The quarterly journal of Oregon field ornithology

Volume 21, Number 4, Winter 1995

The Records of the Oregon Bird Records Committee, 1994-1995 103 Harry Nehls A message from your president 105 Mike Patterson Nineteenth Upper Nestucca Christmas Bird Count... 106 Larry R. Scofield Oregon's CBC Record High Counts 108 Alan Contreras Eastern Oregon's Heermann's Gull Records 112 Mike Denny Update on the Breeding Bird Atlas project 113 Bird Distributions from Oregon Breeding Bird Survey Routes 114 Paul R. Adamus

Crossword for OB 21(4) 116

North American Migration Count: Clackamas County Observations 117 Darlene Philpott National Fish & Wildlife Funding Initiative Launched In Oregon 117 Claire Puchy NEWS AND NOTES OB 21(4) 118

Where Did the Birds Go Last Winter? 120 Project FeederWatch

FIELDNOTES, Spring 1995 122

Eastern Oregon, Spring 1995 123

Paul T. Sullivan

Have you seen a radio-tagged Mallard hen? 126

It was aGyr 126

Western Oregon, Spring 1995 129 Gerard Lillie

COVER PHOTO Northern Saw-Whet Owl, 26May 1995, Malheur NWR headquarters, Harney Co. Photo/Tim Janzen. CENTER 1995 Oregon listing report form • Oregon's Christmas Bird Counts • OFO membership form • OFO Bookcase • Complete checklist of Oregon birds • Oregon Rare Bird Phone Network • Oregon Birds is looking for material in these categories:

Oregon Birds News Briefs on things of temporal importance, such as meetings, birding trips, The quarterly journal of Oregonfield ornithology announcements, news items, etc. Articles are longer contributions dealing OREGON BIRDS is a quarterly publication of Oregon Field with identification, distribution, ecology, Ornithologists, an Oregon not-for-profit corporation. Membership in management, conservation, taxonomy, Oregon Field Ornithologists includes a subscription to Oregon Birds. behavior, biology, and historical aspects of ISSN 0890-2313 ornithology and birding in Oregon. Articles cite references (if any) at the end of the text. Editor Owen Schmidt Names and addresses of authors typically Assistant Editor Sharon K. Blair appear at the beginning of the text. Associate Editor Jim Johnson Short Notes are shorter communications dealing with the same subjects as articles. Short Notes typically cite no references, or at OREGON FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS most a few in parentheses in the text. Names President Mike Patterson, Astoria (1995-96) ; /.iiirsso : authors appear at the end of Secretary David R. Copeland, Keizer (1995-96) the text Treasurer Barbara Combs, Eugene (1995-96) "where to find a Past President George A. Jobanek, Eugene Bird Finding Guides Directors Ted Ernst, Corvallis (1995-97) in Oregon" (for some of the rarer Cindy Lawes, Beaverton (1994-96) birds) and "where to find birds in the Paul T. Sullivan, Beaverton (1994-96) area" (for some of the better spots). Sandy Thiele, Corvallis (1995-97) Reviews for published material on Oregon birds or of interest to Oregon birders.

Photographs of birds, especially photos OREGON BIRD RECORDS COMMITTEE taken recently in Oregon. Color slide Secretary Harry Nehls, Portland (1994) duplicates are preferred. Please label all photos with photographer's name and Members Tom Crabtree, Bend (1995-97) address, bird identification, date and place the Colin Dillingham, Brookings (1995-97) photo was taken. Photos will be returned;, Jeff Gilligan, Portland (1993-95) contact the Editor for more information. Jim Johnson, Portland (1993-95) Nick Lethaby, Santa Clara, CA (1994-96) Deadline for the next issue of Oregon Birds — Larry McQueen, Eugene (1994-96) OB 22(1), Spring 1996 — is 20 January 1996. Craig Roberts, Tillamook (1993-95) The next issue should get to you by the first week Skip Russell, Beaverton (1995-97 of March 1996. Material can be submitted any Owen Schmidt, Portland (1994-96) time, and the sooner the better. Please send materials directly to the Editor, 3007 N.E. 32nd Alternates Richard Hoyer, Corvallis (1995) Avenue. Portland. OR 97212, 503-282-9403. Kamal Islam, Corvallis (1995) Gerard Lillie, Portland (1995) Oregon Birds Board of Editors: Ron Maertz, Glide (1995) David A. Anderson. Range D. Bayer, Charlie Kevin Spencer, Tulelake CA (1995) Bnice. Tom Crabtree, Stephen Dowlan, Jeff Gilligan. Steven G. Herman, Mike Houck, George A. Jobanek, Jim Johnson, CD. Littlefield, Roy Lowe, David B. Marshall, Harry Oregon Birds B. Nehls, Mark Stern, Paul Sullivan, Clarice Watson. OREGON BIRD RECORDS COMMITTEE © 1995 OREGON FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS P.O. Box 10373 Eugene, OR 97440 Printed on Recycled Paper.

Oregon Birds 21(4): 102 The Records of the Oregon Bird Records Committee, 1994-1995

Harry Nehls, Secretary, Oregon Bird Records Committee, 27$6 S.E. 20th Ave., Portland, OR 97202

From October 1994 to October 1995 the Oregon Bird Records Committee vember 1993 (photos (OBRC) completed the records reported below. The first group of records by CD). are those for which a written report and/or photographs or specimens sup• ported the stated identification and are accepted records.If photo(s) or speci• Brown Thrasher men is indicated for a record it was accepted as verified. Other records were 705-93-17 Eugene, Lane Co., 1 accepted as sight records. bird on 13 June 1993 Of the 32 records reviewed by the Committee and the 6 records brought (MMa, DeM). up for reconsideration during this period, 21 were accepted and 17 were not accepted.At theApril 1995 OBRC meeting all records of theAlder Flycatcher Blue-winged Warbler were brought up for reconsideration and were rejected.The Alder Flycatcher 641-93-04 Page Springs CG, has been removed from the official state list. Harney Co., adult male Information presented below for each species includes location of sight• on 29 May 1993 (TMi). ing, number of birds, sex and age if known, special information (such as col• lection and museum number) and date(s), initial of the observer(s) submit• Northern Parula ting written or other evidence for accepted records, and the OBRC record 648-93-21 Mouth Winchuck River, file number.The OBRC record file number reads as follows: the first 3 digits Curry Co., 1 male on are the AOU number for the species, the second 2 are the year in which the 17 June 1993 (CD). record was observed, and the last numbers are the consecutive numbers for the records as they are filled. Chestnut-sided Warbler The members of the OBRC for 1995 are Tom Crabtree, Colin Dillingham, 659-92-26 Frenchglen, Harney Jeff Gilligan, Jim Johnson, Larry McQueen, Nick Lethaby, Craig Roberts, Skip Co.,1 fall adult on 19 Russell, and Owen Schmidt.The alternates are Gerard Lillie,Kamal Islam,Ron September 1992 (TG). Maertz, and Kevin Spencer. The OBRC thanks the following organizations for having made financial Magnolia Warbler contributions in the past year to help with expenses: Cape Arago Audubon 687-93-22 Indian Ford Creek, Society, Corvallis Audubon Society, Grant County Bird Club, Lane County Deschutes Co., 1 male Audubon Society, Grande Ronde Bird Club, Rogue Valley Audubon Society, on 31 May 1993 (GG). and Umpqua Valley Audubon. Cape May Warbler RECORDS ACCEPTED 650-93-09 Frenchglen, Harney Co., 1 bird 3-4 October Yellow-billed Loon Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1993 (JC.TMi). 008-92-27 Waldport,Lincoln Co., 387-93-14 P Ranch,Harney Co., 1 1 bird on 13 March bird on 10 June 1993 Blackpoll Warbler 1992.(RHo,HGrI). (DAI). 661-93-28 Cape Blanco, Curry Co., 1 immature on 1 Black-vented Shearwater Costa's Hummingbird October 1993 (CD). 093-92-01 Bandon, Coos Co., 1 430-93-24 Florence, Lane Co., 1 661-93-29 Brookings, Curry Co., 1 bird on 22 November adult male 2-12 Sep• immature on 3 Octo• 1992 (GL). tember 1993.(ZS,TMi, ber 1993 (CD). AMi, photo by BS). Broad-winged Hawk Indigo Bunting 343-92-05 Roaring Springs, Least Flycatcher 598-93-18 Alvord Ranch, Harney Harney Co., 1 imma• 467-92-26 FS Road 62 at Little Co., 1 male on 12 June ture on 23 May 1992. Deschutes R., 1993 0Jo). (DoB, photos by BA). Deschutes Co., 1 bird on 19 June 1992 (TMi, Dickcissel Bar-tailed Godwit AMi). 604-93-08 Eagle Point, Jackson 250-93-13 Yaquina Bay, Lincoln Co., 1 female 20-29 Oc• Co., 1 bird on 8 July Tropical Kingbird tober 1993 (HS). 1993 (RL). 446-93-14 Cape Blanco, Curry Co., 1 bird on 16 No•

Oregon Birds 21(4): 103 Clay-colored Sparrow RECORDS Nor ACCEITED 561-93-29 Brookings, Curry Co., 1 immature 29-24 September 1993 (photo by CD). Mottled Petrel 561-93-30 Brookings, Curry Co., 1 immature 1-3 Octo• 099-72-11 Off Columbia River Mouth, Clatsop Co., 1 ber 1993 (photo by CD). bird on 30 September 1972. Not accepted 561-93-31 S. OfWinchuck River mouth, Curry Co., 1 as report was ambiguous as to actually be• immature bird on 11 October 1993 (CD). ing in Oregon waters and if report was written from notes taken at the time or Great-tailed Grackle from memory. 512-93-10 Fields, Harney Co., 2 adult males on 15 May 1993 (TJ). Masked Booby 512-93-11 Mann Lake, Harney Co., adult male and an 114-92-01 Cape Arago, Coos Co., 1 bird on 18 June adult female on 4 June 1993 (WT). 1992. Not accepted as description did not 512-92-12 Fern Ridge Reservoir, Lane Co., 1 adult rule out other species. male on 27 June 1992 (photos by TMi, 114-92-02 Yaquina Bay, Lincoln Co.. 1 adult on 26 AMi). June 1992. Not accepted as description too brief and did not rule out other species. Common Grackle 511-93-11 Port Orford, Curry Co., 1 female 6 June to Little Blue Heron 13 July 1993 (photos by CD,APf). 200-91-06 Upper Yaquina Bay. Lincoln Co., 1 imma• ture bird on 29-30 August 1991. Not ac• cepted as details did not rule out Snowy ACCEPTED SPECIES UNRESOLVED Egret.

Xantus'/Craveri's Murrelet Whooper Swan 179-91-01 Lower Klamath NWR, Klamath Co., 1 bird 025/026-91-01 Brays Point, Lane Co., 1 bird on 23 July " December 1991 to 22 February 1992. 1991 QHa). The bird was accepted as properly identi• fied but the details were not sufficient enough to prove that the bird was actually in Oregon CONTRIBUTORS Gyrfalcon Don Albright*' (DAI) 354-91-12 Record withdrawn by observer. Bob Archer (BA) 354-92-13 Bandon. Coos Co., 1 adult gray phased bird Don Baccus (DoB) on 16 October 1992. Not accepted as de• Jim Carlson (JC) scription did not rule out Peregrine Falcon. Colin Dillingham (CD) Greg Gillson (GG) Kittlit/'s Murrelet Tony Greager (TG) 024-92-03 Boiler Bay, Lincoln Co., 1 bird in winter Janet Hardin** (JHa) plumage on 6 October 1992. Not accepted Richard Hoyer (RHo) as details did not rule out Pigeon Hendrik G. Herlyn (HGH) Guillemot or some other alcid. Tim Janzen (TJ) Jim Johnson (JJ°) Yellow-billed Cuckoo Robert Lucas (RL) 387-89-13 8 miles west of Mt.Vernon, Grant Co., 1 Delores Marcum** (DeM) calling bird on 28 May 1989. Not accepted Melvin Marcum** (MMa) as incomplete song given only once was Allison Mickel (AMi) insufficient to identify the species. Tom Mickel (TMi) Alice Pfand (APf) Broad-billed Hummingbird Howard Sands** (HS) 441-83-01 Charleston, Coos Co., 1 male on 18 Octo• Bill Stotz (BS) ber 1983 (Amc). Not accepted as descrip• Zanah Stotz (ZS) tion incomplete and not sufficient to elimi• William Tice (WT) nate other hummingbird species.

** New to the all-time contributors list. Alder Flycatcher 466.1-92-10 Malheur NWR, Harney Co., 1 singing bird on 5 June 1992. Not accepted as descrip• tion of the bird and its song did not rule out Willow Flycatcher.

Oregon Birds 21(4): 104 Blue-winged Warbler egon Bird Records Committee has reconsidered these 641-92-03 10 miles west of Burns, Harney Co., 1 bird records. The following records have been not accepted on 18 May 1992. Not accepted as details upon reconsideration. The species is now deleted from and description were unconvincing and the Oregon state list. did not rule out other species. Alder Flycatcher Orchard Oriole 466.1-82-02 P Ranch, Harney Co., 1 singing bird on 13- 506-92-06 Toledo, Lincoln Co., 1 adult male on 22 16 June 1982. July 1992. Not accepted as description did 466.1-83-05 1.5 mile NE of Red Bridge State Park, not describe adult male Orchard Oriole. Union Co., 2 singing birds and nest with four eggs. 4 June to 2 July 1983. 466.1-83-06 P Ranch, Harney Co., 1 singing bird on 3-4 RECONSIDERATIONS June 1983. 466.1-84-07 P Ranch, Harney Co., 1 singing bird on 10 Taped recordings of the songs and calls of supposed June 1984. Alder Flycatchers in the northwest were recently analyzed 466.1-84-08 1.5 mile NE of Red Bridge State Park, by experts.The songs and sonograms show that the calls Union Co., 1 singing bird on 16 June 1984. were given by territorial Willow Flycatchers and not by 466.1-84-09 P Ranch, Harney Co., 1 singing bird on 2 Alder Flycatchers. As all submitted reports of Alder Fly• June 1984. catchers in Oregon are based on songs and calls, the Or•

A message from your president

Mike Patterson, 1338 Kensington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103 mpatters@ednet 1. osl. or.gov

Membership renewals are coming up and I have a big and avian ecology. We will be producing a World Wide favor to ask. Last issue, I tried to outline my goals regard• Web page accessible from the Internet that will make ing the direction I hoped to help steer Oregon Field Or• available to the entire world the Oregon Bird Records nithologists. Well, guess what? It's going to cost money. Committee data base along with other relevant informa• Yet, pretty much all the money that comes from an indi• tion about Oregon's birds. vidual membership to Oregon Field Ornithologists goes There is nothing that makes me more uncomfortable to the publication of Oregon Birds at this time. than asking people for money, but I genuinely believe Oregon Field Ornithologists is currently contributing that the projects OFO has taken on and the ones we are to the Oregon Bird Breed• considering are worthwhile. ing Atlas, the North Ameri• So, here comes the big favor can Migration Census and ... I would very much appre• Hawk Watch Interna- ciate if you please consider tional.We are offering stu• one of the following when dent research grants to you renew your OFO mem• students from Oregon bership: Renew at the family high schools and commu• or sustaining level, the addi• nity colleges. We have tional money is entirely tax- been asked to contribute deductible and can be chan• money to the publication neled into other OFO of various books about projects. Or you might con• birds and birding in Or• sider an additional tax-de• egon. As money from ductible contribution or other sources becomes maybe a contribution to the more difficult to obtain, Oregon Fund for Ornithol• we expect requests for fi• ogy, money entirely dedi• nancial assistance to in• cated to research in Oregon crease. ornithology. We have plans to pro• We promise to put it to duce a curriculum for Or• good use. egon schools about birds Thanks.

Oregon Birds 21(4): 105 Nineteenth Upper Nestucca Christmas Bird Count

Larry R. Scofield, Salem District BLM, 1717 Fabry Road S.E., Salem, OR 97306-1208

This was the nineteenth year of the growth and median-aged timber in lation numbers) from what they used Upper Nestucca Christmas Bird these areas, and also rendering the to be in 1976 because the carrying Count. The count was developed in territory marginal for infiltrating new capacity of the land to support them 1976 by the Salem, Oregon, Chapter owls (young owls) looking for a had consequently diminished with of the Audubon Society and the Sa• home. The size of the original owl the increase in cutting. lem District of the U. S. Bureau of Land families gradually decreased (in popu- In December 1994, BLM and Management, to obtain information Audubon biologists concentrated on owls and any other nocturnal birds their efforts on surveying the "Elk in the Coast Range Mountains. The 18 December 1994 Creek-Bear Creek" area (from 3:00 original purpose was to develop a Mallard 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.). For the first time regulated winter schedule for scien• Hooded Merganser 3 this year, Marbled Murrelet stations tific determinations of owl behavior Common Merganser 3 were identified for early morning at a season in which little was known Bald Eagle 1 "data gathering" efforts.The murrelet (at the time) about owl biology, par• Northern Harrier 1 stations were also located in the "Elk ticularly Northern Spotted Owl be• Red-tailed Hawk 5 Creek-Bear Creek" area.The day-time havior. An area of the Coast Range American Kestrel 4 count was scheduled from 7:15 a.m. Mountains 15 miles west of the town Ruffed Grouse 1 to 4:30 p.m. on that same Sunday, 18 of McMinnville was chosen for the Killdeer 1 December 1994. count because of the concentration Rock Dove 5 The weather on the day-time sur• of the Spotted Owl families in the area Great Horned Owl 1 vey was cold and rainy in the morn• at that time. Owl sp 1 ing, but changing to pleasant weather There originally were 3 locations Belted Kingfisher 2 in the afternoon.Temperatures ranged within the Upper Nestucca Christmas Red-breasted Sapsucker 3 between 33°F to 58°F.Audubon and Bird Count circle that had large Spot• Downy Woodpecker 4 BLM field observers met at Coyote ted Owl families in 1976. One area is Hairy Woodpecker 6 Joe's Restaurant inWillamina, Oregon, now Indian Reservation Land (as of Northern Flicker 12 to sign up and to travel to the count October 1988). The Salem Audubon Pileated Woodpecker 1 circle. Gary Peterson and Marianna Society had been negotiating with the Steller's Jay 19 Bornholdt surveyed zone 2 of the Grand Rhonde Indian Reservation Scrub Jay 8 count circle in one car and Clair personnel ( and Bureau of Indian Af• Common Crow 274 Klock surveyed zone 3 by himself in fairs) to get permission to re-visit Raven 5 another vehicle. Me and my daughter these formerly Bureau of Land Man• Black-capped Chickadee 14 Stephanie Scofield, and my niece agement lands to try to again moni• Mountain Chickadee 7 Roseanne Ward, surveyed zone 4. tor what is called the "Coast Creek Chestnut-backed Chickadee 60 Zone 1 was only svirveyed in part (for Spotted Owl" population at that lo• Bushtit 65 owls and murrelets) during the night and early morning time periods. cale (not monitored since 1987).But, Brown Creeper 2 so far, all negotiations have failed. Winter Wren 50 The highlights of birding in zone 2 Wildlife Biologists think that the Bewick's Wren 2 included an adult Bald Eagle, a "Coast Creek Spotted Owl Group" is American Robin 29 Pileated Woodpecker, a Northern Har• still a viable Spotted Owl family be• Varied Thrush 18 rier, and Hooded Mergansers. The cause their habitat has remained in• Hermit Thrush 3 eagle was found on Moon Creek near tact up to the present time. But infor• Golden-crowned Kinglet 141 the farming town of Blaine. mation about the Coast Creek Owls Ruby-crowned Kinglet 18 Snow on the Bald Mountain Road cannot be gained at the present time. European Starling 646 halted some birding on zone 3, but The other 2 Spotted Owl family Hutton'sVireo 7 Clair Klock found a large number of groups (the so-called "Nestucca River House Sparrow 3 Common Bushtits and Oregon Juncos Corridor Spotted Owl family" and the Brewer's Blackbird 21 at these higher elevations. Elk Creek-Bear Creek Spotted Owl Evening Grosbeak 2 The highlights of birding for zone Family") were thought to be dimin• Rufous-sided Towhee 12 4 were Mountain Chickadees on ished completely by 1993, except for "Oregon" Junco 132 Willamina Creek and more Hutton's 1 young male that traveled large dis• "Slate-colored" Junco 17 Vireos than we had ever counted be• tances in and out of the count circle Golden-crowned Sparrow 5 fore. There were large numbers of (radio telemetry information). The Fox Sparrow 7 Golden-Crowned Kinglets but far demise of the traditional owl families Song Sparrow 50 fewer Ruby-Crowned Kinglets. on the "Nestucca River" and "Elk Total 1679 The weather on the night count Creek- Bear Creek" was thought to be 45 species (owling ) from 3:00 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. caused by timber cutting of old- was periodically rainy (a very cold Oregon Birds 21(4): 106 rain).The temperature was between 33°F and 36°EAudubon biologist Clair Klock saw a Great Horned Owl on Bear Creek, and he also heard from an unknown owl close to where the original Spotted Owl family had been located on "Bear Creek-Elk Creek." However, the unknown owl did not call long enough to be positively iden• tified. More work will have to be done in the locale to determine whether a Spotted Owl has come back to the original territory (a new infiltrating owl). No effort was made this year to survey the "Nestucca River Owl Fam• ily" locale or the "Coast Creek Owl Family"locale. No Marbled Murrelets were observed on the early morning stations (7:00-8:30 a.m.). There is 1 more year remaining on the agreement to sponsor the Upper Nestucca River Corridor Nestucca Christmas Bird Count. How• Spotted Owl family group ever, one thing is certain in that data gathered over the last 19 years has been important in the study of bird biology for our area. 0

Upper Nestucca Christmas 3\rd Count Circle

Willamina YAMHILL COUNTY

POLK COUNTY

Oregon Birds 21(4): 107 Oregon's CBC Record High Counts

Alan Contreras, 2254 Crestvieiu Drive S., Salem, OR 97302 INTERNET:[email protected]

