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A Great Resource for Birding Trails of the central Oregon Coast can be found here. Download our Bird List for Lincoln County (Oregon) and begin keeping a record of all birds you have spotted!

Lincoln City Audubon Society’s “Wild About Birds” Program at Taft and Oceanlake Schools Lincoln City Audubon Society volunteers provided two hours of in-class instruction based on Audubon’s ‘Wild About Birds’ curriculum to almost 240 Lincoln City fourth and fifth graders during the past two weeks. Photos were taken during their Feb 5th Bird Walk. (click here to download and read the full article) Photos by Jody Picconi and Jack Doyle

Birds Spotted During Local Field Trips

June 12, 2010 Yaquina Head Bird Walk Almost 20 ASLC birders turned out on a beautiful Saturday morning to observe birds at the Yaquina Head Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area just north of Newport. With sunshine and almost no wind, this was a great day to enjoy the fabulous Oregon coast scenery and to get close to birds during the breeding season. Birders stopped first at the visitor center to view swallows, sparrows, and other perching birds. At the lighthouse viewpoint, birders focused on seabirds and shorebirds. It’s a great time of year to see cormorants in their breeding plumage, Brandt’s Cormorants with their azure blue throat pouches and Pelagic Cormorants with white flank patches. From a single vantage point at this site, birders were able to turn south to observe a pair of Oyster Catchers who seemed to be scouting out a potential nest site and then turn north to watch an American Bald Eagle in a tree near the parking lot who seemed to be scouting out the Common Murre colony on the adjacent rocks.
Barn Swallow Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow House Sparrow American Crow Starling (immature) Pacific Slope Flycatcher Swainson’s Thrush Turkey Vulture White-crowned Sparrow Brandt’s Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pigeon Guillemot Western Gull Western Grebe Clark’s Grebe Cowbird Bald Eagle Black Oystercatcher American Goldfinch Common Murre Red-tailed Hawk

May 8, 2010 Bird Photography Talk, and Walk What a beautiful, welcoming morning on the coast! We all met at Knight Park in Otis around 9am . . . about 15 of us bird watchers. We saw some amazing birds and met some nice people. The tide was low but high above us we saw the Turkey Vultures stretching their wings on their roosts and catch the thermals to wherever they chose to head this fine morning. Bald Eagles were also seen taking the high road to wherever! Meanwhile throughout the rest of the morning we saw: Common Merganser Canada Geese Great Blue Heron Long-Billed Dowitchers (flock) Whimbrels (flock) Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Barn Swallow Tree Swallow Least Sandpipers Song Sparrow White-winged Scoters Hairy Woodpecker Rufus Hummingbird American Robin American Crow Wilson’s Warbler White-crowned Sparrow Red Crossbill Olive-sided Flycatcher Starlings Black-capped Chickadee Sandhill Crane Pelagic Cormorants Western Gull Raven Red-tailed Hawk . . . and we heard frogs that sounded very much like the Sandhill Crane!

