Wild visitors turn each season at the ranch into a colorful and surprising adventure. 

A Pygmy Owl Watches Birders At The Ranch

We make every effort to encourage wildlife to call the ranch home, from restoring our wetland meadows and planting trees to providing a wealth of seed for songbirds.  So if you love to bring your binoculars to sight birds on a morning stroll, you've got to visit the ranch.  Klamath Bird Observatory leads surveys and group walks here to count migratory birds in spring and fall.  Renowned birder, blogger, and tour guide Harry Fuller can help you find and identify the native birds.  Just click on his highlighted name; it's a link to his birding website.  And even if you are out on your own, you are bound to enjoy the diversity of birds and their songs.  It's another great reason to come to our farmstay or take a tour at the ranch.

To read about the bird counts that have occurred here in recent years, see some great photos of birds at the ranch, or read Harry Fuller's daily birding blog - towheeblog - click on the highlighted links below: 

June 7, 2008

A Pair of Purple Finches Brighten Winter Days

June 8, 2008   
March 28, 2009  
January 5, 2010 
January 16, 2010.

Just check out this list of birds from a single morning count in June:

Mountain Quail    3
Turkey Vulture    2
Redtail Hawk           2
Wilson’s Snipe    4
Mourning Dove     3
Red-breasted sapsucker   1
Northern Flicker  2
Pileated Woodpecker   1
Western Wood-peewee  2
Steller’s Jay     5
Raven             1
Tree Swallow      5
Mountain Chickadee   1  (at the feeders)
Red-breasted Nuthatch   2
House Wren        1
American Robin    4
Yellow-rumped Warbler    2
Western tanager   3
Chipping Sparrow  4
Vesper Sparrow    3
Song Sparrow      4

Junco            12
Black-headed Grosbeak  3
Red-winged Blackbird   8
Brewer’s Blackbird    15
Purple Finch        4
Cassin’s Finch      6
Pine Siskin        25
Evening Grosbeak    2

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658 Shale City Road
Ashland, Oregon 97520
541-890-1998 

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