Tag: Cliff Swallows

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

Fort Rock State Natural Area

Birding Trips

After visiting Newberry Caldera, Tomas and I continued an hour south to Fort Rock State Natural Area. About a mile wide and 200 ft tall, Fort Rock is yet another of Oregon’s magnificent geologic features. It is a tuff ring formed 50,000-100,000 years ago when magma rose up to meet water and lake mud. Fort…

By Audrey August 6, 2016 4

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