Here is the summary of my morning dogwalks from NW Seblar Terrace to the Pittock Mansion for the week 9/25/14 to 10/01/14. Species neither seen nor heard the previous TWO weeks are in ALL CAPS. Additional information about my dogwalk, including an archive of weekly summaries and a checklist, may be found at http://www.hevanet.com/winkg/dogwalkpage.html The sightings are also in eBird. We did the walk 5 days this week. Species # days found (peak #, date) GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE 1 (130+, 10/1) CACKLING GOOSE 4 (85) CANADA GOOSE 1 (9, 10/1) SHARP-SHINNED HAWK 1 (1, 9/27) Band-tailed Pigeon 2 (4, 9/30) Vaux’s Swift 3 (40, 10/1) Anna's Hummingbird 5 (4) Red-breasted Sapsucker 4 (2) DOWNY WOODPECKER 2 (3, 10/1) Northern Flicker 5 (6) HUTTON’S VIREO 2 (2, 9/30) Steller's Jay 5 (15, 9/25) American Crow 5 (25, 9/27) TREE SWALLOW 1 (1, 10/1) VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW 1 (50, 10/1) Black-capped Chickadee 5 (8) Chestnut-backed Chickadee 4 (9) Bushtit 1 (10, 9/25) Red-breasted Nuthatch 5 (6) Brown Creeper 3 (2) Pacific Wren 4 (2) Bewick’s Wren 3 (2) Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 (8) HERMIT THRUSH 2 (1, 9/28 & 30) American Robin 5 (20, 10/1) Varied Thrush 5 (6) European Starling 5 (4) AMERICAN PIPIT (Tx, Dave!) 1 (1, 9/27) CEDAR WAXWING 1 (15, 9/27) Black-throated Gray Warbler 1 (3, 9/25) Spotted Towhee 5 (7) Fox Sparrow 1 (1, 9/30) Song Sparrow 5 (11) Golden-crowned Sparrow 3 (5, 9/27) Dark-eyed Junco 5 (18) House Finch 2 (3, 10/1) RED CROSSBILL 1 (8, 9/30) PINE SISKIN 1 (40, 9/27) Lesser Goldfinch 4 (9, 9/30) American Goldfinch 1 (1, 9/28) Evening Grosbeak 4 (12) In the neighborhood but not found on dogwalk: DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT, TURKEY VULTURE, NORTHERN HARRIER, COOPER’s HAWK, RED-TAILED HAWK, Western Screech-Owl, GREAT HORNED OWL, HAIRY WOODPECKER, PILEATED WOODPECKER, Western Scrub-Jay, COMMON RAVEN, BARN SWALLOW, SWAINSON’S THRUSH, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, Townsend’s Warbler Wink Gross Portland