[obol] 11/05/13 - Union County : BLUE JAY
- From: AVITOURS@xxxxxxx
- To: obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 14:58:01 -0500 (EST)
Birders -
This morning (11/05, 7:30 a.m.), I bumped into Benton County birders :
Hendrik Herlyn, Oscar Harper & Tristen Hynes at the Blackhawk Trail Lane
Red-bellied Woodpecker site, in La Grande, OR. After getting good looks of
the
RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER, we headed over to the La Grande Waste Water
Treatment Ponds and picked up the female LONG-TAILED DUCK I located last
evening.
Mike & Susan Daugherty and Kent Coe (La Grande birders), were present and
got good looks at the duck too. The wind with cold temps made the birding
brutal. Then we all departed and I was heading back to work, when I
received a phone call from Cove birder, Sandy Coulson. Sandy said she had
woke
up this morning hearing a familiar bird from her youth, growing up in
Michigan, a BLUE JAY. I headed over to her place at 804 Mill Street in Cove
and
almost instantly heard the bird and relocated it moments after that. I
snapped a nice photo that can be viewed at either of these two locations:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15573689
http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m527/avitours/BLJA_zps0f9d44ca.jpg
The bird was hanging with two STELLER'S JAYS, eating Elder berries, when
they all flew to the east, up Mill Creek, and became sparse. Herlyn, et al.
showed up around 9:50 a.m. and we managed to hear the BLUE JAY call a few
times later, but did not actually see the bird again. What's going to show
up next?
Good birding,
- Trent
The Bobolink - Linking Birders & Birds
1707 5th Street
La Grande, OR 97850
(541) 963 - 2888
avitours@xxxxxxx
OBOL archives: www.freelists.org/archive/obol
Manage your account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/obol
Contact moderators: obol-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Other related posts:
- » [obol] 11/05/13 - Union County : BLUE JAY - AVITOURS
