Towheeblog

A Green-tailed Towhee who used his tail as a warning signal and a sign of superiority.  A pair of Bald Eagles copulating atop a 100-foor tall tree near Bull Gap.  Dusky Flycatchers who looked us in the eye.  Calliope male on his sentinel post along Tolman Creek Road.  Western Tanager, Lazuli Bunting, Black-headed Grosbeak, Cassin’s Finches, Nashville Warbler,  a day of demonstrative birds for the Bay Are birders I took into the Siskiyous today.  Then we ended the day with four Osprey circling over Emigrant Lake in mid-afternoon…despite all the motorboats and paddleboards.After they copulated, he contemplated, she did her feathers. Green-tailed Towhee male atop his boundary rock, Mt. Ashland, 6500 feet elevation. Mountain Chickadee, Mt. Ashland. Mountain Bluebird on ski lodge  out-building.  One of the Em Lake Osprey. Here’s tghe only owl we saw, an Ashland building mural. A huddle at Em Lake. Kingbird, Em Lake. Tanager. Other birds included numerous bright-colored Yellow-rumps, RB Nuthatch,  GC Kinglets, RB Gull, Blue Heron, numerous Ravens being smart-alecks (as is their wont), Flickers, American Goldfinchs, Llincoln’s Sparrow.