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Mount Hood

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Roger

If you're out and about near Portland, and the sky is clear, Mount Hood is visible. To a guy from the Midwest, massiveness of the mountain rising above everything else is startling. Here are four photos I took during the … Continue reading →

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Bird #429 — Western Wood-Pewee

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Roger

contopus (from kontos, short, and pous, foot) sordidulus (dirty, unkempt) Tuesday, May 6, 2008 — 4:25 pm Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon — Eagle Creek I wonder what the story is behind that Latin name? We walked down the Wauna … Continue reading →

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Bird #428 — Vaux’s Swift

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Roger

chaetura (from chaeto, spine or hair, and oura, tail) vauxi (after William Vaux, American mineralogist and archeologist) Tuesday, May 6, 2008 — 4:01 pm Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon — Eagle Creek — Wauna Viewpoint Trail I was on a streak … Continue reading →

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Bird #427 — Red-breasted Sapsucker

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Roger

sphyrapicus (from sphyra, hammer, and picus, woodpecker) ruber (red) Tuesday, May 6, 2008 — 3:57 pm Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon — Eagle Creek — Wauna Viewpoint Trail Thanks to my sister for my first sighting of this one. We … Continue reading →

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Bird #426 — Hermit Warbler

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Roger

dendroica (from dendron, tree, and oikein, to dwell) occidentalis (western) Tuesday, May 6, 2008 — 3:47 pm Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon — Eagle Creek — Wauna Viewpoint Trail The Western Tanager wandered off out of sight and two other … Continue reading →

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