[obol] Lane coast birds

[Alan Contreras]

I went to Florence area with Holly Reinhard on Saturday Sep 8.  A nice day,
we started early and quit by 2:30 or so owing to wind and no birds.

Morning we saw a very cooperative Baird's Sandpiper at Crab Dock Cove, also
a godwit, Western, Least and a flyover Yellow Warbler making its "bzzrt?"
call, which got our attention since we were out on a mudflat at the time.  I
saw the bird well enough to see it was a bright yellow warbler and Dave
Irons reminded me that they have this call.  We saw another Yellow Warbler
later at the dog pond.

Dog pond also had 1 Greater legs, 1 lesser legs, 1 least and 2 Red-necked
phalaropes.  Also a young, full-grown bittern.  We think it was a young bird
because it had a yellowish gape and was acting sort of oblivious, wandering
right toward us out in the open.  Does anyone know offhand if young herons
have yellow gapes as many other young do?

Dike had very few birds and d-plain was empty.

South jetty had my first-of-fall Red-necked Grebe (spotted by Holly at a
great distance), a loon in full winter plumage, probably Pacific, several
murres.

North jetty area had a few Western Sandpipers, pintail, canada geese and a
mourning dove feeding on the sand.

I forgot to mention last week that there was an adult Ring-billed Gull at
the crab dock Sep 5.  I usually see one or two in early fall, none
thereafter.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON

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