[obol] Re: obol Digest V3 #303
- From: Meg Ruby <megruby@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:35:40 -0700
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On Sep 26, 2014 10:06 PM, <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> obol Digest Friday, September 26 2014 Volume: 03 Issue: 303
>
> In This Issue:
> #1: From: SJJag@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [obol] Re: Areas for Shorebirds on Sturgeon Lake
> Sauvie Isla
> #2: From: Floyd Schrock <fschrock@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Re: [YamhillBirders] White-fronted Geese
> over McMinnv
> #3: From: "L Markoff" <canyoneagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Varied Thrush, south Eugene
> #4: From: Noah Strycker <noah.strycker@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Magnolia Warbler at Page Springs Campground
> #5: From: Noah Strycker <noah.strycker@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Canada Warbler at P Ranch
> #6: From: Zia Fukuda <zialeefukuda@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Black-throated Blue warbler
> #7: From: John Rakestraw <rakestrawbirder@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Smith & Bybee Am.Golden-Plover, Franklin's
> Gull
> #8: From: Lyn Topinka <pointers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] RNWR Ibis YES 10:30
> #9: From: MARK NEBEKER <marknebeker@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Re: Sauvie Is. additional comments
> #10: From: Owen Schmidt <oschmidt@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Ross's Gull (not an RBA)
> #11: From: wildtrout5@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [obol] North PDX this morning [David Leal]
> #12: From: Sylvia Maulding <sylviaspfd@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Skinner Butte Lewis's WP
> #13: From: Harry Fuller <atowhee@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] September's song...from Solitaires' solos,
> Jackson Co
> #14: From: Roy Gerig <roygerig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Ankeny NWR Pintail Marsh
> #15: From: Roy Gerig <roygerig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] (no subject)
> #16: From: Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Lane Coast birds
> #17: From: Wink Gross <winkg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] (American, probably) Golden-plover at The
> Wash--and S
> #18: From: Michael Gold <mhgold@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Jackson Bottom
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Msg: #1 in digest
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:23:49 +0000 (UTC)
> From: SJJag@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [obol] Re: Areas for Shorebirds on Sturgeon Lake Sauvie Island
>
> Very cool, good work Bob and good advice within re: trying to canoe/kayak
> on this oh so shallow body of water.
>
> Steve J.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Archer, Bob" <rabican1@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:45:35 PM
> Subject: [obol] Areas for Shorebirds on Sturgeon Lake Sauvie Island
>
> Hi:
>
> I put together a Google Map of Sturgeon Lake over lunch today. The number
> of shorebirds out there the past week has been amazing as you have read. I
> put this together fast and can't figure out how to put trails down on the
> map, but I will. I put markers at all the spots I can think of and how to
> access them. If I messed up on anything. let me know. The area up around
> Big Eddy is best for great views..you can be in trees and right next to the
> birds. The pictures and videos that have been posted are proof enough.
>
> Remember all this is shut down on Oct 1st ( except areas up along Warrior
> Rock Trail). And you need a parking permit as always. I hope to do
> another canoe trip this Saturday afternoon. Tides and water level may cause
> me to cancel and just hike around. On two of the markers I posted links to
> filed reports I have done in the past. Hope this helps folks..
>
> https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zDYUv0mTlYiM.kTxgIpn68wsk
>
>
>
> Bob Archer
>
> PDX
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #2 in digest
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:42:30 -0700
> Subject: [obol] Re: [YamhillBirders] White-fronted Geese over McMinnville
> From: Floyd Schrock <fschrock@xxxxxxxxx>
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #3 in digest
> From: "L Markoff" <canyoneagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Varied Thrush, south Eugene
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 07:22:18 -0700
>
> Hi Obol,
>
>
> A Varied Thrush is singing in my yard this morning, a happy surprise!
>
>
>
> Last year my first observed date for VATH was 11/30. We moved here in
> June
> of last year, so I don't have enough history to know which date is more
> typical for VATH at this location.
>
>
>
> Lori Markoff
>
> Eugene
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #4 in digest
> Subject: [obol] Magnolia Warbler at Page Springs Campground
> From: Noah Strycker <noah.strycker@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:42:14 -0700
>
> 8:00 this morning with a mixed flock in the willows by the river trail
> entrance. Will post a photo when I get home this weekend.
>
> Good birding,
>
> Noah Strycker
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #5 in digest
> Subject: [obol] Canada Warbler at P Ranch
> From: Noah Strycker <noah.strycker@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:51:18 -0700
>
> Seen just now (8:40) in the willows along the entrance to the canal trail.
