>I saw a female American Kestrel from I-5 just west of Fife this morning
>(6/12), presumably nesting in the area, and I wonder if other tweeters have
>seen kestrels nesting west of the Cascades this year (probably less
>interesting in Oregon, where I suspect a lot of them nest in the Willamette
>Valley).

There is always a pair or two nesting on Oak Island, part of Sauvie
Island about 15 miles north of Portland.

As the name implies, the place is filled with Oregon White Oak, and
cavity nesters abound. Including vast numbers of Starlings, unfortunately,
because apparently until their arrival in the late 1940s, this place
also had good numbers of nesting Lewis's Woodpecker (which I learned
after finding one there, about five years ago, the first time in
quite a long time that one had been seen on the island).

I've not been out to Oak Island in about four weeks, but there was
a pair hanging out in one of the normal nesting territories during
my last visit.

I'm sure there are other pair scattered around Sauvie, though
I've never really paid attention.

They also nest in the Hood River Valley, which is in the transition
zone between east and west.

I would guess, as Dennis states, that they nest quite commonly
in the Willamette Valley, but I don't know anything specific.

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