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> 1. Linn Co Brewer's Sparrow (Fontaine, Joe)
> 2. Sauvie Island (Harry Nehls)
> 3. Santiam pass birding (donjen at att.net)
> 4. Re: Sauvie Island (Jeff Gilligan)
> 5. The Curmudgeon on Paul Sullivan (Alan Contreras)
> 6. Linn Co. good birds 8/18/06 (Roy Gerig)
> 7. Re: The toughest job I ever loved... (Mike Patterson)
> 8. a fifth way to see a little stint (Moore, Randy)
> 9. Tortoiseshell Butterflies at Santiam Pass (Roy Gerig)
> 10. mid-Valley shorebirds (Moore, Randy)
> 11. Re: Tortoiseshell Butterflies (Mike Patterson)
> 12. Sign off Obol (Tim Lee)
> 13. Swifts gathering at Eugene roost (DAVID IRONS)
> 14. Yamhill County Common Nighthawk (Darin)
> 15. Nuthatch migrant (Alan Contreras)
> 16. Re: mid-Valley shorebirds (Darrel Faxon)
> 17. Red-necked Phalaropes (Diane Cavaness)
> 18. Census Count: Mt. Tabor Park, Multnomah County, Oregon on
> August 19, 2006 (tmacport99 at hotmail.com)
> 19. Re: Nuthatch migrant (Jeff Gilligan)
> 20. Vanport (Mult.) yesterday (Tom McNamara)
> 21. This morning at Coxcomb Hill - 8/19/2006 (Mike Patterson)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:41:49 -0700
> From: "Fontaine, Joe" <Joe.Fontaine at oregonstate.edu>
> Subject: [obol] Linn Co Brewer's Sparrow
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> OBOLers,
>
> This morning Randy Moore, Billi Veber, and I found a BREWER'S SPARROW at
> the Pioneer Villa sewage ponds. The bird was with Savannah Sparrows along
> the road near the pumphouse.
>
> Also of note, the sewage ponds have ZERO shorebird habitat at the moment.
> I guess we'll have to wait at least another week for some mud to appear.
>
> Good Birding,
> Joe
>
>
> Joe Fontaine
> Dept of Fisheries & Wildlife
> 104 Nash Hall
> Oregon State University
> Corvallis, OR 97331
> joe.fontaine at oregonstate.edu
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> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:49:29 -0700
> From: Harry Nehls <hnehls at teleport.com>
> Subject: [obol] Sauvie Island
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> Obolers,
>
> Last evening I visited the mud flats off Big Eddy on Sauvie Island. Way
> out
> on the edge of the water was a flock of about 2000 peeps, too far out to
> do
> much with. At last some shorebirds have shown up on the Island.
>
> Harry Nehls
> Portland, Oregon
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:08:56 +0000
> From: donjen at att.net
> Subject: [obol] Santiam pass birding
> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
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>
> Yesterday Roy Gerig and I spent the day birding the Linn County side of
> the Santiam Pass area.
>
> We began our day at Detroit Flats in Marion County, hoping for a rarity or
> two. There were no rarities, but we did see a couple of BLACK-THROATED
> GRAY, YELLOW-RUMPED, and WILSON'S WARBLERS, WARBLING VIREO, PACIFIC-SLOPE
> FLYCATCHER, and a small flock of RED CROSSBILLS. It turns out that we saw
> or heard crossbills at all of our stops during the day.
>
> Next we turned in at Big Meadows for possible brewer's sparrows and rock
> wren. On the way in our car flushed a GREAT GRAY OWL. We didn't see the
> sparrows as apparently the "forest" has grown up too high. We did see a
> DUSKY FLYCATCHER, MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLERS, and a FOX SPARROW, but were
> forced to turn back early do to a bee sting.
>
> Having recovered from the bee sting we decided to head up the mountain to
> Lost Lake. Among the resident BARROW'S GOLDENEYE we spotted a HOODED
> MERGANSER while a pair of OSPREY were pulling fish from the lake. We
> found 4 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS around the lake. Just as we were packing up to
> leave, a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER flew in. While we were looking for it, 6
> RED CROSSBILLS passed through, one of which was giving off a different
> call - like a pine siskin on steroids. We thought that perhaps it was a
> white-winged crossbill, but we couldn't get any good views of it.
