Subject: [Tweeters] Skamania County Birds
Date: Sep 14 20:26:30 2012
From: Wilson Cady - gorgebirds at juno.com


After about a week of strong (50mph) east winds at our place in the Columbia River Gorge, today at about 3pm the winds died down and the birds came through with a good diversity but in lower numbers. RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES were numerous and we had a couple of WESTERN WOOD-PEWEES and PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHERS along with our first of the fall RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. Susan and I saw 2 WARBLING VIREOS, 4 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, 2 YELLOW WARBLERS, 30 BLACK-THROATED WARBLERS, 6 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, 2 HERMIT WARBLERS, 5 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, AND 1 MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER. There were small numbers of WESTERN TANAGERS and CEDAR WAXWINGS eating what little fruit that remains in the Bitter Cherry and Cascara trees. My best bird of the afternoon was a very dark MERLIN, my first in the county this year.


Wilson Cady