Oops. Forgot to say that we found 230 species on our Big Week trip.
Here's the whole list:
Snow Goose
Ross Goose
Canada Goose
Cackling Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Bufflehead
Barrow's Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Chukar
Ring-necked Pheasant
Greater Sage-Grouse
Sooty Grouse
Wild Turkey
Mountain Quail
California Quail
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Sooty Shearwater
White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brandt's Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
American Bittern
Great-blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Black Oystercatcher
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Black Turnstone
Sanderling
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Marbled Murrelet
Ancient Murrelet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Bonaparte's Gull
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Western Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Burrowing Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Common Poorwill
Vaux's Swift
White-throated Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Lewis' Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
Williamson's Sapsucker
Red-naped Sapsucker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Western Wood-Peewee
Willow Flycatcher
Hammond's Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Pacific-Slope Flycatcher
Say's Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Cassin's Vireo
Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Gray Jay
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Pinyon Jay
Clark's Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
N. Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
Pacific Wren
Marsh Wren
American Dipper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Wrentit
Sage Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Western Tanager
Green-tailed Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Sagebrush Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole
Purple Finch
Cassin's Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow
On 5/25/2016 3:40 PM, Charles Gates wrote:
Jeff Nordstrom and I did an Oregon Big Week from May 15-21. We started in Newport, spent some time in the mid-Willamette Valley, spent 2+ days in Central Oregon and concluded our journey in Harney County. The weather was pretty cooperative until the last two days where we were sent scrambling to avoid, heavy rain, wind, sleet, snow, lightning, thunder, pestilence, frogs falling from the sky and water turning to blood.
We really only found one rare species. In Fields on the morning of the 6th day and between rain storms, we were able to locate a INDIGO BUNTING in with a bunch of Lazuli Buntings. We may also have been the first to see BOBOLINKS in the flooded fields near Diamond.
Our Best Birds:
1. Ross Geese - Several scattered around the farm fields of Burns. Some appeared injured. One succumbed to eagle feast while we watched.
2. Snow Goose - One bird continues at Houston Lake in Central Oregon
3. Cackling Geese - One at Philomath SP and several at Ankeny.
4. Trumpeter Swan - Several nesting at Malheur. One at Benson and
three in unnamed water on the Diamond Road.
5. Black Scoters - Newport 68th St and at Seal Rock
6. Red-breasted Merganser - Yaquina Bay on the way to Toledo
7. Greater Sage Grouse - Millican Sage Grouse Lek east of Bend - At
least 3 males and 5 females still lekking.
8. Mountain Quail - East Cascades Audubon Society Green Ridge Hawk
Watch location NW of Sisters.
9. Sooty Shearwater - Offshore at Seal Rock
10. Green Heron - 2 gave us a surprise flyby in Philomath.
11. Black Turnstone - Seal Rock I think.
12. Sanderling - From the balcony at the Shilo Inn Newport.
13. Marbled Murrelet - Boiler Bay and Yaquina Head Lighthouse
14. Ancient Murrelet - Boiler Bay
15. Long-eared Owl - Near Skull Hollow at the foot of Gray Butte in
Jefferson County.
16. INDIGO BUNTING - Fields Oasis.
17. Bobolink - Diamond Road.
18. Tricolored Blackbird - Elliott Road (not to be confused with
Elliott Lane which is their normal spot) NW of Prineville.
Biggest Misses:
1. Brant - Most had migrated out.
2. Tundra Swan - One was found in Bend just a couple of days after we
were there.
3. Long-tailed Duck - Missed the Bend bird by 6 hours.
4. Common Goldeneye- Most have migrated out.
5. Ruffed Grouse - Visited one known drumming log but no activity. No time to check another known location.
6. Dusky Grouse - Decision was made that it wasn't worth our time to
spend a morning searching for this bird.
7. Red-throated Loon- Most have migrated out. One was seen by other
birders while we were on the coast.
8. Snowy Egret - Always tough anywhere in Oregon away from Klamath.
9. White-tailed Kite - Too far away from our route
10. Red-shouldered Hawk - Seen the day before we arrived in Bend. We
looked but failed to locate.
11. California Gull - Maybe the most painful. We did not see any in
Central Oregon but didn't press it because we thought we would see
them in Harney. Wrong!!
12. Anna's Hummingbird - Ok, this was the most painful. We saw
several probables in the coast range but all the perched birds we
found were Rufous. Couldn't find one during our times in Central
OR or the Willamette Valley refuges. A real fumble.
13. Flammulated Owl - Decision was made that it wasn't worth our time
to spend a night searching for this bird. None have been located
in CO yet this year.
14. Black Swift - They seem to have reached plague proportions in
Rodenkirk Country but we didn't see any.
15. Pileated WP - Another big miss. We didn't press it on the coast
or in the valley because I had a slam dunk spot in CO. Then, of
course, we got slam dunked ourselves when the bird could not be found.
16. Eastern Kingbird - None had yet arrived as of our visit to Malheur.
17. Varied Thrush - Just never heard one in the western Cascades or
the Coast Range.
18. Black-throated Sparrow - Jake Schas found a breeding group just
about a mile from where we tried for them. This was NW of Fields.
19. Golden-crowned Sparrow- Most had migrated out.
So the possibility of reaching 250 is a reality but will be very difficult. I can't even guess what the Hinkles and Em would do if you gave them 7 days!! We'll try again next year.
Thanks to everyone who gave us advice and help.
--
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for
sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
Chuck Gates
541-280-4957
Powell Butte,
Central Oregon
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