[obol] Lane coast birds
- From: Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 09:35:12 -0800
I spent a few hours birding around Florence on Saturday Nov 30 with Vjera
Thompson and Sean Burns.
One highlight was in the pre-dawn gloom in w Eugene: a BLACK-crowned
Night-Heron cruised along Royal Ave west of the intersection with Terry. There
are several large D-fir scattered south of Royal in that area, maybe worth
scanning at dawn from the checkermallow parking area or along Royal.
There was a good swarm of seabirds off the s jetty at Flor. At least five RED
phalaropes were around the end of the s jetty. Big flocks of Pacific and Common
Loon (only one RT) and maybe 300 murres, plenty of rhinos and grebes, at least
two SOOTY shear and maybe 35 generic dark shear, some of which showed dark
underwings.
Nice flock of forest birds including Townsend's at start of Baker Beach Rd.
Some noisy V rails there.
A Black Phoebe was along the ne edge of Lily Lake. The elk pastures there were
pretty quiet at midafternoon, though coopers, sharpshin and redtail all cruised
the hillside.
Vjera and Sean can add as needed. Details to ebird.
Back to Colorado later today. Tomorrow it will be 63 in Boulder and 27 in
Eugene. ???
Back in Oregon most of the time after Dec. 23.
Alan Contreras
cohabiting Eugene, Oregon and
Louisville, Colorado through July 2014
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
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