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I don't know where the corral area is, but if it's on the south side of Ward
Butte it could be a mile from the phœbe our team saw 12/14, which was at the
jct of Morgan and Manning. In that case it surely represents 2 different birds.
There's probably several per square mile all over sw Linn County this
January.lpn
On Jan 13, 2018, at 10:00 PM, Jeff Fleischer (Redacted sender
"raptorrunner97321" for DMARC) wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Today I completed my monthly raptor survey for the area covering east of I-5
from Hwy 34 south to Brownsville. I covered 74 miles in 5 hours 48 minutes.
Started off in fog that kept visibility to around 100 yds but it soon let up
and it wound up being a really nice day to do a survey :). Officially, here
are the totals:
Red-tailed Hawk. 51
American Kestrel. 57
Northern Harrier. 21
Bald Eagle. 21 adults, 13 sub adults
GOLDEN EAGLE. 1 adult
Rough-legged Hawk. 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
The Peregrine was found as the fog was lifting on Agan Rd a few miles west of
Lebanon. The bird of the day of course was the adult Golden Eagle that I
found on the north side of Ward Butte along Morgan Dr. It was aggressively
feeding on a sheep carcass and was very protective of its meal as 3 adult
Bald Eagles looked on perched within 50 feet of the carcass. The Golden
Eagle would tear a bite from the carcass and look up at the other eagles and
at times flaired its hackles in defiance while staring right at them, pretty
awesome to watch. I observed the feeding for 15 minutes before moving on and
the Golden never gave in to the others. About 10 minutes prior to finding
the Golden Eagle, I located the SAY’S PHOEBE previously reported a few days
ago. It was bug hunting in the “corral” area on the south side of Ward
Butte. Had a good day chasing birds I love to look at :)
Jeff Fleischer
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