[birding] finley

[rich armstrong]

marcia cutler, mary gerard, and i did finley this morning. we even ended up with coats off!
1. thanks to molly monroe for telling me there might be shorebirds on mcfarland road
    a. maybe 5 dunlin (couple with black bellies)
    b. maybe 6 greater yellowlegs
    c. probably 100 least sandpipers
    d. maybe 5 long-billed dowichers (1 called and assume the others were the same)
    e. lots of barn swallows there now
2. bruce road/mcfaddin marsh/walked out mcfaddin trail to large marsh area
    a. 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS including 1 quite cooperative
    b. heard SORA
    c. maybe 12 greater yellowlegs
    d. probably 400+ green-winged teal
    e. many cinamon teal pairs
    f. we are pretty sure we had about 5 SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS (at limit of full zoom distance and definitely only 1 breast band so we don't think they were baby killdeer)
    g. 1 gadwall, many shovelers, many american wigeon, some pintails, many ring-necked ducks, a few wood ducks, 1 pied-billed grebe
    h. 1 male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD at the scrape
    i. 1 PEREGRINE FALCON sitting in the field
    j. 3+ HORNED LARKS
    k. the only passerines were yellow-rumps, orange-crowned, common yellowthroats - no flycatchers or tanagers or grosbeaks or orioles or thrushes
    l. a few bald eagles and ospreys (1 caught a fish and as always was carrying it aerodynamically)
    m. 2 GREAT EGRETS - seems late for them?
    n. marsh wrens chortling everywhere
    o. 1 sharp-shinned hawk glided over nicely
3. hq road/cabell
    a. roughly 250 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE on the water at cabell
    b. 4 cormorants
    c. 1 white goose with cacklers at prairie (tooooooooooooooooooo far to determine which)
4. on way back into town 4 cedar waxwings off 99 near downtown
Rich Armstrong
541-753-1978
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