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

[Joel Geier]

Oops, sorry! I meant to post my previous message to OBOL, to get the
word out about Red-eyed Vireo reports from the mid- and upper Willamette
Valley. Somehow picked the Midvalley list instead, out of habit I guess.

Joel

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 19:09 -0700, Joel Geier wrote:
> 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
> 
> --
> Joel Geier
> Camp Adair area north of Corvallis