OregonThe quarterly journalBirds of Oregon fi eld ornithology

Volume 30, Number 3, Fall 2004

A Population Size Estimate for Eurasian Wigeon Field Notes: Spring 2004 in Oregon (Winter 2003-2004) Dennis Vroman...... 117 North Coast, Ilene Samowitz...... 126 South Coast, Tim Rodenkirk...... 129 What? Can’t You Hear that Chipping Sparrow’s Portland Metro, Erik Knight...... 133 Rattle? Rogue-Umpqua, Dennis Vroman...... 135 Kevin Smith...... 120 North Central, Chuck Gates...... 137 South Central, Kevin Spencer...... 139 A Tribute to Clare Watson Northeast, Trent Bray...... 142 Merlin “Elzy” Eltzroth...... 121 Southeast, Noah Strycker...... 147 Observer List...... 150 Unusual Rufous Hummingbird Behavior Dale Shank...... 122 Oregon Birds is looking for Oregon Birds material in these categories: Articles deal with identification, The quarterly journal of Oregon Field Ornithology distribution,ecology, P.O. Box 10373, Eugene, Oregon 97440 management, conservation, www.oregonbirds.org taxonomy, behavior, biology, and historical aspects of ornithology Oregon Birds is a quarterly publication of Oregon Field Ornithologists (OFO), an and birding in Oregon. Articles Oregon not-for-profit corporation. Membership in OFO includes a subscription to cite references (if any) at the end of Oregon Birds. ISSN 0890-2313 the article. Names and addresses of authors typically appear at the Editor: Stephen Dowlan beginning of the article. Associate Editor: Don DeWitt Short Notes are shorter Board of Editors: Alan Contreras, Matt Hunter, Dave Irons, Terrie contributions that deal with the Murray, Mike Patterson same subjects as articles. Short Notes typically cite no references, Officers and Board of Directors or at most a few in parentheses in the text. Names and address of President: Tim Shelmerdine - Lake Oswego (2005) authors appear at the end of the [email protected] Short Note. Secretary: Judy Meredith - Bend (2005) [email protected] Bird Finding Guides “where Treasurer: Jeff Harding - Lebanon ( 2005) to find a______in Oregon” [email protected] (for some of the rarer birds) and Directors: Dave Tracy - Bend ( 2006) “where to find birds in the ____ [email protected] area” (for some of the better Joel Geier - Corvallis ( 2006) spots). [email protected] David Irons - Eugene ( 2005) Reviews for published material [email protected] on Oregon birds or of interest to Dennis Vroman - Grants Pass ( 2005) Oregon birders. [email protected] Photographs of birds, especially Committees photos taken recently in Oregon. Publications: Open - Contact the President if interested Color slide duplicates are preferred. Please label all photos Archivist: Barb Combs, [email protected] with photographer’s name and (541) 689-6660 address, bird identification, date and location of photo. Photos Membership: Anne Heyerly, [email protected] will be returned if requested. (541) 485-0880 The Deadline for Next Issue of OFO Bookcase: Karen Bachman, [email protected] Oregon Birds, OB 30(4), Winter 2004-2205 is Dec. 30. Please send OFO Birding material directly to the Editor, Weekends: Vacant Steve Dowlan, P.O. Box 220, Mehama, OR, 97384 503-859- Webmaster: Dianna Bradshaw, [email protected] 3691 [email protected]

Oregon Bird Records Secretary, Harry B. Nehls, Printed on Cover photo: Red-throated Pipit, 29 April 2004, Port Orford, Curry County. Photo/D. Munson Recycled Paper A Population Size Estimate for Eurasian Wigeon in Oregon (2003- 2004 season) Dennis P. Vroman, 269 Shetland Drive, Grants Pass, Oregon 97526 [email protected]

Eurasian Wigeon do not breed in counties. Lane County reported 17, individual was added for each CBCs Oregon, but non-breeding individuals the largest number in one county. with a “count week” observation. occur regularly west of the Cascades Multnomah tallied 13; a single sighting CBC data appears to indicate annual and rarely east of the Cascades of 12 was made in Klamath County. variation in population size. The (Gabrielson and Jewett 1940, Double counting due to movement number of individuals ranged from Gilligan et al. 1994, Martinson 2003). of individuals to and from foraging- 30 (2003-04) to 59 (2001-02). The Contreras (1997) analyzed Christmas resting locations and migratory highest CBC count was notably less Bird Count (CBC) data and found a fl ight stop-overs were possibilities. than half the estimated number found slight increasing trend for this species Sightings were placed into distinct using OBOL reports. Interestingly, in the northwest. Baseline data on geographic locations to minimized the lowest CBC count (2003-04) was population size are lacking, useful overestimating numbers. Birds at from this same season. Perhaps our information for the “increasing trend” unchecked locations were possible, estimate fell during a season with less question. Sighting records found along with under-counted females, individuals to be found. in Oregon Birds provide data for factors that would underestimate the scattered dates and locations. Yearly true population size. The author wishes to thank those that CBC counts are better, but many posted Wigeon reports to OBOL. potential locations are not covered, Eurasian Wigeon CBC totals for the therefore, underestimating population 1994-95 to 2003-04 counts were Reference size. Oregon Birder’s On Line compared (see Table 2). The number (OBOL) list-server sightings, posted of CBCs with Eurasian Wigeons, Contreras, A. 1997. Northwest birds by numerous members, provide an the total number of individuals, in winter. Oreg. State Univ. Press, opportunity to arrive at a reasonably and the CBC with the highest count Corvallis, OR. close population estimate. It seemed were included in the table. A single worth attempting.

OBOL 2003-04 Eurasian Wigeon sightings were compiled and summarized (see Table 1). Reports were categorized by County and specifi c locations in a County (69 total). Many locations had multiple sightings on different dates. The largest number of individuals sighted by an observer (or party) at each location was included in the estimate. Sex of individual birds, along with observer names and dates, were noted. A total of 55 observers posted 107 OBOL messages or reports on Wigeon sightings. The fi rst sighting was 2 October 2003 (Multnomah Co.), the last was 12 June 2004 (Crook Co.).

The 2003-04 Oregon Eurasian Wigeon population was estimated to be 141 birds (including 14 females). Birds were reported in 23 counties with 33 Eurasian Wigeon. Photo/C. Gates birds (5 females) found in 7 east-side

Oregon Birds 30(3):117, Fall 2004 Table 1 – Estimated number of Eurasian Wigeons for Oregon Counties (2003-2004 season)

County # Birds Sex # Reports # Sites # Observers Range of Dates Benton 8 males 5 3 4 17 Jan – 28 Feb Clackamus 5 males 5 4 1 16 Jan – 3 Mar Clatsop 7 males 9 7 5 27 Nov – 20 Mar Coos 6 males 3 2 1 27 Dec – 4 Apr Crook 4 1 female 3 3 1 24 Feb – 12 Jun Deschutes 3 males 4 2 3 5 Feb – 25 Apr Douglas 3 1 female 2 2 2 21 Dec – 20 Jan Harney 3 males 1 1 1 4 Apr Jackson 8 1 female 8 6 4 11 Dec – 22 Mar Josephine 4 males 5 4 2 14 Nov – 16 Feb Klamath 12 3 females 1 1 1 28 Feb Lane 17 2 females 15 6 9 2 Jan – 6 Mar Lincoln 6 males 3 1 3 18 Oct – 4 Jan Linn 7 1 female 6 3 2 31 Dec – 23 Mar Malheur 2 males 2 2 2 8 Feb – 14 Mar Marion 6 1 female 5 2 3 21 Dec – 26 Apr Multnomah 13 2 females 11 7 8 2 Oct – 4 Apr Polk 2 males 4 1 4 19 Jan – 8 Apr Tillamook 7 males 1 1 1 13 Jan Umatilla 4 males 3 3 3 18 Jan – 7 Mar Union 5 1 female 2 2 2 27 Feb – 13 Mar Washington 9 1 female 7 4 4 27 Nov – 4 Apr Yamhill 4 males 2 2 3 3 Dec – 27 Jan Totals 141 107 69 68

Gabrielson, I.N., and S.G. Jewett. 1940. Birds of Oregon. Oreg. State Coll., Corvallis, OR.

Gilligan, J., M. Smith, D. Rogers, and A. Contreras, Eds. 1994. Birds of Oregon: status and distribution. Cinclus Publ., McMinnville, OR.

Martinson, R.K. 2003. Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope). In Marshall, D.B., M.G. Hunter and A.L. Contreras, Eds. Birds of Oregon: a general reference. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR.

Eurasian Wigeon. Photo/S. Maulding

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Table 2 – Eurasian Wigeons on Oregon Christmas Bird Counts (1994-95 to 2003-04)

CBC Season # CBCs Total Found Count Week est. High Count CBC 94-95 14 42 0 Portland (8) 95-96 13 36 2 Sauvie Is. (9) 96-97 16 41 0 Medford ( 6) 97-98 14 37 2 Sauvie Is. (7) 98-99 16 38 1 Grants Pass (9) 99-00 17 49 0 Sauvie Is. (7) 00-01 15 43 0 Port/Coquille (9 ea) 01-02 18 59 1 Portland (13) 02-03 18 42 1 Portland (7) 03-04 12 30 1 Forest Grove (7)

Oregon Birds 30(3):119, Fall 2004

Page 1 What? You Can’t Hear that Chipping Sparrow’s Rattle?

Kevin Smith, PO Box 817, Crooked River Ranch, OR 97760-0817 [email protected]

Maybe some of you read the article WOW! My first trial was astounding! works above 3500 cycles, so I doesn’t I wrote about using a ‘baby monitor’ I walked out on my deck and I could interfere with normal sounds which is to hear the birds at your feeders even HEAR, House Finches!, Chickadees!, the trouble with conventional hearing though the windows are closed. Well Pine Siskins!. Birds I hadn’t heard aids which DON’T work above 5000 this is an improvement. I have been for more than 50 years. With minimal cycles and amplify EVERYTHING! unable to hear birds since childhood, adjustments I was floating on air— My unit has three settings which but have enjoyed seeing them and well, maybe not floating, but it felt divide the upper cycles by a factor even taking ‘birding-by-ear’ classes. like it. The other day I walked out an of 2, 3, or 4, thus making the sounds This all in an attempt to get close heard something which sounded like of the Cedar Waxwing (which sings enough to photograph them. Last a Kingfisher, but we don’t have any above 9000 cycles) hearable for the year someone told me about a product of those in my area! I would have to first time in my life. It can be used in called a Songfinder, hand built by drive and hike three miles for that. I conjunction with regular hearing aids a guy in Ithica, NY. After many e- tried locating the bird, but to no avail. with some adjustments. mails and trials on his web-page of I called a friend who suggested maybe various MP3 demos I agreed to ‘try I was hearing a Pinion Jay making a Now regular hearing aids start at one out’with the understanding that if mating call. Today I FOUND it! Turns about $1000 each and go up from it didn’t work I would be returning it out to be a Chipping Sparrow. I never there. There are other units for the promptly. If I seem a little cautious knew they sounded like a Kingfisher ‘slightly hard of hearing’ which can that’s because I already have one pair and with out the Songfinder I guess I be had for about $2-400 each. This of ‘hearing aids’ which sit unused would never know. unit sells for $750-$900 depending on my desk and have been promised on the features, but you only have to on more than one occasion that “If I The unit has a head set complete buy one unit because it operates in would only purchase a pair of these with two microphones (one for each STEREO! AND IT WORKS! I just ‘fine’ ($5000) hearing aids I would be ear) speakers and a control box. can’t say enough about it ( as SOME able to hear ALL of those tiny little The control box is a little large, but of you already know). You can contact birds”. In the words of my father whatever works, right? The whole me or look it up on the web at www. “BALDER-DASH !” premise is lowering the entire bird songfinder.com song into a range which you can hear. I waited a week, two weeks. The In my case that means somewhere Have fun and HEAR the birds! suspense was killing me. FINALLY, between 100 and 4500 cycles. Above And, NO, regrettably I don’t get a it arrived and the testing began. that and I’m deaf. The Songfinder only commission. Dang!

Oregon Birds 30(3): 120, Fall 2004 A Tribute to Clare Watson

Merlin “Elzy” Eltzroth, 6980 NW Cardinal Drive, Corvallis, OR 97330

Clarice “Clare” Watson admits being somewhat of a birdwatcher since childhood but really became interested in identifying birds in the late ‘60s. She was a charter member of both the Southern Willamette Ornithologists Club (SWOC) and Oregon Field Ornithologists (OFO). In 1976 Clare and Dorris Swanson set up a Rare Bird Telephone Alert Network in Eugene. Participants were charged one dollar and were asked to send a few self-addressed postcards (but no box tops) in case telephone calls didn’t go through.

In 1980 she volunteered to be secretary for the Oregon Bird Records Committee (OBRC), a position she held for nine years. As a retired librarian her skills at organizing and maintaining records were of great value. Her interest in developing reference materials to aid researchers in locating published information about Oregon birds led to publication of the Index to Oregon Bird Reports in Audubon Field Notes and American Birds 1947-1981, OFO Special Publication No. 3, 1982. Later she compiled A Bibliography of Bird Articles in Five Journals, with Cross- References to a List of Over 650 Species, OFO Special Publication No. 4, 1990. These references were most helpful to me in preparing various committee’s activities. She also wrote Reference, the wonderful contribution articles and the Checklist of the Birds articles and guidance for submitting to the conservation and enjoyment of of Oregon, 1987. Clare published records, including examples of reports birds in Oregon. Edited by Marshall, “Oregon Field Note Summaries” and accepted and reports not accepted. Hunter and Contreras, 2003. “Highlights” for SWOC Talk and She helped compile information and Oregon Birds from January 1979 to organized the taxonomic order of Clare was an active birder as long the summer of 1981. birds in the Rare Birds of Oregon, as she was able, listing 371 species OFO Special Publication No. 5, Owen in the state and 306 species for Lane As secretary to OBRC, she organized Schmidt, Ed., 1989. County—placing her in the top 8 of and advanced some of the practices those who reported sightings to that which are still in use today. Her duties Clare helped proofread the work of county. In addition she recorded included assigning fi le numbers to each other writers and the Cumulative over 100 species in each of 13 other report, keeping offi cial photographs Index to Oregon Birds Volumes 1-17 counties. She is well known and and descriptions for the master list by Alan Contreras, 1992. A number respected by most people interested in fi les, duplicating and circulating of her compilations were cited in Oregon Ornithology and has earned a each record to committee members the bibliography of printed material big THANK YOU from all of us. and making annual reports of the for Birds of Oregon. A General

Oregon Birds 30(3):121, Fall 2004 Unusual Rufous Hummingbird Behavior

Dale Shank, 2375 E. Madrona Lane, Canby, OR 97013 males I’d seen were rufous. At fi rst I thought it was looking for insects on the underside of the leaves but there was something odd about this one’s fl ight. It looked like it was trying to land on the branches and couldn’t get a foothold. The noise I heard was it running into leaves in the process. Its fl ight was slow, and several times it slowly drifted down to eight or ten feet above the ground as though it simply didn’t have the energy to get suffi cient lift from its wingbeats. Then it would fl y higher, rising a little faster than its descent.

After several minutes of this, it landed on a branch in a bigleaf maple whose branches overlapped the oak tree. Once the bird was perched, it immediately rotated downward and hung motionless beneath the branch. I watched through binoculars and a spotting scope. Since the bird seemed quite stable I got a digital camera and took several photographs through the spotting scope. Its feathers moved as it breathed and at one point it shook itself and fl ew, again displaying the same clumsy, rising/drifting fl ight while bumping into branches. It perched and again immediately rotated to hang below the branch. After about 45 minutes it fl ew, this time toward a large shrub about 40 feet away. It descended slowly, as before, until I could no longer see it. There was no quiet, discrete way to get close to where it had gone, so I chose not to try to fi nd it, fi guring it didn’t need any more stress.

Perhaps the bird was newly fl edged and not yet a strong fl yer, not yet familiar with landing and perching. Or maybe its behavior was related to torpor. Perhaps it rotated upside down because it was ill or injured and too On the morning of August 1, 2004, heard something rattling the leaves weak to balance on top of the branch. several of us witnessed a peculiar of a scarlet oak tree. I looked up and Of the rufous hummers in our yard bird behavior. I live north of Canby, saw a hummingbird. I assumed it the rest of the summer, none exhibited Oregon, on top of a small hill with was an immature rufous because of that behavior. I hope it took a break, many deciduous trees. It was about 9 all the hummers we had throughout got rejuvenated and joined its pals in a.m. and we were on our deck when I the spring and summer, the only our yard but I will never know.

Oregon Birds 30(3): 122, Fall 2004 Second-year female Black-headed Grosbeak, banded 31 May, The Dowlan yard, Mehama, Marion Co. Photo/S. Dowlan

After hatch-year female Black-throated Gray Warbler, banded 31 May, The Dowlan yard, Mehama, Marion Co. Photo/S. Dowlan

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Oregon Christmas Bird Counts Saturday, December 18 14 December 2004 - 2 January 2005 Bend Don Albright, [email protected], Craig & Marilyn Miller (541) 389-9115 (503)538-8890, 17820 NE Hillsboro Hwy., Newberg, [email protected] OR 97132 Meet 7:15 AM at Pioneer Park in Bend. Vegetarian potluck dinner following the Count at the Miller Any future updates of this schedule will be posted on residence. the OFO web site: www.oregonbirds.org Burns-Hines Tuesday, December 14 Rick Vetter (541) 573-5601 (h) or 573-4369 (w) Summer Lake [email protected] Marty St. Louis Meet 7:00 AM USFS office in Hines. (541) 943-3180(h) or 943-3152(w) [email protected] Grants Pass Craig & Marilyn Miller Dennis Vroman (541) 389-9115 (541) 479-4619 [email protected]. [email protected] Contact the compiler. Meet 7:30 AM Summer Lake WA headquarters John Day Thursday, December 16 Tom Winters (541) 542-2006 Hart Mountain [email protected] Rachelle Huddleston-Lorton Meet 7:00 AM (earlier if you want breakfast), Outpost (541) 947-2731 Restaurant, 201 W. Main St. [email protected] Meet 7:00 AM at refuge headquarters. Limited Klamath Falls accommodations available. Contact the compiler in Kevin Spencer advance. (541) 884-5739 [email protected] Contact the compiler. Friday, December 17 Lower Owyhee Adel Jon Sadowski Rachelle Huddleston-Lorton (541) 473-6275 (541) 947-2731 [email protected] [email protected] Meet 7:15 AM (will wait for late arrivals until 7:30 AM), Cairo Contact the compiler. School parking lot, Hwy 20/26 between Vale and Ontario, 1/4 mile w. of Hwy 201. Baker County - Salisbury Laura Hayse Medford (541) 523-9254; Joe Shelton [email protected] (541) 772-4490 Joanne Britton Clint Brumitt (541) 523-5666; [email protected] [email protected] Contact the organizers. Meet 7:30 AM at weigh station on Hwy 7, one mile south of Baker City. Roseburg Ron Maertz P Ranch - Malheur NWR (541) 496-3847 after 6 PM Cal Elshoff Contact the compiler. (541) 495-2322 [email protected] Meet 8:00 AM at Frenchglen. Salem Sodhouse - Malheur NWR Stuart Sparkman Duncan Evered and Lyla Messick (503) 585-8751 (541) 493-2629 [email protected] [email protected] Contact the compiler; teams arranged in advance. Meet at Malheur Field Station. Free lodging for count Tillamook Bay volunteers. Owen Schmidt (503) 282-9403 Wallowa County [email protected] Martin and Melanie Ford Meet by 7 am,. Fern Restaurant, 1000 N. Hwy. 101, (541) 426-5796 Tillamook (6:30 AM no-host buffet breakfast). [email protected] Meet 7:00 AM (or 6:00 AM if you want breakfast) at Union County Wildflour Bakery, Joseph. (Cove and Union area) Bill Dowdy (541) 963-4768 Monday, December 20 Meet 8 AM, Anderson-Perry Conference Room, 1901 N. 1st Street in LaGrande Florence Diane Pettey (541) 902-1971 Sunday, December 19 [email protected]. Meet 7:30 AM Florence Safeway parking lot, Hwy 101. Columbia Estuary Mike Patterson (503) 325-1365 Tuesday, December 21 celata@pacifier.com Meet 7:00 AM at Pig-n-Pancake Restaurant. Antone Stephen Shunk (volunteer coordinator) Coos Bay (541) 408-1753 [email protected] Tim Rodenkirk (541) 269-4696 Joel Geier (alternate contact) [email protected] (541) 745-5821 (h); (541) 745-5020 (w) Contact the compiler. [email protected] Contact the coordinator. Lyle, WA (includes The Dalles, Rowena, and Mosier, OR) Corvallis Bob Hansen Marcia F. Cutler (509) 365-2404 (541) 752-4313 [email protected] [email protected] Contact the compiler. Contact the compiler.

Sauvie Island Thursday, December 23 Oregon side contact: Karen Bachman Illinois Valley [email protected] Romain Cooper [email protected] (541) 592-4459 (w) or 592-2311(h) Contact the compiler. [email protected] Washington side contact: Meet 7 AM, Coffee Heaven, Hwys. 199 & 46 in Cave Wilson Cady Junction. Please contact the compiler in advance if (360) 835-5947 possible. [email protected]

Sisters Steve Shunk (541) 408-1753 [email protected] Contact the compiler. Sunday, December 26 Friday, December 31

Forest Grove Antelope Mary Anne Sohlstrom Pete Weigel [email protected]. (541) 489-3280 or (206) 819-3821 Meet 7 AM Elmer’s Pancake House, 390 SW Adams, [email protected] Hillsboro. Meet at compiler’s house, corner of Maupin & College Sts. in Antelope. Port Orford Jim Rogers Hood River (541) 332-2555 Catherine J. Flick Meet 7:15 AM north side of Driftwood Elementary School (509) 493-1195 on Hwy 101. [email protected] Meet 6:30 AM at the Best Western in Hood River (exit 64 Redmond off I-84). Kimdel Owen (541) 548-2952 Prineville [email protected] Charles Gates Meet 7 AM, Big O Restaurant, Northbound Hwy. 97. (541) 923-1320 [email protected] Meet 7:00 AM at McDonalds in Prineville. Tuesday, December 28 Silverton Dallas Roger Freeman Roy Gerig [email protected] (503) 589-4636 Contact the compiler. [email protected] Meet 7 AM at Farrol’s Restaurant in Rickreall, s. of Hwy 22 along Hwy 99W. Saturday, January 1

Wahkiakum, WA Brownsville (includes Knappa and Brownsmead, OR) Jeff Harding Andrew Emlen (541) 451-2613 (360) 795-8009 [email protected] aceasp@pacifier.com Meet 6:30-7:00 AM at Pioneer Villa Restaurant. Oregon counters meet 7:00 AM at The Logger Restaurant, Knappa. Columbia Hills-Klickitat Valley, WA Washington counters meet 7:00 AM at Skamokawa (includes Biggs, Rufus, and John Day Dam, OR) Center in Skamokawa. Stuart Johnston (509) 493-3363, 6-9 PM. [email protected] Thursday, December 30 Contact the compiler.

