#tualatinvalley — Public Fediverse posts

Went for a sunset nature walk at the Tualatin River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge yesterday with a friend, and watched this hawk flying low above the sere meadow.

At the time I remarked to my friend that it must be a red-tail (I saw a flash of orange) but the flight pattern -- almost hovering near the top of the grass -- seemed really unusual. Well, that's because it was a Northern Harrier! A lifer raptor! I have to trust my 'that's weird' sense more! 😁

#birding #LiferBird #Oregon #TualatinValley

It’s still so amazing to me that I never saw a bald eagle until I was around 10 years old, and now I can see THREE at a local park and another one on the drive home, a few blocks from my house! 🥹🦅

#birding #BirdPhotography #oregon #FannoCreek #TualatinValley

This is the first of my photos I looked at once they all uploaded! Woohoo! v :sapsucker:
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(Red-breasted sapsucker) #birding #BirdPhotography #FannoCreek #TualatinValley #Oregon #WildForWoodpeckers

By the way, I did not get any shots, but I saw a crow (might have been the same one each time) chasing killdeer twice and a sandpiper once. No chance of catching them on the wing: it seemed to me the crow was just up to mischief! 😈 #shorb #BirdPhotography #wetlands #Oregon #TualatinValley

Here are some shots of the least sandpipers from yesterday. I couldn't believe how close the few of them on my side of the lake came to me! So tiny, so brave. 😃

#shorb #BirdPhotography #wetlands #Oregon #TualatinValley
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When I photographed a handful of long-billed dowitchers last week, I was struck by how prettily they arrange themselves into aesthetic overlapping attitudes when wading -- I was thinking the collective should be a 'frieze' of dowitchers.

This week there were even more of these dowitchers, so I collected some more interesting sculptural motifs!

#birdPhotography #wetlands #birding #shorb #Oregon #TualatinValley