Here is weekly summary of my morning dogwalks to Pittock Mansion for 10/26 to 11/1. Species in ALL CAPS were not seen or heard the previous week. We did the walk 7 days this past week. Species # days found (peak #, date) Canada Goose 2 (?, heard only in fog) SHARP-SHINNED HAWK 2 (1 ad 10/28, 1 ad 10/30) Cooper's Hawk 1 (1 ad 10/31) Accipiter, sp. 1 (1 ad 10/30) RED-TAILED HAWK 2 (2, 10/29) SANDHILL CRANE 1 (68, 10/29) RING-BILLED GULL 1 (3, 10/30) Band-tailed Pigeon 4 (4) MOURNING DOVE 1 (1, 11/1) Anna's Hummingbird 2 (1, 10/30 & 10/31) Downy Woodpecker 3 (1) Northern Flicker 6 (5, 10/30) Steller's Jay 7 (7, 11/1) Western Scrub-Jay 3 (1) American Crow 5 (4) Cedar Waxwing 4 (35, 10/31) Varied Thrush 6 (10, 10/29) Hermit Thrush 3 (1, 10/27,28,30) American Robin 6 (25) European Starling 6 (6) Red-breasted Nuthatch 5 (5, 10/31) BROWN CREEPER 2 (3, 11/1) Bewick's Wren 1 (1, 11/1) Winter Wren 6 (5, 11/1) Bushtit 3 (20, 11/1) Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6 (4) Golden-crwnd Kinglet 6 (20, 10/26) Black-cappd Chickadee 7 (20) Chstnt-bckd Chickadee 6 (10, 10/26) Pine Siskin 4 (80, 10/29) American Goldfinch 1 (3, 10/26) House Finch 7 (15) Evening Grosbeak 1 (1, 10/31) Fox Sparrow 2 (1, 10/27 & 11/1) Song Sparrow 7 (10) WHITE-THROATD SPARROW 1 (1, 10/27) Golden-crownd Sparrow 2 (1, 10/29 & 10/31) Dark-eyed Junco 7 (35, 11/1) Spotted Towhee 7 (6) "Accipiter, sp." is probably the Cooper's Hawk seen the next day. Surely, Brown Creepers did not take last week off. I'm still learning to pick their calls out from the Kinglet din. A new shipment of Juncos seems to have arrived this AM. Wink Gross Portland