A few days ago, someone noted that they had seen golden-crowneds dominate
over white-crowns in their yard. I've been watching the behavior of the
small sparrow group in my yard of late, and yesterday the white-crowned
sparrow which has been hanging about started chasing the immature
golden-crowneds off of the brand new patch of grass seed I'd just laid
(don't worry, no fertilizer). It didn't really go after the adult
golden-crowned, just the younger ones.
Today's Clark College Gull Report is slightly delayed due to
heavy fog. We'll see what this afternoon brings.
BTW, in the interesting thread on volunteerism, one note not made
was regarding volunteer burnout--so many times I've seen people get
tugged eight different ways and just fizzle. This can have deleterious
circumstances. One other thing--volunteer efforts to do the scientific
work which is being left undone in this "publish or perish" world aren't
getting a lot of respect in the outside world. The Nebraska Atlas, which
was completed in 1990 and which, due to lack of computers, has taken a
while to complie, still has not been published to my knowledge. They
can't get a commerical press interested.

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Ray Korpi "If you accept the forms they give you,
Wk: Clark College you're doomed to your own ultimate blandness."
Vancouver, WA --Johnny Rotten
Hm: Portland, OR
address: rkorpi at clark.edu