>
> We continued on toward the Hoodoo Ski Area, around the back side of
> Hayrick Butte. We found a large flock of MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS (around 6
> adults and at least 4 juveniles), mixed in with a large flock of CHIPPING
> SPARROW along with WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.
>
> Our final stop of the day was the Santiam snow park and PCT trailhead
> area. We never did find any large groups of woodpeckers, but here we
> found a lone HAIRY WOODPECKER, and a THREE-TOED WOODPECKER (lifer for
> me). I also got a very brief look at a flying woodpecker that struck me
> as being a williamson's sapsucker.
>
> All in all a pretty good day as we were able to fill in the vast birdless
> forest walks with good conversation.
>
>
> Good Birding,
> Don Berg
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:41:33 -0700
> From: Jeff Gilligan <jeffgill at teleport.com>
> Subject: Re: [obol] Sauvie Island
> To: Harry Nehls <hnehls at teleport.com>, obol
> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
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> Gerard Lillie and I mistimed the tide (it was too high) today on Sauvie¹s
> Island. I am terrible in regard to the names of the lakes on the west
> side
> of the island, but one had a nice mud fringe (either Round Lake or Little
> Martin Lake). Shorebirds there were:
>
> 1 Solitary Sandpiper
> 2 Lesser Yellowlegs
> 1 Greater Yellowlegs
> 6 Long-billed Dowitchers
>
>
> Jeff Gilligan. Portland.
>
>
>
>
> On 8/18/06 1:49 PM, "Harry Nehls" <hnehls at teleport.com> wrote:
>
>> Obolers,
>>
>> Last evening I visited the mud flats off Big Eddy on Sauvie Island. Way
>> out on
>> the edge of the water was a flock of about 2000 peeps, too far out to do
>> much
>> with. At last some shorebirds have shown up on the Island.
>>
>> Harry Nehls
>> Portland, Oregon
>>
>>
>>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:37:39 -0700
> From: Alan Contreras <acontrer at MINDSPRING.COM>
> Subject: [obol] The Curmudgeon on Paul Sullivan
> To: obol <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
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> It's time. It has to be done. Someone in the Oregon birding community
> has
> to do it. Someone Fearless, Out In Front, Beyond Embarrassment.
>
> Someone needs to check Paul Sullivan's toes for palmations.
>
> I concede that it's a challenge. It will take guts, perfect timing, proper
> optics (Hey, those Leupold 6x32 are perfect for this kind of thing-and
> they
> don't even pay me anymore) and a half-case of Old Battlecow Fortified Ale
> (eleven bottles for Paul and one to get the mud off the toes to be
> absolutely sure).
>
> O ye who aspire to call yourselves scientists, it's time to Get It Done.
>
> Sure, while you're at it you should check his tertials. I've always had
> some doubt about them, quite frankly. As for his primary extension, I'll
> leave that to ... Well, she knows who she is.
>
> Paul has been plucking the gee...that is, the shorebirds of our fantasies
> long enough, spoiling the dreams of those of us who can tell a brant from
> a
> bandsaw. Into his place it is time that he is put by we. Meaning thee.
>
> I'll be off to compare scutellations with crevulations on tattler legs as
> soon as the moon rises, for it is said by The Masters that on such nights,
> and only such nights, the Gray-tailed glows bright pink.
>
> --
> Alan Contreras
> EUGENE, OREGON
> acontrer at mindspring.com
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:24:28 -0700
> From: "Roy Gerig" <roygerig at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [obol] Linn Co. good birds 8/18/06
> To: obol at lists.orst.edu
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> Starting last evening (8/17) where I camped near road 2676 about 2 miles
> east of Fish Lake in east Linn County, I counted 30 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS
> which
> I think is a big number in the West Cascades.
