At 08:15 PM 2/28/97 -0800, Chris Marcoe wrote:

> ... I saw for the first time a pair of Brewer's Blackbirds, one male and
one female. > They were mixed in with all the Red-wingeds.

Being in Roy, you are not too far from the rather western Washington unusual
"Tule marsh" that is called Nisqually Lake. I have heard that it is a
regular haunt of
yellow-headed blackbirds which are not common in western Washington.

On the Christmas Bird Count last December there was a large (huge maybe)
mixed flock of Red-winged blackbirds, Brewer's blackbirds, and Starlings
feeding in the agricultural lands of the Nisqually valley (there was also
this sparrow that gave me a difficult time but, uh, never mind). I think
this mix of species is probably very common.

Brewer's blackbirds are pervasive (mostly along interstates).

Kelly McAllister