[obol] Central Oregon

[Charles R. Gates]

I spent the weekend birding with Steve Shunk's Paradise Birding Woodpecker
Tour.  We did pretty well considering the birding gets very slow after 9:00
am in July.  We saw 101 Species.  We found all of the Central Oregon
Woodpeckers except 3-toed.  We searched every known 3-toad hide-out
including Hosmer Lake but found nothing.  Here are the highlights:

COLD SPRINGS CAMPGROUND - DESCHUTES COUNTY
2 White-headed Woodpeckers
1 BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER
2 Hammond's Flycatchers
2 Pygmy Nuthatches
1 Green-tailed Towhee
1 Fox Sparrow

NEAR JACK LAKE - JEFFERSON COUNTY
3 Olive-sided Flycatchers
2 Hermit Thrush
2 Dusky Flycatchers
3 Williamson's Sapsuckers

CENTURY DRIVE - DESCHUTES COUNTY
NORTHERN GOSHAWK - Crossed the road in front of us
Townsend's Solitaire
12 Lewis's Woodpeckers - Entrada Burn
3 PURPLE FINCHES

WICKIUP RESERVOIR - DESCHUTES COUNTY
12 White Pelicans
65 Long-billed Dowitcher
1 Sora

TUMALO RESERVOIR - DESCHUTES COUNTY
2 Greater Yellowlegs
7 Western Sandpipers
8 Least Sandpipers
2 Spotted Sandpipers

BRUSH CREEK BASIN - JEFFERSON COUNTY
2 Cassin's Finch
3 PURPLE FINCH
2 Pileated Woodpeckers - Drumming in close
2 Red-naped Sapsuckers
1 Sooty Grouse
1 Lazuli Bunting
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 MacGillivray's Warbler

FOREST SERVICE GRAVEL PIT - SANTIAM PASS - LINN COUNTY
1 Spotted Sandpiper
1 BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER

CABBOT LAKE TRAILHEAD - JEFFERSON COUNTY
Vaux's Swift

LAKE CREEK LODGE - NEAR CAMP SHERMAN - JEFFERSON COUNTY
1 WHITE-HEADED WOODPECKER
4 Rufous Hummingbirds

CAMP SHERMAN - JEFFERSON COUNTY
1 Dipper

Chuck Gates
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