Towheeblog

Some photos to honor Earth Day and a nod to the critical need for scientific understanding in opposition to those fools who think they can make decisions based on faith…or profit.
Female hummer makes her feeder moves:

ACORN WOODPECKERSHere is one granery branch being used by the colony of Acorn Woodpeckers at 13th and Michelbook in McMinnville.

RAPTORSKestrel at the top, then two Red-tail blurs.

CROW FINDS FOOD IN THE STREET
It is experimental science that has let us come to recognize how smart these corvids are.

LESSER SCAUP AT YAMHILLSPARROWS HIDING IN SHADOWSscuebceIIt is

Song Sparrow on top, Spotted Towhee below, both at Joe Dancer Park.

Below: Bewick’s Wren singing along Cozine Creek.  Then Robin gathering nesting material from street and Violet-green Swallow along Old Sheridan Road.

TURKEY VULTURE

Not Birds:Scouring rushes sprout, forming a miniature conifer forest along the edge of Baker Creek Road, not far from Dipperary seen in earlier blog.