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MacGillivray's Warbler - yearling (© Nick Viani) Mount Ashland PCT Note: 1st year species feature a white throat that will eventually be replaced with the gray hood characterizing adulthood.
Semipalmated Sandpiper (© Janet Kelly) Agate Lake
Mountain Bluebird (© Elliot Bury) Howard Prairie Lake
Anna's Hummingbird (© Elliott Bury) Murphy, Oregon
Whimbrel (© Miguel Tejada-Flores) Cape Blanco, Oregon Note: It was a real treat to see them "up close and personal" as it were, roaming the sand and plunging their long, curved beaks in, in search of tasty vittles.
Great Gray Owl (© Rick Shroy) High Cascades Ranger District
Lincoln's Sparrow (© Cydne Jensen) Emigrant Lake, Ashland
Peregrine Falcon & Prey (Keeley Kirkendall) Bear Creek Greenway Bird Survey, Len Newbry Park Transect B
Cooper's Hawk (© Miguel Tejada-Flores) Talent, OR. Note: A juvenile female Cooper's hawk is visiting us. This is the 2nd day she stopped by. We live just outside of Talent city limits on an old farmstead. Yesterday she was chasing/harrasing…
Varied Thrush (© Nick Viani) Harris Beach State Park, Brookings, OR
Canvasback Duck (@ Cydny Jensen) Ponds at Lynn Newbry greenway
Merlin (© Cydne Jensen) Talent, Lynn Newbry, along the greenway
Sharp-shinned Hawk & Dove (© Robert Mumby)
Cooper's Hawk (© Michele Gawenka) This is a good opportunity to compare the differences between the Sharpie & a Cooper's.
Downy Woodpecker (© Nick Viani) A refreshingly new perspective not often seen.
Spotted Towhee (© Cydne Jensen) North Mountain Park, Ashland. Note the band on the bird's right leg.
Golden-crowned Kinglet (© Nick Viani) TID irrigation canal, Ashland, OR
Loggerhead Shrike (© Rich Shroy) Location: corner of Newland and Downing roads in Central Point.
Wilson's Snipe (© Keeley Kirkendall) Lower Clay Street, Ashland
Northern Pygmy Owl (© Marty Karlin) Howard Prairie
Sharp-shinned Hawk (© Nick Viani) Visited our backyard feeder. After about 5 minutes, got bored with the service and took off.
Red-tailed Hawk (© Charlie Schelz) What's interesting about this image is that it was taken by a Motion Sensing Surveillance Camera. Virtual birding.
Immature Northern Shrike @ Denman (© Rick Shroy)
Merlin (© Nick Viani) This bird was spotted near the parking lot on the Spur Road at Emigrant Lake.
Redhead (© Tanner Martin) Riverside Park, Grants Pass
Anna's Hummingbird (© Cydne Jensen) North Mountain Park, Ashland
American Bittern (© Kirk Gooding) Agricultural fields across from Shasta WLR. Note: Unusual to see two bitterns out in the open especially hunting and eating bullfrogs.
Band-tailed Pigeon (© Nick Viani) Greensprings, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, we saw 6 different species all gorging on Elderberries - some in the same tree! (Also seen: Orange-crowned Warbler, Hermit Warbler, Dark-eyed Junco, Fox Sparrow, and a Hermit Thrush.)
Great Gray Owl (© Nick Viani) Not far from Howard Prairie Pond.
Violet-green Swallow (© Karl Schneck) N. Valley View Rd. Ashland