[birding] Townsend's Warblers still on the move; Vaux's Swifts still staging

[Rich Hoyer]

Hi All,

In the slightly-less-exciting category than the gnatcatcher, on a walk  
with Rob and Eve Gill I found at least three TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS in  
the oaks with other migrants at Oak Lawn Cemetery on Country Club Hill  
shortly before noon today. There was also a BULLOCK'S ORIOLE and  
LAZULI BUNTING in the same area. On the boardwalk through the wetland  
below was a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, probably a female.

Yesterday, Trent Seager and I had good numbers of migrants at the  
northern end of Willamette Park (Crystal Springs Sports Fields),  
including a HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, and at least  
two MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLERS. There was a female WOOD DUCK with 7  
ducklings already on one of the ponds in the middle of the woods. A  
pair of CHIPPING SPARROWS was acting territorial in the young pine- 
cottonwood stands between the sports fields and the riparian forest.

And yesterday evening around 8:30 p.m. there was a vortex of 300-400  
VAUX'S SWIFTS entering the Whiteside Theater chimney in downtown  
Corvallis. I don't remember knowing that this phenomenon happened in  
the spring.

Good Birding,

Rich
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Rich Hoyer
Tucson, Arizona

Senior Leader for WINGS
http://wingsbirds.com
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