Local Bird Sightings
I was visiting family in Peaceful Valley yesterday afternoon & they wanted me to ID these birds that have been hanging around their house. Several Lesser Goldfinch coming to their feeder. (And the Cedar Waxwing seems to favor their yard). A few photos attached. Thanks, Jim Patten
Eastern kingbirds have joined their western "cousins" to feed on growing insect populations.
Yellow warblers are singing and flitting through roadside stands of blooming ninebark and wild rose.
Tree swallows are tending eggs and newly-hatched young in nestboxes.
A bit of a gray & windy day on the West Plains, but I took another long walk along Thorpe Road south of Airway Heights. Highlight of the day was seeing Bullock's Oriole - male & female, Western Kingbird, and Mountain Bluebirds still in the area.
Besides our usual daily visitors (robins, house finches, black-capped and mountain chickadees, song sparrows, quail, pygmy and red-breasted nuthatches, yellow warblers, calliope hummingbird, and american goldfinches), we had the following visitors during the last month:
It was great to see a flock of 6+ Evening Grosbeaks in my yard. A male and two females were at the feeders, and several more remained high in a Ponderosa Pine Tree.
Took a long walk along Thorpe Road near Airway Heights and a back road drive home through the West Plains. Highlights included Mountain Bluebird, Western Meadowlark, Horned Lark, and Gadwall in a meadow pond.
Here are sightings from my yard, also a bit of north birding on Int Bird Migration Day 5/9/2020:
Beautiful day for walk at Palisades - it's busy with birds, including Lark Sparrow and Cinnamon Teal & Green-Winged Teal at the Grove Road ponds.
Not a great pic, but both Black-chinned and Calliope Hummingbirds, both males, simultaneously.
Here are pictures of 68 bird species taken in Spokane County during May, as reported on eBird.