[obol] Lane coast birds

[Alan Contreras]

As is always the case, new bird books are instantly wrong.  In my case,
rather quickly and by the editor's own actions, as I found a BUFF-breasted
Sandpiper at the Siltcoos mouth today, 5 days later than the previous Lane
late record JUST published in Birds of Lane County.

Other birds of note below.  Amazingly hard to find small birds today.  I
spent essentially the whole day in outer coast scrub and found fewer than a
dozen YELLOW-rumped WARBLers.  Two kinglets.  Four chickadees.  I spent a
lot of time pishing near the siltcoos mouth and along the dike, finding
almost nothing except a lot of yellowthroats and some FOX Sparrows.

The exception, besides yellowthroats, was a steady and fairly heavy movement
of AM PIPITS.  At one point a flock of pipits was going over when a young
waxwing perched nearby gave a particularly insipid call, nearly identical to
Red-throated Pipit, which gave me a start.

NO YELLOWLEGS, it has been an amazingly empty fall for them.

SILTCOOS

Morning

1 BUFF-BREASTED SAND
6 SEMI PLOVER
10 WESTERN SAND
3 KILLDEER
1 SANDERLING (I didn't know that was possible)

Afternoon (Note completely different birds)

2 LB DOWITCHER (probably this species)
4 KILLDEER
50 SANDERLING
7 BB PLOVER
17 BROWN PELICANS that circled in right over my head (quite a sound) and
landed in the river mouth right in front of me.
Gullwad was mostly CAL and some WESTERN with one imm HEERMANNs


DIKE AND DEFLATION PLAIN

1 RED-NECKED PHAL
1 PECTORAL FLYOVER
1 BITTERN
1 IMM RED-SHOULDERED HAWK
1 COOPERS HAWK
3 HARRIER
100 OR MORE PIPITS.  The pipits were quite agitated all day, perching in
small trees and chasing things.  One of them even chased a passing BARN
swallow all over the sky for some imagined slight.

DOG POND

Morning

Flyby LB Dowitcher.  Bill Stotz saw a phalarope.

Afternoon

Female PINTAIL
FEMALE SHOVELER


S JETTY COVES (2 VISITS)

1 PIGEON GUILLEMOT
2 LEAST SANDPIPER
9 SEMI PLOVER
1 BB PLOVER
2 WESTERN SANDPIPER

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON
acontrer at mindspring.com