Twelve participants enjoyed a wonderful, sunny coastal day birding with Jimmy Billstine on Saturday, November 20th. Everyone including beginners to more-seasoned birders gained a lot of experience from Jimmy’s wealth of information which included how to describe to others where a bird is, where within any habitat is a good area to find birds, and how to entice birds to be better seen. Jimmy also mentioned that anyone can find a rare bird; it is not just the realm of the super birders.
Jimmy led us to five spots: Ni-les’tun Unit of the Bandon Marsh, the North jetty of the Coquille River, Bandon’s Old Town wharf, Curry County’s Boice-Cope Park and the New River Nature Center. Jimmy worked hard to find us lots of birds. I recorded the following 37 species, though I most likely missed of few.
- Western Meadowlark
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Junco
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee
- Fox Sparrow
- Golden-crown Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Northern Flicker
- American Crow
- Rock Dove
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Hutton’s Vireo
- Wrentit
- Pacific Wren
- Black Phoebe
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Northern Harrier
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Pelagic Cormorant
- Great Egret
- Canada Geese
- Mallard
- American Wigeon
- Bufflehead
- Northern Shoveler
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Lesser Scaup
- Surf Scoter
- Common Loon
- Eared Grebe
- Western Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- Western Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
Bird field trips are wonderful activities not only to see birds, but to spend the day enjoying the great outdoors with wonderful people. Thank you Holly, Nancy, Rockey, Dick, Kate, Atheana, Adam, Lindsay, Bill, Beth, Diana, (Harry too…) and especially Jimmy for sharing the day!
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