It was foggy, cold but calm and rainless for our Christmas Count today. Peter Enticknap and I found songbirds to be scarce because of cold and fog. Yet we got over 40 species, and one special bird…at Ed Grenfell Park on Baker Creek we scored a Hutton’s Vireo, first one in this count circle in three years.
We were also pleased to find two Pileated Woodpeckers.
The area we covered includes the western edge of the Willamette Valley and then the lower foothills of the Coastal Range.
McMinnville CBC-NW quadrant, Yamhill, Oregon, US
Dec 27, 2019 7:50 AM
43 species
Cackling Goose 100
Canada Goose 120
Northern Shoveler 30
American Wigeon 6
Mallard 15
Northern Pintail 2
Green-winged Teal 6
Ring-necked Duck 67
Bufflehead 5
Hooded Merganser 6
Common Merganser 9
California Quail 14
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Mourning Dove 2
Wilson’s Snipe 7
Great Blue Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk 5
Red-breasted Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 5
American Kestrel 6
Hutton’s Vireo 1
Steller’s Jay 9
California Scrub-Jay 15
American Crow 4
Common Raven 2
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 12
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Pacific Wren 2
European Starling 106
Western Bluebird 6
Varied Thrush 3
American Robin 58
Lesser Goldfinch 2
Fox Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 47
Golden-crowned Sparrow 12
Song Sparrow 5
Spotted Towhee 6
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