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04/26/08 - Wild Turkey Update: Wild turkeys are out and about - the Toms strutting their stuff and the hens doing their best to ignore them.  This one, however, wasn't as successful at ignoring a strutting Tom and is now nesting.  Notice how well she's camouflaged, considering the nest is on the ground and under very little cover.  I walked past this one three times while looking for damselflies before I realized it was only about two feet away from me . . . now I avoid the area so she doesn't get spooked and abandon her future family before they hatch, though I do peak at her from afar every day.

03/22/08 - Turkey Vulture - Buzzard Update: Spotted the first Turkey Vulture of the year, circling several hundred feet above the house. It soon found the remains of a dead deer lying in the brush in a neighbor's field.

03/06/08 - Hummingbird Update: The first female Rufous Hummingbird of the year arrived about mid-morning, bringing along her juvenile son from last year's hatching. By the end of the next day, we had three nesting pairs around the house.

03/03/08 - Hummingbird Update: The first Rufous Hummingbird of the year arrived about mid-day today. After checking out the feeder, he claimed a perch on top of the central Fire Thorne bush and kept a vigilent eye out for passing females.

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Contained on this page are thumbnail links to the following Birds:

American Crow - Corvus Brachyrhynchos
Black-Capped Chickadee - Parus Atricapillus
Goldfinch - Carduelis Tistis
Great Blue Heron - Ardea Herodias
Killdeer - Charadrius Vociferus
Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo Jamaicensis
Rufous Hummingbird - Selasphorus rufus
Rufous-sided Towhee - Pipilo Erythrophthalmus
Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia
Steller's Jay - Cyanocitta stelleri
Turkey Vulture - Cathartes Aura
Wild Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo

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Carduelis Tristis
Goldfinch

Male left, female center, male right Coos Bay, Oregon 07/20/06

female Coos Bay, Oregon 06/19/06

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Selasphorus rufus
Rufous Hummingbird
*Female*

Elkton, Oregon 04/14/07

Elkton, Oregon 05/05/07

Elkton, Oregon 04/14/07 Odd (lack of) beak effect

Elkton, Oregon 05/24/07 juvenile and Mom

Elkton, Oregon 04/29/07

Elkton, Oregon 04/29/07 Juvenile female

Selasphorus rufus
Rufous Hummingbird
*Male*

Elkton, Oregon 04/08/06

Elkton, Oregon 04/14/07

Elkton, Oregon 04/08/06

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Melospiza melodia
Song Sparrow
*Sex unknown*

Sumner, Oregon 06/19/06

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Parus Atricapillus
Black-Capped Chickadee
*Sex unknown*

Elkton, Oregon 07/31/06

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Meleagris Gallopavo
Wild Turkey
*Female*

Elkton, Oregon 06/22/06

Elkton, Oregon 04/26/08 A nesting hen

Meleagris Gallopavo
Wild Turkey
*Courting*

Elkton, Oregon 03/28/07

Elkton, Oregon 03/28/07

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Cyanocitta Stelleri
Steller's Jay
*Female*

Elkton, Oregon 05/18/07 This is the Mom of Junior, below.

Cyanocitta Stelleri
Steller's Jay
*Juvenile*

Elkton, Oregon 05/18/07 Junior thinks he's hiding.

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Buteo Jamaicensis
Red-tailed Hawk
*Sex Unknown*

Elkton, Oregon 09/25/07 Light Phase

Elkton, Oregon 09/25/07 Light Phase

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Cathartes Aura
Turkey Vulture
*Sex Unknown*

Elkton, Oregon 07/28/07

Elkton, Oregon 07/28/07

Elkton, Oregon 07/28/07

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Corvus Brachyrhynchos
American Crow
*Sex Unknown*

Elkton, Oregon 05/17/07

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Ardea Herodias
Great Blue Heron
*Sex Unknown*

Elkton, Oregon 07/28/07

Elkton, Oregon 08/11/07

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Charadrius Vociferus
Killdeer
*Sex Unknown*

Elkton, Oregon 09/11/07

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Pipilo Erythrophthalmus
Rufous-sided Towhee
*Male*

Elkton, Oregon 07/23/07

Elkton, Oregon 05/28/07

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