- RBA * Oregon * Portland * April 24, 2014 * ORPO1404.24 - birds mentioned American White Pelican Swainson¹s Hawk Black-necked Stilt Solitary Sandpiper Baird¹s Sandpiper Burrowing Owl Calliope Hummingbird Hammond¹s Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Western Kingbird Cassin¹s Vireo Warbling Vireo Northern Rough-winged Swallow Swainson¹s Thrush Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler MacGillivray¹s Warbler American Redstart Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Grasshopper Sparrow Western Tanager Black-headed Grosbeak - 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 24. If you have anything to add call Harry Nehls at 503-233-3976. Very heavy migrations were reported during the week. Early morning at Skinners Butte in Eugene and Mt. Tabor in Portland have been outstanding. Swarms of Yellow-rumped and Orange-crowned warblers along with smaller numbers of Nashville, MacGillivrey¹s, Black-throated Gray and a few other species were well reported. Pacific-slope, Hammond¹s, and Dusky Flycatchers were reported along with Cassin¹s and Warbling vireos. Early Swainson¹s Thrushes were reported from Eugene. A Swainson¹s Hawk was seen April 20 at Cape Blanco. On April 20 a Western Kingbird was at Powell Butte Park in Gresham. A Black-headed Grosbeak was at a Portland feeder April 23. A Redstart was in a Gladstone yard April 18. Two White Pelicans were at a farm pond near Carlton April 17. On April 20 a Western Kingbird and nine Rough-winged Swallows were near Amity. A Western Tanager was in Salem April 21. A male Calliope Hummingbird was at an Independence feeder April 17. A BLACK-NECKED STILT and several Rough-winged Swallows were seen April 19 at Ankeny NWR. Three Black-necked Stilts and a Western Kingbird were at Finley NWR April 17. A rare spring Baird¹s Sandpiper was at the Philomath Sewage Ponds April 23. A Burrowing Owl was south of the Corvallis Airport along Llewellin Road April 21. On April 20 a Grasshopper Sparrow and three Solitary Sandpipers were at Finley NWR. A male Black-headed Grosbeak and two Western Kingbirds were near Eugene April 19. On April 17 four Black-necked Stilts and a Solitary Sandpiper were at the Kirtland Road Sewage Ponds near White City. On April 21 a Snowy Plover and a Baird¹s Sandpiper were at Houston Lake near Powell Butte. Two Western Kingbirds and a Western Tanager were nearby. That¹s it for this week. - end transcirpt