The Winter 2018/19 Whistler is available now.
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As of now any young birder in school will be able to download the new version 7.7 of Thayer’s Birds of North America at NO COST. All others still need to buy the regular version. Thayer Birding Software founder, Peter W. Thayer, decided that this would be the perfect way to celebrate his 70th birthday.
You can get the software by using a Young Birder code, in our case use WillapaHillsAudubonYoungBirder where it asks for the promo code. Though be warned: The software package is huge, about 7.5GB and it will take a while to download depending on your internet connection.
Get the software at www.thayerbirding.com
The Fall 2018 Whistler is available now.
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The Summer 2018 Whistler is available now.
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The University of Oregon School of Law now has a camera showing an Osprey nest. You can watch it live 24/7.
By Darrel Whipple
Looking for a little white dot on a forested hillside...
Pretty soon you get good at that, especially if you are lucky to be counting eagles with Steve Hemenway of Castle Rock.
Steve and I conducted WHAS's Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey on Monday, February 5, 2018, from 7:30 am to 3:00 pm. The survey covers two latitude-longitude blocks along the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers, originally assigned to WHAS as part of a nationwide study of eagle populations that ran from 1979 to 1989, coordinated by the National Wildlife Federation.
But, what the heck! Why quit a perfectly good survey? Right?
So, here I am with my umpteenth Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey on the same .............. 120-mile vehicle route, which basically covers the territory between Longview and the I-5 bridge over the Cowlitz in the morning, and the area from the Port of Kalama to Longview in the afternoon.
Despite the lackluster smelt run that is just barely waking up the sea lions on the docks at Astoria, and not yet appearing in the Cowlitz, we sighted a survey record of 26 Bald Eagles. We had 21 adults and five sub-adults. (The north block yielded 17 eagles and the south block had nine.)
That's a welcome result considering that our 1979 survey turned up just one eagle -- one adult near the I-5 bridge over the Cowlitz.
In addition to the 26 eagles, we checked off 43 other bird species, including 12 Red-tailed Hawks, a Cooper's Hawk, Kestrel, Northern Harrier, Western Meadowlark and Horned Grebe. We found only one Great Blue Heron: what's up with that?
The Spring 2018 Whistler is available now.
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Below is a video of Vaux's Swifts going into the Chimney at Carpet One in Rainier, Oregon. The short film was taken on September 1st by Juni Roberts. More information is available here.
| Dec 29-29, 2020 Wahkiakum CBC 2020 |
| Jan 01-01, 2021 Cowlitz-Columbia Christmas Bird Count 2020 |
| Jan 09, 2021 WHAS Board Meeting |
