Scappoose Dike

• Red-Winged Blackbirds
• Canada Geese
• Mallards
• Gadwalls
• Northern Pintail
• Song Sparrows
• American Robins 
• Great Egret 
• Great Blue Herons
• Double-Crested Cormorants - including juveniles
• House Finches
• American Coots
• Northern Harrier
• Green-Winged Teals

Tualatin River Wildlife Refuge

• American Crows
• American Robins
• American Coots
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Canada Geese
• Red-Winged Blackbirds - males
• Northern Shovelers
• European Starlings
• Buffleheads
• Ring-Necked Ducks
• Ruddy Ducks
• Double-Crested Cormorants
• Great Blue Heron
• Cackling Geese
• Song Sparrows
• Oregon Juncos
• Western Scrub-Jays
• Mallards
• Ruby-Crowned Kinglets
• Brown Creeper
• American Wigeons
• Eurasian Wigeons
• Gadwalls
• Green-Winged Teals
• Bald Eagle
• Northern Pintails - males
• Western Bluebirds* - males and femalesr
• Pie-Billed Grebes
• Golden-Crowned Sparrows
• Downy Woodpecker - male
• Yellow-Rumped Warblers
• Black-Capped Chickadee

*Lifer!

Western Bluebird - male (paint brush mode)

Downy Woodpecker - male

Bald Eagle

Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve

The original plan was to go to Furnhill, but the morning news reported that overnight two motorists got stranded in the flood waters and had to be rescued.  We found out the whole area flooded over and the roads had been closed since Friday.  Luckily, Jackson Bottom wasn't too flooded. 

• Pine Siskins* - male and female
• Oregon Juncos - male and female
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Mourning Doves
• Golden-Crowned Sparrows
• American Coots
• Bald Eagles
• Gadwall - male
• Northern Shovelers
• Ruddy Ducks
• Belted Kingfisher - male (I don't think I've ever even seen a male, it's almost always the female out and about)
• American Crows
• Red-Breasted Nuthatch
• Green-Winged Teal - male
• Northern Pintails - males
• Pie-Billed Grebe
• Great Blue Heron
• Mallards
• Norther Harrier - female
• Spotted Towhee
• Anna's Hummingbird - male
• Canada Geese
• Bufflehead - male

+Chipmunk

*Lifer!

Kingfisher Marsh
(No one is getting over there anytime soon!)

Lots of flooding

Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge

• American Wigeons - male and female
• American Coots
• Northern Pintails - male and female
• Ring-Necked Ducks
• Red-Winged Blackbird - call
• Buffleheads - male and female
• Great Blue Herons (one with a bullfrog hanging out of it's mouth!)
• Northern Shovelers
• Hooded Mergansers - male and female
• Mallards - male and female
• Cackling Geese 
• Canada Geese
• Golden-Crowned Sparrows
• Red-Tailed Hawks
• Tundra Swans
• Bald Eagles
• Song Sparrows
• Northern Harriers
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Ruddy Ducks
• Gadwalls
• White-Breasted Nuthatch
• Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
• American Robin
• Pie-Billed Grebes
• Spotted Towhees
• Marsh Wren
• American Bittern
• Double-Crested Cormorant 

+Nutria

+Raccons

+Coyote

The extremely elusive American Bittern

Young Great Blue Heron

Bald Eagles - drying wings

Tundra Swans

Pouncing coyote!  No kill this time, but , man what a sight...

Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge

"As cousins, we went birding at Ridgefield the day before Thanksgiving." HAA!
Another great trip to Ridgefield with my bird instructor/cousin. 

• Mallards
• Great Egret
• American Kestrel
• American Coot
• Northern Shoveler
• Western Gull
• Great Blue Heron - juvenile
• American Robins
• European Starlings
• Western Scrub-Jays
• Pied-Billed Grebe
• Northern Flicker
• Cinnamon Teal
• Hooded Merganser - male
• Tundra Swans*
• Northern Harrier
• Bufflehead - female
• Peregrine Falcon*
• Gadwalls
• Bald Eagles - juvenile and adult
• Bewick's Wren
• American Wigeons
• Red-Tailed Hawks
• Northern Pintails
• Sandhill Cranes
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Red-Winged Blackbirds
• Canada Geese

+Coyote

+Beavers

+Nutria

*Lifers!

Juvenile Great Blue Heron

European Starlings

Sauvie's Island

• American Kestrel
• Canada Geese
• Sandhill Cranes
• Red-Tailed Hawks
• Double-Crested Cormorants
• Snow Geese*
• Great Egret
• Western Gulls
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Song Sparrows
• Northern Flicker
• Bald Eagles
• Northern Harrier
• American Coots
• Mallards
• Cackling Geese
• Red-Winged Blackbird - call
• Great Blue Heron
• Black-Capped Chickadee - call
• Oregon Junco
• Eurpean Starlings
• Lesser Goldfinch
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Shoveler
• Ring-Necked Duck
• Buffleheads - female

*Lifer!

"A flock of geese leave their lake and take wing, turning to poems in the sky."  

~Dr. SunWolf

Canada Geese and Snow Geese flee from a raptor

Jackson Bottom Wetland Preserve

Another very influential trip.  This time it was just my cousin and I, so I was really able to pay attention and listen.  I learned a lot that day.

• Rufous Hummingbird*
• White-Crowned Sparrow*
• Golden-Crowned Sparrow*
• Black-Capped Chickadee
• Red-Winged Blackbird* - male and female
• Ring-Necked Duck
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Bufflehead - male and female
• House Finch
• American Coot
• Canada Geese
• Common Yellowthroat* - male (what a delight that was to see such an exotic looking, beautiful bird!)
• American Robin - male and female
• Tree Swallows* (there were so many swooping all around us, almost grazing my head at one point.)
• European Starlings* (I learned what a terror these guys are, but couldn't help but to be amused at their weird squishing sounds.)
• Wilson's Snipe*
• Northern Pintail*
• Marsh Wren*
• Great Blue Heron
• Double-Crested Cormorant

*Lifer 

Marsh Wren nest