Mallard ducklings.

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the lack of posting lately.

I just thought you might enjoy seeing this mallard duckling accompanied by it's parents!

And away they go!

Bird list for the short birding trip,

• Mallard
• Ruddy duck
• Bufflehead
• Green-winged teal
• Cinnamon teal
• Western Canada goose
• Cackling goose
• Marsh wren
• Song sparrow
• Killdeer
• American robin
• Great-blue heron
• Short-billed dowitcher
• Wilson's snipe
• Canvasback
• Lesser scaup
• Greater scaup
• American coot
• Bewick's wren
• Violet-green swallow
• Tree swallow
• Gadwall
• Yellow-rumped warbler
• Black capped chickadee
• Golden-crowned sparrow
• Northern shoveler
• Bushtit
• European starling
• Red-winged blackbird
• American crow
• Western scrub jay
• Northern flicker
• Pied-billed grebe
• Ring-necked duck
• Spotted towhee
• American goldfinch
• Lesser goldfinch
• Mourning dove
• House finch
• English house sparrow
• Dark-eyed junco
• Ruby-crowned kinglet
  

A pleasant surprise!

This morning we found out that one of the pairs of bushtits are building a nest in a tree within four feet of our window! They have been building ever since!

The male bushtit sitting in the incomplete nest.

The male again.

What a pleasant surprise!

Tryon creek state park.

Today we went to Tryon creek state park to look at trillium's.

Some red flowering currents.

An owl box for northern saw-whet owls.

A trillium.

More trillium's.

What are these?

A female hairy woodpecker!

It sure is trillium season!

Thought this would be a pretty picture.

A huge slug.

We had never seen these before! They look cool!

Bird list for the trip,

• Hairy woodpecker
  
• Ruby crowned kinglet
  
• Steller's jay
• Western scrub jay
• Black capped chickadee
• Winter wren
• Spotted towhee
• Song sparrow
• Annas hummingbird (heard)
• Rufous hummingbird (heard)
• Red breasted nuthatch (heard)
  

End of season for PFW.

• Ruby crowned kinglet - 1
• Western scrub jay - 2
• Black capped chickadee - 3
• Song sparrow - 3
• Dark eyed (Oregon) junco - 5
• Bushtit - 12 (6 pairs at once)
• Yellow-rumped warbler - 5
• American crow - 7
• American goldfinch - 7
• Lesser goldfinch - 3
• European starling - 1
• Bewick's wren - 2
• House finch - 3
• Purple finch - 2
• Rufous hummingbird - 2
• Annas hummingbird - 1
• American robin - 1
• Downy woodpecker - 1
• Red breasted nuthatch - 3
• Northern flicker - 2
• Violet-green swallow - 15
  

Raptor cam news!

Check this out! Both the male and the female red-tailed hawk from downtown Portland! I read in my Audubon newsletter that the female has laid three eggs! Yeah!

Some more random wetland and park bird fun.

Another fluffy yellow-rumped warbler.

The bushtits have started pairing up!

A pied-billed grebe.

Two ruddy ducks.

A great blue heron building a nest!

Short-billed dowitcher, (middle)? Wilson's snipe (left and right).

A mourning dove came for a visit.

This little female Rufous hummer was perched here right outside our window for around 45 minutes until flying to the feeders!

Do you have any idea what these flowers are?

A pretty tree.

One of the many mallards hanging out here.

New poll.

A bushtit nest!

The next poll will be how many nests have you discovered in your area?