Fun Birds Seen So Far This Week

Earlier this week I was fishing down at Sage Beach when dad stopped by and told me that there was a Western Tanager that was hanging around by Kelly street and the park. I packed up and headed that way. When I got down there I saw a couple of people, that I knew, walking up towards me to look for the bird. We walked back towards where one of them had found the Tanager. Just as we got there I saw a large yellow bird fly up into a Hemlock tree across the road. I looked through my binoculars and saw that it was the Western Tanager. As I reached for my camera it flew up and landed on a power line. I was able to get some photos of it before it flew away. We walked up Kelly street and looked for it for a bit, when I spotted it back on the power line. We watched and took pictures of it for a bit more then the other people left and I headed home to clean the fish I had caught. Later that day I went back down to the beach and fished a bit more. While I was fishing I saw the Black Turnstones and Surfbirds, that had been on Sage rock, take off like they had seen a raptor. I looked around but I did not see any raptors that would scare the shorebirds like that, and eventually they came back and landed on Sage rock. A few minutes later though they took off again like they had before and this time I saw a Peregrine falcon chase them. I got my camera and took some photos of the Peregrine as it chase the shorebirds. It chased the shorebirds for a bit but did not get one and eventually gave up and flew towards the forest. I fished a bit more then headed home. On my way home I saw some Warblers, Kinglets and Chickadees behind the Hames center. I looked through them as best I could to see if I could find any unusual birds, as I did I found a Pacific-slope flycatcher, which is common during the summer but it seemed like it was getting a bit later for them. I sent dad a text and he came down and saw it. After that I headed home. The day after I saw the Tanager I walked down to the park and looked around. I didn’t see anything I that surprised, until I was walking back across the top of the beach and a Warbling vireo flew in and landed in some alders by me. I took some pictures of it and texted dad then took some more pictures of it. I tried to keep track of it until dad got down there but it was not easy, and as it was it flew back further into the trees just as he got down there, I would find it then I would lose it then I would find it again and then I would lose it again. When dad got there it flew with some Warblers that were there too, and flew with them for a while then it turned and flew back towards us and landed further back in the alders. I looked for it with dad for a flew moments then I continued around the park. When I got home I asked dad if he had seen it, he said he had only heard it.