Here is the summary of my morning dogwalks from NW Seblar Terrace to the Pittock Mansion for the week 9/19 to 9/25/02. Species in ALL CAPS were neither seen nor heard the previous week. We did the walk 6 days this week. Species # days found (peak #, date) SHARP-SHINNED HAWK 1 (1, 9/20) RED-TAILED HAWK 3 (2, 9/24) Band-tailed Pigeon 6 (8, 9/25) Mourning Dove 4 (8, 9/21) Vaux's Swift 4 (20, 9/20) Anna's Hummingbird 6 (6, 9/25) Hummingbird sp. 2 (2, 9/19) LEWIS'S WOODPECKER 1 (2, 9/23) Red-breasted Sapsucker 6 (3, 9/24) Downy Woodpecker 5 (2) Northern Flicker 6 (5, 9/24) OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER 1 (1, 9/25) DUSKY FLYCATCHER 1 (1, 9/25) Pacific-slope Flycatcher 1 (1, 9/24) Empidonax sp. 1 (1, 9/24) Violet-green Swallow 1 (4, 9/25) Barn Swallow 1 (3, 9/20) GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET 6 (25, 9/23) Cedar Waxwing 4 (50, 9/19) Bewick's Wren 4 (2) Winter Wren 6 (3, 9/25) Swainson's Thrush 3 (3, 9/20) HERMIT THRUSH 2 (1, 9/23 & 25) Catharus sp. 2 (1, 9/23 & 24) American Robin 4 (50, 9/25) VARIED THRUSH 5 (4, 9/21) Bushtit 6 (20) Black-capped Chickadee 6 (30) Chestnut-backed Chickadee 6 (20) Red-breasted Nuthatch 6 (10) Brown Creeper 3 (2) Steller's Jay 6 (10) Western Scrub-Jay 3 (2, 9/20) American Crow 4 (2) European Starling 6 (7) Hutton's Vireo 4 (2, 9/20 & 24) Orange-crowned Warbler 1 (1, 9/23) Black-throated Gray Warb. 6 (4, 9/20) TOWNSEND'S WARBLER 5 (8, 9/24) Hermit Warbler 1 (1, 9/20) Wilson's Warbler 1 (2, 9/21) Spotted Towhee 6 (10) Fox Sparrow 3 (1) Song Sparrow 6 (15, 9/24 & 25) Dark-eyed Junco 6 (25, 9/25) Purple Finch 3 (6, 9/25) House Finch 6 (25) American Goldfinch 4 (5, 9/25) Evening Grosbeak 5 (10, 9/25) Lewis's Woodpecker and Dusky Flycatcher are new birds for the dogwalk. Robins returned in force today. I wonder if these are new arrivals for the winter or are they just the usual neighborhood birds returning from a 3 week vacation? Misses (birds found at least 3 days during previous 2 weeks but not found this week): Turkey Vulture, Red Crossbill Wink Gross Portland