I took a visiting Massachusetts birder out for a marathon birding session today. We spent about 14 hours birding around Sisters before heading home via hwy 97. We could not find a Dipper. A very nice nest was present at Camp Sherman but no bird. No nest at all below the bridge at Suttle Lake Lodge. We found the following:
Highlights: Blue-winged Teal - Redmond Sewer Ponds 3 Ruddy Duck - Redmond Sewer Ponds 2 female Bufflehead - Redmond Sewer Ponds Mt Quail - 11 Road about 3 miles past where the pavement ends N. Pygmy-Owl - 11 Road Vaux's Swift - Suttle Lake Lewis's WP - North end of Road 11 (several pairs) Williamson's Sapsucker - at a nest in Cold Springs CGRed-breasted Sapsucker - Where Whychus Creek crosses the 1514 road between Pole Creek Rd. and Three Creeks Road. No nest was found. Hairy WP - at undeveloped campground on the cuttoff road between Cold Springs CG and Hwy 20/126. Road into the CG is 158. White-headed WP - at undeveloped campground on the cuttoff road between Cold Springs CG and Hwy 20/126. Road into the CG is 158.
Black-backed WP - Rd 1514. Nest located and photographed.Northern Flicker - Multiple birds but a good nest located and photographed at Cold Springs. 30 Clark's Nutcrackers coming in for water - at undeveloped campground on the cuttoff road between Cold Springs CG and Hwy 20/126. Road into the CG is 158. Pinyon Jays - We saw birds at the Best Western and along Hwy 126 east of Sisters.
Chestnut-backed Chickadees - Suttle Lake Townsend's Warbler - North side of Black Butte Hermit Warbler - North side of Black Butte Leucistic Fox Sparrow on the north end of Rd 11 (photographed) -- 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 Oregon Birding Site Guide www.birdingoregon.info OBOL archives: www.freelists.org/archive/obol Manage your account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/obol Contact moderators: obol-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
