Here is the summary of my morning dogwalks from NW Seblar Terrace
to the Pittock Mansion for the week 04/24 to 04/30/08. Species in
ALL CAPS were neither seen nor heard the previous week.

Additional information about my dogwalk, including an archive of
weekly summaries and a checklist, may be found at

http://www.hevanet.com/winkg/dogwalkpage.html

We did the walk 5 days this week.

Species                  # days found  (peak #, date)

Cackling/Canada Goose         1  (2, 4/25)
Turkey Vulture                1  (1, 4/25)
Cooper's Hawk                 2  (1, 4/25 & 29)
Red-tailed Hawk               1  (1, 4/25)
Band-tailed Pigeon            5  (15, 4/25)
Mourning Dove                 2  (1, 4/24 & 28)
Anna's Hummingbird            5  (2)
Rufous Hummingbird            5  (2)
Red-breasted Sapsucker        2  (1, 4/25 & 29)
Downy Woodpecker              5  (2)
Northern Flicker              4  (3, 4/30)
Pileated Woodpecker           1  (1, 4/29)
Violet-green Swallow          3  (8)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet          4  (4, 4/24)
Winter Wren                   5  (3)
Townsend's Solitaire          2  (1, 4/24 & 25)
Hermit Thrush                 3  (2)  
American Robin                5  (20, 4/24 & 25)
Bushtit                       4  (6, 4/24)
Black-capped Chickadee        5  (15)
Chestnut-backed Chickadee     5  (10, 4/30)
Red-breasted Nuthatch         4  (6, 4/29)
Brown Creeper                 1  (1, 4/29)
Steller's Jay                 4  (3)
Western Scrub-Jay             4  (3, 4/25)
American Crow                 5  (4)
European Starling             4  (3, 4/28)
Hutton's Vireo                5  (3)
WARBLING VIREO                1  (1, 4/29)
Purple Finch                  5  (2, 4/24 & 25)
House Finch                   5  (15)
Pine Siskin                   5  (20, 4/24)
Lesser Goldfinch              4  (2)
American Goldfinch            3  (5, 4/29)
Evening Grosbeak              3  (10, 4/29)
Orange-crowned Warbler        5  (8, 4/29)
NASHVILLE WARBLER             2  (6*, 4/29)
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER         2  (1, 4/28 & 29)
Black-throated Gray Warbler   5  (6, 4/28)
Townsend's Warbler            2  (4, 4/30)
WILSON'S WARBLER              2  (4, 4/29)
WESTERN TANAGER               1  (1, 4/28)
Spotted Towhee                5  (15, 4/24)
Fox Sparrow                   3  (1)
Song Sparrow                  5  (20)
Golden-crowned Sparrow        2  (6, 4/30)
Dark-eyed Junco               5  (20, 4/24 & 25)
Brown-headed Cowbird          3  (2)

*The 6 NASHVILLE WARBLERS on 4/29 exceeded by 3X the previous
high count of this species in almost 8 years of dogwalks.  Mike 
Marsh reported an additional 4 to 6 came through shortly after
I left.

In the neighborhood but not found on dogwalk: GREAT BLUE HERON,
GREAT HORNED OWL, PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER (fide Shawneen F.), 
White-crowned Sparrow, WHITE-THROATED SPARROW (fide Andy F.)

Misses (birds found at least 3 days during previous 2 weeks but 
not found this week): Golden-crowned Kinglet, Varied Thrush, 
Cassin's Vireo


Wink Gross
Portland