[Umpqua Birds] Re: umpquabirds Digest V1 #7
- From: Voyla Steves <voylamsteves@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Umpqua Birds <umpquabirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 16:49:23 -0800
This afternoon, Sunday, Matt and his family met me at Garden Valley and Del
Rio Roads, to talk about the bird I had seen last week that I thought might be
the ferruginous hawk. After trying to verbally describe the bird, and doing it
very inadequately, I remembered I had photos of it in my camera. So, looking
at the photos, Matt explained to me what makes it evident the bird was a
first-year red-shouldered hawk. If I stick around long enough Matt's going to
teach this old head a whole lot of things and I appreciate that. But, it's a
whole lot more fun on a sunny day than in the rain like yesterday morning.
As we talked, Matt mentioned the leucistic red-tailed hawk that he had seen in
that area and I said I hadn't seen it this winter but had seen it earlier last
year. Moments later, as we started driving on west on Garden Valley Rd., there
was the leucistic red-tailed and another red-tailed sitting in the first big
tree on the right side of the road west of the fire station. It really has a
lot of white feathers, on the head, both wings and various other spots. It
makes a rather spectacular-looking bird.
Voyla Steves
> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 01:05:08 -0500
> From: ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: umpquabirds Digest V1 #7
>
> umpquabirds Digest Sat, 08 Feb 2014 Volume: 01 Issue: 007
>
> In This Issue:
> [Umpqua Birds] Last 3 days
> [Umpqua Birds] Re: Last 3 days
> [Umpqua Birds] Re: Last 3 days
>
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>
> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 14:43:08 -0800
> Subject: [Umpqua Birds] Last 3 days
> From: Matthew G Hunter <matthewghunter@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> HI Birders,
> Yesterday (Friday) afternoon I helped out with Cindy Laws' UCC wildlife
> biology class, with a little field trip at Wildlife Safari. It was kinda
> rainy, but not too bad. Was interesting to see at least 2 male EURASIAN
> WIGEON still there with the large flock of American Wigeon. I would guess
> they will stick around until sometime in March or early April. Saw one
> PEREGRINE FALCON, but it was very brief and no chance to get anyone else on
> it. Some of the students were very impressed with seeing a Belted
> Kingfisher, Black Phoebe, American Coot, and female Hooded Merganser up
> close through a spotting scope.
>
> This morning about 6 other hearty Oregon birders joined me for a couple
> walks in the rain looking at birds at O.C. Brown County Park, the
> Dixonville overgrown quarry, and the ODFW office. Despite the rain we were
> impressed by a WESTERN MEADOWLARK SINGING IN THE RAIN, a nice look at the
> crown of a Golden-crowned Kinglet, a very focused feeding flock of
> Golden-crowned Sparrows, a pair of Hooded Mergansers.... We got wet. The
> birds were busy foraging despite the rain. It stopped raining when we were
> done. :-)
>
> Thursday and today (Saturday), I've seen two adult RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS
> perched together in dead or mostly-dead trees, Thursday along Melrose Road,
> and today on the west side of Stewart Parkway across from the wildlife
> ponds. They appear to be pairing up.
>
> I've been astonished at the difference between the Willamette Valley
> weather/snow compared to rain-only here. We both have moisture, but the
> cold air mass is to the north of us right now. Anyway, with all the snow on
> the Willamette Valley floor, I'm wondering if we might get any "refugees"
> down here from there. Most likely would be grassland/pasture birds, such as
> geese, meadowlarks, pipits, killdeer.
>
> Happy Wet Birding,
>
> Matt Hunter
> Melrose, OR
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: Beth Brown <birdbrainbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Umpqua Birds] Re: Last 3 days
> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 16:47:20 -0800
>
> At Martt's mini-birding trip this AM in the rain I went out Garden Valley Rd.
> past the Fire station. Voyla had mentioned seeing the Ferruginous hawk on a
> line just past the staton. We did indeed see a large (and unfamiliar to me)
> hawk in a large deciduous tree about a mile past the firestation. Going out
> Garden Valley it was on the left before the second junction with old G.V. It
> had stripes on it's tail, wings that extended down almost as far as the end
> of the tail. The front was lightly mottled. It did not have a white rump
> patch but did have a white spot on the underwing. It remained perched so we
> did not see it in flight. It was a good sized Buteo. Has anyone else seen
> this bird? I'd like to have a positive ID on it.
