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June 5, 1942 Pudding River, Woodburn, 6:30 to 9:15 a.m. Weather cloudy and warm.
Lutescent Warbler
Flicker
Robin
English Sparrow
Violet-green Swallow
Killdeer
Brewer Blackbird
Green-backed Goldfinch -- talked back and forth with this one for some time.
Song Sparrow
Long-tailed Chat -- Two of them kept chattering back and forth for at least a full half hour without a break.
Rufous Hummingbird
Valley Quail
Seattle Wren -- scolded me as I went through the brush
Russet-backed Thrush -- I stood quietly and had at least five of them working in towards me as I answered their calls.
Pacific Yellowthroat -- Watched one brilliant male close by me and it acted as if there were a nest near so I searched and found one with 4 young.
Mourning Dove
Yellow Warbler
Oregon Chickadee
Crow
McGillivray Warbler
Coast Jay
Bob White
Harris Woodpecker
Black-headed Grosbeak -- Several of them. Two I saw were males in very brilliant plummage. One perched in the top of a fir tree sang a long time.
NW Red-breasted Sapsucker -- Saw two of them. One was working on a nearly horizontal limb of a vine maple (Acer circinatum) and had 5 longitudinal rows of 11 almost square holes drilled into the limb.
California Creeper
Little Flycatcher --
Slender-billed Nuthatch
Cassin Vireo
Western Meadowlark
China Pheasant
Audubon Warbler
Western Tanager
Great Horned Owl -- Came upon one perched on a dead limb of a fir about 30 feet up. It was very close to the trunk. Length sitting was about 18".
Towhee
Wood Luck -- Flushed female from brush along the river and there were 4 young following.
Vaux Swift
Western Bluebird
Cedar Waxwing
Hooded Merganser -- Female and male swimming upstream with 6 half-grown young. The female led the convoy and the male brought up the rear. Swam silently.
Bank Swallow
Willow Goldfinch
Barn Swallow
White-crowned Sparrow
Western Wood Pewee -- Dark gray head and back. Light gray below. Phoe---bee. White throat and white wing bars (2 of them)
45 species.total.