Manning Trail Head / confusing warblers

4.22.12

• Violet-Green Swallows
• Song Sparrows
• Rufous Hummingbirds
• Audubon’s Warblers
• Yellow Warblers - female
• Anna’s Hummingbird
• Mourning Doves
• Common Yellowthroat
• American Robins
• American Crows
• Red-Tailed Hawk

Rufous Hummingbird

freshly made woodpecker hole

The lovely smell of blossoms filled the air on this hot Sunday.

4.23.12

• American Robins
• American Crows
• Golden-Crowned Sparrows
• Spotted Towhee
• Rufus Hummingbirds
• Bewick’s Wren
• female Yellow Warblers or Orange-Crowned Warblers?
• Black-Capped Chickadee
• European Starling

Rufous Hummingbird

I'm having quite a bit of trouble with this.  Yellow Warbler or Orange-Crowned Warbler?  

Yellow-Rumped Warbler AKA Audubon's Warbler

Backyard Birds - at new house!

We couldn't believe all the birds we saw just on the first morning of living at out new place, many from within the house, others in the yard.

• Violet-Green Swallows
• Spotted Towhee
• European Starlings - boo! And they seem to have a nest under the eave of our bedroom.
• Red-Tailed Hawk - in nearby trees and later flying right by the house!
• Oregon Juncos
• Mourning Doves
• Northern Flicker
• American Robins
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• White Crowned Sparrows

Then the next day:

• Chestnut-backed Chickadees
• Varied Thrush
• Steller's Jays
• Western Scrub-Jays
• Red-Breasted Sapsuckers - we were about the leave when I heard tapping and saw a puff of sawdust come from a nearby tree, went over, saw 3!  One was really low and close to us!
• Rufous Hummingbird - later my mom and I were sitting on the patio when a hummingbird almost flew right into us!  We screamed and as is turned back, I saw the rusty red.  First Rufous of the season, and one of the most unusual hummingbird encounters ever.

White-Crowned Sparrow

Varied Thrush

So close!

Multnomah Channel - Scappoose Dike

The first two were with my mom, also a novice at the time.


On 3.19.11 we saw:

• Double-Crested Cormorants* including juveniles
• Bald Eagle

On 4.2.11 we saw:

• Double-Crested Cormorants
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Osprey* - juvenile

On 4.24.11 with my cousin in attendance, and me with a developing eye to spot birds, we saw:

• Osprey - hoovering and their nest
• Double-Crested Cormorants
• Bald Eagle
• Great Blue Heron - rookery
• Norther Flicker* - male
• Common Yellowthroat - male
• Rufous Hummingbird
• American Robin
• American Kestrel*
• Barn Swallow*
• Song Sparrow
• Red-Winged Blackbird
• Turkey Vulture*
• Mallard - male
• Vaux's Swift*

*Lifer

Double-Crested Cormorant

Double-Crested Cormorant - drying wings

Turkey Vulture

Misc. things of interest 

Jackson Bottom Wetland Preserve

Another very influential trip.  This time it was just my cousin and I, so I was really able to pay attention and listen.  I learned a lot that day.

• Rufous Hummingbird*
• White-Crowned Sparrow*
• Golden-Crowned Sparrow*
• Black-Capped Chickadee
• Red-Winged Blackbird* - male and female
• Ring-Necked Duck
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Bufflehead - male and female
• House Finch
• American Coot
• Canada Geese
• Common Yellowthroat* - male (what a delight that was to see such an exotic looking, beautiful bird!)
• American Robin - male and female
• Tree Swallows* (there were so many swooping all around us, almost grazing my head at one point.)
• European Starlings* (I learned what a terror these guys are, but couldn't help but to be amused at their weird squishing sounds.)
• Wilson's Snipe*
• Northern Pintail*
• Marsh Wren*
• Great Blue Heron
• Double-Crested Cormorant

*Lifer 

Marsh Wren nest