Our Yamhill Valley count Dec. 27 was under foggy skies most of the day. So the one fine shot I got all day was this male towhee, who’d been eating the apple just below where he is perched, staring at the camera.
Yet more birds:
And then the final pictures of the day, ending with a small flock of Western Bluebirds feeding along Baker Creek Road. The sapsucker was at Huber Park where we saw only a pair of Steller’s Jays before he flew into view.
We did not find a dipper on our count day though they do breed under a bridge along Baker Creek.
Back home in our garden the Audubon’s Warbler appears daily to harass the chickadees. They persist so it may be just a game they all play.
820 NW 19th Street, McMinnville, Yamhill, Oregon, US
Dec 29, 2019. 14 species
Cackling Goose 7
Eurasian Collared-Dove 3
California Scrub-Jay 1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 3
Bushtit 25
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Bewick’s Wren 1
European Starling 30
House Sparrow 8
House Finch 3
Dark-eyed Junco 30
Golden-crowned Sparrow 2
Spotted Towhee 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
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