Here is the summary of my morning dogwalks from NW Seblar Terrace to the Pittock Mansion for the week 8/23 to 8/29/01. Species in ALL CAPS were neither seen nor heard the previous week. We did the walk 4 days this week: 8/23, 25, 26, 27 Species # days found (peak #, date) Laridae gen. sp. 1 (1, 8/23) Band-tailed Pigeon 4 (11, 8/26) Mourning Dove 2 (2, 8/26) Vaux's Swift 1 (3, 8/26) Anna's Hummingbird 3 (3, 8/25) Rufous Hummingbird 3 (2, 8/26) Hummingbird sp. 3 (5, 8/23) Red-breasted Sapsucker 2 (1, 8/26 & 27) Downy Woodpecker 2 (3, 8/23) Northern Flicker 2 (3, 8/26) PILEATED WOODPECKER 1 (1, 8/27) Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 (2, 8/26) WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE 1 (1, 8/26) Pacific-slope Flycatcher 2 (1, 8/26 & 27) Empidonax sp. 1 (1, 8/26) Steller's Jay 4 (10) Western Scrub-Jay 4 (13!, 8/27) American Crow 3 (4, 8/26) Hutton's Vireo 1 (1, 8/27) Cassin's Vireo 3 (3, 8/26) Cedar Waxwing 2 (10, 8/27) SWAINSON'S THRUSH 1 (5, 8/26) American Robin 2 (2, 8/27) EUROPEAN STARLING 2 (2, 8/26) Red-breasted Nuthatch 4 (10, 8/27) Brown Creeper 1 (1, 8/25) Bewick's Wren 4 (4, 8/25) Winter Wren 3 (3, 8/27) Bushtit 4 (30, 8/27) BARN SWALLOW 1 (2, 8/23) Swallow sp. 1 (4, 8/27) Black-capped Chickadee 4 (30) Chestnut-backed Chickadee 4 (10, 8/27) Pine Siskin 3 (25, 8/23) American Goldfinch 2 (3, 8/25) House Finch 4 (30, 8/27) Red Crossbill 2 (5, 8/27) Orange-crowned Warbler 2 (2, 8/26) Black-thr'td Gray Warbler 3 (6, 8/25) Hermit Warbler 1 (1, 8/27) COMMON YELLOWTHROAT 1 (1, 8/25) Wilson's Warbler 3 (6, 8/25) Song Sparrow 4 (10, 8/23) Dark-eyed Junco 4 (20, 8/27) Spotted Towhee 4 (4, 8/27) Western Tanager 2 (1, 8/26 & 27) I like to think that the mystery "Member of the Family Laridae" (reported on OBOL 8/23) was an immature LONG-TAILED JAEGER, but who knows? In any case, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT was a new bird for the route; small consolation. Wink Gross Portland winkg@hevanet.com