[obol] Wed morning, Eugene

From: Lawrence McQueen <larmcqueen@xxxxxxx>
To: obol <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:33:15 -0700
Mount Pisgah location, crossing bridge turning north and parking.  Walking on 
Frank Parrish Road to gate at river.  Then back tracked and walked further 
north.
Found a female Western Tanager carrying a fat beetle (?), probably to its 
young.  This breeding female was bright yellow throughout its underparts.  
Migrant female tanagers in the valley seem to have less yellow, predominantly 
gray, with yellow under tail coverts and yellow throat, but with wide variation 
in this combination, with few being solid yellow below. We then checked out the 
LCC ponds where we found the Hooded Mergs. 
Birds still singing include robin, towhee, Bewick’s Wren, sapsucker, bunting, 
chickadee, Warbling Vireo, Pewee, junco, Song Sparrow, House Finch, and both 
goldfinches.  Heard no song from Black-headed Grosbeak.  Tanager not heard 
singing, but probably still at it; same with Purple Finch.

Canada Goose - 6 flying, and more on LCC ponds.
Mallard - 30
Hooded Merganser - 3 at LCC ponds (2 evidently young)
Green Heron - 1
Wild Turkey - 1 adult with 4 young (LCC  Campus)
Turkey Vulture - 2
Osprey - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
American Kestrel - 2 
Eurasian Collared Dove - only feathers at a strike sight
Mourning Dove - 4
Belted Kingfisher - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 4
Red-breasted Sapsucker - 2
Western Wood Pewee - 10
Hutton’s Vireo - 1
Warbling Vireo - 2
American Crow - few
Steller's Jay - 2
Western Scrub Jay - 6 
Tree Swallow - 10
Violet-green Swallow - 6
Barn Swallow - 8
Black-capped Chickadee - 12+
Bushtit - 15
White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
Brown Creeper - 1
Bewick's Wren - 5
House Wren - 1
Wrentit - 2
American Robin - 20
Swainson’s Thrush - 3
European Starling - 8
Cedar Waxwing - 10
Yellow Warbler - 1
Black-throated Gray Warbler - 3 (One bathing by soaking in dew atop big-leaf 
maple leaves.)
Spotted Towhee - 18
Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (song)
Song Sparrow - 8
White-crowned Sparrow - 1 striped immature.
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Western Tanager - 3
Black-headed Grosbeak - 4
Lazuli Bunting - 9
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
Purple Finch - 1
House Finch - 2
Lesser Goldfinch - bunches
American Goldfinch - families
House Sparrow - lots around boxes at garden.

Charles Thomas, Randy Sinnott, Sarah Vasconcellos, Dave Brown, Kit Larsen, 
Dennis Arendt, Jim Regali, Craig Merkel, and Larry McQueen
[obol] Wed morning, Eugene

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