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August 20, 1948, Pudding River, Woodburn Oregon - 0715-0815 - woods
¼GF& clear and calm.
Red-breasted S apsucker - one immature working maple. Had dark gray head
Little Flycatcher
Wood Pewee - several seen and heard
Olive-sided Flycatchers - 6-7 in family group. perch on snag tops. 2 would
chase each other viciously and constantly.
Stellar Jay - a couple calling, and one feeding on hazel nuts
Oregon Chickadees - small groups working brush and trees.
Red-breasted Nuthatch - at least half a dozen around
Russet-backed Thrush - adults calling, and tailless young, 1/3 grown seen.
Golden-growned Kinglets - working fir forest areas.
Ruby-crowned Kinglets - immature or female in maple-brush areas.
Cassin Vireo - several calling
Warbling Vireo - 2 or 3 seen. Others singing beautifully.
MacGillivray Warbler - in hazel-maple brush in ash woods
Black-throated Gray Warbler - a few adults and many immatures in tree-tops, and brush.
Western Tanager - one heard
Juncos - 4 or 5 in one flock at edge of copice fir, on pasture ground.
Fox Sparrows along river, in brush.
Same, in brush-pasture area. 0815-0830.
Kingfishers - a pair flew up the river, calling.
Gairdner Woodpecker - wor king willow in dried-up pond area.
Western Flycatcher - two were seen in Cascara tree. Yellowing underparts distinct.
Wood Pewees - a couple in service-berry thicket
Robins - several
W. Bluebirds - 2 flew over
Cedar Waxwings - pair of immatures perched on wire line.
Oregon Towhee
Song Sparrows.
Along hiway back to Woodburn - 0730-0745. Clear and calm.
Sparrow Hawk on pole
Killdeer- in pasture area near small creek.
Mourning Dove - just one flying over
Horned Lark - at edge of road
Brewer Blackbirds - pair on wire line
Lazuli Bunting - 3 different immatures, or molting adults seen on wire lines.
Vesper Sparrows on wire fence.
Savannah Sparrow on ground at edge of road.
August 22, 1948, 521 Hayes St. Woodburn. 0730-0830 PST. R last nite, now 15 Ovc.
Flicker feeding on ground in our backyard along with
Wood Pewee on wire line and
Robins - about 15, most, if not all immatures. Some showed spotty albinism, and
others showed coloration mutation - like tan, instead of gray on head. Feeding.
Yellow Warbler - a couple in walnut tree
Black-throated Gray Warbler - at least 4 in our backyard. One feeding consistently
on the ground in wet grass of backyard. One preened 5 minutes-in cypress.
First the body, then the tail, and then the wings.
Oregon Chickadees - small flock of 7 or 8 moved through
Western Tanagers - at least 8 or 10 have been around the yard, and two females were
here this a.m. Others in neighbors walnuts and one cherry and two where they were
feeding on the last remaining fruits. Others feeding in tops of 100' birch.
Have a singular note, rather musical, partially similar to the R-b. Thrush.
August 22, 1948, Needy-Mollala area. 1600-1715.
Lewis Woodpecker - one seen flying across the road
White-crowned Sparrow - one flew from edge of road to brush. lst seen in long while.