[obol] Eagle Creek (Bonneville)

[Cliff & Joanne Weber]

OBOL, hello!

We were pleased, thrilled, and happy to find four Harlequin Ducks at the 
hatchery today. It was just a stroke of luck that as we were standing on the 
olde bridge glassing a preening Common Merganser, the Harlequins swam under 
us on their way upstream to a little shady peninsula where they disembarked 
and stood around on land for a few moments. Since this location has been 
producing Harlequin babies for at least 5 years now that we know of, we 
suspect that all four birds were juveniles. And though they were all marked 
like a female (which is normal for Harlequins that young), one sported a 
pronounced spikey tail, so we suspect that at least one of the four is a boy 
version.

One American Dipper was busily scouting for food in the same location.

Cliff & Joanne Weber
Beaverton (Rock Creek area)