> Will post a photo when I get home this weekend. Not a bad start to the day!
>
> Good birding,
>
> Noah Strycker
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #6 in digest
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:16:00 -0700
> Subject: [obol] Black-throated Blue warbler
> From: Zia Fukuda <zialeefukuda@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Seen at 9:50 outside the Kiger creek Flyshop in Burns. Got one sub-par
> photo, but enough to ID.
> The chase is on!
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #7 in digest
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:28:33 -0700
> Subject: [obol] Smith & Bybee Am.Golden-Plover, Franklin's Gull
> From: John Rakestraw <rakestrawbirder@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I birded Smith and Bybee Wetlands early this morning. There were many
> shorebirds on Smith Lake (Bybee had too much water). The wildlife folks
> were setting off fireworks to keep waterfowl out of the area (botulism
> outbreak), but it didn't seem to bother the shorebirds and gulls.
> Best birds were an American Golden-Plover (four primary tips visible beyond
> the tertials, seen after lots of stalking with a good scope) and a
> first-cycle Franklin's Gull.
>
> Best viewing was from the shoreline near the Smith Lake blind.
>
> Cheers,
> John Rakestraw
> Portland
>
> --
> John Rakestraw
> Portland, OR
> Second Edition of *Birding Oregon* available here
> <https://www.createspace.com/4402142>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #8 in digest
> From: Lyn Topinka <pointers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:07:48 -0700
> Subject: [obol] RNWR Ibis YES 10:30
>
> still there - south end Rest Lake STOP. 11 - 12
>
> Lyn Topinka
> Vancouver, Wa.
> NorthwestJourney.com
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #9 in digest
> Subject: [obol] Re: Sauvie Is. additional comments
> From: MARK NEBEKER <marknebeker@xxxxxxx>
> Date: 26 Sep 2014 12:06:50 -0700
>
> The Westside ( gravel end of Sauvie Island Road) of Sauvie Island Wildlife
> Area will be closed this weekend for a youth waterfowl hunt. Oak Island
> will be open.
>
> Sent from my HTC
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: SJJag@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Sauvie Is. additional comments
> Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2014 8:49 PM
>
>
> After Don C. left (I was just arriving) at the Narrows.
>
> When I first arrived there were 20 ish W. Snipe, 18 or so Yellowlegs, both
> sp. and a flock of Dowitchers in a pond (that hides a bit) to the right as
> you make the very last left turn on the road to the Gilbert River fishing
> access that Wink/Don shared directions to earlier. This pond also has
> numerous Eagrets and G.B.Herons and is perhaps findable by looking for the
> white cloth faux fences that are in its back section.
>
> At the Narrows: Three Sabine's Gulls arrived, two young, one adult
> plumaged bird. 13 Black Bellied Plover, 12 Dowitchers visited briefly, a
> few peeps, one Pectoral, one Gr. Yellowlegs, lots of pipits,
>
> White Fronted Geese and Sandhill Cranes continue to arrive.
>
> I left around 2:30 and there were still several birders in the area...any
> other news?
>
> Steve J.
>
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #10 in digest
> From: Owen Schmidt <oschmidt@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:12:10 -0700
> Subject: [obol] Ross's Gull (not an RBA)
>
>
> ........ September 22nd, on a cruise from Vancouver BC to Los Angeles CA,
> Oregon birders including Jeff Gilligan, Tom Crabtree, Tim Janzen, Judy
> Meredith, Sheran Wright, and Mary and Howard Horvath saw an interesting
> tern-like gull that I and Tom photographed. Post-cruise analysis shows the
> bird as a Ross's Gull ........ possibly only the fourth record for Oregon:
> http://oschmidt.net/OwenLSchmidtLLC/ROGU.html
>
> oschmidt@xxxxxxx
> Friday, September 26, 2014
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #11 in digest
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:33:00 +0000 (UTC)
> From: wildtrout5@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [obol] North PDX this morning [David Leal]
>
> Jeff Dillon and I hit the Big Eddy area at Sauvie this morning. One
> Sabine's Gull, 3 black-bellied plovers and a snowy egret on the way in. I
> stoped by Coon Point and as reported the water is now too high for all but
> the longest legged shorbirds. I did have two Sabine's gulls fly past
> heading south and there were at least six terns feeding along the edge of
> the lake to the right. I was able to identify a couple as common terns.Â
> Smith Lake was hopping with many of the regular shorebirds already
> reported. Jim, Beverly and I had two Franklin's gulls, three red-necked
> phalaropes more than a dozen black-bellied plovers and many leasts, Western
> and pectoral sandpipers, both yellowlegs and semipalmated plovers.Â
> Probably a couple hundred dowitchers and pipits all over. No blasting
> while I was there.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #12 in digest
> From: Sylvia Maulding <sylviaspfd@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:13:03 -0700
> Subject: [obol] Skinner Butte Lewis's WP
>
> This morning between 10:45 and 11:45 a Lewis's Woodpecker was very active
> in the Oaks at the top west end. A pair of RB Sapsuckers were in the same
> area and in the same tree as the Lewis's part of the time.
