I have some dynamite photos of our Chat inflating its throat as if it were
a balloon. Talk about projecting one's voice! I'll add photos to my Ebird
checklist by tomorrow and will post the link, as well as Ghopper Sp photos.
Ellen Cantor
On Sun, May 10, 2020, 1:54 PM Hendrik Herlyn <hhactitis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Benton County seems filled with chats, too. They are more numerous, or at
least more obvious, than most years.
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Hendrik G. Herlyn
Corvallis, OR
*"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." -- Gary Snyder*
On Sunday, May 10, 2020, 01:52:01 PM PDT, Alan Contreras <
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I didn’t find a single Savannah Sparrow north of the restrooms. Maybe
slightly too many bits of shrub sticking up? Ghopper seems to like the
slightly shrubular places.
My impression is that it is a good year for chats. Almost everywhere I
went today I could hear one. I heard the one you are talking about and
there was another south of Royal by the gate. And everywhere else.
Alan Contreras
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
Eugene, Oregon
www.alanlcontreras.com
On May 10, 2020, at 1:47 PM, Ellen Cantor <ellencantor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yesterday Randy Sinnott, Dave Westerfield, Magnus Persmark , and I had 3
Grasshopper Sparrows in the fields north of the Fern Ridge Royal Ave
restrooms. Randy, Dave, and I also heard but didn't see a small flying
flock of Cacklers . We also had great views of a very vocal YB Chat in
brush and trees on the west side of the same fields.
Ellen Cantor in Eugene
On Sun, May 10, 2020, 12:39 PM Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
A fine day in the damper parts of the west Eugene flatlands. I followed
up on the Aragons’ and others finds yesterday. After the flock of 15+/-
ibis left Royal/Fisher Pond 5 mid-morning they apparently went directly to
the Cantrell gate area, where the water is very low. We’ll see what the
drippy forecast this week does there (same situation at the Euphoria
scrape, which is about two days from dry).
Four BW Teal (three male) were at the Cantrell gate just west of Neilsen
at 7:30; they flew back into the grass-screened wet area not much later.
At least two Wilson’s Phal were at the gate site on Cantrell, found by
Sylvia Maulding and Tye Jeske, and three at Meadowlark Corner (1 F, 2 M) on
Royal at Greenhill.
Tye Jeske spotted a Horned Lark at the gate on Cantrell; an hour later
Nathan and Ramiro Aragon found two there in the road.
Grasshopper Sparrow continues due north of the restroom at Royal parking.
Walk to the fence corner, maybe 300 yards. I saw it near the big lump of
blackberry in the private pasture.
Young geese and Mallards are present at many sites, as are adult Gadwall
pairs, though I have seen no Gadlings. I saw two geese at Meadowlark
corner that looked like Cacklers to me; I posted pics with my eBird list.
I had not seen cackularies for maybe ten days around Eugene and I thought
they were all gone. I don’t think they are small Canadas.
Odd experience of the day was having nine adult Spotted Sandpipers in
sight at once from the pullout on Hwy 126 just e of Perkins Park. Fern
Ridge is still about two feet below the usual summer pool and there are a
lot of exposed rocky and muddy edges there. The same area had extremely
close Western and Clark’s Grebe.
Alan Contreras
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
Eugene, Oregon
www.alanlcontreras.com
