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Oregon Birds The Journal of Oregon Birding and Field Ornithology Volume 42 Number 2 ● 2016 Contents of Oregon Birds Volume 42 (2) OBA 2016 Annual Meeting Report Harv Schubothe.……………….……….……...…………......…………………………………......45 A History of the Oregon Fund for Ornithology Pamela Johnston...…..…..…….….….....…...……….……………..………...…..…..46 Thirteen Months of Bird Observations on Muddy Creek Mitigation Bank, 2015-2016 Howard Bruner....…………...……..…....49 Red-shouldered Hawk Attempts to Take a Belted Kingfisher Zia Fuk uda..……......………………….……………................……...55 The Bird—A Poem Carol Barrett………………………………..……………………………...………………………………….……..…. 55 Photos of Horsefly Mountain and its Birds Maitreya .....……………………….………………..…….…………………..........…....…56 Lois Miller (1956—2016) Harv Schubothe and Ann Vilesas………......…………….………………..……….………..……..…...................57 A Selection of Photos by Lois Miller ………......…………….………………..……….………..……..….......................................…....…58 Kimdel Owen (1958—2015) Chuck Gates.……...……….……….……...…………......……………………………………………….........59 Photos of Muddy Creek and its Birds Howard Bruner....…..…..…….….….....…...……….………..………...…………………....…..60 Floyd Schrock (1947—2016) Darrel Faxon.…..…..……….….......……………...………….………..……………………………..…..…....61 The Great Gray Owl Peter Thiemann..………..………………...……………...…………….……………......................................……...62 The Records of the Oregon Bird Records Committee 2015-2016 Harry B. Nehls ………………………………..…….…...…….. …63 2016 OBA Patrons, Sustaining Members, and Donors.....……………………….………...……..……….……………….......……….…65 Comparative Studies of the Birds of Horsefly Mountain Maitreya………......……………..……….………………................…....…66 The Colonization of North America by the Eurasian Collared-Dove Jason Wolf………......………….……………….........…....…69 Front Cover: A Great Gray Owl tending to its chicks on an artificial nest platform in southern Oregon. Read more about these fas- cinating creatures in Peter Thiemann’s article on page 62. Photo by Peter Thiemann Back Cover: A male Western Tanager feeds on Red-hot Poker plants. This stunning image was captured by the late Lois Miller. OBA Membership Oregon Birds Membership in Oregon Birding Association is open The Journal of Oregon Birding and Field Ornithology to anyone. Dues support events, publications, and occasional special projects. Members also receive Oregon Birds is a publication of Oregon Birding Association, an Oregon Oregon Birds twice a year and are entitled to discounts not-for-profit corporation. Two issues are produced each year, a on meetings and activities. Send renewals, new full-color Year-in-Review issue in the spring and an issue with membership requests, and tax-deductible contribu- various articles in the fall. tions to: Oregon Birding Association Editor: Hendrik Herlyn PO BOX 675 Lincoln City OR 97367-0675 Associate Editor: Oscar Harper $30 Individual Photo Editor: Diana Byrne $35 Family $50 Sustaining Layout and design: Treesa Hertzel Address Change Reminder: In order to ensure the timely delivery of your copy of Oregon Birds, please remember to notify us at www.orbirds.org/join if your mailing address has changed. Thank you! Deadline for submissions for Oregon Birds Volume 43 (1): January 31, 2017. Please send submissions, ideas for articles, and inquiries to Hendrik Herlyn at [email protected]. Oregon Birding Association and Oregon Birds are on the web at orbirds.org All photographs appearing in Oregon Birds are held in copyright by the photographer unless otherwise noted. ISSN 0890-2313 OBA 2016 Annual Meeting Report — by Harv Schubothe his year’s Oregon Birding Association Annual Meeting the membership. In any case, our membership has now topped 400. gave us all an opportunity to visit Bend’s Woodpecker We have also gotten our logo out there on new merchandise, TWonderland. Not only did we get chance to hear Steve including caps. Our store items are available online through our Shunk speak about the 11 species of woodpeckers that breed in the website. area, we also got a chance to get out in the field and find them. The Board of Directors is particularly proud of the revitalization Numerous field trips of the Fund for Ornithology were offered, giving some of (FFO). In the past, significant us the opportunity to build contributions have come up our county lists, like my from this resource. While we own in Crook County, which were only able to make four had been almost empty small grants with the funds previously. This is no longer that were available this the case now, thanks to year, being able to support Chuck Gates. Sandhill Crane research and We heard from Cathy educational opportunities Nowak about her use of for middle school, high satellite transmitters on