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.
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.