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Date / Event	Description & Sample Photo	Photo Album
Special Trips, Events, or Festivals,
Common Redpolls in Eugene, Jan 2, 2018	Two Common Redpolls at EWEB building in Eugene First found on the Christmas Bird Count Dec 25, 2017	Common Redpolls Slideshow
Mt Pisgah; Lewis's Woodpecker, Sept 22, 2017	Betsy and I found the Lewis's Woodpecker at Mt Pisgah A Brown Creeper performed acrobatics 15 feet from us.	Lewis's Woodpecker & Brown Creeper at Mt Pisgah
Solo Trip, Millrace Path, Sept 9, 2017	I returned to the Millrace to photograph birds of September. My first Black-throated Gray Warbler; a Warbling Vireo; and lots of Goldfinches	Solo Millrace trip
Solo Trip, North of Eugene Airport, Oct 14, 2016	Stormy weekend: birding north of the airport back roads between storms	Short Trip Report
Solo Trip, North Delta Ponds, Sept 30, 2016	8am, one hour walk along North shore of Delta Ponds east of Goodpasture Is. Rd. Bewicks Wrens, Wilsons Snipe, Common Bushtit, Greater Yellowlegs.	Slideshow
Cabin Lake, Sept 9, 2016	Priscilla, Marylee and Jennifer went to Fort Rock and Cabin Lake for one day. Huge numbers of Red Crossbills in all wild stages of molting! Green-tailed Towhee, Ferruginous Hawks, Mountain Bluebird ...	Slideshow
Lakeview May 17-19, 2016	Three day birding trip to Central Oregon, led by Floyd Weitzel, through Willamalane	Priscilla's Trip Report
Lakeview May 17-19, 2016	Three day birding trip to Central Oregon, led by Floyd Weitzel, through Willamalane	Don Laufer's Trip Photos
Skinner Butte, April 30, 2016	Seeing a report on OBOL Saturday morning, Janet and I went out to see and photograph the Barred Owl on Skinner Butte	Report & Photos
Fern Ridge April 18, 2016	Common Yellowthroat; Marsh Wren; N. Harrier	Report & Photos
Swallow Pond (Eugene), April 23, 2016	Solitary Sandpiper; Long-billed Dowitcher; Least Sandpiper	Report & Photos
Diamond Hill, Mar 18, 2016	Janet Naylor, Jennifer Haynes and Priscilla went "Owling" A Western Screech Owl was seen in S.E. Eugene (private residence) A Short-eared Owl was seen at Diamond Hill Wetlands	Photo album
Day Trip Birding ANKENY and BASKETT SLOUGH with Floyd Weitzel Jan 13, 2016	Floyd is still leading birding trips through Willamalane Senior Center This one was a full day at two Wildlife Refuges up near Salem Oregon	Photo album
Row River Nature Park with Coast Fork Birders Nov 7, 2015	BOGS member Nola Nelson, via Doris, sent out an invitation to bird with a Cottage Grove group called "Coast Fork Birders", loosely under the umbrella of the Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council. Marylee and I (Priscilla) accepted the invite and had a nice time birding down there.	Photo album
Eastern Oregon: Cabin Lake, Fort Rock & Summer Lake June 17-19, 2015	BOGS member Marylee did most of the planning and organizing for a three day Eastern Oregon birding trip taken by her, Jody, Jen, Mary and Priscilla. The place called "Cabin Lake" allows extremely close access to birds bathing and drinking from a cistern-fed dish a few feet in diameter.	Photo album
Klamath Falls with Floyd Weitzel May 19-21, 2015	Floyd Weitzel arranged yet another great three day trip to Klamath Falls, through his Willamalane Birding Class. As usual he made this trip available to non-class members. Don Laufer took this entire marvelous set of photos, which includes many excellent close-ups!	Photo album
Yaquina Bay with Floyd Weitzel Mar 16, 2015	Floyd Weitzel took his Willamalane Birding Class to the coast to view shorebirds. This Horned Grebe, a Burrowing Owl and Harlequin Ducks were some of the highlights. Don Laufer took this entire set of photos	Photo album
Newport Peregrins Aug 5, 2014	Jody Fairchild, Marylee Sayre and I went to Newport. I photographed Peregrin Falcons, Whimbrels, a few other shorebirds, and Purple Martins.	Photo Album
50th Anniversary Finley Wildlife Refuge Corvallis Audubon birding Finley May 10, 2014	Four of us went on this 8am-Noon bird walk Click here to read Trip Report	Finley Album
