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This is mixed conifer hardwood forest and offers a good sampling of local birds. Spring and summer are the best times to hike here and a more beautiful walk will be hard to find. Ashland is a gem of a city and many birds may show up in its multipl...
In addition to the birds at North Mountain Park, here you could find Cassin’s Vireo, Western Wood-pewee, Lazuli Bunting, Anna’s or Rufous Hummingbirds, Green Heron, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Hutton’s Vireo.
...Open water, riparian wetlands, grasslands, ceanothusmanzanita shrub, oak savannah, and oak woodland areas are present. Birds here include 3 species of grebe, Great Egret, Greater White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, 13 species of duck, White-tailed Ki...
In 2003, there was a fire on this butte and woodpeckers continue to occupy that burn. The rest of the region is relatively open with scattered timber. Near the top, the timber thickens. As recently as 2009, Great Gray Owl was reported from this tr...
Mixed conifer forest surrounds wet meadows and open water. Common birds that might be expected include Western, Eared, and Pied-billed Grebes, American White Pelican, Green-winged Teal, Common Merganser, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Sharpy & CooperR...
Mixed conifer forest and mountain lake habitat. The lake itself may contain several duck species including American Wigeon, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Ring-necked Duck, Bufflehead, and Hooded Merganser. The woods around the lake should h...
Birds found in Lithia Park include Great Blue Heron, Canada Geese, Common Merganser, Wood Duck nest here, American Kestrel, Red-tailed Hawk, Acorn, Downy, and possibly Lewis’s Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Red-breasted Sapsucker, Band-tailed...
Birds here include Sooty Grouse, Mt. Quail, Bandtailed Pigeon, Vaux’s Swift, White-headed Woodpecker, Dusky Flycatcher, Hammond’s Flycatcher, Gray Jay, Clark’s Nutcracker, Brown Creeper, Townsend’s Solitaire, Hermit Warbler...
Grasslands, oak woodlands, savannah, and riparian wetlands all exist in small pockets producing microhabitats that attract a wide variety of birds. Things you might see here include Great Egret, Green Heron, Wood Duck, Sharp-shinned Hawk, N. Pygmy...
Natural mixed conifer and woodland combined with ornamental yard vegetation. You might expect to see Rufous Hummingbird, Anna’s Hummingbird, Pileated Woodpecker, flycatchers (Olive-sided, Hammond’s, Dusky, Ash-throated, pewee, Pacific-...