> The Lewis's was first reported on Tuesday by others
>
> Sent from my iPad
> Sylvia, Springfield OR
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #13 in digest
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:47:39 -0700
> Subject: [obol] September's song...from Solitaires' solos, Jackson County
> From: Harry Fuller <atowhee@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> http://atowhee.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/solitaires-solo/
> --
> Harry Fuller
> author of FREEWAY BIRDING, see: *freewaybirding.com
> <http://freewaybirding.com>*
> Atowhee@gmail
> http://www.towhee.net
> my birding blog: atowhee.wordpress.com
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #14 in digest
> From: Roy Gerig <roygerig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Ankeny NWR Pintail Marsh
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:19:17 -0700
>
> y
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #15 in digest
> From: Roy Gerig <roygerig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] (no subject)
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:23:27 -0700
>
> 1000 White Fronted Geese at Ankeny NWR.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #16 in digest
> From: Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Lane Coast birds
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:44:24 -0700
>
> I spent this morning and early afternoon around Florence on a lovely day
> for birding. Highlights were:
> Shorebirds at Siuslaw estuary:
>
> 2 Marbled Godwit
> 1 Whimbrel
> 19 BB Plover
> 17 Dunlin
> 125 Sanderling
> 2 Western
> 3 Killdeer
>
> Shorebirds at Siltcoos north access:
>
> 1 Baird's
> 8 Western
>
> Other highlights a wad of Sooty Shearwaters off the jetties, a flyby
> Sabine's Gull, 18 Common and 3 Elegant Terns in the estuary, one Diane
> Pettey visible on north jetty.
>
> At Siltcoos a single White-fronted Goose came sailing in from who knows
> where.
>
> In the afternoon I was at the crab dock flats at high tide and the Common
> Terns were diving within fifty feet of me, quite enjoyable.
>
> I made an abortive run north to the usual sites and had essentially zero
> birds at Klootchman, one pelican at Bray Point. Bob Creek was closed for
> repairs and Stonefield seemed to be in a state of flux - the south access
> has now been semi-permanently closed by boulders and the north access was
> where dump trucks were leaving piles of torn-up pavement. I hope that
> Stonefield will come back to life at some point, it is a nice little spot.
>
> Lists to ebird.
> .
> .
> Alan Contreras
> acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Eugene, Oregon
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #17 in digest
> From: Wink Gross <winkg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] (American, probably) Golden-plover at The Wash--and Sauvie
> Is c
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:57:35 -0700
>
> Paul Sullivan and I found a GOLDEN-PLOVER at The Wash, Sauvie Island,
> Columbia Co. this afternoon. We were not as diligent as John Rakestraw,
> but judging by the dark cap contrasting with the bright supercilium, the
> understated auricular spot, and the general impression of a short-legged,
> long-winged plover it seems that AMERICAN is the best fit. It was with 4
> BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. There were also 2 SABINE’S GULLS hanging about and
> over 350 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS.
>
> Mark Nebeker’s email comes across as garbled on the ABA website, but I
> think what he was trying to post was that the westside of the WMA is closed
> THIS WEEKEND for “youth duck hunting”. Yes, that’s right. Most of the WMA
> will be off limits for the next 7 months starting Wednesday, Oct 1, but the
> powers that be felt they had to also close much of the area, including the
> best shorebird habitat, on the last available weekend of the year. Go
> figure.
>
> Wink Gross
> Portland
> ------------------------------
>
> Msg: #18 in digest
> From: Michael Gold <mhgold@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Jackson Bottom
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:03:32 -0700
>
> On Friday morning there were approximately 300 Greater White Fronted Geese
> on the pond at the north end of Jackson Bottom in Hillsboro.
>
> Mike Gold
> Portland
> ------------------------------
>
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