August 8, 2008
Mt Hebo wildlife
I was up on Mt. Hebo bright and early this morning. The advantage of early is you get to see stuff that's kind of unusual.
This is the first living porcupine I've ever seen west of the Cascades (my mom once brought home an I-5 roadkill for me found near near Eugene).
The peaks were above the cloud deck and it looks like I got a bit of migrant action as a result. I saw remarkable numbers of WILSON'S and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHERS, heard a HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER. The dense flocking makes me think it was a fallout rather than just locals
Of course, the real reason why I'm up on Mt Hebo has nothing to do with birds or porcupines...
