Grants Pass Riverside Park
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Grants Pass is located 138 miles south of Eugene and 30 miles NW of Medford. I-5 runs by the eastern edge of the city. The main I-5 exits are 55 and 58. A favored location within the city limits is Riverside Park. Riverside Park: From downtown Grants Pass, follow 6th St. south until you cross the Rogue River on Caveman Bridge. Turn left into the park entrance immediately after crossing the bridge. Alternately, from I-5 exit 55, follow Hwy 199 toward Crescent City for 2 miles. Just after you cross the Rogue River bridge, turn right on Park St., go 0.3 miles, and turn right on Vista Dr
DirectionsHabitat and Birds
This park offers a convenient site to check the river for waterfowl, gulls, and song birds in the riverside trees. Birds you might find in Grants Pass include Wood Duck, Hooded Merganser, Pied-billed Grebe, Spotted Sandpiper, Anna’s Hummingbird, Acorn Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatch, Winter Wren, Wrentit, Cedar Waxwing, Pine Siskin, and Lesser Goldfinch. Rarities seen in the past include the state’s only record of Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Indigo Bunting, Costa’s Hummingbird, Black Phoebe, and Swamp Sparrow.
Today, I saw a black bird bigger than a Robin. Maybe the same size or bigger than a blue Jay. Depending upon I guess the species I’m just now learning birds. But I saw this black bird taller neck than normal rich, red ring only around the neck, the head was black. The beak was some color I couldn’t catch all the colors I don’t know if it was like a yellowish or it was a different color but when it flew in front of me and then circled away from me, there was white on the Autumn half of the wings not fully at the tip but just I don’t know, an inch or 2 from the tips so that when it flew up, I saw the bottom of the wings and there was like a white stripe big enough to notice but block, I don’t know if it. Wasn’t dull black. It was maybe more of a shiny, not really shiny, but that red deep red ring around its neck like it had a collar on.