Baker County - Baker Valley Cowlitz/Columbia Laura Hayse Robert Sudar (541) 523-9254 (360) 423-1780 [email protected] [email protected] Joanne Britton Contact the compiler. (541) 523-5666 [email protected] Meet 7:30 AM at Oregon Trail Restaurant. Santiam Pass Steve Shunk (541) 408-1753 Upper Nestucca [email protected] Don Albright Contact the compiler. (503) 538-8890 [email protected] Contact the compiler. Umatilla County Eugene Kevin Blakely Herb Wisner (541) 276-2344 (w), (541) 276-5249 (h) (541) 344-3634 [email protected] [email protected] Contact the compiler. Sector teams and meeting places arranged in advance; please contact compiler. Post-count gathering at the Utopia Eugene Garden Club, 1645 High St. (Culver area) Pete Weigel Portland (541) 489-3280 or (206) 819-3821 Victoria Crowe [email protected] (503) 292-6855 x 130 Contact the compiler. [email protected] Sector teams and meeting places arranged in advance; Please contact the compiler. Sunday, January 2 Yaquina Bay Airlie-Albany Rebecca Cheek Paul Adamus (541) 867-4699 (541) 745-7092 [email protected] [email protected] Meet 7:00 AM Apple Peddler Restaurant Contact the compiler. 705 SE Coast Hwy, Newport. Post-count gathering at compiler’s home at dusk; please contact in advance if you plan to attend. Field Notes Regional Editors

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North Coast Willamette Basin North Central Open Open Chuck Gates Forward notes to the OFO Forward notes to the OFO 14265 S. Antelope Drive Editor Editor Powell Butte, OR 97753 [email protected] [email protected] 541-923-1320 [email protected] South Coast South Central Tim Rodenkirk Rogue-Umpqua Kevin Spencer 611 North 12th Street Dennis Vroman 858 Rosemont Court Coos Bay, OR 97420 269 Shetland Dr. Klamath Falls, OR 97603 541-269-4696 Grants Pass, OR 97526 541 884-5739 [email protected] 541-479-4619 [email protected]. [email protected] ca.us Portland Metro Southeast Erik Knight Northeast Noah Strycker 4549 N.E. 39th Trent Bray 35995 E. Willis Road Portland, OR 97211 1102 Washington Ave, Creswell, OR 97426 503-232-0848 La Grande, OR 97850, 541-895-3123 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Oregon Birds 30(3):125, Fall 2004 North Coast Field Notes: Spring 2004 Edited by Ilene Samowitz

Abbreviations: Red-throated Loon – 57 at SJCR AAMB Astoria Airport Mitigation Bank, Clatsop County 16 Mar (MP), 15 in CLAT 8 May BBSW Boiler Bay, Lincoln County (NAMC). BCMW Beaver Creek Marsh Wetlands Conservancy Preserve, Pacific Loon – at least 27,000 passed Lincoln County BBSW 27 Apr (PP), 2002 in CLAT 8 BROWN Brownsmead, Clatsop County May (NAMC). CLSP Cape Lookout State Park, Tillamook County Eared Grebe – 1 at WASP between CMNWR Cape Meares NWR, Tillamook County 7 Mar and 17 Mar (MP), 1 off Sally’s ECLK Eckman Lake, Lincoln County – 2 mi east of Waldport along Bend, LINC 18 Apr (KM). Hwy 34 Western Grebe – 2000 in CLAT 8 ECSP Ecola State Park, Clatsop County May (NAMC). FSSP Fort Stevens State Park, Clatsop County Clark’s Grebe - 1 at BROWN 6 Mar HSCN Hatfield Science Center, Newport Lincoln County (MP), 4 seen with 75 Western Grebes IDFL Idaho Flats is large embayment just east of HSCN, Newport, on the north side of Yaquina Head, Lincoln County LINC 21 May (RHo). NAMC North American Migration Count Flesh-footed Shearwater – 1 seen NREC Necanicum River Estuary, Seaside, Clatsop County about 20 miles offshore of Newport, SBNWR Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Lincoln County LINC 13 May (WH). SJCR South Jetty Columbia River, Clatsop County MANX SHEARWATER – 1 was SRSP Seal Rock State Park, Lincoln County amongst the loon stream at BBSW 27 WASP Warrenton Sewage Ponds, Clatsop County Apr (PP). 2 were flying north about WRCC Wireless Road, Clatsop County 500 yards offshore of BBSW 28Apr YBNFT Yaquina Birders and Naturalists Field Trips (PP). YBNJ Yaquina Bay North Jetty, Lincoln County Brown Pelican - first immature at YBSJ Yaquina Bay South Jetty, Lincoln County BBSP 22 Apr (PP) , 1 at BBSW 28 YHON Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, Lincoln County May (PP), 2 at the mouth of Siletz Bay, LINC, 3 at the mouth of D River, LINC 30 Apr (TJ, LG, WG, & JPo), first noted in CLAT 1 May (MP). Brandt’s Cormorant – 4500 in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). American Bittern – 1 noted in CLAT 1 May thru 13 May (MP), 1 was between Siletz and Toledo, LINC 18 May (JPl). Green Heron – 1 in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). Turkey Vulture – first report ECLK 29 Feb (KM) and 16 at BROWN 26 Mar (MP). Greater White-fronted Goose – flock of about 250 passed to the northwest over ECLK on 21 Apr (RLo). 87 at NREC 27 Apr (MP) and 340 at Clatsop Plains 27 Apr (MP). Snow Goose – 1 at BROWN 6 Mar (MP). Red-necked Grebe, 7 March, South Jetty Newport, Lincoln Co. Photo/G. Brant – latest was a singleton at SRSP Jameson 22 May (YBNFT). Tundra Swan – noted at BROWN 6

Oregon Birds 30(3): 126, Fall 2004 Mar (MP) with numbers increasing Bufflehead - at least 300 were at YHON 17 Apr (IS) and Depoe Bay, to 12 on 12 Mar (MP) and 16 19 Mar Sallys Bend, LINC 18 Apr (KM) LINC 17 Apr (IS). 2 at ECSP 24 Apr (MP). giving courtship displays. (MP), 3 in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). Canada Goose - first brood Eckman 8 noted in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). American Avocet – noted in CLAT 1 Slough, LINC 22 Apr (RLo). Hooded Merganser – 20 at WASP 7 May (MP). 2 at FSSP 26 May (MP). Wood Duck – 8 pairs at ECLK in mid- Mar (MP). Solitary Sandpiper – 1 found at March (RLo). 4 pair Cannon Beach, Osprey –1 west of Toledo, LINC Beaver Creek, LINC about 1/4 mile CLAT 16 Apr (IS). The first brood at on 12 Mar (DMe), and a pair were east of Ona Beach on 24 May (DF). ECLK was a hen with 6 tiny young nesting at This is late as our previous late record just out of the nest 1 May (RLo). 32 an ECLK power pole on 19 Mar was 5/13 (RB). in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). (RLo). 1 at FSSP 28 Mar (LC). 1 Wandering Tattler - at SRSP 29 Apr Mallard - a hen with her 12 ducklings carrying nesting material at HSCN 5 (TJ), YHON 3 May to 5 May (BLM). at ECLK 22 Apr (RLo). Apr (JLa). 2 building a nest on power 1 in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). Northern Pintail – last noted at FSSP poles heading up north BCMW 25 Spotted Sandpiper – During their 26 May (MP). Apr (TD). May migration, they appear in many Blue-winged Teal – pair at BCMW Bald Eagle – 31 in BROWN 6 Mar areas where they normally are not 17 May (DF). Still there 22 May (MP). Heard near nesting area near found, including rocky intertidal BCMW on 4 Mar (TD). 1 sitting on (YBNFT). rd areas. 1 spotted at south end of ECLK Cinnamon Teal – Between 15 and 18 nest 20 Mar (YBNFT). 2nd or 3 4 May (RLo), 1 at Wecoma Cove at at BROWN from 6 Mar thru 12 Mar year flew over IDFL 8 Mar (JLa). An the HSCN 2 May (JLa). adult pair in Yachats, LINC, 1 perched (MP). Noted at AAMB 18 Apr (BE). at Boone Slough, LINC on 19 Mar Whimbrel – flocks of 30 and 50 were 6 in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). 2 pairs (SKu). 1 in Toledo, LINC 31 Mar between Newport and Yachats, LINC at Keady’s Pasture at Beaver Creek, (SKu), pair over Cape Foulweather, 18 Apr (JiM), 73 at Surfside, LINC LINC 22 May (YBNFT). LINC in courtship display 17 Apr 22 Apr (LO). 950 passed BBSW on Northern Shoveler - a pair at Keady’s (RTN). Seen often at YHON during 28 Apr (PP) declining to 5 on 5 May Pasture at Beaver Creek, LINC 22 April and May (m.ob.), 9 in CLAT 8 (PP). 33 in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). May (YBNFT). This is May (NAMC). 1 seen at Big Creek About 100 at HSCN and IDFL 10 - one of our latest dates for shovelers Reservoir, LINC 19 May (BLo). 11 May (m.ob.), 51 on the beach at (RB). Last noted at FSSP 26 May Northern Harrier – 5 at BROWN Surfland near South Beach, LINC 21 (MP). 6 Mar (MP). An adult male hunted May (LO). Eurasian Wigeon – 1 at BROWN at the HSCN 27 Apr through 11 May Long-billed Curlew –2 flew over the 6 Mar (MP). 1 at BCMW 20 Mar (JLa). 2 in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). YBSJ on 21 Mar (TG, LSH). A pair (YBNFT). Rough-legged Hawk – 1 at WASP 13 flew north at BBSP 27 Apr (PP). Bay Greater Scaup – noted at Cannon Mar (MP). on 4/27 (PP). 1 passed BBSW 18 Beach, CLAT 22 May (MP). American Kestrel - 2 at BROWN May (PP). Lesser Scaup - 92 in CLAT 8 May from 6 Mar thru 19 Mar (MP). 1 at Marbled Godwit - 8 at SBNWR, 4 at (NAMC). BCMW 20 Mar (LO). Nye Beach, LINC, 6 at Yaquina Bay, Harlequin Duck – 2 YBSJ 29 Mar 1 noted at BROWN 26 Mar (MP). LINC and 3 at SRSP 29 Apr (TJ). 1 at (MM). 6 to 8 below the Inn at Otter Merlin – 1 at HSCN 27 Apr (JLa) Mooloch Beach, LINC and 1 at Agate Crest, LINC 18 Apr (CSh) an area with and 4 May (DP). 1 at Clatsop Plains, Beach, LINC 30 Apr (m.ob.), 1-2 few reports. 4 at ECSP 24 Apr (MP). CLAT 2 May (MP). were at SBNWR and IDFL 12 May 2 at Otter Rock, LINC 29 &30 Apr Peregrine Falcon – 1 noted at (m.ob.), and 2 remained at IDFL 21 (m.ob.), 8 in CLAT 8 May (NAMC), a male at Devils Punchbowl, LINC BROWN 19 Mar and 26 Mar (MP). May (JLa). 3 at FSSP 26 May (MP). 9 May (m.ob.), 1-2 at SRSP 29 Apr Nesting pair at CMNWR 17 Apr (IS). Red Knot - 1flew by BBSW 24 Apr – 25 May (m.ob.), and a singleton at Singletons were at south SBNWR and (PP,WH). 1 at Nye Beach, LINC, 10 YHON 21 May (RHo). BBSW 29 Apr (TJ). north of YBNJ, 2 on the northwest Ring-necked Pheasant – 1 at NRES side of the Yaquina Bay Bridge, LINC Long-tailed Duck –1 female west from 4 Apr thru 27 Apr (m.ob.). 2 in 29 Apr (TJ). 2 at Agate Beach, LINC of the Yaquina Bay Bridge, LINC 21 CLAT 8 May (NAMC). 30 Apr (m.ob.). 4 at FSSP 20 May Mar (TG, LSh). Mountain Quail – called at Fox (LC). Black Scoter – 9 SJCR 16 Mar Creek, LINC 12 and 13 Mar (MN). Ruddy Turnstone – 1 at SRSP 29 Apr (MP). Golden-Plover sp. – 9 flew north (TJ), 1 at Depoe Bay, LINC 2 May Surf Scoter - 1,900 flying north, past BBSW 28 Apr (PP). (JPl), 1 at BBSW 12 May (m.ob.). including one flock of 800 at BBSW Black Oystercatcher – 1 at Cannon Western Sandpiper - were first 29 Apr (PP). Beach, CLAT 16 Apr (IS). Noted at noticed flying past BBSW 22 Apr

Oregon Birds 30(3):127, Fall 2004 (PP), counts increased thereafter, Cannon Beach, CLAT 22 May (MP). Gray Jay – 1 at Makai, LINC north with a peak of 22,000 during a 2 hour Band-tailed Pigeon – The first seen of Ona Beach was an unusual spring seawatch 25 Apr (PP). were in Yachats on 3 Mar (BB). 6 in sighting (PP). Rock Sandpiper – 2 to 4 moved LINC 20 Mar (JC). The first flock at Western Scrub-Jay - 2 at WRCC among other rockpipers on the YBSJ Tidewater, LINC 13 Apr (PBW), 12 10 Apr (LC), 3 in CLAT 8 May on 6 Mar (JWi). Another 1-2 were at Rockaway Beach, TILL 17 Apr (IS), (NAMC). Seal Rocks on 13 and 24 Mar (NB). 25-30 in Yachats, LINC 18 Apr (BB). Horned Lark – 2 at WRCC 10 Apr Wilson’s Snipe - latest was moving at 1 in Astoria, CLAT 24 Apr (MP). 30 (LC). Yachats, LINC 1 May (SaL). in LINC 26 Apr (JC), 2 at NREC Purple Martin – 2 in BROWN 9 Apr Red-necked Phalarope – 6 offshore 27 Apr (MP), 26 in Toledo, LINC in (MP). 2 singing loudly and staking of Newport, LINC 13 May (WH). early May (DG), 171 in CLAT 8 claims to nest boxes in the cove just 8 flying past BBSW 18 May (PP). May (NAMC), 36 in Waldport, LINC north of the HSCN 23 Apr (JLa). 17 Noted at Cannon Beach, CLAT on 22 22 May (JKC). in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). May (MP). Mourning Dove – 2 at Fox Creek, Tree Swallow – 1 in BROWN 6 Mar Parasitic Jaeger - 1 passed by at LINC 30 Mar (MN), 1 in LINC 8 (MP), 100 in BROWN 12 Mar (MP). Spanish Head, LINC 16 Apr (PP), 1 May (NAMC), 2 in Toledo, LINC Violet-green Swallow – 4 at BROWN noted BBSW 27 Apr (PP) and 2 May repeatedly at feeder early May (DG), 12 Mar (MP), 50 at BROWN 19 Mar (JPl) and 18 May (PP). 2 regularly seen near the east side (MP). Franklin’s Gull - 1 passed Spanish of Sallys Bend, LINC in mid-May Northern Rough-Winged Swallows Head, LINC 16 Apr (PP). 1 in (JLM), 1 at Waldport, LINC 22 May - at Yachats on 6 Apr (BB). 2 in nonbreeding plumage at BBSW 18 (JKC). BROWN 9 Apr (MP). May (PP). Barn Owl – 1 in BROWN 26 Mar Cliff Swallow – 12 in BROWN 9 Apr Hermann’s Gull - 2 early, first- (MP). (MP). summer at BBSW 18 May (PP). Western Screech-Owl – 2 in CLAT 8 Barn Swallow – 5 in CLAT 8 Mar California Gull – at Spanish Head, May (NAMC). (LC). LINC the normal May/June flights Black Swift –1 flying over timber in Brown Creeper –1 in Gearheart, had started with small groups of hills west of Siletz, LINC 10 May and CLAT 11 Apr (DB), 2 in Astoria, immatures going by 16 May (PP). 17 May (JPl). CLAT 24 Apr (MP), 1 in CLAT 8 May Herring Gull - the latest flew north Anna’s Hummingbird –a juvenile in (NAMC). past BBSW 28 Apr (PP). Waldport, LINC on 3 Mar (JKC). American Dipper – 1 in SMSP 10 Apr Thayer’s Gull – noted Youngs Bay, Rufous Hummingbird – first female (MP), 2 in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). CLAT on 22 Mar (LC). at Tidewater, LINC 6 Mar (PBW). 2 Swainson’s Thrush – 2 in CLAT 8 Glaucous Gull – A first-winter was at WASP 7 Mar (MP). May (NAMC), first reports in north on the ocean beach north of the YBNJ Northern Flicker – 1 yellow-shafted Newport, LINC were 15 May (RO). on 27 Mar (WH). at HSCN nature trail 19 Mar (RF, Hermit Thrush – 1 in BROWN 19 Black-legged Kittiwake – 1 at FSSP RLo). Mar (MP). 25 Mar (LC). Noted in CLAT 3 Apr Pileated Woodpecker – 1 in Varied Thrush – last seen in at Fox (MP), 3 at NREC 11 Apr (DB), 11in Rockaway Beach, TILL 13 Mar (IS) Creek, LINC 19 Mar (MN) and in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). and 17 Apr (IS). 3 in CLAT 8 May Yachats, LINC 26 Mar (BB). 16 in Caspian Tern – First one reported (NAMC). 1 in Toledo, LINC mid- CLAT 8 May (NAMC). at Youngs Bay, CLAT 22 Mar (LC). May (LF). Wrentit - 3 in CLAT 8 May First was heard calling the evening at Olive-sided Flycatcher – first was (NAMC). HSCN 31 Mar (RB). near SBNWR 30 Apr (m.ob.). Noted American Pipit - noted at BROWN Marbled Murrelet - 30, not all of in CLAT 1 May (MP). 6 Mar and 9 Apr (MP), 3 at NREC 11 which were in breeding plumage, Western Wood-Pewee - noted at Apr (DB). 1-2 at BBSW 24 - 29 Apr were seen at BBSP with another 2 at AAMB 13 May (MP). Noted at CLSP (m.ob.). SRSP on 29 Apr (TJ). 28 May (RDu). Cedar Waxwing - 2 in CLAT Rhinoceros Auklet – 1 at ECSP 24 Dusky Flycatcher – 1in hills upriver (NAMC). Apr (MP). 400+ passed BBSW 28 of Logsden, LINC 6 May (JPl). Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 at Apr – 29 Apr (PP). Western Kingbird - 1 at IDFL 4 May FSSP 28 Mar (LC). Tufted Puffin - one flying north at (m.ob.), 1 near HSCN 23 May (DF). Nashville Warbler – 1 in CLAT 22 BBSW 27 Apr and 29 Apr (PP). 12 Warbling Vireo - 1 at WASP 21 Apr May (MP). in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). 1 near (MP), noted in CLAT 1 May (MP), 5 Yellow Warbler - Noted in CLAT 1 Newport, LINC 13 May (TG), 3 at Coxcomb Hill, CLAT 1 May (MP), May (MP). passed BBSW 18 May (PP). Noted at 12 in CLAT 8 May (NAMC). Black-throated Gray Warbler – 1 at

Oregon Birds 30(3): 128, Fall 2004 WASP 17 Apr (MP). LINC feeder 18 May (DSa). Apr (PBW). Townsend’s Warbler – 1 exhausted Black-headed Grosbeak - first east Dark-eyed Junco – 1 slate-colored at female at the Rockpile, LINC 19 miles of Waldport, LINC 26 Apr (JKC). BCMW on 20 Mar (LO). west of Newport 13 May (RLo). Lazuli Bunting – 1 male at Nashville, Western Meadowlark –latest at Hermit Warbler - 12 in CLAT 8 May LINC in the northeast part of the BBSW 27 Apr (PP). (NAMC). county (fide DF). Yellow-headed Blackbird – 1 male MacGillivray’s Warbler - noted in Chipping Sparrow – 1 arrived at was at a farm about 5 miles up the CLAT 1 May (MP). Toledo, LINC 27 Apr (CP). Yachats River, LINC 12-16 May (fide Common Yellowthroat – noted in Savannah Sparrow – were at BBSW BB). BROWN 2 Apr (MP). 10 Apr (PP). A tight flock of 35-40 Brown-headed Cowbird – 1 in Wilson’s Warbler - 1 in Gearheart, was working the lawn and rocks BROWN 2 Apr (MP). First arrived at CLAT 11 Apr (DB). along the fence at BBSW 25 Apr Tidewater, LINC 14 Apr (PBW). Western Tanager – 2 at Coxcomb (PP). Red Crossbill – 18 in CLAT 8 May Hill, CLAT 1 May (MP). First was a White-crowned Sparrow - first (NAMC). female and 2 males feeding in western migratory at feeders in Tidewater, American Goldfinch - first spring red cedars in Tidewater, LINC 8 May LINC on 12 Mar (PBW). Fledglings arrivals in Tidewater, LINC 5 Apr (PBW). at HSCN 21 May (JLa). (PBW). ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK Golden-crowned Sparrow - first – 1 first year male at South Beach, spring arrivals in Tidewater, LINC 5

South Coast Field Notes: Spring 2004 Edited by Tim Rodenkirk

Three first county records were found in Curry County, including the overwintering Lucy’s Warbler, and one new species was added to the Coos County list. Once again, the old Weyerhaeuser pond on the North Spit of Coos Bay provided superb spring habitat for ducks and shorebirds, and many species could be observed at this site through the end of the period. Don Munson reports that Red Crossbill numbers were much more abundant throughout southern Curry County than in previous years. He also noted that some birds, such as flickers, Cassin’s Vireos, and Spotted Towhees, nested lower this year in southern Curry than in the past years. This may be due to the 500,000 acre Biscuit fire that burned quite a bit of upper elevation forest on the east side of the county on the Siskiyou National Forest in 2002.

