[birding] Some good Linn birds lately

[M & R Campbell]

BLACK TERNS were back at Doerfler Pond as of Friday the 15th.  That same day I found a HERMIT WARBLER beside Muddy Creek, near a pair of TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS.  These were the first of the year for me anywhere near Peoria, which shows what a slight change in elevation and vegetation can do to the avian environment.  (I still haven't seen a Varied Thrush this year.)  

Saturday Morning four GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE flew over our yard along with some Canada's--another first for me, even though I sorted through several big flocks this winter.  A WILLOW FLYCATCHER  was in our yard, too, in the willows, of course.

Here in Peoria, Cedar Waxwings seem to be the ubiquitous migrant of the week--following, in order, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Common-yellowthroats, Orange-crowned Warblers, Wilson's Warblers, Warbling Vireo's, and Yellow Warblers.  Several (3?) pairs of BULLOCK'S ORIOLES are noisily going about finding places to hang their nests.  A Killdeer scraped a nest of gravel in front of the yellow Victorian house here on Main Street--about ten feet from the road--and is sitting on three eggs.

In the next few days I'm going to take a ride and find WESTERN KINGBIRDS and VESPER SPARROWS.


Randy Campbell

Peoria


Every bird mentioned in this post was found, or imagined, without the use of a motor.
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