Diamond Lake and Sewage Ponds

Habitat and Birds

Habitat: open water, wet meadow and mixed conifer, sewage ponds.

Birds: grebes, mergansers, goldeneyes, gulls, Lesser Scaup, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Cinnamon Teal, Mountain Chickadee, Western Tanager, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Lewis’s Woodpecker, Townsend’s Solitaire, Western Wood-Pewee, Cassin’s Finch, warblers. Best birding: May-July, Sept-Oct.

Diamond Lake Sewage Ponds: Barrow’s Goldeneye, Northern Shoveler and numerous other waterfowl

Savannah Sparrows, American Pipits, and with them, Oregon’s 2nd and 5th Chestnut-collared Longspurs. Wilson’s Phalaropes other   migrant shorebirds in low numbers but interesting species including, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Willet, Red-necked Phalarope, and Long-billed Curlew. Snowy Egret, Loggerhead Shrike, Bank Swallow, and Lark, Vesper, Grasshopper, Chipping, and Brewer’s Sparrows have also been seen here (all D. Fix or D. Fix and D. Irons). A June 29th record of Solitary Sandpiper is the earliest report of an apparent fall migrant in the state, and the site also provided a late September Swamp Sparrow. Northern Goshawk is possible any time of year, and Black-backed Woodpeckers breed in the mixed conifer forest dominated by Shasta red fir beyond the fenced area.