Abbreviations: BR = Brookings area American Wigeon – 1500, WL, BM = Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge COOS, 4 Apr, (TR) CR = Chetco River, Don Munson’s residence Eurasian Wigeon – 5, WL, COOS, 4 EV = Eden Valley area, Siskiyou National Forest Apr, all males, (TR) FL = Florence area Gadwall – several pair, WEP, COOS, MB = Mount Bolivar area, Siskiyou National Forest through end of period, (TR) MM = Millicoma Marsh, Coos Bay Green-winged Teal – 2500, WL, NS = various locations on the N. Spit of Coos Bay COOS, 4 Apr, (TR); one pair, WEP, NR = New River area, south of Bandon along the coast COOS, through end of period, (TR) SC = Siltcoos Creek Northern Pintail – 2500, WL, WEP = old Weyerhaeuser effluent pond area, North Spit of Coos Bay COOS, 4 Apr, (TR); one pair, WEP, WL = Winter Lake, Coquille COOS, 26 May, latest Coos date this WR = Wahl ranch, near Cape Blanco spring, (TR) Blue-winged Teal – 2, WEP, COOS, Greater White-fronted Goose – 2, Canada Goose – 8, WEP, COOS, 10 27 Apr, (TR); 10, WEP, COOS, 3-14 Catching Slough, COOS, 14 March, Apr, adult with goslings, (TR) May; (TR); a few pair, WEP, COOS, (TR); 1, Catching Slough, COOS, 16 Brant – 250, NS, COOS, 19 Mar, through end of period, (TR) Apr, (TR); 20, NR, COOS, 3 May, (TR); 1, BM, COOS, 25 May- latest Cinnamon Teal – 2, WEP, COOS, (TR) Coos date this spring, (TR) 18 Mar, (TR); 19, WEP, COOS, 16

Oregon Birds 30(3):129, Fall 2004 May, (TR); a few pair, WEP, COOS, breeding within Great Blue Heron period, (TR) through end of period, (TR) colonies in Eastside, South Slough, Lesser Yellowlegs – 1, NR, COOS, Northern Shoveler – 1500, WL, and probably elsewhere around the 28, Apr, (TR); 4, WEP, COOS, 3 May, COOS, 4 Apr, (TR); a few pair, WEP, bay, (TR) (TR); 1, WEP, COOS, 7 May, (TR) COOS, through end of period, (TR) Black-crowned Night-Heron – 1, Solitary Sandpiper – 1, WEP, COOS, Redhead – 1, NR, COOS, 28 Apr, south of Bandon near Twomile Cr., 17 Apr, (TR); 1, WEP, COOS, 1 May, (TR); 11-14, WEP, COOS, 30 Apr- 1 COOS, 25 May, this species has not (TR); 1, WEP, COOS, 9 May, (TR) May, (TR); 2, WEP, COOS, 26 May- been documented breeding in Coos, Ruddy Turnstone – 1, BM, COOS, 2 latest Coos date this spring, (TR) (TR) May, (TR) Ring-necked Duck – several pair, White-tailed Kite – 1, MM, COOS, Short-billed Dowitcher – 1, WEP, WEP, COOS, through end of period, 9 May, probably breeding in the area, COOS, 6 Apr, this bird was heard (TR) (TR) calling and ties for the earliest spring Greater Scaup – several pair, WEP, SANDHILL CRANE – 1, Cape Coos record, (TR) COOS, through end of period, (TR) Blanco area, CURRY, 23 May, this Long-billed Dowitcher – 1, WEP, Lesser Scaup – several pair, WEP, species is rarely seen along the south COOS, through end of period, (TR) COOS, through end of period, (TR) coast, (VS) Red Knot – 4, BM, COOS, 12 Apr, Long-tailed Duck – 1, FL, LANE, Pacific Golden-Plover – 1, WEP, earliest spring Coos record (TR); 2, 6 Mar, (JSu); 2, NS, COOS, 19 Mar, COOS, 3-6 May, adult female in alt. SC, LANE, 22 Apr, (JCa); 1, NR, latest date seen this spring in Coos, plumage, a kowitdl type call was COOS, 26 Apr, (DL & KC); 1, NR, (TR) heard, (TR); 2, NR, COOS, 3 May, COOS, 29 May, latest Coos spring Harlequin Duck – 4, Bob Creek, adults seen and heard calling, (TR); 1, record, (DL & KC) LANE, 22 Apr, (JCa) WEP, COOS, 16 May, probable adult Western Sandpiper – 5000, NR, Bufflehead – several pair, WEP, Pacific seen flying overhead with all COOS, 29 Apr, (TR); 1, WEP, COOS, COOS, through end of period, (TR) white undertail coverts making a tee- through end of period, (TR) Ruddy Duck – several present ooo-EEE call, (TR) Least Sandpiper – a few, WEP, through end of period, WEP, COOS, Golden-plover sp. – 1, NR, COOS, 23 COOS, through end of period, (TR) (TR) Apr, flyover- made an American-like Dunlin – 3, WEP, COOS, 21 May, Eared Grebe – 1, WEP, COOS, 3 queedle call? (TR) latest Coos spring date this year, Apr, latest date seen this spring in Semipalmated Plover – 200, NR, (TR) Coos, (TR) COOS, 29 Apr, (TR); 1, WEP, COOS, Red-necked Phalarope – 2, WEP, Clark’s Grebe – 1, McVay Wayside, 26 May, a few normally oversummer COOS, 8 May, (TR); a pair, WEP, CURRY, 9 Mar, (DM); 1, NS, COOS, in this area, (TR) COOS, 25 May- latest Coos date this 8 May, latest date seen this spring in BLACK-NECKED STILT – 2, spring, (TR) Coos, (TR) WR, CURRY, 5 May, this species Caspian Tern – 2, WEP, COOS, 19 Black-footed Albatross – 1, NR, is rare along the coast and is much Mar, (TR); non-breeders around Coos COOS, 29 May, this moribund bird less frequently observed than either Bay, COOS through end of period as was found with a readable band! (DL avocets or Wilson’s Phalaropes, only usual, (TR) & KC) the 2nd Curry record, (TJW) Tufted Puffin – several, BR, CURRY, Brown Pelican – 2, BR, CURRY, 11 Whimbrel – 1, NR, COOS, 23 Apr, 11 Apr, (DM); 2, Heceta Head, Apr, (DM); 3, NR, COOS, 26 Apr, (TR); a few around Coos Bay, COOS, LANE, 13 May, (PSh); 1, Table Rock- (DL & KC) through end of period, (TR) Bandon, COOS, 17 May, this species Snowy Egret – 1, Pony Slough, Long-billed Curlew – 1, Pony has declined here and is hard to find in COOS, 14 Mar, latest date seen this Slough, COOS, 5 Mar, may be the recent years, (DiP) spring in Coos, (TR); 2, CR, CURRY, overwintering bird (TR); 1, NR, EURASIAN-COLLARED DOVE 3 Apr, (DM) COOS, 13 Apr, (JimH); 1, Tenmile – 1, WR, CURRY, first seen 8 May- Great Egret – 111, Coquille to Estuary, COOS, 26 Apr, (DL & KC); was around off and on for several Myrtle Point, COOS, 1 Mar, (TR); 72, 8, Pony Slough, COOS, 10 May, more days, 1st Curry record, (TJW, WL, COOS, 4 Apr, (TR); 100, South (TR); 2, Pony Slough, COOS, 16, photos LMi) Slough-Charleston, COOS, 9 May, up May, (TR) Common Nighthawk – 1, Bandon, to 70 roosting in trees as we crossed Marbled Godwit – 1, Tenmile COOS, 30 May, (DL & KC) bridge into Charleston, (PTS, TR, et Estuary, COOS, 26 Apr, (DL & KC); Black Swift – 6, NR, COOS, 12 May, al); breeding numbers in Coos Bay, up to three present through end of (TR); 14, NR, COOS, 20 May, (TR); COOS seemed lower than in previous period, BM, COOS, (TR) 48, NR, COOS, 25 May, (TR) years- colony moved from N. Spit Greater Yellowlegs – a few around Vaux’s Swift – 2, Coos Bay, COOS, where they bred last year and were Coos Bay, COOS, through end of 14 Mar, (JimH)

Oregon Birds 30(3): 130, Fall 2004 Barn Swallow – 1, WEP, COOS, 16 Mar, earliest Coos spring record not counting mid-winter birds seen the past few years, (TR) Cliff Swallow – 1, WEP, COOS, 24 Mar, (TR) Purple Martin – 3, Tenmile Lake- Lakeside, COOS, 24 Mar, (TR); several, FL, LANE, 11 Apr, (fide DiP) Bank Swallow – 6, Nesika Beach, CURRY, 8 May, this species has bred here the past several years, (JiR); 1, WEP, COOS, 8 May, (TS); 1, WEP, COOS, 12 May, possibly same bird as on the 8th?(TR) House Wren – 3, Coast Range east of Coos Bay, COOS, 9 Apr, earliest Coos spring record, (TR) Varied Thrush – 1, NR, COOS, 28 Eurasian Collared Dove, 9-11 May, Port Orford, Curry Co.. Photo/ D. Munson. Apr, latest lowland date for this spring in Coos, (TR) Swainson’s Thrush – 1, NR, COOS, CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD – 3, Spit of Coos Bay, COOS, 6 Apr, 28 Apr, (TR) EV, COOS, 17 Apr, all displaying singing- very early spring arrival, but Hermit Thrush – 1, NR, COOS, 3 males- 4th Coos record, (TR); 1, EV, not the earliest for Coos, (TR) May, latest lowland date in Coos for COOS, 25 Apr, a female in same Say’s Phoebe – 1, CR, CURRY, 31 this spring, (TR) area as the 17 Apr sightings, 5th Coos Mar, (DM) Northern Mockingbird – 1, WR, record (TR); 3, MB, COOS, 25 Apr, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER CURRY, overwintering bird present all displaying males, 6th Coos record; – 1, Port Orford Heads SP, CURRY, into May, (TJW); 1, Floras Lake, all Coos records are from the Mt. 17 May, this species is rare along the CURRY, 18 May, (JimH) Bolivar/Eden Valley area, (TR) coast, (DiP) SAGE THRASHER – 1, WEP, Lewis’ Woodpecker – 2, Winter Western Kingbirdt his– species COOS, 22 May, 3RD Coos record, Springs Ranch- Rogue River, CURRY, is almost common during spring (TR) overwintering birds seen into March, migration in coastal Curry County American Pipit – 50, NR, COOS, 29 Jim Rogers reports this species but becomes increasingly uncommon Apr, (TR) sometimes overwinters here and has further north along the coast; Curry RED-THROATED PIPIT – 2, WR, been seen several other years, records this spring include 15, WR, CURRY, 28 Apr- 30 Apr, 2nd state (JiR) CURRY, 5 May, (TJW fide JG); 1, record- a pair of birds was well seen Olive-sided Flycatcher – 1, Coast WEP, COOS, 6 May, (TR); 1, MM, and photographed, report submitted Range east of Coos Bay, COOS, 1 COOS, 9 May, (TR); 1, WEP, COOS, to OBRC, (TJW, et al., photos DM) May, (TR) 10 May, (TR); 2, NS, COOS, 15 May, Cedar Waxwing – 1, FL, LANE, 2 GRAY FLYCATCHER – 1, Otter (DL & KC); 1, WEP, COOS, 17 May, Mar, (DiP) Point, CURRY, 31 May, very rare (TR) Nashville Warbler – 3, MB, COOS, along the coast and only the 4th Curry Northern Shrike – 1, WEP, COOS, 11 Apr, singing males, earliest spring record, (RHo) 24 Mar, latest date seen this spring in Coos record, (TR) Western Wood-Pewee – 1, WEP, Coos, (TR) LUCY’S WARBLER – 1, BR, COOS, 6 May, (TR) Cassin’s Vireo – 1, CR, CURRY, 31 CURRY, overwintering bird last seen Dusky Flycatcher – 2, EV, COOS, Mar, (DM); 1, Powers area, COOS, on 1 April, well-documented 2nd state 25 Apr, singing- earliest Coos spring 4 Apr, (TR); 1, WEP, COOS, 14 record, (SCh et al.) record, (TR) May, very uncommon in migration Yellow Warbler – 2, NR, COOS, 29 Pacific-slope Flycatcher – 1, on immediate coast in Coos County, Apr, (TR) Siskiyou NF east of Gold Beach, (TR) Black-throated Gray Warbler – 1, CURRY, 28 Mar, very early for this Warbling Vireo – 1, EV, COOS, 25 Myrtle Point, COOS, 7 Apr, singing, species- heard calling (TR); 1, North Apr, (TR) (TR)

Oregon Birds 30(3):131, Fall 2004 EV, COOS, 11 Apr, singing, (TR) Yellow-breasted Chat – 2, CR, CURRY, 10 Apr, (DM); 1, MM, COOS, 9-22 May, singing- unusual for this species to be found so close to coast in Coos County, could possibly be breeding? (PTS, TR) Western Tanager – 1, MB, COOS, 25 Apr, calling, (TR) Chipping Sparrow – 1, Powers area, COOS, 9 Apr, singing- earliest spring Coos record, (TR); a few, BR, CURRY, 11 Apr, (DM) Dark-eyed Junco – 1, BR, CURRY, 8 March, Slate-colored, (SCh) Black-headed Grosbeak – 2, CR, CURRY, 24 Apr, (DM); 1, Coquille area, COOS, 30 Apr, (TR) Lazuli Bunting – 1, CR, CURRY, 23 Apr, (DM); 1, Powers area, COOS, Red-throated Pipit, 29 April, 2004, Port Orford, Curry County. Photo/ D. Munson. 25 Apr, (TR) See Cover photo. Y E L L O W - H E A D E D BLACKBIRD – 1, WR, CURRY, CAPE MAY WARBLER – 1, NS, here (TR); 1, NR, COOS, 23 Apr, late April/early May- exact date(s) COOS, 17 May, female- report singing male- close to the latest spring unknown, (TJW); 3, WEP, COOS, submitted to OBRC, 1st Coos record, date for Coos, (TR) 20 May through end of period, all (TR) MacGillivray’s Warbler – 1, NR, females/immature males, (TR); this Townsend’s Warbler – 1, N. Spit of COOS, 23 Apr, earliest spring Coos species is rare but regular on the Coos Bay, COOS, 7 May, singing, record, (TR) South Coast, (TR) (TR) Common Yellowthroat – 1, WEP, Bullock’s Oriole – 1, CR, CURRY, Hermit Warbler – 1, MB, COOS, 25 COOS, 26 Mar, first one this spring 23 Apr, (DM); 1, NR, COOS, 12 May, Apr, several heard singing, (TR) in Coos, (TR) unusual coastal sighting (TR); 1, N. Palm Warbler – 1, WEP, COOS, 3 Wilson’s Warbler – several, CR, Spit of Coos Bay, COOS, 16 May, Apr, last date overwintering bird seen CURRY, 10 Apr, singing (DM); 1, unusual coastal sighting, (TR)

Oregon Birds 30(3): 132, Fall 2004 (JW) Portland Metro Field Notes: Spring 2004 Vaux’s Swift 2 Portland MULT 12 Apr (DB) Edited by Erik Knight Rufous Hummingbird 1 arrival SW Portland MULT 3 Mar (DMz), 3 PM MULT 5 Mar (WG), 1 Cornelius Abbreviations: WASH 7 Mar (GG), 1 MT MULT 12 Mar (PJ) Calliope Hummingbird 1 West Linn GP Gabriel Park, Multnomah Co. CLAC 22 May (TS), 1 LM MULT 25 FW Fernhill Wetlands Washington Co. Apr (DM) SI Sauvie Island Multnomah/Columbia counties Willow Flycatcher 1 SBL MULT 7 VP Vanport Wetlands Multnomah Co. May (ES) PM Pittock Mansion Multnomah Co. Pacific-slope Flycatcher 1 Scappoose BL Bybee Lake Multnomah Co. COLU 28 Mar (PTS) SL Smith Lake, Multnomah Co. Olive-sided Flycatcher 10 MT SBL Smith/Bybee lakes, Multnomah Co. MULT 26 May (GG) SB Scappoose Bottoms Columbia Co. Hammond’s Flycatcher 1 MT MULT JB Jackson Bottoms Washington Co. 26 May (GG) KW Killin Wetlands Washington Co. Dusky Flycatcher 1 SRD MULT 16 May (JW), 1 GP MULT 5 May (JW) OB Oaks Bottom Multnomah Co. Say’s Phoebe 1 Marine Dr MULT 2 HL Hagg Lake Washington Co. Mar (JA), 2 OB MULT 3 Mar (JFi) RL Ramsay Lake, Multnomah Co. Western Kingbird 7 PDX MULT 17 SRD Sandy River Delta, Multnomah Co. May (CHA), 17 SRD MULT 16 May TCSP Tryon Creek State Park, Multnomah Co. (JW), 1 SBL MULT 17 May (ES), 3 GP MULT 15 May (JWi) Greater White-fronted Goose 60 Troutdale MULT 19 Mar (PJ), 1 subad Cassin’s Vireo 1 MT MULT 31 Mar KW WASH 16 Apr (DMa) HL WASH 21 Mar (DMa) (GG), 2 PM MULT 28 Apr (WG) Redhead 2 SL MULT 5 Apr (ES) Northern Goshawk 1 HL WASH 21 Warbling Vireo 1 PM MULT 28 Apr Greater Scaup 4 FW WASH 17 Apr Mar (DMa) (WG) (GG) Osprey 2 HL WASH 7 Mar (DMa), 1 Loggerhead Shrike 2 MULT 22 Mar Eurasian Green-winged Teal 1 FW LO MULT 30 Mar (SJ), 2 SBL MULT (IT, JFI) WASH 4 Mar (JR) 27 Mar (PJ) Northern Shrike 1 PIR MULT 6 Mar Common Goldeneye 2 fem OB White-tailed Kite 1 SI MULT 6 Mar (PO), 1 SRD MULT 19 Mar (DS), 1 MULT 3 Mar (EK), 1 fem FW WASH (DHz), 1 HL WASH 26 Apr (CK) TRNWR 19 Mar (BW) 15 Mar (LM) Merlin 1 SI MULT 17 Apr (SJa) Violet-green Swallow 1 FW WASH Harlequin Duck 2 Zigzag CLAC 19 Black-necked Stilt 2 JB WASH 30 15 Mar (DMz) Apr (PTS) Apr (DMa) Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Common Loon 1 Marine Dr/1-205 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 FW WASH 10 SBL MULT 23 Mar (PJ), 1 JB WASH 7 Mar (PO), 12 HL WASH 17 Apr Mar (HBN) 14 Apr (SP) (GG) Baird’s Sandpiper 2 WASH 1 May Cliff Swallows 10 FW WASH 26 Mar Eared Grebe 1 FW WASH 8 Mar (DS) (BS), 1 SBL MULT 5 Apr (ES) (LM) Solitary Sandpiper 1 KW WASH 11 House Wren 4 HL WASH 17 Apr Western Grebe 2 HL WASH 20 Mar Apr (MhK) (GG) (DK) Marbled Godwit 1 Heron Lakes GC Mountain Bluebird fem SRD MULT Clark’s Grebe 1 FW WASH 5 May MULT 28 May (IT) 19 Mar (DS) (AF) Red-necked Phalarope 2 Marine Dr Townsend’s Solitaire 1 PM MULT 2 Horned Grebe 1 FW WASH 5 Apr MULT 27 May (JFi) Mar (WG) (DMa), 3 trans plum HL WASH 21 Bonaparte’s Gull 1 alt plum FW Northern Mockingbird 1 Scappoose Mar (DMa) WASH 4 Apr (MR) Airport COLU 19 Mar (HBN) Great Egret 2 JB WASH 20 Mar Caspian Tern 1 FW WASH 5 May Black-throated Gray Warblers 2 (DMa), 19 FW WASH 15 Mar (AF) THNP WASH 22 Mar (EK), 1 PB (DMa) Forster’s Tern 1 FW WASH 19 May MULT 3 Apr (PJ) American Bittern 9 KW WASH 9 (DS) Orange-crowned Warbler 2 KCW Mar (DMa) Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 Rivergate WASH 21 Mar (CW), 2 MT MULT Turkey Vulture 2 Canby CLAC MULT 29 May (DB) 31 Mar (GG), 2 KW WASH 28 Mar 3 Mar (MM), 2 TRNWR MULT 3 Northern Pygmy-Owl 1 SI MULT 3 (DMa) Mar (BC), 3 SI MULT 3 Mar (LR), Mar (JFi) MacGillivray’s Warbler 1 HL 1 Oregon City CLAC 4 Mar (MM), 1 Barred Owl 2 TCSP MULT 1 Mar WASH 17 Apr (GG)

Oregon Birds 30(3):133, Fall 2004 Nashville Warbler 1 MT MULT 13 May (GL), 1 Beaverton WASH 28 MULT 28 May (IT) Apr (BS), 1 NW Portland MULT 20 Apr (PTS) Black-headed Grosbeak 2 NW Apr (DH) Lincoln’s Sparrow 4 JB WASH 28 Portland MULT 26 Apr (DHz) Wilson’s Warbler 1 PM MULT 14 Mar (DMa) Lapland Longspur 1 RL MULT 2 Apr (WG) White-throated Sparrow 5 SI MULT Mar (JFi) Common Yellowthroat 1 Timber 23 Mar (WG) Bullock’s Oriole 1 Beaverton WASH Lake CLAC 24 Mar (m ob), 1 SI Chipping Sparrow 1 NE Portland 30 Apr (GG) MULT 23 Mar (WG) MULT 8 Apr (DB) Lesser Goldfi nch 2 OB MULT 2 Mar Yellow-breasted Chat 1 HL WASH Swamp Sparrow 1 FW WASH 4 Mar (IT) 30 Apr (BCr) (JR) Western Tanager 1 MT MULT 25 Clay-colored Sparrow 1 Rivergate

Willamette Basin Field Notes: Winter 2003-2004 These notes will appear in Oregon Birds 30:4

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A fl ash of yellow fl itting by A sweet melody lilting high A small creation singing here A Yellow Warbler is near

Vjera Arnold

Oregon Birds 30(3): 134, Fall 2004 Rogue-Umpqua Field Notes: Spring 2004 Edited by Norman Barrett and Dennis P. Vroman

