Tag: Black-chinned Hummingbird

Summer Lake

Once inside Summer Lake Wildlife Area it was on. I had no responsibilities or schedule to keep, my only job was to look at birds and I looked at as many as I could. It was exciting and overwhelming all at once. This must be what vacation feels like? The refuge itself is set up…

By Audrey June 5, 2018 2

Birdathon 2016 – Put an Owl on It

Birdathon Birding Trips

For a second year I joined Portland Audubon’s Birdathon, touted as the “biggest baddest birdathon this side of the Mississippi.” And for a second year I was thrilled to be a part of the Put an Owl on It team. Last year’s trip was one of the best birding days of my life – 5 owl species in…

By Audrey June 26, 2016 5

Painted Hills I

Birding Trips

They don’t call the Painted Hills one of Oregon’s Seven Wonders for nothing. The eight wonder is why I’d never visited before. Truthfully, I never liked the desert. It’s hot, dry, exposed, I’m more of a lush, green forest kind of girl. But that’s what birding does. It opens the world up to possibility even in…

By Audrey June 11, 2016 2