Kenneth, nice report, but what is your general location? I.e., town or
part of what county?

Thanks on behalf of the tweeters readers, Maureen Ellis
me2 at u.washington, Univ of WA, Seattle and Des Moines WA
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On Wed, 8 May 1996 Kenneth.R.Brunner at internet.nps.usace.army.mil wrote:

> This seems to be the season for good yard birds. On Sunday I was
> doing yard work and heard a song similar, but seemingly somewhat more
> colorful than, a solitary vireo's song. So I quickly retrieved my
> binoculars, and, lo and behold, a nice solitary vireo was in one of
> the Douglas firs in my back yard! Not more than two minutes later, I
> saw a sparrow fly into the yard and land in my apple tree. A quick
> look with the binoculars disclosed it to be a Lincoln's sparrow! This
> guy stayed essentially motionless for about 10 minutes, then flew to
> the ground and foraged among my currants and berry bushes. Quite a
> thrill. Both of these were new to my yard list. Then this morning,
> 13 evening grosbeaks (10 males!) graced my tray feeder. I had put
> only safflower seeds in the feeder. Apparently grosbeaks like
> safflower!
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