April 10, 2010 Bird Walk at Siletz Bay, Lincoln City Nearly 20 people enjoyed wonderful weather and exciting sights as they hiked the Salishan Nature Trail in search of birds this Saturday, April 10th. Participants spotted 25 different birds in Siletz Bay and in the marshes, shrubs, and dunes along the Salishan Nature Trail. Most of the participants on this walk were new to Audubon and almost half were from out of the area. On the second Saturday of most months, ASLC hosts a bird walk beginning at 9 AM. We provide binoculars and field guides to new birders and welcome beginning birders on these monthly outings. "It's great to be able to introduce our wonderful coastal birding sites to both new and experienced birders from other parts of the state," said ASLC President, Jack Doyle. To see a listing of future bird walks, visit our Calendar page.
	American Eagle Bufflehead Mallard Great Blue Heron White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Spotted Towhee Ruby-crowned Kinglet Rufous Hummingbird Anna’s Hummingbird American Robin American Goldfinch American Crow Marsh Wren House Finch Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Flock of flying Cormorants Pelagic Cormorant Brandt’s Cormorant Chestnut-backed Chickadee Western Gull California Gull Great Egret Northern Pintail
January 9, 2010 Yaquina Bay Bird Walk "Great day, with 29 other birders! We had such nice close looks at so many of these birds, and the red-necked grebe was a first for me." - Laura Doyle YAQUINA BAY SITES: Rock Dove Western Gull California Gull Surf Scoter Western Grebe Pelagic Cormorant Bufflehead White Scoter American Coot Common Loon Brandts Cormorant Brandt Goose Great Blue Heron Northern Flicker Song Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Bewicks Wren American Crow Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Goldfinch House Finch White-crowned Sparrow American Kestrel Bald Eagle Yellow-rumped Warbler Bushtit Belted Kingfisher Common Goldeneye SOUTH JETTY SITE: Western Grebe Red-necked Grebe Horned Grebe Common Loon Harlequin Duck Mew Gull Black Turnstone Brown Pelican Surf Scoters Western Gull California Gull Photos by Jack Doyle
December 12, 2009 with Mark Elliott Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge killdeer ruby-crowned kinglet northern pintail pied-billed grebe green-winged teal bufflehead mallard dusky canada geese flicker winter wren bewick wren lincoln sparrow song sparrow fox sparrow golden-crowned sparrow mew gull red-tailed hawk steller jay northern harrier raven chestnut-backed chickadee dark-eyed junco dunlin blue heron varied thrush
November 7, 2009 Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge black scoters surf scoters black turnstones red-necked phalaropes common mergansers brown pelicans buffleheads double-crested cormorants pelagic cormorants american crows western gulls california gulls western grebes kingfisher bald eagle that hovered over a bufflehead trying to become a diving bird until it tired out and the eagle flew off with it (this was a day to remember not only for the number of birds viewed, but also for the daring souls who weathered lightning and thunder, pouring rain, and hail. It was also the same day that a tornado hit Roads End, ripping off a roof of a house and blowing out car windows!)

Photos by Jack Doyle	June 9, 2009 with Dick Demarest Nestucca Wildlife Refuge red-tail hawk immature eagle great blue heron american crow raven olivesided flycatcher barn swallow cliff swallow violet green swallow bandtail pigeons western gull stellars jay turkey vulture white tailed kite red-shoulder hawk brandts cormorant cedar waxwing female blackheaded grosbeak american goldfinch american robin
	June 13, 2009 with Dick Demarest Yaquina Bay Lighthouse american crow brown pelican white crowned sparrow violet green swallow barn swallow turkey vulture immature eagle brandts cormorant pelagic cormorant pigeon guillemot western gull oyster catcher raven common murre
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Lincoln City Audubon Society’s “Wild About Birds” Program at Taft and Oceanlake Schools

Birds Spotted During Local Field Trips

June 12, 2010 Yaquina Head Bird Walk

May 8, 2010 Bird Photography Talk, and Walk

April 10, 2010 Bird Walk at Siletz Bay, Lincoln City

January 9, 2010 Yaquina Bay Bird Walk

December 12, 2009 with Mark Elliott Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge

November 7, 2009 Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge

(this was a day to remember not only for the number of birds viewed, but also for the daring souls who weathered lightning and thunder, pouring rain, and hail. It was also the same day that a tornado hit Roads End, ripping off a roof of a house and blowing out car windows!)

June 9, 2009 with Dick Demarest Nestucca Wildlife Refuge

June 13, 2009 with Dick Demarest Yaquina Bay Lighthouse

Lincoln City Audubon Society’s “Wild About Birds” Program
at Taft and Oceanlake Schools

January 9, 2010
Yaquina Bay Bird Walk

December 12, 2009 with Mark Elliott
Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge

November 7, 2009
Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge

(this was a day to remember not only for the number of birds viewed,
but also for the daring souls who weathered lightning and thunder, pouring rain, and hail.
It was also the same day that a tornado hit Roads End, ripping off a roof of a house and blowing out car windows!)

June 9, 2009 with Dick Demarest
Nestucca Wildlife Refuge

June 13, 2009 with Dick Demarest
Yaquina Bay Lighthouse