Okay, Tweets...

Couple of things...Micahel Carmody says I should remind everyone not to
think of one specific habitat..i.e., fir forest = Winter Wren, or
grass land = Savannah Sparrow..and all of your guesses are both right and
wrong as these plots all had some number of the choice each of you
suggested. *Remember*, we were trying to figure out which bird
occurred in 55 of the 60 plots.

In the area of the plots there are a number of stands of mature woodland
cut over and now dominated by Scot's Broom (Jon's tip-'o-the-tam to Stuart)
and emerging alders..roadways and fields affected by humanoid development
native grass land prairies cdominated by scattered woodlands..
theoverall dominant feature of the habitat is similar to Western Washington
mixed woodland, emerging vegetaion, second growth timber, pastures etc..

So far, you all have rightly chosen the following; although none of your
choices showed up on 55 of the 60 plots..

Bewick's Wren
White Crowned Sparrow
American Robin
Rufous hummer
Crow
Song Sparrow
Winter Wren
Rufous Sided Towhee
House Sparrow
Am. Goldfinch
Starling
Red Winged Blackbird
Bushtit
Chipping Sparrow
Pine Sisken
Dark-Eyed Junco
Western Bluebird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Vesper Sparrow
Violet-Green Swallow
N. Flicker
House Finch
Barn Swallow

This really is a good time...

Keep trying...

Tom


Tom Foote footet at elwha.evergreen.edu
Lab II
The Evergreen State College (360) 866-6000 x6118
Olympia, WA 98505