[birding] Brownsville to Malheur MWR trip and photos

[Cheryl Whelchel]

Becky Schwiebert and I spent Memorial day weekend at Malheur.  With much birding on the way there and back as well.  I have posted pictures from the trip at 

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


At the time I called this a Hermit Thrush but am not sure now, any opionions?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgswallow16/4675009383/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgswallow16/4675009383/>

Becky saw a Williamson's Sapsucker for a life bird on the trip and I saw Black and White and Tennessee Warblers for lifers.

After the Malheur pictures there are a bunch of pictures that I took at the Ladd Marsh Birdathon, including Great Gray Owls.  The world Raptor Center from Boise was giving a presentation an many pictures are posted of their education birds.


Cheryl Whelchel
Tangent





Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Snow Goose
Ross' Goose
Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Gadwall
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Barrow's Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Chukar
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Northern Goshawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Prairie Falcon
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Rock Dove
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Flammulated Owl
Great Horned Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Common Nighthawk
Vaux's Swift
White-throated Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Lewis' Woodpecker
Williamson's Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Western Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Hammond's Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Say's Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Cassin's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
American Dipper
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Sage Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Hooded Oriole
Bullock's Oriole
Cassin's Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow

Total number of species seen: 161


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