Nest Monitoring
Highway Osprey Nest Monitoring
Since 2011, ECAS member, Kevin Smith, has been monitoring Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) nests along Highway 97/26 from Warm Springs to the north end of Bend. He checks these nests throughout the nesting season, from late April through August. Knowing...
Golden Eagle Nest Camera on Whychus Creek
In 2003, landowners along Whychus Creek, noticed the nest of a Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) on the canyon wall across the creek from their property. They monitored the nest and saw one of the chicks fledge. The site wasn’t used again until 2...
Don and Lowell Franks Nest Box Project
Kim Boddie met Don and Lowell Franks after both brothers had retired and were living in Fort Rock. Together they all participated in Winter Raptor Surveys and talked about the nest boxes Don and Lowell had built and set out. For years after the Fr...
Kestrel Nest Box Project
Beginning with one nest box fledging five American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) in 1988, Don McCartney led the growth of this Central Oregon Kestrel Nest Box Trail into one of the largest and most successful information gathering projects of its ki...
Bluebird Nest Box Project
For more than a decade, ECAS members have been monitoring 28 Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) and Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) nest boxes on two “bluebird trails” near Sisters. In the ensuing years, other locations have been added,...