[birding] Benton Co. Raptor Run 1/22/09

[Marcia F. Cutler]

Yesterday, Jan Landau joined me in doing the Central Benton Co. raptor run.
The route goes from just south of Corvallis to North Refuge Rd. through
Finley NWR.  It took us 5:20 hrs to cover the 60 mile route including about
a ¾ mi. walk (approx. ½ hr) on the boardwalk to and from Cabell marsh.  At
the Prairie Overlook we ran into a group of people from the Willamette
Birding Trail committee including Joel Geier, Bill Proebsting, Pat Tilley
and a lady whose name I don’t know.  They reported seeing a Cooper’s Hawk
there shortly before we arrived.  We observed 5 similar-sized raptors
cavorting in the distance to the south.  I managed to discern enough marks
to say that 3 of them were White-tailed Kites, it’s possible the other 2
also were this species.  Three other raptors seen at the Prairie Overlook
were also too far away to determine species.  A Northern Shrike was seen in
a small tree near the road at the north-west end of the prairie area.

 

Red-tailed Hawk             42

American Kestrel           15

Northern Harrier             15

Bald Eagle                    1 immature, 2 unknown age

Rough-legged Hawk       11

White-tailed Kite            3

[Cooper’s Hawk             1]

Burrowing Owl               1 – on duty at the edge of the Venell airstrip
by Llewellyn Rd.

Raptor, sp. Large           5

Raptor, sp. Med-small    2

 

Marcia F. Cutler

Corvallis

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