Paul Sullivan and I went to Linda Fink’s farm along Agency Creek north of Grand Ronde. We got decent looks at her first-year Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Paul believes it to be the confirms this is the first Yamhill County record for the species. A Sharpie showed up and the sapsucker flew across the field to a second grove containing apple trees. I got no image of the bird.
Afterwards Paul showed me some of the hotspots for White-tailed Kites. We saw two pair along upper Willamina Creek in Yamhill, then a loner along Old Wallace Bridge Road in western Polk County:
GALLERY OF BIRDS AT FINK FARM AND NEARBY, PLUS SN
The spoil-sport Sharpie, dark picture from back is good only to show the blunt tail:
Fink family farm, Yamhill, Oregon, US
Feb 4, 2019. 16 species
California Quail 30
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 juvenile bird, photographed by LInda Fink
Northern Flicker 15
Steller’s Jay 20
California Scrub-Jay 2
Common Raven 3
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Varied Thrush 4
American Robin 150
Fox Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 40
Golden-crowned Sparrow 60
Spotted Towhee 6
Willamina Creek Valley and Corbett Acres, Yamhill, Oregon, US
13 species plus a hundred elk grazing
Eurasian Collared-Dove X
Great Blue Heron 1
White-tailed Kite 4 2 pairs, each pair hunting together ias is their wont
Cooper’s Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk X
Northern Flicker X
American Kestrel X
California Scrub-Jay X
American Crow X
Common Raven X
American Robin X
European Starling X
Red-winged Blackbird 200
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