[obol] Lane Coast birds

[Alan Contreras]

I spent most of today at Florence.  Siltcoos mouth was pretty birdless
except for three flyover White-fronted Geese and a lot of migrant
Yellowthroats.  A Swainson's Thrush was in the willow patch a hundred yards
east of Waxmyrtle bridge. A huge brown falcon, probably a Peregrine, was
hunting mergansers south of the river in the southern pond.

For those of you who bird this area, conditions are good this year, with the
north slough partly impounded to create a shallow pond, thus also affording
easy access to the grassy eastern shore of the north inlet.

Dog Pond on s jetty road had a pectoral sandpiper, 2 LB Dows, Bittern and
juv Coopers hawk.  

Dike had a pectoral, 4 dows, a shoveler, very few yellow-rumps but one nice
Myrtle, my first this fall.  Also another juv Coopers that didn't flush
until I was standing next to it, quite a shock. Nothing but a few pipits
and single flyover Western Sand and Semi Plover out in the d-plain.

Crab dock cove very slow, flyover Western Sand.

N jetty mudflats had a Bonaparte's Gull and not much else.

These sunny early fall days with a north breeze are usually pretty birdless
around Florence.  Everything is migrating.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON

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