This is my first post on OBOL. I’ve been reading the discussion on the declining reports via email. I am one of the birders that use BirdLog and eBird extensively for reporting the birds I identify. I wasn’t sure if basic reports were of any interest to most birders because it seemed most of the reports were about unusual or rare birds. Anyway I will make an effort to email in some reports if they are of value to other birders. Three of us scouted Ankeny NWR in preparation for our Salem Audubon birding field trip on Thursday, July 17th at 7:30 a.m. The three of us survived a number of thunderstorms but the last one left us quaking in our boots at Pintail Marsh. Just before we were getting ready to leave a huge rumble of thunder rolled through shaking the ground then there were several lighting flashes around us. We headed to the vehicle and called it a day. But a successful day it was as we stopped at nine locations around the refuge and identified 54 species. Mike Unger Keizer, OR Ankeny NWR Checklist Summary for July 13, 2014 100 Canada Goose (moffitti/maxima) 2 Cackling/Canada Goose 10 Mallard 1 dabbling duck sp. 4 Ring-necked Duck 8 Pied-billed Grebe 1 American Bittern 6 Great Blue Heron 2 Green Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Osprey 2 Northern Harrier 1 Bald Eagle 6 Killdeer 12 Greater Yellowlegs 3 Long-billed Dowitcher 7 Eurasian Collared-Dove 3 Mourning Dove 1 Barn Owl 2 Acorn Woodpecker 5 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 3 American Kestrel 3 Western Wood-Pewee 2 Western Scrub-Jay 2 Western Scrub-Jay (Coastal) 12 American Crow 5 Tree Swallow 6 Barn Swallow 2 Cliff Swallow 33 swallow sp. 11 Black-capped Chickadee 4 Bushtit 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Bewick's Wren 6 Swainson's Thrush 4 American Robin 236 European Starling 18 Cedar Waxwing 10 Common Yellowthroat 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 13 Spotted Towhee 12 Song Sparrow 1 Western Tanager 4 Black-headed Grosbeak 29 Red-winged Blackbird 6 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Bullock's Oriole 2 House Finch 1 Purple Finch 9 American Goldfinch 7 passerine sp.