[obol] Birding Oregon Results!

[Jacob Garvelink]

Hi Obolites,

After 1500 miles in seven days of cruising to Oregon I am back again  
where I started, in Portland. I would like to extend my warmest  
regards to everyone who helped me either via the web or in the field!  
I had to good fortune to bird alongside Coos Bay expert Tim Rodenkirk  
with whom I saw Pacific Golden Plover and 8 Buff-breasted Sandpipers  
as life birds. Then Diane Pettey, the one who knows everything in  
Florence helped me score the Snowy Plover as a life bird. After i  
recovered from the pelagic out of Newport it turned out that I had  
could ad another seven birds to my life list. After this I bumped  
into Shawneen Finnegan and Jim Danzenbaker whom I tailed up along the  
coast and with whom I found Long-billed Curlew outside of the sewage  
pond in Nehalem. The 29th I will do a round up of some of the stuff  
that is left with Mike Marsh. And of course John Rakestraw through  
his book (detailed area maps would make it even better!) Thanks  
everybody!

Here are some of the highlights of my trip, I will come back later to  
obol to post a link to some photographs I took along the way:

Malheur/Steens:

Black-rosy finches
Yellow-breasted chats
Golden Eagle
Common Poorwill
Rock/Canyon Wren
Cassin's Finches
Sage Sparrow

Sisters:

White-headed Woodpecker
Pinyon Jays
Pigmy Nuthatches

Coos Bay:

American and Pacific Golden plovers
Buff-breasted Sandpipers

Florence:

Snowy Plovers

Newport:

Wandering Tattlers
Xantus's Murrelet
Cassin's Murrelet
Fork-tailed Storm petrels
Sooty and Pink-footed Shearwaters
Black-footed Albatrosses
South Polar Skua
(I missed the Buller because of my fatigue related seasickeness...)

Northern Oregon Coast and Fernhill:

Wrentit at Ecola State Park
2 Adult Tufted Puffins at Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach
1 Buff-breasted Sandpiper a Fernhill
5 Crackling Geese at Fernhill
4 Acorn Woodpeckers at Rogers Park in Forest Cove


My list for the western USA counts 230 species, I am sure that after  
wednesday this will be even more. Oregon has contributed a great deal  
to this!

Good birding and all the best,

Jacob Garvelink



Jacob Garvelink
Maarten Harpertszoon Trompstraat 8hs
1056 HZ Amsterdam
+31652044993
jacobgarvelink at mac.com

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