Subject: Warblers, finally
Date: Mar 30 19:39:51 1997
From: Jerry Blinn - 76506.3100 at CompuServe.COM


FINALLY, we had a Butter-butt (Audubon persuasion) and an Orange-crowned Warbler
in our yard. I'd heard the Orange-crowned several days earlier, typical
territory song, but hadn't been able to trudge through the brush and stuff
quietly enough to get a look at it. Maybe he enticed a live-in and will stick
around.

My favorite Orange-crowned was one at the west end of Lafayette Reservoir in
Lafayette, CA (East S.F. Bay Area) when we were temporarily deprived of the
Northwest and lived in Lafayette. That bird sang such a powerful song, so
loudly, and for so long each Spring, that as we walked around the lake each
morning we looked forward to the last mile of the three so we could hear him
from far off and follow, as following sirens, his song to the final hill of our
walk. When his song suddenly stopped in late Spring, we could only imagine (and
hope) that he had enticed a lovely mate and the two of them were much too busy
being domestic for singing.

Passerine arrivals make me anxious to start my regular tours of Nisqually and
Theler (Hood Canal) Wetlands.

Thank God for UPS's. The power has been going off and on all day, with huge
spikes, with all these winds, but the computers have been humming along - at
least long enough to shut them down properly.

Jerry Blinn
Perceptive Systems
Silverdale


E-mail from: Jerry Blinn, 30-Mar-1997