A Yellow-rumped Warbler in our garden has started picking sunflower bits off a squirrel-guard cone beneath one of our hanging feeders. No other bird has ever done that in three winters of bird feeding here. Is this a sign of cleverness? Of attributes like being nimble or abler to balance easily?
This agile bird is a myrtle warbler whose likely breeding territory would be far north of here.
An Ecuadoran butterfly, picture from John Kloetzel who writes: “I got an ID for those lovely Amazonian butterflies. They’re Hamadryads, often referred to as ‘crackers’ due the a subtle ‘cracking’ sound the males make with their wings as they take off. The blue one (Wikipedia): the ‘Belladonna Cracker’ (Hamadryas belladonna), appropriately enough.”
How can Bar-headed Geese migrate over the Himalayans? Click here.
Greed and drought are draining Great Salt Lake, no longer so great–click here.
954 Ratcliff Drive SE, Marion, Oregon, US
Feb 26, 2023 7:15 AM
Protocol: Incidental
18 species
Wild Turkey 2–first turkeys here since Feb. 20
Mourning Dove 14
Steller’s Jay 1
California Scrub-Jay 4
American Crow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Bewick’s Wren 1
Varied Thrush 2
American Robin 1
Lesser Goldfinch X
American Goldfinch 30
Fox Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 30
Golden-crowned Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 1
Spotted Towhee 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Townsend’s Warbler 1
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