[birding] Corvallis to Malheur trip

[Cheryl Whelchel]

I have posted photo highlights from the trip at the followin link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgswallow16/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgswallow16/>

I havn't gotten around to labeling the flycatchers ( don't wan to mess them up) but all other birds are labled.

Cheryl Whelchel
Tangent







Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:59:50 -0700
From: "rich armstrong" <richarmstrong at comcast.net<about:blank>>
Subject: [obol] corvallis to malheur
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cheryl whelchel, nanette, and i did 4.5 days going from corvallis on 1st to malheur and back on 5th. here are the highlights.
1. 6/1 a NORTHERN 3-TOED WOODPECKER near the cabins on the road into hoodoo ski place (linn county). this is same place we found one 2 years ago.
2. 6/1 2 NORTHERN GOSHAWK on nest with 2 fuzzy white chicks at calliope crossing.
3. 6/1 FLAMMULATED OWL (heard only of course) on 1st road north of idlewild campground 17 miles north of burns
4. 6/2-4 GREAT HORNED OWLS at benson pond and fields roosting in trees every day with what we would call teenagers.
5. 6/4 2 SNOWY EGRETS about 2 miles west of diamond
6. 6/4 1 CATTLE EGRET about 2-3 miles northwest of burns near piute reservation (near stanclift road). this is probably very near where jansen/withgott/stryker had 2 on their big day on 6/2. there was also a BOBOLINK on stanclift road
7. 6/3 WHITE-WINGED DOVE in frenchglen at the corral at north end of town. it had been seen by others at south end and in middle nead school.
8. 6/3 CHUKAR calling. a local guy in frenchglen says he sees them all the time near the frenchglen dump. go 3.0 miles south of frenchglen. just before where the road makes a hard left there is a dirt road to the west. it goes down the hill a little ways (don't look for a dump as it is the cleanest dump in the country?). chukar were calling from the rocky hillside as you look west. there was also a calling CANYON WREN and 2 GOLDEN EAGLES looking like there was a nest.
9. 6/3 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS at dusk just north of frenchglen on road toward page springs. 
10. AMERICAN REDSTART at malheur hq
11. 6/1 GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE at mcdonalds in hines
12. other birds of less interest
    a. 4 different LOGGERHEAD SHRIKES
    b. 6/3 NASHVILLE WARBLER, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER at hq
    c. 6/2 many LARK SPARROWS on road from fields to andrews
    d. BLACK THROATED & SAGE SPARROWS on harny lake road near the golden eagle nest.
    e. at least 4 EURASIAN COLLARED DOVES in burns
    f. COMMON NIGHTHAWKS roosting everywhere and flying everywhere
    g. LINCOLN'S SPARROW at benson pond
    h. the song sparrows at malheur a much paler and less streaked than those over here in corvallis (different subspecies?)
    i. COMMON POORWILL calling near field station after not seeing 1 driving all the roads for hours where the excellent birders had seen them on the night before
13. the lowlight was that there was NOT even 1 eastern vagrant (unless you count redstart which does nest in oregon) in the 5 days.
14. interesting things that are not birds
    a. 2 different bull snakes
    b. 1 rattlesnake (thankfully just curled up on a culvert on harney lake road)
    c. i horned toad (cottonwood creek south of fields)
Rich Armstrong
541-753-1978
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