Here is the summary of my morning dogwalks from NW Seblar Terrace to the Pittock Mansion for the week 03/29 to 03/25/09. Species in ALL CAPS were neither seen nor heard the previous TWO weeks (because last week only had 2 walks). 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 7 days this week. Species # days found (peak #, date) Red-tailed Hawk 1 (1, 3/21) Band-tailed Pigeon 1 (1, 3/20) Mourning Dove 7 (5) Anna's Hummingbird 2 (3, 3/22) Red-breasted Sapsucker 6 (2) Downy Woodpecker 3 (1) Northern Flicker 7 (3) Pileated Woodpecker 4 (1) Steller's Jay 7 (8, 3/23) Western Scrub-Jay 6 (2) American Crow 6 (15, 3/20) VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW 1 (6, 3/21) Black-capped Chickadee 7 (8) Chestnut-backed Chickadee 5 (5) Red-breasted Nuthatch 6 (7, 3/21) Brown Creeper 2 (2, 3/21) Bewick's Wren 3 (2) Winter Wren 6 (4, 3/21) RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET 3 (2) American Robin 7 (20, 3/22) Varied Thrush 7 (15, 3/19) European Starling 7 (7) Spotted Towhee 7 (6) Fox Sparrow 5 (2) Song Sparrow 7 (12) Dark-eyed Junco 7 (20) Purple Finch 5 (4, 3/21) House Finch 7 (10, 3/21) Pine Siskin 7 (15, 3/21) Lesser Goldfinch 2 (2, 3/19 & 23) AMERICAN GOLDFINCH 1 (2, 3/21) In the neighborhood but not found on dogwalk: COOPER'S HAWK, Western Screech-Owl, GREAT HORNED OWL, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD (fide a neighbor), SAY'S PHOEBE (fide another neighbor--would be a new bird for my dogwalk) Wink Gross Portland