- RBA
* Oregon
* Portland
* May 10,12
* ORPO1205.10

- birds mentioned

YELLOW-BILLED LOON
Eared Grebe
Sooty Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
Brown Pelican
BROAD-WINGED HAWK
Golden Eagle
Whimbrel
Red Knot
Western Sandpiper
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER
Wilson?s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Sabine?s Gull
Black Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
HORNED PUFFIN
Tufted Puffin
Black Swift
Calliope Hummingbird
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Swainson?s Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE

- transcript

hotline: Portland Oregon Audubon RBA (weekly)
number: 503-292-6855
To report: Harry Nehls 503-233-3976 <hnehls6 at comcast.net>
compiler: Harry Nehls
coverage: entire state

Hello, this is the Audubon Society of Portland Rare Bird Report. This report
was made Thursday May 10. If you have anything to add call Harry Nehls at
503-233-3976.

A possible WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER was reported May 9 among the swarm of
shorebirds along Wireless Road in Astoria. A May 6 offshore boat trip out of
Newport found a YELLOW-BILLED LOON at 3.5 miles and a HORNED PUFFIN 28
miles farther out. ON May 8 a BROAD-WINGED HAWK was at Flores Lake. On May 9
a GREAT-TAIED GRACKLE was seen in Burns.

Migrations were very heavy during the week with a surge of CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRD reports from the Willamette Valley. Several SWAINSON?S THRUSHES
were seen and heard in the Willamette Valley during the week.

On May 7 a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was at the South Jetty of the Siuslaw River. A
RED KNOT was at Yaquina Bay May 9. The May 9 offshore boat trip noted 350
RED PHALAROPES. On May 4, 30,000 SOOTY SHEARWATERS and 3000 RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES were off Boiler Bay. On May 9 20,000 WESTERN SANDPIPERS and two
MANX SHEARWATERS were seen there. On May 5 ten TUFTED PUFFINS were on
Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach. A BLACK SWIFT was over Astoria May 8. At
least 1000 BROWN PELICANS and a POMARINE JAEGER were seen May 5 at the South
Jetty of the Columbia River.

The LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE and two WESTERN KINGBIRDS were at the Troutdale
Airport May 4. A MOCKINGBIRD was there the next day. Four WHIMBREL were at
Ankeny NWR during the week. A GOLDEN EAGLE was there May 4. On May 3 a
SABINE?S GULL, a RED PHALAROPE, and six RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were at the
Philomath Sewage Ponds. A BLACK SWIFT was over Eugene May 9. About 20 BLACK
TERNS are now at Fern Ridge Reservoir.

Malheur NWR is now picking up with a MOCKINGBIRD at the Narrows Store. At
Lake Abert May 5 were 4,135 WILSON?S PHALAROPES and 4,610 EARED GREBES.
Other species there are much reduced from previously.

That?s it for this week.

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