Over the past 5-10 years I feel like there has been a bit of a rebound in the
number of White-breasted Nuthatches in the Willamette Valley. When I first came
back to Oregon in 1998 it seemed like they were really tough to find even in
larger stands of mature oaks. More recently I feel like I've been encountering
them more regularly, but I provide any solid evidence that this is the case.
This is a case where a population once present in the oak woodlands in the
Puget Trough has winked out. White-breasted Nuthatches are no longer resident
in the southern Puget Trough.
Dave Irons
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Subject: [obol] Scrub Jays as sign of climate change -- say what??
My grandparents grew filberts in the n. Willamette Valley in the 1930s and 40s.
Compare changes in C. Scrub Jay to changes in Acorn Woodpecker and
White-breasted Nuthatch. Both of the latter are much less common and more local
around Eugene than they were in the late 1960s. I have not looked at CBC data
but I would think this change would appear there. The nuthatch seems to be a
bit more flexible in habitat use.
Alan Contreras
Eugene, Oregon
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