[birding] Freeway Ferruginous

[M & R Campbell]

If I remember right, there are some farm houses at the corner of Kirk road 
and Seefield Drive, which would be pretty close to where Joel saw the 
Ferruginous Hawk.  About a half-mile north of that farm there is a large, 
private pond, now almost empty.  That pond is just across a field south of 
the Pioneer Villa sewage ponds, Linn County's glorious shorebird Mecca.  So 
that might be one place to look, for anyone silly enough to go chasing. 
Hmmm.

If I remember right, three or four years ago Jeff Fleischer had a light 
Ferruginous Hawk along Seefield Drive, but two miles closer to Halsey.


Randy



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Geier" <joel.geier at peak.org>
To: "MidValley Birds" <list at midvalleybirding.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:07 AM
Subject: [birding] Freeway Ferruginous


> Hi folks,
>
> While driving down I-5 to get to a trails group meeting in Oakridge last
> night, I saw a light-morph FERRUGINOUS HAWK standing in the grassy
> median strip between mileposts 215 and 216 (about a mile north of where
> Lake Creek Drive crosses over the freeway).
>
> If it keeps hanging out along the freeway, this is going to be a tough
> bird to get to without a motorized vehicle ... but I trust that Randy
> will find a way. From looking at the DeLorme atlas p.47 B-8, it looks
> like Kirk Rd. comes pretty close.
>
> Happy birding,
> Joel
>
> --
> Joel Geier
> Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
>
>
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