This note brings current through Bald Eagle, Ring-necked Pheasant, and 150 Coos Bay 1976 1993 the series of lists published in Short-eared Owl, and Fort Klamath's OB that shows the highest number 1962 Count still holds the record for 149 Coquille Valley 1991 of birds of each species ever found White-headed Woodpecker, Mountain on an Oregon Christmas Bird Count. Chickadee, and Red-breasted 148 Coquille Valley 1993 I have added new records set in 1994 Nuthatch. Tillamook Bay 1990 when they have come to my atten• The "Big Count" remains Coos Bay tion. Although I have made every ef• in 1976, when more than 60 observ• 147 Florence 1986 fort to make this list accurate, it is ers and a pelagic trip combined on a possible that I have missed new highs. 65° sunny day to find 150 species and 146 Coos Bay 1977 Please call any errors to my attention. set 12 state records that still stand. Tillamook Bay 1988 The list following this note will pro• That "year of no winter" also pro• Coquille Valley 1992 vide an opportunity to graze records, duced new records set by a number but a brief summary seems in order. of other counts around the state. 145 Florence 1985 The following records include ties. Other big counts have included Lin• Tillamook Bay 1987 The count with the highest number coln City 1985 (6 records), Coos Bay Tillamook Bay 1989 of all-time state records is Coos Bay 1979 (5), Eugene 1980 (5),and Ruggs- with an astounding 55.The attraction Hardman 1981 (5, including 4 rap• 144 Tillamook Bay 1991 of the Coos Bay area for large num• tors). Coos Bay 1990 bers of waterbirds and regular win• Some records remain open to ques• tering vagrants has resulted in quite tion and cannot be checked easily a pile of records. In addition, the 1976 because details (if any) are not re• The top 3 over the past 5 years .... count set a number of records of sea- tained by the National Audubon Soci• birds by sending out a pelagic trip on ety. I have retained details sent to me 1994 136 Coquille Valley count day. Among coastal counts, during my service as regional editor, 134 Tillamook Bay Tillamook Bay ranks second with 28, and welcome supporting documen• 128 Coos Bay and Columbia Estuary and Florence tation for any of the more unusual are tied at 15, with Yaquina Bay just reports listed here. I have deleted sev• 1993 148 Coquille Valley behind at 13- eral obvious errors and typos and 139 Tillamook Bay Among western inland counts, Eu• have deleted all records of Swainson's 135 Florence gene has a clear edge with 35 records, Hawk and Swainson'sThrush.as there followed by Portland at 24, Medford is no existing documentation of any 1992 146 Coquille Valley at 23,Sauvie Island at 19,and Corvallis records of either in Oregon in win• 139 Tillamook Bay and Salem tied at 12. Eastern Oregon ter. A single immature Swainson's 128 Coos Bay, Eugene (tie) shows Klamath Falls with the most Hawk that spent mid-December 1968 at 17, and Ruggs-Hardman second at Fern Ridge Reservoir and was 1991 149 Coquille Valley with 11, including many raptor highs. found on the Eugene CBC was seen 144 Tillamook Bay Bend has 8, Malheur NWR 7, and by perhaps 50 observers (including 141 Coos Bay Wallowa County 6, with other counts me at age 12) over a couple of weeks; having a couple each. nonetheless, I have been unable to 1990 148 Tillamook Bay Several counts that no longer op• locate any photographs or descrip• 144 Coos Bay erate still hold records, including Lin• tions of it .Anyone who has any, please 128 Florence coln City (7) Alma (6), and 4 others contact me. (Cottage Grove, Fort Klamath, Gold Oregon's big-count CBCs have com• 0 Beach and Oakridge) tied at 4 records peted in a friendly way to see which each. count can find the most species in The oldest records still standing are the state in a given year. In 1994 all of from Portland in 1938 (Bobwhite and the top counts were knocked 10 spe• Turkey Vulture), Malheur NWR in cies off their usual highs by a period 1939 (Great Horned Owl) and of exceptionally heavy rains and wind Tillamook Bay in 1939 (Brant). Two that inundated habitat and limited counts held over 30 years ago set observer effectiveness.The following records that still stand: Klamath Falls' tables show the "score" since 1982. 1952 Count set multiple records for The chase ....

Oregon Birds 21(4): 108 Species High CBC Year Note Species High CBC Year Hooded Merganser 178 Portland 1992 Red-throated Loon 212 Florence 1985 Common Merganser 928 Eugene 1976 Pacific Loon 140 Coos Bay 1983 Red-breasted Merganser 297 Tillamook Bay 1976 Common Loon 193 Coos Bay 1977 Ruddy Duck 8,550 Klamath Falls 1978 Yellow-billed Loon 1 Eugene 1989 Turkey Vulture 2 Portland 1938 Tillamook Bay 1991 Klamath Falls 1966 Columbia Estuary 1993 Gold Beach 1975 Florence 1993 Dallas 1977 Columbia Estuary 1994 Osprey 3 Eugene 1991 Pied-billed Grebe 258 Lincoln City 1985 White-tailed Kite 26 Eugene 1992 Horned Grebe 267 Coos Bay 1976 Bald Eagle 64 Klamath Falls 1952 Red-necked Grebe 91 Lincoln City 1985 Northern Harrier 150 Ruggs-Hardman 1981 Eared Grebe 61 Klamath Falls 1962 Sharp-shinned Hawk 19 Portland 1987 Western Grebe 900 Lincoln City 1991 Cooper's Hawk 17 Portland 1958 Clark's Grebe 11 Utopia 1987 Medford 1978 Black-footed Albatross 2 Coos Bay 1976 Northern Goshawk 3 Klamath Falls 1980 Northern Fulmar 12 Tillamook Bay 1976 Bend 1984 Flesh-footed Shearwater 1 Coos Bay 1983 Malheur NWR 1992 Buller's Shearwater 1 Yaquina Bay 1989 Red-shouldered Hawk 10 Coquille Valley 1992 Sooty Shearwater 1,500 Tillamook Bay 1949 Coquille Valley 1994 Short-tailed Shearwater 15 Coos Bay 1989 Red-tailed Hawk 368 Dallas 1978 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 1 Yaquina Bay 1985 Ferruginous Hawk 3 Malheur NWR 1941 Leach's Storm-Petrel 1 Coos Bay 1974 Rough-legged Hawk 143 Ruggs-Hardman 1981 Am. White Pelican 3 Klamath Basin 1944 Golden Eagle 29 Ruggs-Hardman 1978 Brown Pelican 54 Coos Bay 1987 American Kestrel 167 Corvallis 1978 Double-crested Cormorant 504 Sauvie Island 1987 Merlin 12 Medford 1993 Brandt's Cormorant 564 Tillamook Bay 1992 Peregrine Falcon 7 Tillamook Bay 1987 Pelagic Cormorant 287 Yaquina Bay 1986 Gyrfalcon 1 Sauvie Island 1970 American Bittern 6 Summer Lake 1994 Eugene 1973 Great Blue Heron 279 Sauvie Island 1987 Portland 1974 Great Egret 73 Klamath Falls 1986 Columbia Estuary 1981 Snowy Egret 11 Coos Bay 1988 Tillamook Bay 1985 Cattle Egret 17 Tillamook Bay 1983 Columbia Estuary 1989 Green Heron 14 Portland 1948 Hood River 1989 Black-cr. Night-Heron 608 Klamath Falls 1966 Yaquina Bay 1989 plegadis ibis, sp. 4 Sauvie Island 1981 Corvallis 1990 Tundra Swan 5,946 Sauvie Island 1988 Wallowa Co. 1994 Trumpeter Swan 82 Summer Lake 1991 Prairie Falcon 13 Ruggs-Hardman 1981 Mute Swan 11 Bend 1991 Gray Partridge 260 Ruggs-Hardman 1981 Gr. White-fronted Goose 916 Klamath Basin 1944 Red-legged Partridge 13 Umatilla County 1991 Snow Goose 2,700 Sauvie Island 1984 Chukar 485 Ruggs-Hardman 1980 Ross' Goose 9 Klamath Falls 1986 Ring-necked Pheasant 1,176 Klamath Falls 1952 Emperor Goose 3 Tillamook Bay 1994 Blue Grouse 28 Cottage Grove 1975 Brant 4,100 Tillamook Bay 1939 Ruffed Grouse 24 Ruggs-Hardman 1967 Canada Goose 37,135 Sauvie Island 1988 Sage Grouse 303 Hart Mountain 1978 Wood Duck 471 Salem 1978 Wild Turkey 153 Roseburg 1993 Green-winged Teal 15,000 Dallas 1973 Northern Bobwhite 102 Portland 1938 American Black Duck 1 Sauvie Island 1971 California Quail 756 Adel 1988 Mallard 31,000 Sauvie Island 1977 Mountain Quail 235 Oakridge 1977 Northern Pintail 87,000 Sauvie Island 1971 Virginia Rail 60 Lincoln City 1985 Blue-winged Teal 12 John Day 1993 Sora 9 Medford 1993 Cinnamon Teal 24 Columbia Estuary 1988 American Coot 5,568 Lincoln City 1985 Northern Shoveler 13,600 Sauvie Island 1971 Sandhill Crane 346 Sauvie Island 1989 Gadwall 2,012 Coos Bay 1975 Black-bellied Plover 607 Coos Bay 1982 Eurasian Wigeon 27 Portland 1988 "Lesser" Golden-Plover 8 Coos Bay 1979 American Wigeon 115,000 Sauvie Island 1971 Snowy Plover 40 Coos Bay 1978 Canvasback 2,380 Columbia Estuary 1983 Semipalmated Plover 224 Coos Bay 1992 Redhead 425 Coos Bay 1979 Killdeer 10,728 Corvallis 1984 Ring-necked Duck 1,455 Forest Grove 1983 Mountain Plover 2 Corvallis 1966 Tufted Duck 1 Forest Grove 1983 Corvallis 1981 Greater Scaup 1864 Coos Bay 1992 Am. Black Oystercatcher 71 Port Orford 1980 Lesser Scaup 7,000 Eugene 1964 American Avocet 2 Klamath Falls 1978 King Eider 1 Coquille Valley 1991 Greater Yellowlegs 117 Coos Bay 1991 Harlequin Duck 40 Tillamook Bay 1972 Lesser Yellowlegs 56? Coos Bay 1979 Oldsquaw 20 Port Orford 1988 Willet 20 Coos Bay 1984 Black Scoter 341 Yaquina Bay 1987 Wandering Tattler 13? Coos Bay 1975 Surf Scoter 1395 Coos Bay 1990 Spotted Sandpiper 15 Yaquina Bay 1975 White-winged Scoter 3,770 Lincoln City 1985 Whimbrel 14 Yaquina Bay 1979 Common Goldeneye 3,254 Klamath Falls 1987 Long-billed Curlew 3 Coquille Valley 1994 Barrow's Goldeneye 244 Klamath Falls 1987 Marbled Godwit 45 Tillamook Bay 1974 Bufflehead 3,075 Coos Bay 1992 Ruddy Turnstone 25 Gold Beach 1976

Oregon Birds 21(4): 109 Species High CBC Year Note Species High CBC Year Black Turnstone 327 Port Orford 1980 Costa's Hummingbird 1 Coos Bay 1988 Surfbird 375 Columbia Estuary 1989 Rufous Hummingbird 2 Salem 1978 Red Knot 22 Coos Bay 1976 Coos Bay 1981 Sanderling 5,853 Columbia Estuary 1983 Belted Kingfisher 69 Coos Bay 1976 Western Sandpiper 2,437 Coos Bay 1991 Lewis' Woodpecker 308 Medford 1969 Least Sandpiper 3,268 Coos Bay 1976 Acorn Woodpecker 146 Eugene 1977 Rock Sandpiper 31 Tillamook Bay 1971 Red-naped Sapsucker 3 Oakridge 1975 Dunlin 20,483 Columbia Estuary 1980 Red-breasted Sapsucker 59 Eugene 1990 Short-billed Dowitcher 150? Coos Bay 1983 Williamson's Sapsucker 3 Klamath Falls 1980 Long-billed Dowitcher 532 Coos Bay 1989 Downy Woodpecker 86 Portland 1951 Common Snipe 546 Tillamook Bay 1980 Hairy Woodpecker 29 Portland 1964 Wilson's Phalarope 1 Coos Bay 1976 White-headed Woodpecker 5 Fort Klamath 1962 Summer Lake 1989 Three-toed Woodpecker 1 Baker 1986 Red-necked Phalarope 54 Gold Beach 1969 Wallowa County 1991 Red Phalarope 251 Coos Bay 1977 Black-backed Woodpecker 14 Bend 1990 Pomarine Jaeger 1 Florence 1983 Northern Flicker 558 Eugene 1973 Yaquina Bay 1986 Pileated Woodpecker 13 Cottage Grove 1976 Tillamook Bay 1990 Alma 1980 Parasitic Jaeger 1 Tillamook Bay 1973 5 Tropical Kingbird 1 Columbia Estuary 1989 Coos Bay 1981 empidonax, sp. 2 Malheur NWR 1940 South Polar Skua 1 Florence 1988 t Least Flycatcher 1 (CW) Tillamook Bay 1992 Franklin's Gull 1 Dallas 1988 Hammond's Flycatcher 1 Roseburg 1992 Com Black-headed Gull 1 Columbia Estuary 1981 "Western" Flycatcher 1 Grants Pass 1991 1 Tillamook Bay 1992 Black Phoebe 41 Coquille Valley 1994 Bonaparte's Gull 151 Klamath Falls 1981 Say's Phoebe 4 Medford 1986 Heermann's Gull 119 Tillamook Bay 1972 Horned Lark 1084 Adel 1992 Mew Gull 20,000 Tillamook Bay 1973 Tree Swallow 8 Medford 1979 Ring-billed Gull 10,546 Salem 1982 Violet-green Swallow 1 Dallas 1975 California Gull 5,901 Salem 1981 1 Dallas 1994 Herring Gull 2,000 Portland 1955 Barn Swallow 3 Salem 1982 Thayer's Gull 800 Salem 1981 Gray Jay 46 Lincoln City 1985 Slaty-backed Gull 1 Sauvie Island 1992 Steller's Jay 314 Eugene 1975 Western Gull 4,717 Coos Bay 1987 Blue Jay 5 Union County 1994 Glaucous-winged Gull 16,391 Portland 1961 Scrub Jay 723 Eugene 1987 Glaucous Gull 5 Sauvie Island 1992 Pinyon Jay 507 Bend 1982 Black-legged Kittiwake 165 Yaquina Bay 1986 Clark's Nutcracker 197 Bend 1976 Red-legged Kittiwake 1 Coos Bay 1988 Black-billed Magpie 1,196 John Day 1981 Sabine's Gull 1 Coos Bay 1978 American Crow 5,618 Eugene 1968 Coos Bay 1981 ? Northwestern Crow 13 Tillamook Bay 1977 Black Tern 1 Columbia Estuary 1979 Common Raven 655 Oakridge 1978 Common Murre 50,000 Tillamook Bay 1968 Black-capped Chickadee 1,036 Eugene 1980 Pigeon Guillemot 55 Gold Beach 1971 Mountain Chickadee 315 Fort Klamath 1962 Marbled Murrelet 30 Florence 1985 Chestnut-backed Chickad. 1,059 Alma 1980 Ancient Murrelet 800? Coos Bay 1976 Plain Titmouse 75 Medford 1971 Cassin's Auklet 200 Coos Bay 1976 Bushtit 913 Salem 1994 Parakeet Auklet 1 (CW) Tillamook Bay 1990 Red-breasted Nuthatch 151 Fort Klamath 1962 Rhinoceros Auklet 15 Coos Bay 1976 White-breasted Nuthatch 116 Salem 1970 Tufted Puffin 45 Coos Bay 1976 Pygmy Nuthatch 184 Bend 1993 Rock Dove 2,397 Portland 1987 Brown Creeper 57 Eugene 1989 Band-tailed Pigeon 120 Roseburg 1959 Rock Wren 10 Ruggs-Hardman 1978 White-winged Dove 1 Tillamook Bay 1986 Canyon Wren 59 Utopia 1978 Mourning Dove 1,205 Salem 1989 Bewick's Wren 141 Eugene 1975 Monk Parakeet 21 Portland 1988 6 House Wren 6? Portland 1959 Barn Owl 33 Tillamook Bay 1982 Winter Wren 383 Alma 1978 Western Screech-Owl 55 Roseburg 1991 Marsh Wren 163 Summer Lake 1991 Great Horned Owl 40 Malheur NWR 1939 American Dipper 42 Oakridge 1976 Snowy Owl 11 Tillamook Bay 1973 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1,057 Yaquina Bay 1989 Northern Hawk Owl 1 Sauvie Island 1973 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 790 Eugene 1980 Northern Pygmy-Owl 10 Alma 1984 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Salem 1979 Alma 1985 Coos Bay 1987 Burrowing Owl 19 Medford 1960 Grants Pass 1993 Spotted Owl 8 Alma 1977 Western Bluebird 981 Medford 1986 Barred Owl 1 John Day 1987 Mountain Bluebird 735 Bend 1982 Wallowa County 1988 Townsend's Solitaire 442 Antelope 1979 Great Gray Owl 7 Fort Klamath 1959 Hermit Thrush 147 Florence 1985 Long-eared Owl 13 Ruggs-Hardman 1981 American Robin 103,532 Portland 1967 Short-eared Owl 103 Klamath Falls 1952 Varied Thrush 1,081 Florence 1983 Northern Saw-whet Owl 9 Florence 1985 Wrentit 296 Florence 1986 Forest Grove 1993 Northern Mockingbird 3 Medford 1990 Black-chinned Humm. 1 Columbia Estuary 1983 Medford 1993 Anna's Hummingbird 32 Eugene 1982 Brown Thrasher 1 Klamath Falls 1994

Oregon Birds 21(4): 110 Note Species High CBC Year Species High CBC Year 1 (CW) Salem 1988 Lapland Longspur 13 Yaquina Bay 1985 Sage Thrasher 2 Malheur NWR 1960 Snow Bunting 401 Wallowa County 1980 Utopia 1978 Red-winged Blackbird 16,404 Eugene 1975 American Pipit 821 Corvallis 1978 Tricolored Blackbird 2,067 Medford 1963 Bohemian Waxwing 1,320 Wallowa County 1980 Western Meadowlark 895 Medford 1987 Cedar Waxwing 1,615 Grants Pass 1986 Yellow-headed Blackbird 165 Klamath Falls 1950 Northern Shrike 29 Ruggs-Hardman 1984 Rusty Blackbird 4 Sauvie Island 1987 Loggerhead Shrike 8 Klamath Falls 1962 Brewer's Blackbird 15,000 Medford 1969 European Starling 1,100,000 Portland 1966 Brown-headed Cowbird 650 Portland 1967 Hutton's Vireo 19 Coquille Valley 1991 Hooded Oriole 1 Eugene 1978 Tennessee Warbler 1 Florence 1987 Coos Bay 1979 Florence 1988 Northern Oriole 1 Gold Beach 1975 Orange-crowned Warbler 7 Eugene 1969 Coos Bay 1977 Eugene 1984 Eugene 1979 Nashville Warbler 2 Coos Bay 1975 Medford 1979 Lucy's Warbler 1 Florence 1986 Eugene 1980 Yellow Warbler 2 Coos Bay 1976 Dallas 1983 Bend 1977 Gray-crowned Rosy Finch 3,033 Union County 1983 Medford 1988 Pine Grosbeak 58 Wallowa County 1985 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1,748 Coos Bay 1979 Purple Finch 422 Portland 1951 Black-throated Gray Warbler 1 Eugene 1971 Cassin's Finch 150 Baker 1958 Yaquina Bay 1976 House Finch 1,849 Sauvie Island 1972 Portland 1980 Red Crossbill 701 Tillamook Bay 1973 Eugene 1980 White-winged Crossbill 5 Eugene 1965 Port Orford 1982 Common Redpoll 210 Wallowa County 1989 Yaquina Bay 1982 Pine Siskin 2,699 Corvallis 1992 Corvallis 1991 Lesser Goldfinch 1,413 Medford 1987 Townser.d's Warbler 95 Coos Bay 1993 Lawrence's Goldfinch 1 Florence 1991 Hermit Warbler 1 Cottage Grove 1971 American Goldfinch 1,761 Medford 1976 Coos Bay 1975 Evening Grosbeak 598 Utopia 1981 Portland 1980 House Sparrow 3,621 Portland 1958 Roseburg-Sutherlin 1980 European Tree Sparrow 1 Coos Bay 1990 Cottage Grove 1981 Coos Bay 1992 Roseburg-Sutherlin 1985 Florence 1986 Coos Bay 1987 Coquille Valley 1991 Notes Eugene 1991 ? Record or number is doubtful, details are unavailable and/or record cannot Palm Warbler 6 Coquille Valley 1993 be confirmed. Black-and-white Warbler 1 Coos Bay 1977 t Record accepted by the Oregon Bird Records Committee. Northern Waterthrush 1 Malheur NWR 1963 Sp Specimen obtained. MacGillivray's Warbler 2 Eugene 1967 Ex Exotic, or doubtful establishment. Common Yellowthroat 2 Forest Grove 1990 1 The Coos Bay compiler indicates that this species was also reported on the Wilson's Warbler 2 Coos Bay 1976 1988 count. That record was published in Oregon Birds as "shearwater, Western Tanager 4? Portland 1941 sp." Black-headed Grosbeak 3? Medford 1967 2 The Yaquina Bay compiler indicates that the count found 1, not 2, Fork- Blue Grosbeak 1 Eugene 1980 tailed Storm-Petrels on the 1985 CBC. The record appears in American Dickcissel 1 Columbia Estuary 1988 Birds as 2, apparently a typographical error. Green-tailed Towhee 1 Coquille Valley 1994 3 The Malheur NWR compiler indicates that the count found 1, not 5, Rufous-sided Towhee 449 Salem 1970 American Bitterns. The record appears in American Birds as 5, apparently California Towhee 68 Medford 1970 a typographical error. American Tree Sparrow 251 Baker 1981 4 The Coos Bay compiler indicates that the count found 45, not 15, Tufted Chipping Sparrow 32? Ashland 1940 Puffins on the 1976 CBC. The record was published in American Birds as Clay-colored Sparrow 2 Coos Bay 1983 15, apparently a typographical error. Vesper Sparrow 62? Eugene 1951 5 The bird was in Washington State. Lark Sparrow 142 Medford 1977 6 The Roseburg compiler indicates that the count found 1, not 6, House Black-throated Sparrow 2 Ruggs-Hardman 1968 Wrens in 1975. Sage Sparrow 15 Hart Mountain 1974 Lark Bunting 1 Corvallis 1966 Savannah Sparrow 277 Corvallis 1992 Deletions Grasshopper Sparrow 1 Eugene 1991 Records of Thick-billed Murre and Yellow-breasted Chat on the Coos Bay Fox Sparrow 943 Florence 1986 count have been withdrawn by the observer and the compiler, respectively. Song Sparrow 1,418 Corvallis 1978 Records of Western Kingbird have been deleted from the Klamath Falls and John Lincoln's Sparrow 119 Eugene 1990 Day counts. A record of Ringed Plover has been deleted from the Eugene count Swamp Sparrow 26 Coquille Valley 1991 as an obvious typo. A record of Solitary Vireo has been deleted from the Ruggs- White-throated Sparrow 12 Eugene 1982 Hardman count. All records of Swainson's Hawk have been deleted. A record of 6 Corvallis 1990 Gray Catbirds on the former Ashland count has been deleted. Records of Baird's Golden-crowned Sparrow 1,800 Medford 1969 Sandpiper at Coos Bay and of Pectoral Sandpiper at Eugene and Portland have White-crowned Sparrow 983 Coquille Valley 1992 been deleted. A record of Arctic Tern at Portland has been deleted. Harris' Sparrow 4 Eugene 1972 Dark-eyed Junco 4,472 Salem 1970

