They first camped with a company of fur-trappers on Sauvie Island and it is time for an Audubon Society to put up commemorative plaque for the two great bird men.
They discovered many species new to science including his namesake warbler. John Kirk Townsend was a young doctor and natural scientist who came west of Oregon with his mentor, Thomas Nuttall, in the 1830s. This is a female or immature with green and yellow markings. Two are male with black and yellow markings. She has had at least three individual Townsend’s this winter. Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines, from Latin oscen, 'songbird'. Sharon Sweeney lives in east McMinnville and sent me these pictures from her feeder. The Yellow-rumped warblerwarblerA songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes). Oregon State ornithologists have collected records that show our winter population is dominated by myrtles that have down from much further north. Our breeding population in Oregon is largely Audubon’s. Also, they can use a wide variety of habitats though they tend to nest here in mountain conifers. YR are our most numerous wintering warbler, hardier than most other species and very flexible in how and what they eat, from ground scavenging to fly-catching. I found the pet or sports setting on my camera was the best finally to capture anything. They are fast-moving birds, flitting from bush to bush quite rapidly, and they seem to be always in motion. The breeding warblers in Oregon number less than ten: Hermit, Black-throated-Gray, yellowthroat, chat, Orange-crowned, Wilson’s, Nashville, Townsend’s, Yellow. Yellow-Rumped Warblers are little guys at only 4-1/2 to 5 inches in length with a wingspan of about 7-1/2 to 9 inches. The first myrtle appeared last month, then during a recent snow flurry there were three. He is an aggressive loner, bullying smaller birds, pretending larger ones don’t exist. Right now I have both in my McMinnville garden: “Auddie”, as I call our lone Audubon’s, has been here since fall. There are two recognized plumages, the Audubon’s with a yellow throat, the Myrtle with a white throat. At least they come in four or more plumage sets.įirst, the Yellow-rumped (hereafter YR). So here I look at our two common Willamette Winter Warblers. One winter a Varied Thrush showed up in Ohio and birders there ooohed and ahhhhed. A Franklin’s Gull, the first ever noted in Florida, caused quite a stir. We do fine with flycatchers, thrashers, woodpeckers, chickadees, wrens, thrushes, gulls and ducks. That is more than I will get over decades of birding in California and Oregon. During one May stay at Magee Marsh and environs I totaled 34 warbler species seen. Pelee, been to Cape May in autumn, you know what I mean. If you have ever birded in spring at High Island, Magee Marsh or Pt.
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