[obol] Audubon Birding Weekend report - Willamette Valley - COMMON TEAL

[Paul T. Sullivan]

OBOL:

20 folks joined me for a tour around the Willamette Valley refuges this
weekend.  We enjoyed good company and good birds.  These trips are sponsored
by Audubon Society of Portland, and open to everyone.

Places visited:
Ankeny NWR

EE Wilson wildlife area

Finley NWR

Baskett Slough NWR

Tualatin River NWR



80 species seen:

A    W    F    B    T    Pied-billed Grebe

A    W    F    B    T    Double-crested Cormorant

A                        American Bittern

A    W    F    B    T    Great Blue Heron

A    W                   Great Egret

A    W    F    B    T    Turkey Vulture

A    W    F    B    T    Canada Goose

A    W    F    B    T    Cackling Goose

A    W                   Wood Duck

A         F    B    T    Gadwall

              B    T     Eurasian Wigeon

A    W    F    B    T    American Wigeon

A    W    F    B    T    Mallard

              B          Cinnamon Teal

A         F    B    T    Northern Shoveler

     W    F    B    T    Northern Pintail

A    W    F    B    T    Green-winged Teal

A                        COMMON TEAL

A    W    F    B    T    Ring-necked Duck

A                        Lesser Scaup

A    W    F    B    T    Bufflehead

A                        Hooded Merganser

              B          Common Merganser

A             B    T     Ruddy Duck

              B          OSPREY

A         F    B    T    Bald Eagle

A         F    B         Northern Harrier

A                       Cooper's Hawk

A    W    F    B    T    Red-tailed Hawk

A         F    B    T    American Kestrel

A                       Peregrine Falcon

              B         Ring-necked Pheasant

A                  T    Virginia Rail

A    W    F    B    T    American Coot

A             B    T    Killdeer

                   T    Greater Yellowlegs

A             B    T    Dunlin

A                  T    Long-billed Dowitcher

          F             Wilson's Snipe

A             B         Rock Pigeon

A         F         T    Mourning Dove

          F         T    Belted Kingfisher

A                       Acorn Woodpecker

A                  T    Red-breasted Sapsucker

A                  T    Downy Woodpecker

A         F             Northern Flicker

                   T    Hutton's Vireo

          F             Steller's Jay

A    W    F    B    T    Western Scrub-Jay

A             B    T    American Crow

          F             Common Raven

A         F    B    T    Tree Swallow

A                       Violet-green Swallow

A    W    F    B    T    Black-capped Chickadee

A                       Bushtit

A                  T    White-breasted Nuthatch

A                  T    Brown Creeper

A    W    F    B    T    Bewick's Wren

A                       Winter Wren

A         F    B    T    Marsh Wren

A                       Golden-crowned Kinglet

A    W         B    T    Ruby-crowned Kinglet

A    W    F    B    T    American Robin

          F             Varied Thrush

          F             Wrentit

A    W    F    B    T    European Starling

A             B         American Pipit

A    W    F    B    T    Yellow-rumped Warbler

A                  T    Spotted Towhee

              B         Fox Sparrow

A    W    F    B    T    Song Sparrow

          F         T    White-crowned Sparrow

          F    B    T    Golden-crowned Sparrow

          F         T    Dark-eyed Junco

A    W    F    B    T    Red-winged Blackbird

          F    B    T    Western Meadowlark

A                       Yellow-headed Blackbird

A    W    F    B    T    Brewer's Blackbird

          F             Purple Finch

          F             House Finch

          F    B         House Sparrow



Special Notes:

The AMERICAN BITTERN was at the end of the Rail Trail at Ankeny NWR.



The OSPREY was our first of the season.



We found the COMMON TEAL (Eurasian race of the Green-winged Teal) in the
pond at the corner of Ankeny Hill Road and Buena Vista road.  We saw it with
scopes from the overlook on Ankeny Hill Rd.



We found the YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD at the pond at the corner of Ankeny
Hill Road and Buena Vista road.  We saw it with scopes from the overlook on
Ankeny Hill Rd.



At the kiosk overlooking Cabel Marsh at Finley NWR we observed a Northern
Flicker which had a red crescent on its nape and a red moustache mark on its
face, making it an intergrade flicker.



We ended the day on Saturday at McFadden Marsh with the VARIED THRUSH
singing from atop a tree east of the bridge.  Nice.



The next Audubon Birding Weekend is going to Coos Bay, April 28-29, 2007.



Good birding, everyone,



Paul T. Sullivan
Audubon Birding Weekends
(503) 646-7889
http://www.audubonportland.org/trips_classes_camps/adult_programs/birding_weekendsfolder/index_html