Oregon Birds 21(4): 111 Eastern Oregon's Heermann's Gull Records

Mike Denny, 323 Scenic View Drive, College Place, WA 99324

There are only 5 known records of first of November, as more storm sys• Klamath Co., by Lon Leidwinger Heermann's Gull (Larus heermannt) tems move south out of the Gulf of (Rogers 1989).This area is also about east of the Cascades in Oregon. This Alaska. Another cause could be the 135 miles from the south Oregon is a species that is considered almost presence of natural pathways leading coast. exclusively coastal (Harrison 1987; from the coast inland, such as the The third eastern Oregon record is Grant 1986), and not expected hun• Columbia River. With 3 of eastern a lone bird discovered by Steve Sum• dreds of miles inland. Oregon's records having occurred mers on 16 October 1990, at Thomp• With a huge percentage of the along the south shoreline of the Co• son Reservoir, Lake Co., about 180 Heermann's Gull population estab• lumbia River, this should be a strong miles east of the south Oregon coast lishing territories on Raza Island, Sea consideration. (Anderson 1991).This individual and of Cortez, Mexico, by the first weeks When looking at the 2 eastern Or• the Klamath Co. bird most likely of March (Grant 1986), you are not egon records away from the Colum• gained entrance via the pathway of likely to locate this spectacular gull bia River, again natural pathways in the Klamath River. anywhere in the Pacific Northwest the form of rivers seemingly play Three years elapsed before Donna during the spring season. The post- some role. Both records occurred on Lusthoff tripped across a basic-plum- breeding populations leave Raza and the edge of the Great Basin. There is aged adult loafing on the sandbar at drift, both north up along the east• 1 Heermann's Gull record for the the mouth of the Deschutes River on ern Pacific to southern British Colum• Great Basin, Nevada (Ryser 1985)This 31 October 1993-The bird sat on the bia, Canada, and south to the states bird, however, does not fit the estab• boundary line between Wasco and of Jalisco and Colima, Mexico lished pattern of birds in eastern Or• Sherman Counties. This sandbar is (Peterson and Chalif 1973; Grant egon. It was an adult found in June about 148 miles up the Columbia 1986).The first Heermann's are seen 1961 onAnaho Island, Pyramid Lake, (Summers 1994). along the Oregon coast in the second Washoe Co., Nevada (Wotton & On 28 October 1994, Merry Lynn week of June, peaking in numbers by Marshall 1965). Denny and I discovered a single first the first week of July (Gilligan 1993). Eastern Oregon's first Heermann's year bird at Boardman Marina, Mor• These gulls spend the rest of the sum• Gull was discovered at Mosier, Wasco row Co.This bird was loafing on the mer feeding and loafing in the bays Co., on 14 November 1977This loca• beach with 35-40 Ring-billed Gulls. and along the beaches of the coastal tion is about 135 miles east of the There was a sustained wind of 35+ areas of the Northwest. By mid-Octo• mouth of the Columbia River at the miles per hour blasting out of the ber the entire Heermann's Gull popu• confluence of Mosier Creek and the west, forcing all the gulls to face into lation along the eastern North Pacific Columbia (Gilligan 1993). it. Also present was a flock of 100+ Coast begin to retreat south, back to Ten years slipped by before the sec• crows drinking and bathing along the warmer areas along the southern Cali• ond eastside record was found. This edge of the marina. fornia and northern Baja coasts. was a second-winter bird on 18 Oc• We were observing this unex• It is during this October-November tober 1988, located at Klamath Falls, pected bird when it shifted its loca• retreat south tion away from that all of the edge to a Oregon's place further up e a s t s i d e the beach. In• records have stantly, 15 + occurred. crows rose up What pushes and with wild some individu• caws, pecks, and als hundreds pulling, mobbed of miles inland the Heermann's during the late — forcing it off fall retreat? the wind-blasted One possible sand and out consideration onto the waters is the increas• of the marina. ing instability Obviously the of the weather crows perceived towards the the Heermann's as a threat. Did end of Octo• Hi ber and the Heermann's Gull, first winter bird, 28 October 1994, Boardman Marina, Boardman,Morrow Co. Photo/ the crows con- Merry Lynn Denny.

Oregon Birds 21(4): 112 fuse it with a first-year jaeger? Not that LITERATURE CITED Peterson, R.T., and EX. Chalif, 1973. birders have never done so! This Anderson, D.A. 1991. FIELDNOTES: Mexican Birds. Peterson Field Heermann's was photographed by Eastern Oregon, Fall 1990. Oregon Guides, Houghton Mifflin Co., Bos• Merry Lynn Denny and was seen by Birds 17'(2): 52. ton, MA. Craig Corder and Judy Stevens. This Gilligan, J. ,A:Contreras, M. Smith, and Rogers, TIL 1989. Northern Rocky- is 225 miles up the Columbia River. D. Rogers, Editors. 1993- Birds of Mountain, Intermountain Region. Watch the great rivers of the North- Oregon, Status and Distribution. American Birds 43(1): 138. west and you, too, may add a Cinclus Publications, McMinnville, Ryser Jr.,FA. 1985.Birds of the Great Heermann's Gull to the eastern Or• OR Basin. U.of Nevada Press, Reno, NV egon record. With all of eastern Grant, EJ. 1989. Gulls.A Guide to Iden• Summers, S. 1994. FIELDNOTES: East• Oregon's Heermann's Gulls having tification, Second Edition. Buteo ern Oregon, Fall 1993 • Oregon Birds been found in October and Novem• Books, Vermillion, SD. 20(2): 67. ber in or near direct paths to the Pa• Harrison, P. 1987.Field Guide to Sea- Wotton, M., and D.B. Marshall. 1965. cific Ocean, why not in June? birds of the World. The Stephen Heermann's Gull in Nevada. Con• Greene Press, Lexington, MA. dor 67:83-84. 0

Update on the Breeding Bird Atlas project

"But I saw Ravens in some of those agreement with OFO wherein they mention the town where you live and blank hexagons!" you may say.They will partly match donations from pri• names of towns or parks where you are not shaded on the map because vate sponsors. If you were not able will probably be visiting. Make a note the Breeding BirdAtlas Project did not to participate during this first year but of all species wherever you go in 1996 receive that information by 1 Octo• would like to try in 1996, contact the (the Atlas project will run until 1999), ber 1995. Let us know where you saw Atlas project for a free Atlas packet and send your lists to: Oregon Breed• Ravens — and all other birds — dur• containing color maps, checklists, and ing BirdAtlas Project, P.O. Box 2189, ing your outings last Spring and Sum• a handbook. When you write or call, Corvallis,OR 97339,800-440-5454. 0 mer. Your information gets entered immediately into the Oregon Natural Heritage Program database. Without it, resource managers who often use Common Raven that database will get an incomplete picture of what's happening. And, distribution during the besides being worthwhile, "atlasing" 1995 breeding season? is lots of fun. With strong support from OFO, the Atlas project completed a highly suc• cessful first year. Over 400 birders par• ticipated statewide. Data collected during the summer are still arriving and we hope to present a more com• plete summary in the next issue of Oregon Birds. Already we have re• ceived requests from resource man• agers for use of some of the data in environmental impact assessments. The assistance of data entry volun• teers at the Oregon Natural Heritage Program has been essential to the project's success. Funding has been provided by OFO, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon Depart• ment of Fish and Wildlife (Wildlife Diversity Program),Audubon Society chapters in Corvallis and Salem, and several individuals. For the project's second year, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has signed an

Oregon Birds 21(4): 113 Bird Distributions from Oregon Breeding Bird Survey Routes

PaulR.Adamus, 6028N.WBurgundy Drive, Corvallis, OR 97330 [email protected]

Many species nest in Oregon, and I've often wondered for which ones Or• TABLE 1. Oregon BBS routes with the highest annual average egon can claim a special distinction. birds per species. While visiting various corners of the Species Ava Countv Route # Lewis' Woodpecker 6 Baker 15 state I've also wondered for which species a particular county might be Gray Flycatcher 58 Crook 53 American Robin 205 Grant 14 noteworthy. And like many birders, Willow Flycatcher 43 Harney 62 I've wondered where in Oregon I'm Evening Grosbeak 219 Jefferson 47 likely to find certain species. Flammulated Owl 1 Klamath 39 I recently came across some an• Dusky Flycatcher 34 Klamath 20 swers to these questions when I had Hairy Woodpecker 9 Klamath 20 an opportunity to analyze data from Yellow-rumped Warbler 57 Klamath 20 the past 27 years of Breeding Bird Western Grebe 151 Klamath 28 Survey (BBS) routes.The BBS was or• Rock Wren 42 Lake 61 ganized in the mid-1960's by Chan• Sage Thrasher 158 Lake 21 dler Robbins and other biologists in Hammond's Flycatcher 41 Lake 29 the U.S.Fish andWildlife Service.Each Gray Jay 11 Lane 52 year, usually in June, thousands of Chukar 34 Malheur 56 volunteers throughout NorthAmerica Brewer's Sparrow 140 Malheur 64 spend a few early-morning hours driv• Williamson's Sapsucker 7 Umatilla 6 ing along an assigned 25-mile BBS Lazuli Bunting 66 Wallowa 8 route and marking down the species Common Snipe 50 Wallowa 35 they hear or see at 50 three-minute stops spaced 0.5 mile apart Taken as a whole, the data that emerge from nested in Oregon, 238 have been all these counts provide the most found on a BBS route, and an average comprehensive information available of 47 species are found per route each on status and trends of breeding birds. year (range 12-69 species).The most One way to view consistently rich route is the results, por• #34 in Linn County, with an trayed in dozens of annual average of 87 spe• colorful maps and cies. Not bad for just 4 hours graphs, is to access of summertime birding.The the Internet's route that most often hosts World Wide Web the highest count of indi• (the address is vidual birds is #28 in Kla• h t t p : / / math County, averaging www. i m. nb s. gov/ 1849 birds per year — bbs/bbs.html). mostly Brewer's Blackbirds. The experience The BBS data alone do not of covering two provide definitive answers Oregon BBS routes to all questions about Or• stimulated my curi• egon bird distribution, but osity even more they give some good hints. about what other Here are some examples. BBS volunteers were finding, and I For Which Species Does was thrilled to be• Oregon Hold the "North gin analyzing some American Record"? of the data. Of the Breeding Bird Survey Routes in Oregon. Numbers are the route identification numbers.Amon g all 2423 North Circles represent starting points of the 25-mile survey routes that are shown by dotted 270 or so species American BBS routes cov• lines. Not all routes shown are currently surveyed. Map courtesy of the Breeding Bird that have ever ered between 1986 and Survey, National Biological Service. Oregon Birds 21(4): 114 1991, an Oregon route holds the Where Are (you-name-the-species) on BBS routes in any other Oregon record for the largest annual average Found Most Regularly? county. Due to space limitations I list of the species on Table 1 ("average" Along BBS routes in the noted only some highlights. is the total number seen from 50 counties inTable 2, the indicated spe• stops along a 25-mile route). cies is more widespread and occurs For Which Species Is (you-name- more regularly from year to year than the-county) Notable For? A BBS route in the county indicated in Table 3 once reported the largest TABLE 2. BBS route and county in which a species occurs number of the listed species of any most regularly from year to year. BBS route in Oregon. Space limita• Species County Route # tions allow me to highlight just one Acorn Woodpecker Jackson 27 species from each county. American Bittern Harney 62 American Robin Grant 49 Black-headed Grosbeak Josephine 58 My interest in the BBS began many Black-throated Sparrow Harney 231 years ago when I volunteered to Chipping Sparrow Umatilla 6 cover some routes in Maine where I Common Snipe Baker 15 lived. When I moved to Oregon, I Grasshopper Sparrow Morrow 105 phoned Harry Nehls (the BBS Coor• Gray Catbird Umatilla 46 dinator for Oregon) and asked to take Hutton's Vireo Curry 225 on a couple of Oregon BBS routes Northern Goshawk Wheeler 240 (see Figure). It's a commitment that Townsend's Solitaire Lake 252 fits in just fine with my participation Varied Thrush Lane 236 in the Oregon Breeding Bird Atlas White-headed Woodpecker Lake 252 Project. BBS data provide more quan• tification of birds than do Atlas Project data, whereas volunteers for the At• las Project don't have to limit —I themselves to a prescribed route or be as proficient with TABLE 3. BBS route and county in which the highest number of a given species bird songs. Atlas Project results occurred, by year. will show distributions of birds Countv Species Count Route # Year (such as rosy-finches and rails) Baker Bobolink 38 15 1990 that shun roads and thus are Benton Cedar Waxwing 54 33 1976 poorly reported by the BBS, Clackamas Bewick's Wren 19 41 1992 whereas the BBS will continue Clatsop Golden-crowned Kinglet 33 142 1994 to provide a finer level of detail Coos Green Heron 3 117 1990 Crook Black-backed Woodpecker 10 112 1991 for many roadside species. If Curry Allen's Hummingbird 17 57 1981 you can recognize most bird Deschutes Pinyon Jay 92 11 1974 songs and are interested in driv• Douglas Yellow-breasted Chat 30 18 1968 ing a BBS route for a few hours Gilliam Gray Partridge 10 44 1989 next June, contact Harry Nehls Grant Lincoln's Sparrow 13 49 1987 at 503-233-3976. He's always Harney Sage Sparrow 97 22 1973 looking for volunteers There are Jackson Lesser Goldfinch 44 27 1971 many Oregon BBS routes that Jefferson Townsend's Warbler 67 47 1986 go unspoken for each year and Josephine Nashville Warbler 54 58 1977 timewise it's a relatively small Klamath Olive-sided Flycatcher 36 20 1978 commitment. Lake Long-billed Curlew 53 61 1988 Lane Band-tailed Pigeon 52 19 1969 Acknowledgements Lincoln Wilson's Warbler 121 209 1994 Linn Blue Grouse 16 10 1971 In closing I thank Sam Droege Malheur Lark Sparrow 72 56 1988 and Bruce Peterjohn of the Na• Morrow House Sparrow 164 105 1988 tional Biological Service for pro• Sherman Say's Phoebe 11 4 1972 viding me with the Oregon data, Tillamook Hermit Warbler 73 201 1993 Harry Nehls for serving for Umatilla Eastern Kingbird 16 46 1992 many years as statewide BBS Union Pileated Woodpecker 9 206 1992 coordinator, and especially, the Wallowa Red-eyed Vireo 36 7 1973 dozens of Oregonians who col• Washington Willow Flycatcher 68 1 1969 lect the BBS data. Wheeler White-breasted Nuthatch 19 213 1992 0 Yamhill American Goldfinch 104 40 1989

Oregon Birds 21(4): 115 87 The bill in a restaurant 35 More bald Crossword for 88 A strip of land projecting into a body of 36 Vulgar water 37 British thermal unit 89 Belonging to a thing 38 Fatty-fleshed fish that migrates OB 21(4) 90 Macaws between salt and fresh water 91 Egyptian cross 40 -comedy 41 Mackerels ACROSS DOWN 42 Indicate pain or discomfort 1 Dawn chorus, past tense 1 Alone 45 Chinese city 5 The ratio of the distance traveled (in 2 Ethiopian town 48 Ready and willing to be taught miles) to the time spent traveling (in 3 Margosa tree, tropical asia 50 Reply hours) 4 Norwegian composer 52 kosh, near Lake Winnebago 8 Someone who copies the words or 5 Free from gloss 53 The former capital behavior of another 6 Grand openings 54 _ Bene (latin) 11 Hillside 7 Large sandwiches 56 Deep feeling or emotion 15 A European river 8 Turkish leader title 58 Arrived dead 16 Made up 9 Can't move 59 Conclusive in a process or progression 17 Miss 10 Town in Cambridgeshire 61 OB Editor, with 28 down 18 Young sheep 11 Assistant editor Sharon K. 63 Pay attention to 19 Monetary unit 12 Indian music 66 Tomei, actress 20 Having three units or measures 13 After a prayer 68 Tattles 22 Makes older 14 A Spanish river 69 Semiformal evening dress for men 23 Designed chairs 21 Neither 70 Bangladesh capital 25 Large northern deer with enormous 24 Presently 71 Abba _, Israeli politician flattened antlers in the male 26 A person who is rejected (from society 72 French river 26 Softness or home) 73 Shadowy (French) 27 More adhesive 28 OB Editor, with 61 down 75 Expresses delight 29 A stout rounded pole of wood or metal 30 The top of the head 77 Sammy _, songwriter used to support rigging 31 Environmental Protection Agency 78 Nigeria people 31 Lilly, drug company 32 A male child (a familiar term of address 79 Adam and Eve's third son 34 Is indebted to a boy) 81 Thai 35 Put up with something or somebody 33 In an angry way 82 The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet unpleasant 36 Relative biological effectiveness, abbr. (Crossword answers on page 128) 39 Collaborator 41 Chastise 43 Sixth Jewish month 44 Younger 46 Dawn chorus: got an 47 Small amount 49 More fixed 51 stra University 52 Birds 55 Infections 57 Acts as assistant 60 Caused by particles of silica or quartz or slate 62 Associate editor Jim 64 A heavy barge used for freight 65 Scratch 66 Pout 67 Consumed 68 Nonsense (slang) 69 Bar-, Sharp-, Red-, or Great- 71 Haliaeetus or Aquila 74 ing Dove 76 Cyprinids 80 Biu-Mandara 81 An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in the molecule 83 Eating house 84 Apron 85 Secreted by the posterior pituitary gland 86 Disappear beyond the horizon

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These are the Oregon CBC's made known to Oregon Birds. All phone numbers are area code (503) unless otherwise indicated.

Salem Bend Steve Dowlan (h) (503) 370-9083 Tom Crabtree (h) (541) 388-2462 Contact the compiler Meet at Pioneer Park, Bend, at 7:30 AM Tillamook John Day Owen Schmidt (h) (503) 282-9403 Tom Winters (w) (541) 575-2570 Meet at Fern restaurant, 1000 N. Main, Tillamook, by 7:00 Meet at Mother Lode Restaurant, 241 W Main, at 6 AM am. Hearty breakfast buffet offered at the Fern after 6:30 am.

