Hi Tweets,

Karen Irving and her friend Duncan McLellan reported seeing larger than
usual numbers of Bald Eagles around Boundary Bay and Roberts Bank. This,
coupled with the cold weather regime of the last ten days, tends to support
a hunch I've had that we get larger numbers of Baldies on the coast when
there's enough freezing weather early in the winter to freeze most or all
the open water inland.

Over the least four days, there seems to have been an influx of American
Robins and Pine Siskins.

About 10 days ago, Rob Klein related that he'd seen a pair of Red-tails
mating near a tree containing a nest they've been using for the last two
years.

Talking today to a Japanese exchange student at Lost Lagoon: he reports
getting a definitive sighting of a *Northern Cardinal* at the village of
Whistler, about 80 km N of Vancouver BC. Five gets you ten it's an escaped
or transported bird, but there's always the chance...

Michael Price "Are you being brilliant or are you going berserk?
Vancouver BC Canada At first, sometimes, it may be hard to tell."
mprice at mindlink.net -New York Times headline