In general we have not mentioned reports of typical numbers at typical 38 or more ducklings west of Grants locations, focusing rather on arrival and departure dates, notable high and Pass near Robertson Bridge 22 May low numbers, unusual locations and possible range changes, rarities and a few (DV). oddments that may be of interest to readers of Oregon Birds. OBRC review White-tailed Kite– 2 seen at PACI 2 species are noted; we do not discuss their status by county. We otherwise Mar (DV). indicate rare county records when known, up to the 10th record for a county. Bald Eagle– adult along Illinois R. north of Store Gulch Guard Station Abbreviations: (Siskiyou N.F.) JOSE 20 Mar (DV); adult seen along Rogue R. near Galice AL Agate Lake, JACK JOSE 17 Apr (DV). APRI Applegate River, west of Provolt, JOSE Red-shouldered Hawk– bird on nest DWA Denman Wildlife Area, JACK in black oak in WHP 7 May (DV); KSP Kirtland Road sewage ponds, JACK nesting pair along W. Evans Cr. Rd. EL Emigrant Lake, JACK near town of Rogue River 8 May LARR Little Applegate River Road, JACK (TRe), possibly the first nesting in LTR Lower Table Rock Nature Conservancy Preserve, JACK County. LCR Lost Creek Res., JACK Swainson’s Hawk– 1 near mile post MMP Merlin Mill Ponds, east of Merlin, JOSE 6 along Highway 140 (Salt Cr. Rd.) MRS Manzanita Rest Stop (north of I-5 exit 61), JOSE JACK on 9 Apr (NB). NAMC North American Migration Count Golden Eagle– 1 seen from WS 8 OCNM Oregon Caves National Monument, JOSE Mar (DV); 1at Ford’s pond west of PACI Pacifica (north of Williams) JOSE Sutherlin 10 Mar (JH); 1 at EL 1 May WHP Whitehorse Park, JOSE (KTS). WS Whetstone Savannah Nature Conservancy Reserve, JACK Merlin– 1 at WS 8 Mar (DV). Peregrine Falcon– pair along Rogue County names are given in 4-letter format for sites other than cities. R. down from Grave Cr. JOSE 17 Apr (DV). Wild Turkey– hens with hatchings (number given if docuemted): 5 and Common Loon – 45 at LCR 10 Apr JACK 2 Mar (NB). 8 May in Sunny Valley area JOSE (JLi), with 3 on 26 Apr (NB). Gadwall– 1 on Douglas Co. NAMC (BC), at least 10 near Ferry Park Rd. Eared Grebe– 1 at LCR 26 Apr 8 May. west of Grants Pass 11 May (DV); at (NB). Eurasian Wigeon– male near Provolt least 16 along Donaldson Rd. east of Clark’s Grebe – 1 at AL 13 Apr and JOSE 2 Mar (DV). Merlin I-5 exit 12 May (DV). KSP 19 Apr (NB, GSc); bird at EL 1 Blue-winged Teal– 1 at DWA pond Black-bellied Plover– seen at KSP May (KTS). 24 Mar (RKe). 15 Apr, 9 on 20 Apr (GSc). American White Pelican– bird at AL Northern Pintail– 6 at AL 21 Apr Semipalmated Pluver– 10 seen at 8 May (PV). (GSc). KSP 10 Apr (GSc). Great Egret– bird along Rogue R. Cinnamon Teal– bird(s) at KSP 21 Greater Yellowlegs– 12 at KSP 9 Apr near Ferry Park Rd. west of Grants and 25 Mar (MMo, NB); 1 along (NB); 1 at DWA 25 Apr (PS, DV). Pass 11 May (DV). Sutherlin Cr., south of Sutherlin 12 Solitary Sandpiper – 1 at KSP 21 Green Heron– bird on nest at farm Apr (JHe); 6 at DWA 25 Apr (PS, Apr (GSc). pond east of Merlin I-5 exit 8 May DV). Whimbrel – 1 at KSP 23 Apr (ClB) (DV). Eurasian (Common) Teal– male and 25 Apr (GSc). Turkey Vulture– flocks up to 70-100 seen at MMP 1 Mar (DV). Spotted Sandpiper– 1 at KSP 12 seen in e. Rogue Valley JACK on 12 Redhead– 1 at KSP 21 Apr (DC). Mar (RKe). Mar and the week following (NMa, Barrow’s Goldeneye– 1 male along Western Sandpiper– 3 at KSP 21 GR, MPa); 115 on Josephine Co. River at DWA 25 Apr (PS, DV); 51 on Mar (MMo) with 35-40 on 26 Mar NAMC 8 May. Douglas Co. NAMC 8 May. (DC); 1 at KSP 9 Apr (NB). Greater White-fronted Goose– 1 Hooded Merganser– bird visiting Least Sandpiper– 10 at KSP 9 Apr south of Myrtle Creek 4 Mar (KenG). nest box 2Mar along Applegate R. (NB). Ross’s Goose– 2 along Meridian Rd. east of Wilderville and nesting 1 Apr Dunlin -3 at KSP 9 Apr (NB). east of White City 8 Apr (RKe, DN); (JVH); 6 on Douglas Co. NAMC 8 Short-billed Dowitcher– 2 seen at seen at LCR 10 Apr (JLi, GSc). May. KSP between 14 and 20 Apr (MMo, Tunda Swan– 26 along Brophy Rd. Common Merganser– 2 hens with GSc).

Oregon Birds 30(3):135, Fall 2004 Bonaparte’s Gull– seen at KSP 16 Apr (DV); seen in Jacksonville 26 Mar (LN); 2 just south of Wolf Creek Apr (NB). Apr (LN). 11 Apr (MAS, PB); birds at WHP 24 Ring-billed Gull– 32 at Riverside Western Scrub-Jay– recently Apr (DV). Park in Grants Pass 13 Mar and 4 at fledglings seen at WS 19 May (DV). Black-throated Gray Warbler– 1 at Grants Pass Shopping Center 15 Mar Black-billed Magpie– 3 along lower Hellgate Canyon west of Grants Pass (DV). portion of Highway 66 22 Mar (TS). 5 Apr (DV); seen near Ruch 10 Apr Caspian Tern– 1 at KSP 28 Apr Purple Martin– 3 seen in flight over (SJ). (JLi). LTR 8 May (PV). Townsend’s Warbler– seen along Flammulated Owl– bird heard near Violet-green Swallow– at least 5 at Tou Velle Rd. 24 Apr (NB). Takilma JOSE about 25 May (RoC). MMP 1 Mar (DV); seen in Medford Hermit Warbler– seen in Ashland Common Nighthawk– early arriving 15 Mar (DKi). 15 Apr (NS); 1 along Rogue R. near bird near White City 28 Apr (DC). Northern Rough-winged Swallow– Galice JOSE 22 Apr (DV); bird near Common Poorwill– bird in gravel bird at MMP 5 Apr (DV). Siskiyou Summit east of Mt. Ashland road in OCNM 13 May near 4,500 Cliff Swallow– 10 at Hellgate Bridge JACK 25 Apr (FLo). feet elevation (BG); bird flushed from (west of Grants Pass) along the Rogue MacGillivray’s Warbler– 1 at WHP ground nest with 2 eggs (serpentine R. 17 Mar (DV). 11 Apr (MAS, PB); 3 along Rogue R. habitat near 2,500 feet elevation) 22 Barn Swallow– at least 3 at MMP 24 near Galice JOSE 22 Apr (DV). May west side of Waldo Hill JOSE Mar (DV). Common Yellowthroat– 1 along Tou (BG). Oak Titmouse– bird carrying food Velle Rd. JACK 20 Mar (JLi); seen at Vaux’s Swift– seen in Ashland 5 Apr items at WS 2 May (DV). Plat I Dam area near Sutherlin 22 Mar (DC); several along Rogue R. between Bushtit– bird building nest along (JHe). Robinson Bridge and Galice JOSE 22 LARR (Sterling Gulch area) 7 Apr Yellow-breasted Chat– bird at WHP Apr (DV). (DV). 24 Apr (DV); seen at Macgregor Park Calliope Hummingbird– male White-breasted Nuthatch– adults JACK 28 Apr (JLi); bird at APRI 29 displaying near Jacksonville 4 Apr with young in nest box 8 May, New Apr (DV). (RKe); male near MRS 5 Apr, was Hope Rd., south of Grants Pass (LH). California Towhee– 2 on Douglas still there 8 May (DV). Rock Wren– 1 at William Jess dam Co. NAMC 8 May. Rufous Hummingbird– male east JACK 27 Mar (JLi); seen at EL Chipping Sparrow– 1 along Pilot of Wilderville along the Applegate R. (overflow on northeast side) 1 May Rock Rd. east of Mt. Ashland 4 Apr JOSE 2 Mar (JVH); bird collecting (KTS); singing bird along Salt Cr. (LFo). nest material near Onion Mtn. JOSE Rd., south of Riddle DOUG 14 May, Vesper Sparrow– bird in Greensprings 8 May (DV). 2 birds present 29 May (KenG). area JACK 3 Apr (GSc). Belted Kingfisher– bird checking Canyon Wren– bird at EL (overflow Lark Sparrow– bird east of MRS 10 bank cavity along Applegate R. east on northeast side) 1 May (KTS); bird Apr (MAS, PB); bird at WS 25 Apr of Murphy 11 Mar (DV). at LTR 8 May (PV). (PS, DV); bird carrying food items at Lewis’s Woodpecker– 5 at WS 8 Mar House Wren– bird in Ashland 3 Apr WS 25 May (DV). (DV) with 10-15 on 12 Mar (JCa); 16 (JAl). Savannah Sparrow– a likely migrant or more at WS 25 Apr (PS, DV) and 2 Winter Wren– juvenile captured east of Merlin I-5 exit (exit 61) JOSE on 30 Apr (DV). along Grayback Cr. east of Cave 28 Mar (DV); 10 or more migrants at Dusky Flycatcher– 1 at WS 30 Apr Junction 26 May (DV). WS 2 May (DV). (DV). Ruby-crowned Kinglet– 12 or more Black-headed Grosbeak– seen in Say’s Phoebe– 1 at WS 8 Mar (DV). along Applegate R. east of Murphy 11 Jacksonville 18 Apr (LN); 3 along Olive-sided Flycatcher– 1 each on Mar (DV). Rogue R. west of Merlin JOSE 22 Josephine (near Onion Mtn.) and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher– 3 (1 pair) Apr (DV). Douglas Co. NAMC 8 May. at MRS 5 Apr (DV); 2 along LARR Lazuli Bunting– male near Shady Ash-throated Flycatcher– bird (Sterling Gulch area) 7 Apr (DV). Cove 21 Apr (NB); male at LTR 25 at LTR 25 Apr (PS, DV); seen in Wrentit– bird carrying nest materials Apr (PS, DV); 35 found in cut over Jacksonville 26 Apr (LN); 1 along along LARR (Sterling Gulch area) 7 habitat along Elk Lane (southwest of New Hope Rd. south of Grants Pass Apr (DV). Grants Pass) 8 May (LH). 27 Apr (LH); possible nesting bird at Northern Mockingbird– 5 at WS 8 Tricolored Blackbird– up to 50 at Roseburg 8 May (JHe). Mar (DV); 2 at WS 25 Apr (PS, DV). KSP between 16 and 20 Apr (MMo, Western Kingbird – 1 at KSP 30 American Pipit– up to 50 at KSP 16 DC); small group at Ford’s Pond, west Mar (MMo); at least 2 at PACI 15 Apr Apr (NB). of Sutherlin near end of May (BP). (DV). Orange-crowned Warbler– migrant Yellow-headed Blackbird– 1 male at Northern Shrike– 1 at WS 8 Mar east of I-5 Merlin exit 28 Mar (DV). DWA 25 Apr (PS, DV). (DV). Nashville Warbler– at least 1 near Bullock’s Oriole– male in Ashland Cassin’s Vireo– bird in Jacksonville 4 MRS 5 Apr (DV); seen in Ruch 10 10 Mar (GR); 1 near All-Sports Pk.,. Apr (RKe); bird singing along LARR Apr (SJ); 4 south of Wolf Creek 11 w. Grants Pass 17 Apr (KPh); 1 along (near Sterling Gulch) 7 Apr (DV). Apr (MAS, PB). Rogue R. near Hellgate Canyon JOSE Warbling Vireo– seen at WHP 24 Yellow Warbler– 1 in Jacksonville 20 22 Apr (DV).

Oregon Birds 30(3): 136, Fall 2004 North Central Field Notes: Spring 2004 Edited by Charles R. Gates

Abbreviations: May, (SL DRe) CPM = Camp Polk Meadow White-faced Ibis - 1, Puett Rd., CROO, 22 May, (CG fide) DRSP = Deschutes River State Park Northern Goshawk - 1, Calliope NAMC = North American Migration Count Crossing, DESC, 14 May, (KO); 1, CRR = Crooked River Ranch Meadow Lks. Basin, DESC, 23 May, T.P. = Treatment Plant (KO) Swainson’s Hawk - 1, Hatfield Lk., Greater White-fronted Goose - 80, JEFF, 19 Apr, (PTS) DESC, 2 Apr, (SDo); 1, Paulina, Little Houston Lk., CROO, 28 Mar, Chukar – 18, Lake Billy Chinook, CROO, 4 Apr, (CG); 4, Paulina Hwy, (CG); 48, Gutierrez Ranch, CROO, 4 JEFF, 2 Apr, (JJo); 2, NAMC, WHEE, CROO, 18 Apr, (CG); 1, Tumalo S.P., Apr, (CG); 176, Little Houston Lk., 8 May, (JdL); 1, The Peninsula, JEFF, DESC, 19 Apr, (HHo SK) CROO, 4 Apr, (CG); 2, Hatfield Lk., 31 May, (SSh) Ferruginous Hawk - 1, Redmond, DESC, 12 Apr, (HHo); 1, Hatfield Sage Grouse - 6, Gutierrez Ranch, DESC, 14 Mar, (SDo); 1, LaPine, Lk., DESC, 18 Apr, (DeH HHo) CROO, 4 Apr, (CG); 5, Millican Lek, DESC, 20 May, (MiK) Unusual Snow Goose – 1, Prineville T.P., DESC, 4 Apr, (DeH HHo PL MAs); locations for both of these CROO, 9 Mar, (SPo); 2, Paulina 3, Millican Lek, DESC, 10 Apr, (SK) Merlin - 1, Hatfield Lk., DESC, 29 Valley, CROO, 4 Apr, (CG) The Millican Lek showed a marked Apr, (JM); 1, Johnson Cr. Rd., CROO, Ross’ Goose - 10, Paulina Hwy, drop in birds this spring 8 May, (JM) CROO, 18 Apr, (CG); 1, Prineville Blue Grouse – 1, Skyliner Rd., DESC, Peregrine Falcon – 2, Above John T.P., CROO, 28 Apr, (CG); 1, Rickard 28 Mar, (DeH HHo); 1, Metolius Day Dam, SHER, 13 Mar, (RGe); 1, Rd. Bend, DESC, 30 Apr, (MM); 1, Preserve, JEFF, 19 Apr, (DeH PL); Seismore Rd., DESC, 27 Mar, (DeH E. of Sisters, DESC, 5 May, (MM); 1, NAMC, JEFF, 8 May, (ST); 3, HHo); 1, 1 mile E. of DRSP, SHER, 12, Paulina Valley, CROO, 8 May, Booming in B&B Burn, JEFF, 13 24 May, (DvM) (CG); 2, O’Neil Hwy, CROO, 18 May, (JeG) Sandhill Crane – 2, Little Houston May, (SSh); 1, Tumalo, DESC, 20 Wild Turkey - 2, Lake Billy Chinook, Lk., CROO, 22 Mar, (SDo); 1, Crane May, (JMe); 2, Lonerock Rd., SHER, JEFF, 2 Apr, (JJo); 3, Rager R.S., Prairie, DESC, 2 May, (JJo HHo PL) 22 May (BaB) CROO, 1 May, (CG) Semi-palmated Plover - 1, Hatfield Trumpeter Swan – 1, Gutierrez Ranch, Mountain Quail - 1, N. of Sisters, Lk., DESC, 23 Apr, (JM HHo); 1, CROO, 4 Apr, (CG); 1, Hatfield Lk., JEFF, 12 Mar, (ST); 2, Pine Grove, Little Houston Lk., CROO, 28 Apr, DESC, 18 Apr, (JJo HHo) WASC, 8 May, (DLu ChC); 1, Pine (CG); 2, Redmond T.P., DESC, 4 Eurasian Wigeon – 1, Hatfield Lk., Ridge near Gray Butte, JEFF, 9 May, May, (KO); 1, NAMC, SHER, 8 May, DESC, 6 Mar, (JJo); 3, Redmond (SD) (DB) T.P, DESC, 10 Mar, (KO); 1, Hatfield Common Loon - 2, Ochoco Res., Lesser Yellowlegs – 1, Redmond T.P., Lake, DESC, 23-Mar, (CM & MM); CROO, 11 Apr, (CG); 1, Prineville DESC, 13 Apr, (KO); 2, Hatfield Lk., 1, Prineville T.P., CROO, 28 Mar, Res., CROO, 21 Apr, (CG) DESC, 23 Apr, (JM HHo) (CG); 1, Hatfield Lk., DESC, 25 Apr, Solitary Sandpiper - 1, Redmond (SK fide) Horned Grebe – 1, Twin Lakes, T.P., 10 May, (KO) Blue-winged Teal - 2, Hatfield Lk., DESC, 24 Mar, (JM); 1, Hatfield Lk., Willet - 1, McKenzie Pond Redmond, DESC, 18 Apr, (DeH PL SK HHo); DESC, 9 Apr, (SSh); 6, DRSP, SHER, DESC, 8 May, (DeH) Rare in the 1, Between Benton and Dillon Falls, 10 Apr, (JGa MD MLD); 2, Paulina county DESC, 18 Apr, (DoH); 1, Paulina Valley, CROO, 18 Apr, (CG); 1, Marbled Godwit - 1, Willow Cr. Valley, CROO, 1 May, (CG); 2, Redmond T.P., DESC, 23 Apr, (KO) WMA, GILL, 30 May, (RGe) Mouth of Deschutes R., SHER, 8 Red-necked Grebe - 1, DRSP, SHER, Long-billed Curlew - 3, Agency May, (DB); 1, Hatfield Lake, DESC, 10 Apr, (JGa MD MLD) Plains, JEFF, 28 Mar, (MM CM); 10 May, (CM & MM); 2, Redmond Clark’s Grebe – 3, Ochoco Res., 8, Paulina, CROO, 4 Apr, (CG); 1, T.P., DESC, 19 May, (KO); 2, Ochoco CROO, 8 May, (JM SN) Hatfield Lk., DESC, 9 Apr, (MM Res., CROO, 30 May, (CG); 2, CPM, American Bittern - 1, Little Houston CM); 5, Elm Ln. Madras, JEFF, 19 DESC, 31 May, (C&DH) Lk., CROO, 23 May, (CG) Apr, (PTS) Greater Scaup – 3, Hatfield Lk., Great Egret - 1, Crooked R., CROO, Baird’s Sandpiper - 1, Hatfield Lk., DESC, 9 Apr, (SSh); 1, Redmond 8 May, (SL DRe); 1, Near Womic, DESC, 11 Apr, (SK) T.P., DESC, 20 Apr, (KO) WASC, 8 May, (DLu ChC) Dunlin - 12, Hatfield Lk., DESC, 9 Harlequin Duck – 1, DRSP, SHER, Green Heron - 1, Mouth of Deschutes Apr, (SSh); 7, Hatfield Lk., DESC, 11 13 Mar, (RGe); 1, DRSP, SHER, 10 R., SHER, 8 May, (DB) Apr, (SK) Apr, (JGa MD MLD) Black-crowned Night-heron - 2, Red-necked Phalarope - 2, Hatfield Long-tailed Duck – 1, Madras T.P., Prineville T.P., CROO, 8 Lake, DESC, 10 May, (CM & MM);

Oregon Birds 30(3):137, Fall 2004 Black-chinned Hummingbird - 2, Marmot Ln., CROO, 5 May, (NM); 2, NAMC, WHEE, 8 May, (JdL); 1, S. of Prineville, CROO, 12 May, (PVV); 1, Powell Butte, CROO, 18 May, (CG); 1, Lone Rock, GILL, 30 May, (RGe) Lewis’ Woodpecker – 1, 18 mi. N. or Sisters, JEFF, 2 May, (ST); 1, Shevlin Park, DESC, 4 May, (KL JL); 1, Painted Cove, WHEE, 8 May, (JeG); 1, E. of Sisters, DESC, 13 May, (SSh); 1, Tye Valley Area, WASC, 15 May, (StS) Black-backed Woodpecker – 2, Swampy Lakes, DESC, 24 Mar, (JM); 6, Between Suttle and Scout Lks., JEFF, 29 Mar, (SSh); 7, Scout Lk., DESC, 10 Apr, (SDo) White-headed Woodpecker - 4, Metolius Preserve, JEFF, 24 Mar, (SSh); 6, NAMC, JEFF, 8 May, (ST fide); 5, Ochoco NF, WHEE, 8 May, (JGa) Willow Flycatcher - 1, Crooked R. Ranch, JEFF,13 May, (KS); 1, Hatfield Eastern Phoebe, 10 May, Bend, Deschutes Co. Photo/C. Miller Lake, DESC, 22-May, (CM & MM); 1, Lost Valley, GILL, 30 May, (RGe) 3, Redmond T.P., DESC, 19 May, John Day R., GILL, 30 May, (RGe) Gray Flycatcher - 1, 10 miles N. (KO) Pygmy Owl - 1, Rd. 33, CROO, 28 of Sisters, JEFF, 27 Mar, (ST) Very Bonaparte’s Gull - 1, Prineville T.P., Mar, (CG); 1, Scout Lk., JEFF, 29 early date CROO, 28 Mar, (CG); 1, Hatfield Mar, (SSh); 1, Lake Billy Chinook, Pacific Slope Flycatcher - 1, Rock Lk., DESC, 10 Apr, (HHo DeH); 1, JEFF, 2 Apr, (JJo); 1, Shevlin Pk., Cr., GILL, 30 Apr, (RGe); 1, NAMC, Prineville T.P., CROO, 25 Apr, (CG); DESC, 23 Apr, (JM) WASC, 8 May, (DLu ChC); 1, Calliope 3, Hatfield Lake, DESC, 18 April, (CM Barred Owl - 1, DRSP, SHER, 7 Mar, Crossing, (DESC), 23 May, (KO); 1, & MM); 2, Prineville T.P., CROO, 18 (DLu PTS K&LK); Lost Valley, GILL, 30 May, (RGe) May, (SSh); 1, Prineville T.P., CROO, Great-gray Owl - 1, Near B&B Burn, Cordilleran Flycatcher - 1, Smith 28 May, (CG) JEFF, 19 May, (SSh) Rock S.P., DESC, 8 May, (KO); Caspian Tern - 1, Painted Cove, Long-eared Owl – 1, DRSP, SHER, 7 1,Redmond, DESC, 10 May, (KO) WHEE, 8 May, (JeG); 1, Prineville Mar, (DLu PTS K&LK); 1, Redmond, EASTERN PHOEBE - 1, State Park Res., CROO, 8 May, (SL DRe); 3+, DESC, 14 Apr, (SK fide); 1, Calliope Rd. & Little Deschutes R., DESC, 8 Various Locations, SHER, 24 May, Crossing, DESC, 23 May, (RHo) May, (HHo) County first, 2nd sighting (DvM) Short-eared Owl - 1, NAMC, for Central OR. This bird stayed Forster’s Tern - 5, Redmond T.P., SHER, 8 May, (DB) through the season. DESC, 15 Mar, (KO); 1, Little Common Poorwill – 1, 12 miles N. Loggerhead Shrike - 1, Prineville Houston Lk., CROO, 25 Apr, (CG); T.P., CROO, 28 Mar, (CG); 4, Hatfield 1, Redmond T.P., DESC, 19 May, of Sisters Squaw C. Rd., JEFF, 25 Apr, (ST); 1, N. of Redmond, DESC, Lk., DESC, 10 Apr, (HHo DeH); 1, (KO); 1, Prineville T.P., CROO, 24 Paulina Hwy, CROO, 18 Apr, (CG); May, (CG) 26 Apr, (KO); 1, Rock Cr., GILL, 30 1, Painted Hills, WHEE, 18 Apr, Black Tern - 1, Hatfield Lk., DESC, 2 May, (RGe); 1, Saddleback, DESC, (PTS); 1, Grindstone Rd., CROO, 1 May, (JM); 75, Paulina Valley, CROO, 31 May, (JMe) May, (CG) 22 May, (CG) Anna’s Hummingbird – 1, Camp Hutton’s Vireo - 1, Lost Valley, GILL, Barn Owl – 2, LaMonta Rd., CROO, Sherman, JEFF, 24 Apr, (JJo); 2, 30 May, (RGe) Probable county first 8 May, (SL DRe) NAMC, WASC, 8 May, (DLu ChC); Red-eyed Vireo - 1, Rock Cr., GILL, Flammulated Owl - 3, NAMC, 1, Olex, GILL, 28 May, (PTS) 30 May, (RGe) DESC, 8 May, (JMe fide); 1, Off Mill Anna’s/Costa’s Hybrid - 1, Sawyer Black-capped Chickadee - 1, Below Cr., CROO, 22 May, (CG) Park, DESC, 13 May, (CM DaM JWi John Day Dam, SHER, 13 Mar, (RGe); Western Screech Owl – 1, Redmond, TJ) 2, NAMC, WASC, 8 May, (DLu ChC); DESC, 9 Apr, (SDo); 1, NAMC, Costa’s Hummingbird - 1, Riverview 2, NAMC, SHER, 8 May, (DB) DESC, 8 May, (JMe fide); 1, Rock Cr. Park, DESC, 29 Mar, (DT); 1, Shevlin Chestnut-backed Chickadee - 1, Above Olex, GILL, 28 May, (PTS); 1, Park, DESC, 10 May, (LRe) Metolius Preserve, JEFF, 28 Mar,

