Whitaker Ponds, Portland, OR

It still hurts to walk. I wish I could be healthy & strong again.
Canadageese
Mallard
Ring-necked duck
Double-crested cormorant
Great egret
☆ Green heron
Black phoebe
Peregrine falcon
Barn swallow
Black-capped chickadee
Spotted towhee
American crow
Bushtits

Ridgefield NWR Auto Loop, WA

Lazuli buntings ( first male, had only seen female w/ indigo bunting )
American goldfinch
Purple martins
Yellow-headed blackbird
Barn swallow
Northern house wren
American crow
California scrub-jay
Bald eagle
Wood duck
Great egret
Great blue heron
American coot
Semipalmated plover
Virginia rail ☆ ☆ ☆

Ridgefield NWR Auto Loop, WA

Sickly brainfogged
Wood duck
American coot
Pied-billed grebe
Great egret
Great blue heron
Red-winged blackbird
House finch
Swallows
California scrub-jay
Sora

Whitaker Ponds, Portland, OR

It hurt too much to walk, so after a bit I sat on the ground while Rae tested her birthday binoculars.
Canadageese
Vaux's swift
Great egret
Great blue heron
Belted kingfisher
Black phoebe
Tree swallow
Barn swallow
Purple martin
"Robin identifed"

Sandy River Delta, OR

Red-breasted sapsucker
American kestrel
Black-capped chickadee
Swainson's thrush
American robin
Cedar waxwing
Spotted towhee
Yellow-breasted chat
Bullock's oriole
Northern yellow warbler
Black-headed grosbeak pair

Sandy River Delta, OR

Downy woodpecker
Pileated woodpecker
Black-capped chickadee
Swainson's thrush
American robin
House finch
Bullock's oriole

Ridgefield NWR Auto Loop, WA

Canadageese
American coot
Pied-billed grebe
Northern shoveler
Great egret
Great blue heron
Belted kingfisher
Tree swallow
Barn swallow
Northern flicker
California scrub-jay
Cedar waxwing
American goldfinch
Bullock's oriole ☆
Spotted towhee
European starling
Red-winged blackbird
Yellow-headed blackbird
Common yellowthroat ☆
Bald eagles
Anna's hummingbird
Sandhill crane

Powell Butte, Portland, OR

Vaux's swift
Barn swallow
Cedar waxwing
Dark-eyed junco
Song sparrow
Spotted towhee

Whitaker Ponds, Portland, OR

Mallard
Wood duck
Great egret
Great blue heron
Belted kingfisher
Northern flicker
Black phoebe
Steller's jay
California scrub-jay
Black-capped chickadee
Tree swallow
Northern roughwinged swallow
Barn swallow
Cliff swallow
American robin
House sparrow
Song sparrow
Clay-colored sparrow
Young brown-headed cowbird
Black-headed grosbeak

Fernhill Wetlands, OR

Canadageese
Wood duck
Cinnamon teal
Mallard
Northern pintail
American coot
Killdeer
Pied-billed grebe
Great egret
Great blue heron
Bald eagle
Belted kingfisher
Black phoebe
Black-capped chickadee
Tree swallow
Barn swallow
Swainson's thrush ( its song . . . )
American robin
Cedar waxwing
House finch
Lesser goldfinch
Song sparrow
Spotted towhee
Red-winged blackbird
Black-headed grosbeak

Whitaker Ponds, Portland, OR

Mallard
Vaux's swift
Great egret
Great blue heron
Belted kingfisher ☆
Black phoebe
Black-capped chickadee
Tree swallow
Barn swallow
Cliff swallow
Purple martin
Cedar waxwing

Fernhill Wetlands, OR w/ S—y

Canadageese
Mallard
Pied-billed grebe
American coot
Woodduck (f)
Northern pintail
Killdeer pair
Great egret
Great blue heron
American bittern (!)
Redwinged blackbird
Brownheaded cowbird
Robin
Cedar waxwing
Spotted towhee
( My little ) black-capped chickadee ( right after the apt. tree story )
Black phoebe
Tree swallow
Barn swallow
Downy woodpecker ( ! )

Steigerwald Lake NWR, Washougal, WA

Osprey ( distant tuxedo )
Great egret
Great blue herron
Tree swallow
Barn swallow
White-crowned sparrow

Shwa Kuk Wetlands, Portland, OR
( The closed down road beside the trucking parkinglot )

