Interesting about the Green Heron. According to Cornell, all of Oregon is
a non-year-round range for them.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Green_Heron/maps-range.
A pair of Green Herons for the last few years has been famously nesting in
(almost) plain sight near the large conference building across the south
bridge at Crystal Springs. Seems likely this would be one of them?
In contrast to the above map, There are 20-40 Oregon eBird records over
time from Oct-November including 5-10 from Crystal Springs.
Time to revise the map?
Bob OBrien Carver OR
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 5:47 PM Chris Bennett <tayben7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today (around 3:30) we saw a Green Heron fly north low over Crystal
Springs just North of Tacoma St going towards Spokane St. There was a pair
of Wood Ducks and some American Widgeon's in the same area.
A few day's ago it got fairly birdie in our back yard (Westmoreland) for
a brief time. We had a Ruby-Crowned and Golden-Crowned Kinglets, a pair of
Townsend's Warblers, Hermit Thrush, Chipping Sparrow, Brown Creeper along
with our usual yard birds; White-Breasted and Red-Breasted Nuthatch',
Northern Flickers, Downy Woodpeckers, American and Lesser Goldfinches,
Oregon Junco's .
Chris Bennett
