[ORyoungbirder] Crook County Birding 01/14/07

[David Schas]

Hey Birders,
   
  My Uncle, Jake Schas and I took the advantage of the great, but freezing weather today and birded several parts of Crook County including Powell Butte, Houston Lake, Barnes Butte Road, Ochoco Res., Mill Creek, Steins Pillar TH, Hwy 26, Meadowlakes Golf Course and the Prineville Sewer Ponds.  All together we saw 54 species in the 8 hour period.
   
  Highlights:
   
  2+Tricolored Blackbirds - Johnson Creek Road
  4 Short-eared Owls - Powell Butte
  1 Eurasian Wigeon - Meadowlakes Golf Coure in flock of about 1000 American Wigeons
  2 Northern Shrike - Mill Creek
  3 Brown Creepers - Prineville Cemetary & Steins Pillar TH
  2 Cackling Geese -Prineville Sewer Ponds
   
  List: (in order of which we saw them)
   
  Mourning Dove
  California Quail
  Northern Flicker
  Dark-eyed Junco
  Scrub Jay
  American Robin
  Red-tailed Hawk
  Great-Horned Owl 
  Raven
  Rough-legged Hawk
  Northern Harrier
  Starling
  American Kestral
  3 Prarie Falcons
  BB Magpie
  Brewer's BB
  Crow
  House Sparrow
  Canada Goose
  Townsend's Solitare
  Mtn. Chickadee
  House Finch
  White-crowned Sparrow
  Song Sparrow
  Northern Pintail
  Mallard
  5 Bald Eagle (mature adults)
  Red-winged Blackbirds
  Sharp-shinned hawk
  Rock Pigeon
  Common Merganser
  Red-Breasted Nuthatch
  1 Golden Eagle
  Pygmy Nuthatch
  Red-winged Crossbill
  Cooper's Hawk
  Great-blue Heron
  Ring-necked Duck
  Green-winged Teal
  Gadwall
  Merlin
  Barrow's Goldeneye
  Common Goldeneye
  Northern Shoveler
  American Wigeon
  Lesser Scaup
  Bufflehead
  American Coot
   

 
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