I lied when I said that the Bewick’s Wren at Enterprise was a new Wallowa
county bird for me. When I got home and checked my records I found that I had
recorded 4 Bewick’s Wrens in Wallowa county down near Troy on July 6, 2004.
Nonetheless, this is the first up in the valley around Enterprise. If the
species moved up the Grande Ronde and Wallowa Rivers instead of cutting
overland through high elevation forest, they had to travel over 70 miles in
those 14 years.
Incidently, I found a Bewick’s Wren on the Christmas Bird County in Union
County in 1984, twenty years before the Troy birds.
This species has been expanding up the Columbia and its tributaries for as long
as I’ve been birding in the Pacific Northwest. We were excited to find one
near Pullman WA in the early ‘80’s. Now they are common well east of Lewiston
ID up the Clearwater River.
Paul Sullivan
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I forgot the best find of the day. We found a new species for me in Wallowa
county! We found a Bewick' s WREN. It was at the bridge over the Wallowa
River, just North of the outlet of the lower Fishhatchery pond.
Paul Sullivan
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Subject: [COBOL] Wallowa report Jan 13
Clear skies. Temp 14 - 35. Golf Course Rd fogged.
Many robins, few cedar waxwings in Enterprise. Merlin seen.
Large falcon glimpsed again at bottom of OK Gulch, only Kestrels & a rough-leg
on Zumwalt Rd.
Grand views of Seven Devils, Wallowas.
Ferruginous Hawk on high power line seen from Repplinger Rd.
2 Golden Eagles on Elk Mt. Rd.
Harris Sparrow at Weick ranch on Elk Mt Rd. We will return to seek Am Tree
Sparrows there tomorrow.
Paul Sullivan
