[obol] Fernhill GHOwl, Killin violet green

[Debby de Carlo]

Bill Clemons and I birded Fernhill and Killin wetlands today. We were lucky
enough to arrive at Fernhill at the same time as Dot and "Coop" Cooper of
Banks.  The Coopers had come to see a nesting great-horned owl at the west
end of the mitigation ponds. We got a good look at it. To the right of it
and up a bit in another tree was a red-tailed hawk adding twigs to nest. To
the right of that tree was another where 7 great egrets were perched. Swans
and canvasbacks were still around. We saw both yellow-rumped warblers, a fox
sparrow, and an interesting yellow black-capped chickadee that looked like
it had been dipped in pollen. It probably had.
On the way to Killin, we saw a cinnamon teal in a creek. At Killin, we saw a
violet green swallow, woodies and hoodies. While standing at the bridge,
talking while we scanned for bitterns, a bittern hopped out of the grass
right in front of us and stood there, in the open for a full minute or so as
if to say, "I'm HERE." It then took off and flew to another spot.
On the return trip to Forest Grove, we stopped at a small pond at the
entrance to Forest Grove where we saw a pair of common mergansers and
several shovelers, along with scaup, wigeon and mallards. One mallard
appeared to have a tumor on its head.
In all:
DC Cormorants
Swans
Cackling geese
Canada geese
Gadwalls
Mallards
Amer. wigeon
Wood ducks
Shovelers
Green-winged teal
Cinnamon teal
Canvasbacks
Ringnecks (near Killin)
Scaup
Buffleheads
Common Mergansers
Hooded Mergansers
Coots
Gulls (Coop could identify them...ask him!)
GBH
Great Egrets
American bittern
Killdeer
Red-tailed hawk at nest
Bald eagle at nest at Fernhill and in flight at Killin
Great-horned owl on nest
Mourning dove
Downy woodpecker
Flicker
Tree swallows
VG swallow
Crow
Scrub jay
Steller's jay
BC chicadee
Marsh wren
Bewick's wren
RC kinglet
Robin
Yellow-rumped warblers, both varieties
Brewers blackbird
Red-winged blackbirds
Golden-crowned sparrows
Fox sparrow
probable Lincoln's sparrow
House finches

-- 
Debby de Carlo
debbydecarloATgmailDOTcom
Forest Grove, OR 97116

". . . a birdless world, the air permanently fallow, is unthinkable. To be
without birds would be to suffer a kind of color-blindness, a glaucoma
gauzing over one of the planet's special brightnesses... there exist few
everyday necessities in my life, but birds are among them." Ivan Doig,
Winter Brothers
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