I used to bird in the hills above Sauvie’s Island decades ago. The Loggie
Road and Cornelius Pass Road area was in my section of the Sauvie’s Island CBC,
which I started as a 16 year old in the mid-60s. I regularly found Mountain
Quail up there, which is of course is not far from Forest Park and part of the
same Tualatin Mountains (west hills) ridge. Have a fun memory of trying to
show an eastern birder a Mountain Quail there. We stopped near an emergent
clear cut and I turned on my endless loop recorder with the species' calls and
we wandered off maybe a hundred feet. After getting no response, we went back
to the recorder to try elsewhere. When I reach to pick up the recorder there
was a Mountain Quail on it. Or next to it
Jeff Gilligan
On Jan 22, 2019, at 11:47 AM, Andy Frank <andydfrank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
While walking in Forest Park in Portland this morning about 9AM I heard about
4 "quarks" that I thought sounded like Mountain Quail. It was somewhat
distant and did not repeat itself so I am not confident enough to include it
on my checklist, but if someone happens to go and can confirm it, I'd love to
hear it. This was near the intersection of Wildwood Trail and Birch Trail.
Andy Frank