Oregon Birds 30(3): 138, Fall 2004 (SSh) Crossing, DESC, 21 May, (JM); 1, WHEE, 18 Apr, (PTS); 3, N. of Bewick’s Wren - 1, NAMC, SHER, Paulina Hwy, CROO, 22 May, (CG); Gateway, JEFF, 19 Apr, (PTS); 4, 8 May, (DB) 5, DRSP, SHER, 24 May, (DaM); 1, Barnes Butte Rd., CROO, 22 Apr, Swainson’s Thrush - 1, Camp Polk CPM, DESC, 24 May, (SSh KS); 2, (CG); 50, Woodward Rd., CROO, 8 Meadow, DESC, 24 May, (SSh) Rock Cr. Above Olex, GILL, 28 May, May, (SL DRe); 3, Lone Pine Road, Varied Thrush – 2, NAMC, WASC, (PTS) CROO, 23 May, (CM & MM) 8 May, (DLu ChC) Black-throated Sparrow - 1, Entrada Common Grackle - 1, Tumalo Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1, Tumalo Burn, DESC, 22 May, (RHo) Reservoir, DESC, 18 May, (LW) S.P., DESC, 19 Apr, (HHo SK) White-throated Sparrow - 2, Lower Hooded Oriole - 1, Wampinitia, Northern Mockingbird - 1, Pinehurst Bridge, DESC, 7 May, (KO) WASC, 8 May, (DLu ChC); 1, Rd. Sisters, DESC, 14 Apr, (P&GP) Snow Bunting - 1, Grizzly Mnt., Redmond, DESC, 9 May, (SDo). American Pipit - 2, Hatfield Lk., CROO, 13 Mar, (SDo) Rare anywhere in Central OR May DESC, 11 Mar, (JM); 30, Gutierrez Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1, Tetherow be a WASC first Ranch, CROO, 21 Apr, (CG) Crossing, DESC, 3 May, (SDo); 1, Purple Finch - 1, Deschutes River HermitXTownsend’s Hybrid - 2, Sunriver, DESC, 23 May, (CBa); 1, S. Woods, DESC, 2 Apr, (JM); 1, Scout Lk., DESC, 13 May, (SSh) Bend, DESC, 30 May, (SK fide) Calliope Crossing, DESC, 2 May, Yellow-breasted Chat - 1, Sherar’s Tri-colored Blackbird – 1, Little (JJo HHo PL); 13, NAMC, JEFF, 8 Bridge Rd., WASC, 15 May, (Stuart Houston Lk., CROO, 22 Mar, (SDo); May, (ST fide); 5, Deschutes River & Karen Sparkman); 1, Calliope 14, 2.5 miles west of Twickenham, Woods, DESC, 9 May, (JM)

South Central Field Notes: Spring 2004 Edited by Kevin Spencer Abbreviations: Lk. = Lake Western/Clark’s Grebe - many, SLWMA = Summer Lake Wildlife Management Area Upper Klamath Lk., near Modoc R. = River Point, KLAM, 8 Apr., (KTS) ritual LKNWR = Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge courtship displays common Cr. = Creek Double-crested Cormorant - 100, Res. = Reservoir Thompson Res, LAKE, 27 Mar, SP = State Park (C&MM) Great Egret - 16, Southern Klamath Greater White-fronted Goose; 36 LAKE, 18 Apr, (SL) Co., 24 Ap,r (KTS) Tule, 40 Pacific , SLWMA, LAKE, Common Goldeneye - 1, Lk. Ewauna, Snowy Egret - 3, Southern Klamath 27 Mar, (C&MM); 34, SLWMA, KLAM, 8 May, (DHa, KTS) Co., 24 Apr, (KTS) LAKE,18 Apr, (SL); 150, SLWMA, Barrow’s Goldeneye - 4, Lk. Ewauna, Green Heron - 4, Wood R. Wetlands, LAKE, 9 Apr, (DF) some were darker KLAM, 8 May, (DHa, KTS) Pelican Marina, Rocky Point, & Tule race Hooded Merganser - pair, Rocky Odessa CG, KLAM, 8 May, (KTS, Snow Goose - 11,000 , SLWMA, Point, KLAM, 18 Apr, (PV, CAS) DHa) LAKE, about 20 Mar, (MSL) Common Merganser - 250, Black-crowned Night Heron - 172, Ross’s Goose - 5000, Miller Island Thompson Res., LAKE, 27 Mar, Link R., Klamath Falls, KLAM, 5 WMA, KLAM, 19 Mar, (DHz, PAS) (C&MM) Mar, (RR) Tundra Swan - 3, Anna Res., LAKE, Ruddy Duck - 25, Summer Lk, White-faced Ibis - 1, SLWMA, 22 Mar, (MM) LAKE, 2 May, (KO) LAKE, 9 Apr, (DF) arrival about Gadwall- 1000, SLWMA, LAKE, 18 Ruffed Grouse - 1, Odessa CG, normal; 240, Southern Klamath Co., Apr, (SL) KLAM, 8 May, (DHa) 24 Apr (KTS); 95, Miller Island Eurasian Wigeon - 1, Straits Drain Mountain Quail - 1, Gary Canal near WMA, KLAM, 18 May, (SGo) Units, LKNWR, KLAM, 24 Apr, Howard Bay, KLAM, 8 May, (KTS, Turkey Vulture - 13, near Silver Lk., (KTS) DHa) LAKE, 22 Mar, (MM); 14, flying N Cinnamon Teal - 40, 22 Mar, (MM); Common Loon -1, SLWMA, LAKE, along rim near Modoc Pt., KLAM, 8 22, 18 Ap, LAKE, (SL); and 50, 9 Apr, (DF) Apr, (KTS) SLWMA, 2 May, all LAKE (KO) Horned Grebe - 3, Pelican Marina, Osprey, 1, Nuss Lk., near Klamath Northern Shoveler - 8000, N end Klamath Falls, and 1, Rocky Point, 18 Falls, KLAM, 17 May, (SGo) noted Lk. Abert, LAKE, 4 Apr (TSe); 55, Apr KLAM (PV, CAS); 1, Thompson to be more numerous in Basin than in SLWMA, LAKE, 18 Apr, (SL) Res, LAKE, 2 May, (KO); noted, mid-‘70s when only 1 could be found Northern Pintail - 100, SLWMA, SLWMA, LAKE, 27 Mar, (C&MM) along Westside Rd. LAKE, 18 Apr, (SL) Eared Grebe - 46, Lk. Ewauna, Bald Eagle - 225, Klamath Basin, Ring-necked Duck - 30, SLWMA, KLAM, 8 May, (KTS, DHa) KLAM, 4 Mar (RR); 1, Chewaucan

Oregon Birds 30(3):139, Fall 2004 Marsh, LAKE, 3 Apr, (TSe) SLWMA, LAKE, 18 Apr, (SL); 220, River CG, KLAM, 15 May, (DLr) Northern Harrier - 18, SLWMA, White Lk., LKNWR, KLAM, 17 Apr, Bonaparte’s Gull - 1, SLWMA, LAKE , 22 Mar, (MM) (KTS); 143, Southern Klamath Co., LAKE, 9 Apr, (DF); 60, Lk. Ewauna, Swainson’s Hawk - 9, ag fields S of 24 Apr (KTS) KLAM, 8 May, (KTS, DHa) Klamath Falls, KLAM, 8 May, (KTS, American Avocet - 2-3, White Lk., Caspian Tern - 2, Upper Klamath Lk., DHa) KLAM, 7 Mar, (RE); 1, Miller Island KLAM, 8 Apr, (KTS) flying north Red-tailed Hawk - on nest, near Silver WMA, KLAM, 19 Mar, (DHz, PAS); Forster’s Tern - 87, Lk. Ewauna, Lk., LAKE, 22 Mar, (MM); nesting, 60, White Lk., LKNWR, KLAM, 21 KLAM, 8 May, (KTS, DHa) lower Chewaucan area, LAKE, 3 Apr, Mar, (KTS); 1, SLWMA, LAKE, 22 Black Tern - 70, Rocky Point, KLAM, (TSe) Mar, (MM); 100, N end Lk. Abert, 8 May, (KTS, DHa) Ferruginous Hawk - 2, Lower LAKE, 4 Apr, (TSe); 600, SLWMA, Barn Owl - 1, Miller Island WMA, Klamath Lk. Rd., KLAM, 20 Mar, LAKE, 9 Apr, (DF); 24, SLWMA, KLAM, 21 Mar, (TS); 1, Klamath (DHz, PAS) LAKE, 18 Apr, (SL); 200, White Lk., Marsh area, KLAM, 4 Apr, (C&MM) Rough-legged Hawk - 18, Klamath LKNWR, KLAM, 17 Apr, (KTS); Flammulated Owl - 1, near Jack’s Basin, KLAM, 4 Mar (RR); 4, 257, Southern Klamath Co., 24 Apr Spring on Westside Rd., KLAM, 8 Klamath Marsh, KLAM, 5 Mar (RR) (KTS) May, (KTS, DHa) Golden Eagle - incubating, lower Greater Yellowlegs - 3, White L., Western Screech Owl - 1, Klamath Chewaucan R. area, 3 Apr, LAKE LKNWR, 20 Mar, KLAM (Dave Marsh area, KLAM, 4 Apr, (C&MM) (TSe); 1, Military Rd., Klamath DHz, PAS); 12, SLWMA, LAKE, 27 Burrowing Owl - 1 at burrow, Valley Marsh, KLAM, 16 Apr, (PV, CAS); Mar, (C&MM); 1, Southern Klamath Falls area, LAKE, 3 Apr, (TSe) 2, Paulina Marsh area, LAKE, 17 Apr, Co., 24 Apr, (KTS) Great Grey Owl - 1, Klamath Marsh (SL) Willet - 8, White Lk., LKNWR, area, KLAM, 4 Apr, (C&MM); 1, near Merlin - 1, Link R., Klamath Falls, KLAM, 8 Apr, (KTS) first of year; 3, Gearhart Wilderness, LAKE, 1 May, KLAM, 18 Mar, (DHz, PAS); 1, White Lk., LKNWR, KLAM, 17 Apr, (DLr) calling SLWMA, LAKE, 18 Apr, (SL) (KTS); 4, Township Rd., KLAM, 17 Long-eared Owl - 1, Klamath Marsh Prairie Falcon - pair on nest, Fort Apr., (KTS); 19, Southern Klamath area, KLAM, 4 Apr, (MM) Rock SP, LAKE, 27 Mar, (C&MM) Co., 24 Apr, (KTS) Short-eared Owl - 1, Miller Island Virginia Rail - noted, SLWMA, Long-billed Curlew - noted pairs WMA, KLAM, 21 Mar, (TS); 1, LAKE, 27 Mar (C&MM); 8, SLWMA, as “common”, Valley Falls ag fields, Klamath Marsh area, KLAM, 4 Apr, LAKE, 18 Apr, (SL) LAKE, 4 Apr. (TSe); 44 on 17 Apr (C&MM) Sora - 3, SLWMA, LAKE, 18 Apr, and 38 on 24 Apr, Township Rd., Northern Saw-whet Owl - 1, Hwy (SL); 7, Klamath Marsh, KLAM, 2 KLAM (KTS) 31 towards LaPine, KLAM, 27 Mar, May, (KO) Marbled Godwit - 1, N end Lk. (C&MM) American Coot - 500, Thompson Abert, LAKE, 4 Apr, (TSe); 14 on 21 Poorwill - 2, near Kimball SP Day Res., LAKE, 27 Mar, (C&MM) Mar, 11 on 28 Mar, 98 on 17 Apr, and Use; 1, Seven-Mile Guard Station, Sandhill Crane - 20, near Silver L., 34 on 24 Apr., White Lk., LKNWR, KLAM, 8 May, (KTS, DHa) LAKE, 22 Mar, (MM); 251, Silver KLAM, (KTS) White-throated Swift - 2, Military Lk., LAKE, 27 Mar, (C&MM); 350, Western Sandpiper - 34, White Lk., Pass Rd., KLAM, 4 Apr, (MM) Chewaucan Marsh, 3 Apr, LAKE LKNWR, KLAM, 17 Apr, (KTS); 60, migrants; very rare in Co.; noted, Fort (TSe); 89, Paulina Marsh area, LAKE, Southern Klamath Co., 24 Apr (KTS); Rock, where regular, 22 Mar, LAKE 17 Apr, (SL); 7, SLWMA, LAKE, 100, SLWMA, LAKE, 18 Apr, (SL) (MM) 18 Apr, (SL); 5, Southern Klamath Least Sandpiper - 123, Southern Black-chinned Hummingbird - 1, County, 24 Apr, (KTS) Klamath Co., 24 Apr, (KTS) Klamath Falls feeder, KLAM, 9 May, Black-bellied Plover - 30 on 21 Mar, Dunlin - 5200, White Lk., LKNWR, (DHa); 1-2, Sprague R. feeder, KLAM, 4 on 28 Mar, and 185 on 24 Apr, all KLAM ,17 Apr, (KTS) very large May to mid-June, (DHa) most only White Lk., LKNWR, KLAM, (KTS); concentration; 1165, Southern known as migrants in Klamath Basin 165, Miller Island WMA, KLAM, 24 Klamath Co., 24 Apr (KTS); 5000, N Anna’s Hummingbird - male, 31 Apr, (KTS) end Lk. Abert, 4 Apr LAKE (TSe) Mar., female, 4 Apr., Chiloquin feeder, Killdeer – 38, SLWMA, LAKE, Short-billed Dowitcher - 2, White KLAM (WS); 1, Moore Pk., Klamath 27 Mar, (C&MM); 4, White Lake, Lk., LKNWR, KLAM, 17 Apr, (KTS) Falls, KLAM, 18 Apr, (PV, CAS); 1, LKNWR, KLAM ,17 Apr, (KTS); heard mixed in with Long-billed Chiloquin, KLAM, May 8, (WS) 17, Southern Klamath Co., 24 Apr, Long-billed Dowitcher - 80, White Calliope Hummingbird – male, 4 (KTS) Lk., LKNWR, KLAM, 17 Apr, (KTS); Apr.; female, 9 Apr., Chiloquin feeder, Black-necked Stilt - 2-3, White Lk. 166, Southern Klamath Co., 24 Apr, KLAM (WS); 1, above Hagelstein LKNWR, KLAM, 7 Mar, (RE); 2, (KTS) Pk., KLAM, 8 Apr, (KTS) Miller Island WMA, KLAM, 19 Mar, Wilson’s Snipe, several displaying Rufous Hummingbird - 1, male, (DHz, PAS); 50, White Lk., LKNWR, over Chewuacan Marsh, 3 Apr, LAKE Klamath Falls, KLAM, 9 Apr, KLAM, 21 Mar, (KTS); 250, N end (TS); 1, Southern Klamath Co., 24 (KTS);1, female, Chiloquin feeder, Lk. Abert, LAKE, 4 Apr, (TSe); 25, Apr (KTS) KLAM, 9 Apr., (WS); 4, Klamath SLWMA, LAKE, 9 Apr, (DF); 27, Wilson’s Phalarope - 5, Head of Marsh, KLAM, 2 May, (KO)

Oregon Birds 30(3): 140, Fall 2004 Costa’s Hummingbird -1, Chiloquin, Pk., KLAM, 8 Apr, (KTS) singing Marsh, KLAM, 16 Apr, (PV, CAS) KLAM, May 8, (WS) present at yard/ Winter Wren - 1, Silver Ck., near Green-tailed Towhee - 1, 3 W Fork feeder for several weeks/ possibly Silver Lk., LAKE, 2 May, (KO) CG, BURN AREA, 27 Mar, LAKE previous years’ bird Marsh Wren - 1, carrying nesting (C&MM);early Red-naped Sapsucker - Crescent material, Southern Klamath Co., 24 Lincoln Sparrow - 7, Chiloquin, Ck. CG, KLAM, 18 May, (SGo) Apr (KTS); 150 Summer Lk., LAKE, KLAM, 18 Apr, (WS) Red-breasted & Red-naped and 60, Klamath Marsh, KLAM, 2 White-crowned Sparrow - 169, Sapsucker – pair, Crescent Ck. CG, May, (KO) Chiloquin, KLAM, 18 Apr., (WS) KLAM, 31 May, (NS) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - common Tricolored Blackbird - numerous, Red-breasted Sapsucker - above in creek drainages along Abert Rim, Cheyne Rd.; also Merrill Pit Rd grain Hagelstein Pk., KLAM, 8 Apr, (KTS) LAKE, 4 Apr, (TSe) elevators, KLAM, 22 Mar, (TS); 7 drumming; 1, SLWMA, 18 Apr, Western Bluebird - 2, Silver Ck. males in cattails, Lost R. near Merrill, LAKE, SL); 3, Odessa CG, KLAM, CG, LAKE, 27 Mar (C&MM); 11, KLAM, 17 Apr (PV, CAS); several 8 May, (KTS, DHa) Chiloquin, KLAM, 18 Apr, (WS) groups of males, Lower Klamath Hairy Woodpecker - 12, 3 W Fork Swainson’s Thrush - 1, Wood R. Lk. Rd., KLAM, 9 May, (KTS) on CG - BURN AREA, LAKE, 27 Mar, Wetlands, KLAM, 8 May, (DHa, foraging missions, 2 mi. from previous (C&MM) KTS) not usually seen locally in and possibly nesting location; 1, White-headed Woodpecker - 2, 3 W spring migration feeding near barn, SLWMA, 18 Apr, Fork CG, BURN AREA, LAKE, 27 Northern Mockingbird, 1, Klamath LAKE, (SL) heard distinctive call Mar, (C&MM); 2, Chiloquin, KLAM, Falls, KLAM, 1-21 Mar, (BJM, KTS, Yellow-headed Blackbird - 80, May 8, (WS); 4, near Odessa CG, DHa, RR, DHz) SLWMA, LAKE, 22 Mar, (MM); 2, and near Malone Spring CG, KLAM, Sage Thrasher - 2, Merrill Pit Rd., males, on territory, Southern Klamath May 8, (KTS, DHa) KLAM, 8 May, (DHa, KTS) Co., 24 Apr (KTS); 50, SLWMA, Black-backed Woodpecker - 6, 3 W Eurasian Starling - nest with young, LAKE, 2 May, (KO) Fork CG, BURN AREA, LAKE, 27 near Abert Rim, LAKE, 4 Apr, (TSe) Brewer’s Blackbird - 75, SLWMA, Mar, (C&MM) American Pipet - 1, Lost R., KLAM, LAKE, 2 May, (KO) Black Phoebe - 1, Lost R., 1 mi. N 19 Feb, (FM, PS) Great-tailed Grackle - 1, Military Rd. of Stateline, KLAM, 6 Mar, (KTS); Cedar Waxwing - 2, Chiloquin, north end of Klamath Marsh, KLAM, 1, Lost R., near Merrill, KLAM, 22 KLAM, May 8, (WS) 16 Apr, (PV, CAS) Mar, (TS) Orange-crowned Warbler - 1, Link Purple Finch - 3, above Hagelstein Say’s Phoebe - 1, Lost R., KLAM, R., KLAM, 5 Mar (RR) possibly Pk., KLAM, 8 Apr, (KTS) singing 19 Feb, (FM, PS) wintered Cassin’s Finch - 1, above Hagelstein Cassin’s Vireo - 1, near Gearhart Yellow Warbler - 24, Wood R. Pk., KLAM, 8 Apr, (KTS) singing Wilderness, LAKE, 1 May, (DLr) Wetlands, KLAM, 8 May, (KTS, House Finch - conifers along Abert American Crow - 60, Paulina Marsh, DHa) Rim, LAKE, 4 Apr, (TSe) seem to LAKE, 27 Mar, (C&MM) Lake Co’s Yellow-rumped Warbler - 32, favor isolated pockets along rims in usual high density location Chiloquin, KLAM, 18 Apr., (WS) Basin and Range topography Northern Rough-winged Swallow foraging on ground with sparrows Lesser Goldfinch - several, Link - 1, above Hagelstein Pk., KLAM, 8 Townsend’s Warbler - 1, Kimball R., Merrill, KLAM, 22 Mar, (TS); Apr, (KTS) Jackson St. Pk, KLAM, 8 May, (KTS, 2, SLWMA, LAKE, 18 Apr, (SL) at Chestnut-backed Chickadee - 3, DHa) refuge manager’s feeder; near Malone Spring along Westside Hermit Warbler - 3, Westside Rd., Evening Grosbeak - 20, Chiloquin, Rd., KLAM, 8 May, (DHa, KTS) KLAM, 8 May, (KTS, DHa) KLAM, 18 Apr, (WS); several, near Oak Titmouse - 2, Moore Pk., Northern Waterthrush - 2, Little Gearhart Wilderness, LAKE, 1 May, Klamath Falls, KLAM, 18 Apr, (PV, Deschutes Ck. and Hwy 58, KLAM, (Dave Larsen) very few reports this CAS) 17 May, (SK) season Canyon Wren - 1, above Hagelstein Common Yellowthroat - 1, Klamath

