[birding] Re: [obol] Motorless birding update

[Erik Knight]

Since I don't own a car, I get around using Trimet, and thankfully there are a lot of good birding areas along or near most transit lines here. 



Erik Knight 
Portland, OR 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Geier" <joel.geier at peak.org> 
To: "Oregon Birders OnLine" <obol at oregonbirdwatch.org>, "Central Oregon Birders" <cobol at lists.oregonstate.edu>, "MidValley Birds" <list at midvalleybirding.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 7:54:57 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: [obol] Motorless birding update 

Hi folks, 

There have been a few postings mentioning motorless birding but if you 
want to follow this more closely, check out: 

http://www.oregonbirds.org/Listing/motorless.html 

We're now up to 15 participants, from the Portland Metro area, 
mid-Willamette Valley, and upper Willamette Valley, plus Bend. 

Randy Campbell continues to amaze all of us, with 173 species found 
either on bicycle or on foot. Even if you take away that Pyrrhuloxia in 
his back yard as just too ridiculously fortuitous to count, that's still 
mighty impressive. 

But the kid from Creswell seems to be making a move in the outside 
lane ... just casually biking 65 miles down to Fern Ridge & back, come 
on now! 

Vjera & Eddie Thompson so far have dibs on the "toughest motorless luck" 
story of the year. After biking 23 miles to Elijah Bristow and 
successfully finding the Red-eyed Vireo that they were looking for, they 
started home only to find that they had ... an irreparably flat tire, 
and no spare inner tube. So they ended up going home by motorized means 
-- what a heartbreaker! 

We're still waiting for the first Oregon birder to take up the 
"transit-assisted" challenge. Wish I could say that we had bus service 
here, but we don't. But I do know that a bus runs from Portland out to 
Sauvie Island. And, out in Lincoln County last weekend, I noticed that 
there's a bus running up and down the coast from Lincoln City to 
Waldport. So there are some good opportunities out there, just waiting 
for someone to give it a try. 

Happy low-impact birding, 
Joel 

-- 
Joel Geier 
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis 



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