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Finley: Beaver & Cattail Ponds Finley: Beaver & Cattail Ponds Finley: Beaver & Cattail Ponds Finley: Beaver & Cattail Ponds

  • Start date: 09/24/2023

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 09/24/2023

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Meet at the Jerry's Home Improvement Center parking lot (2600 OR-99, Eugene, OR 97402) on the east side near the main entrance and Hwy 99. We will carpool from there. Our route will be 99W > W on Bruce Road (Gravel) > making a bathroom stop at the McFadden Marsh parking area, then 1.25 miles to the Beaver/Cattail Pond Parking Area.

This is nature-viewing hike to look for wood ducks, grebes, and mergansers, and other critters at the ponds. This section of the hike is 2.5 mile lollipop loop w/ 100 ft. elevation gain.

After this section we return to our cars and drive back to the McFadden Trail for a short half-mile trail (round-trip) to McFadden's Marsh to visit a bird-blind, look for raptors and shore birds. There is a side trail that we might explore for another half mile.

Lunch will be somewhere on the trail. Dress for the weather. We plan to return to the Jerry's parking lot between 3pm and 4pm.

  • Event Leader: Hougardy Mark

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 58

  • Season: 2023

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required:

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 3.3

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 20

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

The weather delivered a light rain and the fragrance of the forest “waking up” after a dry summer was beautiful. On the far side of Pigeon Butte, we observed a burned patch under some oak trees. This appeared to be from a controlled burn within the last 24 hours. We observed on our short walk: Egrets, a California Quail, a Newt, 4 Deer, 1 Barred owl (shown), Grebes, Herons, Ducks, Wrens, a Jay, one Red-winded blackbird, and 20 Turkeys. Shortly after we left the Finley area the rain really came down.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 8
  • Number of spots available: 0
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Hougardy, Mark 541-206-9532 N —
2 Signed-Up Hougardy, Christiane 541-914-4556 N —
3 Signed-Up Predeek, Dave 541-345-5531 N —
4 Signed-Up Stewart Smith, Meg 541-913-5464 N —
5 Signed-Up Hackett, Jane 541-953-7046 N —
6 Signed-Up Whalen, Maureen 510-390-4411 N —
7 Signed-Up Martz, Helen 541-345-6229 N —
8 Signed-Up Orsi, Barbara 541-515-9665 N —
9 Signed-Up Carpenter, Kathie 541-505-2370 N —
10 Signed-Up Christiansen, Lynda 541-912-9952 N —
11 Signed-Up Hennes, Steve 541-747-9075 N —
12 Signed-Up Rust, Cindy 541-735-5446 N 5
13 Signed-Up Temple, Mitch 541-868-7252 N —
14 Signed-Up Messinger, Debra 541-914-4696 N —
15 Signed-Up Rusow, Karla 541-744-7990 N —
16 Waitlist Sorrell, Lis 541-954-2772 N —