[obol] Fern Ridge Birds Re: Eugene's Wednesday Birders

[Daniel Farrar]

Obol,
   I too was at Fern Ridge today.  While I was doing vegetative surveys I
managed to see a few birds.  Interesting to compare the numbers the Wed
group got to what I got after being out all day.  I covered more area, but
did so less thoroughly.
  Here are the highlights:
11 Am. White Pelicans
12 CASPIAN TERNS (in two groups, all in western most pond)
4-500 LB DOWITCHERS (numbers were fantastic all around the marshes)
I could not see or hear a single Short-billed
200 Greater Yellowlegs (numbers were very high, one flock had 60 birds)
1 JUVENILE Greater Yellowlegs FOY (out of all the birds I saw, just one
juvenile at end of Royal)
1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS (juvenile with large Greater flock)
7 BB Plovers
2 Semi-palmated Plovers
2 downy Killdeer without a parent in sight
Lots of peeps too distant to ID well (one probable Semi-sand)
1 ad. BLACK-CROWNED NIGHTHERON (roosting in willow on far side of west pond,
which is currently closed to public)
1 juv BREWERS SPARROW (found this one on dike running north-south at
southern end of the 2nd pond from Royal.  I was maybe 20 yards north of the
third pond.  This is the intersection which has a dike heading west into the
large cells(ponds).  The bird was flushed into a decent sized clump of
Oregon Ash, etc).  A second bird may have been present, but I only saw one
well.



On 7/19/07, Dennis Arendt <dbarendt at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>   Eugene's Wednesday birders went to Fern Ridge Reservoir today.  The rain
> and wind kept us cleaning lenses, but the birds seemed to enjoy the weather.
> Here is a list of our sightings as well as some estimates of their
> numbers.
>
>
>
> 10  Canada Goose
>
> 1  Wood Duck
>
> 10  Mallard
>
> 25  Cinnamon Teal
>
> 1  Northern Shoveler
>
> 1  Hooded Merganser (eating a bull frog tadpole)
>
> 40  Pied-billed Grebe
>
> 4  Western Grebe
>
> 1  Clark's Grebe
>
> 4  American Bittern
>
> 12  Great Blue Heron
>
> 5  Great Egret
>
> 2  Black-crowned Night-Heron (sitting in the open - it was dark enough for
> them)
>
> 2  Osprey
>
> 10  Northern Harrier
>
> 1 American Kestrel
>
> 1  Virginia Rail (heard only)
>
> 14  Black-bellied Plover
>
> 1  Semipalmated Plover
>
> 2  Killdeer
>
> 150  Greater Yellowlegs (most in the alternate plumage, but molting)
>
> 10  Western Sandpiper
>
> 100  Least Sandpiper
>
> 400  Long-billed Dowitcher (uncommonly large numbers)
>
> 2  Wilson's Phalarope
>
> 20  Ring-billed Gull
>
> 1  California Gull
>
> 1  Caspian Tern
>
> 20  Black Tern (several juveniles)
>
> 4  Mourning Dove
>
> 4  Vaux's Swift
>
> 1  Black Phoebe (near the pond by the observation platform)
>
> 2  Western Kingbird (seen in the fields about one mile east of Fern Ridge)
>
> 1  Western Scrub-Jay
>
> 10  American Crow
>
> 1  Purple Martin (probably more, but looking up was not easy)
>
> 60  Tree Swallow
>
> 4  Violet-green Swallow
>
> 75  Cliff Swallow
>
> 25  Barn Swallow
>
> 1  Bewick's Wren
>
> 4  Marsh Wren
>
> 6  American Robin
>
> 20  European Starling
>
> 3  Common Yellowthroat
>
> 1  Spotted Towhee
>
> 25  Savannah Sparrow
>
> 8  Song Sparrow
>
> 1  Dark-eyed Junco (not common in July at FRR)
>
> 10  Red-winged Blackbird
>
> 5  Yellow-headed Blackbird
>
> 10  Brewer's Blackbird
>
> 1  Lesser Goldfinch
>
> 6  American Goldfinch
>
>
>
> Seen by Nate Senner, Dennis Arendt, Larry McQueen and Paul Sherrell
>
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-- 
Daniel Farrar
Eugene, Oregon
jdanielfarrar at gmail.com
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