[obol] Re: Nice January walk in California? No, Polk County, Oregon
- From: Jeff Gilligan <jeffgilligan10@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: clearwater@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:03:59 -0700
On Jan 11, 2019, at 9:28 AM, clearwater@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Wrentits could be found as far north as Saddleback Mountain in the Coast
Range west of Grand Ronde, back in the 1940s when Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
and her colleagues from Linfield College found them as part of an effort to
document all flora and fauna in a study area (later described in her book,
"Not Just Trees," published by Washington State University Press). That
followed a wave of logging in the 1930s-40s, which left a lot of brushy
habitat. After that, they seemed to go through a range contraction, but
they've been expanding again in recent decades, following the logging boom of
the 1970s-1980s.
I remember Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds from when I wad an undergraduate at
Linfield College.
I even took a class in ornithology there, but it was from Professor Borne. Our
special field trip was to the Klamath Basin.
Our local field trips found a few Wrentits in the coast range, an empid that I
identified as a Hammond's near college’s nature cabin in the nearby Coast Range
in October, and Lesser Goldfinches up Cozine Creek when they were rare in
northwestern Oregon. I haven’t been to Cozine Creek near the hills since then,
but it was a delightful place - Yellow-breasted Chats, Lazuli Buntings, etc.
I had already been a birder for about nine years before enrolling at Linfield.
Jeff gilligan
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