I believe there was a Magpie in Northeast Portland, don't have date, 15 or
so years ago?
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 11:57 AM Range <range.bayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
To add to Darrel's report: P. 60 of "Birds of Thornton Creek" for
Black-billed Magpie (
https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/defaults/df65v9187). "Four
birds stayed July 12-14 [1982]; they then disappeared until August 14. On
August 14 and 15, three were seen. Floyd Schrock also photographed them."
On 6/17/2019, Phil Pickering reported to eBird (
https://ebird.org/checklist/S57458908): "Black-billed Magpie, Number
observed:1. Details: First reported 6/15 by a resident along SW Dune in
Lincoln City on the ridge above the Olivia Beach area, and photographed by
him early this morning. Still present in the area as of 9:30 today. Photos
courtesy of resident who is not on eBird." [2 photos are included.]
In Lincoln County, we also have occasional partially leucistic crows with
white feathers. In 2007, a Black-billed Magpie was reported near Cape
Foulweather based only on white in its wings. After discussion with the
observer about the possibility of it being a crow with white in its wing,
the observer relocated the bird and determined that it was indeed a crow
with white patches at the ends of its wings.
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On p. 420 In Birds of Oregon: General Reference (BOGR)(2003): "There have
been at least four coastal records including a “small flock” 8 Oct 1919 in
Blaine, Tillamook Co.; 1-4 from 12 Jul to 15 Aug 1982 at Thornton Cr,
Lincoln Co.; one at Cape Meares 7 Mar and possibly the same bird again at
Manzanita 29 Mar 1988, Tillamook Co. (Gabrielson & Jewett 1940, Heinl
1989a, CRM)."
Range Bayer, Newport, Oregon.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 10:10 AM <t4c1x@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On July 12, 1982 four magpies showed up in my front yard at Thornton
Creek. They hung around for two days, and then disappeared. Three of them (
I assume from the same group) reappeared on August 14-15. In the interval
they were seen by another observer at Steer Creek about ten miles to the
northeast of here.
Alex Walker recorded a small flock at Blaine, Tillamook County, on
October 8, 1919 (Birds of Oregon, page 425). So this species does rarely
straggle to the coast. There was also one which hung around in Monmouth for
several years a couple decades ago, although I do not have the actual date
in my records.
Darrel
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*From: *"Janet and Phil Lamberson" <pjlamberson@xxxxxxxxx>
*To: *"obol" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent: *Saturday, April 11, 2020 9:51:38 AM
*Subject: *[ADV] [obol] Re: Black-billed Magpie in Lincoln County
Years ago, my aunt from Minnesota was visiting the Oregon Coast to attend
her granddaughter's wedding at Oswald West State Park in Tillamook County.
She was staying in Cannon Beach, and was a very observant backyard birder
and poet. She commented to me that she had seen a magpie fly up from the
beach and east across Hwy 101 between Oswald West and Cannon Beach. I told
her that magpies don't live here, and she commented that she was very
familiar with magpies from her home in Minnesota. I always wondered about
that sighting - what could she have seen, a leucistic crow, a raven with
sun glinting off its feathers? I still wonder, but maybe she did see one,
considering Steve Holzman's Lincoln County sighting!
Janet Lamberson
Siletz, Lincoln County
