SOUTHERN OREGON BIRDLIST: 125 species seen/heard
Golden Gate Audubon Society trip, late May, 2017
Birded Cascades including Howard Prairie, Hyatt Lake and Little Hyatt Lake, Mount Ashland in Siskiyous, North Mountain Park and Ashland Pond in Ashland, Klamath Lake and Lower Klamath NWR and Klamath Ridge in Oregon.
Birded Lower Klamath NWR, Indian Tom Lake, Sheepey Island and Butte Valley in California.
Canada Goose Wood Ducks with young, Ashland Pond
Mallard Gadwall
Shoveler, Township Road, Klamath Cinnamon Teal
Lesser Scaup, farm pond on Lower Klamath Lake Road
Redhead Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Common Merganser, Howard Prairie Lake
California Quail Wild Turkey TurkeyVulture `
Osprey, Hyatt Lake Ferruginous Hawk, Sheepey Island
Bald Eagle Northern Harrier
Goshawk, twice; along Old Hyatt Road north of Little Hyatt Lake & on Mount Ashland
Red-tailed Hawk Swainson’s Hawk, inc. kettle of eight
Golden Eagle, four in Klamath Basin Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe Pied-billed Grebe heard only
White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant, nest tree at Hyatt Lake
Great Blue Heron Great Egret
Green Heron, Ashland Pond & North Mtn Park Black-crowned Night-Heron
Coot
Sandhill Cranes, Howard Prairie Killdeer
Long-billed Curlew Willet
Wilson’s Phalarope, Sheepey Island
Wilson’s Snipe, Howard Prairie fence posts
Ring-billed Gull California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull Forster’s Tern
Caspian Tern Band-tailed Pigeon, Tolman Creek Road
Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove
Great Gray Owl, Howard Prairie Northern Pygmy-Owl heard, Hyatt Meadow area
Vaux’s Swift, Ashland Pond Kingfisher
Anna’s Hummingbird, nesting at North Mtn.
Calliope Hummingbird, Tolman Creek Road
Acorn Woodpecker Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker, Ashland Pond Hairy Woodpecker, Keene Creek
PileatedWoodpecker White-headed Woodpecker, Howard Prairie Dam Road and Mount Ashland
Olive-sided Flycatcher, Mt. Ashland
Ash-throated Flycatcher, heard on Sheepey Island
Western Wood-Pewee Dusky Flycatcher, Bull Gap on Mt. Ashland
Willow Flycatcher Western Kingbird
Hutton’s Vireo, heard only Cassin’s Vireo
Warbling Vireo, including family of four along Mt. Ashland Highway
Steller’s Jay California Scrub-Jay
American Crow Common Raven
Black-billed Magpie, Klamath Basin & Butte Valley
Tree Swallow Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper Golden-crowned Kinglet, heard on Mt. Ashland
Marsh Wren, Klamath Bewick’s Wren
House Wren American Dipper, Little Hyatt Lake dam
Mountain Bluebird, Hyatt Meadow, etc. Western Bluebird
Townsend’s Solitaire, pair nesting on toilet building at Pelican Guard Day Use Area, Klamath
Hermit Thrush, singing on Mt. Ashland Robin
Sage Thrasher, Sheepey Island Cedar Waxwing
Starling Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler Hermit Warbler
MacGillivray’s Warbler, Keene Creek Audubon’s (Yellow-rumped) Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat, heard and seen by some at North Mountain Park
California Towhee, North Mtn. Park Spotted Towhee
Green-tailed Towhee Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow, Mt. Ashland Vesper Sparrow
Brewer’s Sparrow heard on Seepey Island Chipping Sparrow
Savanna Sparrow Junco
Black-headed Grosbeak ` Lazuli Bunting
Western Tanager Red-winged Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer’s Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle, Lower Klamath NWR, CA
Bullock’s Oriole, nest at Putnam Point, Klamath Falls
Western Meadowlark, many heard singing House Finch
Purple Finch Cassin’s Finch, Mt. Ashland
Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
one weird goose unidentified at Howard Prairie, likely some domestic
Mammals included: least chipmunk, Townsend’s chipmunk, yellow-bellied marmot, Belding’s ground squirrel, golden-mantled ground squirrel, river otter, mule deer, pronghorn, Douglas’s squirrel, possible bobcat, numerous hominids
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