provided by:
Priscilla Sokolowski
Eugene, OR
Photos from personal trips AND trips with
“Birds of Oregon and General Science” (BOGS)
Priscilla’s
Bird photography
Bird list: Island Park Birding Loop, Springfield
3/23/23, 10:37am.
Leader: JANET
LOCATION: Island Park Birding Loopk
Island Park's birding loop. CAUTION for people with mobility impairment:
Part of the loop trail is unimproved dirt with a couple of rough portions.
Directions: From Willamalane Adult Activities Center,
walk W from the NW corner of their main parking lot just N of the building.
Go approx. 1/2 block on grass, cross a bridge over a creek, go 20 or 30 feet,
and turn R at the little birding trail/loop sign. It is a short loop with a creek on its N side
and the river on its S side.
TRIP ATTENDEES: 18 of us walked the loop trail.
Bird list (20 species) & Highlights by JANET NAYLOR
- Canada goose
- Mallard
- Lesser scaup
- Great blue heron
- Spotted sandpiper
- Gull, ? species
- Belted kingfisher
- Northern flicker
- Scrub jay
- Steller's jay
- American crow
- Black-capped chickadee - heard only.
- White-breasted nuthatch - heard only.
- Brown creeper - heard only.
- Bewick's wren - heard only.
- Ruby-crowned kinglet
- American robin
- Song sparrow
- Junco
- Lesser goldfinch
OF INTEREST:
- On way to the talk before the walk: Ospreys: 2 on the Washington-Jefferson/Delta Hwy. exit osprey pole. Seen by Janet.
- On the walk: A female mallard very close to us in the little creek by the bridge, doing the dabbling action over and over.
- At the river: Seeing 3 Spotted sandpipers: 2 flying, plus 1 on far bank of river, VERY camouflaged in the stones there.
- Canada goose on a distant river bank, masquerading as a wood duck: It had its rear to us, with black and white feathers looking at a distance like a wood duck.
- 2 Northern flickers interacting on the same branch, with a second pair 2 trees away.
- We saw no raptors at all today.