Our McMinnville birding class made its final fall field trip…to Hagg Lake. We were pleased to find two Red-breasted Mergansers as well as the expected Common and Hooded, five gull species including Bonaparte’s and an Osprey. Is planning to stay the winter?
There were six species of diving duck, including my first Bufflehead of the fall. They are often the last migratory ducks to arrive.
Cackling Geese on sparse forage above. Common Loon below.
Coot flotilla as sea.
Mostly California Gulls, one ring-billed on far left, three Bonies are the little guys on far right.
Red-breasted Mergansers above, Western Grebe below.
OSPREY GALLERY
THE DIVE
SCOGGINS CREEK
The Yamhill Watershed Stewardship Fund is holding its annual dinner and auction on November 4. They have invited me to give the evening’s brief talk. My illustrated talk will be about familiar water-side birds of the Yamhill Watershed. It would be great if some birders came out. Here’s their website: http://ywsf.org/
Henry Hagg Lake Park (Scoggins Valley Park), Washington, Oregon, US
Oct 25, 2017 9:40 AM – 12:10 PM. 30 species
Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) 75
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 40
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) X
Green-winged Teal (American) (Anas crecca carolinensis) 4
Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) 20
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) 15
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) 10
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) 8
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) 2 photo posted on my blog, the feathers trailing the skull were clearly seen, no white throat patch as in Common females
Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) 25
Common Loon (Gavia immer) 5
Eared Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) 2
Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) 30
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) (Ardea herodias [herodias Group]) 5
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) 1
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 1
American Coot (Fulica americana) 300
Bonaparte’s Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia) 3
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) 2
Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) 1
California Gull (Larus californicus) 14
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 1
Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) 1
Steller’s Jay (Coastal) (Cyanocitta stelleri [stelleri Group]) 1
California Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica) 1
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 6
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) 1
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 1
Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) (Junco hyemalis [oreganus Group]) 8
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