provided by:

Priscilla Sokolowski

Eugene, OR

Photos from personal trips  AND trips with

“Birds of Oregon and General Science” (BOGS)


Priscilla’s  

Bird photography



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BOGS Oregon Country Fair site
May 11, 2023
Leader: DONNA

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Directions: Per Donna and Priscilla:
Drive out 126 towards the Coast until the traffic light of Territorial Rd at Veneta, and turn Right. Take the first Left turn at Suttle Rd. Hill Market will be on your Right. Then make a Left onto Aero Rd. Follow this (not that far) and make the first Left turn, Chickadee Lane. There used to be a colorful hand-painted sign of "Chickadee Lane" there. Turn here and the parking place will be about 1/4 mile on the Right. We will meet at the same parking area on Chickadee Lane as we've done on previous trips. There is a port-o-potty there.

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Where we walked today:
From the Chickadee Lane main staff parking area, we walked roughly S then W to the large W visitor parking field, then E to the front gate with the huge dragon. Then we did the whole fair loop, going roughly S then E along the creek, then N and WNW back past a secondary staff parking area back to the main parking area. All of this is restricted - permission only.

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Bird list; Non-birds & Discussion by JANET NAYLOR

  1. Canada goose (4)
  2. Duck, ? species (3) (flying in distance).
  3. Turkey vulture (2)
  4. Red-shouldered hawk (1) (heard only).
  5. Rufous hummingbird (1) (seen on a Larkspur flower).
  6. Hairy woodpecker (1)
  7. Red-breasted sapsucker (2) (1 seen, plus 1 heard only).
  8. Pacific slope flycatcher (2) (1 seen, plus 1 heard only).
  9. Cassin's vireo (1) (heard only).
  10. Warbling vireo (2) (1 seen, plus 1 heard only).
  11. California scrub jay (1)
  12. Black-capped chickadee (3) (all heard only. 2 were babies or fledglings).
  13. Red-breasted nuthatch (2) (1 seen, plus 1 heard only).
  14. Bewick's wren (1) (heard only).
  15. Pacific wren (1) (heard only.
  16. Swainson's thrush (1)
  1. American robin (5) (4 seen plus 1 heard only).
  2. Wrentit (1) (heard only).
  3. European starling (1) (heard only).
  4. Black-throated gray warbler (4) (1 seen plus 3 heard only).
  5. Hermit warbler (1) (heard only).
  6. Orange-crowned warbler (4) (2 seen, 2 heard only).
  7. Wilson's warbler (2)
  8. Western tanager (3) (1 seen plus 2 heard only).
  9. Spotted towhee (2) (1 seen, plus 4 heard only).
  10. Song sparrow (3) (1 seen plus 2 heard only).
  11. Black-headed grosbeak (4) (all heard only).
  12. Evening grosbeak (3) (all heard only).
  13. Red-winged blackbird (4)
  14. Purple finch (2) (both heard only).
  15. American goldfinch (1)

Not Birds
Some possible raccoon tracks on far bank of creek.
Smallish blue butterfly (2)
Bumble bee (2)
Pacific chorus frog (1) (Color varies: this one was pale lime-green/olive-ish).
We saw a little yellow mushroom.

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OF INTEREST:

    Birds:
  • In the huge W field, we saw a robin and a scrub jay, facing off at each other in 2 shrubs about 15 feet apart. Not noisy, but it did look like an interaction.
  • We saw 1 Towhee chase 1 Song sparrow.
  • We heard a Red-breasted sapsucker doing its song plus later we heard a different Red-breasted sapsucker doing its drumming, fast then slowing at end. The drumming sapsucker was drumming on the hollow bamboo horizontal roof beams of one of the empty booths, which acted like a sound-box so that the sound was louder than on a solid tree trunk.
  • We heard a Black-headed grosbeak, plus heard an Evening grosbeak in the same 100-yard area.
  • Back at some buildings SE of the buildings we parked next to: A staff worker said there were two robins flying in and out of a hole in a hollow square post at eye level. We saw one of the robins go in and out.

    • Not birds:

  • The huge W field was full of flowering Western buttercups.
  • Today we saw 2 smallish blue butterflies flying, not together, plus 2 bumble bees, not together, flying among small shrub flowers and leaves.
  • We saw a pale lime-green/olive-ish Pacific chorus frog, on the grass-grown path.
  • We saw some possible raccoon tracks on far bank of the creek.
  • Willow have been planted on land above and next to creek, and cut back, to encourage root growth and new stem growth, per Donna.
  • Mushrooms: We saw a little yellow mushroom. Very bright yellow.
  • We saw several patches of tall Camas and Larkspur in flower, not together. There was also one mixed patch with both species.

Technology:
An American goldfinch was heard on just one person's Merlin bird-identification app. Plus a Yellow-rumped warbler was heard on another person's Merlin. But no-one including those people with the app saw or heard them. So they are not on our seen/heard bird list. Something for BOGS to think about when we make bird lists in the future.

Photo ops., and a request:
We took a group picture at the front gate's huge wooden dragon head. Several folks took pictures of us here. If you took either a group photo, or interesting photos of birds, please forward the pics to Priscilla, for the BOGS webpage.

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