American Avocets Nesting in Western Oregon June 16, 2014	Jody Fairchild, Marylee Sayre and I walked out to the Barn Pond at Fern Ridge Reservoir from 8:30 to 11:30 to see the nesting Avocets, and Blue-Winged Teal	Photo Journal
JOHN SCHARFF BIRDING FESTIVAL Burns, Oregon, April 11-13, 2014	Birds-of-Prey and Woodpecker tours Plus some additional exploring	Festival Album
Special Interest Projects
Wood Duck Iridescence Oct 2 & Nov 11, 2014	When the Sun, the photographer and the bird are all lined up so the photographer is between Sun and bird, iridescence is maximized. Nothing in the PNW matches the magnificent colorful brilliance of the male Wood Duck	Wood Ducks
Northern Flickers by Don Laufer, Oct, 2014	Don Laufer shared his great photos of Northern Flickers feeding in Magnolia trees in Ruff Park in east Springfield.	Northern Flickers
Late October Osprey Oct 28, 2014	At Delta Ponds in late October I saw an Osprey with a fish landing in a tree. It appeared to be a Bass. The Osprey took a good long time opening up the fish for eating. Here's a slideshow of 15 photos.	Osprey
Green Heron Photographic Study at Delta Ponds Summer 2013	(Album re-done Oct 2016) During the Summer of 2013, Green Herons were particulary easy to see and photograph at Delta Ponds along the bike path. This allowed me to study the plumage of the juvenile and adult birds through the months. * In the first 9 photos you will see their AMAZING shape changes! * The 10th through ~14 photos show side-by-side comparisons of juvenile and adult birds. Adults have less streaking on sides of chestnut-colored neck. Juveniles have yellow/white spots on wings, and the yellow-white edges of the wing feathers are a little more pronounced.	Slideshow
Lunar Eclipse April 15-16, 2014	See the entire Lunar Eclipse sequence! Although clouds began covering the sky before totality, I discovered my camera could photograph the eclipsed Moon through the clouds! Even when my eyes could not see the Moon at all, by setting the ISO to 6400, the increased light sensitivity could detect the copper-colored light of the eclipsed Moon through the clouds! The exposure time of a photograph (and the aperture size) can be changed; in this case allowing the camera to show the dimmer, more subtle aspects of the moments when the Earth's shadow first begins to "bite" the edge of the Moon. Our eyes shut down too much to see these, because of all the bright light from the rest of the Moon. For some photos, I changed the exposure time to feature the darker portion of the phenomenon; and for other photos I featured the brighter portions. But for most photos I stayed with a similar setting which best captured what was most interesting to see. Because I could not keep the Moon centered in the camera field of view especially when I couldn't SEE the Moon, the slideshow is jumpy the Moon appears in a different portion of the frame in each picture. I apologize for the jumpiness and hope you will enjoy what I was able to capture.	Photo Album
Great Horned Owl Nest Delta Ponds Jan - May, 2014		Detailed Journal with Photos
SHORT-EARED OWLS	Beginning in January 2014, I made 8 trips to Linn county to get some good photographs of the Short-Eared Owls which were over-wintering there. This album contains the best photos from those trips.	Short-Eared Owls of Linn County
March 27, 2014 Horned Grebe	Horned Grebes do not nest in the Willamette Valley. Even their migratory route is generally along the coast. None-the-less we do get a few migrating through the valley each year. These are rare opportunities to see one locally, in breeding plumage. This particular bird was at some distance.	Horned Grebe
Favorite photos taken in the Eugene area, Sept 2013 - April 2014		Potpourri Album

Birds in Focus
Birds/Photos Posted to eBird or OBOL (updated ~monthly)	From time to time I go out and photograph a bird which is enough interest to report to eBird and/or OBOL. I add those photos to this particular file (webpage) every time I make another such posting.	Birds of Interest

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