Thanks Lars,
Turns out that this same individual photographed a Sagebrush Sparrow and
a Sage Thrasher along Pleasant Valley Rd. south of Boise, in Ada County
Idaho last weekend.
So looks like this was a false alarm, cause by a surfeit of "Pleasant
Valleys" in the Western states. Blame it on the limited imaginations of
early real estate promoters.
Pleasant Valley in Linn County, Oregon does have a couple of
interesting-looking patches of habitat, but no sagebrush so far as I can
recall.
Joel
On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 07:42 -0700, Lars Norgren wrote:
Yeah, there's a Pleasant Valley outside Nampa, quite near the main
property of Deer Flats NWR. I think I may have visited a Pleasant
Valley in eastern Oregon during the past two months. I think there are
three "Fairviews" in the state of Oregon and two Daytons in
Washington. Hence the utility of including counties in all biological
notes/specimens. I realize the state AND county seem erroneous in this
case.
Lars
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Joel Geier <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This came out on the daily eBird rare-bird alert for Linn
County.
- pleasant Valley Rd, Linn, Oregon
- Map:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=44.4266393,-122.7600718&ll=44.4266393,-122.7600718
- Checklist:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28417022
- Comments: "west side of Pleasant valley rd"