Oregon Birds 30(3):141, Fall 2004 Northeast Field Notes: Spring 2004 Edited by Trent Bray Greater White-fronted Goose - 100, WMA, UNIO, 27 Apr (TrB); 12, Cold Valley Res., UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB & at the corner of Booth Rd. & HWY Springs NWR, UMAT, 18 May (CC). MRH). 82, UNIO, 1 Mar (TrB, & MRH); 12 Cinnamon Teal - 2 pairs at the marsh Hooded Merganser - 1 pair along Peach Rd, in Ladd Marsh WMA, along Repplinger Rd. NE of Joseph, swimming along Catherine Crk. near UNIO, 19 March (TrB & BMc); 40 WALL, 25 – 28 Apr (FC); 15, Cold the Wilkenson Bridge, UNIO, 19 Mar along Peach Rd.,Ladd Marsh WMA, Springs NWR, UMAT, 18 May (CC). (TrB & BMc); 4 pair near the Peach UNIO, 1 Apr (TrB); 2, Cold Springs Northern Shoveler - 6 along Peach Rd. Fishing Pond, Ladd Marsh WMA, NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC); 1 along Rd, in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 19 UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB & MRH). Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, March (TrB & BMc); 8, Cold Springs Common Merganser - 1 pair flying UNIO, 9 – 10 May (SF & KA). NWR, UMAT, 18 May (CC). above Catherine Crk. near Catherine Snow Goose - 12 near the corner of Northern Pintail - 5, near Wallowa, Crk. Rd., UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB & HWY 82 and Booth Ln., UNIO, 2 Apr WALL, 24 Mar (RAn); 4, Cold Springs MRH); 4 near Wallowa, WALL, (fide TrB). NWR, UMAT, 18 May (CC). 29 May (RAn); 2 at Morgan Lake, Ross’s Goose - 1, at the corner of Green-winged Teal - 1, near Wallowa, UNIO, 2 Apr (MRH). Booth Rd. & HWY 82, UNIO, 1 - 4 WALL, 27 Apr (RAn); 2, Cold Springs Ruddy Duck - 2 on Thief Valley Res., Mar (TrB & MRH). NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC). UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB & MRH); several Canada Goose - 31 near Wallowa, Canvasback - 20 on Thief Valley along Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, WALL, 27 Apr (RAn). Res., UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB & MRH). UNIO, 7 May (KA); 3, Cold Springs Trumpeter Swan - 2 with Tundras Redhead - 1 at the La Grande WWTP, NWR, UMAT, 18 May (CC). along Foothill Rd. in Ladd Marsh UNIO, 1 Mar (DSw); 30 on Thief Chukar - 1 near Telocaset, UNIO, 22 WMA, 28 Mar (TrB). Valley Res., UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB & Mar (TrB & MRH); 4 near Wallowa, Tundra Swan - 120, at the corner of MRH); 2 along Peach Rd.,Ladd Marsh WALL, 2 May (RAn). Booth Rd. & HWY 82, UNIO, 1 - 8 WMA, UNIO, 21 Apr (TrB); 6, Cold Gray Partridge - 1 near Wallowa, Mar (TrB, MRH, GP & PP, et al.); 20 Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC); 8 UNIO, 14 May (RAn). at Hot Lake, UNIO, 1 Mar (TrB); 8 at Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 17 May Ring-necked Pheasant - 12 at Ladd along Foothill Rd. in Ladd Marsh (RAn). Marsh WMA, UNIO, 17 May (RAn). WMA, 28 Mar (TrB); 1 along Peach Ring-necked Duck - 15, Umatilla Ruffed Grouse - 4 near Wallowa, Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 27 NWR, MORR, 14 Mar (CC); 3 pairs WALL, 14 May (RAn). Apr (TrB). along Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh Greater Sage-Grouse - 15 near Virtue Wood Duck - 6 in ponds along WMA, UNIO, 27 Apr (TrB); 1 near Flats, BAKE, 15 Mar (TrB & MRH). Walton Rd., UNIO, 10 Mar (RHu); 3 Wallowa, WALL, 27 Apr (RAn); 13, Blue Grouse - 4 near Glass Hill, along Peach Rd., Ladd Marsh WMA, Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May UNIO, 14 Mar (TrB & MRH). UNIO, 26 Mar (CBe); 2 along Cove (CC). Mountain Quail - 5 near Wallowa, 14 Ave., UNIO, 2 Apr (RHu); 8, Cold Greater Scaup - 6, Umatilla NWR, May (RAn). Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC). MORR, 14 Mar (CC); 3 near Wallowa, California Quail - 30, Cold Springs Gadwall - 1 male at the corner of WALL, 4 Apr (RAn); 2 at Thief Valley NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC). Booth Rd. & HWY 82, UNIO, 19 - 22 Res., UNIO, 30 May (TrB, MRH, Common Loon - 1 at Morgan Lake, Mar (TrB, BMc & MRH); 4 on Thief MPM, & JAM). UNIO, 1 Apr (MRH), and joined by Valley Res., UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB Lesser Scaup - 1 along Peach another, 2 Apr (KA). & MRH); 12, Cold Springs NWR, Rd.,Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 21 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 along Peach Rd, UMAT, 8 May (CC); Apr (TrB). Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 19 Mar Eurasian Wigeon - 2 males along Bufflehead - 25, Umatilla NWR, (TrB & BMc); 2 at Hot Lake, UNIO, Peach Rd., Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, MORR, 14 Mar (CC); 1 male, at 2 Apr (TrB); 3, Cold Springs NWR, 3 Mar (SF); 2 males at the corner of the corner of Booth Rd. & HWY UMAT, 8 May (CC); 1 along Peach Booth Rd. & HWY 82, UNIO, 6 - 14 82, UNIO, 19 - 22 Mar (TrB, BMc Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 7 Mar (TrB & MRH). & MRH); 18 on Thief Valley Res., May (KA). American Wigeon - 10, Umatilla UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB & MRH); 4 along Horned Grebe - 2, Umatilla NWR, NWR, MORR, 14 Mar (CC); 1, near Peach Rd.,Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, MORR, 14 Mar (CC). Enterprise, WALL, 4 May (RAn); 21 Apr (TrB); several at the McNary Eared Grebe - 2 along Peach Rd. in several at Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, WMA, UMAT, 14 May (BD & CD). Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 7 – 14 17 May (RAn). Common Goldeneye - 4 at the La May (KA & TrB). Mallard - 25, Cold Springs NWR, Grande WWTP, UNIO, 1 Mar (DSw); Western Grebe - 3, Cold Springs UMAT, 8 May (CC). 2, Umatilla NWR, MORR, 14 Mar NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC); 4 along Blue-winged Teal - 1 pair at the (CC); 2 immature males along Peach Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, marsh along Repplinger Rd. NE of Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 7 UNIO, 31 May (TrB et al. & CBe). Joseph, WALL, 25 – 28 Apr (FC); 1 May (KA). Clark’s Grebe - 1 with Westerns male along Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh Barrow’s Goldeneye - 2 on Thief along Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA,

Oregon Birds 30(3): 142, Fall 2004 UNIO, 31 May (TrB et al. & CBe). Wallowa, WALL, 14 May (RAn); Ferruginous Hawk - 2 near Wallowa, American White Pelican - 42 along Umatilla NWR, MORR, 14 Mar WALL, Apr (RAn). Peach Rd., Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, (CC). Golden Eagle - 1 along Peach 1 Apr (fide TrB); 9 flying high above Swainson’s Hawk - 1 along McAllister Rd.,Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 21 La Grande near Mt. Emily, UNIO, Rd. near Island City, UNIO, 24 Apr Apr (TrB); 5 in Wallowa-Whitman 6 May (TrB); 7 along Peach Rd. in (TrB & MPM); 2, Cold Springs NF, WALL, 30 Apr (RAn). Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 7 May NWR, UMAT, 18 May (CC). American Kestrel - 11 near Wallowa, (KA); 39 along Peach Rd. in Ladd Red-tailed Hawk - 16 near Wallowa, WALL, 14 May (RAn). Marsh WMA, UNIO, 14 May (TrB); WALL, 27 Apr (RAn); 12 at Ladd Merlin - 1 chasing House Sparrows several at the McNary WMA, UMAT, Marsh WMA, UNIO, 17 May (RAn). near the corner of 4th and Washington 14 May (BD & CD). Double-crested Cormorant - 4 along Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 27 Apr (TrB); 4, Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC). American Bittern - 3 + along Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 7 May (KA); 1 at Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 17 May (RAn). Great Blue Heron - 5, Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC). Great Egret - 1, UMAT, 8 May (UMAT NAMC); 1, 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 along Wilkenson Rd. near the Cathrine Crk. Bridge, UNIO, 24 Apr (PRh); 1, Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, 18 May (CC). White-faced Ibis -1 near Long Creek WTP, GRAN, 9 May (TrB & MRH); 3 along Peach Rd in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 9 May (SF). This species is very uncommon in Union County. Turkey Vulture - 4 near Mt. Fanny, UNIO, 3 May (TrB); 1 near Wallowa, WALL, 29 May (RAn). Osprey - 1 pair nest building on west side of Wallowa Lake, WALL, 28 Apr (FC); 1 pair at nest on power pole east of Lostine, WALL, 28 Apr (FC); 2 near Enterprise, WALL, 4 May (RAn); 1, Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, 18 May (CC). Bald Eagle - 9 near Wallowa, WALL, 11 Mar (RAn); 1 adult and 1 subadult along Peach Ln. near Island City, UNIO, 19 Apr (SCr); 1 pair feeding young near the head of Wallowa Lake, WALL, 28 Apr (FC); 1 circling Troy, WALL, 3 May (FC). Northern Harrier - 4 near Wallowa, WALL, 3 Apr (RAn). Sharp-shinned Hawk -1 along Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 7 May (KA); 1, Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC). Cooper’s Hawk - 1 near Wallowa, WALL, 4 Apr (RAn); 1 near Wallowa, American Kestrel with pocket gopher, 28 May, Fox Valley, Grant County. Photo/ WALL, 27 Apr (RAn). M. Denny Northern Goshawk - 1, 1 near

Oregon Birds 30(3):143, Fall 2004 Streets in La Grande, UNIO, 1 Mar irrigation ditch along Repplinger Rd, Mourning Dove - 1 pair in a La (MRH). NE of Joseph, WALL, 3 May (FC); 1, Grande yard near the corner of Walnut Peregrine Falcon - 1 along Peach UMAT, 8 May (UMAT NAMC). St. & O Ave., UNIO, 13 Mar (BD & Rd., Ladd Marsh WMA,UNIO, 26 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 at the CD); 18, Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, Mar (CBe); 2 near Cove, UNIO, 3 Enterprise Fish Hatchery Pond, 18 May (CC). May (FI, MPe & TrB). WALL, 30 Apr (FC); 4 along Peach Great-horned Owl - 4 near Wallowa, Prairie Falcon - 1 perch on a fence Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 14 WALL, 14 May (RAn). post near Thief Valley Res., UNIO, 22 May (TrB); 2, Cold Springs NWR, Great Gray Owl - 9 pair in the Spring Mar (TrB & MRH); UMAT, 18 May (CC); 2 near Wallowa, Creek area, UNIO, April - May (Mpe, 2 near Wallowa, WALL, 3 Apr (RAn); WALL, 29 May (RAn). TrB et al.) Numerous photos taken. 1 near Cove, UNIO, 3 May (FI, MPe Upland Sandpiper - Long-eared Owl - 2, Umatilla NWR, & TrB). Long-billed Curlew - 1 along HWY MORR, 14 Mar (CC); 1 on a nest at Virginia Rail - 3, Umatilla NWR, 203 near Union, UNIO, 15 Mar Cold Spring NWR, UMAT, 8 May MORR, 14 Mar (CC); several along (KCr); 1 at the corner of Booth Rd. & (UMAT NAMC). Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, HWY 82, UNIO, 19 - 22 Mar (TrB & Short-eared Owl - 4 along Peach UNIO, 14 May (TrB). BMc); 9 near the corner of HWY 82 Road in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 3 Sora - 1 at the marsh along Repplinger and Booth Ln. near Alicel, UNIO, 27 Mar (SF); 1 along Peach Road in Ladd Rd. NE of Joseph, WALL, 25 – 28 Apr (TrB). Marsh WMA, 7 Mar (TrB & CBe); 1 Apr (FC); 1 along Peach Rd. in Ladd Least Sandpiper - 17 along Peach immature and 1 adult along Peach Rd. Marsh WMA, UNIO, 7 May (KCr, Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 25 in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 7 - 14 RHu & SCo). - 27 Apr (SF & TrB). May (KA & TrB). American Coot - 2 on Ladd Marsh Dunlin - 1, Cold Springs NWR, Vaux’s Swift - 200 + flying near a WMA, UNIO, 13 Mar (MRH & MH); UMAT, 18 May (CC). known roosting site in La Grande, 100, Umatilla NWR, MORR, 14 Mar Long-billed Dowitcher - 7, Cold UNIO, 20 Apr (TrB); 4 near Wallowa, (CC); 20 near the mouth of Cussick Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC); WALL, 2 May (RAn). Crk. at Thief Valley Res., UNIO, 22 50 along Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh Black-chinned Hummingbird - 2 Mar (TrB & MRH). WMA, UNIO, 10 May (TrB). males on Five Points Crk. near Hilgard, Sandhill Crane - Approx. 100 lessers Wilson’s Snipe - 2 whinnowing UNIO, 27 – 28 Apr (HC); several near along Foothill Rd., in Ladd Marsh above Catherine Crk. near Ladd Troy, WALL, 3 May (FC). WMA, UNIO, 16 Mar (BD & CD); Marsh WMA, UNIO, 18 Mar (TrB); Calliope Hummingbird - near Mt. 4 greaters along Foothill Rd., in Ladd 6 on Thomas Ranch near Pondosa, Emily at a feeder, UNIO, 10 Apr (fide Marsh WMA, UNIO, 16 Mar (BD & UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB & MRH); 2 near CDi); 1 near Wallowa, WALL, 2 May CD); 30 near Wallowa, WALL, 24 Wallowa, WALL, 27 Apr (RAn); 1, (RAn); several near Troy, WALL, 3 Mar (RAn). Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May May (FC). Semipalmated Plover - 1 along Peach (CC); 12 at Ladd Marsh WMA, Rufous Hummingbird - 1 near Mt. Rd. in Ladd Marsh MWA, UNIO, 14 UNIO, 17 May (RAn). Harris at a feeder, UNIO, 9 Apr (RAl); May (TrB). Wilson’s Phalarope - 3 along Peach 1 pair at Joseph feeders, WALL, 18 Killdeer - 1 adult and 4 flightless Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 25 Apr (FC); 1 near Wallowa, WALL, 17 fledglings near the Forestry & Range Apr (SF); 1 along Repplinger Rd, NE May (RAn). Sciences Lab in La Grande, UNIO, 1 of Joseph, WALL, 3 May (FC); 4 near Belted Kingfisher - 1 at Hot Lake, May (DFe); 25, Cold Springs NWR, Wallowa, WALL, 14 May (RAn); UNIO, 1 Mar (TrB). UMAT, 18 May (CC). 7, Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, 18 Lewis’s Woodpecker - 6 near Black-necked Stilt - 30, Cold Springs May (CC). Wallowa, WALL, 14 May (RAn). NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC). Red-necked Phalarope - 1 at the Williamson’s Sapsucker - 6 in American Avocet - 4 along Peach LWWTP’s, UNIO, 28 May (TrB). surrounding forests of Glass Hill, Rd., Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 21 Franklin’s Gull - 2, UMAT, 8 May UNIO, 20 Apr (TrB & MRH); 3 near Apr (TrB). (UMAT NAMC). the head of Dark Canyon, off FR 2135 Greater Yellowlegs - 3 at the marsh Ring-billed Gull - 1 at the Enterprise –700, UNIO, 26 Apr (KCo). along Repplinger Rd. NE of Joseph, Fish Hatchery Pond, WALL, 30 Apr Red-naped Sapsucker - 1 near the WALL, 25 – 28 Apr (FC); 10 along (FC). head of Dark Canyon, off FR 2135 – Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, Forester’s Tern - 3 along Peach Rd. 700, UNIO, 26 Apr (KCo); 1 near the UNIO, 27 Apr (TrB). in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 15 May corner of 2nd & C Ave. in La Grande, Lesser Yellowlegs - – 3 at the marsh (TrB, MRH & CBe). UNIO, 5 May (LMa). along Repplinger Rd. NE of Joseph, Black Tern - 1 along Peach Rd. in Ladd Downy Woodpecker - 1 in a La WALL, 25 – 28 Apr (FC); 20 along Marsh WMA, UNIO, 14 May (TrB); Grande yard near the corner of Walnut Peach Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, the number increased to 8 by 15 May St. & O Ave., UNIO, 10 Mar (BD & UNIO, 27 Apr (TrB). (TrB, MRH & CBe). This species is CD); 1 heard along Wilkenson Rd. Solitary Sandpiper - 1 along Peach uncommon in Union County. near Cathrine Crk., UNIO, 14 May Rd. in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, Rock Pigeon - 48 at Wallowa- (TrB); 1 near Wallowa, WALL, 29 25 - 27 Apr (SF & TrB); 1 in an Whitman NF, WALL, 30 Apr (RAn). May (RAn).

Oregon Birds 30(3): 144, Fall 2004 Hairy Woodpecker -1 near Balm Crk NF, WALL, 3 May (RAn). WALL, 30 Apr (RAn). Res, BAKE, 3 May (KCo); 3 near Steller’s Jay - 8 near Wallowa, Chestnut-backed Chickadee - 2 near Wallowa, WALL, 14 May (RAn). WALL, 4 Apr (RAn). Wallowa, WALL, 14 May (RAn); 1 White-headed Woodpecker - 1 near Clark’s Nutcracker - Several near in a small flock of other Chickadees, Bear Valley, GRAN, Mar (JBa & John Day, GRAN, 13 Mar (O’L); Kinglets, and Nuthatches along the LB). several near Dayville, GRAN, 13 Mar 2135 FR in Dark Canyon, UNIO, 7 Black-backed Woodpecker - 2 near (TH). May (KCo). Wallowa, WALL, 29 Mar (RAn); Black-billed Magpie - 45, Cold Red-breasted Nuthatch - Several 1 pair along the 2135 FR in Dark Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC). near Balm Crk. Res., BAKE, 3 May Canyon, UNIO, 7 May (KCo); 1 pair American Crow - 150, Umatilla (KCo); 6 near Wallowa, WALL, 14 along Spring Crk, UNIO, 16 May NWR, MORR, 14 Mar (CC). May (RAn) (MPM). Common Raven - 21 near Wallowa, White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 near Northern Flicker -1 female yellow WALL, 14 May (RAn). Wallowa, WALL, 4 Apr (RAn); 6 shafted in a La Grande yard near the Horned Lark - 1 pair near Telocaset, in surrounding forests of Glass Hill, corner of Walnut St. & O Ave., UNIO, UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB & MRH); 6 along UNIO, 20 Apr (TrB & MRH). 6 Mar (BD & CD); 4 male red-shafted, Sandridge Rd., UNIO, 28 Mar (TrB Pygmy Nuthatch - 2 near Wallowa, a male hybrid and a female yellow & MRH); 12 at Enterprise, WALL, 4 WALL, 11 Mar (RAn); 2 in shafted in a La Grande yard near the May (RAn). surrounding forests of Glass Hill, corner of Walnut St. an O Ave., UNIO, Tree Swallow - 17, Umatilla NWR, UNIO, 20 Apr (TrB & MRH). 13 Mar (BD & CD); 7 near Wallowa, MORR, 14 Mar (CC); several above Brown Creeper - 1 in the Wallowa- WALL, 4 Apr (RAn). La Grande, UNIO, 15 Mar (DFe & Whitman NF, WALL, 3 May (RAn). Pileated Woodpecker - 1 near Balm MRH); 7 near Wallowa, WALL, 6 Rock Wren - 2 near Wallowa, WALL, Crk. Res., BAKE, 3 May (KCo); 3 Apr (RAn). 14 May (RAn). near Wallowa, WALL, 3 May (RAn). Violet-green Swallow - 10 flying Canyon Wren - 1 near Wallowa, Western Wood-Peewee - 3 near above Washington St. in La Grande, WALL, 14 May (RAn). Wallowa, WALL, 29 May (RAn). UNIO, 19 Mar (TrB); 6 near Wallowa, Bewick’s Wren - 1 along the Grande Willow Flycatcher - 1 along WALL, 14 May (RAn). Ronde R in Rhinehart Canyon, UNIO, Wilkenson Rd. near Cathrine Crk., Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8 May (CBe). UNIO, 14 May (TrB); 3 near Wallowa, Several at the marsh along Repplinger House Wren - 1 heard along WALL, 14 May (RAn). Rd. NE of Joseph, WALL, 25 – 28 Wilkinson Ln. near Catherine Crk., Hammond’s Flycatcher - 6 near Apr (FC); 3 near Wallowa, WALL, UNIO, 3 May (SF). Wallowa, WALL, 14 May (RAn). 14 May (RAn); 3 Cold Springs NWR, Winter Wren - 2 near Wallowa, Dusky Flycatcher - 3 near Wallowa, UMAT, 18 May (CC). WALL, 17 May (RAn). WALL, 14 May (RAn); several near Bank Swallow -2 along Peach Marsh Wren - 6 Cold Springs NWR, the Blue Mt. 4-H Center, UNIO, 17 Rd.,Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, UMAT, 18 May (CC). May (TrB). 21 Apr (TrB); 15 at the Peach Rd. American Dipper - Serval near Say’s Phoebe - 1 perched along Colony, UNIO, 24 - 27 Apr (SCr & John Day, GRAN, Mar (TH); 1 near Cussick Creek, UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB TrB); Several at the marsh along Canyon City, GRAN, Mar (TW). & MRH); 2 near Wallowa, WALL, 14 Repplinger Rd. NE of Joseph, WALL, Golden-crowned Kinglet - 12 at the May (RAn). 25 – 28 Apr (FC); 20, Cold Springs Wallowa-Whitman NF, WALL, 30 Western Kingbird - 1 along NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC). Apr (RAn). Wilkenson Rd., UNIO, 27 Apr (TrB); Cliff Swallow - 30 along Peach Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Several Several near Troy, WALL, 3 May Rd., Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 21 near Troy, WALL, 3 May (FC); (FC); 12 at Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, Apr (TrB); 16 at Wallowa-Whitman several near Balm Crk Res, BAKE, 17 May (RAn). NF, WALL, 30 Apr (RAn); 50, Cold 3 May (KCo); 8 Wallowa-Whitman Eastern Kingbird - 1 along Peach Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC). NF, WALL, 3 May (RAn). Rd., UNIO, 2 May (TrB); 1 at Ladd Barn Swallow - 2 along Peach Rd., Western Bluebird -2 near Elgin, Marsh WMA, UNIO, 17 May (RAn). Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 21 Apr UNIO, 6 Mar (DY); 6 along Owsley Northern Shrike - 1 near the Flying (TrB); several at the marsh along Canyon Rd, UNIO, 13 Mar (TrB); 6 J Truck Stop off of McCallister Rd, Repplinger Rd. NE of Joseph, WALL, Wallowa-Whitman NF, WALL, 30 UNIO, 15 Mar (SCr). 25 – 28 Apr (FC); 1 Cold Springs Apr (RAn). Cassin’s Vireo - Several heard near NWR, UMAT, 8 May (CC); 12 at Mountain Bluebird - 2 near the Lay Mt. Fanny, UNIO, 3 May (TrB); 1 Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 17 May Ranch, Pondosa, UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB near Troy, WALL, 3 May (FC); 1 (RAn). & MRH); 8 near Wallowa, WALL, 14 near Balm Crk. Res., BAKE, 3 May Black-capped Chickadee - 4 near May (RAn). (KCo); 7 near Wallowa, WALL, 14 Wallowa, WALL, 6 Apr (RAn). Townsend’s Solitaire - 1 in Spruce May (RAn). Mountain Chickadee - 2 pair in a La Tree off of Spring St. in La Grande, Warbling Vireo - 4 near Wallowa, Grande yard near the corner of Walnut UNIO, 19 Mar (TrB & BMc); 2 near WALL, 14 May (RAn). St. & O Ave., UNIO, 13 Mar (BD & Wallowa, WALL, 29 May (RAn). Gray Jay - 3 near Wallowa-Whitman CD); 6 in the Wallowa-Whitman NF, American Robin - 50, Umatilla

