The Goal: 60 Species in 2 Days

Day one
Tualatin River Wildlife Refuge 
5.18.12
My cousin and I

• Killdeer(s)
• Great Blue Heron
• Barn Swallows
• Canada Geese + goslings 
• White-Crowned Sparrow
• Belted Kingfisher - male
• Northern Flicker
• Red-Winged Blackbirds
• Mallards
• Bald Eagles
• Gadwalls - males
• Violet-Green Swallows
• American Crows
• Brewer's Blackbird - male
• Vaux's Swifts
• Song Sparrows
• Common Yellowthroat
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Bank Swallows
• Cedar Waxwings
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
• Brown-Headed Cowbird - male
• Tree Swallow
• American Goldfinches
• Ringed-Necked Ducks - males
• American Coot
• Cliff Swallow
• Savannah Sparrows
• Purple Finches
• Orange-Crowned Warbler
• Western Wood-Peewee*
• Red-Breasted Sapsuckers
• Black-Headed Grosbeaks
• European Starlings
• Bushtit
• Lazuli Buntings* - both sexes!
• Spotted Towhee
• American Kestrel

*Lifers!!

We certainly mopped the floor at TRWR, it was awesome!

Then, later that day, at my house and randomly:

• House Sparrows
• Rock Doves
• Pine Siskins
• Turkey Vultures
• Yellow Warbler
• Black-Capped Chickadee
• Oregon Juncos
• Mourning Dove
• Rufous Hummingbird - female
• Steller's Jay

The total species for the day:

50!

The always GREAT Blue Heron

Bald Eagles making quite the raucous. 

Red-Breasted Sapsucker flailing about comically. 

Lazuli Bunting - male

Lazuli Bunting - female