school, and college youth Sandhill Cranes at Ladd was an important step. Marsh, which revealed Hopefully, we will be able where they go in winter, as to build up the fund based well as their preferred roosts on continued grant activities in the refuge. It has turned like this. out to be the start of a now- We also got back into expanded tracking study. the field trip business. In We had three days of particular, we aimed our good birding, great friends, efforts at more advanced and excellent food. I’d like to thank Dr. Jim Moodie of Central birding. We visited particular hotspots and targeted harder-to-find Oregon Community College for arranging our use of their parking species with outstanding local guides, while limiting the number lot, and the volunteers from the Bend area and around the state of birders in the group to maximize these birding experiences. who lead the trips: Tom Crabtree, Chuck Gates, John Gerke, Sally Clearly, we are trying to make use of the technology and social Hill, Howard Horvath, Steve Kornfeld, Tony Kutz, Danielle Lordi, media that are available to us and will continue to do so. As just one Peter Lowe, Judy Meredith, Russ Namitz, Jeff Nordstrom, Sherry example, after ensuring anonymity in balloting, we are allowing Pierce, Stefan Schlick, Steve Shunk, and David Tracy. voting for our Board officers and directors to be done electronically One of my obligations as President is to provide an annual for the first time. report to the membership at the meeting and I will share some of There are some areas the Board had identified where we hoped the items here with the members who could not attend. Before I do, to make some progress, but which continue to remain challenging one of the highlights of this year’s Annual for us. We were hoping to become a more Meeting was that OBA awarded Alan diverse community, particularly with Contreras with a lifetime membership. regard to youth and ethnicity. While Alan has been with us from the we were able to direct a few dollars to beginning, 36 years ago, when we started organizations that involve young people as the Oregon Field Ornithologists. A in birding, this truly was a very small tireless writer, reviewer, and blogger, step in what we hope to accomplish. And much of how this publication, Oregon certainly, we have little to show when it Birds, became such a source of enjoyment comes to getting those from non-majority for birders throughout the state and ethnicities and cultures into the field. nation, is thanks to Alan and his work on But that is work for our new Board the Oregon Birds editorial board and his of Directors to direct some attention to. stints as editor. I do want to thank everyone for their Unable to be present at the meeting, continued support of our Association. but also receiving a life membership was Then, again, it is not about us, it is about Mary Ann Sohlstrom. Her presentation the birds. was made in October. Come join us next year at the Malheur I am happy to report that our Field Station! membership numbers continue to climb. Several factors may be contributing to this increase; for example, we have made maintaining membership easier for current and potential members by making it possible to join and pay online; and we Alan Contreras, recipient of OBA have increased our communication with lifetime membership award Oregon Birds Volume 42 (2) - 2016 45 A History of the Oregon Fund for Ornithology by Pamela Johnston n 1983, Oregon Field Ornithologists (OFO) conducted by Bob Altman and many volunteers, was founded by a group of birders in and a study of the Streaked Horned Lark in the IEugene as a statewide extension Willamette Valley, by Randy Moore, Douglas of the existing Southern Willamette Robinson, and their volunteers. Jeff Ornithological Club, SWOC. {SWOC Fleischer, founder of the winter Raptor itself had begun as a group of 11 Route surveys, recalls “the $1,000.00 birders in August of 1974, and grant that the East Cascades Bird still exists as the host of Eugene Conservancy [now East Cascades Birders’ Night.} Audubon Society, ECAS] received Five years later, the OFO from OFO. I believe we received Board of Directors set up a it for the 2005 – 2006 survey fund “for worthwhile projects” season (the second winter of related to the purposes of OFO, the project, which by the way to be dedicated at the Board’s will be enjoying its 13th season discretion. Examples could this winter, with over 275 routes include special publications, in 4 states surveyed by over 200 improvements in Oregon Birds, project volunteers!) and it was ornithological research projects, etc. used to help us reimburse mileage Establishment of the Fund was made costs for some of the volunteers who possible by generous donations from requested it. It came in VERY handy Medford birder Otis