Oregon Birds 30(3):145, Fall 2004 NWR, MORR, 14 Mar (CC); 38 near UNIO, 19 Mar (TrB); 15 at Enterprise, the Enterprise Fish Hatchery Pond, Wallowa, WALL, 29 May (RAn). WALL, 4 May (RAn). WALL, 30 Apr (FC); 14 in the Sage Thrasher - 1 heard calling near Grasshopper Sparrow - 3 pairs near Wallowa-Whitman NF, WALL, 30 Telocaset, UNIO, 10 May (TrB & North Powder, UNIO, 29 May (TSc, Apr (RAn); 7, Cold Springs NWR, MRH). BMa & TrB), the 2nd documented UMAT, 8 May (CC). Cedar Waxwing - a small flock in La sighting of this species in Union Bullock’s Oriole - 1 heard along the Grande, UNIO, April (DFe). County and the1st with photos. Grande Ronde R in Rhinehart Canyon, Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 near Song Sparrow - 10, Cold Springs UNIO, 8 May (CBe); 7, Cold Springs the head of Dark Canyon, off FR 2135 NWR, UMAT, 18 May (CC). NWR, UMAT, 18 May (CC); 2 along –700, UNIO, 26 Apr (KCo); Several Lincoln’s Sparrow - 1 along Peach Wilkenson Rd. near Cathrine Crk, near Troy, WALL, 3 May (FC); 7 near Rd. near HWY 203, UNIO, 2 Apr UNIO, 14 May (TrB). Wallowa, WALL, 14 May (RAn). (TrB). Purple Finch - 1 near John Day, Nashville Warbler - 1 along the Harris’s Sparrow - 1 along Buchanan GRAN, Mar (TH); a male & female Grande Ronde R in Rhinehart Canyon, Rd, continues to be seen since Winter at a La Grande feeder, 4 Apr (TrB, UNIO, 8 May (CBe); 1 near Wallowa, period, UNIO, 8 Mar - 9 Apr (RHu & MRH & MPM). WALL, 29 May (RAn). KCr). Cassin’s Finch - 20 in a La Grande Yellow Warbler - 1 along Wilkinson White-crowned Sparrow - 50, yard near Adams Ave., UNIO, 1 - 22 Ln. near Catherine Crk., UNIO, 3 Umatilla NWR, MORR, 14 Mar (CC); Mar (TrB & MRH); 5 pairs in a La May (SF); 1 near Troy, WALL, 3 May numerous birds at various locations Grande yard near the corner of Walnut (FC); 7, Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, throughout the Grande Ronde Valley, St an O Ave., UNIO, 13 Mar (BD & 8 May (CC); 9 near Wallowa, WALL, UNIO, April (fide TrB). CD); 14 May (RAn). Dark-eyed Junco - 11 near Wallowa, numerous at Joseph feeders, WALL, Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 near WALL, 11 Mar (RAn); 10, Umatilla 18 Apr (FC); several near Balm Crk. Troy, WALL, 3 May (FC); 1 near Balm NWR, MORR, 14 Mar (CC). Res., BAKE, 3 May (KCo). Crk. Res., BAKE, 3 May (KCo); 4 at Lapland Longspur -1 male House Finch - 31 near Wallowa, Enterprise,WALL, 4 May (RAn). Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, WALL, WALL, 6 Apr (RAn). Townsend’s Warbler - 1 near Troy, 26 May (ALu & KCr) CHESTNUT Red-crossbill - Several at Joseph WALL, 3 May (FC); several heard COLLARED LONGSPUR - 1 male feeders, WALL, 18 Apr (FC); 2 in the near Mt. Emily Summit, UNIO, 3 Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, WALL, 24 Wallowa-Whitman NF, WALL, 30 May (TrB); 2 near Wallowa, WALL, May (ALu, et al.) Details are being Apr (RAn). 17 May (RAn). sent to ORBC. Common Redpoll - 1 at Joseph MacGillivray’s Warbler - 1 along Snow Bunting - Sunflower feeder, 1 Mar, WALL (FC). HWY 82 in the Wallowa R. Canyon, Black-headed Grosbeak - Very low numbers were present in NE WALL, 30 Apr (FC); 3 near Wallowa, Lazuli Bunting - – 1 at a La Grande Oregon this season. WALL, 14 May (RAn). feeder, UNIO, 1 May (RLe); 1 male at Pine Siskin - Numerous at Joseph Common Yellowthroat - 1 at Ladd a Joseph feeder, WALL, 3 May (FC); feeders, WALL, 18 Apr (FC); 10 near Mash WMA, UNIO, 17 May (RAn). 2 Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, 18 May Wallowa, WALL, 27 Apr (RAn). Wilson’s Warbler - 1 along Wilkinson (CC); 4 at a Cove feeder, UNIO, 10 Lesser Goldfinch - 1 near John Day, Ln. near Catherine Crk, UNIO, 3 May May (SCo); 7 near Wallowa, WALL, GRAN Mar (O’L); 1 at a La Grande (SF). 14 May (RAn). feeder, 4 Apr (TrB, MRH & MPM) Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 heard along Bobolink - 2 males calling along made for a fourth Union County the Grande Ronde R. in Rhinehart Foothill Rd., near the overlook, record. Photos taken. Canyon, UNIO, 8 May (CBe). UNIO, 19 May (TrB). American Goldfinch - 3 near Western Tanager - 1 male at a Cove Red-winged Blackbird - 20, Umatilla Wallowa, WALL, 2 May (RAn); 4, feeder, UNIO, 10 May (SCo); 3 near NWR, MORR, 14 Mar (CC); 123 near Cold Springs NWR, UMAT, 8 May Wallowa, WALL, 14 May (RAn). Wallowa, WALL, 6 Apr (RAn). (CC). Spotted Towhee - 1 at Pondosa Oasis, Western Meadowlark - 4, Umatilla Evening Grosbeak - 2 pair in a La UNIO, 22 Mar (TrB & MRH); 2 near NWR, MORR, 14 Mar (CC); 15 Grande yard near the corner of Walnut Wallowa, WALL, 29 May (RAn). sitting on fence posts singing near St an O Ave., UNIO, 13 Mar (BD & Chipping Sparrow - 13 near Morgan Lake, UNIO, 16 Apr (BD & CD); 15 near Wallowa, WALL, 6 Apr Wallowa, WALL, 29 May (RAn). CD); 7 near Wallowa, WALL, 27 Apr (RAn); several at Joseph feeders, Brewer’s Sparrow - 2 in the Wallowa- (RAn). WALL, 18 Apr (FC). Whitman NF, WALL, 30 Apr (RAn). Yellow-headed Blackbird - 3 along Vesper Sparrow - 1 along Peach Peach Rd.,Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, Road in Ladd Marsh WMA, UNIO, 19 2 Apr (TrB); 20, Cold Springs NWR, Mar (TrB); 15 at Enterprise, WALL, 4 UMAT, 8 May (CC); 12 at Ladd May (RAn). Marsh WMA, UNIO, 17 May (RAn). Savannah Sparrow - 2, Umatilla Brewer’s Blackbird - 61 near NWR, MORR, 14 Mar (CC); 1 along Wallowa, WALL, 29 May (RAn). Peach Road in Ladd Marsh WMA, Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 at

Oregon Birds 30(3): 146, Fall 2004 Common Loon – 2 on 6-mile Pond, Southeast Field Notes: Spring 2004 HARN, on 21 Apr were in full Edited By Noah K. Strycker breeding plumage (M). Red-necked Grebe – 1 was on the Abbreviations: Hines Sewer Ponds, HARN, 20-21 May (LHa, SSh). C.G. Campground Green Heron – 1 was at the entrance HARN Harney County to Page Springs C.G., HARN, on 23 HQ Headquarters May (TrB). MALH Malheur County Black-crowned Night-Heron – 1, MNWR Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County Lower Owyhee Res., MALH, 31 May (DHa). Res. Reservoir Osprey – 1, Ontario State Park, MALH, 28 Mar (DHa); first of the Wood Duck – 1 pair, Ontario State Burns, HARN, on 22 Mar (LHa); 1 year at Fields, HARN, was on 1 May Park, MALH, 27 Mar (DHa). female, Ontario State Park, MALH, (M). Eurasian Wigeon – 1 male, Bully 27 Mat (DHa). Ferruginous Hawk – 4 were between Creek Reservoir near Vale, MALH, Sage Grouse – 12 displaying males Burns and Riley, HARN, on 27 Mar on 14 Mar (PTS). were 10 miles up Foster Flat Road, (SSh). Greater Scaup – 2 were reported HARN, on 30 Mar, about 1.5 miles Merlin – 1, Catlow Rim, HARN, 29 from the corner of Hotchkiss and Egan past the usual spot (AR). Mar (KGl). Roads, HARN, on 27 May (SSh). Blue Grouse – 5, above the confluence Peregrine Falcon – 1, Diamond Barrow’s Goldeneye – Reported of the North Fork/Little Malheur Road, HARN, 28 May (WH). from the Harney County Parkway, River, MALH, 28 Mar (DHa). Sora – first arrival at Fields, HARN, was noted 28 Apr (M). Black-bellied Plover – 1, MNWR, 15 Apr (KLa). Black-necked Stilt – 1 was at MNWR by 3 Apr (KLa). American Avocet – 4 migrants were at Borax Lake, HARN, by 30 Mar (KGl); 1 was at MNWR by 1 Apr (KLa). Willet – 1 was at Borax Lake, HARN, by 30 Mar (KGl). Spotted Sandpiper – first arrival at Fields, HARN, was on 6 May (M). Long-billed Curlew – 2 were at the Burns Sewage Ponds, 22 Mar (LHa); 3 were along Greenhouse Lane, HARN, by 27 Mar (SSh); 2 were at milepost 201 on Hwy 20, MALH, the same day (DHa); 2 were at Borax Lake, HARN, on 30 Mar (KGl). Marbled Godwit – reported from MNWR on 22 Apr (KLa); 30, Dry Lake Res., HARN, 1 May (SSh). Wilson’s Phalarope – 1 was near Burns, HARN, by 30 Apr (LHa). Red-necked Phalarope – 9 were at Dry Lake Res., HARN, on 15 May (SSh); 50 were at The Narrows, MNWR, on 19 May (MaR); 20 were at the Burns Sewer Ponds, HARN, on 22 May (TrB). Franklin’s Gull – 1 was quite early along Hwy 78, HARN, on 27 Mar (SSh). Ruddy Duck in full display (note the devil horns on the head, the “bald pate”), 17 EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE May, Benson Pond, Malheur N.W.R. Photo/K. Larsen – The invasion begins: 5 were

Oregon Birds 30(3):147, Fall 2004 reported near Diamond, HARN, 6-7 first Ruby-throated Hummingbird MNWRHQ on 24 May (SSh); 1 was May (LHa); 1 was at Fields, HARN, (M). at Fields, HARN, on 30 May (MD, on 7 May, 2 were there by 9 May Belted Kingfisher – first arrival at TR, M). and photographed together on 10 Fields, HARN, was on 25 Mar (M). Cassin’s Vireo – 1 was in Burns, May, remaining through 11 May but Lewis’ Woodpecker – first of the year HARN, by 1 May (LHa). not seen thereafter (M); 4 were also at Fields, HARN, was on 1 May (M). Warbling Vireo – first arrival at reported at Rome, MALH, around 21 Acorn Woodpecker – 1 female was at Fields, HARN, was on 2 May (M). May (Mark Smith); 2 birds possibly Frenchglen, HARN, 22-24 May (TrB, Hutton’s Vireo – 1 was seen well at of this species were seen in flight only TJ) but could not be relocated later. MNWRHQ, 22-24 May (OS, SSh) at Whitehorse Ranch, HARN, on 23 Probably the first record for Harney and again on 27 May (SSh), but May (TJ). County and the farthest east this remains undocumented in the county; Mourning Dove – the first spring species has ever been seen in Oregon observers should take care with dull arrival in Fields, HARN, was on 31 (TJ). Cassin’s Vireos (RHo). Mar (M). Olive-sided Flycatcher – first arrival PHILADELPHIA VIREO – 1 was YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO – 1 at Fields, HARN, was on 10 May seen and described well at Fields, was heard only, in “full song,” at 6- (M). HARN, on 21 May, and a report was mile Pond, HARN, on 28 May (WH). Western Wood-Pewee – first arrivals sent to the OBRC (M, OS); 1 was seen Burrowing Owl – 2 were on Embree at Fields, HARN, were noted 3 May well at MNWRHQ on 27 May (SSh). Bridge Road near Lawen, HARN, on (M). Red-eyed Vireo – 1 was in Hines, 10 Apr and 2 May (KLa, TJ); 1 was Willow Flycatcher – first migrant HARN, on 4 May (LHa). near milepost 12 between The Narrows at Fields, HARN, was noted 25 Apr Western Scrub-Jay – one or two and Burns, HARN, on 9 May (LR); 1 (M). continue to be present in Hines, was along the road to Princeton east Least Flycatcher – 1 was at HARN, and may breed there (LHa). of MNWRHQ on 26 May (TJ). MNWRHQ 16 May (SSh) and another Violet-green Swallow – 8 were at Long-eared Owl – 1, heard hooting 3 (same bird?) on 21 May (SSh); 1 was Juntura, MALH, by 28 Mar (DHa); miles northeast of Krumbo Reservoir, at Fields, HARN, 19 May (M); 1 was first arrival at Fields, HARN, was on HARN, 26 Mar (KGl); 1, Sagebrush at Benson Pond, MNWR, 28-29 May 10 May (M). Springs, MALH, 31 May (DHa). (TR, MP, KLa). Northern Rough-winged Swallow Northern Saw-whet Owl – one was Hammond’s Flycatcher – first arrival – First migrant at Fields, HARN, was found struck by a car off Hwy 395 in at Fields, HARN, was noted 27 Apr noted on 22 Apr (M). the Burns, HARN, area, not far from (M). Cliff Swallow – 1 was at MNWRHQ the forest, on 10 Mar (PRU). Gray Flycatcher – first arrival at by 25 Mar (KGl). Common Nighthawk – first arrival in Fields, HARN, was on 10 May (M) Barn Swallow – a migrant was at Fields, HARN, was on 24 May (TrB), and one arrived near Hines, HARN, Princeton, HARN, by 1 Apr (KGl); and two were at Frenchglen the same the same day (PBo). first of the season at Fields, HARN, day (TJ). Dusky Flycatcher – first arrival at was noted on 23 Apr (M). Common Poorwill – one was heard Fields, HARN, was noted 27 Apr Red-breasted Nuthatch – first arrival near Hines, HARN, by 25 Apr (PBo); (M). at Fields, HARN, was on 6 May (M). 1 was heard at Fields, HARN, by 14 EASTERN PHOEBE – 1 was at House Wren – first of the year at May (M). Fields, HARN, on 19 May (M). Fields, HARN, was on 29 Apr (M). Vaux’s Swift – first arrival at Fields, Say’s Phoebe – a migrant was in Ruby-crowned Kinglet – the first HARN, was on 10 May (M). Hines, HARN, by 2 Mar (LHa); birds wave of migrants arrived at Fields, White-throated Swift – 10 were back were building a nest near Krumbo HARN, on 31 Mar (M). at the Catlow Rim, HARN, by 29 Mar Reservoir, HARN, by 27 Mar (KGl). Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1 was in (KGl). Ash-throated Flycatcher – 1 arrived junipers 4 miles north of Frenchglen, Black-chinned Hummingbird – first near Hines, HARN, on 9 May (PBo). HARN, on 12 May (KLa); a pair was arrival at Fields, HARN, was on 6 Western Kingbird – 1 arrived near seen, and another bird heard, west of May (M); 1 was in Hines, HARN, by Hines, HARN, on 25 Apr (PBo). Hwy 205, 3 miles north of Frenchglen, 10 May (LHa) and 5 miles west of Eastern Kingbird – 1 was at MNWR HARN, 21-22 May (LR). Hines the same day (PBo). by 24 May (SSh); 2 pairs were on the Western Bluebird – an adult male Calliope Hummingbird – 1, MNWR, Center Patrol Road, MNWR, by 26 was in Fields, HARN (where it is a 28 Apr (KLa); first arrival at Fields, May (TJ). very uncommon migrant) on 7 Mar HARN, was on 10 May (M). Northern Shrike – 1 was west of (M). Hummingbird sp. – an intriguing Chickahominy Reservoir, HARN, on Townsend’s Solitaire – first arrival at female hummingbird was well- 27 Mar (SSh); an adult was 3 miles Fields, HARN, was on 10 May (M). photographed at Fields, HARN, on northeast of Krumbo Reservoir, Hermit Thrush – first arrival at 23 May (M); discussion ensued and HARN, the same day (KGl). Fields, HARN, was on 6 May (M); several species were considered (MP, Plumbeous Vireo – 1, Fields Oasis, 1 was in Hines, HARN, by 10 May JG, JaS, DT). An OBRC report was HARN, 25 Apr (M); 1 was singing (LHa). filed describing the bird as Oregon’s there on 9 May (M); 1 was reported at Varied Thrush – first of the year at

Oregon Birds 30(3): 148, Fall 2004 Fields, HARN, was on 24 Apr (M). first migrant arrival at Fields, HARN, Fields, HARN, was on 24 Apr (M); Northern Mockingbird – 1, Fields, was on 7 Mar (M). one arrived on the same day near HARN, 7 Apr (M); another was there Chipping Sparrow – first migrant Hines, HARN (PBo). on 9 May (M); 1 was at Double O, arrival at Fields, HARN, was on Bobolink – 1 male was singing at HARN, on 14 May and reported again 25 Mar (M); 1 was at Long Hollow MNWR by 16 May (SSh); 1 was west on 24 May (SSh); 1 was at milepost Summit northwest of Fields, HARN, of Jordan Valley, MALH, on 31 May 124 on Hwy 20 east of Burns, HARN, 30 Mar (KGl). (PTS). on 26 May (LR). Brewer’s Sparrow – first of the year Western Meadowlark – one was Cedar Waxwing – 125, Frenchglen, at Fields, HARN, was noted on 29 back singing at Fields, HARN, by 7 HARN, 29 Mar (KGl). Apr (M). Mar (M). Tennessee Warbler – 1 was seen at Vesper Sparrow – 1, Double O, Yellow-headed Blackbird – first MNWRHQ on 14 May (SSh). MNWR, 25 Mar (KGl). arrival at Fields, HARN, was on 25 Orange-crowned Warbler – first Lark Sparrow – first arrivals at Apr (M). migrants arrived at Fields, HARN, on Fields, HARN, were four on 26 Apr COMMON GRACKLE – 1 was 4 Apr (M). (M). at 6-mile Pond, HARN, on 30 May Nashville Warbler – first of the year Black-throated Sparrow – 1 was at (TR). at Fields, HARN, was on 24 Apr (M). South Coyote Butte, HARN, by 23 GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE Northern Parula – 1 female was at May (TrB, SSh); “several” were there – 1 female was photographed at Fields, HARN, 18-21 May (M). by 26 May (EH). Fields, HARN, on 8 May (M); 1 was Yellow Warbler – first of the year at Sage Sparrow – birds were back photographed at Page Springs C.G. Fields, HARN, was noted on 24 Apr singing at the west edge of the Alvord on 23 May (TrB); a female with an (M). Desert, HARN, by 31 Mar (KGl). injured foot was videotaped at Fields, “Audubon’s” Yellow-rumped Savannah Sparrow – the first migrant HARN, on 25 May (M, TJ), a male Warbler – first arrival at Fields, arrival at Fields, HARN, was two on was there on 29 May (M), and 2 males HARN, was on 25 Mar (M); the first 7 Mar (M). were there on 31 May (M, TR, PTS). breeding plumage male arrived there Fox Sparrow – first spring arrival at Bullock’s Oriole – first arrival at on 31 Mar (M). Fields, HARN, was on 3 Apr, of the Fields, HARN, was on 2 May (M). Townsend’s Warbler – first arrival at “gray-headed, interior west” form Cassin’s Finch – first arrival at Fields, Fields, HARN, was on 27 Apr (M). (M). HARN, was noted 28 Apr (M). Black-and-white Warbler – 1 male, Lincoln’s Sparrow – 1, East Canal Fields, HARN, 9-10 May (M); 1 Road, MNWR, 29 Mar (KGl); the first female, MNWRHQ, 16-24 May (SSh, migrants at Fields, HARN, arrived TrB). there on 31 Mar (M). American Redstart – 1 adult male White-throated Sparrow – 1 of the was singing at 6-mile Pond, HARN, “tan” morph was at Fields, HARN, on on 31 May (SRu). 25 May (M). MacGillivray’s Warbler – first of the “Gambel’s” White-crowned year was at Fields, HARN, on 2 May Sparrow – 200 at Fields, HARN, (M); a female was in Hines, HARN, on 18 Apr was about the peak of by 10 May (LHa). migration (M). Common Yellowthroat – first of the Golden-crowned Sparrow – first of year was at Fields, HARN, on 2 May the season at Fields, HARN, was on 18 (M). Apr (M); 1 was “late” at MNWRHQ Wilson’s Warbler – 1 was noted near on 25 May (RHo). Hines, HARN, by 27 Apr (PBo); first Rose-breasted Grosbeak – 1 female of the season at Fields, HARN, was was at Fields, HARN, on 25 May (M) seen the same day (M). and another female was there (same Yellow-breasted Chat – an early bird?) on 29 May (TR); a first-year arrival was heard at Page Springs male was a half mile north of Buena C.G., MNWR, on 2 May (TJ). Vista, MNWR, on 26 May (EH). Western Tanager – first arrival at Black-headed Grosbeak – first Fields, HARN, was on 27 Apr (M); arrival at Fields, HARN, was a female 1 was in Burns, HARN, by 1 May on 9 May (M); a female was in Hines, (LHa); more than 30 were at Fields HARN, by 10 May (LHa) and a pair on 10 May (M) and “hundreds” were was near Hines by 12 May (PBo). at MNWRHQ on 15 May (TSn). BLUE GROSBEAK – 1 female was Green-tailed Towhee – first arrival at well-described at Fields, HARN, Fields, HARN, was on 27 Apr (M). on 31 May, but was seen briefly and Spotted Towhee – one had arrived in could not be relocated (TR). Hines, HARN, by 2 Mar (LHa); the Lazuli Bunting – first of the year at

