[obol] Lane Coast Birds

[Roy W. Lowe]

Alan:

The flagging and staked plots you saw near Big Creek is part of a  
larger project to protect
and enhance a local population of threatened Oregon Silverspot  
butterfly and associated
habitat.  While the area is not posted as closed to the public the  
biologists would appreciate
it if people would avoid this area.

Thanks for you concern and for asking first before proceeding!

Roy Lowe

On Sep 29, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Alan Contreras wrote:

> I spent the day in coastal Lane County.  Got to Siltcoos outlet at  
> 7:45 on
> the theory that I would be on the sand ahead of the dogs.  Wrong.   
> Two dogs
> were one minute ahead of me, as was one Merlin.  Nothing else out  
> there.
>
> South Jetty road was fairly birdy, with two more Merlins (seen  
> together,
> perhaps the first time I have seen two flying more or less  
> together) and a
> Red-shouldered Hawk. the dike had a Pectoral, Long-billed Dow and a  
> juv
> White-fronted Goose (it has one of these almost every fall). Small  
> birds
> were thin along the dike, maybe 25 Yellow-rumps in the whole area,  
> only two
> Myrtles.  The deflation plain was extremely empty except for one  
> flock of 25
> Am Pipits, 9 GB Herons and a few ravens.
>
> Shorebirds were very thin.  Three Westerns all day.
>
> Small numbers of Ruby-crowned Kinglets were at all sites and Fox  
> Sparrow
> numbers have increased.  There has also been a noticeable increase  
> in Song
> Sparrows on the outer coast.  Plenty of Savannahs still moving  
> through.
>
> Wigeon have arrived in the Siuslaw.
>
> A single Cackling Goose was sitting on the dry grassy bluff over  
> the ocean
> north of Big Creek.  Does anyone know what research is going on  
> there with
> lots of little red marker flags anda couple of staked plots?  I  
> want to wak
> through there looking for longspurs, but not if I'd mess up somebody's
> project.
>
> A few Herring Gulls were around, my first of fall.  A Yellowthroat was
> present at the north side of Stonefield Beach creek.  That is a  
> regular site
> for them in migration; they are regular as singles in coastal Lane  
> through
> mid-October.
>
> A Red-shouldered hawk was a couple of miles east of Cushman.
>
> -- 
> Alan Contreras
> EUGENE, OREGON
>
> acontrer at mindspring.com
> OREGONREVIEW.BLOGSPOT.COM
>
> Nostalgic for Nixon....
>
>
>
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