[birding] FW: Dunn Forest, Benton Co.

[Marcia F. Cutler]

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Date: July 11, 2009

Location: Paul Dunn State Forest, Benton County, Oregon



Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h gusting to: 6-11 km/h

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%

Precipitation: none



This morning, four people joined in Audubon Society of Corvallis'

field trip and explored Forest Trail 100 in Dunn Forest. 



Taking the left hand fork for Forest Trail 110, we checked out the

Purple Martin nest in an oak snag about 150 yards up the trail. 

There were 2 adult males hanging around the nest hole and a

female/immature first seen poking its head out of the nest hole and

later flying around and perching with one of the males.  No birds

were seen entering the nest hole with food, nor did the non-adult

male exhibit any obvious juvenile behavior such as begging or

wing-flapping.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Turkey Vulture

American Kestrel

Band-tailed Pigeon

Red-breasted Sapsucker [1] 

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Pileated Woodpecker

Western Wood-Pewee

Willow Flycatcher

Pacific-slope Flycatcher

Warbling Vireo

Steller's Jay

Purple Martin [2] 

Barn Swallow

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch [3] 

Brown Creeper

Bewick's Wren [4] 

House Wren [5] 

Winter Wren [6] 

Western Bluebird

Swainson's Thrush

American Robin

Wrentit

Cedar Waxwing

Orange-crowned Warbler

MacGillivray's Warbler [7] 

Common Yellowthroat [8] 

Wilson's Warbler

Western Tanager

Spotted Towhee [9] 

Chipping Sparrow

Song Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow [10] 

Dark-eyed Junco

Black-headed Grosbeak

Lazuli Bunting

Purple Finch

American Goldfinch



Footnotes:



[1]  1 immature

[2]  2 adult males, 1 female/immature 

[3]  heard only

[4]  heard only

[5]  incl. pair carrying food into nest hole.

[6]  heard only

[7]  incl. immature

[8]  adults and immatures

[9]  adults and immatures

[10] adults, some molting, and immatures



Total number of species seen: 39