Greetings All,
Shawneen and I spent the morning birding Mt. Tabor Park with Bob and Adrienne
Wolfe-Lockett and various others whom we encountered along the away. The park
was quite birdy with lots of Varied Thrushes, Hermit Thrushes, Ruby-crowned
Kinglets, Pine Siskins and Lesser Goldfinches. A pair of Cooper's Hawk were up
circling overhead and seen doing display flights. We had a few Fox Sparrows and
lots of paired up Dark-eyed Juncos gathering nesting material.
There were not a lot of neotropical migrants, but we did have at least five
Black-throated Gray Warblers and a half dozen or Townsend's Warblers plus the
first Cassin's Vireo seen in the park this year. Incredibly, we saw just one
Orange-crowned Warbler and only about 5-6 Yellow-rumped Warblers (all
Audubon's).
Dave Irons
Portland, OR
