This week's destination for the Village Birders of Dallas Retirement Village is Huddleston Pond in Willamina. A favorite of Jeanette's and mine, we have been birding here for the past ten years. Today, October 3rd, marked our 81st trip. It's a former log pond of Hampton Lumper Company, who donated the area to the City of Willamina for a park. Our group today enjoyed bright sunshine and a few early arriving waterfowl. The most unusual bird we found was a Red-necked Grebe as shown below. Red-necked Grebes are most commonly seen along our coastline, and it took some time for me to come up with the identification particularly because it was in the non-breeding plumage. Here is the link to our eBird Observation List.
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