[obol] Lane coast birds 10/5
- From: Noah Strycker <noah.strycker@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL Oregon Birders Online <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 21:57:10 -0700
Hi birders,
Spent a productive day around Florence. It was so warm I had the A/C on for
a while!
PINK-FOOTED SHEARWATERS were passing the Sea Lion Caves overlook this
morning at a steady 1-2/min, with a few SOOTY SHEARWATERS mixed in. I
walked the fields just north of Lily Lake and pished up a WILSON'S WARBLER
with two YELLOWS in a big mixed flock.
The deflation plain is bone-dry, but I walked its length anyway, and saw
virtually no birds except a PALM WARBLER about halfway down (good views,
but it then flew off over the dunes), and a flyover HORNED LARK. A BLACK
PHOEBE and CACKLING GOOSE were along the deflation plain access dike.
A pair of HARLEQUIN DUCKS and three RED-NECKED GREBES were resting on the
water past the end of the south jetty, and a large flock of SANDERLINGS was
roosting on the jetty.
Siltcoos hosted a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER (photo here
<http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S20045017>) with seven
SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and seven WESTERN SANDPIPERS. And a RED KNOT (photos
here <http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S20044950>) was hanging
out with 26 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS in the Siuslaw River estuary, downstream
of the casino turnoff.
I stopped at Fern Ridge near sunset and just had time to walk a few hundred
yards south of the viewing platform. Two backlit GOLDEN-PLOVERS were with
10+ PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and many other shorebirds; I assume these are the
same two that have been reported in recent days. Didn't see the
Sharp-tailed, but didn't walk the full western loop to look for it.
Good birding,
Noah Strycker
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