Beaverton Creek Nature Trail

01.29.12

• Buffleheads
• Mallards
• Northern Shovelers
• Ring-Necked Ducks
• American Coots
• Great Blue Herons
• Gadwalls
• Red-Winged Blackbirds
• Song Sparrow
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Northern Flicker
• Yellow-Rumped Warblers
• Canada Geese

01.30.12

• Mallards
• Red-Winged Blackbirds
• Northern Shovelers
• Buffleheads
• Killdeer
• Canada Geese
• American Robin

Beaverton Creek Wetlands Park

• Red-Winged Blackbirds - male
• Great Blue Heron (he must live there because I see him almost every time)
• Buffleheads - male and female
• Ring-Necked Ducks - males
• American Robin
• Song Sparrows
• Canada Geese
• Mallards - male and female

Red-Winged Blackbird - male

Lots of flooding!

Beaverton Creek Wetlands Park

• Red-Winged Blackbird
• Various Gull
• Mallards - male and female
• Buffleheads - male and female
• Canada Geese
• Song Sparrows
• Northern Flicker
• European Starlings
• Great Blue Heron
• American Robins - male and female
• Common Merganser - female

+Nutria

Buffleheads - female

The Good Ol', often ignored, American Robin :)

Beaverton Creek Wetlands Park

• Mallards - males and females
• Great Egret
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Song Sparrow - call
• Red-Winged Blackbird
• Buffleheads - male and female
• Oregon Juncos
• Northern Shovelers - females

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

Whitaker Ponds Nature Park

• Western Scrub-Jay
• American Robins
• Northern Flicker
• Song Sparrow
• Oregon Juncos
• American Crow
• American Wigeon
• Canada Geese
• Mallards
• Hooded Mergansers
• Bufflehead - female
• Ring-Necked Duck
• Gadwalls
• Double-Crested Cormorant
• Belted Kingfisher - female
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Horned Owl!

Way too dark by the time we saw the owl :(

Smith and Bybee Lakes Wildlife Area

This was my first official birding trip.  It included binoculars, a scope and the ever important coffee debriefing, where we review all the birds we see, write them in our birding journal and check off any new species.  Of course at this point I didn't have a birding journal, but my cousin did give me a checklist of local birds.  I missed a lot of what was seen by others while I tired to figure out the binoculars I had borrowed.  During the debrief, I could picture only  two of the species we saw, the others just seemed to be small random birds, A.K.A "Little Brown Jobbers".  Regardless, I was interested in another trip at some point.  

• Juvenile Bald Eagle*
• Bushtits* (I remember thinking, "BUSH-whats?!?!")
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Brown Creeper*
• Song Sparrow*
• Bufflehead*

*Lifer

Digiscope picture of the Juvenile Bald Eagle