[obol] Clackamas co - Roslyn Lk - Sandhill Cranes!

[Paul T. Sullivan]

OBOL:

Carol Karlen & I headed off to Clackamas county Saturday afternoon & Sunday.

Saturday:
Roslyn Lake was still full of water and people playing in it.  We saw many 
HOODED MERGANSERS.  We also saw two new sandbars near the inlet, presumably 
some of the silt washing down from the recently demolished Marmot dam. 
Water coming into the lake was turbid.  The sandbars did provide a place for 
a few LEAST SANDPIPERS.

Further east along Marmot Rd. we found a PEREGRINE FALCON overlooking a 
number of BAND-TAILED PIGEONS.

Sunday:
At Little Crater Lake meadow, north of Timothy Lake we were sitting on a 
bench memorializing Grace McCracken Gould when a pair of SANDHILL CRANES 
came walking by out in the meadow!!!  This is a species I have been 
searching for in Clackamas county for years.  Wow!
Later we found a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER in a thinned (shelterwood) area 
along USFS Rd. 58, just NW of Abbot Pass.

'Twas a fine weekend ;-)

Good birding,

Paul T. Sullivan