Here is my bird list for Lost Lagoon Farm for the second half of March. My wife
and I identified 62 species on or from our property — eleven more than for the
first half of March, and 14 more than for the same period in 2015. I suspect
the warm, wet spring is principally responsible for the difference. With
surrounding seasonal ponds shrinking rapidly, I anticipate most duck species
will be gone in about a week. No sign yet of yellow-rumped warblers or common
yellowthroats, but I expect to hear and see the yellowthroats any day and the
butter butts soon thereafter. I haven’t seen any purple martins yet on our
property, but Wink Gross and I saw four on Oak Island on 3/28.
Great blue heron (more common now than a month ago - I am seeing them almost
daily)
Great egret (saw about 10 of them one day only)
Sandhill crane (still seen daily)
Canada goose
Cackling goose (both geese species in large numbers)
Wood duck (nesting on our pond)
Mallard (possibly nesting in our forested wetland; seen regularly in several
places)
Northern pintail (on the seasonal ponds near the geese)
Hooded merganser (on our pond)
Gadwall (on our pond)
Green-winged teal (seen often on the Gilbert River)
Ring-necked duck (see only a couple of days on the pond across Gillihan Road
from us)
American wigeon (on our pond and other nearby ponds)
Northern shoveler (seen across Gillihan)
Osprey (returned 3/22)
Bald eagle
Red tailed hawk (they nest nearby)
American kestrel (seen almost daily)
Sharp shinned hawk
Cooper’s hawk
Turkey vulture
Barn owl (seen swooping over our fields several late afternoons)
Ring billed gull
Mew gull
Mourning dove
Eurasian collared dove
Anna’s hummingbird
Rufous hummingbird
Pileated woodpecker
Northern flicker
Downy woodpecker
Hairy woodpecker
Red-breasted sapsucker (finally returned after a long absence)
Western scrub jay
American crow
Tree swallow
Violet green swallow (first seen 3/18) (both species are checking out our nest
boxes)
Black-capped chickadee
Chestnut backed chickadee
Brown creeper
White breasted nuthatch
Bushtit
Bewick’s wren
Golden crowned kinglet (haven’t seen or heard in 10 days - they may be gone)
Ruby crowned kinglet (still here)
American robin
Varied thrush
Orange-crowned warbler (first seen 3/27)
Golden-crowned sparrow
White throated sparrow (it has been here all winter)
Song sparrow
Fox sparrow
Savannah sparrow (first seen 3/19)
Spotted towhee
Dark-eyed junco
Red-winged blackbird (nesting on the pond)
Brewer’s blackbird
House finch
American goldfinch
Lesser goldfinch
European starling
House sparrow
Mark J. Greenfield
Lost Lagoon Farm
14745 NW Gillihan Road
Sauvie Island
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