Showing posts with label Rock Dove. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock Dove. Show all posts

Friday, February 24, 2012

Lincoln City

Josephine Young Memorial Park

  • Western Gulls
  • Bald Eagles
  • Buffleheads - males and females
  • Surf Scoters - males
  • White-Winged Scoters* - male and female
  • Double-Crested Cormorant
  • Horned Grebe
  • Common Goldeneyes
  • Red-Breasted Merganser - female
  • Common Raven
  • Spotted Towhee
  • House Sparrow
  • Red-Winged Blackbird - call
*Lifer!

Bald Eagles

Not a great photo, but I'm happy to get my first White-Winged Scoter - male
(If you look closely you may be able to see the tip of the white wing, in an even crappier shot, you could see more of it, but it was so blurry)

White-Winged Scoter - female!

Double-Crested Cormorant
Fogarty State Park
  • Varied Thrushes - male and female
  • American Robins
  • Oregon Juncos
  • Hermit Thursh
  • American Crows
  • Black Oystercatchers
  • Bald Eagle
  • Surf Scoter - male
  • Black Scoters - males
  • Pelagic Cormorants
  • Hairy Woodpeckers*
  • Northern Flicker
  • Anna's Hummingbird - call
*Lifer!

Varied Thrush

Black Oystercatcher - pair - can you spot them? :)

Handsome Black Oystercatcher

Hairy Woodpecker working away
Boiler Bay
  • Western Gulls
  • Glaucous-Winged Gull
  • Pelagic Cormorant
  • American Crows
  • Common Loon

East Devil's Lake
  • Common Merganser - female
  • Common Loon
  • Tree Swallow
  • Buffleheads - males and females
  • Yellow-Rumped Warblers
  • Golden-Crowned Kinglets
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Western Gull - carrying a fish in it's mouth!
  • Bald Eagle
  • Canada Geese
  • Rock Doves - including a rusty plumage variety 
Pacific Loon...?

Along Highway 101
  • Brewer's Blackbirds - females
  • Common Merganser - female
  • American Kestrels
  • Western Scrub-Jays
  • Red-Tailed Hawks
  • American Robins
  • Brants

Friday, January 6, 2012

Smith and Bybee Lakes Wildlife Area

We were so excited about the two uncommon lifers, that we took it as an omen to keep birding.  We headed over to Smith and Bybee, a place I hadn't been since my first birding trip, just over a year ago.

  • Oregon Juncos
  • Rock Doves
  • Canada Geese
  • Red-Tailed Hawk
  • Band-Tailed Pigeon
  • Black-Capped Chickadees
  • Belted Kingfisher - call
  • American Robin
  • Bald Eagles
  • Brown Creepers
  • Bushtits
  • American Crows
  • Northern Shovelers - males and females
  • Hooded Merganser - female
  • Gadwalls 
  • Bewick's Wren
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Spotted Towhee
  • Golden-Crowned Kinglets
  • American Wigeon
  • Ruddy Ducks - male and female
  • Pied-Billed Grebe
  • Bank Swallows*
  • Canvasbacks*
  • Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

*More lifers!