Beaverton Creek

• Ringed-Necked Duck - female
• Buffleheads - female
• Mallards
• Canada Geese
• Red-Winged Blackbirds - male and female
• Ruby-Crowned Kinglets
• American Robins
• Spotted Towhees
• Gadwalls
• Anna's Hummingbird
• Mourning Doves
• Yellow-Rumped Warblers
• Northern Flickers
• Green-Winged Teals
• Bewick's Wren
• Killdeers
• European Starling
• Black-Capped Chickadee - call
• Song Sparrows

Beaverton Creek Nature Trail

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• 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

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• 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!

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...

Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve

• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Oregon Juncos
• Lesser Goldfinch
• Anna's Hummingbirds
• Northern Shovelers
• American Wigeons
• American Coots
• Mallards
• Gadwalls
• American Kestrel
• House Finches
• Northern Pintail
• Song Sparrow
• Great Blue Heron
• American Robin
• Tundra Swan
• Western Gull
• Northern Flicker
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• European Starlings
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Great Egret 
• Golden-Crowned Sparrow
• Ring-Necked Duck
• Canada Geese

Golden-Crowned Sparrow

Beaverton Creek Wetlands Park

• Pied-Billed Grebe
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Mallards - males and females
• Canada Geese
• Great Blue Heron
• Red-Winged Blackbird - call
• Ring-Necked Duck

Pied-Billed Grebe

Red-Tailed Hawk

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 :(

Sauvie's Island

This was a ground breaking birding trip for me.  We saw a wide variety of species, several of which I have yet to see since then.  I was into it enough the first trip to buy a bird identification book.  Smithsonian Handbooks Birds of North America Western Region By Fred J. Alsop III.  Not your typical field guide, but I highly recommend it, particularly for beginners.  We bumped into another birder with a scope who said he saw a Golden Eagle up ahead.  My cousin said that can't be.  Well we saw it and took down every detail of it.  During the debrief we explored our books to figure out for sure if this was indeed a Golden Eagle.  It came down to, among several key factors, a detail I found in my book about the flight pattern.  Something clicked with me right then that this is something I liked.

• Bald Eagles, including juveniles
• Sandhill Cranes*
• Ring-Necked Ducks*
• Lesser Scaups*    
• Golden Eagle*
• Northern Harrier*
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Ring-Necked Pheasant* - male 
• Bufflehead
• Great Blue Heron
• American Coots*
• Mallards*
• Northern Shovelers*
• Spotted Sandpipers*
• Pileated Woodpeckers - male and female

*Lifers

Ring-Necked Pheasant (Digiscope photos)

Golden Eagle

Pileated Woodpecker