>
> This morning I woke up to the sounds of the same Nighthawks, then down the
> road a Mile Post 1 there was a juvenile RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. I have not
> seen this species in the Cascades before, this at about 4000' elevation.
>
> I went back up to the Santiam Pass and found the wet spot near the Santiam
> Snow park that was mentioned a week ago (yesterday Don Berg and I did not
> find it) and found the following, birds that I liked are arbitrarily
> capitalized):
>
> Vaux's Swift
> Downy Woodpecker
> 3-TOED WOODPECKER
> BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER
> Northern Flicker
> Steller's Jay
> CLARK'S NUTCRACKER
> Common Raven
> Mountain Chickadee
> RB Nuthatch
> GC Kinglet
> HERMIT THRUSH
> American Robin
> Warbling Vireo
> OC Warbler
> NASHVILLE WARBLER
> MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER
> TOWNSEND'S WARBLER
> Western Tanager
> Chipping Sparrow
> LINCOLN'S SPARROW
> Dark-eyed Junco
> Red Crossbill
> WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL (based on hearing what Don described yesterday. I
> could be wrong, not being very familiar with WWCR vocalizations, be I am
> quite familiar with RECR vocalizations and it wasn't those.)
> Pine Siskin (in the area but not with crossbills, and not sounding like
> the
> above at all)
>
> Later, at the Lost Lake Campground, I was 2 CALLIOPE HUMMINBIRDS, good
> close
> looks and at first I thought they were big bees. Silent and with almost
> no
> rufous color on them, probably a female and juvenile. Several Rufous
> Hummers were also there, in the riparian area next to the campground.
>
> Roy Gerig, Salem OR
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:35:04 -0700
> From: Mike Patterson <celata at pacifier.com>
> Subject: [obol] Re: The toughest job I ever loved...
> To: Obol <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
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> And here I thought this was common knowledge, but you're
> the fourth person to ask, so....
>
> I spent two years in Malawi which borders the third of the
> Great Rift Lakes of East Africa.
>
> My "yardlist" is available at:
> http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/archive/likuni.html
>
>
> Donna Lusthoff wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Mike. What a list!
>>
>> Where were you - I assume Africa, but where?
>>
>> Donna Lusthoff
>>
>
> --
> Mike Patterson
> Astoria, OR
> celata at pacifier.com
>
> Why birders hate Cordilleran Flycatchers
> http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/mbalame/archives/003981.html
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:39:20 -0700
> From: "Moore, Randy" <Randy.Moore at oregonstate.edu>
> Subject: [obol] a fifth way to see a little stint
> To: <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
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> I think, Joel, you should add a fifth way to see a little stint to your
> list. Return to the field after drowning your sorrows in the English pub;
> it should now be easy to produce a little stint (or any other rare
> shorebird of your choosing) from the same flock that oddly enough
> contained only westerns and leasts an hour before.
>
> randy
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:49:13 -0700
> From: "Roy Gerig" <roygerig at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [obol] Tortoiseshell Butterflies at Santiam Pass
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> I forgot to mention these in my post of Linn County birds 8/18.
>
> Califonia Tortoiseshell Butterflies were thick by midday in the Hoodoo-Big
> Lake area, to where you wanted a kerchief so you wouldn't inhale any, and
> it
> was like swimming through them when you walked anywhere. There had to be
> at
> the very least 10s of millions of them, and in some areas around the base
> of
> Hayrick Butte the Ceanothus velutina was completely defoliated with only
> leaf petioles and midrib left, and the skeleton plants covered with pupae.
>
> I have never seen anything like it, and I have seen irruptions of this
> butterfly before. Almost of Biblical propertions, today in east Linn
> County
> the California Tortiseshell was a force of nature, like the wind is. I am
> grateful to have experienced this.