Showed Mary the indigo bunting after standing in its field beneath its wire for an hour
American robin
Spotted towhee
Brown-headed cowbird
Black-capped chickadee
Barn swallow
Song sparrow

Shwa Kuk Wetlands, Portland, OR
( The closed down road beside the trucking parkinglot )

Indigo bunting ☆ ☆ ☆ ( after hours of effort & a dream about it, I found its wire )
Lazuli bunting
House finch
American goldfinch ( first time automatically identifying )
Song sparrow
Whited-crowned sparrow
Tree swallow
Barn swallow
Cooper's hawk chased by a crow

Fort Stevens, OR ( A Bust )

Many swallows up-close
Brown pelicans
Caspian tern
White pelican ( on the drive home )

Cannon Beach, OR

Puffins! Puffins in pairs in flight in love! Puffins in trios! A puffin through long grass! A puffin diving! Puffins on the second try of our second chance life!
The ever-charismatic black oystercatcher
Beautiful harlequin ducks
Brown pelicans in lines above the water
Pigeon guillemot
Pelagic cormorant
Western gull

Koll Center Wetlands Area, Beaverton, OR

Parkinglot of canadageese, precious & softly laying, gently
Mallard
Coot
Gadwall ( lacks the blue stripe of a mallard )
Woodduck
Great blue heron
Great white egret
Barnswallow
Cliffswallow
Redwinged blackbird
Scrub jay
Leucistic pigeon on the apt. street on the way home

Ridgefield National Wildlife Reserve, WA

California scrub jay
Cinnamon teal
Coot
Great white egret
Great blue heron
Smallish flocks of canadageese
Black phoebe
Killdeer
Starling
Northern flicker ( red underwings )
Mourning dove
Pied-billed grebe
Brown-headed cowbird
Wilson's phalarope
Northern rough-winged swallow ( & other swallows )
Yellow-headed blackbird
Columbian white-tailed deer

Columbia Children's Arboretum, Portland, OR

Brown creeper
American goldfinch

F— Farms, Portland, OR

Red-tailed hawk
Cliff swallows
Barn swallows
Violet-green swallow ( just one )
House finch
White-crowned sparrow
Unidentified bird that we watched for a really long time

Portland street while getting ramen, OR

Eastern kingbird on a telephone wire

Cannon Beach, OR

Common murre
Pelagic cormorant

Waterfront, Portland, OR

Violet-green swallow, & nobody but us cared !

Work, school playground, OR

Male house finch ( beautiful red )

Champoeg State Heritage Area, Marion County, OR

Barn swallows swooping above my head
Violet-green swallow
Tree swallow
Western bluebird on a "bluebird crossing" sign
Bald eagle
Spotted towhee
Northern flicker
American goldfinch
American robin
Starling
Song sparrow
California scrub jay

Garibaldi, OR

Brown pelican
Tree swallow
Barn swallow
Caspian tern
Many seagulls

Bayocean Spit, Tillamook, OR

Bald eagle above the beach
Snowy plovers ( little playful beach shorebirds )
Seagulls with caught fish
Hudsonian whimbrel
Great double-breasted cormorants ( sunning )
Great blue herons
American robin
Some sort of goldfinch
Golden-crowned kinglet

Tillamook Creamery, OR

Brewer's blackbird

Empty lot near my apartment, Portland, OR

Killdeer

Fernhill Wetlands, OR

Cedar waxwings Sandpipers
Longbilled dowitchers
Canadageese with goslings
American robin
Many redwinged blackbirds
Common merganser
Coot
European starling ( sesame seed buns)
Tree swallow ( my first, perfect blue )

Empty lot, Vancouver, WA

Killdeer ( the mother bird tricked me with its brokenwinged ploy )

Smith & Bybee Wetlands, OR

Bald eagle ( my first )
Golden eagle
American robin
Bewick's wren

Junkdrawer, USA

My little blackcapped chickadee, the apartment tree before it was cutdown , OR
Hawks on every fencepost, the foggy road to the coast, OR
Flock of more than one hundred canadageese, OR
Northern cardinal, TX
Northern mockingbird, TX
Brown-headed cowbird, TX
Chimney swifts, TX
White-winged dove, TX
Mourning dove, TX
House sparrow, TX
American bittern, TX
Great egret, TX
Redwinged blackbirds in the reeds, TX
Turkey vulture, TX
Bus stop owl, TX