Nora the dog took me for a walk at Joe Dancer Park this morning. It turned into a birding trip, not just an amble where she could sniff every bush base or scuffed pile of leaves. Migrants!
A flock of White-crowned Sparrows that included many of this summer’s fledglings, some still sporting their speckled vests. They were not there a couple days ago. In the riverside trees: warblers. There were my first orange-crowned, black-throated gray and Nashville of the season. I don’t think any of them bred at the park this summer; I last saw them around McMinnville in May.
One of the adult white-crowns in his bounteous apple tree:
Hummer and two of the downys.
Joe Dancer Park, Yamhill, Oregon, US
Aug 10, 2019
21 species
Anna’s Hummingbird 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Downy Woodpecker 3
American Kestrel 1
California Scrub-Jay X
American Crow X
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Barn Swallow 8
Bushtit 25
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
American Robin 4
Cedar Waxwing 1
House Sparrow X
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 4
White-crowned Sparrow 30
Song Sparrow 5
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Black-throated Gray Warbler 2
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