[obol] Eugene's Wednesday birders

[Dennis Arendt]

The Wednesday birders from Eugene went to the Delta Ponds north of Valley River Center shopping mall.  After hearing or seeing about twenty species from the parking lot, we walked the loop north along the river then over to the Delta Ponds proper east of Goodpasture Road.  The birding quieted after 10:00.  We had good sightings of Western Pond Turtles, Blue Dashers and Widow Skimmers.  38 species of birds were seen by Kit Larson, Tom Mickel, Fred Chancey, George Grier, Sylvia Maulding, Paul Sherrell and Dennis Arendt.  The list follows:

Canada Goose - common

Wood Duck - very common 

Mallard - abundant 

Pied-billed Grebe - a few and a nest with three eggs 

Great Blue Heron - several scattered 

Green Heron - two 

Turkey Vulture -  several 

Osprey 

Bald Eagle - one adult

Killdeer 

Spotted Sandpiper - one on the rocks in the river 

Rock Pigeon 

Vaux's Swift 

Anna's Hummingbird - at a riverside house's feeders 

Belted Kingfisher - several 

Downy Woodpecker - heard 

Northern Flicker 

Western Wood-Pewee - common 

Western Scrub-Jay 

American Crow 

Tree Swallow 

Violet-green Swallow 

Cliff Swallow - a couple 

Barn Swallow 

Black-capped Chickadee 

Bushtit - a hanging nest near the parking lot 

Bewick's Wren 

American Robin - not many 

European Starling - thankfully not many 

Cedar Waxwing - many fly catching over the river 

Spotted Towhee - secretive but calling 

Song Sparrow - many 

Black-headed Grosbeak - one fly by 

Red-winged Blackbird - only one seen 

House Finch 

Lesser Goldfinch - common at riverside house's feeders 

American Goldfinch - common 

House Sparrow - only two 
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