[obol] Benton birds this morning
- From: Hendrik Herlyn <hhactitis@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Midvalley Birding <birding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:21:26 -0700
Tyler Hallman, Oscar and I checked out Finley NWR and the Philomath Sewage
Ponds this morning to see what the weather had brought in..
Highlights included:
McFarland Rd: 6 Semipalmated Plovers
McFadden Marsh: several Greater Yellowlegs, ca. 35 Greater White-fronted
Geese, 2 very cooperative American Bitterns, 2 Gadwall,
Bruce Rd.: we were unable to relocate yesterday's Ross's Goose; had one
Yellow-headed Blackbird at the scrape pond, and one Solitary Sandpiper in a
little puddle near the Pigeon Butte trailhead on the west side of the refuge
Finley Conservation Wetland: 1 Long-billed Dowitcher, several flocks of
Least Sandpipers, 1 Western Sandpiper, a few Dunlin, a few Greater
Yellowlegs, 1 Merlin,
Philomath Sewage Ponds: 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Least
Sandpipers, 32 Red-necked Phalaropes, 1 Western Grebe, 1 Eared Grebe, 5
Common Mergansers, 1 Western Kingbird (on fence along east side)
Not too bad for a rainy morning!
Happy Spring Migration
Hendrik
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Hendrik G. Herlyn
Corvallis, OR
*"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." -- Gary Snyder*
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