Towheeblog

For the eleventh straight day I witnessed a flicker working at the Clark Creek Park nest cavity. More chips falling where they may:

The nest cavity is usually a foot deep, and can be as much as three feet deep. There are now many hundreds of chips scattered around the base of this dead, creekside cottonwood.

APRIL GARDEN
The density of juncos and siskins is minimal now; I may see as many as four siskins on a feeder still. Some wintering sparrows linger–the foxes never appear together on purpose:

Flowers: grape hyacinth miniature forest, crabapple exuberant, viburnum.

An arsonist who set a fire in Big Sur that killed a dozen condors...now he goes to prison. Click here.
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954 Ratcliff Drive SE, Marion, Oregon, US
Apr 7, 2022. 17 species

Wild Turkey  1
Mourning Dove  X
Anna’s Hummingbird  1
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Northern Flicker  1
Steller’s Jay  X
California Scrub-Jay  X
American Crow  X
European Starling  3
American Robin  1
House Finch  X
Pine Siskin  X
Lesser Goldfinch  X
Fox Sparrow  X
Dark-eyed Junco  X
Golden-crowned Sparrow  X
Spotted Towhee  1

954 Ratcliff Drive SE, Marion, Oregon, US
Apr 8, 2022. 16 species

Canada Goose  X
Mourning Dove  4
Red-breasted Sapsucker  1
Northern Flicker  1
Steller’s Jay  1
California Scrub-Jay  X
American Crow  X
Black-capped Chickadee  X
American Robin  1
House Finch  X
Pine Siskin  4
Fox Sparrow  2
Dark-eyed Junco  3
White-crowned Sparrow  2
Golden-crowned Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  1