Gyrfalcon is treated as a sensitive species by eBird. Therefore, no details
of any sighting (and no photos) are made available to the public.
Hendrik
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 9:21 PM Jenkins, Maurice <
Maurice.Jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rich Hoyer's account of the same Gyrfalcon. He mentions photos in his
ebird account link, but I didn't find any.
Alan
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*Subject:* [obol] Lane County Gyrfalcon, Ross's Goose, Lewis's Woodpecker
Dear Birders,
Around mid-day today a bunch of good birds suddenly plopped down in front
of me and my visiting friends Marc Passmann and Patty Tersey from Tucson,
who arrived just this morning. We set out late morning with no real goal
and found ourselves wandering the back roads north of the Eugene airport.
We were on Washburn Rd west of Junction City when we saw a white goose in a
huge flock of Cackling Geese landing in a field just south of the
(inaccessible) Junction City sewage ponds. When we went to investigate the
geese were right on High Pass Rd, and the white goose was quite close. I
added some photos to my eBird list here:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S97758434 I'd be interested to know what
others think about this bird, as a probable hybrid was in this area last
year. The forehead isn't as steep as in perfect Ross's Goose, and there
seems to be a hint of a black grin patch, but the bird was tiny (as small
as or smaller than the cacklers), wartiness is obvious on the base of the
bill, and
the feather-bill interface seems normal for Ross's.
It was almost overwhelming when all the geese started taking off at once,
but I knew to look for a predator and before long spotted a juvenile
GYRFALCON, which gave an imrpessive chase but failed to connect with a
goose. It eventually perched on a power pole to the east of us, closer to
Junction City. After a few minutes it flew off to the southeast to attempt
another goose, and disappeared. We relocated it in tree on Pitney Ln., and
then saw it fly to on the 10th power pole south of High Pass Rd (about
here: 44.215177,-123.230096). We stayed with it for about 25 minutes, long
enough for only Sally Hill to arrive and see it, and it eventually flew off
to the southwest at about 12:55 p.m. As far as I know it wasn't relocated
this afternoon. Photos on the same eBird list.
Our next stop was Rest Lawn Memorial Park, a cemetery on a hill on the
east side of Territorial Highway not far north of High Pass Rd., and from
there we spotted a LEWIS'S WOODPECKER flycatching from the tops of some
distant oaks on the butte to the east.
We also saw a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on McFarland Rd. just south of Finley NWR
(Benton County), and it was nice to be so close to over 500 TUNDRA SWANS at
McFadden Marsh on the refuge.
Good Birding,
Rich
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Rich Hoyer
Eugene, Oregon
birdernaturalist@xxxxxx
Senior Leader for WINGS
http://wingsbirds.com
Ambassador for American Bird Conservancy
http://abcbirds.org
my blog: http://birdernaturalist.blogspot.com
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