Tillamook Area

12.04.12
Tillamook Bay Wetlands
A new place I look forward to visiting again.

Horned Grebe

Fox Sparrow - notice slight eye ring... I hadn't realized they had that.

Profile view of Fox Sparrow.  Btw, this place was crawling with these guys!

Ahhh!!! White-Tailed Kites!  A lifer!!!  Also, they're a lot cooler looking than I thought they would be.  Not the best photo of them, but I like the set up of it.

A typical example of trying to take pictures of a Ruby-Crowned Kinglet... Always on the move...

The first thing we saw was a group of Red Crossbills (Lifer!) in the very tippy top of a tree.  They quickly flew away, but we saw them again when we were leaving. Yay!

And....

• Northern Harrier 
• Great Blue Herons
• Song Sparrows
• Canada Geese
• Steller's Jays
• Bald Eagle
• Red-Winged Blackbirds - males
• Downy Woodpecker - male
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Northern Flicker
• Black Phoebes
• Common Mergansers - females
• Common Ravens
• Oregon Juncos
• Spotted Towhee
• Bufflehead - female
• Pine Siskins
• Hairy Woodpecker - male
• American Coots
• Mallards

Barview Jetty

I had been there one other time, this time we visited the opposite side.

• Western Gulls
• California Gulls
• Brown Pelican
• Pelagic Cormorant 
• Varied Thrush
• Common Goldeneye - male

This shot had the potential of killing me.  If you zoom waaay in, at the end of the jetty are several shore birds.  Expected to be either Rock Sandpipers or Surfbirds.  Unfortunately, we never got close enough to find out, as the ocean licked our faces.