[obol] Mt. Tabor, Portland

  • From: Gerard Lillie <gerardlillie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:57:32 -0700

I ran home briefly (on Mt. Tabor) around 1:00 PM after my wife Alice told me 
about a very large number of birds in the neighborhood. A huge slug of migrant 
AMERICAN ROBINS was present, the number was somewhere north of 50. Along with 
them were 5 TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRES, the most I have seen in one day on Tabor. 
Also, present were 3 VARIED THRUSHES, ~ 20 CEDAR WAXWINGS, 2 TOWNSEND'S 
WARBLERS and the already present assorted FOX SPARROWS, JUNCOS, and other 
neighborhood birds. They were feeding on a laurel tree (Bay Laurel?) loaded 
with berries, highbush cranberries and evergreen huckleberries in my yard. It 
was quite the scene with birds flying all around. 

Gerard Lillie
Portland, OR

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