Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge

Christmas Bird Count with the Audubon Society of Portland.

• American Crow
• Downy Woodpecker
• Canada Geese
• Mallards - male and female
• Northern Pintails
• Red-Winged Blackbird
• Cackling Geese
• Ring-Necked Ducks
• American Wigeons
• Golden-Crowned Kinglets
• Anna's Hummingbirds
• White-Breasted Nuthatch - call
• Black-Capped Chickadee
• House Finch 
• Oregon Junco - call
• Song Sparrows
• Great Blue Heron
• Cooper's Hawk
• Bufflehead - female
• Wood Ducks - male and female
• Northern Shovelers
• Gadwall
• Green-Winged Teal
• Brown Creeper
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Varied Thrush
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Northern Flicker
• Common Merganser
• Double-Crested Cormorant
• Belted Kingfisher
• Lesser Goldfinch
• American Goldfinch

Downy Woodpecker

frosty spiderwebs 

Scappoose

My parents house:

• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Varied Thrush
• Red-Breasted Nuthatch
• Brown Creeper
• Oregon Juncos (That were freakishly larger than any I've ever seen.  The ones I see are not much bigger than chickadees.  These were closer to the size of a towhee!)
• Anna's Hummingbird

Multnomah Channel - Scappoose Dike:

• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Canada Geese
• Red-Winged Blackbird - male
• Purple Finches - males and females
• Sandhill Cranes
• American Robin
• House Sparrows
• Downy Woodpecker
• Bald Eagle
• Double-Crested Cormorant
• Common Merganser
• Pileated Woodpecker - call
• Great Blue Heron
• Northern Harrier
• American Kestrel
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Western Gull

Purple Finches - male and female

Western Scrub-Jay

Commonwealth Lake Park

• Common Merganser
• Mallards
• Canada Geese
• Western Gull
• American Wigeons
• Bufflehead
• Hooded Merganser - female
• American Coots
• Pied-Billed Grebe
• Greater White-Fronted Geese
• American Crow
• Bushtits
• Domesticated Waterfowl
• Great Blue Heron
• American Robin
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Red-Winged Blackbird
• House Finches
• Belted Kingfisher - female
• Song Sparrow
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Mourning Dove
• Golden-Crowned Sparrow

American Wigeon - male

American Wigeon - female

Goose

Belted Kingfisher - female

Mallard - female

Mallard - male

Mallard searching for food

Common Merganser - female

Hood River/ Sandy River/ Columbia River Gorge

A very Awesome day long trip, smashing my 'highest number of species in one day' record.

• Canada Geese
• Western Grebe
• Ring-Necked Ducks
• Common Goldeneyes*
• Greater White-Fronted Goose*
• Western Gulls
• Hooded Mergansers
• Bald Eagle
• Pie-Billed Grebe
• Buffleheads
• Great Blue Herons
• Oregon Junco
• Yellow-Rumped Warbler
• Horned Grebe
• Song Sparrow
• American Coot
• Lesser Scaup
• American Crow
• Varied Thrush
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Downy Woodpeckers
• European Starlings
• Spotted Towhee
• Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpeckers
• American Wigeon
• Double-Crested Cormorant
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Common Raven
• Mallards
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Ruby-Crowned Kinglets
• American Kestrel
• Western Meadowlark*
• Golden-Crowned Sparrow
• Northern Harrier

*Lifers!

Pileated Woodpecker

Western Grebe
(It was so cold that my camera couldn't even focus!)

Mt. Hood

Hood River