Saddle Mountain State Park, Clatsop County, Oregon
June 8, 2001
0900-1400hr

HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHERS were found with remarkably ease
today. A noisy one was in the conifer forest about
1 mile up the trail. A pair was playing chase me near
the first hump.

A SHARP-SHINNED HAWK was seen carrying food up at the top.
It appears to be taking advantage of the seemingly limitless
supply of WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.

The number of wild flowers is quite spectacular this year
as well. The butterfly count is at the end of this message.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk [1]
Blue Grouse
Band-tailed Pigeon
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Rufous Hummingbird
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Hammond's Flycatcher [2]
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Warbling Vireo
Steller's Jay
Common Raven
Violet-green Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Hermit Warbler [3]
Wilson's Warbler
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Black-headed Grosbeak

Footnotes:

[1] carrying food
[2] 1 noisy one at about 1mile; two chasing each other near top.
[3] easily seen

Total number of species seen: 30

Clodius Parnassian 1
Anise Swallowtail 3
Cabbage White 15
Veined White 3
Western Meadow Fritillary 7
Spring Azure 2

C?nurgina c?rulea 3
Rheumaptera hastata 1


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Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
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you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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