[obol] Birding Trip Report: Koll Center Wetlands Park, Washington County, Oregon on March 23, 2008

[nettielh at yahoo.com]

This report was mailed for Annette Lange Hildebrand by http://birdnotes.net

Date: March 23, 2008
Location: Koll Center Wetlands Park, Washington County, Oregon

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%
Precipitation: rain

Easter Morning - WET!
OTTER next to shore eating a fish!
It sat up once, saw whole upper body, looked almost like a seal. It
rolled and played and swam.  Water level very high and raining hard.
AMERICAN GOLDFINCH - my First Of Year, several. 
150 or so VIOLET GREEN and TREE SWALLOWS flying over the "lake" even
in the rain!
REDTAIL HAWK sitting on nest

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose
Wood Duck [1] 
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal [2] 
Northern Shoveler
Green-Winged Teal
Canvasback [3] 
Ring-necked Duck
Unknown Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Merganser [4] 
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe [5] 
Great Blue Heron
Red-tailed Hawk [6] 
American Coot
Killdeer
Unidentified Dowitcher
Anna's Hummingbird [7] 
Northern Flicker
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow [8] 
Violet-green Swallow [9] 
Black-capped Chickadee
Bushtit
Bewick's Wren
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
American Goldfinch [10] 
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1]  One lone male.  Finally flew up and into tree but couldn't
     locate it or a hole?
[2]  1 male - same that wintered over
[3]  2 females only - "mini Oak Island" pond
[4]  saw only female today
[5]  Ate a fish, south of large body of water
[6]  Sat most of time on nest - Creekside Six Office Building.
[7]  Near Yellow Forsythia, east side of large flooded area.  Buzzed
     up, stayed for the longest time, then zipped away.  Returned.
     Buzzed up, stayed etc. over and over.
[8]  Many, many. Some landed on snag - but most kept flying over
     water even in the rain.
[9]  50-100 still flying over the water, even in the rain.  Amazing.
[10] First of the season for me.  Beautiful.
     Male very yellow.

Total number of species seen: 39