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Priscilla's
Bird Photography

Photos from personal trips
and special interest projects

provided by:
Priscilla Sokolowski
Eugene, OR

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- Summer 2014
  - 9. Fern Ridge 8/14/14
  - 8. Mt Pisgah 8/7/14
  - 7. Fern Ridge Royal 7/31/14
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  - 6. Elijah Bristow 7/24/14
  - 5. Zumwalt Park 7/17/14
  - 4. Riverbend Trails 7/10/14
  - 3. Finley Refuge 7/3/14
  - 2. Clearwater Landing 6/26/14
  - 1. Fern Ridge Royal 6/19/14
- Spring 2014
  - 5. Mt Pisgah 6/5/14
  - 4. Golden Garden 5/29/14/
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  - 3. Fern Ridge Royal 5/8/14
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  - 2. Dorris Ranch 4/24/14
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  - 1. Skinner Butte 4/10/14
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- Winter 2014
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- Trips & Festivals
- Special Interest Projects
  - Green Heron study
  - Lunar Eclipse, April 14-15, 2014
  - Great Horned Owl Nest
  - Short-Eared Owls
  - Horned Grebe at Fern Ridge
  - Wood Duck maturation study
  - Burrowing Owl
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  - Potpourri 9/13-3/14
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Links to Photos and Journals
of personal trips and projecs

SUBJECT	Project Description and sample photo	Link to Journal/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.	Click here for photo album
Green Herons at Delta Ponds (Ponds along the river), Summer 2013	Summer 2013, Green Herons were easily seen and photographed, allowing me to study the plumage of the juvenile and adult birds through the months. * There is an AMAZING variety of postures seen here! * 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.	Now available! PHOTO ALBUM (uploaded 8/9/14)
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	Click here for Journal/Album
Corvallis Audubon birding Finley Refuge May 10, 2014	Four of us went on this 8am-Noon bird walk Click here to read Trip Report	Finley Album
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.	Click here for photo album
Great Horned Owl Nest Delta Ponds Jan - May, 2014		Detailed Journal with Photos
JOHN SCHARFF BIRDING FESTIVAL Burns, Oregon, April 11-13, 2014	Birds-of-Prey and Woodpecker tours Plus some additional exploring	Festival Album
Favorite photos taken in the Eugene area, Sept 2013 - April 2014		Potpourri Album
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 Owl Album
WOOD DUCK Photographic Study	This began with a question from Floyd: "Can you/one tell the sex of a juvenile Wood Duck? Since Wood Ducks have become far less afraid of people at the Delta Ponds along the river, and since their were four pairs of Wood Ducks raising families in the Spring and Summer of 2013, it was easy for me to take pictures of them several days a week. My objective was to determine at what point the chicks/juvenile birds first begin to show any markings which definitively indicate which sex they are.	* Photo Album not uploaded yet *
Burrowing Owl	Overwintering in Halsey area, Dec 2013- end of Feb 2014 I went up to Linn County three times with various friends, to see and photograph this bird	Photo Album Coming soon!