Hey Lars,
Yeah. Yesterday morning I heard a Northern Parula song about six times on
Warrior Point Trail. I heard it on the walk out and thought I was hearing
things and wrote it off as something else but on the walk back it did the
full single buzz upwards with one note after. I couldn’t ever get my eyes
on it, but then I also couldn’t get my eyes on nearly anything else in the
canopy. I also unfortunately didn’t get a recording as by the time I got my
phone out it stopped singing and the mosquitos were intense. I sat there
eaten alive for over 10 more minutes before leaving.
Hopefully someone else heads that way and can find it. By the time we were
leaving the trail was getting pretty busy and not everyone was wearing
masks...
Given the actual sightings etc., The other Parula sounds like a much safer
bet. Weird that that occurred on the same day. I didn’t see that report
until we were back. In any case, I completely understand if eBird doesn’t
accept my sighting as I have no good evidence. Wanted to put it out there
in case someone else nearby can find it.
Cheers,
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 3:10 AM larspernorgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Saturday's eBird synopsis includes multiple detections of NOPA(going and--
coming) by Tyler Hallman and Whitney Fleming on the Warrior Point Trail at
Sauvie Island. This is a much shorter chase for many of us than the bird at
Coos North Spit. I don't know if " vagrant" is the proper descriptor of
Northern Parulas in coastal Baja Oregon anymore. There was a singing NOPA
on the Coos N Spit in summer another year not long ago, and multiple such
records in Del Norte County. Despite spending two thirds of my life in the
Portland area l have never walked the Warrior Point Trail. It starts at the
end of Reeder Road(the east/ Columbia coast of Sauvie) . Warrior Point is
the northern tip of the island, the northern end of the Multnomah Channel
and hence the bitter end of the Willamette River.
The Breeding Bird Survey (BBS)is a US Fish and Wildlife Service
program. At one point it was the only comprehensive effort by USF&WS to
monitor songbird populations. One route exists for each rectangle defined
by a degree of latitude and longitude. A three minute point count is made
every half mile for 25 miles. I did the Scio route described by Joel in
1981. At the Union Hill Cemetary l detected Western Kingbird. I have
detected the species within 5-10 miles of there in June/July repeatedly
over the decades. 1977 was the first time. My visits to Marion County are
few so the species must be fairly regular there in summer. On the 1981
survey l saw a Townsend's Warbler singing on top of an oak where the
highway goes under the powerline a few stops south of Mehama. The next stop
, on the grade descending to Mehama , yielded a Red-eyed Vireo. The western
foothills of the Cascades receive very little attention from birders. My
own very limited efforts have always been highly rewarding.
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