An interesting idea. Living in southwest Eugene my radius might be pretty good.
Alan Contreras
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
Eugene, Oregon
www.alanlcontreras.com
http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/edge-of-awe
On Jan 2, 2019, at 9:47 AM, Shawneen Finnegan <shawneenfinnegan@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dave and I started our 5-mile radius challenge from our house yesterday with
a bang. We pounded all day and saw 74 species, including all five species of
herons that we could possibly expect to see this year.
Koll Center Wetlands hosted all five with American Bittern being the most
unexpected and a first for us there. A photographer had asked Craig Tumer
what it was and he, in turn, let us know about it. Craig, amongst many, is
also participating in this fun challenge that Jen Sanford started several
years ago.
The bittern was hunkered down along the banks in a spot that none of us
would have seen without the fellow first spotting it. He was trying to
photograph the Green Heron that was above it. We had already birded the lake
and hadn’t spotted it. It was on the west side of the lake, east of the
tennis courts close to the corner where the lake bends north. We also heard
that the Black-crowned Night-Heron had been seen within the past week at the
little pond south the lake where it has been the past few years. One had to
walk in on the path along the south edge of the pond to see it as it was NE
across the pond towards the parking lot. We couldn’t spot it at all from the
parking lot even though we knew where it was.
We also found 1-2 Swamp Sparrows in Greenway Park just north of Scholls Ferry
Road.
It was a very fun way to start the year and I am excited to see what we
discover in our local area.
Shawneen Finnegan
Beaverton, OR
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