[birding] Peoria Calliope, another boring yard list

[M & R Campbell]

Today we saw our first CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD of the year, a male, here in beautiful downtown Peoria, high on the east bank of the mighty Willamette River, under clear, sunny skies.  Almost every spring we see one or two Calliopes.  We also had a LESSER YELLOWLEGS on the beach, a first for our yard.  A day of sporadic backyard birding yielded these species (FOY are in caps):

Canada Goose
Cackling Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Common Merganser
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Turkey Vulture
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
LESSER YELLOWLEGS
Mourning Dove
W. Screech Owl
VAUX'S SWIFT
CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD
Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER
Western Scrub-jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
HOUSE WREN
American Robin
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER
WILSON'S WARBLER
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow


Randy Campbell

Peoria
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