SPOTTED TOWHEE OR-374
The Pacific Coast, South Beach State Park, Newport, Oregon
May 21, 5:59 a.m.
Sunrise at 5:42 a.m.
A spotted towhee singing at the Pacific, foghorn in the distance. He offers 39 songs of one type (A) before 15 of a second type (B) beginning at 4:01. It's a quarter hour past sunrise, and he's into his repeating, daytime mode of singing.
Background
American goldfinch, chestnut-backed chickadee, dark-eyed junco, olive-sided flycatcher, brown-headed cowbird, American crow, orange-crowned warbler, wrentit, American robin, cedar waxwing; the roar of the Pacific ocean, and the foghorn at Newport every 15 seconds.
Photo by John Van de Graaff
