Visitors for AUGUST 2006
Least?...Alder?...Gray?
Flycatchers
August 1 (arrived last few days of July)
more...Rufuous Hummingbirds
may be lucky to get a single hummingbird during migration - but this year - 7 in one day
August 3 - 5
Calliope Hummingbird
August 4
fresh hatch Black Swallowtail
August 4
Fall migrants through the yard in the first week of August not pictured: ...Western Tanager... 4 Yellow Warblers...immature Blue Grosbeak...Chipping Sparrow...and 3 Upland Sandpipers in the west pasture
Black-headed Grosbeak
August 20
Least Flycatcher or Western Flycatcher
August 22
Olive-sided Flycatcher
August 23
Loggerhead Shrike
August 23
August 26 brought 26 species to the yard including: Yellow Warbler, Wilson's Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Swainson's Thrush,Chipping, Brewer's and Clay-colored Sparrows, Bullock's Oriole, Orchard Oriole, Lark Sparrow, Lark Bunting, Lazuli Bunting, Western Wood-PeWee, and Dickcissel
An Eastern Kingbird showed up on August 28
a Warbling Vireo and American Redstart on Aug 30