>
> Roy Gerig, Salem OR
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:51:28 -0700
> From: "Moore, Randy" <Randy.Moore at oregonstate.edu>
> Subject: [obol] mid-Valley shorebirds
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> Hey all,
>
> If you're looking for Valley shorebirding spots, Morgan Lake at Baskett
> Slough is pretty good habitat right now. The rest of the slough is pretty
> well dry except for a spot just downstream from the lake (although this
> spot looked good, it had zero shorebirds). The big puddle at the narrows
> was completely barren also. Nothing of note at the Lake except for a
> lovely juv. Baird's sandpiper, but there were 120 or so western sandpipers
> and 40 or so least sandpipers with a smattering of other common stuff
> thrown in. It's the only place in the mid-Valley we've checked in the
> last few days that has more than a couple handfuls of birds, so if
> something interesting is gonna show in the area, it might be a good spot
> to check. It's also a great spot to pick apart western and least
> sandpipers feather by feather if this stint ID discussion has gotten ahold
> of you. You can get very close in places.
>
> Cabell marsh has bneen checked pretty regularly of late, and although the
> numbers are pretty low, there has been a sanderling, semi-palm sandpiper
> (both of which Doug Robinson found a few days ago), red-necked phalarope,
> and a couple of solitary sandpipers, along with most of the usual
> suspects.
>
> As for me, I'm heading off to Summer Lake. As grateful as I am for any
> shorebirds in the Valley, I still get depressed when I realize that 170
> shorebirds is the best I can do locally (at least until the dunlin
> arrive). I grew up on the east coast and I'm nostalgic for days of
> 1,000's of peeps and 25 species in a day.
>
> cheers,
> randy
> ________________________________
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> Message: 11
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:25:15 -0700
> From: Mike Patterson <celata at pacifier.com>
> Subject: [obol] Re: Tortoiseshell Butterflies
> To: obol at lists.orst.edu
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> California Tortoiseshells were flying along the immediate coast
> today at Del Rey and were also seen in fair numbers at Seaside,
> Gearhart and Warrenton. Nothing like the reports in the Cascades,
> but a noticable movement.
>
> --
> Mike Patterson
> Astoria, OR
> celata at pacifier.com
>
> Why birders hate Cordilleran Flycatchers
> http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/mbalame/archives/003981.html
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:37:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tim Lee <tim2lee at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [obol] Sign off Obol
> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
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> Please remove me from the Obol mailing list. I'm
> leaving Eugene tomorrow, entering UC Berkeley as a
> freshman.
>
> This list has provided numerous info and helpful tips
> in past two years. I've learned a lot by communicating
> with numerous individuals.
>
> Thank you again.
>
> -Tim Lee
> Eugene
>
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> Message: 13
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:12:35 +0000
> From: "DAVID IRONS" <llsdirons at msn.com>
> Subject: [obol] Swifts gathering at Eugene roost
> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
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> Tonight I watched approx. 1500 Vaux's Swifts go into the Chimney at Agate
> Hall (18th and Agate St.) on the east side of the U of O campus in Eugene.
> They went into the chimney between 8:15 and 8:30.
>
> Dave Irons
> Eugene, OR
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 14
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:53:13 -0700
> From: "Darin" <d.rhein at comcast.net>
> Subject: [obol] Yamhill County Common Nighthawk
> To: "OBOL" <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
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> Hello Obolies,
> While on drive in the Coast Range yesterday west of Mcminnville, just
> north of Willamina creek, for those familiar with the area. I saw four
> Common Nighthawks about an hour before sunset. I didn't get a very close
> look, but I'm assuming they were two pair, as they seemed to be flying as
> pairs. I also had a sighting in this area two summers ago. Does anyone
> know if they return to the same nesting area each year?
>
> Darin
> Newberg, OR
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> Message: 15
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:55:13 -0700
> From: Alan Contreras <acontrer at MINDSPRING.COM>
> Subject: [obol] Nuthatch migrant
> To: obol <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
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> Red-breasted Nuthatch was in my yard this morning August 20, in flatland
> south Eugene. It is not annual in my yard.
>
> --
> Alan Contreras
> EUGENE, OREGON
> acontrer at mindspring.com
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:58:20 -0700
> From: "Darrel Faxon" <5hats at peak.org>
> Subject: Re: [obol] mid-Valley shorebirds
> To: "Moore, Randy" <Randy.Moore at oregonstate.edu>,
> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
> Message-ID: <004e01c6c3a8$4db88c20$0000a398 at your5rlp3a9516>
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> obol Digest, Vol 34, Issue 18Randy,
> Well, I still live on the coast, and I'm nostagic for those days too.
