[obol] Lane coast birds

[Alan Contreras]

Thanks to Paul Sherrell for posting the BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER that I found
on the dike near Florence today.  Quite a good bird for the coast, and for
Lane County. Oddly enough that is the first I have seen in Lane County.  I
got a photo, not great.  So yes, passerines are still on the move.

Also on the move were these "good" birds:

BLACK PHOEBE at Siltcoos River mouth north slough, a few recent reports at
Siltcoos now suggest that it may become regular there - no surprise.

NORTHERN SHRIKE imm about 1/4 mile north of the dike in the deflation plain,
catching dragonflies and green things.  Unfortunately, it was also singing,
and a more sorry effluvium of grindings and sputterings you will never hear
this side of a grackle roost.  My first of the fall.

ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK imm, working its way north east of south jetty road, seen
by many people, a gorgeous bird, my first of season.

WANDERING TATTLER seen by a tour group on the s. jetty (mildly late).

Also happening were imm RED_SHOULDERED Hawks at the dog pond and near the
crab dock cove (different birds by appearance), adult KITE along s jetty
road, adult and imm BALD Eagles along s. jetty road (my first of season), a
continuing large movement of pipits.

MYRTLE Warblers continue to increase and there are lots of Audubons, too.
Flicker numbers are up, and RC Kinglet numbers are increasing.

Essentially no shorebirds today.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON
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