Subject: Portland RBA
Date: Sep 5 01:05:24 1996
From: Harry Nehls - hnehls at teleport.com


- RBA
* Oregon
* Portland
* September 5, 1996
* ORPO9609.05


- birds mentioned


Pink-footed Shearwater
Buller's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Gr. White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
No. Goshawk
Sandhill Crane
Pacific Golden-Plover
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Red Knot
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
SOUTH POLAR SKUA
Black Phoebe
Red-eyed Vireo
BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER
Bullock's Oriole


- transcript


hotline: Portland, Oregon, Audubon RBA (weekly) date: September 5, 1996
number: (503) 292-0661
to report: Harry Nehls (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 Report. This recording
was made Thursday September 5. If you have anything to add call Harry Nehls
at 233-3976.

On August 28 a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER was netted and banded at the
Umatilla NWR near Hermiston.

The August 31 offshore trip out of Depoe Bay was quite successful. Many
PINK-FOOTED SHEARWATERS and 12 BULLER'S SHEARWATERS were seen along with
all three jaegers and a SOUTH POLAR SKUA that flashed past the boat about
eight miles offshore. Again, on this trip, they found sharks and Ocean
Sunfish, indicating warm water.

The shorebird migration continues but the only large concentrations appear
to be at Coos Bay and at Bandon where many thousands have gathered. Three
RED KNOTS and three SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS were among the swarm at the
effluent ponds on the North Spit of Coos Bay September 1.

A dark phased PARASITIC JAEGER is regularly observed flying over the
shorebird flats at the South Jetty of the Columbia River, and the immature
GOSHAWK first noted last week continues to be seen there. A PACIFIC
GOLDEN-PLOVER is being seen in the area now, a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER was
there September 2. Good numbers of SOOTY SHEARWATERS have appeared off the
jetty over the past weekend.

On August 30 a RED-EYED VIREO was among a group of landbird migrants along
the bicycle path at Fort Stevens State Park. A BULLOCK'S ORIOLE was there
September 2. Both are unusual along the coast.

Water remains high on Sauvie Island but on September 2 a fair number of
GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS were at the Narrows near the north end of
Sturgeon Lake. On September 1 a flock of 14 WHITE-FRONTED GEESE was at Coon
Point. At Sutherlin in Douglas County August 30 a WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
joined a domestic goose flock. The next day a flock of SNOW GEESE flew
over.

An AVOCET has remained all week at Baskett Slough NWR. Shorebirding there,
though, has remained slow. Several BAIRD'S and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS are
among a fair number of shorebirds at Mohoff Pond at Ankeny NWR south of
Salem. An early SANDHILL CRANE was at Finley NWR August 30. The BLACK
PHOEBE continues to be seen at the E.E. Wilson State Refuge north of
Corvallis.

Water remains high in most of the eastern Oregon ponds and lakes with
shorebirds well scattered and in low numbers, except at the large alkaline
lakes. There have been no reports of large scale landbird movements east of
the Cascades, but hawks are now increasing at hawk watch stations.

Thats it for this week.


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