Showing posts with label Black Oystercatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Oystercatcher. Show all posts

Friday, February 24, 2012

Lincoln City

Josephine Young Memorial Park

  • Western Gulls
  • Bald Eagles
  • Buffleheads - males and females
  • Surf Scoters - males
  • White-Winged Scoters* - male and female
  • Double-Crested Cormorant
  • Horned Grebe
  • Common Goldeneyes
  • Red-Breasted Merganser - female
  • Common Raven
  • Spotted Towhee
  • House Sparrow
  • Red-Winged Blackbird - call
*Lifer!

Bald Eagles

Not a great photo, but I'm happy to get my first White-Winged Scoter - male
(If you look closely you may be able to see the tip of the white wing, in an even crappier shot, you could see more of it, but it was so blurry)

White-Winged Scoter - female!

Double-Crested Cormorant
Fogarty State Park
  • Varied Thrushes - male and female
  • American Robins
  • Oregon Juncos
  • Hermit Thursh
  • American Crows
  • Black Oystercatchers
  • Bald Eagle
  • Surf Scoter - male
  • Black Scoters - males
  • Pelagic Cormorants
  • Hairy Woodpeckers*
  • Northern Flicker
  • Anna's Hummingbird - call
*Lifer!

Varied Thrush

Black Oystercatcher - pair - can you spot them? :)

Handsome Black Oystercatcher

Hairy Woodpecker working away
Boiler Bay
  • Western Gulls
  • Glaucous-Winged Gull
  • Pelagic Cormorant
  • American Crows
  • Common Loon

East Devil's Lake
  • Common Merganser - female
  • Common Loon
  • Tree Swallow
  • Buffleheads - males and females
  • Yellow-Rumped Warblers
  • Golden-Crowned Kinglets
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Western Gull - carrying a fish in it's mouth!
  • Bald Eagle
  • Canada Geese
  • Rock Doves - including a rusty plumage variety 
Pacific Loon...?

Along Highway 101
  • Brewer's Blackbirds - females
  • Common Merganser - female
  • American Kestrels
  • Western Scrub-Jays
  • Red-Tailed Hawks
  • American Robins
  • Brants

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Lincoln City/ Depoe Bay/ Newport

The most epic trip to date. 

Places visited
-Josephine Young Memorial Park in Lincoln City 
-Fogarty Creek State Park North of Depoe Bay
-Boiler Bay Viewpoint in Depoe Bay 
-Yaquina Head Bay in Newport

  • Great Blue Heron
  • Song Sparrows
  • Common Raven
  • Western Gulls
  • American Crows
  • Double-Crested Cormorants
  • House Sparrows
  • Mourning Doves
  • Great Egrets
  • Red-Winged Blackbird
  • Golden-Crown Kinglets*
  • Surf Scoters - male and female 
  • Black Oystercatchers
  • Brown Pelicans
  • Pelagic Cormorants
  • Brandt's Cormorants
  • Savannah Sparrow*
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • American Wigeons*
  • Western Grebe*
  • Common Murre
  • Western Sandpipers*
  • Black Scoter
  • European Starlings
  • Semipalmated Plovers*
+Grey Whales!


*Lifers!

Great Blue Heron and Great Egret
(Notice the blue heron has a fish.  Watch the progression as he eats it!)


Sudden large bulge in neck. Ha!

Black-Bellied Plover (Winter plumage)
Semipalmated Plover

Black Oystercatchers

Brown Pelican

Surf Scoter - male


















Sunday, June 19, 2011

Newport

Not a birding trip per say, but I was on the constant lookout.


6.16.11
  • Western Gulls
  • Barn Swallows
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Rock Dove
  • White-Crowned Sparrow
  • Brant
  • Swainson's Thrush - call
  • American Kestrel
  • Surf Scoters* - male and female


6.17.11
  • Osprey - hoovering and diving
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Common Murre
  • Paligic Cormorants
  • Brandt's Cormorant*  (Clearly identifying itself with it's bright blue gular patch glimmering in the sun)
  • Song Sparrow
  • White-Crowned Sparrow (perched on a fence next to me without me noticing it and startled me when it sang loudly so close to me)
  • Western Gull and juvenile
  • Barn Swallows
  • Turkey Vultures (close enough to see their red heads)
  • House Sparrows - male and female

6.18.11
  • Barn Swallows
  • Tree Swallows
  • Yellow Warbler* - male
  • Surf Scoter
  • Black Scoter* 

6.19.11
  • Gull - chick
  • Common Murre
  • Black Oystercatcher
  • Western Gulls
  • Glaucous-Winged Gull*
  • Paligic Cormorant
  • Brandt's Cormorant
  • Song Sparrow
  • White-Crowned Sparrow
  • Turkey Vulture

*Lifer


Low tide at Cobble Beach



Yaquina Lighthouse - lots of huge rocks here, filled with Common Murre, Gulls, and various Cormorant.



Sometimes there's even Harbor Seals!



Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Cannon Beach

An awesome trip to the beach just to do some birding.  The first of what would turn into several beach birding trips.


  • Brown Pelicans*
  • Pelagic Cormorants*
  • Red-Breasted Merganser* - female
  • Harlequin Ducks* - male and female
  • Tufted Puffins* (high atop Haystack Rock, only visible through the scope, saw 3)
  • Mallards
  • Common Murre* (by the hundreds)
  • Western Gulls
  • Common Tern*
  • Barn Swallows
  • Killdeer*
  • Northern Flicker
  • American Goldfinch
  • House Sparrows - male and female
  • Black Oystercatchers*
  • Common Raven* (Surprisingly impressive!)
  • American Crows




* Lifer


Haystack Rock