Towheeblog

Getting there can be half the fun, half the birding. So it was for the Klamath Bird Observatory field trip to Malheur…with an overnight at Summer Lake.This was our first Ferruginous…at Klamath Marsh in the neighboring dry grassland. And there was small garter snake in the lake at Rocky Point.There were many Western Bluebirds at Deadwood Junction along Dead Indian Memorial Road in Jackson County….then Mountain Bluebirds at the leaky water tank on Antelope Flat in Lake County: Loggerhead Shrike:
Open range, cow gives hard stare, Howard Prairie:Opsrey west of Chiloquin:
Summer Lake shorebirds and ducks galore: Shorebirds at Summer Lake included avocet, stilt, Long-billed Dowitcher, Killdeer, Greater Yellowlegs and a single Pectoral Sandpiper (not seen here).White Pelican flying pasdt Rocky Point on Klamath Lake: One of a quartet of Red Crossbills in the ponderosas at Collier State Parl: