[obol] Artic Loon

[David Heath]

Could someone post reasonably explicit directions to this bird? I may
actually be able to get outta town tomorrow, and I'm not familiar with the
area.

Thanks.
David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DON SHARON HALLER" <haller1234 at msn.com>
To: <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 8:06 AM
Subject: [obol] Artic Loon


> The afternoon of December 30th the Artic Loon was still west of the bridge
> in Brownsmead. In addition, we saw a small flock of cackling geese,
several
> flocks of Canada geese, several great blue herons, many pintails,
gadwalls,
> mallards, a few widgeons, scaups, blue winged teal, bufflehead, hooded
> mergansers, Clark's grebes, pie billed grebes, four swans, five redtail
> hawks (dark morph) (four of which were having a territory dispute along
the
> dike at the end of Bughole Road), two mature bald eagles, numerous flocks
of
> dark eyed juncos, American Robins, song sparrows.
>
> Puzzling were the flocks of small shorebirds, which I think were either
> Western or semi-palmated Sandpipers. The distance made identification
> difficult.  There were about a half dozen larger waders visible also which
I
> think were probably Dunlin, but again the distance made identification
> difficult.
>
> We also discovered a recently dead fox(?) right at the cable gate at the
end
> of Bughole Road.
>
> Sharon Haller
> Astoria, Oregon
>
>
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