Andy Frank, Jack Hurt and I birded Wasco County today. We started by driving
up Badger Creek Road where we found a pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS, a pair of
CANYON WRENS, a pair of VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS, and a few MOUNTAIN CHICKADEES.
Best was a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE right by the road, offering excellent views.
Realizing that this could be a first-ever-for-all-of-us "Two-shrike Day", from
that point on we were focussed on finding a Northern.
We continued around Fairgrounds Road in Tygh Valley. I think of Tygh Valley as
being the Lewis's Woodpecker capital of the world in the winter, but we only
managed to find one LEWIS'S WOODPECKER today. The first of several pairs of
SAY'S PHOEBES was in the town of Tygh Valley. A stunning, light-phase
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was on Wamic Market Road.
Aptly-named Victor Road rewarded us with not just one, but two,
widely-separated NORTHERN SHRIKES. Also on Victor Rd was 1 of only 2 HORNED
LARKS for the day, a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE, both WESTERN and MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS,
and at least 15 TRICOLORED BLACKBIRDS at the usual farmstead.
Good birding,
Wink Gross
Portland
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