Today Alan Contreras, Joshua Galpern and I birded the lane coast to Ona beach
for a full watch but with good weather conditions there weren't too many gull
wads.
Good numbers of Western, as well as Herring and California.
Our first stop was at South Jetty Florence Pay station to look for white-winged
crossbill, which we found pretty much immediately, there were about 8 birds,
which we got great scope looks at. We also at 5 gray jays in the vicinity of
the crossbills which is quite unusually for this area
Our next big stop was a Tokatee Klootchman which held a nice scoter flock with
a couple Blacks.
Next was Stonefield Beach which had a lot of House finches and 6 surfbirds on
the rocks.
Bob creek wayside help 11 black turnstones 5 more surfbirds and 5
oystercatchers.
We also poked around Yatchats but there was really nothing special to note.
We then chased after the report of the black-and-white warbler at beaver creek
road at Ona beach, but were unforntualy 5 minutes too late as the flock that it
was in moved into the trees and eventually took of elsewhere, we did here a
strange chip note from the flock, which was probably it, but can't be too
certain. We had a couple virigina rails as well there.
We next went to Ekman lake to chase the Ruff but didn't see it. We had great
waterfowl numbers though lots of Wigeon (though no Eurasian) Rig necks and
Lesser scaup, and bufflehead. We also had an amazing flock of 29 Townsend's
warblers (quiet possibly the biggest I have ever seen). As well as a Hutton's
vireo mixed in.
We ended with Port of siuslaw in Florence which only had a spotted sandpiper to
note.
That ends it overall a good day with lots of species.
Alan or Josh can add any important details I forgot.
Good Birding!
Tye J.
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