What a morning! I first looked up and out my window because there was a
flock of swallows (violet-green) swooping around my deck, roof and yard.
Then, birds seemed to descend out of the sky... in addition to the usual
robins, towhees, and song sparrows, there was a small flock of juncos (my
over-wintering juncos left about three weeks ago) and a savannah sparrow
(!). In addition to this activity there was my first flock of
yellow-rumped warblers and a hutton's vireo in the trees along with CB and
BC chickadees, bushtits, a nuthatch, flickers, a jay, and a pileated
woodpecker calling in the distance. THEN I had a female rufous hummer
poking around - all in the space of 15 minutes!!!

It's getting hard to get any work done around here, what with all these
distractions... Oh, well, back to it.

Teresa Michelsen
temi461 at ecy.wa.gov
Inglewood