[obol] Lane Coast Birds

[Alan Contreras]

Spent the day birding coastal Lane County, morning mostly with Dave Irons,
David Fix, Jude Power and Diane Pettey.  No vagrants.  Heard that Jeff
Gilligan and Owen Schmidt found a Palm Warbler on the dike this afternoon
that we did not see.

Cinnamon Teal at the dog pond is a little unusual in fall.

Multiple flocks of tubenoses were close in all along the coast, with many
Pink-footed Shearwaters mixed into Sooty flocks, and some small pure groups.
One fulmar was floating in the Siuslaw River near the base of the south
jetty.

A large feeding flock of tubenoses near Klootchman wayside also involved
about 30 Common, 15 Pacific and 1 Red-throated Loon, plus many Common Murre,
1 Pigeon Guillemot and 2 Marbled Murrelets.

2 Ospreys and 2 Caspian Terns over the river are getting sorta kinda late.

An astonishing 51 Heermann's Gulls were on the bathing-beach at Stonefield.
Probably the largest group I have ever had on the ground in Lane County. 16
more were nearby at Bob Creek, a site where they are not very regular.
Small numbers of Mew and Herring Gulls were in with the huge Calwads
everywhere. 3 G-wings at the s jetty.

1 uncooperative calling Lapland Longspur was in the deflation plain, as were
small numbers of shorebirds of a similar mix as Saturday.  Very few pipits.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON

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