Our small group of birders enjoyed a mild April day on Sauvie Island. Sunshine, blue sky, snow-clad volcano shoulders above the surrounding horizon, bugling of cranes, calling of geese.
Dark morph Red-tail along Multnomah Channel about two miles west of Wapato.
Eagles at nest:
One of several male Common Mergansers in Multnomah Channel:
Snow Geese above, spooked our of their marsh by passing eagle. Great Egret, below, at Wapato:
Juvenile Glaucous-winged Gull over the Columbia.
At one overlook we watched a female harrier cruise left, then right, then left again, then drop down…soon this harrier was eating a duck of unknown species in the tall grass.
Above: some of the ducks at Wapato, here many Ring-necked, a few geese, wigeon. Below: geese before Mt. St. Helens…there she blows…at some later date,
Sauvie Island–Multnomah, Multnomah, Oregon, US
Jan 14, 2018 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM. 40 species
Snow Goose (Anser caerulescens) 2000
Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) X
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) X
Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) 15 along Multnomah Channel in sunken marshes west of Wapato
Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) 500
Cinnamon Teal (Spatula cyanoptera) X
Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata) X
American Wigeon (Mareca americana) X
Mallard (Northern) (Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos/conboschas) X
Northern Pintail (Anas acuta) X
Green-winged Teal (American) (Anas crecca carolinensis) X
Canvasback (Aythya valisineria) 10
Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) X
Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) 5 On Columbia River
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) X
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) X
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) X
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) 1
Pelagic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pelagicus) 5 on buot in Columbia River
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 30
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 5
Great Egret (Ardea alba) 2
Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius) 3
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) 10
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 6
American Coot (Fulica americana) X
Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis) 2000
Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) X
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) X
Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna) 1
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) (Colaptes auratus [cafer Group]) 2
American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) 6
Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) 1
Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) X
California Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica) X
Common Raven (Corvus corax) 4
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) X
Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) (Junco hyemalis [oreganus Group]) X
Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) X
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) X
Sauvie’s Island Lower–Columbia Cty, Columbia, Oregon, US
Jan 14, 2018. 12 species
Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) X
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) X
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) X
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) X
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) 6
American Coot (Fulica americana) X
Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis) X
American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) 1
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) X
Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) X
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) X
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) X
Harry, thanks for a great day of Birding!
Emily
By: Emily on January 15, 2018
at 4:45 pm