[obol] Re: Sunday's Ankeny NWR Field Trip
- From: "L Markoff" <canyoneagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <unger730@xxxxxxxxx>, <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 08:31:00 -0700
Mike, thank you for your report. I have only been in Oregon for one year and
reports such as yours help me because I want to learn the "big picture" of
birds in Oregon. Rare bird reports are somewhat interesting, but big-picture
reports are more useful to me, especially in this time of climate change and
conditions such as drought. Big-picture reports, along with bird-behavior
reports, are my main focus.
Thanks!
Lori M.
Eugene
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Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 7:20 AM
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Subject: [obol] Sunday's Ankeny NWR Field Trip
This is my first post on OBOL. I’ve been reading the discussion on the
declining reports via email. I am one of the birders that use BirdLog and
eBird extensively for reporting the birds I identify. I wasn’t sure if basic
reports were of any interest to most birders because it seemed most of the
reports were about unusual or rare birds. Anyway I will make an effort to
email in some reports if they are of value to other birders.
Three of us scouted Ankeny NWR in preparation for our Salem Audubon birding
field trip on Thursday, July 17th at 7:30 a.m. The three of us survived a
number of thunderstorms but the last one left us quaking in our boots at
Pintail Marsh. Just before we were getting ready to leave a huge rumble of
thunder rolled through shaking the ground then there were several lighting
flashes around us. We headed to the vehicle and called it a day. But a
successful day it was as we stopped at nine locations around the refuge and
identified 54 species.
Mike Unger
Keizer, OR
Ankeny NWR Checklist Summary for July 13, 2014
100 Canada Goose (moffitti/maxima)
2 Cackling/Canada Goose
10 Mallard
1 dabbling duck sp.
4 Ring-necked Duck
8 Pied-billed Grebe
1 American Bittern
6 Great Blue Heron
2 Green Heron
1 Turkey Vulture
2 Osprey
2 Northern Harrier
1 Bald Eagle
6 Killdeer
12 Greater Yellowlegs
3 Long-billed Dowitcher
7 Eurasian Collared-Dove
3 Mourning Dove
1 Barn Owl
2 Acorn Woodpecker
5 Downy Woodpecker
2 Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)
3 American Kestrel
3 Western Wood-Pewee
2 Western Scrub-Jay
2 Western Scrub-Jay (Coastal)
12 American Crow
5 Tree Swallow
6 Barn Swallow
2 Cliff Swallow
33 swallow sp.
11 Black-capped Chickadee
4 Bushtit
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
2 White-breasted Nuthatch
4 Bewick's Wren
6 Swainson's Thrush
4 American Robin
236 European Starling
18 Cedar Waxwing
10 Common Yellowthroat
2 Yellow Warbler
1 Yellow-breasted Chat
13 Spotted Towhee
12 Song Sparrow
1 Western Tanager
4 Black-headed Grosbeak
29 Red-winged Blackbird
6 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 Bullock's Oriole
2 House Finch
1 Purple Finch
9 American Goldfinch
7 passerine sp.
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