Showing posts with label Brant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brant. 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, 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 14, 2011

Fort Stevens, South Jetty, Astoria area

A great trip!
  • Caspian Terns*
  • Brown Pelicans
  • Western Gulls
  • Brants*
  • Canada Geese
  • Barn Swallows
  • Cliff Swallows*
  • Tree Swallows
  • White-Crowned Sparrow
  • Pelagic Cormorants*
  • Gadwalls* - male and female
  • Song Sparrows
  • Brown-Headed Cowbird*
  • Great Blue Heron
  • American Robin
  • Turkey Vultures
  • Cedar Waxwing*
  • Mourning Doves
  • Common Raven
  • Western Scrub-Jay
  • Northern Flicker
  • Rufus Hummingbird
  • Red-Winged Blackbird
  • Bald Eagle
  • Osprey
  • Nashville Warbler*
  • Swainson's Thrush*
  • Red-Tailed Hawk




*Lifer



South Jetty, Brown Pelican


Pacific Tree Frog