[obol] This Morning on Coxcomb Hill - Fox Sparrows

[Mike Patterson]

This morning on Coxcomb Hill - 9/4/2006

It's been quiet the last several days up on the Hill, an artifact 
of the weather, no doubt.

This first FOX SPARROWS of the southbound migration were "chacking"
away near the top turn.  The one I saw was large and very dark brown
with heavy breast spotting which, I think, makes it one of the more
northerly (Alaskan) races.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Band-tailed Pigeon                 18
Vaux's Swift                       12
Anna's Hummingbird                  1
Downy Woodpecker                    1
Pileated Woodpecker                 1
Warbling Vireo                      3
Steller's Jay                       2
Common Raven                        2
Barn Swallow                        8
Chestnut-backed Chickadee           4
Bewick's Wren                       1
Winter Wren                         2
Golden-crowned Kinglet              4
Swainson's Thrush                   2
Cedar Waxwing                      75
Orange-crowned Warbler              1
Wilson's Warbler                    2
Western Tanager                     3
Fox Sparrow                         2 [1] 
Song Sparrow                        1
Black-headed Grosbeak               1
Purple Finch                        2
Red Crossbill                       8

Footnotes:

[1]  first of the fall season

Total number of species seen: 25

-- 
Mike Patterson               
Astoria, OR                    
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