Klamath Falls Union County Kevin Spencer (h) (916) 667-4644 Carmen Gambill (h) (541) 562-5245 Contact the compiler Meet at the Range Science Lab, Gekler & C, LaGrande, at 8 AM Lower Owyhee Bonnie Jakubos (w) (541) 473-3144 Meet at Cairo School at 7:45 AM 5 mi SW of Ontario, W of Jet 201 & 20/26 Columbia Estuary P Ranch, Malheur NWR Mike Patterson (h) (503) 325-1365 Rick Vetter (h) (541) 573-5601; (w) (541) 493-2612 Contact the compiler in advance Meet at the P Ranch at 7 AM Meet at the Pig-n-Pancake restaurant, Astoria at 7 AM Roseburg Coos Bay Ron Maertz (h) (541) 496-3847 Ken Dazey (h) (541) 756-4008 Contact the compiler Contact the compiler Forest Grove Baker Valley Mary Anne Sohlstrom (h) (503) 640-9215 Laura Hayse (h) (541) 523-9254 (fax also) Meet at Elmer's Pancake House at 7 AM Meet at Oregon Trail Restaurant, 221 Bridge St. at 7:30 AM Grants Pass Brownsville Dennis Vroman (h) (541) 479-4619 (w) (541) 476-3830 Paul Adamus (h) (541) 745-5625 Contact the compiler Contact the compiler Salisbury (S of Baker City) Medford Laura Hayse (h) (541) 523-9254 (fax also) Joseph Shelton (h) (541) 772-4490 Meet at weigh Station 1/2 mile S of Baker City on Hwy 7 at Contact the compiler 7:30 AM Port Orford Umatilla Jim Rogers (h) (541) 332-2555 Kevin Blakely (h) (541) 276-5249; (w) (541) 276-2344 Contact the compiler Meet at Driftwood Elementary School, Hwy 101, at 7:15 AM Portland Upper Nestucca John Biewener (h) (503) 645-0368 Larry Scofield (h) (503) 787-3833; (w) (503) 315-5905 Contact the compiler Meet at Coyote Joe's Restaurant, Willimina, at 7:15 AM Silverton Wallowa County Roger Freeman (h) (503) 873-3742 Frank Conley (h) (541) 432-9685 Meet at Towne House Restaurant at 6:45 AM Meet at Toma's Restaurant at 6:30 AM Yaquina Bay Paul Reed (h) (541) 265-7386 Meet at Marine Science Ctr., Newport, at 7 AM Florence Paul Sherrell (h) (541) 344-7231 Contact the compiler Eugene Sod House, Malheur NWR Herb Wisner (h) (541) 344-3634 Rick Vetter (h) (541) 573-5601; (w) (541) 493-2612 Contact the compiler Meet at refuge Headquarters at 7 AM Hart Mountain Brian Day, Hart Mt. Refuge (h) (541) 947-4712 Contact the compiler Corvallis Rick Crabbe (h) (541) 967-7731 Contact the compiler Cowlitz-Columbia Summer Lake Bob Reistroffer (h) (360) 636-5125 Martin St.Louis (h) (541) 943-3180; (w) (541) 943-3152 Contact the compiler Meet at Summer Lk. Wildlife Area Office at 7:30 AM Hood River David A. Anderson (h) (503) 775-5963 Meet at the Hood River Inn at 6:30 AM Coquille Valley Alan Contreras (h) (503) 371-3458 The Prineville count will occur on the last weekend of the period. Contact the compiler Contact compiler Tom Crabtree (541) 388-2462 for the exact date. Sauvie Island Jim Johnson (h) (360) 576-6984 No information was received about the Antelope and Utopia CBCs. Meet at the Sauvie Is. bridge at 7 AM There will be no CBCs at Ruggs-Hardman, Lincoln City, or Waldport this year.

Dallas Roy Gerig (h) (503) 623-6884 Meet at Farrol's Restaurant, Rickreall, at 7 AM

Adel Craig Miller (h) (541)389-9115 Meet at the Adel store by 7:30 AM Year 1995 OREGON LISTING 1995 OREGON LISTING Life 1995 REPORT FORM Baker REPORT FORM Baker Benton Benton RETURN BY RETURN BY Clackamas Clackamas 15 FEBRUARY 1996 Clatsop 15 FEBRUARY 1996 Clatsop Columbia Columbia Coos Coos Your Name Crook Your Name Crook Curry Curry Your Address Deschutes Your Address Deschutes Douglas Douglas City State Zip Gilliam City State Zip Gilliam Grant Grant Your Telephone Harney Your Telephone Harney Hood River Hood River I. OREGON STATE LIST Jackson I. OREGON STATE LIST Jackson Jefferson Jefferson Oregon Life List (threshold is 3001 Oregon Life List . (threshold is 300j Josephine Josephine Klamath Klamath 1995 Oregon Year List .(thresholdis 250] 1995 Oregon Year List .(threshold is 2501 Lake Lake Lane Lane 2.1995 OREGON COUNTY LISTS Lincoln 2.1995 OREGON COUNTY LISTS Lincoln Linn Linn Fill in the blanks in the next column, right. Malheur Fill in the blanks in the next column, right. Malheur Marion Marion Note: threshold for County Life totals is 100, for Morrow Note: threshold for County Life totals is 100, for Morrow County Year totals is 150. Multnomah County Year totals is 150. Multnomah Polk Polk 3. COMPLETE AND RETURN BY Sherman 3. COMPLETE AND RETURN BY Sherman 15 FEBRUARY 1996 Tillamook 15 FEBRUARY 1996 Tillamook Umatilla Umatilla Union Union Send completed form to Wallowa Send completed form to Wallowa Wasco Wasco Jim Johnson Washington Jim Johnson Washington 10405 N.E. Ninth Ave., Apt. G-IO Wheeler 10405 N.E. Ninth Ave., Apt. G-IO Wheeler Vancouver, WA 98685 Yamhill Vancouver, WA 98685 Yamhill tlPtl lii»

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rtnehair Sseitt rllaftrf Aadubcm tod 39 SW Dorion Phyllis Thurston Pendleton OR 97801 5151 N.W. Cornell Road atekyard Rrdl Shop Portland OR 97210 Beth Rose 3893 S.W. Hall Boulevard Beaverton OR 97005 Mitch Lambley 352 B Avenue Lake Oswego OR 97034 Many OFO members travel regularly with Oregon naturalist Mark Smith to see birds and study nature in distant lands. You don't have to be an Linda Marzocco 3574 S.E. Hawthorne experienced birder to enjoy these tours. 1995 departures include: Portland OR 97214 Africa Private - small groups arranged Caribbean January 24 - February 8, 1996 Big Bend National Park April 27 - May 5, 1996 Gary T. Patterson Southeast Arizona May 12 - 22,1996 Alaska June 6-19, 1996 4235 S.W. Highway 101 Lincoln City OR 97367 Brazil, Madagascar, Oregon, Yucatan,Costa Rica, Belize & Tikal! Enliven your list with toucans, quetzals, macaws, and Jabirus! For a brochure, write: Laura Whittemore Mark Smith c/o Pam Davis, Willamette Travel 503-223-7716 560 N.W. Eastman Parkway 733 S.W. Second Avenue #108 503-224-0180 GreshamOR 97030 Portland, OR 97204-311 6 1 -800-821-0401 Deb Kapral Itiftflower Books 8101 N.E. Parkway — C-5 1114 Washington Street The Bird Vancouver WA 98662 La Grande OR 97850 Guide >ra £> fauna Bootc« !he Bookioft "Where to go. What to do. Where to David Hutchinson 107 E Main Street sleep. What to eat." 121 First Avenue South Enterprise OR 97828 The Bird Guide is a bi-monthly newsletter Seattle WA 98104 Used Books whose purpose is to introduce birding as a on Northwest Natural History means for families and individuals to enjoy Marcia J. Martyn bought and sold Peggy Westfall 40 East 5th Avenue the Northwest's scenic beauty and 245 E. Main Eugene OR 97401 recreational opportunities. The Bird Guide Hermiston OR 97838 Alan Contreras featureGuide, s Beginninthe following Birderg columns, Identification: Travel , 2254 Crestview Dr. S„ Salem, Hard to Find, Birds of Note, Birds to Watch sill»ur fiel«! Sf&fmm Janet h Brian For, plus lots of other information for the Bookstore Manager Ecola Square Mall OR 97302 active birder. Subscriptions: 1 year (6 issues) $14. HC72 Box 260 123 S. Hemlock 503-371-3458 h • 503 399-9912 w Princeton OR 97721 Cannon Beach OR 97110 The Bird Guide Greg Gillson M Kris tlr»t«mif£

Rules for a networkare simple: rare birds only (no east/west or west/east Oregon birds]; birders who get calls have to make calls (this means long distance tolls); and once on the network, keep it going by keeping your address and phone number(s) current. Minimum information on a rare bird call should include species, age and sex (if not known, say so), number of birds, who found it (them], and who to call for more information, if anyone. Birders who would like to represent their local birding areas should write to The Editor, Oregon Birds, 3007 N.E. 32nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97212 Please feel free to send ideas and suggestions, too! • Albany Describe your reasons for your identification: your familiarity with the species, field guides used, Rick Krabbe, 1427 Tracy Court, Albany, OR 97321,(H)967-7731 (W)967-5877 similar species that were eliminated, references that were consulted, etc. • Ashland/Medford area Marjorie Moore, 4729 S. Pacific Hwy. #11, Phoenix, OR 97535, (HJ535-5138 (W)776-7293 or 776-7294 Douglas Kirkpatrick, 330 Harvard Place, Medford, OR 97504, (H) 772-2232 (W)779-1672 • Astoria Mike Patterson, 1338 Kensington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103, (H)325-1365 • Bend Tom Crabtree, 1667 N.W. Iowa, Bend, OR 97701, (H)388-2462 (W)389-7723,1-800-762-6616 • Brookings Colin Dillingham, 437 Azalea Park Road, Brookings, OR 97415, (H)469-9624 • Canyon City Tom Winters, P.O. Box 111 ,Canyon City, OR 97820, (W)575-2570 • Coos Bay/North Bend Ben Fawver, 793 Johnson, Coos Bay, OR 97420, (H)267-6485 Lyn Topits, 888 Telegraph, Coos Bay, OR 97420, (HJ267-7208 (W)888-4762 Describe the circumstances of the observation: light conditions, position of the sun, distance to the Barbara Griffin, 1691 Grant Street, North Bend OR 97459, (H)756-5688 bird, duration of observation, equipment used, time of day, time of tide, etc. Larry Thornburgh, 2058 Cedar Court, North Bend, OR 97459, (H)756-4281 • Corvallis/Philomath Elzy & Elsie Eltzroth, 6980 N.W. Cardinal, Corvallis, OR 97330, (H)745-7806 Jan Krabbe, 24461 Columbine Drive, Philomath, OR 97370, (H) 929-5941 (W) 928-2361 x410 • Eugene Jim Carlson, 1560 Chasa St., Eugene, OR 97401, (H) 485-4491 (W) 687-4436 (leave message) Barb Combs, 1466 Elkay Drive, Eugene, OR 97404, (H)689-6660, (W)378-6190 Kit Larsen, 2162 Kincaid Street, Eugene, OR 97405, (H)344-9574 (W) 686-4394 Tom Mickel, 5259 Overbrook Lane, Eugene, OR 97405, (H)485-7112, (W) 935-2283 Clarice Watson, 3787 Wilshire Lane, Eugene, OR 97405, (H)485-6137 • Falls City Bill Tice, 750 Wood Street, Falls City, OR 97344, (H)787-3436 • Florence Bill Stotz, 1305 Laurel, Florence, OR 97439, (H)997-8978 • Portland Jeff Gilligan, 26 N.E. 32nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97232, (H)237-0977(W)326-3057 Add the names (and addresses and phone numbers if known) of other observers who may have Harry Nehls, 2736 S.E. 20th, Portland, OR 97202, (H)233-3976 identified the bird. Owen Schmidt, 3007 N.E. 32nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97212 ,(H)282-9403 (W)326-3115 • Port Orford Jim Rogers & Carrie Osborne, 95187 Elk River Fid., Port Orford, OR 97465, (H)332-2555 • Roseburg/Glide Alice Parker, 313 W. Hickory St., Roseburg, OR 97470, (H)672-1549 Meredith Jones, 2224 N.W. Calkins, Roseburg, OR 97470, (H)672-6367 PHOTOS, RECORDINGS. Statewhetherphotos were taken or video or sound recordings Ron Maertz, 257 Brown Street, Glide, OR 97443, (H)496-3847 were made. OBRC wil lduplicate and return original slides and tapes promptly. Donations of slide duplicates (OBRC prefers a double set) and copies of recordings may be considered a tax- • Salem deductible expense! Barb Bellin, 4730 Elizabeth Street N„ Salem, OR 97303, (H)393-0243 Bob Lucas, 392 Holder Lane S.E., Salem, OR 97306, (H)363-9710 • Tillamook Craig Roberts, 2880 Old Netarts Road W„ Tillamook, OR 97141, (H)842-5782 7. SIGNATURE, DATE. Sign this form, and date it for when it was filled out. • Umatilla/Hermiston Craig Corder, 880 E. Tamarack, Hermiston, OR 97838, {H)567-0305 (W)567-6414 Phone number in italics means you may reach an answering machine. ucts in order to let customers know North American National Fish & which products are supporting wild• life diversity programs. Migration Count Wildlife Funding Passage of the Initiative could bring Clackamas County as much as $10 million annually to Initiative Launched In Oregon.However,a state match of 25 Observations percent would be required .Therefore, Oregon it is important that state funding be 'Twas the night before count day shored up. On the positive side, states I dropped into bed, n 27 September 1995, the Or• would be required to have a wildlife egon Fish and Wildlife Commis• Would the weather cooperate? O diversity plan in place to be eligible sion officially endorsed a national ini• to receive funds, and Oregon already Would we count raindrops instead? tiative aimed at securing adequate has one: the Oregon Wildlife Diver• All the phone calls were made and reliable funding for state non- sity Plan, adopted by the Commission all the notices posted, game and wildlife diversity programs. in 1993. all the articles printed If passed by Congress, funds would The Initiative appears to be gain• be raised and earmarked for conser• "... for a fun-time..." they'd boasted. ing support nationwide and in Con• vation, recreation, and education ac• gress. Manufacturers will be reluctant The response was tremendous tivities and projects.The Initiative — to support it, however, until it can be of volunteers I had more, dubbed "Teaming With Wildlife," is demonstrated that the public is sup• That is, more than in Spring being spearheaded at the national portive and willing to pay a little more when our total was four! level by the International Association for their products.Therefore, the In• of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.The As• ternational Association of Fish and With hoots from Great-Horneds sociation hopes that a bill will be in• Wildlife Agencies has asked each state I sprang from my bed, troduced in Congress in late 1995. fish and wildlife agency to begin a Morning had come, Since Congress passed the Federal grassroots effort to generate such sup• and soon the group to be led! Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act port. (Pittman-Robertson) in 1937, sports• ODFW is launching efforts to make The weather was wet men have been able to financially sure citizens, manufacturers, outdoor- that fine Oregon drizzle, support programs for the manage• oriented groups, and others are aware It was too dark to tell ment of species that are hunted or of the Initiative.To help with this task, if it'd stay or it'd sizzle. trapped. Similarly, the Wallop-Breaux an "Action Committee" has been es- Sport Fishing Restoration Act of 1984 I'd have volunteers with me tablished.The Committee, chaired by provides funds for fishing programs. Oregon Wildlife Society President, some out on their own, These generate funding by the sale Dan Edge, is comprised of represen• I was grateful for all of hunting and fishing equipment. tatives of many such organizations and any who'd shown. With passage of the National Fish and within the state.The Action Commit• With binnocs and bird books Wildlife Funding Initiative, the major• tee will assist ODFW with the follow• ity of the nation's fish and wildlife and coffee and tea, ing: species that are not hunted, trapped * keep their members and the pub• We went straight for Mclver, or angled would — for the first time we had birds to see! lic up-to-date as the bill moves — have the funding they need. In through Congress Lucky for Tim and his troops Oregon, 88 percent of all fish and * secure endorsements from orga• wildlife species are "nongame," yet on Mt. Hood, nizations and manufacturers less than 2 percent of ODFW's bud• The weather was clear * urge their members to let retail• get is devoted to them. Just as game and the birding was good. ers and manufacturers know programs have benefitted nongame what they think about the Initia• Those who had joined me species, so the Initiative would ben• tive. efit game species. kept up good cheer, Ellen Lanier has been hired by Through fog, rain, and drizzle The objective of the Initiative is to ODFW to coordinate ODFW's efforts (we had donuts near)! raise $350 million annually through and be ODFW's primary liaison with a user pay/user benefits funding the Action Committee. Anyone who There were swifts, mechanism. Specifically, a surcharge would like more information about there were swallows, kinglets and wrens, of 5 percent or less would be placed the Initiative, or who is interested in But the bird of the day on the wholesale value of outdoor becoming involved in this effort, was Tim's Prairie Falcon! resreation-related items, such as back• should contact Ellen at 503-229-5454, packs, binoculars, bird feeders, and x466. field guides. For example, a 5 percent Claire Puchy Wildlife Diversity Pro• Darlene Philpott, County Coordinator, fee on a tent that retails for $100 and gram Coordinator, Oregon Dept. Fish wholesales for $50 would be no more 21695 S. McBurney Road, Beavercreek, OR & Wildlife, P.O. Box 59, Portland OR than $2.50. Manufacturers would be 97004 97207, 503-229-5400. asked to attach a special tag to prod• 0

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lease check your mailing label .The by Harry Nehls, Skip Russel,Alan Reid, count coastwide totalled 72 birds — Pvolume and issue number of your WE. Hoffman, and Sheran Jones. Af• up from 60 in 1994, 45 in 1993, and last issue of Oregon Birds is printed ter a cornish game hen/stuffed cab• 30 in 1992.This reflects a true popu• in the upper right hand corner. OB is bage leaf dinner, the countdown Sat• lation increase due to nest protection sent on a 1-year basis, not on a vol• urday evening tallied 150 birds seen efforts in recent years, according to ume-year basis. In other words, your Friday and Saturday in Harney County. ODF&W membership runs for 4 quarters — 4 Jeff Gilligan gave a slide presentation issues of OB — from the quarter in on shorebird identification, pointing esults of the 1995 Midwinter which you joined or renewed. If the out the various field marks of the REagle Count were published by number 21(4) appears — this is your common as well as the uncommon the Oregon Eagle Foundation. In last issue. So it's time to send in your waders.The seventh annual OFO Fall 1995, the census tallied a total of 712 membership dues! If the number Birding Weekend at Malheur Field Sta• Bald Eagles in Oregon, the third high• 22(1) or higher appears, feel free to tion will be 20-22 September 1996. est Midwinter Count for Bald Eagles, send in your dues early.You'11 be guar• David R. Copeland, Secretary, Oregon and 82 Golden Eagles. Highest Bald anteed an extension of 4 issues at Field Ornithologists, 703 Maine Av• Eagle counts were in the high Cas• today's rates,you won't have to worry enue N.E.,Keizer,OR 97303,503-393- cades (154), the Klamath Basin (142), about your subscription for more 4420. and the Columbia River (101). Oregon than a year, and you'll make the ac• Eagle Foundation, Inc., 337 South G counting at OFO a little easier. The irders spend $5.2 billion per year, Street, Lakeview, OR 97630-1823,503- entire OB team thanks you! Send in Baccording to a new report "The 947-2544, [email protected]. your renewal now, and help us out at Economic Contribution of Bird and OB! Waterfowl Recreation in the U.S. Dur• anvasback, Redhead, and Gadwall ing 1991 "A number of groups are lob• Cnumbers are up in North America ll requests for publications from bying for a user fee to be placed on for the second year in a row, presum• AOFO's Bookcase should be sent recreation equipment such as binocu• ably due to wetter prairie conditions directly to Clarice Watson in Eugene. lars and recreation vehicles to tap into — according to the U.S. Fish & Wild• Clarice has generously agreed to take this expenditure for conservation of life Service. on the task of cataloguing and mail• non-game species. In all, Americans ing OFO's bookcase items.This takes spend $18 billion a year to watch he Oregon Chapter of The Wild• a load off theTreasurer and gets OFO's wildlife, according to the report. A Tlife Society is online.To subscribe, members better service. Requests for copy of the report is available at no send a message to majordomo@mail. publications that are sent to OFO's charge from the U.S. Fish and Wild• orst.edu. The message should read P.O.Box might encounter long delays. life Service, 703-358-2504. "subscribe tws-or."The list manager Clarice Watson, OFO Publications, is Bob Steidl at [email protected]. 3787 Wilshire Lane, Eugene, OR his news from the Northwest Re• edu.The Oregon Chapter's home 97405. Tgion monthly report for July 1995, page on the World Wide Web is http:/ Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife: /www. orst.edu/Dept/fish_wild/ are bird reports can be sent di• - Dusky Canada Goose numbers continue to de• twsindex.html. The site contains a Rrectly to Harry Nehls, Secretary cline. Surveys on the nesting grounds in the Cop• newsletter, information on scholar• of the Oregon Bird Records Commit- per River Delta show "very poor nesting success." ships, a marketplace, links to other tee.The"rare bird report form "appear• Duskies have been in decline since the 1964 biological information sources, and ing in the center pages of each issue Alaska earthquake raised the Delta, changing the state and federal governments. Send nesting habitat. A reduction in quotas for the goose of Oregon Birds lists the OFO post mail to Bob Steidl at steidlr@ccmail. hunting season is likely in order to reduce the orst.edu. office box in Eugene as the address take of Duskies. to which rare bird reports should be - Pheasant, grouse, and quail numbers were low sent.That is the permanent OFO ad• this year, attributable to cool, wet weather in May ournal of Oregon Ornithology dress. But birders who send reports causing poor nesting success. Some re-nesting was J (JOO) has 2 articles in the latest directly to Harry will shave a little reported. issue that may be of interest to Or• time off the OBRC review. Harry - The total hatch of Sichuan Pheasant for 1995 was egon birders: Background of the Nehls, Secretary, Oregon Bird Records 10,056, for release in August-September. Birds of Lincoln County Project and Committee, 2736 S.E. 20th Avenue, - About 90 women participated in the first annual Recommendations for Others Plan• Portland, OR 97202,503-233-3976. Outdoor Women Seminar held at E.E. Wilson Wild• ning Similar Projects, 41 pages, and life Area. Semimonthly Bird Records through - Fern Ridge Wildlife Area reports vandalism "con• 1992 for Lincoln County, Oregon, hirty birders registered for the tinues to be a serious problem," with damage to 148 pages. The latter article has all T sixth annual OFO Fall Birding information kiosks, picnic tables, and signs — Weekend at Malheur Field Station, 15, "causing needless waste." arrival and departure dates as well as 16,and 17 September 1995.The slide According to the August 1995 report, semimonthly records; these records show Friday evening was presented the Western Snowy Plover spring are best for the 1973-1992 period.A

