Subject: Portland RBA
Date: Jan 11 00:41:25 1996
From: Harry Nehls - hnehls at teleport.com


- RBA
* Oregon
* Portland
* January 11, 1996
* ORPO9601.11


- Birds mentioned


Pacific Loon
Eared Grebe
Great Egret
Snow Goose
Ross' Goose
Emperor Goose
Oldsquaw
Surf Scoter
White-tailed Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk
Gyrfalcon
Dunlin
Red Phalarope
Glaucous Gull
Burrowing Owl
Three-toed Woodpecker
DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER
Black Phoebe
VERMILION FLYCATCHER
Tree Swallow
Northern Mockingbird
BRAMBLING
White-winged Crossbill


- transcript


hotline: Portland, Oregon, Audubon RBA (weekly) date; January 11, 1996
number: (503) 292-0661
to report: (503) 233-3976 <hnehls at teleport.com>
compiler: Harry Nehls
coverage: entire state, concentrating on NW Oregon.


Hello, this is Portland Audubon Society's Rare Bird Alert. This recording
was made Thursday January 11. If you have anything to add call Harry Nehls
at 233-3976.

The Myiarchus flycatcher at Newport has been verified as a DUSKY-CAPPED
FLYCATCHER. Although it doesn't like rain it is regularly seen daily. To
reach the area turn west off Highway 101 onto 6th. Street in mid-town
Newport. Drive to Nye Street and park between Nye and Lee Streets. Check
the entire neighborhood as it moves around quite a bit. It is often found
in the backyards to the north of 6th. and recently in a wooded area near
8th and Cottage Streets.

The Ridgefield Refuge female VERMILION FLYCATCHER and the Naselle BRAMBLING
continue to be seen.

An EMPEROR GOOSE has been at a small pond at the Cedar Lake Housing Project
along Cleveland Avenue near Hogan Road in SE Gresham for over two weeks. It
is wary but quite tame.

Up to 100 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS have been seen daily since January 6 at
the Santiam Snow Park on the north side of Highway 20 at the summit of
Santiam Pass in the Cascades. A number of adult males are among the flocks.
On January 10 a female THREE-TOED WOODPECKER visited the snow park.

There is very little snow in the Cascades so far this winter and most
bodies of water remain unfrozen. Many birds have remained and are well
scattered in the mountains this winter providing rewarding birding.

A first year GLAUCOUS GULL was at the mouth of the Rogue River at Gold
Beach January 7. Several OLDSQUAWS continue to be seen at Yaquina Bay. The
Nute Slough BLACK PHOEBE was seen January 10 near the house with mailbox
number 9357. Nearby the RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was found two miles up Hidden
Valley Road. Both these areas are on Upper Yaquina Bay between Toledo and
Newport.

Two RED PHALAROPES were still at Barview Jetty on Tillamook Bay January 5.
That day a probable GYRFALCON was in the Barview area.

Two GREAT EGRETS are wintering about the Trojan Nuclear Plant ponds along
Highway 30 and two others were along Highway 22 near Baskett Slough Refuge
January 8.

Two TREE SWALLOWS were recognized at Baskett Slough Refuge January 10.
Perhaps the small flock of swallows over the River S Unit of Ridgefield
Refuge over the week-end were the same species.

Over 1000 SNOW GEESE are now on the east side of Sauvie Island. A lone
ROSS' GOOSE is wintering among the goose flocks near Post Office Lake north
of Vancouver, Washington.

A SURF SCOTER, aN EARED GREBE, AND 150 dunlin were at the Mollala Sewage
Ponds January 8. Up to 60 WHITE-TAILED KITES are in the Rogue Valley this
winter. A NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD is wintering in mid-town Medford at
Willamette Avenue and Bear Creek Park.

Two BURROWING OWLS were seen near Hermiston January 4.

A PACIFIC LOON is wintering on unfrozen Bully Creek Reservoir in Malheur
County. On January 6 a MOCKINGBIRD was found in a thick grove of Russian
Olive along the Bully Creek Road two miles in from its junction with
Highway 20 near Vale.

Thats it for this week.


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Harry Nehls, Portland, Or.
hnehls at teleport.com (503) 233-3976