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May 2, 1947, 521 Hayes Street Woodburn, 6 p.m. I watched an adult female Song
carrying food into our Port Orford Cedar, and upon investigating I
found a nest containing three quite small young [illegible] at a height
of 6 feet. This tree was a very dense clump, well sheltered from rain
and wind, and sun. I banded them #'s L-42256,57, and 58. They didn't
seem to have their eyes open yet. Feather tracts on wings and mid-back
about 1/2-way back. Pin feathers coming out. Feathers blue-black.
The skin was brownish.
On May 3rd I saw the adult carry fecal sacks away.
May 3, 1947 Pudding River, Woodburn, Oregon - 930 a.m. to 2 p.m. Clear and warm
Wood Ducks - a pair preening on a log in the middle of the willow pond near the river.
Vulture - several soaring low over the center of a large grain field.
Sparrow Hawk - one on a wire line
Valley Quail - flushed one pair from the edge of a gravel road.
Pheasants- crowing occasionally here and there.
Killdeer - a few heard and seen. Pretty well paired up now.
Band-tailed Pigeons - flushed 32 from the top of some firs in the woods
Mourning Doves - a few scattered singles on wire lines. The mates probably on nests.
Dusky Horned Owl - flushed one from a clump of cedars at 11 a.m.
Rufous Hummingbird - a few seen, and quite a few more heard. No nests found.
Belted Kingfisher - one flew up the river, calling.
Flicker - a few seen
Lewis's Woodpecker - one seen flying out from an old oak at the edge of the fir.
Red-breasted Sapsucker - one male lit on the side of a cedar trunk and a Pine Squirrel
scolded it loudly and then tried to chase it away.
Cairdner's Woodpecker - using the nesting hole described several weeks ago.
Little Flycatcher - 2 or 3 seen in the woods, around clearings, feeding occasionally.
W. Wood Pewee - one heard, and another seen later in the same vicinity.
Olive-sided Flycatcher - calling and feeding from a tall old D. Fir near the river.
Violet-green Swallow - common
Tree Swallows - just 3 were seen
Bard Swallows - around Joe Aichers place
Cliff Swallows - quite common over forests and fields and along the fiver.
Horned Lark - a few seen flying from one field to another by the river.
Coast Jay - a couple scolding from the fir woods
Long-tailed Jay - in brushland pasture by the river.
Crow - a couple flew over, and I heard others in the distance.
Oregon Chickadees - a pair in a hazel clump, one singing clearly
Slender-billed Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
California Creeper
Dipper - one flew from the edge of the river, and what it was doing here I don't know
for this Pudding R is not their type of stream, and it is about 9 miles to
the nearest water likening to its typical habitat.
W. Winter Wren - singing from the deep cedar and fir woods
Seattle Wren - singing in the brushland-pasture area.
Robin - singing from perches up to 60 feet above ground.
W. Bluebird - a couple seen in a fence row by a field
Cassin Vireo - calling here and there
Lutescent Warblers - common and singing everywhere
Yellow Warbler - a few were heard and seen. I believe these are the 1st since April.
Audubon Warblers - a couple were seen
Black-throated Gray Warblers - two heard singing and one seen
MacGillivray's Warbler - 4 were seen in the brushland-pasture area.
Pacific Yellow-throat - singing and giving warning notes everywhere. Many seen.
English Sparrow - near Joe Aichers farm buildings
W. Meadowlarks - singing everywhere.
Redwing - in marshy field not far from the river.
Brewer Blackbirds - common, and paired
Western Tanager - one pair seen, and heard calling in the fir woods.
Evening Grosbeak- one. Purple Finches here and there House Finch - one M seen
Pine Siskins - 3 in cedar tree. Willow Goldfinches common Green-backed Goldfinch - [illegible]
Towhee - Savannah Sparrows - Vesper Sparrows - Juncos (3) - Chipping Sparrows common
Song Sparrows