[obol] 3/25/07 Polk Co. Northern Rough-winged Swallow

[Roy Gerig]

Dan Heyerly wrote today about looking for Northern Rough-winged Swallows.  
That reminded me that Lowell Spring and I had good looks at a single 
NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW on March 25 of this year at Ankeny NWR, along 
with a lot of TREE SWALLOWS and a few VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS.  It was 
definitely NRWS and not a brown 2nd year Tree Swallow.  I'd forgotten to 
write obol about this early NRWS until I saw Dan's post.  I have an earlier 
record, 3/19/?? (around 1989) from the Black Rock area in west Polk County, 
of a pair of NRWS also.

This past Sunday, 4/8/07, GREATER YELLOWLEGS were _everywhere_ in groups of 
5-15 in wet fields in the area between Turner and Marion, SW of Salem and I 
also saw 400 DUNLIN and 100 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS on the very small island 
in the small pond along Wipper Rd. 1 mile SW of Turner. They were packed 
shoulder-to-shoulder, with some of the DUNLIN in breeding plumage and they 
looked sort of cool.

Roy Gerig, Salem OR

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