>
> Beth Brown
>
> Some people are so poor the only thing they have is money.
>
>
> I've been astonished at the difference between the Willamette Valley
> weather/snow compared to rain-only here. We both have moisture, but the cold
> air mass is to the north of us right now. Anyway, with all the snow on the
> Willamette Valley floor, I'm wondering if we might get any "refugees" down
> here from there. Most likely would be grassland/pasture birds, such as geese,
> meadowlarks, pipits, killdeer.
>
>
> Happy Wet Birding,
>
> Matt Hunter
> Melrose, OR
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: Beth Brown <birdbrainbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Umpqua Birds] Re: Last 3 days
> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 17:04:06 -0800
>
> Obviously I meant " AFTER Matt's " birding trip. Sorry about that.
>
> Beth Brown
>
> Some people are so poor the only thing they have is money.
>
>
> From: birdbrainbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: umpquabirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Umpqua Birds] Re: Last 3 days
> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 16:47:20 -0800
>
>
>
>
> At Martt's mini-birding trip this AM in the rain I went out Garden Valley Rd.
> past the Fire station. Voyla had mentioned seeing the Ferruginous hawk on a
> line just past the staton. We did indeed see a large (and unfamiliar to me)
> hawk in a large deciduous tree about a mile past the firestation. Going out
> Garden Valley it was on the left before the second junction with old G.V. It
> had stripes on it's tail, wings that extended down almost as far as the end
> of the tail. The front was lightly mottled. It did not have a white rump
> patch but did have a white spot on the underwing. It remained perched so we
> did not see it in flight. It was a good sized Buteo. Has anyone else seen
> this bird? I'd like to have a positive ID on it.
>
>
> Beth Brown
>
> Some people are so poor the only thing they have is money.
>
>
> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 14:43:08 -0800
> Subject: [Umpqua Birds] Last 3 days
> From: matthewghunter@xxxxxxxxx
> To: umpquabirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> HI Birders,
>
> Yesterday (Friday) afternoon I helped out with Cindy Laws' UCC wildlife
> biology class, with a little field trip at Wildlife Safari. It was kinda
> rainy, but not too bad. Was interesting to see at least 2 male EURASIAN
> WIGEON still there with the large flock of American Wigeon. I would guess
> they will stick around until sometime in March or early April. Saw one
> PEREGRINE FALCON, but it was very brief and no chance to get anyone else on
> it. Some of the students were very impressed with seeing a Belted Kingfisher,
> Black Phoebe, American Coot, and female Hooded Merganser up close through a
> spotting scope.
>
>
> This morning about 6 other hearty Oregon birders joined me for a couple walks
> in the rain looking at birds at O.C. Brown County Park, the Dixonville
> overgrown quarry, and the ODFW office. Despite the rain we were impressed by
> a WESTERN MEADOWLARK SINGING IN THE RAIN, a nice look at the crown of a
> Golden-crowned Kinglet, a very focused feeding flock of Golden-crowned
> Sparrows, a pair of Hooded Mergansers.... We got wet. The birds were busy
> foraging despite the rain. It stopped raining when we were done. :-)
>
>
> Thursday and today (Saturday), I've seen two adult RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS
> perched together in dead or mostly-dead trees, Thursday along Melrose Road,
> and today on the west side of Stewart Parkway across from the wildlife ponds.
> They appear to be pairing up.
>
>
> I've been astonished at the difference between the Willamette Valley
> weather/snow compared to rain-only here. We both have moisture, but the cold
> air mass is to the north of us right now. Anyway, with all the snow on the
> Willamette Valley floor, I'm wondering if we might get any "refugees" down
> here from there. Most likely would be grassland/pasture birds, such as geese,
> meadowlarks, pipits, killdeer.
>
>
> Happy Wet Birding,
>
> Matt Hunter
> Melrose, OR
>
>
>
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>
> End of umpquabirds Digest V1 #7
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>
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