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OregonJunco

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I live on the southern Oregon coast, and since I started birding, I am seeing many things for the first time that were here all along!

After work yesterday, the sun came out after 35 straight days of rain! I headed out for a drive up the Chetco River, which begins in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area and runs through the Siskiyou Mountains to the sea. I have done this many, many times just to watch the river and look at the forest. I never knew there were so many birds.

I saw two great blue herons, two pairs of beautiful common mergansers, several buffleheads on a sand bar, robins, cliff swallows catching their dinner over the water, several turkey vultures, and two sandpiper-like birds wading in the mud. (too far off to identify) All this in about 40 minutes.

Thanks to the birds, I feel like I live in a whole new world.
 
I had the same kind of experience when I started birding, too. You just start looking at your surroundings with entirely new eyes. Isn't it wonderful!?!

ESPECIALLY after 35 straight days of rain! More than a month! Don't know if I could stand it!
 
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