>
> Darrel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Moore, Randy
> To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 9:51 PM
> Subject: [obol] mid-Valley shorebirds
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> If you're looking for Valley shorebirding spots, Morgan Lake at Baskett
> Slough is pretty good habitat right now. The rest of the slough is pretty
> well dry except for a spot just downstream from the lake (although this
> spot looked good, it had zero shorebirds). The big puddle at the narrows
> was completely barren also. Nothing of note at the Lake except for a
> lovely juv. Baird's sandpiper, but there were 120 or so western sandpipers
> and 40 or so least sandpipers with a smattering of other common stuff
> thrown in. It's the only place in the mid-Valley we've checked in the
> last few days that has more than a couple handfuls of birds, so if
> something interesting is gonna show in the area, it might be a good spot
> to check. It's also a great spot to pick apart western and least
> sandpipers feather by feather if this stint ID discussion has gotten ahold
> of you. You can get very close in places.
>
> Cabell marsh has bneen checked pretty regularly of late, and although
> the numbers are pretty low, there has been a sanderling, semi-palm
> sandpiper (both of which Doug Robinson found a few days ago), red-necked
> phalarope, and a couple of solitary sandpipers, along with most of the
> usual suspects.
>
> As for me, I'm heading off to Summer Lake. As grateful as I am for any
> shorebirds in the Valley, I still get depressed when I realize that 170
> shorebirds is the best I can do locally (at least until the dunlin
> arrive). I grew up on the east coast and I'm nostalgic for days of
> 1,000's of peeps and 25 species in a day.
>
> cheers,
> randy
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> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:21:28 -0700
> From: "Diane Cavaness" <birder_1 at charter.net>
> Subject: [obol] Red-necked Phalaropes
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> A flock of 20-30 Red-necked Phalaropes was at Lone Ranch Beach just north
> of Brookings yesterday evening. They allowed a very close approach, and
> included many first-year birds, as well as winter adults and a few
> beautiful breeding-plumaged adults as well.
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> Message: 18
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:37:20 GMT
> From: tmacport99 at hotmail.com
> Subject: [obol] Census Count: Mt. Tabor Park, Multnomah County, Oregon
> on August 19, 2006
> To: obol at lists.orst.edu
> Message-ID: <200608191737.k7JHbK7X025137 at rottweiler.furfly.com>
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> This report was mailed for Tom McNamara by http://birdnotes.net
>
> Date: August 19, 2006
> Location: Mt. Tabor Park, Multnomah County, Oregon
>
> Low temperature: 62 degrees fahrenheit High temperature: 70 degrees
> fahrenheit
> Wind direction: Variable
> Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h
> Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 0%
> Precipitation: none
>
> It'd been a while.
>
> Birds seen (in taxonomic order):
>
> Mallard 1
> Red-tailed Hawk 2 [1]
> Rock Dove 5 [2]
> Band-tailed Pigeon 2
> Vaux's Swift 40
> Anna's Hummingbird 10 [3]
> Rufous Hummingbird 2
> Downy Woodpecker 2
> Northern Flicker 7
> Western Wood-Pewee 5
> Hammond's Flycatcher 1 [4]
> Pacific-slope Flycatcher 1 [5]
> Hutton's Vireo 2
> Warbling Vireo 2
> Steller's Jay 8
> Western Scrub-Jay 1
> American Crow 4
> Black-capped Chickadee 12
> Chestnut-backed Chickadee 16
> Bushtit 25
> Red-breasted Nuthatch 18
> Brown Creeper 5
> Bewick's Wren 7
> American Robin 5
> Wilson's Warbler 1
> Western Tanager 1 [6]
> Spotted Towhee 3
> Song Sparrow 18
> Golden-crowned Sparrow 2
> Black-headed Grosbeak 5
> House Finch 15
> Pine Siskin 9
> Lesser Goldfinch 8
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [1] 2 juvs--one heard & seen the other screaming. Mixed flock of
> small passerines utterly nonchalant when juv.RT alit amongst
> them.Their summer reading including K.Lorentz and silhouette ID
> of accips and buteo?
