[obol] Scappose Bottoms: EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE

[Bill Clemons]

This afternoon, Carol Ledford and I birded for a bit
at Sauvie Island before heading up to Scappose
Bottoms.  It was fairly dry until about 3-3:30pm.

Highlites were:

1)  About 4pm today we saw a Eurasian Collared-Dove at
Scappose Bottoms at 50701 Dike Road (Dikeside RV
Storage).  There are feeders on the N side of this
building.  One Dove was first seen on a utility wire
over their driveway, then we noticed more around the
feeders to the N side of the front building. In all we
counted 9 Eurasian Collared-Doves.  We never got out
of the car.  The Doves eventually scattered for some
reason, and as we left to continue Northerly we saw
some about a block N on utility wires.

2)  Earlier on Sauvie Island we saw several Bald
Eagles and one was way up in a leafless tree, plucking
and eating a Coot.

3) There are still Thousands of Snow Geese on Sauvie
Island.  We saw them at the viewing platform on Reeder
Road and also out Rentenaar Road

4)  We also saw a Coyote that was eating a Mallard
while about 40 Crows waited patiently nearby.

Complete list of birds seen:

Double-crested Cormorant	
Great Blue Heron	
Great Egret	
Snow Goose	
Cackling Goose	
Canada Goose	
Tundra Swan	
Gadwall	
American Wigeon	
Mallard	
Northern Shoveler	
Northern Pintail	
Green-winged Teal	
Redhead	
Ring-necked Duck	
Lesser Scaup	
Bufflehead	
Common Merganser	
Bald Eagle	
Northern Harrier	
Red-tailed Hawk	
Dark Phase Red-tailed Hawk	
American Kestrel	
American Coot	
Sandhill Crane	
Killdeer	
Gull (Species)	
Rock Pigeon	
Eurasian Collared-Dove	Life Bird
Great Horned Owl	On Nest
Belted Kingfisher	
Northern Flicker	
Western Scrub-Jay	
American Crow	
Black-capped Chickadee	
Golden-crowned Kinglet	
American Robin	
European Starling	
Spotted Towhee	
Fox Sparrow	
Song Sparrow	
White-crowned Sparrow	
Golden-crowned Sparrow	
Dark-eyed Junco	
Red-winged Blackbird	
House Finch	
House Sparrow	

Bill Clemons
SW of Portland in Mtn Park
Willclemons AT Yahoo dot com


 
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