Day one of our epic trip to Coos Bay.
Who: Cousin Brandon, Elvira and myself.
We stopped for a bit in Eugune at Fern Ridge. There we ran into a couple really awesome birders, one of which we birded with and learned a lot from.
- Great Blue Heron
- Violet-Green Swallows
- Red-Winged Blackbird - male
- Turkey Vultures
- Barn Swallows
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Cedar Waxwing
- Pied-Billed Grebe
- Mallards
- Least Sandpipers
- Green Heron
- Song Sparrow
- American Coots
- Great Egret
- Western Grebe
- Prairie Falcon**
- Ring-Billed Gull*
- Red-Necked Phalarope
- Lesser Yellowlegs*
- American White Pelicans
- Black-Bellied Plovers - in non-breeding plumage
- Canada Geese
- Semipalmated Plovers
- Northern Harrier
*Lifers!!
**My 200th bird!!
Also, I'd like to point out that I came so very close to having the Ring-Billed Gull for my 200th bird (a much less impressive bird, in my opinion), seeing it just a moment after, And what is hilarious about that, is when my cousin got his 200th bird, the Rhinoceros Ackulet, a moment later we saw a Heermann's Gull, and he came ridiculously close to having a Gull for his 200th bird as well.
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| A Turkey Vulture came pretty close to us. |
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| An excellent lesson to show the difference between Greater Yellowlegs (middle) and Lesser Yellowlegs (sides). |
