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To read about this visit to Silver Falls, click here for link.  Blog includes bird checklists.

BIRDS

Violet-green Swallows leave roof of toilet/shower building in campground:Above: BH Grosbeak at dusk.  Below: waxwings at dawn.The local entertainment and vigilante organizers:Here we have baked jay as he perches in hot mid-day sun on a shingle roof, cooking the lice out of his feathers.The music of the Swainson’s Thrush was all around all day long…but the birds hid in the shade where they became part of the shadows…a good look is hard to find.

Dipper in the stream:Another creek, another Dipper:Rufous Hummer above.  Song Sparrow below.Get that itch…Raven passing:

OTHER ANIMALSAnt hill above.  Townsend’s chipmunk, accusing me of trespassing.A shaded character if ever there were…My very best brush rabbit photo, at dawn…Douglas squirrel hurries up tree, morsel in maw.Squirrel raids our outdoor commissary:

FLORASalmonberry above, checkermallow below.Showy Columbia lily showing off in sunlight:Lingering iris:Salal in bloom:It seems about 95% of the feral foxgloves at Silver Falls are purplish, few are white.You really have to look up to a mature Douglas fir.  This one;s at least eighty years old.  No needles until you get at least fifty feet above the earth.Skunk cabbage above, wood sorrel below:

THE PLACEEventide.