Yesterday afternoon I spent several hours birding at Cold Springs NWR. At the suggestion of a Umatilla NWR employee I visited the very most SE ponds at Cold Springs looking for shorebirds. It was rewarding with the best birds being two WHITE-FACED IBIS. My eBird checklist is below. Shawneen Finnegan SW Portland Shawneen May 13, 2013 Cold Springs NWR Traveling 2 miles 171 Minutes Observers: 1 All birds reported? Yes Comments: Most birding was at SE most ponds. 6 Wood Duck 33 Gadwall 33 American Wigeon 50 Mallard -- 9 chicks 2 Blue-winged Teal 34 Cinnamon Teal 9 Northern Shoveler 5 Northern Pintail 10 Green-winged Teal 5 Redhead 1 Ring-necked Duck 1 Common Goldeneye 2 Ruddy Duck 4 California Quail 3 Ring-necked Pheasant 2 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Eared Grebe 2 Great Blue Heron 2 White-faced Ibis 2 Red-tailed Hawk -- On nest 1 Virginia Rail 1 Sora 14 American Coot 1 Semipalmated Plover 4 Killdeer 9 Black-necked Stilt -- Copulating 6 American Avocet -- Copulating 8 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Least Sandpiper 26 Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Wilson's Snipe- winnowing 2 Wilson's Phalarope 9 Red-necked Phalarope 4 Mourning Dove 1 Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 30 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 20 Tree Swallow 4 Bank Swallow 3 House Wren 20 Marsh Wren 3 American Robin 6 Yellow Warbler 8 Song Sparrow 8 Lazuli Bunting 50 Red-winged Blackbird 3 Western Meadowlark 80 Yellow-headed Blackbird 2 Bullock's Oriole 6 American Goldfinch
,05/13/2013 ,L341405 ,, ,, ,, ,15:21 ,, ,, ,Traveling ,1 ,171 ,Y ,2 ,, ,"Most birding was at SE most ponds. <br />Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3" TC000184,6| TC000194,33| TC000203,33| TC000211,50|"9 chicks" TC000233,2| TC000236,34| TC000242,9| TC000247,5| TC000257,10| TC000284,5| TC000286,1| TC000326,1| TC000346,2| TC000444,4| TC000625,3| TC000688,2| TC000696,1| TC001079,2| TC001161,2| TC001450,2|"On nest" TC001723,1| TC001766,1| TC001821,14| TC001926,1| TC001937,4| TC001973,9|"Copulating" TC001982,6|"Copulating" TC001993,8| TC002053,3| TC002083,26| TC002097,1| TC002121,2| TC002122,9| TC002542,4| TC005004,1| TC008020,30| TC008038,20| TC008049,4| TC008364,3| TC008392,20| TC009538,3| TC010505,6| TC011267,8| TC011442,8| TC011453,50| TC011471,3| TC011473,80| TC011558,2| TC011743,6|
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