Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve

• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Oregon Juncos
• Lesser Goldfinch
• Anna's Hummingbirds
• Northern Shovelers
• American Wigeons
• American Coots
• Mallards
• Gadwalls
• American Kestrel
• House Finches
• Northern Pintail
• Song Sparrow
• Great Blue Heron
• American Robin
• Tundra Swan
• Western Gull
• Northern Flicker
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• European Starlings
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Great Egret 
• Golden-Crowned Sparrow
• Ring-Necked Duck
• Canada Geese

Golden-Crowned Sparrow

Beaverton Creek Wetlands Park

• Pied-Billed Grebe
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Mallards - males and females
• Canada Geese
• Great Blue Heron
• Red-Winged Blackbird - call
• Ring-Necked Duck

Pied-Billed Grebe

Red-Tailed Hawk

Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge

"As cousins, we went birding at Ridgefield the day before Thanksgiving." HAA!
Another great trip to Ridgefield with my bird instructor/cousin. 

• Mallards
• Great Egret
• American Kestrel
• American Coot
• Northern Shoveler
• Western Gull
• Great Blue Heron - juvenile
• American Robins
• European Starlings
• Western Scrub-Jays
• Pied-Billed Grebe
• Northern Flicker
• Cinnamon Teal
• Hooded Merganser - male
• Tundra Swans*
• Northern Harrier
• Bufflehead - female
• Peregrine Falcon*
• Gadwalls
• Bald Eagles - juvenile and adult
• Bewick's Wren
• American Wigeons
• Red-Tailed Hawks
• Northern Pintails
• Sandhill Cranes
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Red-Winged Blackbirds
• Canada Geese

+Coyote

+Beavers

+Nutria

*Lifers!

Juvenile Great Blue Heron

European Starlings

Scappoose Field

• Oregon Juncos
• Spotted Towhee
• Northern Flicker
• Golden-Crowned Kinglets
• American Crow
• Anna's Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbird
(A little blurry, but I'll take what I can get!)

Commonwealth Lake Park

• Domesticated Waterfowl
• American Wigeons
• Bufflehead - male
• American Coots
• Mallards
• Great Blue Heron
• Western Gull
• Song Sparrow
• Oregon Junco
• Double-Crested Cormorants
• Pied-Billed Grebe
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Varied Thrush*
• Steller's Jay
• European Starlings
• Brewer's Blackbird
• American Robins
• House Sparrow
• Canada Geese
• Golden-Crowned Sparrow
• Green Heron
• Red-Winged Blackbird - call
• Common Merganser - female

*Lifer!

American Coot

Double-Crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Green Heron

Sauvie's Island

• American Kestrel
• Canada Geese
• Sandhill Cranes
• Red-Tailed Hawks
• Double-Crested Cormorants
• Snow Geese*
• Great Egret
• Western Gulls
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Song Sparrows
• Northern Flicker
• Bald Eagles
• Northern Harrier
• American Coots
• Mallards
• Cackling Geese
• Red-Winged Blackbird - call
• Great Blue Heron
• Black-Capped Chickadee - call
• Oregon Junco
• Eurpean Starlings
• Lesser Goldfinch
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Shoveler
• Ring-Necked Duck
• Buffleheads - female

*Lifer!

"A flock of geese leave their lake and take wing, turning to poems in the sky."  

~Dr. SunWolf

Canada Geese and Snow Geese flee from a raptor

Whitaker Ponds Nature Park

• Western Scrub-Jay
• American Robins
• Northern Flicker
• Song Sparrow
• Oregon Juncos
• American Crow
• American Wigeon
• Canada Geese
• Mallards
• Hooded Mergansers
• Bufflehead - female
• Ring-Necked Duck
• Gadwalls
• Double-Crested Cormorant
• Belted Kingfisher - female
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Horned Owl!

Way too dark by the time we saw the owl :(

Furnhill Wetlands

• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Short-Billed Dowitchers*
• Mallards - male and female
• Domesticated waterfowl
• Northern Pintail
• Bufflehead 
• Common Merganser* - male and female
• American Coot
• American Kestrel
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Western Gull
• Bonaparte's Gull*
• American Robins - male and female
• Canada Geese
• Cackling Geese*
• Brewer's Blackbirds
• Red-Winged Blackbird - male
• Mourning Dove
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Western Grebe
• Horned Grebe*
• European Starlings
• Northern Shovelers
• Double-Crested Cormorant
• Green-Winged Teal*
• Ruby-Crowned Kinglet*
• Northern Flicker
• Oregon Juncos
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Cooper's Hawk - juvenile
• Song Sparrow
• Rock Dove

*Lifer!

Short-Billed Dowitchers

Great Blue Heron