Oregon Birds 21(4): 118 paper copy is $ 15 postpaid; the ar• car Johnson, Dept. Biol., Montana also variously marked with yellow/or• ticles are also available electronically State Univ.,Bozeman,MT 59717,406- ange dye on the wings and/or rump. at no charge through Oregon Birders 996-4548, or WHSRN, c/o Manomet Cheri Gratto-Trevor, Canadian Wildlife On-Line (OBOL) World Wide Web Bird Observatory, P.O. Box 1770, Service, 115 Perimeter Road, Saska• home page set up by Lucy Biggs: Manomet, MA 02345, 508-224-6521. toon, SK, S7N 0X4,306-975-6128 fax http://www-vms.uoregon.edu/ 306-975-4089. -lbiggs/obol.html).These articles as anded sandpipers from Paracas, well as all articles in JOO are avail• BPeru. I marked ca. 500 hundred hite-faced Ibis have been color- able electronically at no charge sandpipers OWestern and Semipal- Wtagged in the northwest Great through e-mail request to Range mated) with USF&WS metal bands, Basin as part of a long-term breeding Bayer: [email protected]. or.gov. yellow dye in the breast or belly and ecology study. Five color combina• Gahmken Press, P.O. Box 1467, New• a small number with yellow flags in tions have been used, depending on port, OR 97365. the upper left leg. Also, a number of colony location. Eric P. Kelchlin, U.S. Sanderlings have been individually Fish & Wildlife Service, Stillwater olden-Plovers (Pluvialis fulva marked with color rings in the lower NWR, Fallon, NV 89406-1236, 702- Gand P. dominica) have been legs, USF&WS metal band in the up• 423-5128. banded on Oahu, HI, and near Nome, per right leg and yellow flag in the AK. Each bird wears a FWS metal upper left leg. If you sight these birds, oss' Geese have been neck-col• band plus some combination of color please record the band's position, ring R lared in Saskatchewan for a study bands or color flags. Observers are nvimber, date and location. Should you on first-year survival."We are particu• asked to note the colors and exact catch a banded bird, 1 would appreci• larly interested in factors influencing sequence of all bands or flags on the ate if you can weigh and record the migration mortality." Alphanumeric bird. It is important that we know molt of the individual.AU information codes are stylized and may be con• which leg carries the particular will be properly acknowledged. J.C. fusing at first. Stuart Slattery Canadian color(s) and, where used together, Riveros Salcedo, GAAP, P.O. Box 11- Wildlife Service, 115 Perimeter Road, whether the color band is above or 0730,Lima 1 l,Peru,fax 51-14-633048; Saskatoon, SK, S7N0X4, 306-9754791 below the metal band. We are espe• e-mail: jc%[email protected]. fax 306-975-4089. cially interested in migration routes and the locations of breeding estern and Semipalmated Sand• xotic species introduced into Or• grounds. Sightings are possible over Wpipers have been color-banded Eegon have become "a major con• vast areas including the insular Pacific, near Nome, Alaska. I would be grate• cern of the Oregon Department of Pacific coast, portions of South and ful to learn of any sightings of these Fish and Wildlife." An example of an Central America, prairie regions of the 2000 marked birds.The majority have exotic is the ubiquitous European U.S. and Canada Alaska, and northeast• been marked with a dark green flag Starling, which competes with native ern Russia. Please send observations on the upper leg, and a metal band birds for hole nests. Other exotics with as much information.as possible above a whit band on the upper part with measurable detrimental impacts to Oscar Johnson, Dept. Biol., Mon• of the opposite leg. A small number to native species are the carp, bull• tana State Univ.,Bozeman,MT 59717, have also been individually marked frog, nutria — 62 species have be• 406-996-4548, or Phillip Bruner, Nat. with 3 color bands on the lower legs come established. A multi-discipline Sci. Div., BYU—Hawaii, Laie, HI 96762, and a metal band on the upper leg. Wildlife Integrity Task Force has been 808-293-3820, or WHSRN, c/o Please record the location and date assembled towards a rulemaking pro• Manomet Bird Observatory, P.O. Box of the sighting, species and age class, jected for April 1996. Public informa• 1770, Manomet, MA 02345, 508-224- the position of the bands on the legs, tion workshops were held in Octo• 6521. and the number and species accom• ber 1995. Interested persons should panying the banded bird. At least 10 contact Larry Cooper, Oregon Depart• lack-bellied Plovers (Pluvialis Western Sandpipers banded at Nome ment of Fish and Wildlife, 2501 S.W. B squatarold) have been banded have been resighted in the Pacific First Avenue, P.O. Box 59, Portland, OR near Nome, AK. We ask that observ• Northwest. Brett K. Sandercock, De• 97207,503-229-5454, ext. 460. ers along the Pacific coast be alert to partment of Biological Sciences, possible sightings of these birds dur• Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC are birds — running tally of the ing spring migration. Each bird wears Canada V5A 1S6, 604-291-5618, Rbirds of the Oregon rare bird a FWS metal band plus two color bsanderc ©fraser. sfu. ca. phone network: bands on one leg, and a single color - Curve-billed Thrasher, Toketee Ranger Station, band on the opposite leg. It is impor• illets and Marbled Godwits Umpqua National Forest, Douglas Co., along the tant that we know the exact combi• W have been marked on the residential loop, 12 July 1985 by Keith Graves, nation of color(s) carried on each leg. breeding grounds in southeastern then 1 August 1995 by Anthony Floyd; Please send observations with as' Alberta.Adults have individual color- - Hudsonian Godwit, juvenile, 5 August 1995, at the mudflats of the Siuslaw River, Lane Co., by much information as possible to Os• band combinations; adult Willets are David Bailey;

Oregon Birds 21(4): 119 - Little Stint, juvenile, 10 August 1995, at South Jetty Herr; Bill Tice of Falls City invited Oregon of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., by Harry Nehls - Magnolia Warbler, 1 October 1995, off Evergreen birders to predict the 5 species that and Mike Patterson; Street in Seaside, Clatsop Co., by Jeff Gilligan; will be here next. Unfortunately, Bill - Curlew Sandpiper, 26 August 1995, a juvenile bird - White-winged Dove, 5 October 1995, a bird com• now reports that his computer at the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop ing to a feeder, Brookings, Curry Co., by Jean crashed and all the information he Co., by Harry Nehls; Sheldon; had on this contest vanished — in• - Common Gallinules, 31 August 1995,2 birds in a - Tropical Kingbird and Black-throated Blue War• pond off 1-84 near the Sandy River delta, bler (adult female), 5 October 1995, birds on cluding the information on the Multnomah Co., by Giff Beaton; Cape Blanco, Curry Co., by Colin Dillingham; and birders who submitted their guesses - Blackpoll Warbler, 3 September 1995, a fall male - Northern Wheatear, 28 October 1995, in for the next 5 new Oregon birds. So, at Frenchglen, Harney Co., by Hal Opperman; Tillamook east of the high school, Tillamook Co., Bill is starting the competition over! - Fork-tailed Flycatcher, 12 September 1995, a bird by John Crowell, Bill Thackaberry, and Don Any birder can enter at any time, but in Washington State, near the Oregon border MacDonald. "only those who send in their list (Astoria/Chinook area), reported by Mike before the next first state record bird Patterson; hat will be Oregon's 5 next is discovered are eligible," according - Tropical Kingbird, 27 September 1995, at Malheur W "first" state record birds? A year to Bill. Prizes for winning this com• NWR headquarters, by Sheran Jones and David ago, in OB 20(4): 118, Winter 1994, petition are not finally decided, but Where MI the Birds Go last Winter? Weather, disease, food affect where birds go, contment-wide study shows

f the birds didn't show up at your ters affect feeder visits, Rosenberg the species is both expanding its Ibackyard feeder last winter, should notes that counts for some migratory range to the north and west, and de• you worry? species, such as White-throated and clining in numbers in the East, prob• Probably not, says ornithologist White-crowned Sparrows and Rufous- ably as a result of a sometimes-fatal Kenneth V. Rosenberg. Mild weather sided Towhee, were low in the south• eye disease. FeederWatchers will con• probably let birds find plenty of natu• eastern region. tinue to monitor House Finch popu• ral food away from feeders. These birds migrate within North lations and track the spread of the Rosenberg, senior scientist at the America, moving south for the win• disease. Last winter, more than 12,000 Cornell Lab of Ornithology, credits ter. The fact that feeder counts de• backyard bird watchers enrolled in the volunteer participants in Project clined in the Southeast suggests birds Project FeederWatch—the most ever, FeederWatch with answering this didn't need to migrate because of the according to project coordinator Mar• question. mild weather and instead, stayed up garet Barker. The largest backyard bird study in north. Nearly 1,000 of these were educa• North America, FeederWatch has ob• Finally, the mild winter in 1994-95 tors who have made FeederWatch a servers in all 50 U.S. states and 12 Ca• seemed to keep the boreal species classroom project.That number will nadian provinces and territories. that sometimes wander out of their increase dramatically with the award "Participants in the East reported usual range—finches, redpolls, and to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology of many species showed up in smaller nuthatches—"at home ."In harsh win• an $850,000 National Science Foun• numbers last winter than in the pre• ters, these birds invade southern re• dation grant to take FeederWatch to vious winter," says Rosenberg. Fortu• gions, searching for food. But high schools throughout the United States. nately, the FeederWatchers' carefully counts in Alaska suggest that last win• "We still need more participants," collected data provide insights into ter these birds didn't roam. says Barker, "especially in Alaska and the apparent declines. Unlike easterners, FeederWatchers the Southwest and Southeast, where Consider resident species such as in the West had a lively time in the we only have a few observers." Hairy Woodpecker, Blue Jay, and winter of 1994-95, with birds show• It's not too late to sign up for Northern Cardinal. FeederWatchers ing up in higher numbers than last Project FeederWatch. Participants re• counted fewer than usual at North• year. Varied Thrush was at the top of ceive complete instructions, data east and North Central feeders. its regular, up-and-down two-year forms, the project newsletter, But those numbers probably don't cycle. Birdscope, and a beautiful bird calen• indicate real declines, says Rosenberg. FeederWatch data also show that dar. Special materials are also available Instead, birds may have ignored feed• Pine Siskins are returning to the West for educators. Project FeederWatch is ers because mild weather made natu• Coast, Nevada, and Colorado after a financed by its participants; corporate ral food available. The evidence? 1993 salmonella outbreak virtually sponsors and grants provide addi• Feeder counts for these resident spe• eradicated the species at some west• tional support. cies held steady in the South, where ern feeders. Project FeederWatch, P.O. Box 1-1, winters are usually mild . Finally, House Finches are present• Ithaca, NY 14851-0011. As more evidence that warm win- ing FeederWatchers with a paradox: 0 Oregon Birds 21(4): 120 the birder who wins will be show• ered with affection by other birders, to be sure, and achieve prominence on the pages of OB."I promise to do backups and save the new contest information on a floppy disk." Read the article "Oregon's Next First State Record Bird," OB 20(4): 115, Winter 1994, for a refresher. Bill Tice, 750 Wood Street, Falls City, OR 97344.

regon Birds is printed on 65- Opound Simpson Ecopaque Text Recycled paper, and the cover is 65- pound Simpson Ecopaque Cover Re• support the research and cover food island Road West, Klamath Falls, OR 97603, 503- cycled. The interior pages are 70- and lodging expenses with tax-de• 883-5732 fax 503-883-5521. pound Concept Sandstone Recycled. ductible contributions averaging - 2-4 April 1996, Aspen and Cottonwood in the Blue Text font is Adobe Garamond Book $ 1500 plus travel. Earthwatch, 680 Mt. Mountains, a workshop to guide participants in the development and implementation of their as• and other members of the Adobe Auburn Street, P.O. Box 403RT, pen and/or cottonwood regeneration plans. Blue Garamond family are used through• Watertown, MA 02172,800-776-0188. Mountains Natural Resources Institute, 1401 out. Ink is soy-based. We re Green! Gekeler Lane, La Grande, OR 97850, 503-962- 6573 fax 503-962-6504. or Sale: Leica 10x50 binoculars, eetings, events & deadlines - 13-17 August 1996, the 114th stated meeting of Frubber armored,6 months old, like M made known to Oregon Birds: the American Ornithologists' Union, jointly with new, still under USA warranty, $ 1000 - 16 December 1995-2 January 1996, inclusive, the annual meeting of the Raptor Research Foun• or offer (well under price of new), 96th Christmas Bird Count. National Audubon dation, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho. Peter works very well in low light. John Society, 950 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022. Lowther, Field Museum of Natural History, -10-12 January 1996, North American Crane Work• Roosevelt Road at Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, IL Chaplin, 503-289-0691. shop, Biloxi, MS. Wendy Brown, North American 60605, [email protected]. Crane Working Group, 1208 Claire Court N.W., - 16-22 August 1998, The XXII International Orni• irds! From the Inside Out is a se• Albuquerque, NM 87104, fax 505-766-8063. Lo• thological Congress, Durban, South Africa. Prof. Bries of classes in Eugene spon• cal Chair is Scott Hereford, Mississippi Sandhill Peter Berthold (Germany) will serve as President, sored by Lane County Audubon on Crane NWR, 7200 Crane Lane, Gauthier, MS Dr. Janet Kear (United Kingdom) as Vice Presi• the biology of birds. Each series has 39553,601-497-6322. dent and Dr. Aldo Berruti as Secretary-General. 5 classes. Winter term begins in late - 2-3 February 1996, West Coast Wood Duck Work• This Congress will include a full scientific pro• January and ends in March, and Spring shop, Vancouver, Washington. "To coordinate in• gram and a large series of ornithological tours to begins in April and ends in June."The formation exchanges about the biology and man• numerous areas within southern Africa. All inter• class is intended for anyone who has agement of Wood Ducks along the West Coast and ested ornithologists are invited to take part. Po• an interest in the lives of birds. Our to increase awareness of the potential for Wood tential members of the Durban congress are re• quested to contact Dr. Aldo Berruti (Durban Natu• hope is that the class will comple• Duck management." Registration fee is $60. Paul C. Fielder, TWS Washington Chapter, Chelan County ral Science Museum, PO Box 4085, Durban 4000, ment and enhance students' enjoy• PUD, P.O. Box 1231, Wenatchee, WA 08801-1231, South Africa) to be placed on the mailing list, or ment of birds in the field, whether 509-663-8121 fax 509-664-2898. to provide suggestions on any aspects of the 22nd they are a first-time beginner or a - 13-16 February 1996, TWS Oregon Chapter an• Congress. Suggestions for the scientific program skilled birder. The class is held at a nual meeting, Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach. should be sent to the chairman of the Scientific local middle school but birders "Celebrating Diversity." Dick Holthausen, Oregon Program Committee, Dr. Lukas Jenni should contact us to pre-register first Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, 104 Nash (Schweizerische Voegelwarte, CH-6204 Sempach, and not just drop in." Dan or Barbara Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, Switzerland; fax 011 -41 -41-462-9710). Letters of Gleason, 3125 Onyx Street, Eugene, 503-737-1979. inquiry about the scientific program can be sent OR 97405, 503-345-0450. - 16-18 February 1996, 17th Annual Klamath Ba• to Dr. Jenni, Prof. Berthold, or Prof. Walter Bock sin Bald Eagle Conference, Oregon Institute of (Secretary of the IOC, Box 37 Schermerhorn Hall, Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Ralph Opp, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Columbia Univ., New arthwatch is a non-profit organi• Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife. 1400 Miller York, NY 10027, USA). 0 E zation offering the public unique opportunities to participate in a wide Group Meets At

variety of field research projects.Work Portland Audubon I to. ust 1 uosdny (nxcopt Jun, Portland 51S1 N.W. Cornell Ro side-by-side with renowned scientists a), Aug). 7:30 pm Portland tracking songbirds in Ontario, creat• lird Wednosday of tho ing safe passage for migratory birds The Dye House, Mission Mill, Salem Audubon Society onth (excopt Jun, Jul, Auy), 1313 Mill Street S.E., Salem in Italy and Hungary, banding tropi• OO pm social. 7:30 pm

Lane Memorial Blood Bank. cal birds in Alaska, observing Golden Southern Willamette :ond Wodnosday of tho 2211 Willamette Street, Ornithological Club Eagle behavior in Scotland, or study• nth, 7 OO pm Eugene — contact Clarice (SWOC) ing migration patterns on Block Is• Watson, 485-6137 Hatfield Marine Science land. No special skills are required; Yaquina Birders and ivory third Tuesday (oxcopt Center, Meeting Room 9, Naturalists (Lincoln Co. Jul. Aug) members are trained in the field.You South Beach

Oregon Birds 21(4): 121 Oregon Birds Regional Editors Western Oregon Jeff Gilligan 26 N.E. 32nd Avenue 'Fall 231-0971 Portland, OR 97232 Western Oregon Gerard Lillie 329 N.E. Gilham • Spring 257-9344 Portland, OR 97215 Oregon Birds and Audubon Field Notes have synchronized reporting areas, periods, and deadlines. Field reports for eastern and western Oregon are due Western Oregon Jim Johnson 10405 N.E. 9thAve.AptG-10 to the OB Regional Editor and AFN Regional Editor at the same time. • Winter/Summer 360-576-6984 Vancouver, WA 98685 Season Months Due date Spring March—May 10 June Eastern Oregon Paul T. Sullivan 4470 S.W. Murray Blvd. #26 Summer June—July 10 August • Fall/Spring 646-7889 Beaverton, OR 97005 Fall August—November 10 December Winter December—February 10 March Eastern Oregon Tom Crabtree 1667 N.W. Iowa • Winter/Summer 389-7723 Bend, OR 97701

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regon Field Ornithologists members bird all over the the Oregon locations listed below. If you would Ostate, and often find birds that are of interest to local like to add a local newsletter or revise any of the birders. OFO supports publication of local field notes and information below, please contact the Editor, encourages OFO members to contact local newsletter Oregon Birds, 3007 N.E. 32nd Avenue, Portland, publishers or field notes editors whenever birding in or near OR 97212. Area Publication Publisher Address Fieldnotes editor Phone Bend Eagle Eye Central Oregon Audubon PO Box 565 Tom Crabtree 503-388-2462 Society Bend OR 97709 Ivy Hilty (Madras) 503-475-3290 Coos Bay Cape Arago Audubon 888 Telegraph Society Coos Bay OR 97420 Corvallis The Chat Audubon Society of PO Box 148 Mark Nebeker 503-745-7028 Corvallis Corvallis OR 97339 Eugene The Quail Lane County Audubon PO Box 5086 Allison Mickel 503-485-71 12 Society Eugene OR 97405 Florence Florence Audubon Society 88909 Rustic Lane Florence OR 97439 Grants The Siskin Siskiyou Audubon Society PO Box 1047 Eleanor Pugh 503-866-2665 Pass Grants Pass OR 97526 \d Columbia Gorge Audubon PO Box 512 River Society Hood River OR 97031 John Day The Upland Grant County Bird Club P.O. Box 111 Tom Winters 503-575-2833 (h) Sandpiper Canyon City OR 97820 503-575-2570 (w) Klamath The Grebe Klamath Basin Audubon PO Box 354 Falls Society Klamath Falls OR 97601 La Grande The Rav-on Grande Ronde Bird Club PO Box 29 Bill & Chris Dowdy 963-4768 La Grande OR 97850 Medford The Chat Rogue Valley Audubon 6045 Foley Lane Ric Thowless 503-535-3280 Central Point OR 97520 Newport The Sandpiper Yaquina Birders and PO Box 1467 Range Bayer 503-265-2965 Naturalists Newport OR 97365 d'dline: 20th of mo. Portland Audubon Warbler Audubon Society of 5151 NW Cornell Road Harry Nehls 503-233-3976 Portland Portland OR 97210 Port Orford The Storm Petrel Kalmiopsis Audubon PO Box 1265 Society Port Orford OR 97465 Roseburg Wing-Tips Umpqua Valley Audubon Box 381 Society Roseburg OR 97470 Salem The Kestrel Salem Audubon Society 1313 Mill St SE John Lundsten 503-585-9442 Salem OR 97301

