[obol] Lane Coast birds
- From: Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:31:24 -0700
I spent a few hours poking around coastal Lane County today it RAINED on
me, I was grossly offended.
Most fun of the day was three 3/4 size young Ruffed Grouse on the side of
Hwy 126 near the Austa bridge. I don't spend much time in the woods so I
don't see groslings very often.
Two adult Red-shouldered Hawks, one a couple of miles downriver from
Mapleton, one at Lily Lake. They are not really worth mentioning anymore
from western 2/3 of Lane County.
Dogpond offered 1 Lesser Legs and a few Least Sand, plus a Purple Martin
overhead and a Green Heron, which I don't see there very often.
North jetty flats had 22 Least and one Heermann's Gull.
Crab Dock flats had one Semi Plover that didn't stay long. Nice to have
several plumages of all three cormorants lined up next to each other on the
rock spur there.
Siuslaw channel had a nice alcid trifecta: adult and young murre, adult
guillemot and a rhino sailing along more or less in line astern.
North inlet at Siltcoos (scoped from the road) had 20 Least and one Western
Sand
Klootchman was fogged in.
Bray's Point was partly unfogged and offered 75 WW Scoter, 60 murres and two
Marbled Murrelets. I saw a few White-winged elsewhere and no Surf Scoters
anywhere.
Waite's channel had four Great Egrets and a femalic Hooded Merganser.
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Alan Contreras
Eugene, Oregon
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
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