[obol] Audubon Birding Weekend, Sept. 23-24, report

[Paul T. Sullivan]

OBOL:

This past weekend's Audubon Birding Weekend ( sponsored by Audubon Society 
of Portland) was attended by 22 participants.  I was assisted in leading the 
trip by Tim Janzen and family.

On Saturday we visited Malheur headquarters, Frenchglen, and Steens Mt.  On 
Sunday we visited Malheru headquarters, Sodhouse, the Narrows, and Embree 
Bridge Rd. east of Burns.

The collective list of 104 species we saw is:

Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Merlin
Prairie Falcon
Chukar
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer- Narrows
Black-necked Stilt - Narrows
American Avocet - Narrows
Greater Yellowlegs- Narrows
Western Sandpiper- Narrows
Least Sandpiper- Narrows
Pectoral Sandpiper- Narrows
Long-billed Dowitcher- Narrows
Wilson's Snipe- Narrows
Franklin's Gull- Narrows
Ring-billed Gull- Narrows
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl- Embree Bridge Rd.
Belted Kingfisher
Red-naped Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Western Wood-Pewee
Hammond's Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
"Western" (Pacific-slope) Flycatcher
Say's Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Cassin's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Barn Swallow
Rock Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Sage Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow- Steens Summit
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow- headquarters
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Black Rosy-Finch - fleeting looks at 1 to 30 birds at the summit of Steens 
Mt.
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Good birding, everyone,

Paul T. Sullivan
Audubon Birding Weekends
(503) 646-7889
http://www.audubonportland.org/trips_classes_camps/adult_programs/birding_weekendsfolder/index_html