Guest blog: Birding with Harry Fuller

Written by Harry Fuller on May 9th, 2024

This morning, I got to lead a field trip for KS Wild. We went up into the Cascades hoping for a glance at a great gray owl. They refused to appear, but there was bird action aplenty.

Acorn Woodpeckers in the oaks at lower elevation before the conifers take out. Nashville Warbler at MP13 along Dead Indian Memorial Road (Latzawa Road). Sandhill Crane couple at north end of Keno Access Road. Vesper Sparrow at Lily Glen. Osprey over Vesper Meadow, and meadowlarks singing thetre, unseen. Tree Swallows sruising the grasslands. Bald Eagles over the south end of Howard Prairie Lake, accosted by an indignent ravern. A Caspian Tern fishing the lakeshore. A cormorant afloat mid-lake.

Field Report:

Howard Prairie Circuit, Jackson, Oregon, US
May 9, 2024
28 species

Canada Goose
Mallard
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Caspian Tern
Double-crested Cormorant
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Acorn Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
California Scrub-Jay
American Crow

Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
European Starling
American Robin
Purple Finch
Dark-eyed Junco
Vesper Sparrow
Western Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Mountain Chickadee
Nashville Warbler