Sunday, May 20, 2012

Fernhill Wetlands

Here I go again, posting a week late.  

Oh well.

Last week, on one of those super lovely days here in Oregon, we visited Fernhill Wetlands in Forest Grove.

And guess what?? We saw a Black Tern, which ended up being listed on the Portland Audubon's Rare Bird Alert posting.  How about that?  

Not the best picture in the world, I admit.  But this guy was such an acrobatic flier, I'm amazed that any pictures came out!













Another unusual bird for this wetlands that we saw were Yellow-headed Blackbirds.

Doug took this picture of a nice female.











The pond also had this lovely group of Greater White-fronted Geese.

Lovely, aren't they?








We spent a nice amount of time in Dabbler's Marsh...home to many Tree Swallow boxes and thus, lots of Tree Swallows!

Nice one right above the sign.










Hello cutie!















Also saw a good dozen of these little lovely American Goldfinches.















We'll finish up with an overview picture of Dabbler Marsh.  Beautiful place and well worth a visit to Fernhill Wetlands.


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