This is my second trip to Finley, I love this place, it has everything. Bodies of water, fields, lots of different kinds of trees, interpretive center (only open on weekends though), driving loops, walking loops AND a barn with an owl in it! Of course, I didn't see it. You have to be an owl person to see owls very often and I'm just not an owl person. I don't even know what it is that makes an owl person.
Other birds seen:
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| Pretty scenery |
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| A huge swarm of Red-Winged Blackbirds and European Starlings get scared off by a raptor (to left). |
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| They switched directions... |
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| and headed right toward us. It was pretty surreal. |
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| A Lewis's Woodpecker. A lifer for me! |
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| Northern Flicker. There were tons of them, I don't think I've ever seen so many in one day. |
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| Red-Tailed Hawk |
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| Here owl, owl, owl.... |
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| More pretty scenery |
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| A board walk through the woods. |
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| White-Breasted Nuthatch |
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| Wondering what I'm doing. |
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| Acorn Woodpecker |
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| Really weird; acorns stored in the holes of the tree. |
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| Lots of Acorn Woodpeckers! (3 here) |
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| At one point we ended up back on a road and saw this in someone's yard. Heeheehee so weird! |
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| Western Meadowlark |
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| American Kestrel |
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| Long-Billed Dowitchers |
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| Black Phoebe |
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| Marsh Wren to left, Savannah Sparrow on right |
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| I just love these, I wanted to take some with me.. |
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| Red-Tailed Hawks |
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| One more stalk of the barn, as the sun was going down. No owls. |
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| An American Kestrel showed up instead. |
Other birds seen:
- Golden and Ruby-Crowned Kinglets
- Fox Sparrow
- Northern Harriers
- Turkey Vulture
- Hutton's Vireo
- Pied-Billed Grebes
- Great Blue Herons
- Red-Breasted Sapsucker
- Steller's Jay
- Killdeer
- Mallards
- American Robins
- Mourning Doves
- American Goldfinch
- Black-Capped Chickadees
- Western Scrub-Jay
- Spotted Towhee
- Oregon Junco
