David Bailey:
> Lazuli Buntings breed at the Sandy River Delta and at scattered
>locations around the remaining habitat about the Portland Airport and on
>Powell Butte where they even are featured on the interpretive sign
>there. Yellow-breasted Chats also breed at the Sandy River Delta and at
>Scoggins Vally park in Washington County. These areas are all either in
>Portland or close to the city limits. Just this June I observed both
>Chats and Lazuli Buntings at the mouth of the Sandy River.

Thanks! I knew there were still scattered remnants of the lazuli
buntings about, though I can't remember when I last saw one around
PDX, but the fact that chat breed in Scoggins Valley Park in Washington
County (west of PDX for you proper tweets from Washington) is a total
surprise to me. It also surprises me that they're at the Sandy.
They're are a lot up the Deschutes, further east.

How many pair?

I should spend more time birding semi-nearby areas and less time
attending tweeters picnics, I guess.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>