[obol] Birding Trip Report: Mt. Tabor Park, Multnomah County, Oregon on April 11, 2007

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This report was mailed for Tom McNamara by http://birdnotes.net

Date: April 11, 2007
Location: Mt. Tabor Park, Multnomah County, Oregon

Low temperature: 48 degrees fahrenheit High temperature: 48 degrees fahrenheit
Wind direction: E
Prevailing wind speed: 29-38 km/h
Precipitation: none

Info for Steve Jaggers et al.---Tabor towers at 623 feet according to
Google Earth. Juncos will not be gasping for O2 while  they're
nesting.

Tabor. Skinner's Butte. What do these two have in common? Warblers.
Sometimes. Maitreya posted that he had waves of Black-throated Grays
and Yellow-rumps and then 50 Orange-crowns in one bino field......
Tabor was sporting 4 warblers this a.m. But, hey, we  managed 3
species out of  that 4: a single Black-throated, 2 Townsend's and 2
yellow-rumps. So, it's almost a draw, you  could say.

0-for-the-3rd-straight-day on Orange-crowns. ???

earlier, Bob Stites did have a  Merlin flyover--bird of the day.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin
Band-tailed Pigeon [1] 
Anna's Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Hutton's Vireo [2] 
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch

Footnotes:

[1]  on nest
[2]  low and practically  inert. nice

Total number of species seen: 29