[birding] Red-eyed Vireos NOT in Sandy River delta

[Joel Geier]

Hi folks,

Just a reminder -- or maybe news, since some of this never made it to
OBOL during the recent difficult period, and some of it might have only
been posted on the MidValley birding list:

Red-eyed Vireos have been reported this summer at multiple points
farther up the Willamette Valley, including:

(1) North Fork Santiam River near Crabtree east of Albany,
(2) Willamette River just south of Independence (private land), and
(3) Luckiamute State Natural Area between Albany and Independence.

BTW all of the above were found without use of recordings, just passive
listening. So the birds are out there, and singing on their own.

I'm not positive if there have been reports from Elijah Bristow State
Park east of Eugene, but maybe that's because REVIs are expected there
every year, or because of OBOL's recent difficulties. Ditto for Grand
Island in SE Yamhill Co.

Just thought this might save a few people from driving all the way up to
the Portland metro area, for a species that they could probably bicycle
to in the mid- or upper Willamette Valley. There are still plenty of
tracts of bottomland riparian forest that no one has checked this
summer, though some of us hit that habitat type harder than usual this
year. No mid-valley cuckoo reports yet, sorry to say.

Happy birding,
Joel

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Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis