Albert Ryckman and I are en route to Sonoma for some coastal birding. Today we went from Albany, Oregon, to Klamath Falls. At Plat I east of Sutherlin we found bluebirds, Black Phoebe and Hooded Merganser. There were hundreds of swallows feeding over the lake--Barn, Cliff, Tree. We watched two circling kettles of Turkey Vultures--maybe eighty birds in all. At Valley of the Rogue State Park we found two Band-tailed Pigeons. At the puddled remains of Emigrant Lake near Ashland we found one White Pelican, two white-fronted geese. Albert got his first good pic of an Oak Titmouse arond MP6 on Dead Indian Memorial; there were more bluebirds there. The purpose of the day's route played out around 545pm as we followed a hunting adult female Great Gray Owl around a mountain meadow in the Jackson County Cascades.

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