Dennis Arendt reports:
The Eugene Wednesday bird group went to the west side of Alton Baker
Park and walked to the radio tower pond and back near the garden plots.
Along the river there was a great amount of bird activity, including two
Red-breasted Sapsuckers, Downy Woodpeckers and Flickers. A Merlin flew
over the pond as it was being chased by two hummingbirds. Here is the
complete list.
Greater White-fronted Goose - one with some domestic geese near the
small pond at the west end.
Cackling Goose - a small group on one of the islands
Canada Goose
Mallard
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Common Merganser - on the river
Ring-necked Pheasant - heard
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Pigeon
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Merlin - flying fast and being pursued by two hummingbirds
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Bushtit - several scattered groups and one collecting nesting material
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Pacific Wren
Bewick's Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Steve and Judy Franzen, Sylvia Maulding, Ellen Cantor, Jim Regali, Dave
Brown, Marie Royer, Cindy Armstrong and Dennis Arendt
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