[obol] Lane Coast Birds

[Alan Contreras]

I spent the morning at Florence, starting early.  Very nice in the d-plain
before it gets hot or windy (today just windy), but I only found a few snipe
and flyover Semi Plovers and Whimbrels.

Dog Pond: Greater yellowlegs, 4 Red-necked Phalaropes

Crab Dock Cove: 3 Semi Plovers, Black turnstones, one Wandering tattler
running about on the sand but calling just to make sure I wasn't thinking
Gray-tailed, 1 godwit, 8 Westerns, flyover Red-necked Phalaropes, a weird
hawk (2 bad photos available) that I identified as two species in the field
and yet a third after I got home (it got commoner with each step).

S jetty area had  a dozen plump, juicy Canada geese wandering about right by
the road, I got a good photo.  Two types.  A larger group was on the north
jetty flats.

No terns of any flavor.

Oddest sight of the day was something I have never seen before.  Usually in
September (later) and October, a steady southbound flight of Double-crested
Cormorants is really obvious at the Florence jetties.  Today a flock went
over (a little earlier in the season than usual) and it looked odd.  It
contained six Double-crested, three Brandt's and three pelagic cormorants,
all heading south high up in one migrating flock.  It is strange to see
Brandt's and pelagic that high up, and Brandt's are usually going north when
I see them at Florence in fall.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON

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