Field Trip: Beginning Birding at Cooper Mountain Nature Park with Laura Whittemore *FULL*
New to birding? Come spend time in the field with an experienced birder ready to help you identify birds by sight, sound, and behavior and improve your skills. Get to know each site’s birdlife in a relaxed educational setting.
This hilltop park in Beaverton is ideal for sampling woodland and grassland habitats and the associated birdlife. Many songbirds call this park home, such as resident Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Bewick’s Wren, and Northern Flicker, and are joined in spring and summer by migrant Orange-crowned Warbler, Black-headed Grosbeak, Lazuli Bunting and more. We may even spot vultures and hawks soaring above.
We will walk the trails, watching and listening while learning how to find and identify birds based on sight, sound, behavior, and habitat. The dirt loop trail is somewhat narrow and steep in places and there will be an uphill hike at the end of the walk.
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