Toward the end of March we made short trips to the north and south ends of Oregon. On our second trip to the south, I got a chance to go out and find my lifer Oak Titmouse, which I'm happy to have found in Oregon (they're much more widespread in California). It wasn't easy to find this bird — I spent a while out wandering around, hearing it occasionally, and had given up and was walking to the car when I finally spotted a pair. I followed it from tree to tree for a few minutes and got some photos, so I feel super fortunate for that.
Back home, we've had a pair of Cooper's Hawks in the yard often, perhaps looking to nest. We also had a pair of Northern Flickers excavating a cavity in a dead tree, but they don't seem to have actually moved in for nesting.
These photos are © 2026 Phil Thompson, all rights reserved.
My "birds in review" collages can be found here.
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3:10PM Saturday March 21, 2026
Hudsonian Whimbrel
3:10PM Saturday March 21, 2026
Hudsonian Whimbrel
3:10PM Saturday March 21, 2026
Hudsonian Whimbrel
3:10PM Saturday March 21, 2026
Hudsonian Whimbrel
3:11PM Saturday March 21, 2026
Hudsonian Whimbrel
3:11PM Saturday March 21, 2026
Hudsonian Whimbrel
3:12PM Saturday March 21, 2026
Hudsonian Whimbrel
9:12AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Mallard
9:12AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Mallard
9:14AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Greater Scaup
9:14AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Double-crested Cormorant, Brandt's CormorantAs far as I could tell, of the hundreds of cormorants sitting and nesting on the bridge piers, just about all were Double-crested Cormorants and these couple dozen were Brandt's Cormorants. There's a plastic dummy falcon there, an ineffictive one I'd say, as well.
9:14AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Double-crested Cormorant, Brandt's Cormorant
9:14AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Double-crested Cormorant, Brandt's Cormorant
9:20AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Greater Scaup
9:20AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Greater Scaup
9:20AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Greater Scaup
9:21AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
9:21AM Sunday March 22, 2026
American Wigeon
9:22AM Sunday March 22, 2026
American Wigeon
9:22AM Sunday March 22, 2026
American Wigeon
9:22AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Lesser Scaup
9:22AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Lesser Scaup
9:22AM Sunday March 22, 2026
Lesser Scaup
3:23PM Sunday March 22, 2026
3:23PM Sunday March 22, 2026
Double-crested Cormorant
3:23PM Sunday March 22, 2026
Double-crested Cormorant
4:33PM Sunday March 22, 2026
Common Raven
4:33PM Sunday March 22, 2026
Common Raven
4:33PM Sunday March 22, 2026
Western Gull
4:33PM Sunday March 22, 2026
Western Gull
4:34PM Sunday March 22, 2026
Short-billed GullI had looked ahead of time and knew there had been Short-billed Gulls seen often at this part of the Oregon coast. As I was heading toward the car I saw a group of gulls going by and took some photos. Sure enough, they were Short-billed Gulls with large white mirror spots on outer primaries, very small unmarked bills, and dark eyes. Those field marks all rule out Ring-billed, which is probably the most similar species they could have been. I don't see Short-billed that often so I'm happy to have taken these photos.
4:34PM Sunday March 22, 2026
Short-billed Gull
4:34PM Sunday March 22, 2026
Short-billed Gull
4:34PM Sunday March 22, 2026
Short-billed Gull
12:53PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Western Bluebird
1:01PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Ring-billed Gull
1:08PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Osprey
1:14PM Thursday March 26, 2026
1:45PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:45PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:45PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:46PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:46PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:46PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:46PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:46PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:47PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:47PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:47PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:49PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:49PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:49PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
1:49PM Thursday March 26, 2026
Oak Titmouse
7:32AM Saturday March 28, 2026
Cooper's Hawk
7:32AM Saturday March 28, 2026
Cooper's Hawk
3:17PM Saturday March 28, 2026
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)
3:17PM Saturday March 28, 2026
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)
3:17PM Saturday March 28, 2026
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)
3:17PM Saturday March 28, 2026
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)
3:17PM Saturday March 28, 2026
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)
3:17PM Saturday March 28, 2026
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)I took a burst of photos of this flicker tossing wood chips out of her nest cavity. Hopefully I'll get around to animating the sequence soon.
3:17PM Saturday March 28, 2026
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)
9:11AM Sunday March 29, 2026
Bushtit
9:11AM Sunday March 29, 2026
Bushtit
9:11AM Sunday March 29, 2026
BushtitThis pair of Bushtits was making repeated trips into their hanging nest. I appreciate them for making nests that are so easy to spot (when they're right next to the trail)!
4:33PM Monday March 30, 2026
Wild Turkey
4:33PM Monday March 30, 2026
Wild Turkey
8:44AM Tuesday March 31, 2026
Bald EagleThis eagle came out of nowhere, up and over the ridge I was hiking up. I barely had time to realize what I was seeing and snap a photo. This frame worked nicely, between the power lines.
8:55AM Tuesday March 31, 2026
This was a stack of 6 frames, which reduced the noise nicely. I liked this stack result a bit better than a single frame processed with DxO PureRAW 6, but of course it's much more time consuming to go through the whole stacking process than to just run a batch of photos through DxO.
8:55AM Tuesday March 31, 2026