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Violet-green Swallows
Tree Swallows
Rough-winged Swallows
Barn Swallows
Cliff Swallows
Crows
Oregon Chickadee
Tule Wren
Seattle Wren
Russet-backed Thrush
Robin
W. Bluebirds
Cedar Waxwings
Warbling Vireo
Yellow Warbler
Audubon Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Long-tailed Chat
Pacific Yellow-throats - I clocked one for 1/2 mile at 30 mph.
English Sparrows
Meadowlarks
Yellow-headed Blackbirds - no full adults seen at the NE Dike, but many young and females present. Some males nearly in full plumage.
Many more at south end in cattails. Perhaps 100 altogether.
Redwings - not very many around.
Willow Goldfinch
Savannah Sparrows
Vesper Sparrows
Song Sparrows.
July 21, 1948, Willa mette River, 5 miles below Oregon City, 9-11:30p.m. (PLST), full moon, partly cloudy, calm.
Blue Herons - a couple on the river, one would squawk off and on till midnight.
Pintails - a flight of 11 went up the river about 9:45 p.m.
Spotted Sandpipers - 2 on gravel bars along this stretch of the river. Called two different ways off and on till at least 11 p.m.
?X-Gull - unidentified flew up the river. (Also an immature at Albany 7-23-48)
Nighthawks everywhere
Vaux Swifts a half doz en flying at dusk above the river.
Kingfishers - 4 in the are a, flying in and out of cottonwoods
Crows - at least 50 flew into nearby cottonwoods, and finally left, before dusk,
Russet-backed Thrushes calling until a little after dark,