slash burning.  63 miles, 3.7hrs.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Bald Eagle                          7
Northern Harrier                    9
Sharp-shinned Hawk                  1
Red-tailed Hawk                    10
Rough-legged Hawk                   1 [3] 
American Kestrel                    3
Peregrine Falcon                    4
Barn Owl                            1


Also of note:
Snow Goose                          3 [1] 
Cackling Goose                  10000 [2]

Footnotes:

[1]  one flyby adult at Bughole; adult and juv with
     Cackling Geese at Brownsmead Dike
[2]  Single flock
[3]  Dunes near parking lot B, Ft Stevens

Total number of species seen: 10

-- 
Mike Patterson               
Astoria, OR                    
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Many of you have responded to my request for suggestions of retail outlets
to test and fondle optics.

It seems that a consensus has developed to visit either the Portland Audubon
Store or one of the four Sportsman's Warehouse stores in Oregon (Portland,
Salem, Bend, Medford).

 

Thank you all for your help and advice. 

 

Good Birding,

 

Dan Heyerly, Eugene
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On 11/8/07 1:09 AM, "mike denny"  wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> Yesterday I recieved a phone call from a friend that stated that he had just
> seen a sub-adult Red-breasted Goose that had been shot out of a flock of
> Greater-white Fronted Geese. Tom told me that the bird is being taxadermed
> right here in Walla Walla and that it has no clipped toes or feathers. No
> leg or nare rings or bands. He said it looks to have been a wild bird. I am
> going to take a look tomorrow evening and get some photos.
> Later Mike
> 
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> Mike & MerryLynn Denny
> 1354 S. E. Central Ave.
> College Place, WA  99324
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> 
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> 
> 
Shawneen Finnegan mentioned that there was as she recalled a group of six
Red-breasted Geese found in the Nunivak area of Canada a few years ago, in a
year when unusual numbers of the species were found out of range in Europe.

I assume that the bird that Mike is reporting was shot in Washington State.

Jeff Gilligan


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