*
Harry Nehls and Dave Fix got two Pygmy Owls at the Oak Grove Cemetary or such
place
in the far eastern part of the Corvallis CBC circle(Tangent,Fayetteville) in
1979. I saw one
on the OSU campus one Saturday afternoon the winter of 1975/76. One at the tip
of the
Zumwalt Penninsula on the Eugene CBC 2006 was a pleasant surprise. That part of
Fern
Ridge Reservoir is continuous forest with the Coast Range these days so hardly
surprising.
Lars
On Jan 4, 2018, at 12:56 PM, Joel Geier wrote:
Hi all,
I went over to Luckiamute SNA this morning with the idea to check the
spot where I thought I might have heard American Tree Sparrow(s) on
Sunday.
I didn't find any rare sparrows, but on my way back I heard a very
distant Northern Pygmy-Owl tooting, probably about half a mile away from
where I was walking. It might have been up in the conifers on the bluff
on the north side of the Luckiamute River confluence. It kept going for
at least a couple of minutes, long enough for me to rule out the other
main possibilities (Northern Saw-whet Owl which toots faster, Gray Jay
imitating a pygmy-owl -- they can be pretty good at it but normally they
throw in some more querulous notes -- or Townsend's Solitaire which has
more of a piping quality).
Normally when I've encountered Northern Pygmy-Owls in this area, they've
been in the Coast Range or its foothills, and nearly always west of Hwy
99W. This is only the second time I can recall hearing one east of Hwy
99W in either Polk County or Benton County.
Happy birding,
Joel
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Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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