The group split into two this morning. One car full chose to head up to the Santiam Pass to look for the Pine Grosbeaks. The rest voted to head to east Alton Baker Park for our morning birding fix. Birds seen: Cackling Goose Canada Goose American Wigeon Mallard Ring-necked Duck Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Ring-necked Pheasant-7 Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Green Heron-eating fish Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Merlin Wilson’s Snipe Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared Dove Anna’s Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Steller’s Jay Western Scrub Jay American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Bushtit White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Bewick’s Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Robin Yellow-rumped Warbler Spotted Towhee Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow White-Crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark House Finch American Goldfinch European Starling Observers: Kit Larson, Jim Ott, Judy Franzen, Dave Brown, Joni Dawning, Randy Sinnott, Charlie Thomas and Don Schrouder OBOL archives: www.freelists.org/archive/obol Manage your account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/obol Contact moderators: obol-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx