Today after seeing the Common Pochard yesterday Bruce, Ken and I headed north. The plan was to avoid the windy snowy pass on Hwy 199 and instead drive up 101 and come across where the hills were less high. Along the way we wanted to check for the King Eider that had been seen near Read More…
Category: Oregon
Common Scoter
Today I finally had enough energy after our return from Kenya to trek to the Oregon coast for the continuing Common Scoter. It is just the second North American record of this species, the first also being south on the coast in California. We had a great group arranged, myself, Ken Brown, Bruce Labar, and Read More…
Wrap Up Day of GGOW Trip
Today our ABC group birded Oak Creek Canyon, seeing many Lewis’s Woodpeckers Rock wrens on the basalt columns, White-throated swifts, MacGilvery’s warblers, Western kingbirds, and a good variety of east side birds. It was a sunny and wonderful morning in a very pretty spot. I left before the last stop of the day planned to Read More…
Great Gray Owls near LaGrange and More
On Day 2 of our ABC trip we headed first to Spring Creek out of LaGrange to look for Great-gray Owl nest boxes managed by Walawa-Whitman National Forest. Our first stop was to look for two nest boxes off FR-21 where the anticipated polka-dotted tape marking a tree from which to look for the boxes Read More…