[obol] questionable sightings WAS Great White Heron in OR

[Marcia Marvin]

Peter and OBOL -

One thing I've learned from answering the phone at Audubon Society of  
Portland is that people who phone in are very, very attached to their  
sightings and identifications, and my chances of being told I am  
wrong are very, very good.  We've had calls from Portland about  
Phainopepla (Steller's Jay) and even Ivory-billed Woodpecker  
(Pileated, of course), and I once had a woman get very angry with me  
when I suggested the "loons" she said she observed perched on pilings  
along the Willamette and spreading their wings to  dry were Double- 
Crested Cormorants.

Good birding!

Marcia


Peter Patricelli wrote:

> A friend, who is NOT a birder, recently mentioned seeing Great  
> White Herons on
> his property near Tygh Valley. I told him I suspected he was seeing  
> Great
> Egrets, and was told that I was wrong.


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