Oregon Birds 21(4): 122 HELDNOTES: Eastern Oregon, Spring 1995

Paul T. Sullivan, 4470 SWMurray Blvd. #26, Beaverton, OR 97005

The season NWR National Wildlife Refuge Trumpeter Swan Mild and moist are the words to characterize this s.p. sewage ponds 3, Paulina Marsh, Silver Lake, 19 Mar LAK (PTSJM) spring. The season began with a cold front in early St.Pk. state park Greater White-fronted Goose March, and the east slope of the Cascades had tempera• WMA Wildlife Management Area 2700, S. Klamath county, 18 Mar KLA (PTSJM); 60, • tures slightly below normal for the month. However, XXX all counties are designated by the first 3 near Burns, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS) monthly average temperatures for the region as a whole letters of the county name. Exception: Snow Goose were very close to normal. Precipitation was slightly HDR = Hood River 2600 (2 blue phase), S. Klamath county, 18 Mar above normal. Mallard plain type denotes species usually seen KLA (JM.PTS); 18000 (7 blue phase), near Burns, 25 April temperatures were about a degree below nor• Pacific Loon italics indicates unusual sightings, late Mar HAR (CCJS); 33, Malheur NWR & S of Burns, 6-7 mal for most of eastern Oregon, but April precipitation dates, unusual locations, Latin subspe• May HAR (MD) was above normal by as much as 150 percent. cies Ross's Goose Overall averages for May were close to normal. How• HARLEQUIN DUCK all capitals indicates a rare 9500 (2 blue phase), S. Klamath county, 18 Mar ever, the first half of the month continued the cool, wet sighting KLA (PTSJM); 2000, near Bums, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS); trend of March and April, then the second half of the ROSS' GULL all capitals underlined indicates the rar• 1, Malheur NWR, 7 May HAR (MD) month turned drier and warmer. The month ended with est sightings, first state records, etc. Canada Goose temperatures in the 80's across the region. 30 with 6 goslings, Cascade Locks, 21 Apr HDR This mild weather did not produce any notable fall• Pacific Loon (PTSJM) out of rare birds in eastern Oregon. Only a few unusual 1, John Day Dam, 21 May SHE (DB) Blue-winged Teal species were reported: including Tufted Duck, Black- Common Loon 1, Fossil, 13 May WHE 0M.PTS); 4, Cove, 20 May and-white Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Dickcissel, and 1, Hood River, 8 Apr HDR (PTS JM); 9, Phillips Res., UNI (PTSJM); 1 pair, Malheur NWR, 20 May HAR Hooded Oriole. A Blue Jay lingered from last winter's 16 Apr BAK (OL); 1, Wallowa Lk., 29 Apr WAL (FSC); 1, (MD.MLD) invasion. The Brown Thrasher which appeared in Kla• Chickahominy Res., 8 May HAR (TJ.GG) Cinnamon Teal math Falls last fall stayed into late March. Great-tailed Horned Grebe 1, Malheur NWR, 4 Apr HAR (CEG) Crackles were seen again at Malheur NWR. The Black- 9, Hat Rock St.Pk, 11 MarUMA (MD.MLD); 3, Hood Eurasian Widgeon throated Sparrows which were so widespread last spring River, 8 Apr HDR (PTSJM); 2, Fossil s.p, 12-13 May 1 John Day, Mar - Apr GRA (TH); 1, Malheur NWR, retreated to their usual numbers and haunts. A1 lomed WHE (PTSJM,DL,DP); 1, S of Burns, 20 May HAR 4 Apr HAR (CEG); 1, Odell, 8 Apr HDR (JM.PTS) Grebe pair nested just west of Riley. Two Black-necked (MD.MLD); / nesting pair, Riley, 8-30 May HAR (TJ, Canvasback Stilts were seen (nesting?) near Island City, but only GG.CRJAS) 1, Bums, 5 Apr HAR (GNE); 1, Malheur NWR, 12 one could be found in June. Only one report of Upland Red-necked Grebe Apr HAR (CEG) Sandpipers was received. 1, Chickahominy Res, 8 May HAR (TJ.GG) Redhead Eared Grebe 1,Hood River, 14 Mar HDR (DB); 44, LaGrandes.p, Reports and reporters 1, Agency Lk, 18 Mar KLA (PTSJM); 3, Summer Lk, 20 May UNI (JM.PTS) Observations were received directly from only 11 24 Mar LAK (CCJS); 1, LaGrandes.p, 25 Mar UNI (JW); Ring-necked Duck observers; reports from a total of 56 observers were 1, Prineville s.p, 2 Apr CRO (DA.DL) many, Hood River, 14 Mar HDR (DB); 20, Rufus, 23 gleaned from the Ravon, newsletter of the Grande Western Grebe Mar SHE (DB); 1 eclipse male, Malheur NWR, 28 May Ronde Bird Club, the Upland Sandpiper, newsletter of 50, Hat Rock St.Pk, 11 Mar UMA (MD.MLD); 45, HAR (HN) the Grant County Bird Club, and sightings reported to John Day dam, 21 May SHE (DB); 1, Boardman, 22 TUFTED DUCK Portland Audubon's Rare Bird Alert (aka Harry Nehls). MayMOR (CR) 1, Cascade Locks, 17 Mar HDR (DA) Few reports came in from Wallowa and Baker Counties Clark's Grebe Greater Scaup and no reports from Malheur County. 1, Agency Lk, 18 Mar KLA (PTSJM); 1, Malheur 2, Prineville s.p, 2 Apr CRO (DA,DL); 1 pair, Burns, Apart from notes in the 2 newsletters mentioned NWR, 20 May HAR (MD.MLD); 2, Boardman, 22 May 27 May HAR (JAS) above and my own notes, I received no mention of: MOR (CR) Common Goldeneye Sharp-shinned Hawk, Killdeer, Downy Woodpecker, American White Pelican 1, Bums, 8 Apr HAR (GG); 1 male, mouth Deschutes Willow Flycatcher, Rough-winged Swallow, Steller'sjay, 12, Tingley Lk, 18 Mar KLA (PTSJM); 1, Malheur R, 23 Apr WAS/SHE (DB); 1, Malheur NWR, 6 May HAR Golden-crowned Kinglet, chickadees, nuthatches, Ru• NWR, 7 May HAR (MD); 2, Willow Cr, 12 May GIL (MD.MLD); 1, Black Butte Ranch, 6 May DES (DL); 1, fous-sided Towhee, Brewer's Sparrow, Dark-eyedJunco, (DL,DP); 100, Malheur NWR, 30 May HAR (HN) Malheur NWR, 8-10 May HAR (GG); 1 female, LaGrande Red-winged Blackbird, American Goldfinch, or Evening Great Blue Heron s.p, 20 May UNI (PTSJM) Grosbeak. Obviously, these species are not absent from 7 nests, N of Hot Lk, 1 Apr UNI (PTS) Barrow's Goldeneye eastern Oregon in the spring—they are common. Our Great Egret 4, Hatfield Lk, 5 Mar DES (PTSJM); 12, Haystack reporting just focuses on the rare and unusual. 1, Klamath R. & Hwy 97,18 Mar KLA (PTS); 3, En• Res, 5 MarJEF (PTSJM); 13, Rufus, 23 Mar SHE (DB); As I noted last fall, our reporting also shares our terprise Fish Hatchery, 10-31 May WAL (FSC) [Rare in .2, east of Bums, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS); 1, Malheur NWR, enjoyment and adds to our collective knowledge. Thank this county] 6 May HAR (MD.MLD); 6, Black Butte Ranch, 6 May you to all who contribute. Snowy Egret DES (DL); 2, Malheur NWR, 9 May HAR (GG) 1, N of Wrights Ft, 6 May HAR (MD.MLD) Bufflehead Format, abbreviations Black-crowned Night-Heron 6, N of Hot Lk, 20 May UNI (JM.PTS) The format used for each sighting in this report is 2, N of Hot Lk, 20 May UNI (JM,PTS) Hooded Merganser this: number of individuals, location, date, COUNTY White-faced Ibis 1, Dog Creek, John Day, 22 Mar GRA (CEG); 1, Silvies ABBREVIATION, (INITIALS OF OBSERVERS); next many, Malheur NWR, 7 May HAR (MD,MLD) Valley, 5 Apr GRA (GNE); 2, Hood River, 8 Apr HDR record. Abbreviations used in this report: Tundra Swan (PTSJM); 1 pair, Ponderosa Valley, 6 May GRA e.g. campground 25, Bear Valley, 6 Mar GRA (JTS); several, Fox Val• (MD.MLD) JDFB John Day Fossil Beds ley, 2 Apr GRA (CEG) Common Merganser mob many observers 1, Burns', 8 Apr HAR (GG); 1, Malheur NWR Hqtrs., Oregon Birds 21(4): 123 8 May HAR (GG); female with brood,, mouth of SHARP-TAILED GROUSE Pectoral Sandpiper Deschutes R., 21 May WAS/SHE (DL) Introduced birds on lek, north of Enterprise, 1 Apr 1, McKay Cr NWR, 7 May UMA (MD et al) Red-breasted Merganser WAL (FSC) Dunlin 1, mouth of Deschutes R., 14 Apr SHE (CCJS); fe• Wild Turkey 80, mouth of Willow Cr, 29 Apr GIL (CCJS); 1, male. John Day dam, 14 Mar SHE (DB) 1, Butte Cr, Fossil, 13 May WHE (JM.PTS) Hatfield Lk, 5 Mar DES (PTSJM); 1, McKay Cr. NWR, 7 Ruddy Duck Northern Bobwhite May UMA (MD.MLD) 50, LaGrandes.p., 20 May UNI (JM.PTS) 3, Wamic, 28 May WAS (DL) [What is the origin of Stilt Sandpiper Osprey these birds?] 3, Summer Lk. WMA, 12-14 May LAK (CM) 1 pair, Wallowa Lk., 8 Apr WAL (FSC); 1 at nest, Elgin, Mountain Quail Short-billed Dowitcher 15 Apr UNI (IBF); 4, Phillips Res, 16 Apr BAK (OL); 1, 8, Mosier, 11 Mar WAS (DL) 3, Hatfield Lk, 6 May DES (DL) Dayville, 22 Apr GRA (TW); 1, Seneca, 6 May GRA Virginia Rail Long-billed Dowitcher (MD.MLD); 2,1-84, Wasco county, 12 May WAS (PTS) 2, Willow Cr, 9 Mar GIL (DF); 6, The Dalles, 11 Mar 14, McKay Cr. NWR, 6 May UMA (MD.MLD); 1000, Bald Eagle WAS (DL); 2, Odell, 8AprHDR (JM.PTS); 4, NEWheeler Summer Lk. WMA, 12 May LAK (CM) 1, W of Paulina, 12 Mar CRO (TW); 1, LaGrande county, 13 May WHE (PTSJM) Wilson's Phalarope s.p, 25 Mar UNI (JW); several, John Day valley, Mar Sora 5, Ukiah s.p, 6 May UMA (MD); 60, Malheur NWR, GRA (CEG.TH.PSS); 1 adult, 1 imm, N of Hot Lk, 1 2, NE Wheeler county, 13 May WHE (PTSJM); 3, 7 May HAR (MD); 1, Bear Valley, 8-13 May GRA Apr UNI (PTS); 2 eggs hatched, north of Joseph, 22 Apr Ladd Marsh, 20 May UNI (PTSJM); 1, Bear Valley, 27 (TW,CEG); 6, LaGrande s.p, 20 May UNI (PTSJM); 2, WAL (FSC), 1, Izee, 4 May GRA (TLB) May GRA (TH.TW) Wamic, 27 May WAS (DL); 1+, Fox Valley, May GRA Cooper's Hawk Sandhill Crane (TH); 1+, Mt.Vernon, MayGRA (PSS) 2, Page Springs e.g., 20 May HAR (MD.MLD) 1, Silvies Valley, 10 Mar GRA (OL); 1, Bear Valley, 11 Red-necked Phalarope Northern Goshawk Mar GRA (TW); 37, Klamath county, 18-19 Mar KLA 1, McKay Cr. NWR, 6 May UMA (MD.MLD) (taken 1,15 mi. north of Enterprise, 1 Apr WAL (FSC); 1, S (PTSJM); 125, Paulina Marsh, 19 Mar LAK (PTSJM); by a Peregrine Falcon); 4, LaGrande s.p, 20 May UNI of Seneca, 6 May GRA (MD.MLD); 1, Fox Valley, 25 May 12 pair, Ladd Marsh, 1-11 Apr UNI (DABJDE); 1000, (PTSJM) GRA (BH) Bums, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS); 33, mouth of Willow Cr, Franklin's Gull Swainson's Hawk 22 Apr GIL (CCJS); 1500+ northbound, above Fox 5, Burns, 8 Apr HAR (GG); 1, McKay Cr. NWR, 6 May 1, Fossil, 12 May WHE (PTS); 1, SE of LaGrande, 20 Valley, 23 Apr GRA (PSS); 2 pairwith colts, Ladd Marsh, UMA (MD.MLD); 80, Bear Valley, 28 May GRA (TW) May UNI (PTSJM) 20 May UNI (JM.PTS) Bonaparte's Gull Red-tailed Hawk Snowy Plover 1 Joseph s.p., 29 Apr WAL (FSC); 1, McKay Cr. NWR, 9,1 nest,ZumwaltRd, 12 Mar WAL (IBF); 1 Harlan's 7 including chick, Summer LK. WMA, 4-22 May LAK 6 May UMA (MD.MLD); several, Hines s.p, 7 May HAR Hawk, Sherman county, 23 Mar SHE (DB) (CM); 1, Double O Rd, 9 May HAR (GG); 1 Joseph s.p., (CL. mob) Ferruginous Hawk 10 May WAL (FSC) [second county sighting] Herring Gull 1 immature, Bums, 24 Mar HAR (CCJS); 1, SE Semipalmated Plover 1, Summer Lk. WMA, 9 Mar LAK (CM); 1, Wickiup Deschutes county, 9 Apr DES (PTSJM); 1, Bear Valley, 19, Summer Lk. WMA, 4 May LAK (CM); 5, Willow Res, 26 Mar DES (CM); 1, Hood River, 8 Apr IIDR Apr GRA (ANF); 1, S of Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 20 May Cr, 5-12 May GIL (CCJS.DL.DP) (PTSJM) HAR (MD.MLD) Black-necked Stilt Caspian Tern Rough-legged Hawk 1, Burns, 5 Apr HAR (GNE); 1, N of Long Cr, 6 May 1, Hood River, 23 Apr HDR (DB); 1, Haystack Res, 3, Blalock Canyon, 10 Mar GIL (DF); 6, Zumwalt GRA (MD.MLD); 2, Island City, 21 May UNI (JM.PTS) 10 May JEF (TJ.GG); 2, Wamic, 28 May WAS (DL) Rd, 12 Mar WAL (IBF); 1, SE of LaGrande, 1 Apr UNI American Avocet Forster's Tern (PTS); 2, Sherman county, 23 Mar SHE (DB); 1, Wasco 1, Malheur NWR, Burns, 4-5 Apr HAR (CEG.GNE); 1, Prineville s.p, 2 Apr CRO (DA,DL); 1, Joseph s.p, county, 25 Mar WAS (DL); 1, Paulina, 4 May CRO (JLB); 1, Peach Ln, 20 May UNI (PTSJM) 29 Apr WAL (FSC); 3, Ukiah s.p, 6 May UMA (MD.MLD); late 1, N of Condon, 14 May GIL (CCJS) Greater Yellowlegs 2, Willow Cr, 12 May GIL (DL.DP); 2. Seneca, 13 May Golden Eagle 1, Burns, 8 Apr HAR (GG) GRA (TW); 2, Wamic, 20,27 May WAS (DL) 2, Fulton Canyon, 11 Mar SHE (BD.CD); 1 stoop• Lesser Yellowlegs Black Tern ing, over LaGrande, 9 Apr UNI (JDE); 2, Double 0 Rd, 1. Burns, 8 Apr HAR (GG); 1,Joseph s.p, 29 Apr WAL 3, McKay Cr. NWR, 6 May UMA (MD.MLD); 2, 9 May HAR (GG); 1, Hwy 20,10 May DES (GG) (FSC); 18, McKay Cr. NWR, 6 May UMA (MD.MLD) Malheur NWR, 7 May HAR (MD.MLD); 1, Bear Valley, Merlin Solitary Sandpiper 13 MayGRA (CEG) 1, S of Culver, 5 MarJEF (JM.PTS); 1, Silver Lk, 19 1, Wamic, 27 May WAS (DL) Band-tailed Pigeon Mar LAK (PTSJM); 1, Warm Springs, 15 Apr JEF (CCJS) Willet 1, Mosier, 11 Mar WAS (DL) Peregrine Falcon 1, Burns, 4-8 Apr HAR (CEG.GG); 1, Bear Valley, 13 Barn Owl 1,1-84 E of Hood River, 10 MarHDR (DF); 1, Sum• May GRA (OL) \,Mt. Vernon, Mar - May GRA (TH.OL); 1, Sof Pi• mer Lk. WMA, 4 May LAK (CM); 1, NcKay Cr. NWR, 6 Spotted Sandpiper lot Rock, 29 Apr & 19 May UMA (MD.MLD) May UMA (MD.MLD) {took R-n. Phakrope) 1, The Narrows, Malheur NWR, 7 May HAR Flammulated Owl Prairie Falcon (MD.MLD) 3, Idlewild e.g., 9 May HAR (TJ.GG); 2, Shelton way• 1, Smith Rock St. I'K, 5 Mar DES (JM.PTS); 1, Sis• Upland Sandpiper side St. Pk, 13 May WHE (DL,DP) ters, 3 Apr DES (PTS); 1, Bear Valley, 5 Apr GRA (GNE); only one sighting, Bear Valley, late Apr GRA (KH) Western Screech-Owl 1, Fox Valley, 16 Apr GRA (TW); 1, Ukiah s.p, 6 May [This species seems to be in decline in Oregon.] 1, John Day, Mar - May GRA (TH); 1, Middle Fk. UMA (MD.MLD) Long-billed Curlew John DayR, 19 May GRA (BH) Gray Partridge 1, Bear Valley, 18 Mar GRA (TW); 1, Silver Lk, 19 Great Horned Owl 1, Long Creek, Mar GRA (TH) Mar LAK (JM.PTS); 1, Pierce Rd, 21 Mar UNI (IBF); 1, 1, Madras, 8 Apr JEF (PTS); 1, W of Bend, 9 Apr DES Chukar Biggs, 23 Mar SHE (DB); 1,1-84,1 Apr UMA (PTS); 1, (PTSJM); 1, The Notch, NE of Fossil, 12 May WHE (PTS) 1, Mt.Vernon, Mar GRA (TH); 1, Murderers Cr, Apr Prairie City, 4 Apr GRA (TH); 1, Burns, 4-8 Apr HAR Northern Pygmy-Owl GRA (TH); 6, Hwy 206,12 May SHE (PTS) (CEG.GNE.GG); 1, Market Ln, 11 Apr UNI (CG); l.Dog l,Idlewildc.g,9MayHAR(GG) Ruffed Grouse Creek, 25 Apr GRA (CEG); 1+, Fox Valley, May GRA Great Gray Owl 1, S of Canyon City, 6 May GRA (MD.MLD); 1, Fox (TH); 1, Bear Valley, May GRA (TW) 2, Winema N.E, E of Klamath Marsh NWR, 21-22 Valley, 25 May GRA (BH); 1, Richland, 27 May BAK (OL) Marbled Godwit Apr KLA (SD); 1, Spring Creek, W of La Grande, 29 Apr Sage Grouse 6, Malheur MWR, 30 Apr HAR (CM) UNI (MD.MLD) 1+, Malheur NWR, 5 Apr HAR (GNE); 40, Foster Flat, Least Sandpiper Long-eared Owl Malheur NWR, 8 Apr HAR (JW); 27, Millican lek, 9 Apr 3, The Narrows, Malheur NWR, 7 May HAR 2, Malheur NWR, 8-9 May HAR (TJ,GG) DES (JM.PTS) (MD.MLD) Oregon Birds 21(4): 124 Short-eared Owl R,30MayGRA (BH) American Dipper 1, Pierce Rd, Ladd Marsh, 25 Mar - 1 Apr UNI Pileated Woodpecker 1, Smith RockSLPk, 5 Mar DES (PTSJM); 2, Marks (JW.BD); 10, Malheur NWR, 6 May HAR (MD.MLD) 1 pair, Spring Cr, 20 May UNI (PTSJM) Cr, 2 Apr CRO (PTS); 1+, S. Fk.John DayR, Apr GRA Northern Saw-whet Owl Olive-sided Flycatcher (TH) 1, Idlewildc.g, 9 May HAR (GG); 1, The Notch, NE 1, Willow Cr, 12 MayGIL (DL.DP); 1, Fossil, 18 May Ruby-crowned Kinglet of Fossil, 12 May WHE (PTS); 1, Malheur NWR head• WHE (BS) 1, Philippi Canyon, 10 Mar GIL (DF); 6, Mosier, 8 quarters, 26 May HAR (RIK,TJJG,SJ) Western Wood-Pewee Apr WAS (DL); many, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 21 May HAR Common Nighthawk 1, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 7 May HAR (MD) (HN et al) 1, Benson Pond, Malheur NWR, 27-31 May HAR Hammond's Flycatcher Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (HN.OL) 1, Warm Springs, 15 Apr JEF (CCJS); many, Malheur 1, Page Springs eg, 25 May HAR (HN) Common Poorwill NWR Hqtrs, late May HAR (HN) Western Bluebird 1, Madras, 13 May JEF (FR) Dusky Flycatcher 1, John Day valley, 1-8 Mar GRA (TH.OL.PSS); 2, Vaux's Swift several, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 21 May HAR (HN) Good Rd, Elgin, 12 Mar UNI (IBF); 1, Summer Lk. 300+, Pendleton to Malheur NWR, 6 May UMA/GRA/ Gray Flycatcher WMA, 24 Mar LAK (CCJS) HAR (MD.MLD); several, Grant county, 13 May GRA 2, N of Spray, 13 May WHE (PTSJM); many, SE Or• Mountain Bluebird (CEG,0L,TW,T11) egon, 21 May HAR (HN) 1, Bear Valley, 5-11 MarGRA (TWJLB); "thousands," White-throated Swift Say's Phoebe Summer Lk WMA, 24 Mar LAK (CCJS); "hundreds," 1 +, Goose Rock, JDFB, 23 Apr GRA (TW); 35, Ogden 1, Smith Rock St. Pk, 5 Mar DES (JM.PTS); 1, Lower Bums, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS) Wayside, Hwy 97,10 MayJEF-DES (GG); 1, Oaks Springs Dam, 6 Mar JEF (PTSJM); 1, Malheur NWR, 10 Mar Swainson's Thrush hatchery, Deschutes R, 13 May WAS (DB); 2, Clarno, HAR (OL); 3, S. Klamath county, 18 Mar KLA (PTSJM); 1, Malheur NWR, 5 Apr HAR (GNE) 13 May WHE (DL.DP); 3, E of Spray, 13 May WHE 14, NE Wheeler county, 13 May WHE (PTSJM), nest Hermit Thrush (PTSJM) with 3 young, E of Spray, 13 May WHE (PTSJM) movement, Fossil. 21 May WHE (BS) Black-chinned Hummingbird Ash-throated Flycatcher Varied Thrush l.Jdhn Day, 26 Apr GRA (OL); 1, John Day valley, 5 some, Wasco county, 13 May WAS (JG); 1, Page 1, Fields, 28 May HAR (SD); 1, Mt.Vernon, Apr GRA May GRA (PSS); 1, Malheur NWR, 8 May HAR (TJ.GG); Springs eg, 28 May HAR OAS) (ANF) 1, Canyon Creek, 10 May GRA (LEH); 1, Fossil, 21 May Western Kingbird Northern Mockingbird WHE (BS) first, Arlington, 29 Apr GIL (CCJS); 1, Elgin, 8 May 1, Sisters, 22 Mar - 17 Apr DES (JM,PTS,mob); 1, Anna's Hummingbird UNI (IBF); 2 at nest, Rufus, 12 May SHE (PTS); 1, Fos• Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 20 May HAR (HN) I, Bend, 5 Mar DES (JM.PTS) sil, 21 May WHE (BS) Sage Thrasher Calliope Hummingbird Eastern Kingbird 2, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS); 4, SW 1, John Day, 26 Apr GRA (OL); 1, Canyon Cr, 1 May 1, LaGrande, 20 May UNI (PTS JM); some, Malheur of Millican, 9 Apr DES (JM.PTS); 1, Suplee, 7 May CRO GRA (LEH); 1, S Fk. John Day R, 13 May GRA (CEG); NWR, 27 May HAR (HN et al); 1, Monument, May GRA (TW); 1, Bear Valley, 13 May GRA (OL) 1, Dog Creek, 18 May GRA (CEG) (TH) BROWN THRASHER Broad-tailed Hummingbird Tree Swallow 1, Klamath Falls, Fall 1994 to late Mar KLA 1 male, Summer Lake, 25 May LAK (CM) 1+, Murderers Cr, 18 Mar GRA (TH) (RHG,PTSJM,SR,et al) Rufous Hummingbird Violet-green Swallow Bohemian Waxwing 1, Prairie City, 23 Apr GRA (OL); several, John Day 4, Lower Dam, 6 Mar JEF (PTSJM) 30, N of Prairie City, 26 Mar GRA (CCJS) valley, May GRA (LEH.CEG.TH); 1, Malheur NWR, 7 Bank Swallow Cedar Waxwing May HAR (MD.MLD) several, The Dalles, 12 May WAS (DL.DP) 30, Willow Cr, 9 Mar GIL (DF); 30, Wasco county, Lewis's Woodpecker Cliff Swallow 21 May WAS (BS) 1, Dog Creek, 8 May GRA (CEG); 1, Malheur NWR, 20, Malheur NWR, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS); 5, Spray, 2 Northern Shrike 8-28 May HAR (TJ,GG,HNJAS); 1, Lone Rock, 12 May Apr WHE (DL,DP) 1, Dog Cr, John Day, 18 Mar GRA (CEG); 1, Sunriver, GIL (DL,DP); 1, Holliday St.Pk, 13 May GRA (PSS); Barn Swallow 20 Mar DES (PTS); 1, Bear Valley, 22 MarGRA (TW); 4, several, S.Fk. John Day R, 20-27 May GRA (CEGJ?H); 1+, Mt.Vernon, 2 Apr GRA (ANF) Malheur NWR, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS) 2, P Ranch, 21 May HAR (MD.MLD); 1, Fields, 28 May GrayJay Loggerhead Shrike HAR (SD); 8, Middle Fk. John DayR, 28 MayGRA (OL); 1, Bear Valley, 4 Mar GRA (TW) 1, S of Culver, 5 Mar JEF (JM.PTS); 1, Fields, 17 Mar 2, Horse Butte burn, 30 May DES OAS) BLUE JAY HAR (OL); 1, Painted Hills, 23 Mar WHE (CCJS); sev• Red-naped Sapsucker 1, Canyon City, 4-20 Apr GRA (CEG) eral, Wheeler county, 2 Apr WHE (DL.DA); 1, Riley, 8 1, Malheur NWR Hqtrs., 7-9 May HAR (CL.GG mob); Pinyon Jay Apr HAR (GG); 1, Murderers Cr, Apr GRA (TH) 1, Idlewild eg, 9 May HAR (GG); several, Grant county, 15, N Millican valley, 30 May DES (JAS); 25, Powell Solitary Vireo May GRA (OL,CEG,TW,LEH,TH) Butte, 2 Apr CRO (PTS) 2 at nest, Hwy 244, W of LaGrande, 20 May UNI Red-breasted Sapsucker Clark's Nutcracker (PTSJM); 1, Malheur NWR, 31 May HAR (OL) \,Bear Valley, Apr GRA (ANF); 1, Indian Ford eg, 6, W of Bend, 29 May DES (JM.PTS) Warbling Vireo 6 May DES (SR) Chestnut-backed Chickadee movement, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 7 May onward HAR Williamson's Sapsucker 1, Bear Springs ranger station, 8 Apr WAS (PTSJM) (MD et al); 1, S. Fk.John Day R, 27 May GRA (BH) 1, Klamath Marsh NWR, 19 Mar KLA (PTSJM); 15, Brown Creeper Tennessee Warbler OchocoMts, 2 AprCRO/WHE (DA.DL); 2, Idlewildc.g, 1, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 27 May HAR (HN et al) 1, Fields, 22 May HAR (AF et al) 9 May HAR (GG) Rock Wren Orange-crowned Warbler Hairy Woodpecker 1, W of Biggs, 23 Mar SHE (DB); 1, Murderers Cr, 1, Mt.Vernon, 20 Apr GRA (ANF); movement, 22, Craine Prairie burn, 29 May DES (CM) Apr GRA (TH); 1, Hamilton, May GRA (TH) Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 7 May HAR (MD.MLD); several, White-headed Woodpecker Canyon Wren Grant county, May GRA (ANF,OL,TH) 1, Bear Valley, Mar GRA 0LB) 1, S. Fk. John Day R, 27 May GRA (BH) Nashville Warbler Black-backed Woodpecker House Wren 1, mouth of Deschutes R, 14 Apr SHE (CCJS); 2. 1, Bear Valley, 5 Mar GRA (JLB); 1, Bear Valley, 23 3, Bend, 12 Apr DES (TC) Wasco county, 17 Apr WAS (DA); movement, Malheur Apr GRA (JLB); 1, Idlewildc.g, 6 May HAR (MD.MLD); Winter Wren NWR Hqtrs, 7-10MayHAR (MD.MLD.GG); 1, Rhinehart 1, SE of Bend, 6 May DES (SR); 1, Camas Prarie, 20 1, Fox Valley, 31 MayGRA (BH) area, 21 May UNI (PTSJM); 1, Mt.Vernon, 21 May GRA May WAS (DL); 1, Spring Cr, 20 May UNI (PTSJM); 2, Marsh Wren (ANF) Dry Cr, W of Sisters, 27 May DES (PTS); 29, Craine 1, The Dalles, 11 Mar WAS (DL) Yellow Warbler Prairie burn, 29 May DES (CM); 1, Middle Fk. John Day movement, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 7 May HAR Oregon Birds 21(4): 125 Have you seen a radio- •••IB tagged Mallard hen? The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Oregon State University need your help in locating radio-tagged Mallard hens. During Spring 1995, 32 Mallard hens were fitted with back-mounted radio transmitters in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon. In addition, standard TJSFWS leg bands were at• tached to the right leg. Monitored for a few weeks, after unsuccessful nest• ing attempts, 20 of the hens left the Willamette Valley. Efforts to locate these birds in other parts of the state have been unsuccessful. The transmitters are black, approxi• bers below for a list of frequencies. If Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife mately 1 inch in diameter, with a 10- you observe, trap, or locate one of Migratory Game Bird Program inch upright antenna.The transmitter these Mallard hens, please record the P.O. Box 59 frequencies are in the 151.000 MHz following information: date, specific Portland, OR 97207 range. Anyone currently conducting location, band number, frequency (if Attention: Brad Bales, 503-229-5454 ext. telemetry work can assist by scanning possible), observer's name, address, 447 for individual frequencies. and phone number, and any details If you can help, call one of the num- regarding the sighting. Oregon State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Nash Hall 104 Corvallis, OR 97331 Attention: Robert L. Jarvis, 503-737-1956

