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I out up a multiple suet-block feeder that is new to our garden. First users? The Bushtits who arrived about 410PM. Even the squirrels wouldn’t go near the strange thing in an unexpected place.

WOODPECKERS–Flicker in our garden; sapsucker at Clark Creek Park:

954 Ratcliff Drive SE, Marion, Oregon, US
Jan 21, 2023
18 species

Mourning Dove  28     record high count for this location
Ring-billed Gull  30     fly over
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
Steller’s Jay  1
California Scrub-Jay  5
American Crow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Bushtit  20
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
European Starling  2
Varied Thrush  1
House Finch  1
Lesser Goldfinch  1
American Goldfinch  30
Dark-eyed Junco  30
Song Sparrow  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  1

Clark Creek Park, Marion, Oregon, US
Jan 21, 2023
8 species

Bald Eagle  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Red-breasted Sapsucker  1
California Scrub-Jay  1
American Crow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  1
American Robin  20
Dark-eyed Junco  6

Eighteen squirrels in our garden today, like the doves it’s an all-time high.

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