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July 6, 1947, Clackamas River, north of Oregon, 2:15 p.m.
Anthony Green Heron - flew over the hiway, heading toward the Willamette R.
July 12, 1947, MacDonald Forest, Peavy Cabin area, 8 - 11 a.m.
Vulture - pair circling over the ridge together.
Redtail Hawk - one flew low over the ridge-top, calling scream-like.
Blue Grouse - flushed 6 immature birds from the edge of the road
Mountain Quail - watched 4 ½-grown young walking along a log. They were brownish
gray, with prominent head color bands as seen before.
Band-tailed Pigeon - flushed 4 from a clump of fir and oak atop the ridge
Rufous Hummingbird - watched one brilliant male feeding on St. John's Wort and Canada
Thistle. Saw two pair at the same time in this vicinity.
Flicker - several on snags and tall firs, and also feeding on the ground.
Pileated Woodpecker - just one seen in deeper woods on D. Fir.
Harris Woodpecker
Gairdner Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker - saw several individuals and then in one tree were 3 adults,
2 males, and 5 young birds, playing around with each other, and giving noisy calls
as I have described previously.
Western Flycatcher - one bird was being chased by a little Flycatcher which snapped
its bill loudly at the Western. It was also chased by a Junco, and a Wren.
Little Flycatcher - quite a few seen. One chasing a Western Flycatcher.
Olive-sided Flycatcher - several calling from the taller trees
Coast Jay - many in the area, some busy pecking on stumps and trees, others giving
Red-tail call, and one being chased from a Western Tanager nest it may have
been trying to rob.
Long-tailed Jay - scolding from cleared brush area on SE slope way below ridge top.
Oregon Chickadee - several moving in a flock of other species.
Red-breasted Nuthatch - a few here and there with a flock of other species.
California Creeper - several in with flock of other species.
Seattle Wren - in brush area.
Robin
Russet-backed Thrush - singing here and there
Hutton's Vireo - calling from oak-fir grove
Audubon Warbler - several adults and immatures in with flock of other species.
Hermit Warbler - in with flock of other species working firs and oaks
Bullock's Oriole - one bird seen in Maple-oak area.
W. Tanager - calling everywhere - one pair chasing a Coast Jay which may have been
trying to rob their nest at 18' on the south side of a D. Fir.
Purple Finch - a pair seen
Willow Goldfinch - in cleared area, working on Canadian Thistle and Yarrow
Towhee - one pair seen
Junco - common throughout the areas
White-crowned Sparrows - nesting in open area at base of Maple clump in Briar tangle.
Song Sparrows common and singing.
July 13, 1947, Middle Santiam River, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Valley Quail - flew ahead of the car, and crossed over ahead of us at 40& m.p.h.
Spotted Sandpiper - several seen on various stretches of the river, all on bars.
Rufous Hummingbird nest in huckleberry bush growing on perpendicular, N-slope cliff at
20 feet above the river.
Kingfisher - one repeatedly flew by up or down in front of our picnic area.
Roughwinged Swallows - here and there on the river area.
Russet-backed Thrush- heard in the brush along the river.
Willow Goldfinch - flew alongside the car, in open area at 23& m.p.h.
July 14, 1947, Salem, 11 a.m.
Anthony's Green Heron - nest along one branch of mill race at 23' in oak tree in
center of town.