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The falcon photo in the lower left Falcon. The photo is reproduced be• bird by David Bailey help to make the corner of OB 21 (3): 93, Fall 1995, was low, left, correctly identified as a Gyr- correct ID obvious.The editors regret erroneously identified as a Peregrine falcon.Additional photos of the same the error.

Gyrfalcon, OBRC354-94-17C, 29 December 1994, Gyrfalcon, OBRC 354-94-17E, 2 January 1995, Gyrfalcon, OBRC 354-94-1ID, 2 January 1995, near Joseph, Wallowa Co. Photo/Mike Denny. near Joseph, Wallowa Co. Photo/David Bailey. near Joseph, Wallowa Co. Photo/David Bailey.

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Oregon Birds 21(4): 126 (MD.MLD) 1, Malheur NWR, 7 May HAR (MD.MLD) 4, Harney Basin, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS); male, Wamic, CAPE MAY WARBLER American Tree Sparrow 8 Apr WAS (DL) 1 male, Malheur NWR Hqtrs., 21 May HAR 15, Swamp Cr, north of Joseph, 15 Mar WAL (FSC) GREAT-TAILED CRACKLE (MD,MLD,HN,OS et al) Chipping Sparrow 1, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 30 Apr - 9 May HAR Yellow-rumped Warbler 1, John Day, 1 Apr GRA (OL); 2, Warm Springs, 2 (CM,HN,CL et al); 1, Page Springs eg, 25 May HAR first, Bend, 8 Apr DES (TC) Apr JEF (DL.DA) (MS) Black-throated Gray Warbler Vesper Sparrow COMMON CRACKLE 1, Wasco county, 17 Apr WAS (DA); 1, Glass Butte, 27 1, Malheur NWR, 5 Apr HAR (GNE); 1, Fox Valley, 1 male, Malheur NWR, 21 May HAR (MD.MLD) May LAK (SD) 16 Apr GRA (TW) HOODED ORIOLE Townsend's Warbler Lark Sparrow male, Bend, 2 May DES (DH); 1st yr. male, Page 1, Holliday St.Pk, 20 May GRA (CEG); movement, 1+, S. Fk. John Day R, 13 May GRA (CEG); 1+, Springs eg, 21 May HAR (AF) Fossil, 21 May WHE (BS); 15+, Malheur NWR, 19 May John Day valley, 13 MayGRA (PSS); 14, Wheeler county, Gray-crowned Rosy Finch HAR (MD,MLD,HN et al) 13 May WHE (PTSJM); 6, Wasco county, 20 May WAS 3 pair, Canyon Creek, 5 Mar GRA (LEH); 50, Smith Black-and-white Warbler (DL); l+,John Day, 20 MayGRA (OL) Rocks St.Pk, 5 Mar DES (JM.PTS) 1, Girds Cr, 13 May WHE (DL.DP); 1-3, Malheur Black-throated Sparrow Purple Finch NWR Hqtrs, 19 May HAR (MD.MLD AF) 2, Cottonwood Cr, Fields, 29 May HAR (SD) [Quite 1, Phillips Res, 16 Apr BAK (OL) American Redstart unlike me invasion of last year. ] Red Crossbill 2, Fields, 22 May HAR (AF) Sage Sparrow 200, Ochoco Mts, 2 Apr WHE (DA.DL); 300, Malheur Ovenbird 10, Malheur NWR, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS); 4, SW of NF, 6 May HAR (MD) 1, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 27 May HAR (PS.TJ.HNJAS Millican, 9 Apr DES (PTSJM) White-winged Crossbill et al) Grasshopper Sparrow 1+, Malheur NWR, 21 May HAR (ANF) MacGillivray's Warbler 1, near Lone Rock, 13 May GIL (RAK); several, Kent, Pine Siskin 1, Dayville.John Day, 20 MayGRA (CEG.OL); 1 male, 21 May SHE (DB) 20, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 21-27 May HAR (HN) S of Page Springs eg, 20 May HAR (MD.MLDJN); 1, Fox Sparrow Fox Valley, 25 May GRA (BH); 4, Cottonwood Cr, Fields, 1, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS) Observers 27-28 May HAR (SD) Lincoln's Sparrow DA - David A. Anderson; DB - David Bailey; JLB - Common Yellowthroat 1,Canyon City, 13AprGRA(CEG); 10, Summer Lake, Jennifer & Lance Baker; GB - Greg Boyce; DAB - Dave 2, Hood River county, 8 Apr HDR (PTSJM) 4 May LAK (CM); 1, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 2 5 May HAR Bronson; FSC - Frank & Sue Conley; CC - Craig Corder; Wilson's Warbler (HN) TC - Tom Crabtree; MD - Mike Denny; MLD - Merry 1+, Holliday St.Pk. & S.Fk. John Day R, 20 May White-throated Sparrow Lynn Denny; VD - Vicki Dinsmore; BD - Bill Dowdy; CD GRA (CEG); movement, Fossil, 21 May WHE (BS); 1+, o 1, Summer Lake, 12 May LAK (CM); 1, Malheur - Chris Dowdy; SD - Steve Dowlan; GNE - Gene & Nadine Fox Valley, 24 May GRA (BH); many, Malheur NWR NWR, 19-26 Mav HAR (CC.mob); 1, Fossil, 19 May WHE Emery; JDE - Jan & Doug Eustace; DF - Darrel Faxon; Hqtrs, late May HAR (HN et al) (BS); AF - Anthony Floyd; ANF - Ann Frost; IBF - Irene & Bob Yellow-breasted Chat Golden-crowned Sparrow Froyd; CEG - Cecil Gagnon; CG - Carmen Gambill; RHG 1, Harney county, 8 May HAR (GG); 2, Butte Cr, 13 1, Canyon City, 10 May GRA (CEG); 2, Olex, 13 May - Ron & Hilda Garret; JG - Jeff Gilligan; GG - Greg Gilson; May WHE (DL.DP); 10, Page Springs, 20 May HAR GIL (DL,DP) BH - Bob Hudson; KH - Karen Haines; DH - Dean Hale; (MD.MLD); 1, S. Fk. John Day R, 20-27 May GRA White-crowned Sparrow LEH - Lee & Eva Harris; TH - Tom Hunt; TJ - Tim Janzen; (CEG,BH); 1, Richland, 27 May BAK (OL) movement, Wasco & Sherman county, 23 Apr WAS/ SJ - Sheran Jones; RIK - Rick Krabbe; RAK - Ray Korpi; Rose-breasted Grosbeak SHE (DL); 1, Malheur NWR, 25 May HAR (HN) CL - Cindy Lawes; DL - Donna Lusthoff; LMB - Lois female, Malheur NWR Hqtrs, 27-28 May HAR (HN,TJ Bobolink MacBird; JM - Judy Meredith; CM - Craig Miller; HN - etal) 6, Ladd Marsh, 20 May UNI (PTSJM); 1, Prairie City, Harry Nehls; JN -Jim Nestler; OL - Clarence & Marilyn Lazuli Bunting 24 May GRA (VD) O'Leary; DP - Don Pederson; FR - Fred Ramsey; CR - 1, LaGrande, 10 May UNI (LMB); many, Wheeler Tricolored Blackbird Craig Roberts; SR - Skip Russell; OS - Owen Schmidt; county, 13 May WHE (DL.DP) 75, Agency Lk, 18 Mar KLA (PTSJM); male, E of BS - Brian Sharp; JAS - Jamie Simmons; MS - Mark DICKCISSEL Burns, 25 Mar HAR (CCJS); 1,Hood River, 8 Apr HDR Smidi; JTS - Jack&Teresa Southworth; JS -Judy Stevens; 1, Big Summit Prairie, 27 May CRO (GB) (PTSJM); 20, Bridge Cr. pond, 13 May WHE (DL,DP) PTS - Paul T. Sullivan; PSS - Pat & Sharon Sweeney; Green-tailed Towhee Yellow-headed Blackbird JW - Jim Ward; TW - Tom Winters. 0

Harney Co. Photo/Owen Schmidt. Middle: Black-and- uarters, Harney: Co. Photo/Owen Schmidt. Right: Com- Patrol Road, Malheur NWR, Harney Co., OBRC Record

Oregon Birds 21(4): 127 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 28 May 1995, a female at Malheur NWR HQ, Harney Co. Photo/Tim lanzen.

Tufted Duck, OBRC 1491-95-20B, 30 April 1995, Bay City sewage ponds, Tillamook Co. Photo/Harry Nehls. Northern Saw-Whet Owl, 26 May 1995, Malheur NWR headquarters, Harney Co. Photo/Tim Jan zen. (Crossword answers from page 116)

H A N • M P H • A P E • B R A E 0 D E 1 A R E 1 A L 1 L A M B L W E 1 1 T E R N A R Y, 1 A G E R E A M s • M 0 0 S • P A N 0 IsE 1 | G O 0 E R P A R E L 1 o w E s • B A R R B E Hudsonian Godwit, OBRC 251-95-14F, 10 May P A R T Nj E • c A s T 1 A T E 1995, Ankeny NWR, Polk Co. Photo/Stephen G. » Dowlan. A D A • N E W E A R F U L R " • • 1 IT A 1 u R R H 0 F 0 R E G 0 N s O R S • A 1 D E 1 L • s 1 c O S s •> O H N S O N H 0 Y 1 T C H • M 0 u E H A D |B L A H 1 A 1 L E D| E A G L M o u R N A C E S E, • • B U R A • o X 1 D E c A F E .TiW.V.V.r.T" • I I III 'MMWMMHI..I. II. ....II — • A B 1 B A D H s E T c H 1 T Hudsonian Godwit, OBRC 251-95-14B, 11 May 1 I 1 N E S s T s • R • N K H 1995, Ankeny NWR, Polk Co. Photo/Harry Nehls. I 1 A A A Oregon Birds 21(4): 128 FIELDNOTES: Western Oregon, Spring 1995