Oregon Birds 30(3):149, Fall 2004 Observers :

BoS Bob Stubblefield DeH Dean Hale AA Al Ahlgrim BP Bob Pollock DoH Don Harker AB Angela Baylink BS Bob Stites DeJ Den Johnson ACr Andy Crabtree BSt Bill Stotz DEv Duncan Everud ADa Andy Dale BT Bill Thackaberry DF Darrel Faxon AF Aaron Fischer BTa Brandy Taylor DFa Daniel Farrar AnF Andy Frank BTi Bill Tice DFe Dave Felly AFr Ann Frost BTw Bill Tweit DFi David Fix AG Anne Gerke BV Brian Vaughn DG Dorothy Gates AHe Anne Heyerly BW Barbara Woodhouse DGr Don Grafe AJ Alvaro Jaramillo BWi Barbara Winter DHa Dave Hazelton AbJ Abby Jaworski BY Ben Young DHe Dan Heyerly AK Abe Karam CAS Corvallis Audubon Society DHl Don Haller AL Andrew Laughlin CBa Carolyn Barr DHr Dave Herr ALu Andrea Lueders ClB Clint Burmitt DHt Dave Haupt ALC Alan Contreras CB Carolyn Bird DHz Dave Helzer AM Andrew Marshall CBu Chris Butler DI Dave Irons AMa Anne MacDonald Cca Chris Carey DiH Diane Horgan ArM Arch McCallum CC Craig Corder DJ Dave Johnson AMc Alan McGie CDi Cathrine Dickson DJo Dave Jones AMi Alison Mickel CD Chris Dowdy DK Doris Kasper AP Allen Prigge CcG Cecil Gagnon DKi Douglas Kirkpatrick AR Alan Reid CCo Cliff Cordy DiK Diane Kook AS Anne Sexton CG Chuck Gates DL Dave Lauten ASh Ann Shales CHa Carole Hallett DLa Dave Lawrence ASk Aaron Skirven C&DH Cyndy & David Hatcher DLr Dave Larsen BA Bob Altman CH Christine Hodges DoL Doug Laye BaB Barb Bellin ChC Char Corkran DLu Donna Lustoff BAM Bill Monda CK Carol Karlen DM Don Munson BB Betty Bahn CL Carol Ledford DMa Dennis Manzer BrB Brett Baumann ClB Clint Brummit DMc Don McCartney B&JB Barb & Jerry Bellin CKi Charlotte Kisling DMe David Mellinger BBe Bob Bender CM Craig Miller DMo Dennis Moore BBu Bill Burton CMB Craig Born DoA Don Albright BC Bob Carlton COAS Central Oregon Audubon DoH Don Haller Bco Bob Cooper Society DoM Don MacDonald BCr Bonnie Cresap CP Chuck Philo DvM David Mandell BiC Bill Clemons CR Craig Roberts DN Denny Niebuhr BD Bill Dowdy CS Carrie Stevenson DiP Diane Pettey BAE Brian Endress CSh Carol Shillitto DP Dave Pitkin BE Bill Evans CV Cort Vaughan DPa Dael Parsons BG Bill Gray CWa Clare Watson DPe Don Pederson BGl Barbara Gleason DA Dennis Arendt DoR Donna Rainboth BGr Barbara Griffin DaM David Mandell DRe Dennis Reinhart BGP Bird Guide Pelagics DAn David Anderson DR Doug Robberson BH Bill Hunter DaB Dan Bowers Dro David Robinson BJM BJ Matzen DB David Bailey DSh Doug Shorey BLM Bureau of Land Management DBo Don Boucher DS David Smith staff at Yaquina Head DBr Dave Brown DSa Donna Saxton BLe Bob Llewellyn DBu Dave Budeau D&JS Dick & Jeanene Stentz BLo Bill Looney DC Dick Cronberg DSu Don Sutherland BLo Bob Loeffel DCg Donald Coggswell DSw Denny Swanger BM Barry McKenzie DoC Don Collins DTh Darrah Thomas BMa Betty Main DCo Dave Copeland DT Dave Tracy BGM Bobbie & Gorden Martin DdC Debby de Carlo DuW Duane Whitman BMc Beth McBee DLe Dave Ledig DV Dennis Vroman BMo Berk Moss DDe Don DeWitt DW Davey Wendt BN Bruce Newhouse DE Dennis Edge

Oregon Birds 30(3): 150, Fall 2004 DWe Dave Westerfield JuC Judy Corder JWr Justin Wrinn DWh Dave Whistler JoC John Crowell KA Karen Antell DY Danae Yurgel JDe Jennifer DeLuca KaS Karen Sharples EdM Ed McVicker JeG Joel Geier KBo Kim Boddie ECa Ellen Cantor JF Jeff Fleischer KBO Klamath Bird Observatory EE Elsie Eltzroth JFi John Fitchen KC Kathy Castelein EH Eric Horvath JFo Joe Fontaine KCl Kelsey Claudson EHa Emily Hancock JG Jeff Gilligan KCo Kent Coe EHe Eric Henze JiG Jim Gallagher KCr Karen Cradler EK Erik Knight JGa John Gatchet KF Karan Fairchild ElE Elias Elias JGk John Gerke KlF Karl Fairchild EM Esther Marple JGr Jeff Grass KG Kevin Goldwater EMg Elizabeth Magnus JimH Jim Heaney KenG Ken Goldwater EMV Ed McVicker JH Jill Hubbard KGl Kevin Glueckert EP Eleanor Pugh JHa Jeff Harding KHa Kay Hartmann ES Elmer Specht JHe Jim Hein KH Kelli Hoffman ESe Eric Setterberg JHo Jerry Honl KJ Ken Jones FC Frank Conley JoH John Houle KK Kris Kristovich FF Fran Ferro JiH Jim Harleman K&LK Ken & Laurie Knittle FI Frank Issachs JiF Jim Fairchild KL Kevin Lair FLM Friends of Ladd Marsh JiM Jim Maloney KLa Kit Larson FLo Frank Lospalluto JJ Jarod Jerousek KLu Kristin Luke FM Frank Mayer JJo Jim Johnson KAM Kenneth A. Mahouski FP Fred Pratt JK John Kemper KaM Kathleen Martin FSc Floyd Schrock JL Jen Lair KMa Kate Matthews GA George Armistead JLa Janet Lamberson KM Kathy Merrifield GCBC Grant County Bird Club JLi Jim Livaudais KO Kimdel Owen GF Gary Fredricks JLu John Lundsten KP Kay Patrick GG Greg Gillson JAM Joanne Mahoney KPh Karen Phillips GJ George Jamison JLM John and Linda Mackown KRo Kent Rodecap GK Greg Krutzikowsky JM Jim Moodie KS Kevin Smith GL Gerard Lillie JMa John Matthews KSh Karen Shaw GN Ginger Nielson JMc Jim McIver KTS Kevin T. Spencer GP Gordon Patchin JMe Judy Meredith KTh Karen Theodore GRa Gwyneth Ragosine JAM Joanne Mahoney KVS Karen Viste-Sparkman GS Gary Schaffer JMo Jerry Moresello LaM Larry McQueen GSh Ginger Shoemake JO Jim Olson LBa Lou Balaban HB Howard Browers JoM John Mathews LB Lance Barker HC Howard Canrel JP Jonathan Pleissner LBl Luke Bloch HBN Harry NehlsHG Hank Gross JPo Johnny Powell LBr Lacy Bristow HH Hendrik Herlyn JPl Jon Plissner LBu Lansing Bulgin HHo Howard Horvath JR John Rakestraw LC Lee Cain HHr Hans Hemstetiller JRi John Riutta LF Leah Feinberg HLo Hydie Lown JRo Jonathan Robertson LFi Linda Fink HR Holly Reinhard JiR Jim Rogers LF Lou Fredd HS Howard Sands JSc James Schultz LG Larry Gohl HSm Horton Smith JimS Jim Shaw LGi Linda Gilbert HSt Heather Stout JSi Jack Simmons LH Linda Heinze IS Ilene Samowitz JaS Jamie Simmons LHa Larry Hammond IT Iain Tomlinson JSr Jim Souper LHe Linda Hendrix JAl John Alexander JoS Joan Suther LJ Laura Johnson JA Jim Anderson JSu John Sullivan LKN Laina Nedrow JiA Jim Arneson JT Julia Tracy LMa Laura Mahrt JBa Jennifer Barker JTh Jim Thielen LM Leslie Meserve JB JoAnne Bernt JWa Jan Watson LMi Lois Miller JBl Joe Blowers JuW June Whitten LN Liz Northrup JC Joe Corvino JVH Jean Van Hulzen LO Laimons Osis JCa Jim Carlson JW John Williams LP Lea Peeters JKC Jorrie (& Ken) Ciotti JWi Jay Withgott LPe Larry Pecenka JeC Jeff Cooney JWo John Woodhouse LR Luke Redmond

Oregon Birds 30(3):151, Fall 2004 LRe Lew Rems MaR Mark Rudolph PeT Pepper Trail LS Lars Skålnes MaS Matt Smith PV Paula Vanderheul LSh Lisa Sheffield MAS Mary Anne Sohlstrom PVV Patti VanVlack LSm Larry Small MSo Maeve Sowles PWa Pat Waldron LTh Lance Thurman MSL Marty St. Louis QN Quinton Nice LW Lois Walker MSt Margaret Stephens RAl Ronnie Allen LWe Lee Webb MT Margaret Tweelinckx RAn Ralph Anderson M Maitreya MW Mike Wihler RB Range Bayer MA Matt Adamson MWe Matt Wells RC Rebecca Cheek MAi Mike Aizpitarte MWi Michael Willison RCa Randy Campbell MAs Mike Asher NA Ned Austin RCh Roger Chou MBa Marshall Beretta NB Norm Barrett RoC Romain Cooper MBe Mark Berry NaC Nancy Combs RCo Robb Coulter MB Mike Bogar ND Nat Drumheller RD Ron Day MiC Michelle Cannon NE Norman Edelen RDy Rad Dyer MkC Mark Colley NF Nancy Findholt RDu Richard Duval MaC Marv Cooper NFu Norma Funai RE Ray Ekstrom MC Marcia F. Cutler NKS Noah K. Strycker RF Ray Filby MDa Marion Davidson NM Nancy MacDonald RGe Roy Gerig MLD MerryLynn Denny NMa Nancy Mason RHa Ron Halvorson MD Mike Denny NS Nat Seavy RHd Rick Hardy ME Merlin Eltzroth NW Nancy Wallwork RH Richard Holland MGo Maggie Gould OFO Oregon Field Ornithologists RHo Rich Hoyer MG Mike Greenberg Field Trip RHu Ross Hubbard MRH Mariah Hey O’L Clarence & Marilyn O’Leary RJ Rod Johnson MaH Marjorie Hipp ON Otis Nelson RKe Ron Ketchum MHo Mel Holt OS Owen Schmidt RK Ray Korpi MH Matt Hunter PA Paul Adamus RL Robert Lockett MI Marshall Iliff PAS Portland Audubon RLo Roy Lowe MJ Marlin Jones PB Phil Bartley RLa Renee LaChance MiK Michael Kay PBa Phil Bartley RLe Ralph Lewis MhK Mahesh Ketkar PBe Patty Bernardi RMA Robert Marheine MK Michel Kleinbaum PBC Pendleton Bird Club RLR RL Rowland MaK Mark Kramer PBW Pat and Bunny Wright RM Rick McKenzie MLaF Margaret LaFaive PeB Peg Boulay RMa Rick Maulding MLi Mike Lippsmeyer PBo Patty Bowers RoM Ron Maertz MLo Mike Lowen PC Pete Carr RMo Randy Moore MaM Marcia Maffei PD Pat Dickey RN Rich Nawa MPM Mike Mahoney P&JG Pat & Joan Gallagher RO Robert Olsen MiM Mike Marsh PG Pam Gray RoS Ron Sehman MMa Marcia Marvin PH Patricia Harding RP Richard Pomeroy MMC Mary McCracken PaH Pat Heron RR Roger Robb MMc Michael McMains Phi Phil Hicks RS Richard Smith MM Marilyn Miller PJ Pamela Johnston RSG Rebecca Geier MkM Mark Miller PJa Paul Jacobsen RSh Rodger Shoemake MMi Meredith Millman PL Peter Low RT Richard Thomasetti MMo Marjorie Moore PM Patti Mehan RTN Robin and Tom Nelson MkN Mark Nebeker PO Paul Osborn RuS Ruth Sullivan PPa Patricia Patchin RV Rick Vetter MNi Mark Nikas MN Michael Noack P&GP Paul & Gretchen Peterson RW Ralph Wodtli MiN Michael Nomina PP Phil Pickering SaB Sara Brown MoG Marilyn O’Grady PR Polly Rankin SaL Sally Lockyear MOp Mary Oppenheimer PRh Paul Rhodes SB Steve Berliner MaP Margie Paris PRu Patricia Ruvid SBr Sandy Bryce MP Mike Patterson PS Paula Shannon SBu Sean Burgett MPa Michael Parker PSh Paul Sherrell SC Sue Carr PSt Peter Stoel SCh Sheila Chambers MPe Mark Penninger SCo Sandy Coulson MPB Maren Peterson PaS Patrick Sullivan PTS Paul T. Sullivan SCr Stuart Croghan MiR Mitch Ratzlaff SDi Steve Dinsmore MR Mike Rodegerdts PT Pat Tilley

Oregon Birds 30(3): 152, Fall 2004 SD Steve Dowlan SRu Skip Russell TrB Trent Bray SDo Steve Dougill SSe Steve Seibel TRe Tanya Reasor SF Scott Findholt ScS Scott Staats TrS Tracy Stainbrook SG Sandy Greenberg SSh Steve Shunk TS Tim Shelmerdine SGo Steve Gordon ST Sue Tank TSc Tim Schoenfeld SH Sharon Haller StBu Steve Burock TSe Trent Seager SHg Sherry Hagen STh Shirley Thielen TSn Tom Snetsinger ShC Sheila Chambers StJ Stuart Johnston TT Todd Thornton ShL Shirley Loeffel StS Stuart Sparkman TTA Tony Taylor ShS Shawn Steinberg SW Steve Warner TW Tom Winters SHo Susan Holt SWr Sheran Wright TWa Tom Wainwright SJ Stewart Janes TB Tanya Bray UCOR Union County CBC SJa Steve Jaggers TC Tom Crabtree UMAT Umatilla County CBC ScJ Scott Johnson TCo Tabbie Coulter VA Vjera Arnold SK Steve Kornfeld TD Todd Dunkirk VE Virgil Evans SKu Steve Kuppillas TE Tom Ewert VH Vicki Hoover SL Steve Lay TeJ Terry Johnson VS Veva Stansell SLo Shirley Loeffel TeM Terrie Murray WALL Wallowa County CBC SM Sylvia Maulding TG Troy Guy WB Wayne Bowers SMc Steve McDonald TH Tom Hunt WE William Evans SMl Steve Mlodinow TiS Timothy Sellers WG Wink Gross SN Stephanie Niewinski TJ Tim Janzen WH Wayne Hoffman SNe Sally Nelson TJW Terry J. Wahl WLo Wendell Long SOE Sally Olson Edge TL Tom Love WN Walt Nelson SP Stacy Peterson TM Tom Mickel WS Wesley Stone SPi Sarah Pinnock ToB Todd Baylink WT Wren Tracy SaP Samuel Pointer TP Tom Phillips WW Wyatt Whitten SPo Stephanie Powers TRo Tom Rodhouse WWe Wayne Weber SR Sara Robson TR Tim Rodenkirk ZS Zanah Stotz

Oregon Birds 30(3):153, Fall 2004 OFO Birding Weekends 2003

Center Pullout Section OFO Birding Weekends 2003 Ray Korpi Oregon Field Ornithologists will again offer a series of OFO Birding Weekends in 2003. The intent of OFO Birding Weekends is to introduce birders to new birds, to new areas of Oregon, and to birders from other parts of the state. This announcement covers the months from January to July; additional trips will be added once the OFO Annual Meeting is set. Participants are sent a letter in advance of each weekend, suggesting lodging, meeting place, likely birds, and other details. OFO Birding Weekends normally begin at dawn Saturday and end early Sunday afternoon. They are based in the same city both Friday and Saturday night. Most of our travel is by private cars on public roads, with some walks on trails. Costs of lodging, transportation (car pooling), and food are up to the individual participants. We usually eat supper together on Saturday night and have a "countdown" of species seen. Registration for OFO Birding Weekends is $15 per person for each weekend (except for the OFO Service Weekend). You do not need to be a member of OFO to participate in these weekends. However, you must register by the Tuesday before the weekend you plan to attend (decisions on cancellations will be made on that date). Make checks payable to Oregon Field Ornithologists or OFO. Send registrations to: Ray Korpi 12611 NE 99th St. Apt. DD-214 Vancouver WA 98682 [email protected] (360) 604-0122

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Clip this schedule and post it on your refrigerator Schedule of OFO BIRDING WEEKENDS - 2003

January 18-19 Union County This will be our focused northeast Oregon winter bird trip where we will hopefully find the region’s specialties. Target birds include Bohemian waxwing, American tree sparrow, perhaps snow buntings and redpolls, and we’ll be looking for raptors in the Grande Ronde Valley. We will also do some “getting-to-know” the area so that people can prepare for a summer journey. Base: LaGrande February 15-16 Coos Bay Explore Oregon’s largest estuary in winter time. Target species will include Snowy Egret and Willet (both local winter specialties), sparrows (including Swamp sparrow and Harris sparrow) at Millicoma Marsh, and the great variety of seabirds and ducks that can be found in the bay. We will also visit Cape Arago and other scenic areas nearby. Base: Coos Bay April 11-12 Columbia Basin Explore early spring migration in north-central Oregon. Target species will include waterfowl, Sandhill Cranes, Long-billed Curlews, and hopefully Burrowing Owls. We will look for lingering winter visitors as well as early spring arrivals. Base: TBA (probably Hermiston or Arlington) May 10-11 OFO Service Weekend—Harney Co. On Saturday, we will do the North American Migration Count within Harney County. Saturday will be a day of fun counting, where we focus on learning better counting techniques while finding those birds people want to see. We will be working in as many habitats in and around Burns that day as we can (north into the pines, south to the refuge). On Sunday, a morning field trip will be offered as per the usual OFO weekends. The OFO Service Weekend is FREE to participants in Saturday’s activities!! Those who want to come to only Sunday’s activity will need to pay the usual fee. Base: Burns June 20-22 Klamath Nights This will be a special trip to Klamath County to focus on evening and night birding. Trips will start at 6 pm on both Friday and Saturday. We will be seeking the elusive night birds such as Yellow Rail, Flammulated Owl, Western Screech-Owl, Great Gray Owl (maybe?) and other denizens of the evening. We will do some light daytime birding on both Saturday and Sunday as well, but most of our effort will be focused at night. Because of the nature of this trip, group size may be limited, group size may be split between the two nights, or an extension to either Thursday or Sunday may occur. Early registration will be important on this trip! Base: Klamath Falls July 12-13 Medford-Grants Pass This weekend will focus on the specialties of southwestern Oregon: California Towhee, Oak Titmouse, and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. We will explore the Medford-Grants Pass area, looking for birds in this corner of Oregon. The Saturday activities will be focused early and late to avoid the summer heat (we will siesta in the afternoon and have an early supper before going back out in the evening). Base: Grants Pass August 2-3 Tillamook County We will spend much of the day on Saturday looking for shorebirds in and around Tillamook as well as looking for other specialities of the area (if El Nino continues as has been forecast, perhaps an Elegant Tern?). On Sunday, we will hike around Bayocean Spit, trying to time our walk at the spit with high tide, if possible. This has yielded wonderful shorebirds in past years, and good looks at various alcids can be gotten at the mouth of Tillamook Bay. Base: Tillamook

MORE OFO WEEKENDS WILL BE SET UP ONCE THE OFO ANNUAL MEETING DATE IS SET!! Tentative dates are 25-26 October and 15-16 November with locations to be announced. Announcements will be made via Oregon Birds, the OFO web site, and area listservs. Unusual Rufous Hummingbird behavior. See Dale Shank’s account on page 122. Photo/D. Shank

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