The crows hereabouts are aggressive in their monitoring of neighborhood visitors. A red-tail perched near the top of a Doug-fir and drew screams and attqack sorties though none of the crows actually to8ched the hawk before it departed.






Crow close, out the window:


More corvidic cognizance:






Platform perfiormances:













RB Nuthatch, CB Chickadee, junco–come and go. Siskins park themselves on the dinner table and finch out, adding back that 10% of body weight they lost overnight. I think it is misleading to say “pig out” when “finch out”is so much more fittiing. BTW, that siskin with the yellow on his wing bars is an adult, likely a male. Drab ones=juvie.
MIBTO-BROWN:


Minto-Brown Island Park, Marion, Oregon, US
Nov 19, 2021. 8 species
Canada Goose 6
Wood Duck 1
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
California Scrub-Jay 2
American Crow 54
American Robin 12
954 Ratcliff Drive SE, Marion, Oregon, US
Nov 19, 2021. 15 species
Cackling Goose 8
Anna’s Hummingbird 2
Ring-billed Gull 6
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Steller’s Jay 2
California Scrub-Jay 6
American Crow X
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Pine Siskin X
American Goldfinch X
Dark-eyed Junco X
Song Sparrow 1
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