Day 18.137: Evergreen Cemetery

On Sunday afternoon, Exile #2 and I headed to Evergreen Cemetery in Portland. It was a middling birding outing with some highlights and a few other items of interest. 

The first bird we saw was in the high branches of a tree near a trail we walked in the city forest behind the cemetery proper. Likely a female or young Baltimore oriole. 

We had a wonderful view of this great crested flycatcher after tracking it down by sound

Common grackle

Hairy woodpecker. 

Excitingly, we also saw a flock of cedar waxwings (Exile #2’s first of the year) and a yellow-bellied flycatcher (new life bird) which we tracked down by sound and then saw but was too skittish for photography. 

We also saw some of the usual suspects: bluebirds, robins, house finches, crows and a couple of mallards on one of the ponds. 

We looked this plant up and was surprised to find it's common name is Robin's plantain. As we suspected, it's not related to the plantains, but is in the fleabane/daisy family.

The pond where we saw otters in the depths of winter a few years ago - looking rather different

Always happy to see a painted turtle enjoying the sun