Sunday's field trip, which had between 30 and 40 participants, had the
following highlights:
--2 Peregrine Falcons, probably a mated pair of tundrius birds, in a
fly-by at Vancouver Lake. One did land for scoping (with some vocal
encouragement).
--At least two Trumpeter Swans in the flocks of Tundras at the lake.
--Lincoln's Sparrows which sat for some scoping (a miracle in itself).
--A wonderful show by a pair of nesting Bald Eagles. The male brought a
stick to the female after several attempts to break appropriate branches
off of cottonwoods.
--Many herons busily nesting.
--A scopable immature Northern Shrike.
--While some had an early, probably Violet-green Swallow, some of us were
looking at a Harlan's Red-tail.
--An unbright Eurasian Wigeon male (very dull red, very bright cream
forehead).
--One nesting Great Horned Owl (seen by me only as we were driving)
A total of 60 species were seen by the group.

One further note: on Monday, I drove Scappoose Bottoms and found three of
the wettest, most desperate looking Northern Bobwhite I've ever seen. A
female and two males comprised this little group which got somewhat
excited when I started to talk to them. Many eagles on Oak Island and
near Coon Point: had 21 on the Island, 2 at Burlington Bottoms, and 1 at
Scappoose Bottoms. Still an egret and a rough-legged hawk at Scappoose.
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Ray Korpi "A person is a person, no matter how small."
Hm: Portland, OR --Dr Seuss, "Horton Hears a Who"
Wk: Clark College
Vancouver, WA
rkorpi at clark.edu