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Delta Ponds Birding

  • Start date: 04/10/2018

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 04/10/2018

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

We'll meet at the north end of the Green Way Bridge in the Valley River parking lot at 9:00 am. This is a leisurely hiking and birding trip around Delta Ponds. Last year we identified 23 species of birds in addition to a couple of blooming wildflower species. Many Canada goose pairs already had hatched fluffy, little goslings. At our leisurely pace the trip took three hours.

IF YOU ARE CANCELLING WITHIN 24 HOURS OF THE TRIP, PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL AT 541-688-7025.

  • Event Leader: Anne Montgomery

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-688-7025

  • Event Leader Email: 000157@obsidians.org

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2018

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Binoculars, raingear, water, and optional birdbook.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 4

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain:

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report


Would you believe that SIX people showed up to go for a bird walk in the rain with me? I found it astounding. We were fortunate that the rain only lasted for about the first forty minutes of our trip. Lots of current bushes were in bloom to attract hummingbirds. Unlike last year at the same time we only saw one pair of Canada geese with goslings. We saw double-crested cormorants, mallards, Great blue herons, osprey, bald eagle, glaucous-winged gulls, crows, northern flickers, Anna's hummingbirds,scrub jays, downy woodpeckers, tree swallows, black-capped chickadees, bushtits, robins, spotted towhees, starlings, song sparrows, red-winged blackbirds, dark-eyed juncos, orange-crowned warblers, yellow-rumped warblers, and white-crowned sparrows if my memory serves me accurately. That gave us a total of twenty-four species.

Besides seeing a nutria in one of the ponds, we saw a mink in the Willamette River. This is the first time I've seen a mink there although I've seen them in the Amazon Channel several times.

Pat should get a special award for going on all the birding trips I've led! That shows what a tolerant person she is!