Day 19.119: Warblers at Evergreen Cemetery

Our nature group gathered at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland this morning. Too many sightings for one blog post, so here are the warblers (parulidae) we saw.

Black-and-white warbler

Northern parula

Chestnut-sided warbler

Yellow-rumped warbler

Common yellowthroat

Northern yellow warbler

Ovenbird

Chestnut-sided warbler

Northern parula

Common yellowthroat

Northern yellow warbler

Common yellowthroat

American redstart

Magnolia warbler

Magnolia warbler

Several of these were the first sighting of the year. 

Day 19.118: That's one fancy hat

This picture came up on Google Photos because it is from almost exactly 18 years ago. We were impressed that Exile #4 elected to style their fancy party dress with a winter hat.

Around this time next week, we'll be celebrating their college graduation - an occasion for another fancy hat.

Day 19.117: Migration

Not birds this time, but E5N1 who has vacated his freshman college dorm room to return home. There are piles of his stuff in every available space right now. 

His last final was today, but he still has some work to complete and submit before the official end of the semester tomorrow.

Day 19.116: New arrivals

Yesterday we saw what we assumed to be cedar waxwings in the trees at our neighbors across the street and today we saw some small warblerish birds from our back window. This is what they turned out to be:

Bohemian waxwing

Color under tail and white bar on wing are distinctive I believe

Chestnut-sided warbler

(Looking a little damp)

Northern parula

All are first sightings of the year. 

Day 19.115: Spring bird walk #3

We had a large number of people and a relatively modest number of birds for walk 3. Here are some of my sightings:

A very obliging hairy woodpecker

Northern flickers

Brown-headed cowbird

Eastern bluebird

Northern cardinal

Canada geese

Broad-winged hawk

American robin

White-breasted nuthatch

Red-bellied woodpecker

Chipping sparrow

Tulip tree

American robin

Day 19.114: Nature walk

Our nature group outing on Saturday was in two parts. Here are some more sightings from part two (before the porcupine)

Tree swallows

Chipping sparrow 

Osprey

Vesper sparrow 

Field sparrow

Eastern towhee

Eastern bluebird

Yellow-rumped warbler 

Day 19.113: Exile #2's Sunday Column #551

Exile #2 writes...

As usual, we headed out early Saturday morning for a nature walk. We stayed pretty dry for the most part, considering the fact that showers had been predicted but just as we got in sight of the parking lot it really started to come down. That's when we spotted this little guy, who was doing his best to sleep through the whole thing.

North American porcupine