[obol] FW: Rare warbler at The Dalles' Riverfront Park

From: Harry Nehls <hnehls6@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:11:08 -0700
Harry Nehls
Portland, Oregon


------ Forwarded Message
From: Stuart Johnston <johnstonstuartf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:41:07 -0700
To: Steve Bradley <sjbradley@xxxxxxxxx>, John Price
<johnpricebirds@xxxxxxxxx>, Dan Sager <dan-julie@xxxxxxxxx>, Jane Camero
<janeo@xxxxxxxxx>, Linda Steider <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Hansen
<bobhansen@xxxxxxxxx>, Diane and Roger Gadway <rdgadway@xxxxxxxxx>, Janet
and Paul Essley and Moyer <essmoy@xxxxxxxxx>, Jake Jakabosky
<jakesflies@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "bakerrogerd@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<bakerrogerd@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Cathy Flick <flick@xxxxxxxxx>, David Irons
<llsdirons@xxxxxxx>, Sally Gilchrist <sally.gilchrist@xxxxxxxxx>, Harry
Nehls <hnehls6@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Theo Anderson <tanderson0019@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Rare warbler at The Dalles' Riverfront Park

 Friends...
This afternoon while surveying the waterfowl off The Dalles Riverfront Park,
"out of the corner of my ear" I heard an unfamiliar call, every so often,
from false indigo around the little pond back of the beach and below the
restroom. As I made my way around the pond's s. side, moving westward, I
heard the call closeby again (not a soft call) and began psh-ing. Noted some
movement in the f. indigo just ahead of me and got binoculars on it. Small
brown-above bird with wagging brown tail, half hidden back in there by
branches and spase leaves. Figured it must be either Palm or N. Waterthrush.
It flew across a small opening in the riparian and I decided to go round to
the opposite side of the pond and try to scope it in under the overhanging
f. indigo branches. And I lucked out...got to study it in scope (30x Bausch
and Lomb) for 11 minutes, 1711-1720...then had to rush off in order to get
to work on time. It was a Northern Waterthrush. It walked about in the
sparse forbs on the muddy shore in under the false indigo bushes, coming
towards me as it walked and foraged, pumping tail up and down all the while.
Brown upperparts (cap, from forehead to hindneck, back, wings, tail); no
wingbars. Dark line through the eye with conspicuous white eyebrow and also
a white strip in malar area, between the dusky auriculars and a dark stripe
on the side of the white throat. Underparts white with lots of dark
streaking across breast, extending down onto belly and flanks. Vent,
undertail coverts white. Dark eyeline congealed into a blob at the rear of
the auriculars. Legs looked pinkish-grey and bill appeared to be dark, but
the lighting was not great in under the brush. Heavy overcast skies, calm.
Temp. was 60 degrees F at 1603 on a bank sign in The Dalles.
 
Harry or David, you might want to put something on OBOL (and Tweeters?); I'm
not able to post it.
 
All the best....
Stuart Johnston
       


------ End of Forwarded Message
[obol] FW: Rare warbler at The Dalles' Riverfront Park

Other related posts:
