- RBA * Oregon * Portland * April 17, 2014 * ORPO1404.17 - birds mentioned Aleutian Cackling Goose Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon American White Pelican Sandhill Crane Black-necked Stilt Black-bellied Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Dunlin Baird¹s Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Bonaparte¹s Gull Vaux¹s Swift Prairie Falcon Hammond¹s Flycatcher Western Kingbird Cassin¹s Vireo Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated-Gray Warbler Wilson¹s Warbler Yellow-headed Blackbird - transcript hotline: Portland Oregon Audubon RBA (weekly) Number: 503-292-6855 To report: Harry Nehls 503-233-3976 <hnehls6@xxxxxxxxxxx> compiler: Harry Nehls coverage: entire state Hello, this is the Audubon Society of Portland Rare Bird Report. This report was made Thursday April 17. If you have anything to add call Harry Nehls at 503-233-3976. The first major wave of spring migrants entered the state during the week with flocks of warblers, mainly Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned, Black-throated Gray, and a few Nashville Warblers. Other conspicuous migrants were Yellow-headed Blackbirds, House Wrens, Cinnamon Teal, and Vaux¹s swifts. Flocks of Evening Grosbeaks were also reported. Two White Pelicans returned to the Fernhill Wetlands April 15, the same day several were seen near Astoria. Offshore coastal migrants also increased especially Red-throated and Pacific Loons and Bonaparte¹s Gulls. On April 12 a Sandhill Crane was at Cape Blanco. The next day a Prairie Falcon was at Bandon. A major flight of Aleutian Cackling Geese passed northward April 14 along the southern Oregon coast. On April 12 a Wilson¹s Warbler and a Hammond¹s Flycatcher were at Powers near Coos Bay. Three Yellow Warblers were reported April 11 at the Sandy River Delta. A Blue-winged Teal was at Ankeny NWR April 10. On April 12 a Western Kingbird was there. On April 12 a Lesser Yellowlegs was at Finley NWR. and 100 Black-bellied Plovers, 200 Dunlin, and 30 Least Sandpipers were at Fern Reservoir. On April 13 a Harris¹s Sparrow was just south of Fern Ridge. On April 15 a Calliope Hummingbird was in Eugene. On Skinners Butte in Eugene April 10 were a Cassin¹s Vireo, and a Hammond¹s Flycatcher. On April 11 a Western Kingbird was near Roseburg. Another was near Merlin the same day. A Calliope Hummingbird was near Grants Pass April 14. On April 11 three Black-necked Stilts and a Baird¹s Sandpiper were at the Kirtland Road Sewage Ponds near White City. That¹s if for this week. - end transcript