The Trip:
Dry warm overcast winter day ... went to Blurock Landing to look for the Pacific Loons which have been seen along the Columbia ... SUCCESS !!! ... then hiked the dike at the end of Lower River Road.
Dike, End of Lower River Road:
For more birds seen or photographed from the dike ... click here.
Vancouver Lake Lowlands:
For more birds seen or photographed at the Vancouver Lake Lowlands (Lower River Road, Vancouver Lake, Shillapoo Wildlife Area, Rufener's Pond, Frenchman's Bar, LaFrambois Road) ... click here.
Birds seen, heard, or photographed ... (in alphabetical order):
- American Wigeon ... (EndLRR)
- Bald Eagle ... (LRR)
- Belted Kingfisher ... (BL, EndLRR)
- Cackling Geese ... (LRR)
- California Scrub-Jay ... (EndLRR)
- Common Merganser ... (EndLRR)
- Cooper's Hawk ... (LRR)
- Dark-eyed Junco ... (EndLRR)
- Double-crested Cormorant ... (EndLRR)
- Gadwall ... (EndLRR)
- Golden-crowned Sparrow ... (EndLRR, LRR)
- Great Egret ... (EndLRR)
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 Greater Scaup ... (BL)
- Greater Yellowlegs ... (EndLRR)
- Hooded Merganser ... (EndLRR)
- Horned Grebe ... (BL)
- Killdeer ... (EndLRR)
- Northern Flicker ... (EndLRR)
- Northern Pintail ... (EndLRR)
- Northern Shoveler ... (EndLRR)
- Pacific Loon ... (BL)
- Pied-billed Grebe ... (BL, EndLRR)
- Red-tailed Hawk ... (LRR)
- Rock Pigeon ... (LRR)
- Sandhill Crane ... (EndLRR)
- Song Sparrow ... (EndLRR)
- Snow Geese ... (LRR)
- Snowy Egret ... (EndLRR)
- Tundra Swan ... (EndLRR)
- White-crowned Sparrow ... (LRR)
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Greater Scaup, Columbia River at Blurock Landing, Vancouver Lake Lowlands, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken February 3, 2018.
Canon Rebel, 200mm w/1.4.
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