After visiting Benson Pond I continued down the Center Patrol Road towards Frenchglen.
I saw this bird fly by and took a quick picture... Thought it was just a blue heron till I looked at the picture closely... I backed up to find where it landed...
A Black-crowned Night-Heron! Another first for me.
This bird and I stared at each other for a bit. Is it just a Western Tanager with not as much red in the face?
A Northern Harrier near the P Ranch.
A snipe on the side of the road to Frenchglen.
This Ring-necked Pheasant concludes my birds for Saturday (which felt like 10 days of birds)!
Sunday morning I woke up around 5:30 to hopefully get lots more birds in before heading back to Portland.
At that same bridge on 205 I found a Western Meadowlark singing with its mouth full...
Also a California Quail..
From this spot I got my first sighting of pronghorn!
I was afraid these would be the only ones I saw on the trip, but luckily there were more to come... Later that morning on the Center Patrol Road:
4 more pronghorn! Just across the creek and through the trees!
Beautiful!
I only saw about five Sandhill Cranes my whole trip... These cranes were along Sodhouse Lane. Some others along the CP Road:
The one on the left is actually banded...
I returned to the headquarters to look for more birds... Found lots of bunnies and more ground squirrels...
Several Turkey Vultures were up in the trees...
A Black-headed Grosbeak.. Startled by a vulture:
Ok, one more post to come after I eat some lunch.
I saw this bird fly by and took a quick picture... Thought it was just a blue heron till I looked at the picture closely... I backed up to find where it landed...
A Black-crowned Night-Heron! Another first for me.
This bird and I stared at each other for a bit. Is it just a Western Tanager with not as much red in the face?
A Northern Harrier near the P Ranch.
A snipe on the side of the road to Frenchglen.
This Ring-necked Pheasant concludes my birds for Saturday (which felt like 10 days of birds)!
Sunday morning I woke up around 5:30 to hopefully get lots more birds in before heading back to Portland.
At that same bridge on 205 I found a Western Meadowlark singing with its mouth full...
Also a California Quail..
From this spot I got my first sighting of pronghorn!
I was afraid these would be the only ones I saw on the trip, but luckily there were more to come... Later that morning on the Center Patrol Road:
4 more pronghorn! Just across the creek and through the trees!
Beautiful!
I only saw about five Sandhill Cranes my whole trip... These cranes were along Sodhouse Lane. Some others along the CP Road:
The one on the left is actually banded...
I returned to the headquarters to look for more birds... Found lots of bunnies and more ground squirrels...
Several Turkey Vultures were up in the trees...
A Black-headed Grosbeak.. Startled by a vulture:
Ok, one more post to come after I eat some lunch.
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