> [2] unusual for Tabor
> [3] saw more than 12 hummers total but minimally 10 Anna's (adult
> and juv both). Other hummers too far away and going farther
> [4] good look at bill underside etc.
> [5] singing
> [6] I think. Heard what I think was on pr-tik only.
>
> Total number of species seen: 33
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 19
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:43:29 -0700
> From: Jeff Gilligan <jeffgill at teleport.com>
> Subject: Re: [obol] Nuthatch migrant
> To: Alan Contreras <acontrer at MINDSPRING.COM>, obol
> <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
> Message-ID: <C10CA9E1.28AC%jeffgill at teleport.com>
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> There are reportedly higher than normal numbers (a bit of an invasion) of
> Red-breasted Nuthatches in northwestern Washington. I had one in my yard
> in
> urban northeast Portland about a week ago - which is unusual for the time
> of
> year.
>
>
> On 8/19/06 8:55 AM, "Alan Contreras" <acontrer at MINDSPRING.COM> wrote:
>
>> Red-breasted Nuthatch was in my yard this morning August 20, in flatland
>> south Eugene. It is not annual in my yard.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 20
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:41:58 -0700
> From: "Tom McNamara" <tmacport99 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [obol] Vanport (Mult.) yesterday
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>
> Vanport had 103, not a feather more, dowitchers yesterday. They were
> pretty far out and though they "appeared to be" LB I am really only
> speculating. They sounded like those on the cd. But as per the recent
> stint discussion and identification difficulty, I confess to wondering
> about
> posts that report X number of LB and Y number of SB of a substantial
> flock,
> and not too many of the dowitcher sp? category. I remember Greg
> Gillson's
> dowitcher photo quiz in the not-distant past and I remember some pundits
> saying in effect: dunno. Didja hear it?
>
> I can only assume that some folks have the good fortune to see, regularly
> or always, these birds really close up. Because at distance........hmmm,
> how can a person see all the subtle characters that differentiate the two?
> (good optics being a given here)
>
> Also at Vanport, I saw the Red-necked phalarope that Iain and John saw.
> Missed, or is it "dipped"? on the semi-p plover .
>
> 2 Lesser yellowlegs were there too.
>
> good birding,
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 21
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:56:45 -0700
> From: Mike Patterson <celata at pacifier.com>
> Subject: [obol] This morning at Coxcomb Hill - 8/19/2006
> To: Obol <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
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> This morning at Coxcomb Hill - 8/19/2006
>
> It was very foggy on the hill this morning, but there was
> one good feeding flock about 2/3 up the road.
>
> The waxwings were focusing on the bumper crop of cascara
> berries.
>
> Birds seen (in taxonomic order):
>
> Western Gull
> Glaucous-winged Gull
> Rufous Hummingbird 2 [1]
> Downy Woodpecker 3
> Warbling Vireo 9 [2]
> Chestnut-backed Chickadee 12
> Winter Wren 1
> Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
> Swainson's Thrush 5
> American Robin 1
> Cedar Waxwing 50 [3]
> Orange-crowned Warbler 1
> Yellow Warbler 1
> Black-throated Gray Warbler 3
> Hermit Warbler 2 [4]
> Common Yellowthroat 1
> Wilson's Warbler 2
> Western Tanager 1
> Song Sparrow 4
> White-crowned Sparrow 3
> Black-headed Grosbeak 5 [5]
> Purple Finch 1
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [1] probably this species
> [2] one group of 5
> [3] probably undercount; feeding on cascara berries
> [4] 1 adult; 1 HY
> [5] one group of 4
>
> Total number of species seen: 22
>
> --
> Mike Patterson
> Astoria, OR
> celata at pacifier.com
>
> Why birders hate Cordilleran Flycatchers
> http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/mbalame/archives/003981.html
>
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