The warblers were after suet today. So were the Bushtits and the flicker (as always). I have seen each of them go for sunflower chips but likely on warmer days. Fat=heat. Varied Thrush. Myrtle Warbler after suet chunks fallen from, feeder.
I have been enjoying a book on collective nouns for birds. So I can report that in a quarry lake off McGilchrist there was a small swim of cormorants. In the large lake at Gateway Park a commotion of coots. On wires next to the airport was a large dole of doves (Rock Pigeon, to you). In every water I visited there was a paddling of ducks. However, the lake south of Kelly’s had few. On the Christmas Count over a month ago there were hundreds of birds…not today. Gateway did have a sord of Mallards.
A real Mallard:
Maybe collect feathers for some DNA testing?
Cormorant gets into the swim:
Scaup before tiny fraction of a real commotion:
954 Ratcliff Drive SE, Marion, Oregon, US
Jan 22, 2023 7:30 AM
Protocol: Incidental
20 species
Mourning Dove 16
Northern Flicker 1
Steller’s Jay 1
California Scrub-Jay 4
American Crow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 1
Bushtit 20
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 1
Varied Thrush 2
American Robin 1
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 30
Fox Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 30
Golden-crowned Sparrow 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Townsend’s Warbler 1
SALEM CBC AREA #1, Marion, Oregon, US
Jan 22, 2023
19 species (+2 other taxa)
Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type) 4
Cackling Goose 300
Canada Goose 25
Northern Shoveler 3
Gadwall 2
Mallard 40
Mallard (Domestic type) 12
Lesser Scaup 1
Bufflehead 14
Hooded Merganser 4
Ruddy Duck 1
Pied-billed Grebe 10
Mourning Dove 1
American Coot 50
Glaucous-winged Gull 2
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Brewer’s Blackbird 1
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