Scappoose

This trip to Scappoose was supposed to be a birding trip to Columbia Botanical Gardens and Dalton Lake, which is between St. Helens and Columbia City.  We failed to find the birding areas of the garden, and instead skirted the opposite end of it which was filled with no trespassing signs.  We also happened across a really cool house for sale with an awesome view of the river and Sand Island. So we hung out there for a bit and enjoyed the view, then it was off to Walmart, because what's a trip to St. Helens without stopping at Walmart? Hahaha.... :)  

But anyway, at almost any given visit to my parent's house in Scappoose is a birding experience.  Here's what I saw there:

• Oregon Juncos
• Pine Siskins
• Red-Breasted Nuthatch
• Spotted Towhee
• Steller's Jays
• Bald Eagle
• Red-Tailed Hawks
• Song Sparrow
• American Robin
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
• Western Scrub-Jay

Pine Siskin

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

Scappoose

My parents house:

• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Varied Thrush
• Red-Breasted Nuthatch
• Brown Creeper
• Oregon Juncos (That were freakishly larger than any I've ever seen.  The ones I see are not much bigger than chickadees.  These were closer to the size of a towhee!)
• Anna's Hummingbird

Multnomah Channel - Scappoose Dike:

• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Canada Geese
• Red-Winged Blackbird - male
• Purple Finches - males and females
• Sandhill Cranes
• American Robin
• House Sparrows
• Downy Woodpecker
• Bald Eagle
• Double-Crested Cormorant
• Common Merganser
• Pileated Woodpecker - call
• Great Blue Heron
• Northern Harrier
• American Kestrel
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Western Gull

Purple Finches - male and female

Western Scrub-Jay

Audubon Society

• Steller's Jay
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
• Red-Breasted Nuthatch
• Bushtits
• Oregon Juncos

Tualatin Hills Nature Park

• Lesser Goldfinch
• Northern Flicker
• European Starlings
• Western Scrub-Jay
• American Robin
• Mourning Doves
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• White-Crowned Sparrow
• Steller's Jay
• Cedar Waxwing
• Red-Breasted Nuthatch*
• Pied-Billed Grebe

*Lifer!