Tits and Towhees
I’d just seen the Tundra Bean Goose at Finley National Wildlife Refuge when a report came in of a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Portland. I hadn’t planned beyond the goose, but I did have to head back home eventually. Why not try for the gnatcatcher? It was only 10 minutes from my house. My friend Courtney…
Bonus zono
I birded so efficiently at the coast it left me ample time the next day to look for a rare Harris’s Sparrow. It was a first-year bird found by James Cook along Sundial Loop Trail near the Troutdale Airport. It’d been a while since I birded this hotspot. My first trip in the spring of 2015 I biked there and…
Shillapoo and Frenchman’s Bar
As soon as I typed “breakfast burrito” into the search bar, that’s when the magic happened. Let me back up. Some time passed since I last visited Shillapoo National Wildlife Refuge so I decided to give it another go. Part of what makes birding fun is visiting regular haunts and seeing different birds each time. Indeed,…