[obol] Sauvie Island CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, etc

[Shawneen Finnegan]

Today at 10 AM, Bob Lockett, Adrienne Wolf-Lockett and I found a  
singing CLAY-COLORED SPARROW on Oak Island.  We later ran into Tom  
McNamara at the Wildlife Viewing Platform who went to look for the  
sparrow after we birded Rentenaar Road together. We birded in  
scattered light rain until about 10:45 when it began raining in  
ernest, though it did let up from time to time.

Directions to sparrow:  Drive out Oak Island Road and continue west  
all the way to the locked gate with the port-o-john is located.  Walk  
past the gate and walk until you reach a fork, where the trail  
obviously goes straight or goes to the right.  Go straight (or due  
west), about 50 yards to where there is grass on both sides with  
obvious blackberry thickets surrounded by grass on the right.  The  
sparrow was found in the thicket nearest to the trail, then moved to  
the next one to the back (north).  It was first located by its buzzy  
monotone song --- bzzzzz bzzzzz bzzzzz.

OAK ISLAND:

We began at Oak Island which was thick with WW PEWEES, SWAINSON'S  
THRUSHES, HOUSE WRENS, CEDAR WAXWINGS, BULLOCK'S ORIOLES, BLACK-HEADED  
GROSBEAKS, two WARBLING VIREOS, and a number of WESTERN TANAGERS.  I  
had one YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, and a few YELLOWS on the very west end,  
but other than COMMON YELLOWTHROATS that was the only migrant warbler  
we saw or heard. Had one GREAT HORNED OWL, three fly-over BAND-TAILED  
PIGEONS, and one EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE.  Towards the west end of the  
island we had a singing WILLOW FLYCATCHER and one male LAZULI BUNTING.

REEDER ROAD WILDLIFE VIEWING PLATFORM:

Next we stopped here briefly as it began to rain.  Lots and lots of  
swallows with the best bird being a BLUE-WINGED TEAL and 13 GREAT  
EGRETS. Gobs of PIED-BILLED GREBES, a few GADWALL and MALLARDS, a N  
SHOVELER, and a pair of AMERICAN WIGEON.

RENTENAAR ROAD:

We scored here with 2 WILSON'S PHALAROPES, 2 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 5-6  
SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 7 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, another CINNAMON TEAL, 2  
WILSON'S SNIPE, and

Shawneen Finnegan
NW Portland, OR
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