Gerard Lillie, 329 S.J:. Gilham, Portland, OR 97215

For tlie most part, the weather in March and April was the 11 March trip out of Newport, Lincoln Co. (GG). departed (UN). cool and unstable. This was followed by an unusually Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel Blue-winged Teal warm and sunny May. This warm weather could have Due to oceanic conditions, this species was not only The first was noted on the early date of 3 April. On allowed for an inconspicuous passage of passerines, for observed in good numbers on pelagic trips but was also that day a male was at Tillamook Bay, Tillamook Co. several observers commented on the mundane aspect seen in large numbers over inshore waters. For example, (CR). Spring migrants are typically noted in late April of this springs small bird migration. Although arrival approximately 200 were seen at the mouth of the Rogue or early May. They otherwise were reported in small dates were much as expected, numbers were quite low. River, Curry Co, 16 May (CD,MS). Sightings from shore numbers throughout northwest Oregon in late April and I have a request for those of you who turn in field of smaller numbers continued through the third week early May (m.ob.). note reports. It would be very helpful and save me (and of May. The high count seen from a pelagic trip was Cinnamon Teal probably other field note editors) a lot of time if you 115 on 14 May out of Newport, Lincoln Co. (GG). The first arrival was a male at Hillsboro 3 April (Jim would note the county in which you saw each sight• American White Pelican Harp). 5 were at the Forest Grove S.P. 9 April (DL). They ing. Many of you do this already and it is much appre• Unusual in western Oregon, 18 were at Fern Ridge were widespread thereafter (m.ob.). ciated. Abbreviations used in this report include: Reservoir, Lane Co, 8 May (BC) and 6were at Tillamook "nifted Duck B.L.M. Bureau of Land Management Bay, Tillamook Co, 8 May (HN). Two of this annual rarity were seen; a male was at Co. County Brown Pelican Cascade Locks, Hood River Co, 17 April (DB) and 1 m.ob. many observers Compared with previous years when this species ar• was at Bay City S.P, Tillamook Co, 16-30 April (SR, N.W.R. National Wildlife Refuge rived in Oregon waters early due to El Nino oceanic m.ob.). S.J.C.R. South Jetty Columbia River conditions, this years arrival dates were more expected, Harlequin Duck S.P. sewage ponds though still slightly early. 1 was at Newport, Lincoln 21 individuals were found in the Molalla River ba• W.A. Wildlife Area Co, 12 May (JG) and 1 was noted at the S.J.C.R. 13 May sin, Clackamas Co, on a B.L.M. survey on 27 April. 34 (MP). They were common shortly thereafter. were found in the Quartzville Cr. basin on a B.L.M. sur• Pacific Loon American Bittern vey on 28 April. 3 nests had been located in the Molalla Heavy northward movement was reported in early Cedar Canyon Marsh in Washington Co. continues River basin by the end of the period, and at least 6 were May, especially along the Tillamook Co. coast 6 May to be a reliable location for this species. "Several" were found in the Quartzville Cr. basin. At least 2 of the nests (PS) and past S.J.C.R, Clatsop Co, 8 May (HN). heard calling 15 April (DL.TJ). were in nearly the exact location as in 1994 (SD). A Common Loon Snowy Egret male was in Eagle Cr. near Bonneville Dam, Hood River A handful were observed away from the coast, with The only location one can reasonably expect to see Co, 5 March (DB). A male was seen on the Nestucca the highest number being 17 at Hagg Lake in Wash• this species in western Oregon is along the lower River in the Coast Range 10 May (SD) and a male pre• ington Co. 15 April (DL). Winchuck River in Curry Co. 1 to 3 were there between sented a most unusual sight by picking food items from Yellow-billed Loon 8 April and 26 May (DM). the hull of the submarine berthed at the Oregon Mu• Only one was reported. It was observed at the S.J.C.R. Black-crowned Night-Heron seum of Science and Industry in downtown Portland, 26 March (MP). The only reports came from Curry Co. where 10 were Multnomah Co, 15 May (Ann Dodds). Horned Grebe at the Chetco River estuary 4 March and 4 flew north Oldsquaw As usual, this species was scattered along the coast. past Harbor 17 May (DM). The annual herring run produced many interest• The highest count was 100 at Boiler Bay, Lincoln Co, 9 White-faced Ibis ing birds to observe in Yaquina Bay, Lincoln Co, dur• April (SR, DB). Three were reported in western Oregon this spring, ing March. On 10 March there were 5 Oldsquaw, 2 males Eared Grebe where this species is a vagrant. There were about 20 and 3 females or 1st winter males (JSi,GG). A male was This species is not often seen either along the coast records prior to these sightings. 1 was at Jackson Bot• at Young's Bay near Astoria, Clatsop Co, 6 May (JG) or in interior valleys in spring. 3 birds, 2 in breeding toms, Washington Co, and 1 was at the Fernhill Wet• and 1 was at the S.J.C.R, Clatsop Co, 20 May (Henry plumage, were at the Forest Grove S.P, Washington Co, lands, Forest Grove, Washington Co. both 1 May (GG). Gillmore). 9 April (DL). Additionally, 1 was at Commonwealth Lake, Washing• Scoters Clark's Grebe ton Co, 6 May (JL, ARo). The Fernhill Wetlands bird Up to 1000 were at the herring run in Yaquina Bay, 1 was at Hagg Lake, Washington Co, 26 April (DL) did not show white on the face but otherwise fit White- Lincoln Co. They were "mostly Surf, some Black and a and 1 was in north Portland, Multnomah Co, 4 April faced Ibis description. few White-winged" (JSi). (DB). Neither report with details. Trumpeter Swan Bufflehead Black-footed Albatross There were no reports of Trumpeters this spring. This species remained in good numbers to early May. This species was regularly seen on all pelagic trips Greater White-fronted Goose An example were the 60 at Tillamook Bay, Tillamook this spring. 100+ were sitting off the back of the boat Average numbers from the usual places were seen. Co, 4 May (HN). on the 8 April trip out of Newport, Lincoln Co. (GG). 175 were atAnkeny N.W.R, Marion Co, 1 May (DRJLu) "Dirkey Vulture Pink-footed Shearwater and 110 were at S.J.C.R. 6 May (MP) .Two impressive The first was reported from Florence ,Lane Co, 1 Relatively low numbers were reported from various flocks totaling 1500 birds were seen migrating north March (GM). On 4 March 2 were near Carlton, Yamhill pelagic trips. 3 were seen 11 May, 9 on 9 April and 2 on over Finley N.W.R. 8 May (AM). Co. (DL.CL). They were widely reported thereafter. 14 May, all out of Newport, Lincoln Co. (GG). Brant Osprey Flesh-footed Shearwater 110 in Tillamook Bay, Tillamook Co, 2 April was This species was reported at all nesting sites by 29 Always a treat to see, one of these rarities was seen 9 probably the high count this spring (HN). 15 at March (m.ob.). April out of Newport, Lincoln Co. (GG). This is approxi• Garibaldi, Tillamook Co, 17 May (JG) were either late White-tailed Kite mately 3 weeks earlier than previously recorded. migrants or birds which may summer there. There were "many" sightings from the Rogue Val• Sooty Shearwater Canada Goose ley, Josephine and Jackson Cos, during March (fide RT) Low to average numbers were observed on the pe• This species wintered in expected numbers in the Otherwise, it does not appear they were seen elsewhere lagic trips out of Newport, Lincoln Co. (GG). 130 on 14 Lower Columbia River basin and Willamette Valley. in western Oregon. May was the high count. Northward migration commenced in early April. On 16 Bald Eagle Short-tailed Shearwater April there were 5000 on Sauvie Island, Multnomah A pair wintered in the vicinity of Ross Island near Typically not seen after January, 8 were observed on and Columbia Cos. (DB) and by 20 April they had all downtown Portland and remained to attempt to nest, Oregon Birds 21(4): 129 thrilling many city residents (HN, m.ob.). (HN.DB). Another was seen resting at Santiam Flats, Bonaparte's Cull Red-shouldered Hawk Detroit Reservoir, Marion Co, 26 April (BBJLu). Good numbers were seen this spring through April The only report away from Curry Co. was of 1 bird Hudsonian Godwit and May. 500 were observed at Yaquina Bay, Lincoln near Kernville on Siletz Bay, Lincoln Co, 5 March (DF). Always a rarity in Oregon, 1 was at Mohoff Pond, Co, 20 May (John Girke) and a "heavy movement" This species has shown up at this location several times Ankeny N.W.R, Marion Co, 10 May through the morn• was observed along Clatsop Co. beaches 21 May (MP). over the past few years. Is it possible that a nest is in ing of 12 May (SDJL,HN,BB details, et al.). Heermann's Gull this area? Marbled Godwit 4 at Newport, Lincoln Co, 11 May (JG) were the first Rough-legged Hawk There were the usual scattered coastal sightings, noted. No reports. It seems this species has not been seen diough in lower numbers than is typical. The highest Iceland Gull as often in recent years as in the past. DL comments count was 7 at Tillamook Bay, Tillamook Co, 7 May A second year bird was reported from the pellet plant that they used to be common in Washington and (DL). There were 2 rare inland occurrences; 1 was at on Sauvie Island, Multnomah Co, 26 March (PSJM). Yamhill Cos. and now she has to search for them. Mohoff Pond, Ankeny N.W.R, Marion Co, 1 May No details were provided. Gyrfalcon 0CJLu,DP), and 1 was at Baskett Slough N.W.R, Polk Western Gull A bird that wintered at Finley N.W.R, Benton Co, Co, 9 May (BT) for possibly the first county record. There were two inland reports; 5 pure birds were on was last reported 10 April (JSi). Ruddy Turnstone the Columbia River in north Portland, Multnomah Co, Blue Grouse There were scattered coastal sightings, with the 85 5 March and 1 was at Bonneville Dam, Multnomah Several were heard calling on Mary's Peak, Benton observed migrating north past one location in Lincoln Co, 14 March (DB). Co, 8 May (AM). This is an excellent location to hear Co. throughout the course of the day 10 May an ex• Glaucous Gull and see this species. tremely good number QG). Not as many were seen as in previous years. 1 was at Sandhill Crane Red Knot Cornelius, Washington Co, 4 March (DL,CC), a lstyear The peak day at Sauvie Island was 23 March when In some springs this is an uncommon migrant, and bird was seen flying over Marion St. Bridge, Marion and approximately 1,000 were there; 300 were there 30 such was the case this spring. However, the 16 at Polk Cos, 14 March (SD), 1st winter birds were at the March and had all departed shortly tliereafter (HN). Tillamook Bay, Tillamook Co, 15 May was a nice num• Yachats River mouth, Lincoln Co, 18 March and 1 mile Shorebirds ber (HN). Always rare inland, 1 was at Mohoff Pond, south of Waldport, Lincoln Co, 19 March (JSi), 1 was The primary movement occurred at the expected Ankeny N.W.R, Marion Co, 29 and 30 May OLu.DP). at Westmoreland Park in Portland, Multnomah Co, 8 late-April to early-May window. On 30 April an espe• Sanderling April (Debbie Bush), 1 was at Yaquina Bay, Lincoln Co, cially heavy movement was observed along the coast. An uncommon to rare inland migrant, 1 was at 9 April (SR,DB) and 1 was on Sauvie Island, Inland from the coast that day, some observers even Mohoff Pond, Ankeny N.W.R, Marion Co, 1 May Multnomah Co, 16 April (DB). A very late 1st winter reported seeing flocks of a hundred or more migrating (DPJLuJC). bird was at Waldport, Lincoln Co, 30 May (DF). only a few feet above the forests (fide HN) Western Sandpiper Sabine's Gull Pacific Golden-Plover The usual spring passage was observed from April Two pelagic trips out of Newport, Lincoln Co, ob• 1 was at Clatsop Beach, Clatsop Co, 6 Ma)' (MP). to mid-May. A very heavy movement was seen along served this species. 2 were seen 8 April and 5 were seen American Golden-Plover the coast 30 April with 10,000 at Brownsmead, Clatsop 14 May (GG). 3 were at S.J.C.R, Clatsop Co, 13 May (SR). Co. (HN). Caspian Tern Greater Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper An early Caspian was at Waldport, Lincoln Co, 19 Widely reported from many locations both coastal The usual spring passage was observed with 400 at March (JSi). More expected was 1 at the S.J.C.R, Clatsop and inland but in fewer numbers than expected. For Ankeny N.W.R, Marion Co, 11 May the largest num• Co, 1 April (MP) and 80 at Tillamook Bay, Tillamook example, the peak concentration was 30 at Tillamook ber observed (HN). Co, 2 April (HN). They were regular along the coast Bay, Tillamook Co, 18 April (CR). Baird's Sandpiper thereafter. Lesser Yellowlegs A rare spring migrant, 2 were seen this spring. 1 was Common Tern This is an uncommon spring migrant and as ex• in north Portland, Multnomah Co, 29 April (HN) and The only report was of 20 at Garibaldi, Tillamook pected, not many were seen. 3 were at Canby, Clackamas 1 was near Canby, Clackamas Co, 9 May (ES). Co, 17 May QG). Co, 25 April (TJ), 2 were at the Forest Grove S.P. 22 Dunlin Arctic Tern April (TJ), and 1 was at the Bay City S.P, Tillamook This common spring and fall migrant was seen in This species is a fairly common migrant at sea but Co, 4 May (HN). expected numbers. Two concentrations are worthy of rarely seen along die coast. 1 was observed from Cape Solitary Sandpiper note; 10,000 were along Colville Rd, Baskett Slough Meares, Tillamook Co, 6 May (PS), 2 were seen on the This is another uncommon spring and fall migrant. N.W.R, Polk Co, 18 March and 10,000 were at 14 May pelagic trip out of Newport, Lincoln Co. (GG) 1 was at the Lower Winchuck River, Curry Co, 21 to 23 Brownsmead, Clatsop Co, 30 April (HN). and 20 were seen from the S.J.C.R, Clatsop Co, 13 May April (DM). 3 were at a marsh in the E.E. Wilson W.A, Short-billed Dowitcher (MP). The 50 observed at Tillamook Bay, Tillamook Benton Co, 26 April and 1 was there 28 April (AM). AM An average migration for Oregon with the high count Co, 15 May (HN) is an exceptional number to see along reports that this newly constructed marsh is very at• being 700 at Brownsmead, Clatsop Co, 30 April (HN). the immediate coast. tractive to this species. 1 was at Jackson Bottoms, Wash• Red-necked Phalarope Black Tern ington Co, 30 April (GG) and 1 was at Canby, Typical numbers were seen during late April through This is an unusual transient and occasional nester Clackamas Co, 11 May (TJ,TL,FS). mid-May (m.ob.). 7 May seemed to be the day with the in western Oregon. 2 were at Mohoff Pond, Ankeny Whimbrel heaviest observed migration with an average of 30 birds N.W.R, Marion Co, 16 May (JC.DP, et al.), 4 were there Very good numbers were observed at one of its most per minute flying past the S.J.C.R, Clatsop Co. (MP). 20 May (BB) and 1 was there 29 May (SS). favored sites, the Wilson River meadows in Tillamook Pomarine Jaeger Alcids Co. 300 were there 4 May (WT.HN) and 500 were there A very unusual species to see in spring, 10 were seen There were no observations of special interest. 6 May (PS). Smaller numbers were reported from other on the pelagic trip out of Newport, Lincoln Co, 11 March T\ifted Puffin locations along the coast (m.ob.). 1 was at Ankeny (GG). • 2 were at Cape Meares, Tillamook Co., 22 April (PS) N.W.R, Marion Co, 16 April for a rare inland sighting Parasitic Jaeger and 6 were there 7 May (DL). OA, m.ob.). A bird described as a member of the One of the best locations to see this species from land Spotted Owl variegatus race was observed at Yaquina Bay, Lincoln is the S.J.C.R, Clatsop Co. 1 was there 7 May and 1 was Breeding was very sparse this spring in the Salem Co, 31 May (DF). If the observer is correct, this would there 13 May (MP). District of the B.L.M. Of the approximately 40 pairs be one of only a very few sightings of this race away Franklin's Gull monitored in the lower Cascades north of the South from far-western Alaska in North America. This species is always rare in western Oregon. 1 was Santiam River, Linn Co, only 6 were found to be nest• Long-billed Curlew at Canby, Clackamas Co, 4 March (TJ) and a 1st win• ing. None of the Coast Range pairs were found to be A rare transient through western Oregon, 1 was at ter bird was at the mouth of the Chetco River, Curry nesting north of the Alsea River, Lincoln and Benton Tillamook Bay, Tillamook Co, 16 April to 7 May Co, 8 April DM). Cos. (SD). Oregon Birds 21(4): 130 Barred Owl Hammond's Flycatcher (TJ). They were widespread by mid-March. More bad news for the Spotted Owl is the range ex• 1st noted at Mclver State Park, Clackamas Co, 23 Northern Rough-winged Swallow pansion of the closely related Barred Owl into its range. April (BA). As is expected, arrival was in late March, with 1 seen This spring there were 2 reports of Barred Owls; 1 was Dusky Flycatcher at Canby, Clackamas Co, 25 March (TJ) the 1st noted heard at Wilhoit Springs, Clackamas Co, 21 March (TJ) 1st noted 8 May at the S.J.C.R, Clatsop Co. (HN). Scrub Jay and 1 at the surprising location of Mary Young State This species is being more frequendy sighted west of 1 was seen at Knappa, Clatsop Co, 13 May (HN). Park in West Linn, Clackamas Co, 8 May (TJ.GG). This the Cascades in spring migration, though in expected The lower Columbia River is an area that this species bird " struck TJ on the back" while he was playing a low numbers. has colonized in recent years. tape of a Screech Owl. Gray Flycatcher Clark's Nutcracker Northern Saw-whet Owl There was at least 1 present on 4, 6, 7, 12 and 18 2 were reported from Table Mountain in the Coast 1 was heard on Sauvie Island, Multnomah Co, 12 May at the Santiam Flats, Detroit Reservoir, Marion Range between Corvallis and Alsea, Benton Co, 6 May April (JoeMorawski). Co.(BB,SD). There were "several" there 5 May (PS). (fideUN). If correct, this would be a very unusual west• Boreal Owl Since BB first discovered this spot in 1987, it has pro• ern Oregon occurrence. Very little is known about the range of this species duced an interesting number of typically eastern Or• Townsend's Solitaire in the Cascade Mountains. 1 was heard at close range egon birds. 1 was at Santiam Flats, Marion Co, 17 April (Steve but not seen in the Salmon River Meadows, Clackamas Pacific-slope Flycatcher Jaggers), 1 was at Mt. Tabor Park, Portland, Multnomah Co, on the south flank of Mt. Hood 16 April (TLES.DvB). 1st noted 23 April at Mt. Tabor Park, Portland, Co, 30 April (GL), 4 were at Sugarloaf Mountain. This is the second report I am aware of for this general Multnomah Co. (GL). Yamhill Co, 15 May (WT) and 1 was at S.J.C.R, Clatsop area. Say's Phoebe Co, 21 May (MP). Calliope Hummingbird This is a very unusual migrant dirough western Swainson's Thrush This species is a rare migrant through the Willamette Oregon. Three were observed this spring; 1 was at 1 in the Coast Range, Lincoln Co, 8 May (TJ.GG) Valley. 1 was east of Oregon City, Clackamas Co, 21 Timberlake JCC on the upper Clackamas River, indicated they were on breeding grounds right on time. April (Sharon Roe) and 1 was at Hillsboro, Washing• Clackamas Co, 3 March (TJ), 1 was at Powell Butte They were widespread thereafter. ton Co, 8 May (Sara Wagner). Park, Gresham, Multnomah Co, 18 March (Bill Ranta) Hermit Thrush 1 Acorn Woodpecker and was at Ft. Steven's State Park, Clatsop Co, 1 April This species also arrived at its expected late-April/ A colony in Hillsboro, Washington Co, reported this (MP). early-May date (m.ob.). Two members of the pale gray spring "may have been there several years" (Sara Ash-throated Flycatcher auduboni race of northeast Oregon were at the S.J.C.R, Wagner). Another "new' colony was reported from the Another unusual species in western Oregon. 1 was Clatsop Co, 8 May (HN). city of Yamhill, Yamhill Co. (DL). at Santiam Flats, Detroit Reservoir, Marion Co, 19 May Northern Mockingbird YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER 0Lu). 2 were seen in Curry Co. as well; 1 was in Agness A lone bird was in the yard of JSi in Corvallis. Benton The immature female that was in and around the 13 May (JB) and 1 was in Harbor 22 May (AB). Co, 29 and 30 April. Another was in Harbor Curry Co.. yard of BB in Salem, Marion Co, in late winter was Western Kingbird 22 May (DM). This species is rare anytime in western also there 3,4,10 and 19 March (BB). Yet another unusual species in western Oregon. 1 Oregon, but especially so in spring. Three-toed Woodpecker was seen along a fence line near the entrance to Baskett Sage Thrasher 1 at Lava Lake, Santiam Pass, Linn Co, 6 May "was Slough N.W.R.. Polk Co, 3 May (AM). A second bird A rare vagrant to western Oregon, 2 were a; Saanan well west of the summit" (SR). was along Dickey Prairie Rd. near Molalla, Clackamas Flats, Marion Co, 26 April (BB JLu). Another was there Olive-sided Flycatcher Co, 3 May (SD).' 4and5May(BB,PS). It appears to me that this species is much less fre• Purple Martin Loggerhead Shrike quently reported than just a few short years ago. I used There were the expected scattered reports with the There were several reports of this rare western OF to see upwards of 10 per spring in Mt. Tabor Park in first noted 23 April at Cascade Locks, Hood River Co. egon species; 1 was at Canby; Clackamas Co, 20 and Portland, Multnomah Co, and I saw none this year (DB). 21 March (PS,TJ,ES) and 1 was in south Salem. Marion and 1 last year. Only one was reported this spring, from Tree Swallow Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 25 May 1995. Yaquina the S.J.C.R. 8 May (HN). The 1st report was of a group of 200 in north Port• Head, Lincoln Co., OBRC Record Number 443-95- Western Wood-pewee land, Multnomah Co, 5 March (DB). 08B. Photo/RichardBjerkvig. 1st noted 8 May at the S.J.C.R, Clatsop Co. (HN). Violet-green Swallow Willow Flycatcher 100 at Farraday Lake, upper Clackamas River, 1st noted 30 April at Mt. Tabor Park in Portland, Clackamas Co, 3 March were die 1st seen this spring Multnomah Co. (JG).

Oregon Birds 21(4): 131 Co, 27 March (CL JL,DP,BL). The following day 2 were 19 May (AB). A singing male was at Santiam Flats, the Jefferson Co. section of the meadows at the base of at Santiam Flats, Marion Co., (BB). Individuals showed Marion Co, 22 and 23 May (JLu). Mt. Jefferson in 1992, so it's possible these birds were up there 12 May (JLu) and 21 May (BB). MacGillivray's Warbler headed that way (fide BB). Solitary Vireo 1st noted 6 May when one hit awindow in Portland, Vesper Sparrow The 1st report was of 2 birds in Corvallis, Benton Multnomah Co. (Peter Kendall). This species was formerly considered abundant dur• Co, on the early date of 3 April (AF, Tiffiny Church, Wilson's Warbler ing summer in the Willamette Valley and now is a lo• Susan Donver). Other reports indicated more expected 1st noted 23 April when 2 were at Mt. Tabor Park, cal, uncommon to rare resident. 4 were located on the arrival times in mid to late April (m.ob.). Portland, Multnomah Co. 0G). top of Baskett Butte, Baskett Slough N.W.R, Polk Co, 3 Warbling Vireo Western Tanager May (AM). 1 was at Canby, Clackamas Co., 7 May (ES). 1st noted at Helmick State Park, Polk Co, 28 April A male at Damascus near Gresham, Clackamas Co, (AM). 15 April was the 1 st seen this spring (BA). I would like to thank die sub-regional editors: Barb Orange-crowned Warbler Black-headed Grosbeak Bellin, Salem area, and Harry Nehls, western Oregon. The 1st reports came from north Portland, 1st noted Trysting Golf Club, Linn Co, 26 April (AM). Initialed observers Multnomah Co, 5 March (DB) and from Sauvie Is• Indigo Bunting BA Bob Altaian, DA David Anderson, JA John Ander• land, Multnomah Co, 23 March (HN). They were widely There were 3 reports of this western Oregon rarity; a son, AB Alan Barron, DB David Bailey, BB Barb Bellin, reported thereafter. male returned to a feeder for die second time in recent JB John Blithe, DvB Dan Van Den Broek, BC Barbara Nashville Warbler years in Elsie in the Coast Range, Clatsop Co. 16 May Combs, CC Craig Corder, JC Jack Corbett, CD Colin 1st noted at Mclver State Park near Estacada, (Forrest Harding), a male was in a Eugene park, Lane Dillingham, MD Mike Denny, SD Stephen Dowlan, AF Clackamas Co, 23 April (BA) and at Mt. Tabor Park, Co, 19May(/M;HN) and a male was located 4 miles Anthony Floyd, DF Daryl Faxon, JG Jeff Gilligan, GG Portland, Multnomah Co, 23 April 0G,GL). up the Rogue River, Curry Co, 26 May through the end Greg Gillson, TJ Tim Jantzen, BL Bob Lucas, CL Cindy Black-throated Gray Warbler of the period (CD, Mary Endicott). Lawes, GL Gerard Lillie, JL John Lawes, TL Tom Love, 1 was in Damascus near Gresham, Clackamas Co, American Tree Sparrow DL Donna Lusthoff, CLu Chris Lundsten, JLu John 10 April (BA), 5 were at Mt, Tabor Park, Portland, A very unexpected find on the Portland Audubon Lundsten, AM Alan McGie, DM Don Munson, GM Gerald Multnomah Co, 12 April (GL) and 10 at Mt. Tabor Park Society Birdathon was this species at Cape Meares, Morsello, JMJudy Meredith, HN Harry Nehls, PO Paul 23 April (JG). They were widespread thereafter. Tillamook Co, 6 May (CL, et al.). This constitutes the Osburn, DP Don Pederson, MP Mike Patterson, AR Alan Hermit Warbler fifth coastal record and the second latest for the state. Reid, ARo Alison Ross, CR Craig Roberts, SR Skip 1st noted at Mt. Tabor Park 30 April (GL). Brewer's Sparrow Russell.ES Elmer Specht, FS Floyd ShrockJS Judy American Redstart 1 was at Santiam Flats, Marion Co, 4 April (BB) Stevens, MS Mark Stevens, PS Paul Sullivan, SS Stuart This species is a vagrant in western Oregon. 1 was and not refound. A second bird was seen there 19 May Sparkman, JSi Jamie Simmons, RT Ric Thowles, WT along Stateline Rd. up the Winchuck River, Curry Co,, 0Lu, et al). A possible breeding colony was found in William Tice. 0

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