[obol] Birding Trip Report: Smith and Bybee Lakes Wildlife Area, Multnomah County, Oregon on February 17, 2007

[andy.frank at kp.org]

This report was mailed for Andy Frank by http://birdnotes.net

Date: February 17, 2007
Location: Smith and Bybee Lakes Wildlife Area, Multnomah County, Oregon


A beautiful morning at Smith and Bybee Lakes.  Though it had seemed
very quiet there on previous visits this year, I had my best day
there in awhile.  It was helped by the nice weather and being the
only person there for most of my stay.

Highlight was seeing a Great Horned Owl back on a nest at the far
side of Bybee Lake.  It's on the same nest as last year.  It's pretty
far away and so it requires a scope, and perhaps a little
imagination.  On Bybee Lake were 2 female Common Goldeneye and 2 male
Canvasback. 

Andy Frank

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose
Cackling Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagle
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Great Horned Owl
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch

Total number of species seen: 38