Yesterday, I participated in the East Cascades Audubon's shorebird
survey of Lake Abert in Lake County. I was joined by Jim and Sue
Anderson. We counted all birds (not just shorebirds) that we heard or
saw. Surveys are done from late July to September. One of the main
purposes of this survey is to monitor Wilson's Phalarope populations in
the lake during migration. There were few Wilson's Phalaropes but this
may be a little late in their migration. I was surprised by the lack of
peeps or other small shorebirds. I thought we might find more than we
did. Here are the highlights of my survey.
1 leucistic duck with a trailing brood (I think it was a pintail). Sue
may have a photo.
4000 Northern Shovelers on the north end of the lake
3 Semipalmated Plover
Only 22 Killdeer
301 Black-necked Stilt
9486 American Avocet (smoke obscured our view or we would have had
several thousand more)
5 Willet
8 Least Sandpipers
4201 Red-necked Phalaropes
325 Wilson's Phalaropes (I've had more than 200,000 before at this site
on different dates)
9 Franklin's Gulls
2533 Ring-billed Gulls
538 California Gulls
1 Herring Gull Pretty far away but I could see a large adult gull
with flattened forehead and pinkish legs. I didn't put this on eBird
because I couldn't be 100% sure of the Id. Something got the flock up
before I could really study it and it was lost.
2 Loggerhead Shrike
1 late Yellow-headed Blackbird
--
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for
sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
Chuck Gates
541-280-4957
Powell Butte,
Central Oregon
Oregon Birding Site Guide
http://www.ecaudubon.org/#!birding-locations/clvb
Oregon County Checklists
http://www.ecaudubon.org/#!county-checklists/c1s34
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